i'm pretty sure a lot of new orleans folk wouldn't describe it as unified. they were ready to go home, their home was gone and the city wouldn't build new ones. unified. so in new orleans, you can see the legacy of slavery through neighborhoods like this and through the response of katrina. to me, the link to slavery is so clear here. >> it's a good modern example of how ruthless people with money and power can be when it comes down to making sure they stay on top and we stay on the bottom. >> what is this? >> that's my elementary school i went to. >> wow. >> yeah, you've got a lot of these spots in new orleans where you're pointing at something totally empty. what's that? that's where i used to go to school. >> and now it's nothing. >> now it's nothing. >> when was it torn down? >> after katrina. >> they just felt like -- i guess after you take away all that housing -- >> ain't no more people. >> no kids to go here. >> everything was anchored by public housing. so you want to change the scope of new orleans, the first thing you've got to do is get rid of po

his family is new orleans royalty.o matter how successful they get, they always come back to new orleans. when katrina hit, he and other musicians didn't wait. they saw the ninth ward under water and got to work. >> harry connick and i got together with habitat for humanity and decided to use this particular neighborhood to build a lot of homes. >> it's going to be about 70 houses. about ten elder friendly duplex apartments. we use it as a home for musicians. it is hard to get a house when you are living in the gig economy. >> by gig economy, he means the old school gig economy. musicians playing gigs. the heart of the village is the central for music. >> i'm proud that the school serves the community. everybody. he's one kid in there with down syndrome. and i have an autistic brother so it is great that there is a place they can go. >> a place for the community. >> that's beautiful. >> and we're not trying to train musicians here. we're trying to use the discipline of music to help these kids get a grasp on understand

and july 1866 a meeting is convened downtown new orleans. two or 300 african-americans newly in politics and 300 outside of the mechanics institute. the purpose is to petition for black men to vote. the politicians in power at this point in new orleans and the mayor of the city sends the police force and the fire departments to the scene of the rally to make it up. constant is a member of the volunteer fire brigade as are many confederate veterans and apparently he came to the scene there is no fingerprint evidence that circumstantial is quite persuasive and within two hours of them arriving , 200 african-americans were dead by gunfire and bludgeoning in a scattered the streets of new orleans this mechanic institute massacre provokes congress to pass the reconstruction act. >> which i did not know about that particular incident and after teaching reconstruction and the civil rights act for years but didn't realize there was a central animating event. so john lewis and others attacked on the edmund pettis bridge and that was the impetus for t

certainly while my time in new orleans, there were a number of new lawsuits against the orleans police department and mitch e then mayor, landrieu, i was present with him here there were major, major payouts for things that happened at the hands of police officers that embarrassed and harmed the city over a number of years. that happens in most places already. that certainly happened here in altimore where there's litigation and settlements of that nature and people take the city to court all the time. some win and some lose. so i think that already exists to some degree. we -- the question is -- how do we create more accountability, more reform ency, and more from where we were to where we hink we need to be that makes the community satisfied with the level of reform that we need to make? joey: without question. doctor, if i could come back to you about the issue i raised about what you think are the top things you think we need to do. transition to the judge about the federal role and what the federal government could do, perhaps help and assist in this issue. if you are comfortable

our new orleans police department. a lot of people calling for in terms of reform as a country, we have accomplished already through our consent decree. de-escalation training, teaching officers have to deal with both substance abuse and mental illness problems in a way that is more appropriate. the amount of force that is necessary. giving warnings before you use force. many things that people are calling for in reforms right now, in new orleans, we have already done that. there are, i think as far as where we are in our consent decree, we are well on the way but not quite there. policies.o start with then, we have to go to training. then, we had to go to implementation. and then, we had to go to discipline if people do not follow the policies. we put all of those things in place. we are now nearing the end where there is some difficult things to do such as ensuring those reforms are sustained when the consent decree is over. also, ensuring effective supervision, because i think that is a difficult thing to teach and

. >> i'm a federal district court judge in new orleans. i had a civil practice until 2012 when i was appointed to the bench by president barack obama. about four months later, i got assigned the new orleans police department specialty case. i'm coming up on eight years of working that consent decree. i've learned a lot about policing and police reform. i definitely see a role for consent decrees to play and police reform in our country. it's not the only way, but it is one way that i have found to be very effective. >> thank you so very much judge. professor burch, if we can turn to you. >> hi, thank you so much joey. i am professor of political science and also a research professor at the american bar foundation. one of the major issues that i research is criminal justice and the political effects of criminal justice on participation. i'm currently working on a project that examines how and when people respond politically through voting for protesting and the like to policing. i'm happy to be here. >> we are happier that you are here. the

it happened in new orleans. the battle developed within the white community, those who saw desegregation as an eventuality with which to reach an accommodation, personified by most members of the new orleans school board. on the other side, those who shouted "never," many of them members of the rural dominated state legislature. for a time, the second force prevailed largely because the city leadership shrank from the fight. as frequently happens in leadership vacuums, even in the streets of a city so sophisticated as this one, violence overtakes reason. it happened in fact right here on around old street in new orleans. on that november day, teenagers protesting the desegregation of two grade schools a few days before, becoming more unruly. firetrucks trucks scattered the crowds with streams of water. what first had started as a lark turned into something mean and dangerous. at the desegregated schools themselves, women dominated the bitterness displayed morning after morning. some of them clutched babies in th

this is from new orleans, louisiana, nola.com. family and their belongings, things that they owned just dumped outside of their house. there's a crib there, there were clothes there and more on the corner of the street. >> the evictions are just part of a growing wave of people being expelled from their homes in the midst of covid-19 pandemic. and raising this concern for the eviction bluntly warning that thousands of people in the new orleans area have lost work and fallen behind on the act to pay rent in a city that already had a high eviction rate before covid. joining me now is hannah adams, a nonprofit group that helps renters. >> good morning, thank you for having me. >> certainly. give us an idea of the acceleration of evictions as we're now in month five of this pandemic. >> absolutely. like you said, we entered the pandemic from a place having econvictions two times the national average in new orleans. in some neighborhoods we had an eviction rate as much as 10% prior to the pandemic. i will note that a lot of those neigh

new orleans in the cross hairs. louisiana's governor requesting immediate federal help. >> these storms are a challenge that quite frankly we haven't seen before. >> and a controversial virus break-through. cretly sispprs to ponds to call him a liar. a >>> and we'll look ahead to the republican convention. >>> more handle the a million acres scorched. >>> a troubling forecast that could make the situation worse. >>> parting students spread the virus. frustrating administers and fueling campus anxiety. belarus on the brink. protesters try to out europe's last dictatodictator. >>> and later, a family project with a new twist on story time. >> we're interested in stories that connect kids to some sense of magic and wonder. >>> good evening. hurricane marco is barreling toward the gulf coast. marco is expected to make landfall tomorrow along louisiana's coast as a category 1 hurricane. just days later and only miles away laura completes the one-two punch as a stronger storm. janet shamlian is in r new orleans where the

new orleans has dirtied. where we are, we are well along the way but not quite there, it seems to me you have to put all these things in place and to start with policy and then we had to go to training, then we had to go to implementation and then we had to go to discipline if people don't follow the policy. and we put all those things in place, and for now is nearing the end where there is difficulty to do such as ensuring that those reforms are sustained and we can use those and also ensuring effective supervision, i think that is a difficult to put in place, another topic we are working with is establishing a constitutional and bias free. we know, the good news in new orleans the police department does not get a lot of complaints based on bias. of any kind. but the scale is not enough to convince us that we are sure we can adopt that problem. in new orleans, we are doing something that the department has done it and i think other departments implemented, we developed a way to audit whether to stop when the

his army all the way to new orleans. new orleans was really conquered for the union early in the war by the union fleet. butler marches himself in and declares himself the conquerer of new orleans. one thing when his soldiers are spat upon by the enraged prosouthern women of new orleans, the fancy ladies, he issues an infamous order that i think we have on the screen in which he says that if any women -- we should go to the next slide. >> the next slide. >> and if any women are caught treating union soldiers with disrespect, they will be regarded and held libel to be treated as a woman of the town plying her vocation. that's a nice way of saying, you will be arrested for prostitution. so the spitting stopped. but butler was a brutal occupying force all to himself. he's alleged to have made corrupt bargains with consulate offices and stolen his piece of the action. he's confiscated spoons from plantation owners so he became known as spoons butler. and eventually he was relieved of his command and sent away to his next con

but new orleans was the heart of that trade. so new orleans was tied to virginia and to alexandria, virginia, and there was this constant flow of people coming down to new orleans to be spread out to the territories from there. so this is where you could see all of that happening. on this plantation we have an oral history given to us by the descendants of one of the people enslaved here that described this process of being taken from the upper south and sold in the lower south. anna is a girl who was born on the east coast, probably virginia, and the story about anna is that she was purchased to be a gift for the lady of the house, mary hidel, who had no children of her own. anna, as the family has related to us, lived inside of the big house. and so would have had a interesting kind of relationship with the family. people who lived in the big house who were slaves, often had a strange kind of relationship that we can't really understand today. she was a slave and would have been treated as such. but also would have been very c

from mobile and started it in new orleans. that was a diverse part. this guy looks like louie armstrong. as an african-american king and queen stature as well. but that's how we say we're the birth place of mardi gras, we were founded 16 years before new orleans. and then i add my little footnote to say, we're glad that people think new orleans is the place to goo, so we can have fun and all those crazy people can go to new orleans. this is our central business district area, we had no malls, this is where you would buy everything from socks to hat. now that's changed. it's all restaurants, clubs, entertainment. legal offices, hotels. the nature of the business changed and we'll talk about that briefly how that changed in the late '80s. so this is the sight of the slave market where illegally kidnapped individuals were auctioned off in the 16, 17, 1800s. keep in mind we are two blocks away from the water. none of these buildings were here, so the ships would come in and they would dock at the water. they would travel two to th

south happened here in new orleans. the battle developed within the white community, those who saw disagreed segregation as an eventual audi with which to reach an accommodation. on the other side, those who shouted never. many of them members of the rolled does legislature. city leadership track. as frequently happens in leadership vacuums, even in the streets of so sophisticated city is this one, violence overtakes reason. it happened in fact right here in new orleans. on that november day, teenagers protesting the desegregation of two great schools a few days before, moved downtown and making it unruly. fire trucks backed up by police line scatter the crowd with billowing streams of water. what first it started as a lark turn into something mean and dangerous. the da desegregated schools themselves, women clutch babies in their arms and screamed epithets at u.s. marshals escorting first grainy growth children into the school building. many crying were directed at the minister who refused to attend the boycott of the

he takes his army all the way to new orleans. you orleans -- butler marches in, declares himself the concord of new orleans anyway. he establishes a command there, which is more controversial in terms of anything he has done in his career. one thing, when his soldiers are bat upon by the enraged pro southern or southern women of new orleans, the fancy ladies, he issues an infamous order. i think we have it on the screen. he says if any women -- let's go to the next slide. if any women are caught treating union soldiers with disrespect, they will be regarded and held liable to be treated as the women of the town -- that's a nice way of saying you will be arrested for prostitution. the spinning stopped. butler was kind of a brutal occupying force all to himself. he was alleged to have made corrupt bargains with consulate officers. he stole the piece of the action. he was allegedly confiscating spoons from plantation owners so he became known as the spoons butler. eventually he was relieved of his command and sent away to his next co

takes us army all the way to new orleans. new orleans was really conquered by admiral forget. anything in fleet. but butler marches in, and declares himself the conqueror of new orleans anyway. and he establishes a command there. which is more controversial, in terms of anything he's done in his career. but one thing, one of his soldiers are scattered on by the enraged, pro southerner southern women of new orleans. the fancy ladies. he issues, and infamous order. i think we have that on the screen, in which he says that if any women, we go to next lied here sorry could mix. lied >> next lied yeah. >> that if any women, are caught treating union soldiers, with disrespect. they will be regarded and held liable, to be treated as a woman of the town, playing her vocation. and that's a nice way of saying, you will be arrested for prostitution. so the spitting stopped. butler was a kind of a brutal, occupying force. onto a self. he is alleged to have made corrupt margins, with consular offices, and stolen his piece of the action. he confiscated spoons, from plantation owners, so he

and headed for new orleans on the 15th anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> janessa webb is tracking those storms there's so much changing >> good morning. we do have a big-time change in the forecast i think new orleans, you're in the clear now even though we do still have that state of emergency. you could still deal with some flooding rain but this storm system has taken a more northwesterly track. there is no alerts for panama city total has see and they are seeing the outer bands a little bit of hail currently happening but this storm system has run into some drier air and that's allowed it to kind of shred apart. we'll still watch it as the flooding potential and storm surge i think still could be hefty across the florida poond but as i said, no alerlts but you need to be aware as marco lifts to the northnd abit of sun no rain in the forecast and the storm systems they'll start to heat up for chicago this afternoon into green bay and then i do want to talk more about laura coming up where cuba is currently dealing with a lot of rain. >>> thank you. the change of heart from the

was an elderly retired school teacher and was the family historian in my mother's family all in new orleans and she was the keeper of him on others or klansman. she had some papers and files and speaking about our family history. now the one to remember is over klansman after they had dislodged and if he had not acted in the battle of liberty place, we wouldn't be here tod today. when she died, the papers went to my mother and this was now decades later her files came to me and this is how we rediscovered the story of the klansman. >> host: you remember your aunt maude. it sounds like she spoke of -- lacorn -- -- >> guest: he was raised and spoke french. >> is it fair to say that he was heroic? >> guest: he was here awake for a hundred years. as for the clans people, the klansman in the first genesis after the civil war overturned reconstruction and restored white supremacy when it was challenged by the black politicians and black business in the black voting for a century he was a hero but then in the civil rights period the plan was altered and returned to some sense and when it came to b

this is still in new orleans thing. this is a louisiana thing. >> oh, new orleans? >> yeah, this is still a thing down south, specifically in louisiana, new orleans. it's really -- i really enjoy it, but it's a super acquired taste. but funny story. alison will kill me for telling this. but my girlfriend's grandmother did -- back in the 1930s, she lived for a brief time in new orleans and for years and years afterwards, she always -- she hated new orleans, lived there like a year. but she hated, hated chicory and coffee. and up to, you know -- unfortunately she passed away a little ways back. but up to her dying day, she said, any time new orleans came up, can you believe they put chicory in their coffee? terrible, it's terrible. but i quite enjoy it. >> i would be willing to try it. i'm not willing to say that i would absolutely love it because i haven't had it, but i would be willing to try it. sounds interesting. >> yeah, it's an interesting, you know, concept and something that's, i think, interesting is a connection to the civil war. and you talk about relevanc

> reporter: a city perpetually in flux, finding itself in a familiar place sam brock, nbc news, new orleans. >>> we are tracking both threats tonight, al roker joins us. al, what are we looking at right now >> the good news, lester, marco is weakening, south of the mouth of the mississippi river, a lot of heavy rain, a little wind, that should be the worst of it we're worried mostly about laura. currently, over cuba moving west/northwest at 20, limited strengthening through tomorrow morning but it's out over the open waters of the gulf, landfall sometime thursday morning with possibility ofour. tornados and high winds. we'll continue to watch it >>> in wisconsin, the national guard is deploying tonight after protests broke out over video showing police shooting a black man. jacob blake in the back, multiple times gabe gutierrez has the story and a warning, it is disturbing >> reporter: tonight there' growing outrage over this video, showing at least two police officers in kenosha, wisconsin with their guns drawn, following 29-year-old jacob blake as he walked around the front of the gray su

martin savage is joining us from new orleans.are folks in new orleans and louisiana doing right now to prepare for the possibility of a one-two punch? >> reporter: and that's exactly what the governor is describing this as, a one-two punch. the likes of which even though louisiana and new orleans have seen many, many storms and you pointed out katrina. i was here for katrina. even though they have seen those many storms, they've never seen anything like what is shaping up this week. not one, but two potential hurricanes following on the heels of one another, so closely, that it has officials extremely worried. wolf, individually, these two storms would be considered manageable by emergency officials, a category one, possibly category two. when you combine them together, all bets are off. they do not know what to expect. the public is concerned. normal asto storm like marco wo not make people worry, but people are stocking up on supplies because it may be on their own safety and actions for the first 72 hours. listen. >> you need

it happened in new orleans. the battle developed within the white community, those who saw desegregation as an eventuality to reach an accommodation, that view personified by the new orleans school board. on the other side those who shouted never. many members of the state legislature. for a time the second force prevailed largely because the city leadership shrank from the fight. as frequently happens in leadership vacuums even in the streets of so sophisticated a city as this one violence overtakes reason. it happened, in fact, right here in new orleans. >> on that november day teenagers protesting the desegregation of two grade schools a few days before moved downtown, becoming more unruly. fire trucks backed up by a police line scattered the crowd with billowing streams of water. what first started as a lark turned into something mean and dangerous. the desegregated schools themselves, women showed the bitterness morning after morning, some clutched babies in their arms and screamed epithets at u.s. marshals

in the new orleans area, we'll get maybe sop squalls that will go through. pect it will lose a lot of power from this storm. all good news with marco. now, laura, all day yesterday, you know, all the meteorologists around the country, we knew that laura was the storm to focus on. this was the one that had the potential to at least be a very dangerous storm. right now, it's just south of the cuban coastline. it's over the warm water of the caribbean. it got disorganized over cuba and has a little bit of sheer coming off the north right now, but still has 65-mile-per-hour winds. it won't take much to go back up to hurricane, to become a hurricane as we go into tuesday. and then you notice, the hurricane center has it going up to a category 2, 105-mile-per-hour hurricane, making landfall between houston and new orleans wednesday night. so all of a sudden, that's a pretty serious storm, with the possibility to get even stronger. it easily could get up to major hurricane status, category 3, maybe category 4, worst-case scenario. and then it will turn into a big ra

of 51st lieutenant governor louisiana, the 61st mayor of new orleans, the founder of e pluribus unum,ganization bringing people together across the south around matters of opportunity and violence, mitch marsalis and wynton with grammys and the pulitzer prize for music, which was the first for music. great to see you both. >> great to see you. thought you were going to dress up, so i do not want to be behind you, so i thought i would get in front of you. >> i am happy to be here. i am so happy to see you. i wish i could reach over there and hug and kiss you. jonathan: alright, you two. i am taking control back so we can discuss this. now -- thewide nation right now is looking at racial justice to equity and opportunity but also into the removal of confederate statues, and, mitch, you were in the middle of it there in new orleans a few years back. wynton aterviewed couple of years ago, 2018, in new york, i asked him about this, because he sort of lit the fire in you to do something about this, and here is what wynton said when i asked him if you reached out to him because he was a nati

and he's transferred to new orleans. new orleans was really conquered by the union early in the war. but butler marches in and declares himself the conqueror of new orleans anyway and he establishes a command there which is more controversial it turns out than anything he's done in his career. he issues an infamous order that i think we have on the screen in which he says that if any women -- if any women are caught treating union soliers with disrespect they'll be libel saying you will be arrested for prostitution. butler was kind of a brutal occupying force. he's alleged to have made corrupt bargains with consulate offices and stolen a piece of the action. he's allegedly confiscated spoons from plantation owners so he became known as spoons butler. and eventually he was relieved of his command and sent away to his next controversial assignment. and that's when the story picks up and explains the medal. >> you know, it's interesting just before we leave new orleans that along with the really bad stuff that he did there,

post- katrina new orleans prayed the reason a point to new orleans as they built a culture specifically on bringing together other cultures prayed whether it's caribbean culture, french culture american culture cuban culture, slave culture every kind of culture imaginable in creating art forms that are universally that are remarkably american and speak to universal. that has a difficult histories and often complicated and painful with a deeper history. and enable to exercise it through means other than music and art in getting together. and though things are hybrid cultures that are uniquely american. as we look forward, let's take that message of reconciliation coming together of seeing one another listening to one another that is so live in a place like new orleans and hopefully take that with us to the ballot box. >> that is a beautiful place to end. ladies and gentlemen the book is called union. you can go to the link where you can purchase the book jordan chris thank you so much for your time, for writing this book. and for sharing your story with us today. : : : >> thank you every

new orleans in the cross layers, louisiana governor requesting immediate federal help. >> these stormsose a challenge that quite frankly we've not seen before. course in consequence. partying students spread the virus, frustrating administrators and fueling campus anxiety. belarus on the brink, protestors try to oust europe's last dictator. cbs news is there. and later, a family reading project that puts a new twist on story time. >> we're interested in stories that connect kids to some sense of magic and wonder. this is the cbs weekend news. >> yuccas: good evening, i'm jamie yuccas in los angeles. the situation is desperate, the second and third largest fires in state history are expected to grow as new thunderstorms produce dry lightning and gusty winds. in in hsbg, northi is on the of san francisco. >> reporter: california is under a historic fire siege with more lightning expected tonight. nearly 1.3 million acres charred and counting as more than 14,000 exhausted firefighters battle nonstop flames. in california's wine country the lnu complex fire is relentless. so far the fire b

it happened right here on the street in new orleans. >> on that november day teenagers protesting the desegregation of two grade schools a few days before moved downtown becoming more unruly. fire trucks backed up by a police line scattered the crowd with billowing streams of water. what first started as a -- turned into something mean and dangerous. at the schools themselves, women dominated the hard core of bitterness displayed morning after morning. some clutched babies in their arms and screamed ep pa thats at u.s. marshals escorting children into the school building. many were directed to a young minister who refused to join the boycott of the school who took his child to the school and there were taunts for mrs. raymond gabrielle who refused to boycott. >> i have no sense of hatred. i don't feel this hatred that most of these people find and therefore i feel that i am within my constitutional rights as an american to send her there if it is within my judgment that's where she should go i'm within my rights to send her there until my judgment changes. >> reaction in the state cap

mart martin savidge is in new orleans. i don't tell anybody watching about the history of new orleans there. tell us what you're seeing about the concerns about two storms hitting at once. >> reporter: right now, jim, this is the calm before the storms, as we so well know, two of them here. normally the people of louisiana would not get that concerned about a tropical storm heading their way. these are not normal conditions, because there's another storm coming immediately on the heels of that one, and that is what has people worried. it's the cumulative effect. here is the governor last night. >> don't let your guard down, and we also are looking at a one-two punch because laura is the second one that we're going to see. >> reporter: and that's the concern here, jim, is that you're going to initially get this tropical storm, it's going to hug the coastline here of louisiana. in new orleans, storm surge is not so much the concern, it's the rain that is going to come. you always worry more about water in new orleans than yo

i've been in new orleans since i was a kid and new orleans is a city that you can feel the inequitiesu walk through it and you can see the link back to the ant bell um south because they've saved the buildings and it feels like the conversation is happening there all the time. and it's a city that has a lot of inequity between the white and black citizens. >> growing up in neighboring texas, even just going a few hours away to new orleans, which i love, you do feel the difference and there's so much history in that city. i'm so glad that you went there for this reporting. in this episode you attempt to determine a number for just how much money is owed to the black community and you come away with a staggering figure of $19 trillion. why does this amount come from, and why is it still just the beginning? >> well, professor thomas cramer from uconn, he basically figured out if you had paid enslaved africans, it would have been 11 cents an hour, i believe they used 24 hours a day because they did not have control over their life and then he did it through the beginning of slavery throug

notice new orleans is not in the cone of uncertainty. you need to be prepared for a major hurricane. if it's not, great. we need to prepare for it because it is a possibility. >> sam, you're in the nineth ward. >> reporter: incredible history here. mayor of new orleans asking people to shelter in place. there are some mandatory evacuations. she was telling families to keep five days of perishable foods. first aid kits and flashlights. as far as where i'm standing on this street here, jordan street, over my shoulder is one of the flood walls you were describing that beached back in 2005 as we come up on this 15-year anniversary of hurricane katrina. it caused widespread and unma unimaginable damage to this neighborhood. some of those homes are where i'm standing now. so much of this preparation is years in the making. $14 billion invested in a flood protection system whether that's pumps, whether it's flood walls, flood gates, drainage. all sorts of things that put this entire city under siege 15 years ago. will it work this time? standin

so we went to new orleans to talk to new orleans people.t reparations. >> why did you choose new orleans? >> you know, wolf, new orleans is a city where you can really feel and see the remnants of antebellum history. they keep the architecture and like to celebrate traditions. hurricane karina, black folks suffering for not being properly provided for and taken care of by the city. >> we have a little extra from your excellent episode later tonight. let me play it. watch this. >> that's the thing, like, racism makes you illogical. >> yeah. >> so, like, all of a sudden all of these concepts of law and morality that we understand everywhere else when it comes to black folks we're like hell no, i don't get it. >> that doesn't make sense. >> money due. why should vi have to pay you - i never owned slaves. >> yeah. >> to me, if the government, you know, if you can inherit wealth, which we all understand, then you also inherit debt. >> in this episode, kamau, you attempt to find a number for just how much money is owed to the black community and

and for years and years afterwards, she hated new orleans. was there for like a year. but she hated, hated chickery and coffee. and up to -- unfortunately she passed away a little ways back. but to her dying day, she said any time new orleans came up, you could believe they put chicker in their coffee. terrible. it's terrible. i quite enjoy it. >> i would be willing to try it. i'm not saying to say that i would love it because i haven't had it. but i would be willing to try it. sounds interesting. >> it is an interesting, you know, concept and something that is i think interesting as a connection to the civil war and you talk about relevance in our mission. but if you look at how tastes evolve over time and that is an interesting one because it sticks with us over all of the century and a half and chickery has been used in coffee down there before the civil war but it becomes much more common and kind of a standard part of the fare that is included right up to the present day. so there is kind of a -- we love this at the museum. things that y

not only rain that could flood new orleans but a storm surge that could be 2 to 6 feet. we do expect more significant strengthening from this storm. potentially a category 2 or 3 making landfall along the upper texas coast or louisiana during the day on wednesday. that would be two potential hurricanes in the same two states, just two days apart. >> andhat first storm making landfall as early as tomorrow. >>> also breaking tonight, the catastrophe unfolding in california. wildfires burning homes to the ground. two of the largest fires in state history, destroying more than 1 million acres. thousands of lightning strikes igniting hundreds of fires. with more lightning risk today. here's kaylee hartung. >> reporter: california tonight still battling two of the largest fires ever recorded in the state, littering dry landscapes with burned-out homes and cars, and new lightning storms are forecast to make a dire situation even worse. >> you're going to see abundant lightning. gusty winds up to 50 or 60 miles per hour if we take the direct hit. >> reporter: many homeowners dan

he made only one playoff appearance during his time in new orleans.

these are locations that get easi easily flooded and we're going to forecast new orleans to panama city, to southern locations up to 6 to 8 inches. some isolated areas, higher amounts. we still have a hurricane warning that's in place for new orleans that extends into baton rouge has well and no alerts for the florida panhane, butdl tampa today, 93. a few strong storms this afternoon and we're also watching the severe weather threat for the st. louis area to chicago. 93 also severe weather for the midwest. we'll talk about that coming up. >> there is a whole lot to watch out there. thanks for that. >> we've got our hands full today. >>> a deputy had to think fast when a pregnant woman went into labor in a 7-11 parking lot. >> he's crying great job. congratulations. it is a boy. >> her water broke and deputy richard allen jr. jumped into action medics arrived seconds too late. the deputy helped deliver that happy baby boy and the new mother jokes saying you're my hero i guess i owe you a big gulp >> hop over to that wendy's next door and grab some fries and chil chi chili. >>> and the ra

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parts of new orleans you can't ignore there was a hurricane, what happened?at america can be efficient machine creating and racial equality and the statistics and just a devastating example of that. this was the billions of dollars that congress gave the state, and took years to distribute any money for anybody and making life difficult for anyone. the program capped the grant award at the market value of the house before the flood. identical houses in different neighborhoods but have different cast and make white people eligible for larger grants than black people. >> sess 45, we mentioned the party to commemorate hurricane katrina, how did it go this year with kcovid-19 and everything? >> it was a great time out. because of the pandemic, we did a lot of safety precautions and we scale back a whole lot because of that. just you know we used to getting thousands and thousands of people coming out on this anniversary and today being the 50-year anniversary and thousands of people come from all over the country and new orleans was displaced and texas and atlant

rob marciano joins us from new orleans. good morning, rob. >> reporter: yeah, eva, that's if they're waking up in their home. a lot of people who live in lake charles don't have a livable home. so many people are not even there. we have hundreds of evacuees stays in new orleans. help is on the way. the people of lake charles are going to need help for a long, long time. this morning over 400,000 customers still without power in the wake of hurricane laura. utility crews are rolling in, but are faced with a cripple electrical grid to be repaired or rebuilt. tens of thousands without running water in extreme summer heat. five out of six water plants in lake charles severely damaged. >> water and electricity is out and you should expect it out for weeks. >> reporter: forcing the shutdown of one hospital. newborn babies needed to be evacuated. >> they lost water pressure and they lost their air conditioning system. everything -- the walls were wet. the floor was wet from the humidity. >> reporter: while the other hospital in la

tony and i bonded early over our love of new orleans . the reason i point to new orleans is there's a place that has built a culture specifically on bringing together other cultures, whether it's french culture, american culture, afro-cuban culture, every kind of culture and imaginable and creating art forms that are universally or that are remarkably american and the universal admission, that has difficult history and often complicated and painful sort of modern and deeper history and it's able to exercise it through means other than or music and art and getting together and food and building sort of hybrid cultures that are uniquely american and so i'd say as we look forward, let's take that message of reconciliation and coming together, seeing one another and listening to each other is so alive in a place like new orleans and hopefully take that with us to the ballot box. >> that's a beautiful place and. later in gentleman book is called union. you can get a available on the chat where you can purchase the book. for chris, thank you fo

many welcomed to new orleans to seek shelter there. because it is a smaller city, less densely populated, you will have less impact on life there so we are grateful for these things, of course but again, hurricane katrina was -- i can tell you this. i've lived through many hurricanes. typically when a hurricane comes, first of all, we have hurricane parties. this is real, we go drinking. this will be nothing and, or if you leave, you grab a bag for a couple of days because it will pass, it's nothing. we'll leave. i can tell you this, i went down there. my family evacuated because of hurricane katrina all those years ago but -- let me finish this story. when i was down there covering hurricane katrina, my family left, i went in to do my job as a reporter. so finally about a month later, i went to go see my mom who is in texas and i walked into the hotel where they were staying and she had a small bag of a few things because she thought she'd be gone for two or three days, no big deal. i saw that she only had that and i realized that was

ago with the real world you're right i had to go looking for it so i was watching the rebels in new orleans which is the previous season the one that i was on and i saw a commercial and i said i was there like do you want to track down i was like i do you want to try out well sit in the video so i made this video on a v.h.s. by the way because back then we didn't have our little camera phones that you know it's hat today so i had a v.h.s. i remember putting press editing it by pressing play and record on my v.h.s. . videos because i always would record everything off might big huge v.h.s. camera and so so yeah i sent in a video and back then there wasn't all these reality shows there was like maybe 4

the problem with new orleans was the levees new orleans is in a bowl and the old old with water. this was actually a stronger storm. it came on as predicted, where and when predicted. the storm surge was about 15 feet, they said 15-20 feet, it came in at15 -- it 15. the most forceful winds that would have loan ships out of the calcasieu channel never happened because storms winds stayed on the east side of there. so we didn't have such strong winds inland, but it didn't mean we don't have devastation. truck travel south on the storm, you will progressively find more damage. areae going to alexandria to visit other parishes, including vernon parish, which i expect will be some between what we saw yesterday in calcasieu and cameron and what we saw today. >> how will the storm and recovery efforts impact your decision to weeks from now? governor edwards: decisions we make with respect covid on whether we stay in place or impose additional measures, we do that by the data and the date is driven by the testing and because we are not doing robust testing right now, i can't tell you wha