. >>> a report from one new orleans neighborhood that is still struggling to rebuild eight years after hurricane katrina. >> there is more to life than the lower ninth ward. maybe for you but not for me. >>> and the art of the anonymous. next on "the newshour weekend." >> "the newshour weekend" is made possible by judy and josh westin, joyce b. hale. the wallick family, the cheryl and philip milstein family. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station by viewers like you, thank you. from the tish wnet studios, hari sreenivasan. >> unemployment benefits have been going to long-term unemployed workers who state benefits have run out. the president is urging congress to reinstate the benefits. >>> the number of sexual assaults in the military has risen more than 50% according to the associated press. the increase might reflect a growing willingness among women to file complaints. there were more than 5,000 complaints fi

, also from new orleans, the former mayor who is now president urgent urban league. james brook, program director of the national league of cities and from boston a reporter with wbur radio. james, you heard player bloomberg. he said the golden age of the suburbs is over, do the fact back him up? >> the facts are mixed. cities, i think, with mayors like mayor bloomberg and others who will be in office, the mayor in st. paul, the mayor in houston, who have had good tenure and good success, they continue to be a great and continuing source of real leadership in cities, in different parts of the united states. yes, there is a generational change in cities like new york and chicago and other places, but i think we have seen a lot of innovative creative leaders at a local level at a time when leadership is needed. i think that does help cities as you look forward some of the fiscal issues being barriers that they have to all confront. >> you mentioned a generational change, and i did back of the envelope calculation between joe reilly in charleston, john hickenlooper in d

new orleans and never rupture. it was a engineering failure. everyone knew the left side were going to fail and everyone knew the seniors didn't have money in their bank account. everybody or everything there doesn't need to happen and mayor ed lee who we all know his roots are working with community and reverse associate injustice saw what happened and said i'm not going to let this happen in san francisco. he came back and said we need to get the neighborhoods to the table and let them have a sense of leadership. we are partnered with every city and every nonprofit and every university anybody who cared about neighborhood and said what can we do together to support neighborhood. i wanted to flaming frame this it's a bottom-up planning program that were we don't come to the neighborhood with a plan it's an aside based model we come to the table with as many resources i want to thank the environment commission but not in the thought of of you can have those money in you do this but how can we help you achieve our g

>> guest: it's uptown in new orleans, but it is 2 feet below sea level. new orleans is like a bowl, and it dips below sea level, you know, like a bowl. and many of the hospitals there were in a similar situation. >> host: what's memorial's reputation? >> guest: the reputation was excellent. this was a place where people were proud to work, where, you know, the giants of medicine in new orleans had, you know, walked the halls. people were proud to work. it was a lace where a nurse -- a place where a nurse would work and have a child, and the child would grow up and work in the same unit. you know, there were multigenerational families who had worked at the hospital. a real family, a real community and very well regarded. it had been a baptist hospital, it was originally known as southern baptist, and with the sort of changes in medicine that we saw in the '90s and in the 2000s, it was bought by a for-profit company. >> host: tenet. >> guest: tenet health care, yes. >> host: is memorial open today? >> guest: it is. it's under new ownership, and it's back wi

failure to prepare for potential and possible disaster and they knew that hurricanes could hit new orleans and that there could be flooding in the new that there was a vulnerability in many hospitals. so the hospitals have been sued by the people who were in them, not only people who died, but those who suffered during the days of heat and fear and it was an particular suit and certified as a class action on behalf of basically everyone in the hospital. because of workers compensation, they couldn't be part of the suit as workers, but just as it reached a stage of jury selection, the corporation and the plaintiff settled for $25 billion without any sort of admission of any sort of responsibility. so that was just divided of this year and people just received it this year and everyone i've talked to is pretty much unhappy with the amount that they received. people feel that at least one daughter one patient who had received this, sort of let her own lawsuit and she settled this year she says she just fell at the amount wasn't enough to make the corporation think harder about disaster prepar

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in new orleans and there were people everywhere. people in suits you didn't know who the defenders were, you didn't know who the prosecutors were and you knew who the clients were because they were shackled on the seats. the judge started calling names and in the next second he would call another name and you heard voices, that would be the voice speaking for the person. a lawyer never stood next to the client and then the judge calls a name and there was no voice and he says is there mr. so and so here? he says i'm here. >> he says where is your lawyer? i haven't seen my lawyers since 70 days ago. what had been shocked to me for a man who had been locked for more than 70 days, nobody knew that. they had been used to a system, a level of expectation for poor people and the kind of justice they deserve. they become so used to it that they accepted it. that gave me this idea that we need to start a movement, it needs to be a movement of public defenders who get it so we started building gideon's promise by creating young defenders fro

it is new orleans- specific, do you want to take that one? >> being that i am from new orleans and you asked the question, how do we deal with it , i feel like i have been screaming the same thing. we are not going to change what is happening in the city of new orleans if we don't change the system itself. where we are paying into the criminal justice system, the fact that the prison gets more money than the program, the fact that the prison has become a way health,with addiction, when we could easily be like san francisco, new york, chicago, have putut, cities who that money into programs that will change that. until we change what poverty looks like for people -- people say, it is the hopelessness -- i cannot play with that word anymore. thatt people every day have hope that something is going to be different. we don't experience anybody that comes through our doors that do not feel like it could be different, but if we don't change the way the city of new orleans, what they consider our priority, gelling as a priority to keep a safe, and n

so you may be wondering, what is he doing talking to me at his office in new orleans?ou think you would die on death row? >> i knew i was going to die. i didn't have anything else to say. even executed, i didn't see no one leaving off death row for sure. >> reporter: how john thompson survived is complicated to see the least. it would be more than a decade before he learned the district attorney's office in new orleans with held evidence from his defense team that would have kept him from going to prison all together. his story begins in january 1985 when thompson was charged with the murder of a white hotel executive. back then, thompson was just 22 with two children. after thompson's picture made front page news, three white teenagers came forward accusing him of carjacking them weeks before. so prosecutors charged him with robbery and got a conviction. a month later, they used that carjacking conviction to prove he had a violent history and convinced a jury to sentence him to death in the murder case. now keep in mind, there was no forensic evidence linking thompson

it is new orleans- specific, do you want to take that one?> being that i am from new orleans and you asked the question, how do we deal with it , i feel like i have been screaming the same thing. we are not going to change what is happening in the city of new orleans if we don't change the system itself. where we are paying into the criminal justice system, the fact that the prison gets more money than the program, the fact that the prison has become a way health,with addiction, when we could easily be like san francisco, new york, chicago, have putut, cities who that money into programs that will change that. until we change what poverty looks like for people -- people say, it is the hopelessness -- i cannot play with that word anymore. thatt people every day have hope that something is going to be different. we don't experience anybody that comes through our doors that do not feel like it could be different, but if we don't change the way the city of new orleans, what they consider our priority, gelling as a priority to keep a safe, and now

from tulane university in new orleans this is an hour and a half. here this evening. plentyout and see that are still worried about their grades and seeking extra credit. thank you to the professor for that lovely introduction. larger part of the campus intellectual project to gauge with michelle alexander's ant, which has gotten enormous amount of critical praise over the years, that has restarted conversations that activists and scholars have been having often in more silo the spaces. hassuccess of the book provided more spaces for public discourse around these questions. me, one of the great challenges of the book as well as of so much activism, particularly within african- american communities around incarceration is the unnamed and almost always unnamed assumption that this is primarily a man's problem, a problem of male bodies being stopped and frisked by police officers instead of assumptions about male gendered norms associated with black men and notions of violence and the idea that the problems of incarceration and the cost of incarceration are primarily bor

what brought back new orleans?what's in america on notice that new orleans was back, was the new orleans saints super bowl run. at and amid the city but it brought it to life. it showed us that new orleans -- the reports of its death were greatly exaggerated. i know there's some people who think that silly that we unite behind a football team. why can't the city unite on something higher and more noble than that? i don't know. it's just the fact that that's what they decided to unite behind. isn't that a good thing? shouldn't we appreciate that? should we encourage that? it's not just professional teams. look in texas, the high school football on friday night. what that does to a community. some of these college towns turn into major my troubles is on saturday. what football can do to galvanize the community. there's very few things that have that kind of power, to have the power of football. it's america's game. we started talking about some of the presidents and their obsession with football for whatever reason.

what brought back new orleans?what sent america on notice that new orleans was back was the new orleans saints super bowl run. that animated the city. it brought it to life. it showed us that new orleans -- the reports of its death are greatly exaggerated. i know there's some people who think that's silly that we unite behind the football team. why can't a city unite behind something higher and more noble than that? i don't know. it's just the fact that that's what they decide to unite behind. isn't that a good thing? shouldn't we be encouraging that? it's not just professional teams. looking taxes, high school football on friday nights, which that done to a committee. some of the college towns turn into metropolises on saturday. what football can do to galvanize the community. there's very few things that can have the power of football. it's america's game. we start talking about some of the presidents and their obsession with football for whatever reason. i think it would be a good place to close and then we can

i'm brooke baldwin in new orleans. new year's eve. ♪ >> what else would you play from new orleans?uch, brooke. be sure to watch tonight, by the way, 9:00 eastern is when we kick things off. anderson cooper and kathy griffin with live coverage. more than three hours of festivities from times square. it will be live, and you will not want to miss a moment of it because it is guaranteed to have some unscripted events. it all starts 9:00 eastern here on cnn tonight. >>> coming up next, queen of pop beyonce uses a sample from nasa's failed challenger mission. and the families of the astronauts who died on that day are not happy. well, now beyonce is responding. dry, itchy winter skin? cortizone-10 has the strongest nonprescription itch medicine plus moisturizers to help heal skin fast. cortizone-10. feel the heal. plus moisturizers to help heal skin fast. at a company that's bringing media and technology together. next is every second of nbcuniversal's coverage 0f the 2014 olympic winter games. it's connecting over one million low-income americans to broadband internet at home. it's a p

what brought back new orleans? what sent america unnoticed that new orleans was back was the super bowl run. that animated the city. it brought it to life. it showed us that new orleans was -- the reports of its death were greatly exaggerated, and i know there's people who think, well, that's silly that we unite behind a football team. why can't a city unite behind something higher and more noble than that? i don't know. that's the fact that they decided to unite behind. isn't that a good thing? shouldn't we appreciate that and encourage that, and we look in texas, and what that does to the community, and some of the college towns turn into metropolises on saturday. what football can do to galvanize the community. there's few things that have the kind of a power, that have the power of football. it's america's game. we started talking about some of the presidents and their obsession with football for whatever reason. i think it'll be a good place to close, and we can take some questions. the president most closely

and she's standing there with a shirt on saying you know i'm from new orleans i'm here with b.p. and we're not going to leave until we make things right he said they would run these ads and then track the media impact of them via facebook and twitter gauge audience response. based on that response and then run them again immediately in order to quote unquote target the constituents more effectively so that's the level the really. in precise level that they were functioning on and from what i can see continue to function on today. daryn investigating the gulf since the deepwater horizon oil spill in two thousand and ten and you know as you just mentioned if we walk b.p. commercials that the bird watchers paradise the goal line come on down and the seafood it's all good can you talk about the reality on the ground as it stands today this is really many people down there are referring to it as a silent disaster silent not because it's not happening but because of really a media silence of the government silence around what's going on i mean first and most obvious there's been dramat

next week it's carolina at new orleans. a game that before the season we didn't think we would be flexing into but here we are and this is going a beauty. >> cris: it is. because you get sort of the best against the best. you get carolina's defense led by luke kuechly and they do so many great things on the defensive side. going into that dome where we have seen everybody struggle to try to stop that offense with drew brees so it's going to be fantastic. >> al: eight in a row. 15 games in about four days but a lot of fun this thanksgiving week. hope had a great holiday. 24-17 is our final. next week, it's on to the superdome. the panthers and the saints on "sunday night football." until then, al michaels and cris collinsworth and michele tafoya. our endure true headed by fred and the guys in the truck. good night from landover, maryland. . >>> good evening. thanks for joining us for the special edition of nbc bay area news. we're on right now because of sunday night football. >>> robbed and killed for a video game console.

ben lemoine in new orleans. thank you. >>> it's been a seesaw day on wall street. right now, the do you trading down about 41 points. the blue chips had been hovering around the break-even point much of the afternoon, as you can see before losing ground. the dow near the record high i.t. set on wednesday. >>> the supreme court will not decide, justices refusing to take on the case brought by amazon.com and overstock.com against new york, the decision means that states can still cause online retailers to charge sales tax where the exaggerations have a presence. >>> black friday, 15% higher hitting 1.2 billion. the two day increase was 17% compared to last year. >>> if you are looking for a partridge in a pear tree, it will cost you $117,000. , almost 7% higher than last year. nine ladies dancing, if 15% more. you get a break at the five gold rings and two turtledoves, they're the same as last year. >>> clowns put on a show for children in a syrian refugee camp. power of the people until we restore our freedoms a >> welcome back to al jazeera america. here are the he

but to me, i wasn't at home kind of in new orleans when i played somewhere else. somewhere else. it kind of made it easier to say it's time to move on and do something else. i think the main thing that's underappreciated about coaches is the hours they put in i think anyone successful -- not many successful people just work eight hours a day. we talk about eight-hour days, 40-hour weeks. people have no idea the hours that coaches put in. some of them 18 and 20 to the point of exhaustion because preparation, preparation and every game is so important. and they work extremely hard and they're families suffer there. they don't see that much of their families, especially during football season. >> in fact, two held coaches had heart attacks this year. >> it's scary. a lot of stress. a lot of pressure to win at every level and i think we need to be careful as fans and meeta. you know, don't -- try not to be part of all that pressure. it's an entertaining game. players, they are going to go out there on saturday, sunday, friday night, play as hard, do the best they can

i knew one thing, when i had my son in the city of new orleans. my big fear was that he would either go to jail or end up dead. i did everything i could by age 18 or 19 to move us to a very white midcity. we were one of three black families. i was hired when i was 18 because my employer saw something in me. she saw something. what is important about that is what i was exposed to or what i had access to as 18 mom in this city. someone gave me a book called black mothers and their sons, how to raise them and not coddle. i taught my son to be prideful. i told him to ask the officer why are you stopping me. he has never been incarcerated and never got to jail. i asked him how many times his mother argued with the police and said if you do not remove my son, because you have no legal right to hold him, it is going to be something. what is your badge number? or every time he came home at age 12 saying mom, what is my social security number? i wasn't poor enough so i didn't get any assistance. he said every time the police saw me they said the next time

despite the laws, new orleans still earns a wild card berth. >>> after bro belowing a big we can last week against the packers, dallas pulled one out against washington. trailing by six late in the game. fourth and goal, tony romo steps up and finds demarco murray for the touchdown. cowboys win 24-23. they play the eagles next week with the winner going to the playoffs. >> the cal women's basketball team was hoping to pull off an upset of top ranked connecticut but the bears could not keep it close. this matchup was held at madison square garden. uconn's star sophomore landed most of the punches, scoring 21 points the first half. one more than the entire cal team. the huskies roll 80-47. stewart tied a career high with 29. cal falls to 7-3. >>> the sharks are just 4-6 this

" game. >> yes. >> stan from new orleans. neil from washington state. >> get on with it, please. >> drew brees stripped. michael bennet, i'll take that. saints have 188 yards in the game. under two minutes to go in the first. third and one. russell wilson, to zach miller. wilson, threw for 310 yards. three touchdowns. seahawks have won 14 in a row at home. and have a two-game lead on everybody else in the nfc now. >>> let's keep it in the great northwest because the northwest is great. portland hosting paul george and the pacers. and paul george put on a show for those folks at the arena formerly known as the rose garden. he had a career-high 43. the pacers are down three. and george. by george. two-point game. the ensuing possession. damian lillard. hey, man, the pacers are 16-2 now. blazers 106-102. >> wow. what a game. >> yeah. it was pretty good "gma." >> have a great tuesday. >> guys, thanks. >>> something that the boys there left out from "monday night football" was so good. we made it our "play of the day." >> russell

new orleans is once again reliving the aftermath of hurricane katrina. jury selection has gun in the retrail -- begun in the trial of david warren. he was convicted of shooting a man to death in the aftermath of the storm. a federal judge overturned his conviction saying he was unfairly tried ben lemoine joins us live. what can you tell bus this new trial? >> the original trial was in 2010. the big difference is that in that trial, there were three defendants in that case, all three new orleans police officers including officer david warren who was eventually convicted. now, as you just said, one of the major problems is that the focus was on the aftermath, the gruesome burning after the shooting, the burning of the car with the body inside of it. so, what an appellate court decided last year was that the officer should have been tried separately. >> i think it's a waste of time, you know. you have proven that they think he is innocent. i don't know. it is a waste of time. you have drawn this man up several times in this court case. 2010 all of these peo

>>> in another dramatic showdown with police, more people are tased in new orleans. protesters in danger of losing their homes after hurricane katrina are determined not to lose their voice. >> let the people in! let the people in! >> december 20th, 2007. 10:00 a.m. the new orleans city council holds a hearing before a controversial vote, whether to demolish four of its largest public housing complexes. >> you want to talk about the people, the 4,500 families? that's not 4,500 people. that's 4,500 families! you hear me? >> one of several people inside is a rapper, sess 4-5, who grew in new orleans' projects. ♪ the more you listen >> i do feel like it was my duty to speak out and represent for those folks. >> loyola university law professor, bill quigley, is with protesters outside city hall. >> we were essentially locked out and people were outraged. they had been working on this for months and years, and you're talking about literally the opportunity for people to come home after katrina. >> as council members take their seats, pastor torin sanders sees chamber door

stephanie boswell has more now from new orleans >> reporter: a series of lawsuits in new orleans seeking billions of dollars against thefet federal government and insurance companies are over. the damages were caused by katrin a in 2005. u.s. district judge stanward duval, jr. dismissed it yesterday. he ruled more than 500,000 residents, businesses, and governments would have to pay their own damages. the classes action suit accused the u.s. corp of engineers of poor maintenance of the industrial canal. this ruling comes more than a year after federal appeals court overturned judge duval's original ruling that the corp was responsible for billions of dollars in damages. duvall dismissed the parallel lawsuit against a contractor. this suit claimed the company's excavation work week ended the levy's floodwald walls. he has presided over this case for the last eight years because he did not receive any damage to his personal property due to flooding. >>> a new report suggests there is no evidence al-qaeda played a role in last year's attack on the us consulate in benghazi. chris stevens and

appreciate it. >>> let's stay in new orleans.ury election began in the trial of a former bp drilling engineer charged in connection with the massive oil spill in the gulf of mexico back in 2010. curt mix faces charges of obstruction of justice. prosecutors claim he deliberately deleted text messageses to and from a supervisor and a bp contractor. nix is one of four former officials. >> vice president biden has arrived in chijapan a few years ago. he will speak with leaders about a chinese air defense zone over islands claimed by both countries. u.s. planes have flown through that zone. biden will visit china and south korea. now, to two countries in the midst of real political crises right now, we begin in thailand where an opposition leader vowed to escalate his campaign to topple the government. police spent another day battling with anti--government protesters in front of government buildings in bangkok. the demonstrations raised new fears that instability in one of asia's largest economies. wayne hay has more now from the cap

are no hornets in new orleans.this name. >> it's hard to understand the pathological obsession they have with keeping the name, when it's clearly not a grey area regarding the name. it seems like it's a certain aspect of entitlement or something, that you can appropriate, and use them in a way, simply for profitable reasons. and we've done polls and they show that people really -- it's not really about the team, it's about the name. i lived in washington. i worked there. i liked the team. i care about the team. we want them to succeed. we want the nfl to succeed. but there's a time and a place for everything, and time changes. that's one good thing about this country. this country, with many people speaking out, change can happen. >> i love that, a sense of privilege and appropriating other people as mascots. thank you for being here today, ray. and when we come back, more on football. why players at an historic college felt the need to go on strike and as you've, seeing throughout the show, we're going to do the l

next week it's carolina at new orleans. a game that before the season we didn't think we would be flexing into but here we are and this is going a beauty. >> cris: it is. because you get sort of the best against the best. you get carolina's defense led by luke kuechly and they do so many great things on the defensive side. going into that dome where we have seen everybody struggle to try to stop that offense with drew brees so it's going to be fantastic. >> al: eight in a row. 15 games in about four days but a lot of fun this thanksgiving week. hope had a great holiday. 24-17 is our final. next week, it's on to the superdome. the panthers and the saints on "sunday night football." until then, al michaels and cris collinsworth and michele tafoya. our endure true headed by fred and the guys in the truck. good night from landover, maryland. . right now, crews working to up right the cars involved in a new york city train derailment. tonight we're a learning more about the four people killed as investigators try to find out wha

what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining >> welcome to culture wire. we will look at the latest and greatest public art project. recently, the airport unveiled the new sta

byron pitts, abc news, new orleans. >> let me tell you, he is a legend in new orleans and a star, justso dedicated to helping people in need. >> go ahead. >> and he's wonderful. >> one of the cultural ambassadors of the city. so looks great, soups great, well done, trombone. looks and great great, sounds great. well done, trombone. ♪ >> welcome back, everybody, to an early edition of "insomniac theater." it's not the weekend just yet but we are at the movies this morning. everybody's talking about this one because "anchorman 2" has finally arrived. >> ah, yes, ron burgundy has been teasing us for months appearing in car ads, on local tv shows even on espn. for the movie he and the gang are back together again and they're going to new york city to do 24-hour cable news, but then this happens -- >> we all love rick. >> sweet rick. >> i'm told the next speaker was very close to him. >> why! why did you take him from us? >> rick, you're not dead. >> that is so dumb, it is funny. still not quite sure how sweet rick, the weatherman, could be that stupid, but we'll take it. he goes to new yor

a federal judge in new orleans threw out lots of damages. the state has immunity. >> new york times investigation says the attack on the embassy did not volve