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

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

[laughter] 's >> you're in orleans right now? >> imi amperage. >> assist the house where you grew up? >> yes this is a house right. the porch behind me is the porch where my dad. [inaudible] this is the house we come to bear able, and didn't float we were able to keep the house after katrina. i lost my dad though he had a heart attack after he evacuated. but we were able to keep the house, this is a very special to me. the book is special to me in many different ways. >> it's special to be in your house with you. which is something we really would not be able to do if it were not for his virtual nature of our meetings for there's a silver lining to actually be present in the house were so much of this took place. i feel like i'm seeing some questions come in here. so i'm going to take a look at those. we will hear from some of you. >> i have a birthing at like to talk about too. plus get some questions for spirits to the current then you can fold that it whenever you what. was there a connection between the economy in the church?

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

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.

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

that makes so much of this possible, this is what makes ne orleans new orleans, the people the spiritod, the sense of community, and all the good that comes out of one big party. >> one of the oldest parading organizations is ricks, ricks emerged to draw tourism back to the city after the civil war, and is always one of the most influential residents in the group is involved in civic orphic organizations, philanthropy, the grand marshal identity of the crew is kept secret until the monday before mardi gras and than traditionally the mayor of new orleans holds him a symbol exceed to the city. in norma's history on the 150th anniversary of rex, i am about to meet somebody who knows all about the king of carnival. >> he knows it is history bette than anyone. illness and most important thin that americans who have never been too new orleans, they thin mardi gras has offensive what d they need to understand about the spirit that too because beyond of the. >> celebration. people come together. the other legacy, and of the carnival celebration are it's not just beautiful floats, but it's wha

the statistic was more than 80 people in new orleans ator the time.so it's a city where people don't really leave but the description, the neighborhoods losing those elders over one thing or another. .. >> so how do we get the insurance to pay for our houses? people are having all kinds of problems like that. who gets the loans? a lot of people with money. usually from out of town and those that are being built back up by corporations or people with a lot of money who can come in two or $300,000 for a house that's a bargain if they buy the house for $5000 notes 300,000 but now they can't get a loan because they retired. they sayay live in the lifestyle is better here. >> it feels like it's exactly what the economy was there to do to hold the community together. defined tangible ways for people to help each other. feels like that's what we don't have any more or the community does not have that anymore. >> there are still people holding it together i have a lot of friends but we lost a lot so that educated part of the goal. >> mike the house i'm sittin

but literally everybody in orlean new orleans decorated their homes.loats 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 traditions. but one thing i loveitions f abt this, and we don't have this in other cities, certainlthy as muh is the young coming togetherrnir with the older generations and learning from each other. >> i saw it out on the streets. i saw it on the balconies overlooking the parade. that is wonderful. s wond >>er and that's on these floats. the young ages, a young little kids with the lieutenants and the captains, the most successful crews.e club and these are carnival cruise, these clubs, the most successful organizations in mardi gras and carnival are the ones that can attracten the very young because a lot of these guys, they want to be outs there. the grandfather wants to have t his son and his grandchildre andn. >> they put on events with something that wi

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orleans traditional band.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 sat through the whole show,

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

this is amazing which is a tribute to so many things not leastck new orleans. so it's good to be back with the community again. it changed what i was going to talk about who makes it through the glass ceiling and the other innovative and progressive thing that the other ladies have said this is my one giant 50 years in politics arrived on the firstt state. back in the old environmentalist days so 50 years ago. it's amazing. what inspired me on this call is the things we were talking about that remand obstacles to women breaking through the glass ceiling or elevating through the glass ceiling so much has changed in those 50 years that the essential guiding principles remain the same and my take away has been business or politics or life or marriage or mothering is off this ostensibly ridiculously statement that sounds so obvious. the worst thing about being blind as you can see.an so this obvious thing is changet is change but progress is not. what does that actually mean for people of all genders and who in going to break through the next level he or she or the

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 or 900 miles washington. in his retirement years jackson never really one -- wanted to give up being present so his continuing filing off letters to subsequent presidents and to people in congress who support him to make sure they were following through on policies or laws that he had pushed through while he was president. jackson's popularity was so great that if you jackson endorsing due to run

. >> 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

a terrorist it does have thispe happen to him on multiple occasions and have a new 2010 going to orleansn of probation and eventually i got a misdemeanor for that incident new orleans where i'm showing up and asking questions and last year or the year b about a year and have ago or so, joe biden's dghrs diary.source a woman named ashley come that many people don't realize joe biden has abounding ashley we look into this was on larry's we decided not to publish and we cannot verify with certainty that it was actually her senate did not want to publish something in the blowup project veritas by publishing something that was not real good and there are other reasons for not publishing it and we did approach joe biden for commented we been charted to give the diary to actually biden ande her lawyer they would not receive it so we give into law enforcement have where it was found. in here later, fbi agent shows up with the health it with two of my colleagues on november 3rd, to make a statement about this is ridiculous were not going tote e intimidated by this void to keep doing our job to th

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

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

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 writing at 50 but that's what happened for me, i had experience on a trail ride in it was an ecstatic experience and then i had a horse of my own the next thing i knew and all i could think about was the horse, how to care for th

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

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

by an absolutely fascinating man named richard tim burke, who owned the metairie racehorse in new orleans. he had been kicked out of west point. he had gone down the river riverboat gambler and made a fortune. and he bought lexington, and he was 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. w

to pick him up and bring him back to new orleans.ey could not find a hotel of course anywhere between there so they stopped at a religious camp and at kings mountain carolina which is my home state. they spent the night at the religious resort and he's an athlete so hef runs up kings mountain one morning to clear his head. and according to the story he runs up the mountain any passes out or something happens to hime when he wakes up on these of the stories you read in shakespeare or mythology or the bible where he u wakes up in the whole world is different. he sees everything different. he talks about the leaves are green or the sky is blue or the grass is greener and he sees the cows and god made all of this. he made all these vivid colors and all these complex things in complex creatures and there is a purpose for me. so he runs down the hill and at that particular moment says i'm going to best a pastor. he tells his father'sse father's upset go back to his father's story. his father is much as a great relationship he has with the

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

to pick him up and bring him back to new orleans. they couldn't find a hotel, of course, anywhere between there, so they stopped at a religious camp in kings mountain, north is my homehich they spent the night at a religious resort and, again, he's an athlete, so he runs up kings mountain one morning to kind of clear his head. and according to the story, he runs up the mountain the, and he, he passes out or something happens to him. when he wakes up, and this is, you know, these are the kind of stories, you know, you read shakespeare or mythology or the bible where he wakes up, and the whole world is different. he sees everything different. he talks about how the leaves were greener, the chi is bluer, the grass is greener, and he sees the cows, and if god made all of this, he made all of these vivid colors and all these complex things and complex creatures, then there's a purposes for me. and so he wakes up, he runs down ruthe hill, and he at that particular moment says i'm going to be a pastor. so he tells his father, and his father

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

be assigned, but it's also taken to only give you an opportunity to wrong with ah, in 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 in 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 black here in hays, going round just talking smack, just walking up people in just colonist white supremacists and racist and everything like that. but we are all willing to protect ourselves if we feel threaten, we will use our weapons. or you barbara now? yes sir. would you would you find out if i felt threatening my life or starting your day? right. i would really and you're willing to be shuttled now and this is a cause i'm willing to give my life or do

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

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

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

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

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

the many loves of andrew young, if you look at the fact here's a man who grew up in segregated new orleans. he went about university, one of the premier colleges in the country. he doesn't like to say black colleges because of that to become a pastor of a small church in georgia. he left that to move to new york to do ministry work for an organization, then he moved to georgia 1960 to work with martin luther king jr. he left after the assassination to run for congress cos in the first class of black congressmen and women from the south since reconstruction. he left up to become a u.n. ambassador. he left that to become the mayor of atlanta. he left that while he was a bit when he the olympics to the united states, about the olympics to offend which is something no one could've ever foreseen. and now he runs a foundation. so we has these many lives and it looks, the one thing that's interesting about them is that it's almost as if every decade he kind of reinvents himself. he looks back but it doesn't really look back. if you pick out, if you pick a part of his life and the hat and you pick

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

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

in new orleans we have a major problem with synthetics. and people smoking mojo and becoming psychotic. >> i don't even know what that is? dr. weiss: it's a fake marijuana, you can buy it in the grocery store, it can ruin your kidneys. you have to be attentive to what's happening in different areas for sure. senator casey: senator kaine. senator kaine: i want to talk a little bit about before college and then i want to talk about the transition to college. i spent thanksgiving with family and friends. one of the friends i spent time with is an administrator in the st. john county, florida, school system, including st. augustine. her responsibility includes the guidance counselors. she was telling me, we don't have enough and they're doing college guidance and helping people with financial aid forms and trying to be counselors and there's some florida laws now that are making it even harder because they can't talk about everything with the student without letting parents know. but setting that aside the point she was making is there's just