new orleans. like similar statue, was built during this era throughout the south. the general faced north. symbolic lee watching and waiting to greet another potential invasion from america and union forces. statues like these covered the city as well as every town and city throughout the southern united states. cities, of course, had the largest statues like these seen here, both in new orleans, the first dedicated to jefferson davis, president of the confederacy, during the civil war that was erected in 1911. and the second dedicated to new orleans born general pgti beauregard, who ordered the first cannon shots fired to start the civil war. that statue was raised. in 1915. in smaller towns, statues to the confederacy looked and often still look just like this. memorials to a nameless, nondescript confederate soldier. this one on the screen was erected in 1886 in baton rouge. soon after the conservative redeemer democratic forces that ran the state successfully fought to remove the capital out o

wall street moves to new orleans after the civil war, wildly popular among former confederates. again, they see him as a hero. he's working as a as cotton broker, and he's looking across the political landscape. reconstruction begins to unfold. so the first phase of reconstruction is presided over by abraham lincoln's successor, andrew johnson becomes president after lincoln dies and johnson gives excessively leniency to former confederates, including unreconstructed ones who have no ounce of repentance to offer, and that excessive leniency, including pardons of former politicians and generals, so on, so that they can hold political office results in the south, falling back the hands of ex confederates who under johnson's regime begin to pass a series of laws, so-called black codes, try to recreate something akin to slavery, a forced labor system that is that is reminiscent of slavery. meanwhile, the southern democratic party that had defended slavery before the war and had been behind secession is is a very belligerent mood, basically basically saying, you know, that they'll co

new orleans.ecause of katrina , new orleans literally became a hostage, people were locked in their own homes, unable to get out, the aid system showed its ineffectiveness, help never reached some families, 800 thousand homes were destroyed, the cost of rebuilding the city is estimated at $160 billion . just imagine, 80% of the city went under water, how the residents of new orleans behaved, helped restore or pump it out. no, let's get to it looting began, here is the material of that time. in new orlyan, more than half of the residents who left their homes due to hurricane katrina, looters are rampaging. so in the french quarter, the historical part of new orleans, many grocery stores were looted. in downtown canal street, looters broke the iron bars on the windows of expensive boutiques and jewelry stores. full police work in the city is impossible because the streets are flooded. there is no landline or mobile telephone service in the city. the situation led in addition to the fact that the pol

now, overcrowded jails have become's new orleans' biggest mental health providers. approach. antonia hylton traveled to get a look at what it's like inside. what did you find? >> i found that the city of new orleans is in the midst of a mental health crisis. and the storm and its continuing impacts has exacerbated it. now the jail is at the front lines trying to fight this crisis out the resources it really needs. take a look. up on the fourth floor of one of the most notorious jails in the nation, 50 men are living in an experimental community. they clean together, cut each other's hair, and play games. nbc news received special access to the justice center in new orleans where a new model pod for mental health aims to treat pretrial inmates more like patients. this is what many afternoons look like now. men seated together, talking about conflict resolution, past trauma, and healing. >> be free and talk about it. >> led by lieutenant michael lewis. >> it's humbling because usually in the prison setting, it's an aggressive setting. >> for years, the orleans parish

. >> is the world war ii museum in new orleans because of this?> is one of the major reasons why we are here. pagans industry made about 23000 watercraft of all sorts made 13000 of these alone. >> were they made in new orleans? >> five different assembly plants around the city. they would test them out on the industrial canal and get put on two assault ships to go anywhere else in the world. spill it who is andrew higgins? >> guest: andrew jackson higgins was an industrialist. prior toki the war he was making boats to get lumber out of the swamps. the design for the higgins boat is a shallow draft craft just like you would have had in the swamps. hehe was able to adapt his prewr idea to military means. this was a revolutionary watercraft that really help us win the war. see what we're here to see a new exhibit that's on display be tells about the museum. how much square footage et cetera? >> the museum we have a campus when we say a campus we mean a campus. we have got seven different pavilions on 6 acres. until we tell america's story of the war.

in new orleans. there were five different assembly plants around the city and they would test them out on the industrial canal and out on lake pontchartrain and then get put on to assault ships to go anywhere else in the world. who was andrew higgins? andrew jackson. higgins was an industrialist. he. he prior to the war, he was making boats to get lumber out of the swamps and the design for the higgins boat is a shallow draft craft, just like you would have had in the swamps. and so he was able to adapt his pre-war idea to military means. and this was a revolutionary watercraft that really helped us win the war. well, we're here to see a new exhibit that's on display. but tell us about the museum, how much square footage, etc. well, the museum where we have a campus and when we say a campus, we mean a campus. we've got seven different pavilions. on six acres and so we tell america's story of the war, why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today so that our visitors will be inspired by w

peter: when did you return to new orleans and what kind of work did you do after the war? mr. ellis: before my post was up i was sent to china and was commanding officer of a ship, ellis t 1026 -- lst 1026 and picked up troops and when i got back to shanghai my relief came on board and then i was on a ship back to san francisco and was processed there and four days on the train to new orleans. can you imagine that? the day i got back i separated from service. i did not know what i wanted to do. i went back to two lane the next monday. i did not know what i wanted to do. i had been a civil engineer and the only thing i was sure of is that i did not want to be a civil engineer. so i spent one year in journalism school and then got a degree in geology and went to get a job, no one was hiring geologists. nobody. i went every company. -- i went to every company. so when i got back, i told my fiancÉ, i cannot find a job. she said, what are you going to do? i said i might try law school. and she said, ok, i will get a job. so then i went back to school and i was a lawyer and that i w

and actually the flooding, new orleans is built is is shaped kind of like a bowl.here you and i are standing is below sea level. and the we're in closer. you get to the river and the closer you get to lake pontchartrain, the drier it is. and really the flooding stopped about two or three blocks. that direction. and so the museum was not flooded. but of course, the city was was flooded. and it's tough being a museum when there are no visitors. but what that did was it helped drive the museum to start distance education programs very early. so when covid came along, we were actually postured fairly well for that. we were already online. we had been doing online programing since the since the flood in 2005. a couple of well-known historians have worked with you, including stephen ambrose, doug brinkley. absolutely. well, stephen ambrose and dr. nick mueller are the founding fathers of the museum. and most people know stephen ambrose from the band of brothers book. but he he is a prolific historian and had a number of great and great books. but truly, this was dr. muel

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he was going down the mississippi river from pittsburgh to new orleans. we drilled and drilled and drilled and we inventoried. and we we steadied the ship and time we got there. we had a punch list built an lsc in four weeks and in the row was shipyard. but all the way down we carried one shipyard man with us because there were few things they didn't get around to. and he did. and by the time we got to new orleans, we had a punch list about that along went the shipyard down here and did that, and then they commissioned the ship and we went to. st andrews bay, florida, and did a shakedown cruise for two weeks. we got to yeah, we got to we got to be shipped and sail and formation fire the arms, do all this stuff. we had two weeks to do that and we came back and got our overseas cargo and all of our ammunition and took off. well, you said that you joined rotc from tulane in 1941. yeah. what do you remember about those four years on the domestic kick on the home front? well, i only had three years because i never did my senior year. they they were building am

the story starts interestingly in new orleans where farragut of course would later earn immortal fame with his great victory. here's the story george farragut by then a widower with two children, was a employee in the navy yard at new orleans and one day when he was out fishing on the mississippi river, which he liked to do, a canoe drifted past him with apparently no one in it. upon investigation. george farragut found that there was an elderly man lying in the bottom of the canoe, unable to speak. no identificar, john farragut had no idea who he was, but he brought home, nursed him as he could until the man about two weeks later finally expired. and eventually, it turned out that he had been the 84 year old father of navy captain david porter, who commanded the gunboat squadron in new orleans at that time. when captain porter learned about george farragut generosity and kindness, he offered to repay his debt by taking one of his two sons as a midshipman. well, for a widower with two sons, this is quite a generous offer. midshipman appointments, then as now, are pretty rare and highl

. >> during a visit to new orleans, president biden and first lady jill biden highlighted the cancer moon shot initiative which aims to significantly reduce cancer deaths over the next quarter century. after touring a research company, he talks about the investment with tumor removal. this is 20 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful campus today. and i heard it was freshman orientation on top of all of this. joe and i are familiar with that first day here in new orleans where the heat just sort of hits you in the face. but that's ok. and i thank the press for being here, because without your being here you give people hope because you are going to hear about the apaysing things they are doing here at tulane and those people who read online, that will give them hope. thank you for being here. it's great to be back in new orleans where scientists and researchers are at the forefront in this fight against cancer and whenever i meet with cancer researchers and scientist, one thing that stands out is the relentless optimism. they hear words like never and thi

joe and i are familiar with that first day here in new orleans where the heat just sort of hits you in the face. [laughter] but that's ok. and i thank the press for being here, because without your being here you give people hope because you are going to hear about the apaysing things they are doing here at tulane and those people who read online, that will give them hope. thank you for being here. it's great to be back in new orleans where scientists and researchers are at the forefront in this fight against cancer and whenever i meet with cancer researchers and scientist, one thing that stands out is the relentless optimism. scientist,e thing that stands out is the relentless optimism. they hear words like never and think maybe not yet, but one day soon. as president, joe has invested in that resolve. because that's what turns into the miracle that patients and their families are praying for. of all the things that cancer steals from us, strength, mobility built and time is the cruelest. every night spent in the hospital, there is a lost chance to learn the key ingredient in the secr

. >> and american history tv is in new orleans at the national world war ii museum.ing in front of this iconic higgins landing craft. we are joined by peter crean is a vice president of the museum. mr., tell us about this. >> this is, as you said, the iconic higgins boat, , or a land-grant vehicle personnel. but everyone of these higgins boats whether they were used in the d-day landings in europe or if they were used in iwo jima indo-pacific were made writer in new orleans. >> is the museum the world war ii museum in new orleans because of this higgins boat? >> it is one of the major reasons why we are here. higgins industry made about 23,000 watercraft of all sorts and he made 13,000 of these alone. >> wherewith they make in your late? >> therere were five different assembly plants around the city, and they would test them out on the industrial canal and out on lake project rain and get put on to assault ships to go into else in the world. >> who was andrew higgins? >> andrew jackson higgins was an industrialist. he, prior to the war he was making boats to get lumb

cool, calm and collected. >> reporter: nbc news received special access to the justice center in new orleans for mental health aims to treat inmates more like patients. this is what many afternoons look like now. men seated together talking about conflict resolution, past trauma and healing. led by michael lewis. >> it's humbling because usually in a prison setting, it's an aggressive setting. >> reporter: for years the orleans jail has been known for violence. and a decent decree, experts say it has one other title. the largest mental health care provider for all of new orleans. hurricane katrina flooded the city's charity mental health ward and it never reopened. following a pattern across the u.s., large mental institutions and psychiatric wards shuttered. but our country did little to replace them. >> what's the community been like for you? >> it's open minded. when i first came here, you feel the intimidation. >> reporter: he's just 18. when he first arrived at the jail, he was harassed by another resident for being gay. >> that type of behavior cannot and will not be tolerated. >> repo

because she -- [applause] she, like ruby bridges and her friends leona and gail, the new orleans fourthey were called, they broke barriers and paid dearly for it. but it was the great courage of women like to see that paved the way for another young girl, who, nine years later, became part of the second class to integrate in public schools in berkeley, california. [cheers and applause] and it seems to me that at school and at home, somebody did a beautiful job of showing this young girl how to challenge the people at the top and empower the people at the bottom. they showed her how to look at the world and see not just what is, but what can be. they instilled in her a passion for justice and freedom and the glorious fighting spirit necessary to pursue that passion. and very soon, very soon -- [cheers and applause] soon and very soon, we are going to be teaching our daughters and sons about how this child of an indian mother and jamaican father, two idealistic and energetic immigrants, immigrants -- [cheers and applause] how this child to grow up to become the 47th president of the uni

new orleans, which wasn't doing quality-of-life arrests, went to 159 murders. geles went to a couple of hundred, which is not to say that new york didn't have a miraculous decline in crime and murder. it did, but i think the explanations -- it is easy to say giuliani came in, they did stop and search, things like that. but i think that the exact explanation for it is a little more uncertain. for someone in my shoes, that's what i look at. host: about 90 seconds left here going to ask what you are going to be watching for in crime data in the final months of 2024. what can you say right now, and what are the questions that are still out there? guest: we are entering the fun part of the year for crime data. our index will, the first week of september -- come out in the first week of september. a very interesting that that counter to the reported crime data the fbi is producing, the fbi will, with its second -quarter data in the middle or latter part of september and then the 2023 data in the middle of october. i think the 2023 data will be interesting because the

the new orleans police department says a breathalyzer showed no evidence of alcohol. results from a urinalysis are expected here within a few days. kirkpatrick was fired by oakland's as oakland's police chief four years ago after clashing with the police commission. a jury did award her $1.5 million for wrongful termination, and the south bay, the san jose police department, as well as community members, are saddened by the death of a community service officer, ktvu joey horta tells us tonight. >> authorities say the officer was one of two hit by a suspected dui driver. >> flags are at half staff outside san jose police headquarters as officers pay tribute to their fallen brother in blue. >> it's so sad, you know he's out here just trying to protect us, serve our community a friend of community service officer long pham confirms the man in his 30s was killed saturday night while working the scene of an unrelated car accident at monterey road and palm avenue. i did get to see the aftermath. all that glass, it's, it's just so bad. >> police say the driver who hit pham w

>> no. >> when durst was arrested in new orleans, the case was reborn.time. >> robert durst is a person of interest in this case. >> he's definitely in the mix? >> he's in the mix, someone we will consider as part of our larger investigation. >> the chief was not alone. the fbi and the humboldt county d.a. were investigating a possible bob durst connection too. however, durst was not the only person of interest. there were five others. >> the evidence, the circumstantial evidence is just not there at this point. >> that old composite sketch, for example, could this be robert durst? the chief isn't quite sure it's particularly accurate. >> it looks very similar. >> were you impressed by the similarities? >> i'm impressed by the similarities, but my question of being able to recognize somebody in a very small space and window and then being able to recount that in a prescription that's pretty precise. >> and that sketch, ridiculous said durst's attorney. >> i know bob pretty well. that doesn't look anything like him. it looks like mr. potato head. >> so wh

tessy preos williams was born in new orleans not long after the supreme court ruled that. segregated public schools. were unconstitutional. that was in 1954 same year. i was born. but i didn't have to. head to first grade at the all-white madonna 19 school. with a us. marshal by my side like tessy did. and when i got to school the building was an empty. like it was for tessy you see? rather than allowing. madonna to be integrated. parents. pulled their kids out of the school. leaving only tessy and 2 other little black girls. gail eden and leona tate to sit in a classroom. with the windows. papered over. to block snipers from attacking their 6-year-old bodies tessy passed 6 weeks ago and i tell this story to honor her tonight. because she like ruby bridges and her friends leona and gail the new orleans 4 they were called. they broke barriers. and they paid dearly for it. but it was the grace and guts. and courage of women like tessy prios williams that paved the way for another young girl. who? 9 years later? became part of the second. class to integrate the public schools. in berkel

are our symbols, plus appears to be assigned, but it's also taken, they can do the of the nearby new orleans, the city with a 60 percent black population. the court to just approve the city council's plan to remove 4 prominent confederate statutes 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, the statue using the symbols of the southern people are racist and from o 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 calling us white supremacist and racist and everything like that. but we're all willing to protect ourselves. if we feel threatened, we will use our weapons. yes or would you if i felt threatened in my life a certain your name right. i would really and you really to be shot now and this is a cause i'm willing to give my life more comfortable for years and years. any time i