that is new orleans louisiana. a mississippi river port city awash in its southern roots its colorful french creole charms and its overtones of piety the. it's very catholic very catholic very bad just even very very the the city that lives according to code the orleans gets stuck in this kind of like puritan mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening people come and have conventions year because they know there's the french quarter they know there's strip clubs prostitution. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself six more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else or start saying all sides can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law. according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other they are ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into neighborhoods saying you can't have you know sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right

louisiana." following the screening was a red carpet recovery walk saluting all the courageous members of the greater new orleans and baton rouge recovery communities. the event was held at the old u.s. mint, a louisiana state museum. dawn farm hosted their 37th anniversary jamboree in ypsilanti, michigan. the event featured activities for all ages, including live music, hayrides, pony rides, live and silent auctions, and tours of the 74-acre farm. the jamboree provided an opportunity to have a great time while raising awareness of the tremendous power of recovery. recovery schools and friends in st. paul, minnesota, held a kickball tournament with live music and fun for everyone! the event was held at como park where attendees enjoyed a nice day outdoors playing kickball and were able to celebrate recovery together with games, music, speakers, and information booths. the partnership for a healthy durham held a block party for the entire durham, north carolina, community at durham central park. this free event included food, diverse entertainment, games, and activities for all ages. information was also provided

that is new orleans louisiana. very catholic very bad just even very vodou the city that lives according to code the orleans gets stuck in this kind of like here it's a mentality that's completely antithetical to everything that's happening. this is bourbon street. for about two hundred bucks you can buy yourself six more specifically straight up intercourse. with a new orleans street walker anything else or start saying all sides can be negotiated but anything else is also. against the law according to a law called crime against nature it basically prohibits anything other they are ordinary intercourse there's no police out there going into neighborhoods saying you can't have anal sex with your husband you can't have oral sex with your wife right no one's actually enforcing that but it isn't forced and enforced heavily on the prostitutes of new orleans or you have to do is have an undercover officer driving around in plain clothes in a plain in an unmarked car and all of the do is drive around and drive up to peopl

all this in new orleans, louisiana. we met with dr. king. he came to our church. he was beaten. you could see that on television every night where the ministers were beaten trying to get people to vote down in new orleans and baton rouge. when i came down here, the same thing was going on. we went to san francisco state university to get my credentials and my master's degree. we had to close the school down to get to ethnic studies. the police marching on us at san francisco state. after leaving new orleans and coming here, it was still a fight. comparing the schools, yes, i can see the different -- i can see the difference. those parents are there, and they bring in money for those schools, and they have all kinds of book fairs and arts festivals, computer labs, and at hunters point, it is a whole different story. you do not have a computer labs there. we do not have a parent involvement. it is a total difference. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my profess

we'd hear from cedric richardson from new orleans, louisiana. he's a it tulane law you school graduate among other things. please welcome from the gratsz city in america, congressman cedric richards from new orleans. [ applause ] >>> first of all, thank you all for having me. i have to do just a few serious usekeeping not first. first of all, to the many people who sent me a tex from home asking why i was late, i want them to know i was participating in the home court classic basketball game that raises money for the washington legal clinic for the homeless. i don't know why it was so important for me to be on the team this year. maybe it had something to do with the fact that i was the youngest member of the only african-american and it looked like i could play basketball. [ laughter ] i wanted to tell them that my goal was never to play in the nba. it was always to win a noble peace prize. but i don't think they would have bought that one. the second thing i'd like to do is say, hi, mom. because growing up i had a couple of issues. one, she bou

but i tell you, in new orleans, in louisiana, in 11 parishes that were hit by the storm -- we are usedvernment shutdowns. all we have to do is say katrina or fema and the government will shut down. in closing, i will say -- no more closure. i will say one more. this was funny. i think it was funny. it is not funny, everybody's head is going to roll tomorrow. i paid attention to the president's stated the union address. my date with the republican from louisiana. we serve in the legislature together. he said, "we just happen to cross each other in the north carolina airport. i said i wanted him to be my date." we went to the state of the union. i find myself at the end of the night standing and he is sitting. i said, "how does that work out?" he said, "we are in the majority and you are in the minority. we stand up, -- you stand up, we sit down." i heard the president say that the future of tomorrow -- we are going to help build. we are going to out innovate. we are going to help educate the rest of the world. we are going to win the future. i started thinking to myself -- he must have

louisiana. >> police in new orleans say he got drunk argued about which house they were renting with his wifehis was the street he was arrested yesterday morning. cage wanted to rent one in particular but his wife disagreed that is when he allegedly grabbed her arm officers say cage then began hitting cars and trying to get into a cab but the cabbie refused to drive him. then he argued with a police officer that is the photo he took after his arrest he was charged with domestic abuse, battery, disturbing the police and public drunkness. >>> there is no segue there at all just celebrities acting badly. >>> spring like pattern across the bay lots of sunshine across the interior let's look at some of it as we see our mount vacca cam, mostly sunny conditions, a few high clouds drifting across the indoor y back to the bay cloud cover hanging in -- interior, back to the bay cloud cover hanging in there. more blue skies see the golden gate beginning to clear as well that trend will continue, fog will linger longer at the beach as is typical with this type of pattern and result in a bit of a cooling

new orleans to san francisco. moments after takeoff had to return to the louisiana airport after the pilot reported smoke coming from the engine. the copilot landed the plane on back-up systems after the plane loss all electronics. during the landing the plane ran off the runway and bliw a tire. all the passengers had to leave the aircraft leaving the emergency chutes. >>> authorities today released the name of a pilot killed in yesterday's small plane crash in alameda. he died when his single engine plane went down in a marina. he had taken off from oakland international. he was the only person on board. witnesses say they heard the engine cut out and saw the pilot try to make a crash landing. he appeared to avoid a family sitting near the shoreline. as you can see from the video federal investigators are on the scene investigating the crash. >>> the department of transportation is proposing new regulations meant to make natural gas pipelines safer. transportation secretary says the september explosion in san bruno is one of the events triggering his call for more participation from the federal and state government

new orleans to san francisco. moments after takeoff had to return to the louisiana airport after the pilot reported smoke coming from the engine. the copilot landed the plane on back-up systems after the plane loss all electronics. during the landing the plane ran off the runway and bliw a tire. all the passengers had to leave the aircraft leaving the emergency chutes. >>> authorities today released the name of a pilot killed in yesterday's small plane crash in alameda. he died when his single engine plane went down in a marina. he had taken off from oakland international. he was the only person on board. witnesses say they heard the engine cut out and saw the pilot try to make a crash landing. he appeared to avoid a family sitting near the shoreline. as you can see from the video federal investigators are on the scene investigating the crash. >>> the department of transportation is proposing new regulations meant to make natural gas pipelines safer. transportation secretary says the september explosion in san bruno is one of the events triggering his call for more participation from the federal and state government

with he met five women outside westminster abbey from texas, louisiana, new orleans. these are die-hard folks. this he were wearing these bedazzled crown shirts and they have fake engagement rings. we rode a tour bus with them. they are having a blast. you will hear all about their plans for the big day, what they plan to do, where they plan to camp out and what they have seen so far here in london. erica? >> well, we look forward to seeing that in just a little bit. before we let you go, some people did get a chance to see the queen today. she was out in cambridge. what was she doing there? >> reporter: the queen was up in cambridge visiting st. john's college with her husband, prince philip, who is nearly 90 years old now and the queen, who just turned 85 looking pretty smashing in that blue coat and that blue hat. that ir is some royal rumor going on that perhaps on the morning of the wedding, the queen will actually name prince william and catherine middleton, the duke and dutchess of cambridge. perhaps that's why she was there or perhaps the rumor exists because

louisiana. in my case i had got down to baton rouge. the jewish community had moved from new orleans to baton rouge. people gathered around food and housing and social services. what is also important people began to talk about their faith or spiritual aty. some people in care i say talked about god directly or jesus. and engage in very interesting and very personal ridges thee owe logical that was speared on by dis is tear. but not related to a hungry stalk or how will i get to lay my pep. and wondering if you see some of that also along the way with certainly all the other issues that come to floor like the budget crisis and social services. but that faith journal knee seems to be an under current. >> we mentioned we do have a faith journey every month. for some people it's the most important part of the conversation. it's amazing to hear pipless stories. everybody can relate to some peoples start of the story. not all. i think that is fair. >> absolutely. you hit on something very important. we will attribute the key to your success. how do you keep their interest and keep them to

occupied by the union army, the part of virginia around fortress monroe, southern louisiana where the navy had moved into new orleans, and the whole state of tennessee. altogether about three-quarters of a million slaves are not covered by the emancipation proclamation. but that leaves about 3.1 million who are declared free on january 1, 1863. now, on that date lincoln does not have the power to enforce that freedom. it mostly applies to slaves in confederate territory, although there are some areas of the south occupied by the union like the sea islands of south carolina where it goes into effect immediately. so on that day we estimate about 50,000 slaves are freed immediately because they're behind union lines. but, but in general slaves had to wait for the union army to appear to enforce the freedom that the emancipation proclamation proclaimed. what gave lincoln the right to issue the emancipation proclamation? where in the constitution did it say the president could just free all these slaves? well, nowhere, except, of course, he says t the, it's the war power. it's interesting that the preliminary emancipatio

news, empire louisiana. >> they're obviously going to be a lot of coverage of the one-year anniversary and i was in new orleansosion a year ago today. and the headlines in the local media headlines in the gulf coast are still talking about oil found along the marshlands, cleanup line there so still a long way to go and of the $20 billion in that claims from the bp setup only $4 billion has been handed out. that disaster far from over. >> that's mind-boggling when you think about that figure. and also 48,000 people were there at the height of the cleanup, only 2,000 people there now but as you were just saying a lot of folks say they need some help and cleanup issues there. they're ongoing. >> and livelihoods depend on that water. so good luck to all of the folks and right back with more right after this. >>> i'll let you know how it goes. i don't fit in my prebaby jeans. i'm not saying i have a lot to lose. i'm going on the 17-day diet. if you want to do it with me at home, at 6:00, i got to eat these oreos. >> you're giving up. >> these are my favorites but right here this is my favorite thing right here. >>

the locals and the governor of louisiana, the mayor of new orleans, weren't adequately prepared either so there was a compounded miss, i think it would be fair to say. i don't think exclusively bush's fault. he suffered a lot more it. he did have some role to play in the failure to respond adequately. >> well, let's say the army corps of engineers were building the levy system decades ago. [laughter] >> i want to point to two particular problems we haven't addressed. one which resulted in the financial meltdown in 2008, which we are still living, and again i want to emphasize that's not also -- also not exclusively bush's mess. that we did nothing to alleviate it. but it was in part the mythology that if we don't regulate financial institutions they will do everything right anyway. okay. that was a big, big mistake. it is being only partially addressed. much more severely addressed elsewhere than it is here in the united states. and that goes back certainly in the asean days of the clinton administration. but it was continued by the bush administration. the second thing is the fiscal i

new orleans. she runs a private organization and executive committee for a public charter schools in louisiana. they have about 100 charter schools. it is one of the biggest in the country. my daughter runs that. given all of my train wrecks of , i learned. i am trying again. it has been 10 years. i love my wife. she is so generous with me. she lets me be buddy but expects me to be there when it is important. we have worked about out. >> how did you get "buddy"? >> anybody named charles nelson roemer iii riding the schoolbus better have a different name. i was skinny, 80 pounds as a junior in high school named "butch." some girls thought that was not a dignified name for me and i should have a more dignified name. they said "buddy." i became "buddy roemer" in high school. >> what about your wife? >> scarlett is afraid. she is honest in her fear, but she thinks american needs a dose of me. we need to deal with our subject matter honestly and openly. we need to give people the impression they will not be left behind. i went to eye with with the other candidates. i think that c-span covered part o

new orleans, touring the hardest-hit areas and looking for answers. >> reporter: a year later, you'd hope those blackened marshes would be green again. we motored back out to these marshes, the incubators of most of louisiana'sabled wildlife, and were shocked to find this. the water looks relatively clean on the surface. but you dig down, you grab a handful of something, and this is all oil. >> it's all oil. >> reporter: and get this. the cleaning crew had just left this place. and bp has declared this marsh clean. >> unacceptable. >> reporter: and we learned last year just how toxic this oil can be. it goes into shock and after a few days, it dies. and despite the $18 million bp has spent on claims and the cleanup, for these animals, it's a daily fight. bp and the government are saying that the animals are basically safe, we're out of the woods. is that the case? >> that's definitely not the case. >> reporter: not according to bp. >> what we can tell you, one year on is that, our beaches are clean. that our waters are safe. that our seafood is safe. >> reporter: even the government scientist who famously announced that most of the oil had dispersed, now says it's, quote, premature to conclude that things ar

state of louisiana and when i pushed the issue and started to investigate it it turns out that for a week blackwater was operating with no permission from any government entity whatsoever in new orleans and bad only knows what they were doing there on the eighth day that they were there they were hired on a no bid contract by the bush administration through the department of homeland security to be the official security force for fema i don't know if e.m.i. has arrived yet in new orleans but blackwater certainly was there and then operating with the legitimacy of the stamp of approval of the department of homeland security after those two things the flu jammed bush and the destruction of the city and then seeing them in new orleans i needed to know who ran that company i start to look into it and realize that it's run by a bush pioneer who comes from a very powerful family that was a shadow broker in radical right wing politics and united states fuel than thunder the rise of the radical religious right. and that this was a company that in many ways captured the essence of what was happening domestically in the united states because new orleans had turned into baghdad on the by you wi

news, dallas. >> this morning, the faa is investigating a scary emergency landing in louisiana. the front wheel, you can see this, of united airlines flight 497 entded up off the runway in new orleansve been a lot worse. the airbus 320 had just taken off from new orleans when the pilot smelled smoke in the cockpit. the crew radioed controllers and then minutes later the situation quickly went downhill. >> we are declaring an emergency and please roll the equipment for our landing please. >> we have lost all our instruments right now and we're going to need just a p.a.r. >> the crew touched down on backup instruments with minimum steering and braking. passengers left the plane on emergency slides. there were a few minor injuries. >>> president obam has called a white house meeting with house speaker john boehner to discuss a budget fight that might shut down the federal government. house republicans left the strategy meeting late last night. they said talks with democrats had stalled on a one-week extension to keep the government running. chairman paul ryan told erica they will pass that extension. >> we have pass noud -- this will be three bills we've passed to prevent a government

louisiana. i welcome my colleague from new orleans, whose state is in financial condition, has experienced financial disasters and can't rely on his state legislature to solve these problems. he needsal strong federal government to find some of the profound gaps that exist in his congressional district just as i need a strong federal government to close gaps that exist in my congressional district. but it is virtually impossible, mr. speaker, to close those gaps unless this congress recognizes that we have an obligation to the american people to those who have been left behind. while slavery was clearly the cause of the civil war, the nonslavery rationale for the war and argument that won broad support in the south and almost won international recognition was madison's and jefferson's interpretation of states' rights. that's why the tea party says the federal government should be out of business and turn it over to the states, with some practical examples of the limitations what we are confronting, i'm produced to introduce to some and i'm glad he is joining me, distinguished the gentleman from from

news. >> let's talk about some other areas of the gulf. louisiana. at the ritz-carlton hotel of all places, what's that about? >> well, the ritz-carlton in new orleansoom that normally goes for $409 a night is now going for $169 a night. and what's good about that is not just the rates, but they'll also let you get involved in a volunteer vacation where you can go to saint bernard's parish and help with the rebuilding effort that goes back to hurricane katrina. there's a lot of work to be done in new orleans, even though their revenues are up, there's a lot that needs to be done. >> and a cbs approved hotel. so many of us have stayed there. >> exactly. >> let's go east to biloxi, mississippi. you say there's some good zeals there. >> the hard rock casino there. $150 a night for the room but they throw in a $50 food credit, a $25 spa credit and a lot of these places all throughout the gulf are offering stay two nights, get a third night free. >> and you're in gulf shores, alabama, a big tourist destination. any deals there? >> a lot of deals here. a lot of condos here. that's where families or couples it's a great deal. starting at like $99 a night.

direct claims -- like louisiana shrimper acy cooper -- say they got very little, while oters with only tenuous claims were paid handsomely. >> well we got bellboys in new orleans, we got waitresses, we have all kinds of people in new orleans got money and received money and $20,000 - $30,000 now they give them $25,000 for the final settlement, they probably never lost a penny. stop giving money where it dont belong and give it to the true fishermen the guys that really lost. >> there may be some perceived inconsistency when at waiter who is working next to you get $8,000 and you get $2,000. right away the $2,000 claimant how come. it's arbitrary. it's not arbitrary. that $8,000 waiter has submitted tax returns, or documents confirming what he or she is entitled to and the other claimant has not done that. now there may be some inconsistencies i'm the first one to acknowledge error. when you've got 800,000 claims and out there is bps promise to pay $20 billion everybody files. >> reporter: cooper says most of his members did have the correct paperwork--but still got less money than people whose income didn't come directly from the gulf. feinberg says the emerge

if new orleans was utterly failing before and now has some signs of succeeding beyond other schools in the state of louisiana, the city is better off for having hurricane katrina. >> it's sort of to your point before, though. i'm not going to say that -- it's not. there's so many people who are in worst condition because of the hurricane. here's the other interesting thing about this. it's not quite -- it's convenient to look at it -- . >> wait. you can't say that. >> yes, i can. >> you're wrong. >> it might have happened without the hurricane. it might have that was the interesting thing. >> you just said it's not happening in detroit and all these other place but -- >> it could, and what's different -- here i swear this is the difference and the whole point. right? actually in new orleans there was a group of leaders who were absolutely bound and determined to fix this problem for kids. they existed and were working before the hurricane. in fact, i remember when the hurricane happened, my first thought was, oh, no, like, all the progress that these people had made, which we thought was going to be revoluti

fema gave the governor of louisiana $30 million to help the university down here. in new orleans. it's still up in trailers and he has taken money and wants to incorporate it in -- the other money that -- some of it has still not gotten to the people in new orleans. if the government is going to give money, it needs to make sure that it goes to the people. because once it gets to the state, the state does whatever it wants to do with the money. that's my comment. host: here's the headline of the tusk loosea news. i've never seen destruction like this, a principal at the school. this is t president calling the devastation heartbreaking and the birmingham news along the same line, obama offers hope and comfort to survivors and shows the president walking with the governor in alabama to assess the damage there. good morning. caller: yes. i was just calling because basically i worked in disaster areas such as south florida after andrew and mississippi in that area after hurricane katrina. and i just want to put out there that yes, there's a lot of public-private partnership money that

a son two years ago, and she lives in new orleans and runs the private organization, the executive committee for charter schools, public charter schools in louisiana. they have about 80-100 charter schools, one of the biggest in the country, and my daughter runs that. given all my train wrecks of marriage, i've learned -- i'm trying it again, ten years. i'm not a short hitter on these things, but i love my wife, and she is so generous with me. she lets me be buddy, but expects me to be there when it's important, and we worked that out. >> how did you get buddy? >> anybody named charles elson roemer iv, and you ride the school bus 14 miles to the high school better have another name than charles the iii, so it was butch. of course, here i was this skinny 80 pound, you know, junior in high school named butch, and some girls who shall go nameless thought that that was not a dignified name for me, and i need a more dignified name. i said what's that? they said buddy, and then i was buddy. >> what do your kids think about this potential bid, and what about your wife? >> scarlett is afraid. she's honest in her fear, but she thinks america needs a dose o

the locals and the governor of louisiana, the mayor of new orleans, were not adequately prepared, either there was a compound did mess, i think it would be fair to say. it was not exclusively bush's fault. he suffered a lot for it. he did have some role to play in the failure to respond adequately. >> let's add the army corps of engineers for building that awful levee system years ago. >> there are two particular problems we have not addressed. one resulted in a financial meltdown in 2008, with which we are still living. again, i want to emphasize that is also not exclusively bush's mess that we did nothing to alleviate it, but it was in part the mythology that if we don't regulate financial institutions, they will do everything right anyway. that was a big, big mistake. it is being only partially addressed, much more severely addressed elsewhere than it is here in the united states. that goes back to the halcyon days of the clinton administration, but it was continued by the bush administration. the second thing is the fiscal irresponsibility of the bush administration. they spent a lot

new orleans. she runs a private organization, the executive committee for charter schools, public charter schools in louisiana they have about 100, one of the biggest in the country. given all of my train wrecks of marriage, i have learned -- i am trying it again. 10 years. i love my wife. she is so generous with me. she lets me be bettye, -- buddy. >> how did you get buddy? >> yue ride the school bus 14 miles -- you ride the school bus for 14 miles and you have a long name like mine, you get called a name. it was butch. but girls said i needed a more dignified name. so they made it bettye. >> all -- buddy. >> what about your wife? what does she think? >> sheathings america needs a dose of may where we need to deal with our subject matter openly and honestly. i went to the ilo with the other candidates -- iowa with the other candidates. i was the only one there that said ethanol subsidies need to be removed. like that about me.hat abou -- likes that about me. she is encouraged that i take a look. my children have been for politics before they lived with me when i was governor, after my divorce. and afterwards

if new orleans was utterly failing before and now it has some signs of succeeding beyond other schools in the state of louisianaetter off for having hurricane katrina. it's sort of to the point before the, you know, i'm not going to say that it's not. there are so many people in the worst conditions because the hurricane. here's the other interesting thing about this. it's not quite -- it's convenient to look at it as -- >> you can't get away with saying that. >> yes i can. it might have happened without the hurricane. the was the interesting thing. >> the use it it's not happening in detroit and all these other places. >> but it did and you know what's different and here's the difference this is the whole point, actually in new orleans to was a group of leaders who were absolutely bound and determined to fix this problem for kids. the existed and were working before the hurricane. in fact, all i remember when the hurricane had and my first thought was like all the progress that these people had made which we felt was going to be revolutionary, went down the drain of course everyone was dealing with a huge natu