new orleans is invested in the world. it's one of those places that you don't fully appreciate until you are not there anymore. i was 17 when hurricane katrina hit new orleans. this week marked the 70th anniversary of katrina. so kind of a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact that this was half a lifetime ago. and in so many ways it feels like it was just yesterday. i think, i've been thinking a lot about how new orleans shit, has how it should be as a husband, father, a writer, a person but also thinking about all the ways that my life was ended in ways that i don't, i don't think a fully processed yet. i just wrote about this incredible documentary katrina babies, which is came out on hbo and was done by a young man who was similar to me but 13 when katrina hit. he made a documentary about the way that come how young black children who were children when katrina happen who didn't necessarily have the language or the vocabulary to express how they were experiencing this amidst trauma. he is giving them a platform

i was 17 years old when hurricane katrina hit new orleans. this week marked the 17th anniversary of katrina. it was a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact this was half a lifetime ago. in so many ways, it feels like yesterday. i have been thinking a lot about how new orleans shaped me as a husband, a father, a writer, a person. but also thinking about all the ways my life was offended in ways i do not think i have fully processed yet. i just wrote about this incredible documentary, "katrina babies," and done by a young man -- will he is similar age to me -- but 13 when katrina hit. he made a documentary about the way young black children who were children when katrina happened, who did not necessarily have the language or vocabulary to express how they were experiencing this trauma, he is giving them a platform to do a retrospective and look back and explain what that felt like and how it has continued to impact than the last 17 years. thinking about new orleans and my relationship to it, but even beyond katrina and my entire life bef

those who were you in new orleans when katrina hit? >> guest: we evacuated and what people don't always understand if you evacuate from a hurricane on an annual basis it was like a rite of passage for living in new orleans. what you do everyat year. you pack some clothing and you go to your aunt and uncle's house or you go to a motel or you stay. .. ground, a window busted. but no one was prepared for what was going to happen. we were in houston, texas. i was at my aunt and uncle's house. it was surreal and >> very surreal unsettling experience to be sitting on the couch with a 17 -year-old watching cnn and seeing the grocery store my church, my school, my neighborhood, submerd under 89 and 10 feet of water and then experience with so many people 80 percent of the city was underwater and it was something god people from new orleans, our lives are sort of - by the storm and live before the storm in life after the storm and it kind of marker in time that we often use. with that before the summer after the storm unimaginable be like that

in new orleans in the 19th century? >> i don't know of if they would use that multi-terminology multiethnic. the people who had privilege living in a segregated system there were places there were only and everyone who is not or was o nonwhite. you are nonwhite essentially so to tell you the truth if you look at many communities black communities in the united states you would agree that nonwhite people were -- and that's where they started their businesses. the black community tents to be quite inclusive in the south people work together and as i said they didn't believe in racism. it was a premise that didn't make any logical sense to us. >> "economy hall" your title comes from actual place and i wonder if you talk about that place in 18th century and also about you were very eloquent in your book about the importancer of actually having a place to hold meetings. let's talk a little bit about the place of economy hall. >> economy hall in 1836 was a small house in 185720 years later they decided to build a grand home.

host: your new book has a new orleans connection. >> yes. and with jefferson davis watching that what it meant to be in a majority black city and then to inflate people and the implications and then to go down robert e. lee boulevard my middle school was named after the confederacy symbols and names and iconography are not just symbols but reflective of the story that people tell and those narratives shape public policy which isn't to say suddenly the racial wealth gap to recognize the ideas and the narratives to give an understanding and appreciation and specific communities have been disproportionately and intentionally harmed so looking around new orleans and what are the ways i was taught and then to realize new orleans at one point was the largest slave market and was never taught that was commensurate with the city and state and country so to go out on an exploration and a journey traveling to different historical sites and museums cemeteries trying to get a sense of how different places acrossss the country including new orleans tell

>> sure if you know anybody from new orleans, we don't really leave. we are always -- we can live somewhere else but they would know how i was connected like they would find out my friend and i connected at least and she found that from her parents that were both members of the economy in the 1850s. i will always carry new orleans around with me as you probably have seen. when you began and the sense that you caught a moment where more of this existed in living memories and i'm guessing than does now a lot of these are stating and it's so crucial to get to people and record them and can still remember. >> the four people i was talking about, the 100-year-old woman and her daughter the second step when i started seeing the names and to see whether i could talk to their older families. but it was luck that my dad found the book and it was locked that i was a writer and found something in the book and it was luck that i had spoken to these people. >> how many meetings include the presence -- it's really nice. [laughter] it's nice to find out some of these

what did the black people do in new orleans and she said nothing.ad to write this history. >> host: what was interesting to me is a distention you explained. two different definitions of creel that existed in new orleans, can you talk about that? >> yes i can. there are probably hundreds of definitions of creel depending on who you talk to, in my time and you figure white supremacy sort of rearing its ugly head post reconstruction, it got verlyn 2, 1890s and to my time, what we hear is cradle meant white. there's a quote in the book, the daily newspaper wrote about, you hear about creel food and creel tomatoes but creoles are white. this went against our understanding. my mother spoke french, people around me spoke french, it is not a color. sometimes people think if you' re white you're creel. it doesn't, it means the old n-word new world met in louisiana and blended into different things, people of african descent like my people who can be any range of color and they are creel, rarely are they white but there are white people, just married europea

when we talk about the mayan people here in new orleans, it has a population of about 400,000 people have got 60,000 people and these organizations and they pay to put on the show. >> so new corporate sponsors of the floats fred. >> no corporate sponsors at all. these people and families come together. its generations of families. i am the third generation my so is the fourth and building thes floats. mardi gras brings everybody in new orleans together in away that's other places don't do. >> what was it like last year t not have mardi gras? >> literally everybody in new orleans had house floats that went around the world. it was amazing, it is such a part of the cultural lives and it they just become part of it and they make it into there. everybody has their own traditions fred. >> one thing and left about thi and we don't have this in other cities as much is the young coming together with the older generations in learning from each other. that is wonderful. on these floats, these young kids with the lieutenants in th captains. these clubs, the most successfu organizations in mardi

he was the grand marshall of celebrations covered in new orleans and also by "the new york times."they didn't mention him but they would get a lot of color from that. he has this beautiful handwriting and every once in a while they give a spontaneous point how can you resist. it wason wonderful. politically active and he named his children after riders. all the boys were named after poets were riders so it was fun the following him. >> with his sensibilitysi and hs own literary awareness and hewa was present for so many historical events and so deeply involved in the economy. >> he was the go to guy and very precise. he gave the accountants page. butt also if anything important happened he would make an! it was an easy presence to follow. it must feel as if you know him and if you know his personality and what mattered to him he's sort of like a health made for you. they get in arguments with each other and then one didn't agree with another one so they came to the meeting and talked about this because of your insult and then the other one says [inaudible] i believe the links are a

you talk about the amount of people here in new orleans thatn participate. >> new orleans has a populationour thousand people,pe maybe a million in the surrounding areas. and you've got sixty thousand600 people that are members of00 these organizations and they pay for this to put on this show. no corporate sponsors of the floats, their own corporate sponsors. >> look at all the things we've got. these people o come together, these families, and it'sam generationilies s of families. i'm the third generations. my sons have fought to build in ion thesmy se floods. and the great thing about it is , is mardi gras brings everybod y in new orleans thatther in a way that other not es don't do. what was it like last year? having no mardi gras all this time, not having mardi gras is the worst. but literally everybody in orlean new orleans decorated their homes. house floats we think all house floats thatd went around the worlthd. it was amazing. and it's such a part of their lives in the culture that they just become part of it evd they make it into theirs. >> and everyone has their ownn little tra

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new orleans music, and i also played in danny barker's fairview baptist church band, which was a newraditional band. jazz--it was difficult at that time for a person of my age and my generation to figure out what it was because it was not a part of the american mythology, whereas with classical music you had competitions and classes you could go to so you could get a track record on your resume. like, if you see what did i do, it will say when i was 14 i won a competition to play the hayden "trumpet concerto" with the new orleans philharmonic, but i was playing jazz the whole time, but what could i say that i did? i played in a club called tyler's beer gardens on a wednesday, and i played a lot of concerts. i played with a lot of ensembles. my sensibility was always of a jazz musician because that's the environment in which i was raised. rubenstein: but one year, you won a grammy-- the only person to ever win a grammy in jazz and in classical music in the same year. marsalis: there's a funny story about my father. he went to the grammys. he was not into those kind of things, and he s

commodore paterson predicted correctly that the british point of attack would be new orleans. his small naval delayed the enemy, landing several days gaining invaluable preparation time for the americans, won battle was joined in january 1815. direct gunfire support assisted general andrew jackson in defeating a british veteran army of some 5000 troops in new orleans was the last land action of the by the terms of the treaty. the british to evacuate the northwest territory they relinquished their claims were of maine and exclusive control of the great lakes. a decisive american naval victories by perry on lake and the gun on lake champlain left britain with a poor case. england never resumed. impressive hunt of american seamen. the war of 1812 proved once more the necessity for a strong navy maintained and a state of constant readiness, lacking adequate naval strength. we could not lift the strangling blockade. invasion had been stopped on lake champlain and new orleans, but it was not stopped in the chesapeake bay, which was the height of american naval strength. washington h

[jazz playing] invented in the early part of the 20th century in new orleans, jazz has now become synonymouserican music not just in the united states but around the world, and america has produced ins like duke ellington and count basie, dizzy gillespie, louis armstrong, but today at the top of the jazz world is wynton marsalis, the founder and director of jazz at lincoln center. he's a performer, he's an educator, he's a composer, and he lives jazz 24 hours a day. ♪ so you do you get tried of people calling you a jazz legend? -ha ha! -do you feel older when they say that to you? yeah. i like the word jazz. i don't like the legend. heh heh heh. let's talk about your family for a moment. sadly, your father passed away in april at the age of 85 because of covid, so it must have been a very sad loss because you were very close to him of course. marsalis: yeah. for all of us, for me and my brothers of course, he's our father, we loved him so much. he was such an example for us, and he was such a kind man and a man with a large worldview and also a large person. he didn't do small things. he was

okay, this is a big deal got about to meet anyone coming and gently tell you about the battle of new orleanswhich was the pivot point in his life if you will and the story is he would usually spend longer telling about the bowel than it actually took to fight. we have mantle in the dining room and it's made out of hickory wood with the bark still on it. the story, the legend that has come to us from the family is that the mantle was made by a man who it served under jackson at the battle of new orleans, and that each year he worked on the mantle only on january 8, which is the anniversary of the battle. and for the 25th anniversary he presented it to jackson. so it's been here since 1840. it's moved around the house at different times. we think the dining room is the appropriate place but it was made out of hickory because jackson's nickname was old hickory. but to me the two most significant rooms in the house are jackson's bedroom and is a joint library. to me that's the beating heart of the house. the library was really a political at the center if you will, even though we are what, eight

university she is leaving to become the first female president so we are happy for you but sad for new orleans but so talk about the paradigm of being the first to what that means for young women andos for students and how that is a theme. >> it is my new gig that's part of what is startling that institutions like leo let that is mission driven and who we are used to seeing exercise power but also who has the direct line to god you don't feel like the first. but it's how people are reacting to you i think that startling recognition was universities tend to have a hallway or room with all the portrait of former presidents and at loyola they are photographs of 16 priests and oil paintings and then there is me. [laughter]ou and people react to that thinking about this in three different ways but most people it signifies progress so before i do anything it is change in the future and get really excited about it and particularly gratifying to see female students but also male students to be so thrilled that thehe possibility and for a long time the loudest supplies would be at my introduction befor

. >> so walter isaacson, son of new orleans. >> i'm sorry, rhodes scholar, erudite intellectual, recipient of how many awards? we don't have enough time. walter, you have documented through these biographies of some of the most complicated, complex, and challenging personalities of history, and, of course, your biography of benjamin franklin stands out because franklin was an enigma to so many. and i want you to talk about why this film, because of course ken is an extraordinary interpreter of history, and particularly american culture. but why today is an old dead white men like benjamin franklin relevant? >> ben franklin is the historical figure we most need back today. he's the person who helped try to unite the colonies, to dissipate the passions and the hatreds and the ideologies. he was the person who most connected science to statecraft, believed as the clip showed about the importance of saying let's not jump to conclusions, let's have the experiments he may come with it was about lightning or whether it was about taxation, or he titus together with the postal system. so he did so

we are sad you are leaving new orleans. talk about it.talk about this paradigm of being a first and what that means for young women and for studentsts and how that is a the across your career in many ways. >> it's my new gig not just the first female but the first layperson and that's what is startling for people to adjust to that an institution like loyola that his mission driven and a religious institution, it's about who we are used to seeing exercise power but also a direct line to. it's dealing with both and i will say you don't feel like a first. but it's looking at how people are reacting to you and my startling recognition as universities tend to have the hallway or room with all the portraits of former presidents and that loyola its photographs of 16 priests and afford him its oil paintings of 32 priests going back to 1891 and then there is me. and people react to that and i was thinking about this appearing in three different ways. fore most people it signifies progress. before you do anything that is a fresh start and change in

racist and it was bought by a fascinating man named richard penbrooke who owned a race horse in new orleans and he was a flamboyant entrepreneur. he been kicked out of west point, he gone down the river as a gambler and made a fortune and then bought lexington and he promoted the races, 30,000 people would show up in new orleans that shut down when lexington horse racing. presidents came to watch the leraces and it was a huge celebration. then he sold the horse back to kentucky, and owner who had interest in scottish estates as well as the establishment where lexington had great success anda he had a long life and was well care for which is a good thing. >> the pulitzer prize for her book, art since 2006. cooper in new jersey, go ahead with your question or comment. >> i'm just wondering, what made you want to read this book? i'm an avid reader and a curious guy. [laughter] >> thank you, we will live with their. >> i wanted to write this book because most young girls becomes crazy about horses at five or 15 which is sensible but i became worse crazy at 50. i don't recommend taking up writin

new orleans so it's just so cool to be back. with the community again and to be on this panel on most of whom i know some of whom i just met but it's really was this call really was inspiring and it changed what i was going to talk about. pivoting off of donna's framing question who makes it through the glass ceiling and the other really innovative and progressive things and small pete progressive. doing politics that the other ladies have said and this is my one giant. 50 years in politics just my first political act was in 1970. i marched in the first earth day of war first birthday parade or march. in it back in the old environmentalist states that was 50 years ago time. just amazing. so what would inspired me on this call is the things that we were talking about that remain obstacles to women. breaking through the glass ceiling or elevating through the glass ceiling. so much has changed in those 50 years, but the essential guiding principles. remain the same and my big takeaway from 50 years in. business or politics or life

lots of that sort of political history of central america is based in new orleans business . >> one of the things that struck me about the book also is that it's a mixture of exploring figures, people we've known from the past. but coming in from a different point of view but also as you're talking about with lyft driver talking to everyday people and sprinkling their stories with throughout so how did you arrive at that notion ? >> i wanted to break the genre of the travel narrative and i wanted i suppose to say i'm going to go to this important historic site. i wanted it to feellike an encounter so that you move through these places and i'm asking readers to come with me, travel with me . you don't have to agree with me but i want to tease some things out you might find interesting as we're traveling and we encounter the in these encounters with people, these encounters with the lancet, with artifacts and i wanted a little deeper. also after some of the culture and sensibility of these indian copies so i talk to somebody that conversation is soshaped by the culture of the local place

the one who promoted the races to the point that 30,000 people would show up in the whole city of new orleans would shut down when lexington was racing. presidents came to watch the races and it was a huge celebration. then he sold the horse to -- back into kentucky, to an owner who had interests in scottish estates, as well as the finest livestock breeding establishment. and that was where lexington stood stud, to such great success. he had a long life and was very well cared for, which was a good thing. host: geraldine brooks won the pulitzer prize in 2006. cooper, bridgeton, new jersey. please go ahead with your question or comment. caller: i'm just wondering, what really wanted -- what made you want to write this book in the first place? i am an avid reader and a curious guy. you know, out here in new jersey. [laughter] host: thank you, sir. we will get an answer. ms. brooks: yeah, cooper, i wanted to write this book -- i will tell you, because most young girls become horse crazy at five or 15, which is a sensible age to do that. i became horse-crazy at 50. i don't recommend taking up wri

lots of the sort of political history of central america is based in new orleans business, right?e of the things that really struck me about the book also is that it's a mixture of exploring figures, people we have known from the past but come at them from a different point of view. but also as you were talking about with the list driver -- lyft driver talking about everyday people and sprinkling their stories through out. so did you arrive at that notion? >> i wanted it to have, i wanted to kind of break the genre of the travel narrative, and a wanted as opposed to say okay, i'm going to go to these important historic sites. i wanted to to feel like a set of encounter so you might move, you move through these places are i'm asking readers to come with me, travel with me. you don't decision had to agree with me but but i want to pt something set that you would probably find interesting. and as we're traveling and encounters, where encounter with people, the encounters with the landscape, with artifacts, and then i want to dig a little deeper, right? and also capture some of the cu

[applause] [applause] >> during the recent new orleans book festival, the authors eddie god john meachamtion of that program. >> one of the reasons that i would again and again is because i was suffering from a kind of debilitating despair and here we were, we had come out of ferguson all of these young people at risk and some of them were ending up dead and found in their car and committing suicide is so they said in the country responded to their efforts in organized efforts of the election of donald trump. just as the country responded to king's murder with the election of richard nixon, twice. and if you like it's something in a task and having to push this boulder up the hill again and again and again and baldwin tried to commit suicide at least three times. and published 1972, he has coming off of one of those attempts in trying to make sense of this moment because he is trying in some ways to tell a story that would offer resources for us to imagine how to keep struggling had so i think the way in which i came out of it, is that it is not the end to which we are trying to push the

this isd a man that grew up ina segregated new orleans, went to howard university one of the premier olleges. he doesn't like when i say black colleges.ef he left to become the pastor of a small church and to move to new york to minister for an minn organization and to georgia he left that after martin luther king'sre assassination to run fr congress when he was in the first class of congressmenme and women to become a un ambassador and he left that to become the mayor of atlanta and he brought the olympics to the united states, something no one could have ever foreseen and now he runs a foundation. the one thing that iste interesting it's as if every decade he kind of reinvents himself and he looks back and if you pick out a part of his life like mayor of atlanta, there's a whole book in that so i wanted to distill these different aspects into an easily readable book and i think that is the challenge you gave yourself and succeeded at. to be as active as he is in the organization he is out of the country today in fact doing whatever his calling has led him to do and i want to talk a

same thing around new orleans. but you have that severe component along the southern side too.ng is this storm system is not moving very fast so that also increases the threat for flooding because of that slow-moving nature. so, baton rouge, new orleans, stretching over towards mobile, biloxi, all those areas have the potential for isolated flooding concerns not just today but also heading into this evening as well. looking at the severe weather threat, it's a very similar area -- new orleans, biloxi, mobile stretching towards pensacola. the main threats are going to be damaging winds and the potential for some isolated tornadoes. now, as we go through the rest of the day, that system is going to gradually start to make its way farther to the north. by tonight and early tomorrow, the midwest and the mid-atlantic become the bigger areas of concern. by the time we get to sunday afternoon and even sunday evening, the northeast is really going to be the target point by the time we get to that later portion of the day, which means in turn if you have some travel plans for cities lik

the many lives of andrew yang you look at the fact that here's a man who grew up in segregated new orleans and went to howard university premier colleges and he left that to become a a pastor of a small church in georgia and left that to move to new york you ministry work and then georgia and became junior and then the king's assassination to run for congress in the first class of black congressman and women from the south of reconstruction and un ambassador and the that to become mayor of atlanta and left that, he brought the olympics to the united states or atlanta, something no one could have ever foreseen and now runs a foundation so he has many lives the one thing interesting about him is every decade kind of reinvents himself and looks back but doesn't really look back. if you part of his life and the mayor of atlanta, there's ama whole book and that, being un ambassador so i wanted to distill all of these aspects of his life into one easily be readable area. >> that's the challenge you gave yourself and succeeded at so well, there really is a book linked to be written on any of thes

the main focus here is baton rouge, new orleans, mobile, biloxi stretching into panama city.his system will begin to push into the midwest by the time we get to tonight. also other areas like atlanta and charlotte. the concern tomorrow is going to be the big east cities, new york, boston, philadelphia, washington, d.c., that's where you are likely going to see delays on sunday. >> such an easy start, too, for the thanksgiving holiday. looks like that may be changing quickly as people head home. allison chinchar, thank you so much. >>> that stormy weather isn't dampening the spirits of holiday shoppers. the official start to the season got off to a strong start yesterday on black friday and despite inflation driving up prices, consumers were out in full force. hunting for the best deals. the national retail federation expects more than 166 million americans will be shopping this weekend. that's an increase of about 8 million over last year. cnn's gloria pazmino is at the herald square macy's in new york city. what are you seeing today? >> reporter: we have been seeing crowds g

upside, but it's also she take a liquid to only give you an opportunity to work with for nearby new orleans, a city with a 60 percent black population. the court to just to prove the city council's plan to remove 4 prominent confederate statues from public property, including the monument to jefferson davis, president of the confederacy for confederate heritage, supporters like george. their fears were coming true, confederate monuments were now under attack. their argument is this, these statues and the symbols of the southern paper are racist and promote y supremacy. that is, there are you, we got this guy walk around with the communist flag here. and he's going around just talking smack, just walking up people and just the colonists, white supremacists, and racist and everything like that. but we are all willing to protect ourselves. if we feel threatened, we will use our weapons. or you, barbara, now, yes sir. would you, would you find out if i felt threatening my life will start in your day, right? i would really and you're willing to be shuttled now and this is a cause i'm willing to

uniforms and the flags which soldiers have taken into battle. 15 stars and 15 straight louis in new orleans and over fort mchenry in war of 1812. inspiring the words of our national anthem. 28 stars, 13 stripes, the mexican war, cerro gordo, joyful. thanks to and below them the union blue. fort sumter, appomattox. under a flag of 36 stars, the west won and the nation extended from coast to coast. 46 stars. the spanish american war, san juan hill hill. 48 stars. the flag, the doughboy took over their chateau carrie belo wood, sammy. again on the 48 stars the battle dress of world war two pearl harbor to manila, tunisia to the rhine, and later korea. today, under 50 stars. the american soldier carries forward his proud heritage of devotion. a heritage which through the years has ensured the security of the union, which those 50 stars symbolize. for every one of our 50 stars, there is a colorful state flag. each with a tradition, a meaning of its own. time. of diversity and a harmony which is in itself symbolic of the broad union they represent. and. all good as in review. right home. i pass a

he had been on the carnival "valor" sailing to cozumel, mexico, from new orleans. he was last seen on the ship wednesday night. he wasn't reported missing until thursday afternoon and that's where cnn's nick valencia picks up the story. nick, this is nuts. this story usually doesn't end in a happy ending like this. >> reporter: no, this is nuts. the wildest story of the day and i think this 28-year-old will have a story for the rest of his life. the u.s. coast guard says he was a passenger on the cruise ship for carnival "valor." that was scheduled to depart wednesday from new orleans to make its way for a five-day cruise to cozumel, mexico. it was about 11:00 p.m. that this 28-year-old man's sister said they were at the bar and it was at 11:00 p.m. that he said he was on his way to the rest room but he never came back. she went to bed. wakes up and reports him missing at about noon. they check the vessel. it was about 2:30 the carnival cruise "valor" notified the coast guard and they got involved in the search and rescue and the ship stopped retracing its route to

every region of the country that it is fascinating and it opens with the scene in 18 oh four in new orleansut it struck me that you were there so where did you get that detail because it felt like real on the ground that i was there and at the ball. >> i am an archive junkie. i think i made it up but it is true. [laughter] i love newspapers. so much of the detail comes from newspapers it is incredible because people in historic newspapers you can find so for me the real tax is to combine the scholar and researchers to give the sensory and emotional. >> and there is something about want to be inside history is not just transported but it does help you to understand ourselves once you get to tell a historic narrative to thinkg about people and feeling and breathing that is asked especially useful. >> if you have not cracked the book at what you trying to convey? >> part of the argument is i want us to get out of the british inclination is a straightforward narrative so actually it is a metaphor but it is real in this moment where the louisiana purchase is taking place and they wind up having

so walter isaacson son of new orleans a broadmore. let's say right. sorry the product abroad for. road scholar erudite intellectual recipient of how many awards we don't have enough time. walter you have documented through these biographies of some of the most complicated complex and challenging personalities of history and of course your biography of benjamin franklin stands out because franklin franklin was an enigma to so many and i want you to talk about why. this film because of course can is an extraordinary interpreter of history and particularly american culture? but why today? is an old dead white man like benjamin franklin relevant. yeah, ben franklin is the historical figure we most need back today. he's the person who helped try to unite. the colonies to dissipate the passions and the hatreds and the ideologies. he was a person who most connected science to statecraft believed as that thing as eclipse showed about the importance of saying let's not jump to conclusions. let's have the experiments be made whether it was about lightning or whether it was about taxation or

city of new orleans is paying dearly for nonstop violence in the streets. their democratic mayor is spending big after several controversies. >> todd: recall effort against the mayor joins us next. as a business owner, your bottom line is always top of mind. so start saving by switching to the mobile service designed for small business: comcast business mobile. flexible data plans mean you can get unlimited data or pay by the gig. all on the most reliable 5g network. with no line activation fees or term contracts. saving you up to $500 a year. and it's only available to comcast business internet customers. so boost your bottom line by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. ™ >> todd: a 13-year-old football player hailed as a hero for protecting his teacher during a terrifying moment when gunfire breaks out at the school's championship game. it was caught on video. watch. [screaming] >> mr. willard, i got your phone. run, mr. willard. get down, mr. willard. >> todd: the boy and his teacher were on earlier to discuss this terrifying moment

uniforms and the flags which soldiers have taken into battle. 15 stars and 15 straight louis in new orleans and over fort mchenry in war of 1812. inspiring the words of our national anthem. 28 stars, 13 stripes, the mexican war, cerro gordo, joyful. thanks to and below them the union blue. fort sumter, appomattox. under a flag of 36 stars, the west won and the nation extended from coast to coast. 46 stars. the spanish american war, san juan hill hill. 48 stars. the flag, the doughboy took over their chateau carrie belo wood, sammy. again on the 48 stars the battle dress of world war two pearl harbor to manila, tunisia to the rhine, and later korea. today, under 50 stars. the american soldier carries forward his proud heritage of devotion. a heritage which through the years has ensured the security of the union, which those 50 stars symbolize. for every one of our 50 stars, there is a colorful state flag. each with a tradition, a meaning of its own. time. of diversity and a harmony which is in itself symbolic of the broad union they represent. and. all good as in review. right home. i pass a

lots of the sort of political history of central america's based in new orleans business. right, so well, one of the things that really struck me about the book also is that it's a mixture of exploring figures people. we've known from the past but coming at them from a different point of view, but also as you were just talking about with the lyft driver talking to you know, everyday people and sprinkling their stories throughout. so, how did you arrive at that notion? what i wanted it to have this i wanted to kind of break the genre of the travel narrative and i wanted as opposed to saying okay. i'm going to go to these important historic sites. i wanted it to feel like an a set of encounters so that you might move you move through these places. i'm asking readers to come with me travel with me. you don't necessarily have to agree with me, but i want to point some things out that you would probably find interesting and so we're and and we're as we're traveling in the encounters the encounters are with people. the encounters are with the landscape with artifacts and then i

of the nba, kevon looney was the only starter playing mother's loss at new orleans. he only played five minutes but it still counts towards his 129 consecutive games played streak . one of the reasons he has been able to stay on the floor, his diet. tomorrow, however, it's a cheap day >> we got turkey, ham, dressing, yams, i do think i'm supposed to be eating all that stuff. >> what's the best thing your mom makes for things giving? >> the dressing for sure. it's the only dressing i will eat. she's been trying to retire and not cook it anymore, she wants me to stay healthy but it's the only time of year i got to eat it. >> the 49ers offense of stars are making plays monday night in exeter city. you got to highlight the big sellers making it happen. diva samuels touchdown run, let in by a parade of offense of lineman including jacob rendell, ahead of the pack taking baker out of the play. there he goes. all the way down to the five yard line. >> he was feeling himself at the end of it. some swag at the end of it, so it is a cool play. >> world cup life came up his ger

vice president for student affairs at xavier university in new orleans. he oversees numerous programs dedicated to improving student life including education, wellness, campus safety and athletics. before joining xavier he served as dean of campus life at wagner college in new york city and oversaw multicultural affairs at new york university and in-resident education at the university of arkansas at little rock. dr. wright earned his b. namplet sociology and masters of adult education at the university of arkansas and doctorate in higher education from university of pennsylvania. dr. wright's experience will allow him to speak with a wealth of knowledge and experian to us. thank you. dr. wiese, associate director of psychiatry and director of education and psychiatry at tulane university school of medicine. she received her bachelor of science at loyola university and master of health at tulane, attended the college of osteopathic medicine in florida, returned to new orleans to do her fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at tulane. after developi

so when you have a black dentist in new orleans who's treating, you know, he's treating celebrities like joe louis and louis armstrong and a dentistry he treated poor people for free and he wanted his son to follow in his footsteps, and he wanted him to follow him. he went to howard university with the intention of pleasing his father by being a dentist. he gets to howard university and this is probably the first time and one of the only times in which andrew young did not do well. he didn't do well in college. although he graduated in four years he was not a great student. he was on the track team, he was on the swimming team. he pledged to a fraternity, my fraternity. i don't know what's going on with him. but he didn't do well in college. so the reason he didn't do well is because his life or his heart wasn't devoted into becoming a dentist. he didn't know what he wanted to do he wanted to something different he thought maybe a teacher. he obviously thought he was going to be an olympian and he thought about being a pastor, but pastors don't make any money. his father was like, you're

but that night in new orleans, it was so great and people dressed up and people were in a great partyever since. >> reporter: it's a dizzl dazzl full-circle run for elton, wrapping up the run at dodger stadium, which propelled his career in 1975. it was almost 50 years ago that you set the world on fire. ♪ that famed sequins dodger outfit. are we going to see it again? >> no, because i'm not the same size anymore. >> reporter: what do you remember about that? >> it wasn't the happiest time of my life. but i bounced back quickly. and for me, dodger stadium, at that point, was the pinnacle of my career. i was the biggest i could possibly be. to be there on my own and finish off the north american tour with three days at dodger stadium, i couldn't have asked for a more wonderful ending. >> reporter: with endings, come new beginnings. he's teamed up with the next generation of music's elite, like miley cyrus, nicki minaj, and dua lipa. his collaboration with britney spears, called "hold me closer." ♪ hold me closer tiny dancer ♪ >> reporter: ranked on billboard's top ten list, bringing in