ray nagin: amen. [applause] ma'am, just to let you know the commission members are made up of new orleans people. we have subcommittees available for any member of the public to participate in. we can get you information on when they need, you can join any committee you want to. thank you. yes ma'am. >> good afternoon, i am from the leroux bed and breakfast. i was blessed ended up get -- and did not get water. unfortunately i cannot operate properly because of a lack of gas. i know that the gas people may be doing work, but they are not in my estimation, as a business person, a retired business teacher, they are not doing the best they can do. i am educated, i have done everything i could. i e-mailed don hutchinson. i have gone to your office, i have gone to energy. i am one who clearly understands how gas operates. i did not have water. they said they are pumping water out. it has been eight weeks. i am in the cold. i cannot do business. i cannot take advantage of all of the business people coming he

ray nagin: i agree. i will get you with don hutchinson and see if we can help. >> another thing i want to say, all of the contracts in november, they went out to the politicians friends, cousins, state representatives, city council people. that is not right. [applause] at a labor rally in baton rouge, she asked me to have a truck that loads from the rear, if i had the contract, i could've had that truck, it did not matter. we need the contracts. it is not right. you are talking about new orleans coming back, my house is paid for. if we live like this, it is not right. c. ray nagin: let's see if we can do to help. i will get you with don hutchinson. we have been able to help some businesses. >> ma'am. >> good afternoon, i have a home in algiers. i have lost food. fema put us in apartments with no refrigerators. another thing, bring people back to new orleans. where will the kids go to school? 90% of new orleans has kids. on algiers point there is a school open in good condition, they fired 30 teachers at

ray nagin: thank you. it is my understanding the school system is starting to open up some schools. >> can i say something? five days from 10:00 until 2:00. c. ray nagin: all right. thank you. >> i was here before and at the last meeting. i was instructed to talk to the derailment, i have never heard back. in the meantime, i was waiting on him to get a job, i bought a truck. explain to me about those zones. the reason i am saying this is i pick up the debris in front of my house. there's microwaves, dishwashers, i'm in my house, picking up my washer and dryer. a gentleman pulled up and said you are in the wrong district. he said, this is my zone. i said yes, this is my house. the fact is, that was my washer. i am going to make the money off of it, not him. explain to me how my city, if i go across the street from where i live, it is a zone. somebody from mississippi. somebody from maryland, somebody from washington dc, because i am in their zone that is federal property, they go to jail. enough is enough.

ray nagin: i agree. i will get you with don hutchinson and see if we can help. ,> another thing i want to say all of the contracts in november, they went out to the , cousins,s friends state representatives, city council people. that is not right. [applause] at a labor rally in baton rouge, she asked me to have a truck that loads from the rear, if i had the contract, i could've had that truck, it did not matter. we need the contracts. it is not right. you are talking about new orleans coming back, my house is paid for. if we live like this, it is not right. c. ray nagin: let's see if we can do to help. i will get you with don hutchinson. he has been able to help some businesses. >> ma'am. >> good afternoon, i have a home in algiers. the high water cuts are electricity off every afternoon. i have lost food. fema put us in apartments with no refrigerators. another thing, bring people back to new orleans. where will the kids go to school? 90% of new orleans has kids. on algiers point there is a school open

ray is the obvious example i feel like ray nagin had one great moment. we have a tv camera here so i'll bleep it a little bit. but it's the thursday after the flood katrina hit early a monday morning almost immediately the city flooded. i think many people think it wasn't until tuesday that the city started flooding. but levee system within an hour or two fail water pouring into the city so monday, tuesday, wednesday finally thursday, there were no buses, there's no help. there's 25,000 people at the superdome. 25,000 people at the congress venges center. there's thousands more just on the hays any little patch of high ground. that's when he said to the president of the united states on the radio, get your bleepç and then that by the way, air force one showed up. by the way buses started showing up at least at the end of the superdome. some of what i wanted to do in this book is -- a corrective of sorts. you know, things moving so fast that impressions last that often aren't accurate. i think maybe the best compliments i've gotten on the book so far, i

of hurricane katrina damage, followed by a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans with then mayor ray nagin. announcer: the c-span cities hear around the nation to from local historians, authors, and civic leaders every other weekend on c-span book tv and american history tv on c-span3, and this month with congress on its summer recess, it is on c-span each day at 6:00 p.m. eastern. today, we look at the history of core a lot of springs -- of colorado springs, and we start pikes peak, named for the explorer. have for as long as people lived here, pike's peak has been a marketing tool, and we have used it to help identify this location. pikes peak protrudes out onto the eastern plains. as wethe first 14-er, call it, the first 14,000-foot mountain when you are coming west across the plains towards denver, and that is a beacon, in many ways, for people traveling towards the mountains. i remember many times, growing up in the midwest, coming to colorado and know when you're almost there when you start to the distance.k in you can see it a hundred or more and it seems here, to pull you in as you

ray nagin: amen. [applause] ma'am, just to let you know the commission members are made up of new orleans people. we have subcommittees available for any member of the public to participate in. we can get you information on when they meet, you can join any committee you want to. thank you. yes ma'am. >> good afternoon, i am from the leroux bed and breakfast. i was blessed and did not get water. unfortunately i cannot operate properly because of a lack of gas. i know that the gas people may be doing work, but they are not in my estimation, as a business person, a retired business teacher, they are not doing the best they can do. i am educated, i have done everything i could. i e-mailed don hutchinson. i have gone to your office, i have gone to energy. i am one who clearly understands how gas operates. i did not have water. they said they are pumping water out. it has been eight weeks. i am in the cold. i cannot do business. i cannot take advantage of all of the business people coming here, i am concern

at 9:00 with a 2009 townhall meeting with then-mayor ray nagin. >> i am relying on you. i know all businesses, state level, federal level, and all other levels -- i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new england -- in new orleans with craig fugate. at 9:00, we will show you president obama's trip to the region, as well as remarks on the recovery effort 10 years after katrina. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >> we will have live coverage of president obama's visit to new orleans and his remarks thursday at 5:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. coming up on c-span, our special programming marking the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina continues with a look at the city of new orleans one year after the storm. that is followed by testimony from hurricane katrina evacuees at a 2009 senate committee hearing. then keith hall gives an update on the budget outlook. later, a senate committee

. >> followed at 9:00, with a town narrated by mayor ray nagin.oted for you, so represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00 p.m., more from the atlantic conference theme administrator. then, president obama's trip to the region and remarks on the effort 10 years later. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >> an aarp study shows that nearly half of retirees muster want to work during their retirement years. experts on aging and health testified about the needs of older workers in and the way in which employers are changing to accommodate them. this hearing is about one hour and 15 minutes. >> this hearing will come to order. good afternoon. found back to1985 marty and doc go 30 years back in time. they end up in 1955, the middle of the baby-boom, where they save the

. >> followed by a town hall meeting from new orleans in 2005, moderated by then mayor ray nagin. >> i am calling on you -- state level, federal level, all levels. you.ed for so, represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with the new york times executive 9:00, we will show you president obama's trip to the region as well as recovery efforts 10 years after katrina. click's history bookshelf features popular american attory writers every weekend this time. sam roberts discusses the history of grand central station which opened in 1913. he talks about public figures like the vanderbilts and jacqueline kennedy own asked -- onassis. hosted by the new york public library in 2013 this program is an hour. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for coming. 's memorial concha service, bill clinton came in with papers like ts,

radio.the story of wwl picking out on what the mayor ray nagin said, this city will never be the samet extent is new orleans different different 10 years after katrina? >> many people i spoke to in new orleans say that they approach this anniversary with a bittersweet attitude. on one hand, people talk about the renaissance of new orleans, the rebirth, and billions of dollars of money that was pumped into the city. for example, new orleans has more restaurants than it did before katrina. katty: the french quarter was buzzing when i went not long ago. >> other areas have not picked up. people praised the school system. the state took over all schools. it is a charter school system which many say has boosted education. are otherd, there areas that remain untouched, as we saw in those pictures. >> you're telling me earlier that the demographics of new orleans has changed because of the storm. looking at 80% of the population today that was there before katrina. in the years afterward, that population fell by nearly half. wasle like arlene, who featured in the report, went away and came b

by a town hall meeting moderated by then mayor ray nagin. is state all this level, federal level, all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic .onference and 9:00 we will show you president obama's trip to the region and his remarks on the recovery efforts 10 years after katrina. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage, all this week on c-span. president obama is wrapping up his vacation in martha's vineyard's this weekend after spending two weeks there with his family. a look here at what the president was up to yesterday. with his daughters and the first lady. besident obama will returning to the white house later tonight before traveling to nevada on monday to deliver keynote remarks at a summit in las vegas. >> tonight onto a day. -- q&a. 20-year-old college student hurt visitingion has been a the graves of american presidents and vice presidents since he was nine. site that great

. >> follow that 9:00 when the 2005 townhall meeting moderated by mayor ray nagin. >> i am relying on you. state level, federal level and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at fema craigwith fugate. at 9:00 to show you obama's trip to the region. hurricane katrina 10th anniversary coverage oldest week on c-span. governorformer texas and presidential candidate rick perry at the iowa state fair. then speeches from debbie wasserman schultz, and governor chris christie of new jersey and bobby jindal at the iowa state fair. among the presidential candidates who spoke this week at the iowa presidential state fair's presidential soapbox what's former -- was former governor rick perry. he spent time meeting with some of those attending the state fair. this is just over an hour. perry: running for president with a degree in agriculture. i have a long and storied history, if you will. in agriculture. the challenges that we have in this country is not in pro

the rare was ray nagin, and there was no sense from these officers all that the police chief was goingto tell them what they were doing was wrong but show me the significance and importance of having strong leadership. >> this is a very important issue and remains extremely important. you know, i'm from the caribbean. i was confronted with this when i was a student at usc where somehow it became known that i was a lawyer. stuff like that to talk to them about police violence. honestly. but the stories that they heard were absolutely flabbergasting. so what i would like you to maybe do, place this whole story in a larger context. obviously what we have here is basically jim crow racism these policemen had problems but you have a way based on a long, long history and also basically what happened in new orleans, a failed state. new orleans became a failed state. so when you have all of this , basically extremely racist policing going back and the role of the police departments have to play, protecting minorities, protecting the majority. then you fundamentally create the situation and the

at 9:00 with the 2005 town hall meeting with ray nagin. and relying on you. i know all of this is state level, federal level and all other levels. to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with andg fugate and dean mccain family. at 9:00, president obama's to the region as well as the remarks on the recovery effort 10 years after katrina. 10 year anniversary coverage of katrina all this week on c-span. republican presidential candidate jeb bush visited the u.s.-mexico border yesterday where he talked about his plans for handling immigration. usa today reports jeb bush defended his term regarding the term anchor babies. his comments near mcallen, texas are about 15 minutes. [applause] >> hello, my name is -- representing house district 43. it is a tremendous honor to be here today, and i used to represent parts of it in the texas house. we had an incredible conversation with mr. bush, very candid and frank on items we care abou

. >> followed at 9:00 with a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then mayor ray nagin.>> i'm relying on you. i know all this is state level, federal level and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, there are the atlantic conversation in new orleans with fema's craig fugate and "new york times" executive editor dean mckay and family. and we'll show you president obama's trip to the region as well as remarks on the recovery effort ten years after katrina. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >>> actor gary sinise talks about his efforts to help american war veterans, an issue he first became involved with in the 1980s, including plans to build a medal of honor museum in mount pleasant, south carolina. mr. sinise is a board member of the project. the national press club hosted this event earlier this summer. [ applause ] >> thank you. [ applause ] thank you. thank you very much. it's good to be back. i

that will be followed by a town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then mayor ray nagin. announcer: tonight on "the communicators," this summer marks the anniversary of digital television. an author talks about the developing of the medium in the early 1990's. >> and then in june of 1990, almost exactly 25 years ago, ebs convinced us we should submit it convinced us we should submit it to the fcc. we were not sure we want to do that because we were satellite and cable guys who do not have a whole lot to in june of 1990, we were blown in our cover. at first people said it was impossible what we were claiming, but a year or so later, all of our competitors said he became a real race. announcer: tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >> thank you, i want to thank clark for having us here. i also want to think mr. olson for stopping in. our other guests only got as far as denver last night, so he could not join us today. we have with us dr. mike vickers, former of special operations in the pentagon. kathleen hicks, who has held many senior roles in the pentagon. so i want to ope

to say to the people and the leadership of the city -- now initially, ray nagin embraced this plan. as things evolved and the election was nearing, he abandoned his support for the plan. intohat plan quickly went the garbage can. but when it led to was a chaotic , a chaotic rebuilding the begets in place because everyone sort of threw up their hands. there really was not an , andized planning process everyone was doing their own thing. to the credit of the people of the city and the civic organizations, the people said i don't care if the government doesn't have a plan. i don't care if the government is dysfunctional. i am going to rebuild my house. we are going to rebuild our community. so you had, if you will, acidic uprising. but the effect of that plan and how that plan was rolled out -- it affects where we are 10 years later. cityneighborhoods in the were very late to begin the doubtding process because was thrown over whether these neighborhoods should be rebuilt. businesses would not go back, public services would not go back. bus lines did not go back. hospitals were not reo

it begins with then new orleans mayor ray nagin. >> ladies and gentlemen, i wish i had better news foru, but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. every person is hereby ordered to immediately evacuate the city of new orleans or, if no other alternative is available, to immediately move to one of the city that within the will be designated as a refuge of last resort. amy: new orleans and the gulf coast region remain in a state of catastrophe following the devastating hurricane katrina. isleast 80% of new orleans underwater. the city has not electricity and little drinkable water. officials say new orleans will be uninhabitable for weeks. on tuesday, two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that appeared to have survived the storm. >> this is a national disaster. line toy doggone bus new orleans. they are thinking small. this is a major, major, major deal. >> talking about tens of thousands of people who are left behind, and those are the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with disabilities and the like and the plan was that everybody should leave. w

new orleans the mayor ray nagin on air force one and outline the plan. we immediately started drafting a federation document for the president's signature, but the mayor asked time to think it over. whether governor considered options, the city became more dysfunctional. the president's plan was linda pushedjected aside. you can read more on politico. stop blaming any for hurricane katrina, that is for michael brown, the head of fema at the time. for taking myyou call. the section that you just read brings me to the point of the governor. there was an opportunity for the governor to relinquish autonomy for the state of louisiana to allow the federal government in there to take over. she refused to do so. in the interim, that made it all the more the worse. the second incident was that this brown character did not have any experience whatsoever in coordinating such a horrendous disaster. as a matter of fact, his breath experience had nothing to do with the government prior to be appointed . bush administration. host: thank you for taking my call. we are l

. >> new orleans mayor ray nagin let loose on a radio broadcast. >> get off your osses let's do something and let's fix the biggest [bleep] in the history of this country. >> 80% of new orleans was flood ed. billions of gallons of water swept over the city. not so much because of the storm itself but because the levees gave way. the flood walls broke. >> being there the first months it felt like, am i wittingness the death of a great american city. >> gary rivlin covered katrina for the "new york times." his new book "katrina after the flood" has just been published by cbs owned simon and shoeser. >> people talk about katrina being equal opportunity storm. didn't make a difference if you were black or white, rich or poor. if you were black home owner more than three times more likely to lost your home in the flooding than if you were a white home owner. just like it wasn't equal opportunity storm it is not been an equal opportunity recovery. >> this is one of the first things i saw when i came for the first time. there was a mound ten stories high of debris. and i just remember pulling to

announcer: a 2005 townhall meeting in new orleans followed by then mayor ray nagin. level, the federal level, and all other levels. you to represent me on a local level. what else to do. announcer: thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference with craig f more, and then at 9:00, we will show you president obama's trip to the region and recovery effort 10 years later. hurricane katrina coverage all this week on c-span. announcer: up next, republican presidential candidate governor scott walker of wisconsin holds a town hall meeting in new hampshire. then, the louisiana governor bobby jindal's remarks at the iowa state fair, and another ," with a see "q&a discussion on visits to presidential gravesites. the british house of commons is in recess, so prime minister's questions will not be seen tonight. presidential candidate scott walker held a town hall meeting in new hampshire. he discussed veterans health care, immigration, fighting illegal drugs, and his proposal to replace the federal health care law. this is one hour and 25 minutes. >> ok, goo

during katrina the mayor was ray nagin, who never held office before there there was no sense the police chief was telling them to do was wrong. that is the significance of having strong leadership that says to these officers you can't get away when writing these fictions when are there human beings at the other end of this. >> i think this is a very important issue, and remains extremely important. before i came to the united states i -- i'm from the caribbean. 0 studied in netherlands and i was confronted with this when i was a student at usc, where somehow it became known i was a lawyer, and people would bring me in from watt to talk to them about police violence, and i honestly -- i'm not -- but the stories i hear were flabber gasting and shocking. kids walking down, thrown against the wall, called names, et cetera, et cetera. so, what i would like to maybe do a little bit more here is to place the whole story in a larger context you. begin in 2005. obviously this outcome -- what we have here is the jim crow racism run rampant and i cannot say if these policemen had problems but you

. >> almost immediately following hurricane katrina new orleans mayor ray nagin was criticized for hisy's inept response, leaving people crying for help outside the crumbling superdome. in all more than 100 people died from hurricane katrina. so just what have we learned since then? joining me now is presidential historian at rice university and author of the book "the great deluge," detailed look at the first days after katrina. professor, thank you for coming on the show. appreciate it. >> thanks for having me on, luke. >> do you think that the american psyche fully comprehended what happened at katrina in new orleans, in new orleans during katrina? i remember as a college sophomore watching those images and just total horror. and for me it was a political awakening, realize that, you know what, it does matter who is in charge, it does matter how authorities carry out their plans. do you think that has been imprinted on our psyche? >> i think so. i think new orleans is a safer place than it was. i mean, the real villain of katrina was the army corps of engineers. they built a terribl

ray nagin is also on the list a little further down. there's a bayou that runs up the mississippi river that runs parallel to the mississippi down into the gulf of mexico. two confederate generals that occupied the region south of the mississippi. a general alfred mouton, and general dick taylor. a general is killed in baton rouge, general williams. general butler says we need a new general to fill the gap, and i need a new brigade. at age 26, he becomes at the time the youngest federal general in the union army. not only that, but butler assigns to him a group of all black soldiers called the louisiana native guard. these were freed slaves who came to general butler to fight for the north, and he outfitted them in a regiment called the louisiana native guard and assigned them to brigadier butler. he takes his men after several months of training in new orleans up the river. he engages them in several clashes and achieves his first victory. the battle of the georgia landing, 86 federal casualties, 229 confederate. he is a brigadier gain

hell of a feeling. 9:00 with a 2005 townhall meeting moderated by mayor ray nagin. i know all of this is state level, federal level. i do not have them. meoted for you to represent on a local level. i do not know where else to go. i do not know what else to do. >> their thing are at -- thursday night at 8:00, new york times executive editor dean baquet. president obama's visit to the region 10 years after katrina. katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >> next, a discussion on relations between japan and south korea. after that, the japanese prime minister's speech commemorating the 70th anniversary of world war ii. remarksris christie's at the iowa state fair. on tuesday, the heritage foundation hosted a discussion on that history and current state of japan-south korea relations on the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. this is an hour and a half. bruce: clearly, two people that follow asia, they know that right now it is an issue that has a lot of ramifications, including four u.s. national security interests. follow-onis really a to a num

bush, i fault kathleen babineaux blanco governor state of louisiana i fault ray c. nagin the mayor new orleans all of whom have accepted, full responsibility for what has happened to us, and we are still living with the aftermath we are still suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome we are reliving this nightmare sometimes two a night, night after night after night we still crying. drae day after day. >> and -- >> let me get my time is up so i just miss thompson give us a list of people you mentioned in testimony he we will try to get on that yes, sir i truly thank you going to make this very brief when i got new orleans thursday morning i was locked out of my house, went to a friend's house, in this place i worked with the plays kings -- career development specialist,s were a lot of people that i helped to get resources to pay bills helped to get jobs and stuff, and when i got to new orleans couldn't get any went to a friend's house that live around these people when i got there, she had an air mattress on floor that is where i slept when i woke up next morning was encir

. >> followed at qu9 a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then mayor ray nagin. >> i'm relying on you. i know all this is state level, federal level, and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you. to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night, starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference and new orleans with fema's craig fu das gate and dean beacaet and family. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >>> melvin laird served as defense secretary for four years in the nixon administration at the end of the vietnam war. a panel discussed his tenure and how it shaped the u.s. military in the post-vietnam era. the national archives hosted this 90-minute event. >> good afternoon. i'm david faria and it is a pleasure to welcome you to the national archives this afternoon. we're glad to have you with us today. whether you're here at the theater or watching us on c-span or joining us on the archive youtube channel. today we present a roundtable dialogue of melvin laird 19

ray nagin initially embraced this land.evolved and the election was nearing, he abandoned his support for that plan. that plan quickly went into the garbage can and the trashcan. but what it led to was a chaotic rebuilding. because everyone sort of threw up their hands. there was not an organized, orderly planning process. everyone was doing their own thing. to the credit of the people of the city and the civic organizations, the people said, i don't care if the government does not have a plan. i don't care if the government is dysfunctional. i'm going to rebuild my house. we had a civic uprising, but the effect of that plan and how that plan was rolled out effects where we are 10 years later. that some neighborhoods in the city were very late to begin the rebuilding process because doubt was thrown over whether these neighborhoods would be rebuilt. ,usinesses would not go back public services would not go back, hospitals were not reopened. clinics were not reopened. insurance companies. >> they got a late, late start. i'm

ray nagin, then mayor of new orleans that called for a mandatory evacuation bus and 24 hours before katrinaade landfall, he made lane spoken calls for help for the government to "get off your asses." he called for your lens remain a black-led city when it rebuilt after katrina. sentence on a tenure -yearharges -- 10 sentence. read more from the article at "the wall street journal." we focus our programming on the tenure anniversary of the hurricane. of next new orleans residents testified at a 2005 federal hearing on the response to katrina. then he panel hosted by "the atlantic." the challenges facing the gulf region and disaster preparedness. that is followed by mitch landrieu on recovery in his city . later, fema administrator greg fugate on national disaster preparedness. former president ill clinton, mary landrieu, nevers of congress, new orleans residents, faith leaders, and advocates who helped the city recover will take part in a public commemoration in celebration of new orleans resilience. posted by soledad o'brien, it will be held on this official anniversary of katrina's landfal

. >> followed at nine with a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then mayor ray nagin. this isw all of state-level federal level and all other level. i don't have them. i voted for you. to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with craig debate and new york times executive editor dean became family. obama's trip to the region and remarks on the recovery 10 years later area anniversary coverage of this week on c-span. >> on the final day for soapbox speeches at the iowa state fair, the crowd heard from democratic national midi chair florida representative debbie wasserman schultz and republican presidential candidates governor chris christie and louisiana governor bobby jindal. this is about an hour. mrs. wasserman schultz: it is a pleasure to be up here on the stage at the des moines register soapbox. this is such an important opportunity to really talk about the choices that we have in front of us over the next 15 or 16 months. this

about this time, exactly 10 years ago, then the mayor, ray nagin went on live television to big citizensout of the storm's path. >> this is the storm that everybody fears. it is the one that is headed directly for new orleans. my strong recommendation, to everybody in this city, is to leave. to leave as quickly as you can. gregg: that was a frightening, sobering moment for everybody that waslousenning. casey stiegel is live in the lower '90 ward which was -- ninth ward which was especially devastated when the levees broke. what can we expect from the president and the first lady? >> reporter: they will meet with students and teachers from the warren charter school which is five miles from where i'm standing in the lower ninth. the reason they will be in that locationed school benefited from what is known as the gulf coast school library recovery foundation. it was set up by laura bush to help gulf coast schools impacted by katrina and other hurricanes purchase new books and learning materials that are loss. president george w. bush will make remarks from there. all of that is scheduled t

. >> followed at 9:00 with 2009 town hall meeting in new orleans followed by the mayor ray nagin. levelte level, federal , i votedther levels for you to represent me on a local level. go.n't know where else to i don't know what else to do. text thursday night starting at 8:00, more from you new orleans conference from been few gate and dean mckay. at 9:00 president obama strip to the region, as well as remarks on the recovery effort 10 years after the treatment. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. flex i am so thrilled and excited to be here. i am so thrilled and excited to be here. i hope the camera shows how huge the crowd is. and kathy said to all caps -- to often they are the exception. >> thank you all for coming. this is a wonderful event. it has inside heaven is a library. if that is the case, heaven has gone outside and we are in heaven at the national book festival. >> young people are not the leaders of tomorrow. i sent one time i am a youth leader for today. that was an article for the electric trying to show we have this red-moved -- blue ma

bernard parish a townsiana hollowed by meeting with then mayor ray nagin. here's a portion of what you will see. >> we purchased a total of 107 trailers, and i have them at four different sites, but when you walk across the street here, you will see 42 set up for our teachers and -- members. that was the only way, especially back in november, that i could get a staff at the school to teach the children because there was no place to live. if you go further behind into that subdivision, you will see complete and utter devastation. you will see very few people actually living there, gutted homes, some not added as of yet. some totally destroyed. you will see some trailers in front of their homes where people are working on them, but you will not see the vibrant community there once was. >> residents of new orleans reacting to the government's response after hurricane katrina. you can see the entire 2005 town hall meeting with hurricane katrina victims tonight starting at 8:00 eastern. also, we will show you a tour of st. bernard parish in louisiana a year afte

. >> follow it at 9:00 followed by a town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by mayor ray nagin. >> i'm calling on you, state level, that her, and other levels. you to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with craig fugate and dean mckay and family. at 9:00 we will show you president obama's trip to the region and remarks on the recovery 10 years after hurricane katrina. hurricane katrina 10th anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >> today, a look at how involving young people in constructive democratic reduceds can do occur radicalization. that is on c-span2. >> earlier this summer, the senate special committee on aging held a hearing on diabetes research and funding efforts. andarchers from medical -- diabetes patients and medical experts. it is starting today at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. ♪ i'm thrilled and exciting to be here. i want to think c-span for covering this national book festival. we have a beautiful sunny day and i hope th

. >> followed at 9:00 with a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by then-mayor ray nagin.i'm relying on you. i know all this is state level, federal level, and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans with fema's craig fugate and "new york times" executive editor dean baquet and family. at 9:00, we'll show you president obama's trip to the region as well as remarks on the recovery effort ten years after katrina. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. >>> "washington journal" continues. >> we want to welcome back to the table bill crystal. founder and editor of "weekly standard." let's start with the latest trump move last night in iowa. what do you make of that interaction and what does it do for the party on immigration? >> there's a good article this morning showing that so far at least latino voters are not letting it spill over to the rest of the republica

. >> followed at nine with a 2005 town hall meeting in new orleans moderated by mayor ray nagin.alling on you. i know all of this is state level, federal level, and all other levels will stop i don't have them will stop i voted for you -- i don't have them. i voted for you to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go will stop i don't know where else -- what else to do. >> thursday night at 8:00, more on the conference in new orleans with craig phuket. -- craig fufgate. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. "washington journal" continues. your view of standardized tests for educators, give your thoughts. the numbers are on the screen. there is a poll done by fire .ata celt love and gallup in the most recent full -- poll, they were asking participants to give their opinions of the use of standardized testing effectiveness in school. 14% responded that it was very important. 42% that it was somewhat important. 28% that it was not very important and 13% was that it was not important at all. you may have your thoughts. we have divided the

. >> and then a town hall from ray nagin. >> i am relying on you. i know all of this is state level and federal level and all other areas, and i don't have them, i voted for you to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00 more from the atlantic cough tprupbs in new orleans with fema's dean boquat, and in 2009, obama's trip to the region and his remarks ten years after katrina. that's coverage all this week on c-span. "washington journal" continues. >>> our guest is the latino partnership director and he was the office of citizenship from 2003 to 2008. good morning. >> good morning to you and thank you for having me. >> over all the message that the gop presidential candidates are delivering on immigration. what is the impact on the latino community? >> very big, but it varies from candidate to candidate. obviously donald trump is getting a lot of attention and the mess sing negative and devastating and he would never get the support of latino voters, and his favo

in your book you compare then mayor ray nagin to osama bin laden, richard nixon and willy wonka.plain why? >> well, you know, it was new orleans's great misfortune to have a neophyte in charge at the time. he didn't have allies and experience. he was in over his head and it was a wasted four years, the first four years after katrina as far as the rebuilding. >> gary, you wrote about how after the storm there was a specter of a katrina cleansing. what was that? were the fears of that well founded? >> there were some powerful white business people who saw katrina as their opportunity to change new orleans, to change it demographically. it was 68% black city at the time and to change it politically. it was a black-run city and i'll point out that today new orleans has 100,000 less black residents than it did at the time of katrina, a city of 450,000 and within five years a white mayor, a white supermajority in the council, white police chief, white prosecutor and so on. >> so how did class play a role in the recovery? you compare new orleans east with the lower ninth ward. how were

you don't forget it. 9:00 with a 2005 townhall meeting in new orleans moderated by ray nagin. >> i amelying on you. i know all of you at the state level and federal level and all other levels, i don't talk to them. i voted for you. so represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans. at 9:00, we will show you president obama's trip to the region and remarks on the recovery effort 10 years after katrina. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. "washington journal" continues. back we want to welcome bill kristol, the editor of "the weekly standard." we are looking at the latest of move lastmp ar night and what does it do for the party and immigration? so far, the voters are not letting their opinion of donald trump spill over to the rest of the republicans. -- a critic of the is excessive critics of donald trump and people who worry so much about him. there is no evidence that he is furthering the republicans. the matchups and states a

he sat with the governor of louisiana and new orleans mayor ray nagin on air force one and outlined hislan. you can read more in the pages of politico. that is from michael brown, the head of fema at the time. teddy in baltimore, maryland. caller: thank you for taking my call. orn add that you just ran that section that you just read brings me to the point of the governor. there was an opportunity for the governor to relinquish autonomy for the state of louisiana to allow the federal government to take over. she refused to do so. in the interim, they made it all the more worse. character did not have any experience whatsoever in coordinating such a horrendous disaster. as a matter of fact, his lack of experience had nothing to do with the government prior to in the bushted administration. thank you very much for taking my call. host: we have devoted the show taking a look at the 10 year anniversary of hurricane katrina. no guests today, just your calls, particularly if you live in regions affected by it. louisiana, new orleans, mississippi. those numbers have been on the screen and we w

bush, i fault kathleen babineaux blanco governor state of louisiana i fault ray c. naginhe mayor new orleans all of whom have accepted, full responsibility for what has happened to us, and we are still living with the aftermath we are still suffering post-traumatic stress syndrome we are reliving this nightmare sometimes two a night, night after night after night we still crying. drae day after day. >> and -- >> let me get my time is up so i just miss thompson give us a list of people you mentioned in testimony he we will try to get on that yes, sir i truly thank you going to make this very brief when i got new orleans thursday morning i was locked out of my house, went to a friend's house, in this place i worked with the plays kings -- career development specialist,s were a lot of people that i helped to get resources to pay bills helped to get jobs and stuff, and when i got to new orleans couldn't get any went to a friend's house that live around these people when i got there, she had an air mattress on floor that is where i slept when i woke up next morning was encircl

. >> followed by a town hall meeting moderated by the then mayor, ray nagin. we all love that this is state, federal, and all other levels. i voted for you. to represent me. and i don't level know what else to do. >> more from the atlantic at 8:00.e 9:00, president obama's trip to the region as well as from our on the recovery effort. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all the >> up next, norman friedman how wargaming or military strategy colleges at the naval contribute it to success during world war ii. he is an author for the naval college's "proceedings" magazine. the institute for the study of strategy and politics hosted

never forget it the rest of your life. 2005llowed at 9:00 with a town hall meeting with then mayor ray nagin. >> i am relying on you. state level, federal level and all other levels. i don't have them. i voted for you. to represent me on a local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night, starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference with fema's craig fugate. at 9:00, we will show you president obama's trip to the region. hurricane katrina anniversary coverage all this week on c-span. week, american history tv sits in on a lecture with one of the nation's college professors. you can watch it here every saturday, and sundays at 1:00 p.m.. next, university of maryland professor robyn muncy analyzes women in the period after world war ii, focusing on their experiences in the workforce. she argues they did not leave the workforce as popularly believed, but that they were forced out of the higher-paying positions into lower paying jobs. this took place in the university of maryland at college park. >> we will go ahead and get started. i am thrilled

. >> followed at 9:00 with a 2005 town hall meeting moderated by ray nagin. i know the state level, the federal level and all other levels, i don't have them. i voted for you. represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night starting at 8:00, more from the atlantic conference in new orleans. at 9:00, we'll show you president obama press trip to the region and remarks in recovery effort 10 years after. the hurricane katrina anniversary coverage is all this week on c-span. "> up next, "washington journal is live with your phone calls and then the congressional budget office releases an update on the tenure economic and budget outlook. the cbo director talk to the press about it live at 11:00 a.m. eastern. have special programming focusing on hurricane katrina continues tonight at 8:00 p.m. later, the role of immigration in the 2016 presidential campaign and we will talk to the latino partnership director. school math teacher from new york city shares his perspective on race and class as it relates t