roch, we met the neighborhood priest, father tony ricard. orleans, your problems have problems, that everything that can be wrong with an urban environment is wrong in new orleans. >> ricard: exactly. >> pitts: so can one mayor fix them? >> ricard: i think that... that the... you always need a catalyst to start something. you know, when god created the world, there was the big bang. somebody had to make the boom. and i think this mayor has the ability to be that bang, to be that one that will give us that start. >> pitts: many believe landrieu at least has the pedigree. his sister mary has been a u.s. senator from louisiana since 1997. and the last white mayor of new orleans was their father, "moon." he ran the city in the 1970s, when it was bitterly divided by race and class. his most important step was integrating city government, and setting the stage for a succession of four black mayors. mitch landrieu's election broke the streak. as you well know, new orleans has been dominated by white business elite, black political elite. but you're