i used to play marching in the streets of new orleans. we played at birthday parties, jazz funerals, we played in people's bedrooms. so as long as we can make some type of noise, we'll make the best of it. and we'll play everything out there. ♪ >> so you call it noise. did you think it was noise when you were, what, 2, 3, when you started -- >> i didn't know what we were calling it. my mom probably thought it was noise. i thought it was blowing so much in the house. but it was really fun. i just was trying to imitate what my bigger brother was doing, james andrew. he was the one really responsible for me playing. he's the one that took me on tour when i was 7 years old. and got me going. so i was just trying to do what he was doing. and as i got older, i was really able to understand what he was doing. and he would teach me on the spot, play in my ear, and we just kept doing it. my brother james told me we were on stage, and he shouted out trombone shorty. i remember it was at the jazz funeral, and everybody was calling out trombone short

a new orleans native, luter grew up in a black baptist denomination. when he arrived at this church in 1986, there was some debate about leaving the sbc. he convinced the congregation to stay. >> i knew this convention had a heart for evangelism, had a heart for discipleship and had a heart for reaching people in, in difficult times, and i felt this is the right place for us. not even knowing what would happen years later. >> reporter: the sbc was formed in 1845 after a north-south split over slavery, and the sbc long supported slaveholders and segregationists. in recent years, the convention has adopted resolutions of apology for those stands. >> i have a past, you have a past, everybody has a past. this convention unfortunately has a past that we're trying to move forward from and that's how i look at it. there was apology made, and so it's now time to move on and that's why i'm excited about this opportunity. >> reporter: still, luter acknowledges that racism is an ongoing issue that needs to be addressed, in the denomination and across the nation.

he does reunite with the family and they are able to make it out of jamaica and to new orleans. when he leaves jamaica, is brought to new orleans, his stock rises instantly in the british empire as an eyewitness to the events that have just happened. this is an excerpt of a letter that he wrote to john stuart mill, the famous english classical liberal, sometimes member of parliament and intellectual leader of the mid-19th century. mill finds out about what happened to gordon, what happened to clark, this brutal suppression that occurs and begins to petition within the british government to bring up governor eyre on charges of murder and violation of due process of law. well, menard becomes an instant correspondent with mill and writes him a firsthand account that he turns around and presents as evidence in the court. unfortunately, governor eyre escaped any repercussion with the law for the charges. there was a vibrant debate that occurred in the british parliament at the time that separated the two factions of english politics, the liberal faction and kind of the old monarchist

well, you know, people in new orleans are rebuilding the city for the better.oice movement is here to stay. it will never go back. >> and next, some more good news, this time from the internet. the blob should be worried because look how excited these kids are about math. ♪ lookin' good, flo! feelin' good! feelin' real good! [ engine revs ] boat protection people love. now, that's progressive. call or click today. so i test... lot. do you test with this? freestyle lite test strips? i don't see... beep! wow! that didn't take much blood. yeah, and the unique zipwik tab targets the blood and pulls it in. so easy. yep. freestyle lite needs just a third the blood of onetouch ultra. really? so testing is one less thing i have to worry about today. great. call or click today and get strips and a meter free. test ey. >>> do your kids have a good teacher? how do you know? maybe the teacher next door is better. maybe there is a better teacher in another state. maybe there is a world's best teacher or several. wouldn't it be great if your kids could have that teacher? wel

i don't think it's unique to new orleans.on't think it's the last one we're going to see, and it's not good news for the newspaper industry. >> it may not be the last we see. news print is expensive, and i mean, obviously, news gathering is expensive in general, but so is the actual act of putting out a hard copy that gets driven to your doorstep. >> do you mean printing presses and all of that stuff. i mean, i agree that there is something special about holding on to it. i think what we're seeing now is certainly a generational divide, but also people who themselves look at both versions. you know, they look at what's on-line, and they look at the hard paper. it's two different experiences now. whether both are sustainable is the question. >> this is not just nostalgia. it is much harder to make large amounts of money off the web than it is off of a print ad. a print ad makes you much, much more dough than on-line, and that is what media companies are trying to figure out. how do we make dough on both? >> the "new york times

. >> new orleans. >> hey, i was working. it was fun, though. >> okay. all right.k to clooed shaikh mohammkha. this disruption, enough to postpone or will they slide matters a bit. >> that's what's going on. this is sliding matters. this should be tried in a federal district court. it's being tried in a military tribunal, brand-new experiment. as chris lawrence reported earlier to you, it's circus-like. this would never happen in a federal district court, fredricka. we're trying these people in military courts as if they are warriors. remember robert reed, the shoe boerm, when he was tried in a real federal court, the federal judge said after a conviction, you know what, you're no warrior, you're nothing more than a mere species of criminal. we're going to see this circus-like activity. i think it diminishes the constitution. i'm very upset it's moving forward in a military tribunal instead of court. >> do you think it's too much for the military tribunal to handle? >> fred, they are in uncharted waters. they are making up rules as they go on. we're comforted becau

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he asked the british ambassador to send a fleet to new orleans to support him. you don't need a british fleet if you're just, if you're not going to do anything against the u.s. government. and he asked for $100,000. ultimately, the ec we decision was a botch -- expedition was a botch. there were -- i'm pressed for time. there were a number of things that turned against him. the men who were supposed to show up, he expected 1500 men to show up, only a hundred did. by the time he got down to mississippi, wilkinson had double crossed him. wilkinson decide canned instead offing with a double agent -- decided instead of becoming a double agent, he'd become a triple agent. burr was brought back to richmond in chains and stood trial for treason. here you had a former vice president of the united states facing trial for treason and possible hanging. the trial itself was an electrifying event for the country, it was on the front page of the newspaper, the whole transcript of the trial, for four months. burr was a better lawyer than insurrectionist. he got off. he manage

today of the new orleans you see it there then the new orleans times spec announce that they will add its daily publication and this paper has been around for one hundred and seventy five years and now new orleans will be the biggest city in the u.s. without a daily paper or so it's not just t.v. and it's newspapers as well well i mean i think you know it's the reason why newspapers are suffering in particularly locally owned newspapers are suffering i think has more to do with technology frankly than it than it does with a sense that they don't have the readership or the interest in the local news i mean. i think you know simultaneous to. two all that's happening from a political standpoint is this technological revolution and people are getting their news in different ways whether it's you know podcasting or whether it's reading blogs online or. other forms of media and i think you know newspapers that didn't see this coming and they didn't have the capital to make these changes quick enough i think are falling by the wayside and i think when it comes to local papers that's a huge l

new orleans authorities want to shut the house down.ember has been arrested before, but the charges haven't stuck. gang members are always guarding the house outside, armed and dangerous. the cops are at an impasse. so the major turns to the atf for help. >> between the nine individuals, they were arrested 57 times by the new orleans police department in a four, five-year period. our close working relationship with major barty facilitated him calling us and requesting we start looking into the individuals to see if we could charge them federally for any violations. >> and felonies mean mandatory jail time. their break comes from surveillance cameras mounted on light poles, trained on the crack house 24/7. the gang members are caught using their guns in plain sight. pie and tony have a pauling out and their feud plays out in front of the crack house. >> you can see one of the defendants smashing out the car window of another defendant's car. with a handgun. the individual who owns the vehicle is called for, and you can see him motions fo

. >> you were living in new orleans. >> yeah, we came back to new orleans, i was professor at tulane and even named my american studies center at tulane the theodore roosevelt center i was teaching classes on theodore roosevelt and conservation at reich conservation. at rice university now uh-huh teach a class theodore roosevelt on conversation. meaning when you say when you start writing a book, i have been informing myself on the research part of this story for a long, long time. the main thing i'med to do is the write the history of first off if dr and u.s. christian wildlife. up until the present time dealing with global warming and the modern green movement. i wanted to see all of that through the eyes of the presidentsy. as a presidential historian. using people like tr and fdr and truman and johnson and carter and clinton people who had gotten involved with conservation as the point. >> when did you do the reagan diaries? >> we did it very quickly. i didn't have to write that. we're bring out the complete diaries in a box set. what it is, brian, is when you go to these places.

people in new orleans are building the city for the better.hoice momentu is building and it will never go back. >> this time from the internet look how excited these kids are about math. [ male announcer ] this is genco services -- mcallen, texas. in here, heavy rental equipment in the middle of nowhere, is always headed somewhere. to give it a sense of direction, at&t created a mobile asset solution to protect and track everything. so every piece of equipment nows where it is, how it's doing or where it goes next. ♪ this is the bell on the cat. [ male announcer ] it's a network of possibilities -- helping you do what you do... even better. ♪ >> do your kids have a good teacher? how do you know? you mean a teacher next door is better. maybe there's a better teacher in another state. maybe there's a world's best teacher or several. wouldn't it be great if your kids could have that teacher? well today, yes, you can. >> i caught it. >> yeah. >> these kids are this excited about a math lesson. >> it's amazing. >> neglect 4 minus 4 and we are done.

new orleans had quite a little outbreak of plague in, i think, 1914. l.a. had a couple of cases around the turn of the century. one little boy got plague and i believe he survived. but they found a single infected plague squirrel near his home. but it never really took root. so, port cities, which were accustomed to having outbreaks of disease imported from abroad, would occasionally have a handful of cases plague. about you -- but it found minister fertile ground in san francisco. >> i believe i recently saw a movie with richard widmark about the plague in new orleans. >> do you remember the name of the movie? >> no. but i think it was on our p.b.s. station, channel 9. >> well, you will be interested to know that the hero of the tale rupert blue, who was then surgeon general always loved field work and when plague broke out in new orleans he got back into harness and headed down to new orleans to confront what he called "my old them dismiss, the rat." >> that name doesn't bring back. >> maybe the name was changed. >> no, this was supposed to be a true stor

not a strategy whether in new orleans like we are tonight, it's the wireless conference. repeat after me -- panic is not a strategy. that's all i can think about after today's action where the averages got clobbered and rebounded after the close. dow at one point down 198 points before ending down 76. s&p sliding 4.3%, nasdaq down 3.9%. i got to el you i was upsaturday all day about this decline. not because there's reason to be concerned. i'm not that blind. the french seem to be waking up to the notion they might be impotent against the germans. the failed policy of austerity will stay in place. i was trying to get my arms around everything mobile new orleans and i felt like think to get my arms around everything more or less in europe. we did have some warnings. we saw fossil, sinking 38 prgs of its value. what is the whole sale value scotts miracle grow? big data warehouse rackspace plummeted. m mako surj call, down 36.81, a staggering amount. those shake to you the core. it doesn't upset me. what guess me down is the european news and the shortfalls produced a catast

thunderstorms from pittsburgh to memphis, birmingham and new orleans. >> 86 in new orleans. 79 in baltimore. and 53 in boston. mostly 80s in the nation's midsection. phoenix heats up to 91. sacramento, 70. and seattle, 53. >>> and coming up next after the break, the airline that is planning to charge 100 bucks to carry on your bags. believe it or not. >>> plus, new outrage surrounding ashton kutcher and the new commercial being pulled from the air. >>> and we'll also have new details in the salon visit that has so many people talking. that mom accused of tanning her 5-year-old daughter. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, chrysler had a blockbuster april, with sales up 20% from a year ago. to keep up with all that demand, four of its factories will work all summer instead of shutting down for a two-week maintenance break. demand is especially high for two jeep models. >>> and there's a guarded outlook for the april jobs report, which is due out later this morning. but there is, meanwhile, some real trouble in europe. that's where 17 countries now face record unemployment, now averaging 10.9%

"mad money" will be right back from new orleans. stay with us. >>> coming up, mad mobile. move. cramer is about to dial it up with his lineup of who's who in telecom and tech, all coming up on a special edition of "mad money," from international ctia wireless show in new orleans. miss out on some "mad money," get your "mad money" text alert today. text mm to 26221 to get cramer right on your phone. for more info visit madmoney.cnbc.com. >>> tonight we got a real special edition of "mad money" coming to you from the ctia wireless conference in new orleans. there's no better way to get a read on this business than talking to at&t, the largest communications company on earth. 103 million subscribers, right behind verizon, although unlikec verizon, which only owns half of its mobile business, at&t owns the whole shebang. on top of wireless phone and u-verse. i like at&t. come on, i've been talking about this for the last couple years. gives you a bountiful 5.5 yield. it was up in the midst of the downturn. fabulous balance sheet, terrific, improving gross margins and a great d

very cool, very proud of new orleans. very cool.irst, ar ais death, osama bin laden has become a hot political topic. >> at issue is whether president obama should use the terrorist leader's death as a campaign booster. jake tapper reports from the white house. >> reporter: mitt romney said, of course, he would have given the order to go after osama bin laden at his abbottabad compound. any president would have, he said. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> reporter: but president obama is determined to make this success a cornerstone of his re-election effort. >> i recommend everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of whether they thought it was appropriate pbif1ointo pakistan and take out ous aemeromn in t wa, qu moving spending billions of dollars just to catch one person." he was arguing the global terrorist movement is bigger than just one man. the president disagreeing with him back then about going into pakistan. >> if we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and

and from houston to new orleans. >> 80s from dallas to miami. 77 in atlanta. and 68 here in new york. 77 also in chicago. and 82 in the twin cities. phoenix, though, heating up to a scorching 106 degrees. salt lake city, 85. and seattle, 75. >> that heat is not what they need in phoenix. >>> coming up next after the break, health care costs. guess which direction they're now going. >> and paying with your credit card, it seems like we're doing a better job of it these days. your business news is next. >>> also next, a brutal beating in florida. >>> welcome back, everybody. well, health care is costing more this year. not a shocker. keeping a family of four healthy will cost about $21,000. that's an increase of nearly 7%, with about 40% now being paid by families thselves, not their insurance companies. >>> and we're doing a better job of keeping up with our credit card payments. a smaller portion of accounts were three months or more overdue in the first quarter. but the average balance on a credit card is higher than a year ago, as americans become more confi

the new orleans paper that survived the civil war, a threat by louisiana governor huey long to break every machine it had, countless mergers and most famously, hurricane katrina, bowed to the economics of the newspaper industry. >> it's something that is important in the community. >> this fall, it will go from printing papers seven days a week to three while increasing its online efforts. a new direction that will mean job cuts and a loss of community created by everyone reading the same thing. >> online, people tend to go in a lot of different directions. whereas when someone delivers you the newspaper, you look at the front page. >> affectionately known as the tp, the paper chronicled a city unlike any other, won four pulitzer prizes, and carried the by-lines of many great writers. but to understand the connection between this city and its paper, one reporter said you must look through the lens of katrina, a near death experience for both new orleans and the times-picayune. while thousands escaped the historic storm and flood, david meeks was one of a group of tp journalists who r

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its new orleans, music is not nrlt tainment. it's a force that drives something in your soul.e, they get that. and you get all these happy people out here who are great music fans and have great energy for the music. ♪ >> the food is a big deal here. i mean, quite the competition to have your restaurant, to have your food showcased here. and expectation is very high. >> it's one of the miracles of the festival. we put 5,000 new orleans musicians on 12 stages on time, a lot of people think that's a great miracle. we're serving some hundred thousand servings of gourmet food in a field for under $10 in a paper plate. quail on gumbo, strudel, is killing me. white chocolate red pudding is killing me. and sweet potato that has defied all categorization. even they can't tell you what kind of food stuff it is. >> sweet potato pone. edbradley used to take trays of it on the plane. ♪ >> oh, my goodness. the jazzfest was way too much fun. while at the fest, i also got a chance to talk face-to-face with soul legend al grown. you'll here what he had to say about president obama's version o

thunderstorms from memphis to pittsburgh and birmingham and new orleans.d mountain snow in the pacific northwest and northern rockies. >> 65 in boise. 74 in salt lake city. and 81 in albuquerque. mostly 80s from kansas city to detroit. a hot 92 in dallas. 84 in atlanta and a nice 70 right here in new york. >>> let's play a little game, sunny. ready? yes. if i went like this, what would you say? did you catch that? >> yes. >> what would you say? >> that painting. "the scream." >> that's right. i'm doing this. not just because of the painting but because of the price that the scream the painting just sold for. get this. the scream sold at auction here in new york city last night for $120 million. >> that is a record for a piece of artwork and is more than $13 million more than the previous record. the name of the buyer with the deep pockets wasn't released. >> deep pockets to say the least. the painting that was sold is one of four "screams" but it's the only one now in private hands. if you have $120 million to spend in art, you are living a pretty comforta

i put my mount to your misery new orleans. here, war lies piles so high. this floating prison of a cementary cries of range. this delta lies on its side. rows and rows upon it's own government and crushed. summertime is over and the living is dead. and around midnight all hopes are looted. no one will ever come clean of the katrina of the new orleans and the stinking house of the setting sun. but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnifice

back to greta. >> greta: big troubles for the new orleans saints. are taking -- are punished for taking part in a bounty system. four players were suspended. the head coach has been benched for the entire season. james varny covers the saints and he is here. good evening. i imagine it's a huge blow to the saints fans in new orleans and the whole louisiana area. >> it is. but there is also an element of relief because this has been hanging over the franchise and the pans for two months, since march 4, when it opened. i think there is a wide element looking to get this behind them and i think they are happy that it was only the defensive end will smith that got suspebbedded t. looked like there could be more because the league said between 22 and 27 players had been involved in the bounty. but only two players were suspended. >> you take a defensive lineman and i ask this selfishly. anthony hargrove and i ask this selfishly, he has been traded to the packers. so now the packers are paying the penalty for what a player did in a saints uniform, in which

. >> 86 in new orleans for jazz fest. 79 in baltimore. 53 in boston.ation's midsection. phoenix heats up to 91. sacramento at a pleasant 70. >> it is jazz festival. >> it is. crawfish. mango. >> we're missing it. >> i know. >> we need to do "world news now" on like -- in new orleans, right? on site. >> that ain't in our budget. much like toilet paper. ain't in our budget. >>> you want to talk about an exciting day at school. they just had one in the central wisconsin town of mosinee. >> check out the local strong man there, carl, pulling a school bus and making it look easy. in fact, once he got it going, a piece of cake for the dude. >> then they loaded it up with 53 teachers and let big carl go for it again. he got it going eventually but admitted afterwards it was a lot more difficult without calling the teachers overweight, of course. >> yeah, be careful. the whole thing was meant as a way to stress to the kids the importance of eating well and exercising. certainly a message to -- not just kids but our whole country. >> i'm impressed. >> that's no

group, was stopped, i was sent down by the attorney general to escort them to new orleans, which i did by air. they couldn't go by bus. the buses would not take them. greyhound said, "no way. "they burned one of our buses, bombed another, and we won't do that." so i then was sent down. and the morning after i got them there, i had a call from the attorney general about 2:00 in the morning. he said, "there's another group coming down from nashville. do you happen to know someone named diane nash?" diane nash was a young fisk student, a junior that year. i said, "i know her casually. david knows"-- "your city," i think he said. "she's from your city." that's right. and he said, "well, we'll call her up and tell her "that she can't let-- she's in the command chair. "tell her she may not bring these children down there, "because somebody's going to get killed. this group almost got killed." so i called her, and i said, "do you remember me?" and she did, and she called me mr. seigenthaler. and i said, "look, i'm here in new orleans "because that first wave of freedom riders, "mauled and man