but it is uneven. you go to the lower ninth ward, for example, and you can see still just a lot of bare foundations that are sitting there. areas where it hasn't come back. the poverty rate here is back to prekatrina levels or twice the national average. an uneven recovery. >> you said about 20% of the population is below that ten year ago level. is that going to be permanent, do you think or will people relocate as the recovery continues? >> well, you know the people that look at this say nothing is really permanent. nopg is -- nothing is static in a recovery. and that people will come back, but the patterns are different. the demography is different. the racial makeup of this city as we said much wider city, much more hispanic city than before, but still majority african-american. so it really is a moving target. >> you mentioned culture. what about the musical culture which is so legendary for new orleans? a lot of the musicians have relocated. has that recovered or has that fundamentally changed? >

the city has seen an uneven recovery.ritics are calling the reconstruction a justification process -- gentrification process. when you break out, there is not a lot of place. i would go to bar to bar and play, and now they have two bars. >> in the mostly black lower ninth ward, only a small percentage has returned. the demographics are changing. the superdome, french quarter is not the only area that was hit, but it is the money part of the city. what about people who are living run the outskirts of the city? what about us? what are you going to do? there are a lot of people who want to go home, but they cannot afford to. >> 80% of white residents wellve them to be recovered since the storm. what percentage of black people believe the opposite. the city has emerged from the store and has a different face. it is wider and richer. father of the journalist shot on life television on thursday because bad to buy for morgan control. has pledged to fight for gun control. he appealed to president obama. >> my mission now, is i'm

and they can't necessarily see what is happening and then to exonerate themselves it is a slightly uneven playing field. so once you walk into that courtroom it is heavily weighed against you. >> what is the importance of the salem witch trials? >> it is serious to of the disgrace in your past. there is too much national security for the right reasons in the wrong reasons. the you burned witches in your past that is the idea that they burned them. so of the arabia that they could become better aligned. >> how many people were hong? >> 194 hanged one refuses to enter the plea. >> those are the obvious to. >> am not sure if i have been able to what is so threatening about a powerful woman and the very curious idea of adolescence with power of dealing from cleopatra. and what we do know generally is a difvare es >> >> i am not interested to cover the field of every detail but aha to here the narrative because it will also make you feel as if you are reading something you cannot put down. >> warda the topics? >> the piece about leaky pia -- wikipedia so were you pulling off the dictionary or

and uneven match. john: that is an uneven match.ast night, donald trump was on fire at that town hall. the split screen images, i would use a different metaphor, the difference between technicolor and black-and-white or kind of grainy. trump is compelling right now, bush is not. i think the one thing that is true is that not only does bush get to put on what they call the and -- inve uniform respect to trump, but he needs to put it on more generally on the party where more people suspect he's a moderate. he's got to do it with a lot more heart and less grim a visage then we showed in that town hall meeting today. al: i agree, but let me disagree with you strongly on trump. that was a show. it was entertainment. it was substance free, nothing but a bunch of demagogue. at some point, that catches up to you. there was no contact last night. -- content to trump last night. john: that man was pure gold. moving on to the next topic, say it ain't so, joe. in a new quinnipiac poll joe biden performs slightly better or as well as hillary cli

. >> and on uneven terrain. >> on uneven terrain.his on their back, their shoulders, their heads because they don't have other means to transport it. and oftentimes, women can take up to eight hours, especially in sub-saharan africa and water-stressed areas, up to eight hours just fetching water with their young girl children, as well. so what that means is women can't work, they can't be productive, and girls can't go to school. so you can imagine the kinds of social impacts, how it affects women and girls just not having access to water. >> and if you have to carry just that small amount of water for your food and for washing and everything else that one might need, it's horrible because you can't -- and plus you don't know whether the water is even clean. >> exactly. exactly. the united nations actually defines access to water as five gallons of water per person, per day, and less than a 15-minute walk. and so just that one gallon is only enough water to provide for one family member. can you imagine the 5 or the 6 or the 10 famil

>> well, to dana's comment, he was very uneven. he was very inconsistent. i thought he was kind of very flat and didn't feel like he had life in him. didn't really feel like he wanted to be there. the reason why i think that is so damaging because he had great expectations going into this, because he has had such an uneven performance from the beginning of his campaign starting with the flub on the iraq question. even most recently when he talked about americans having to work more hours when he talked about how investments in women's healthcare are not worth it. so when you look at what the expectations were, especially for the investors, kate, he is the $100 million man now given all the money he raised. if you are an investor, you were hoping to see somebody that was taking the reigns, that was being a leader, that was looking presidential, that was not looking like a deer in the headligh headlights. frankly, that's kind of what he looked like. >> anna, how is the campaign feeling today? >> i don't know. i'm not part of the campaign. i am one of those in

evidence is what against the accused and he is not allowed to swear for himself the it's a slightly uneven playing field so you have these really, really chilling documents. you know when she walked into the courtroom the case is very heavily weighted against you. it's a pretty dramatic set of papers to read through. >> stacy schiff, what's the importance of the salem witch trials as we refer to them in our history? >> i realize, it's breaking into a series disgrace in your past. because it keep you in line. i think we hostile salem out whenever we start to be suspicious of our neighbors, overreact, invest too much in national security at the expense of civil liberties. it comes up over and over again. i think what's interesting is how we misinterpret it and use it against each other. the reason i think we have turned witches into victims of earnings instead of hangings is an 1860s, the south very much to position against the north bias in yes when they have slaves thank you all burned witches. that's when we get this idea that massachusetts actually burned witches. it's something we can -

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the recovery like the response has been uneven. we begin in the lower ninth ward. an area devastated when the levees broke. jonathan betz there. jonathan. >> john, new orleans remains a work in progress. here in the lower ninth ward empty lots outnumber the new homes you've seen behind me. this area has come a long way but it has a long way to go. >> that's what i want. >> reporter: over the last ten years, harry sims has gotten pretty good at fighting. katrina took his home, his neighbors, and nearly his life. >> we have to have another floor. >> but he rebuilt, even putting a makeshift boxing ring in his yard to inspire kids in a neighborhood with little else. >> it was ofight to come back and wishing everybody else come back too. >> reporter: when it comes to rebuilding he says too many others haven't jumped in the ring. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: much of new orleans is thriving but across the lower 9th ward progress has been painfully slow. ten years ago, a 12-foot wall of water tore through here. many were too poor to leave before the storm or to rebuild after. today on

. >> recovery in that area has been uneven. new orleans famed french quarter is now filled with music and tourists as you can see. lower 9th wards still struggling to rebuild. 30% of that population of that neighborhood has returned since hurricane katrina. >> i lost neighbors, friends. it is really sad. >> hurricane katrina hit new orleans on august 29th, 2005. it caused more than $100 billion in damage. >>> one of the northern california men credited with stopping potential massacre in france got a hero's welcome in sacramento. he spoke yesterday, he and his two long time friends tackled and disk armed a gunman on the train last week. they he is grateful to be home. >> feels good to be back on american soil, especially in sacramento. this is my home. i am just glad to be back here to see everybody. kind of overwhelming for me. i didn't expect all this to happen. >> french authorities stay gunman had ties to radical islam. he had more than 200 rounds of. >>> nasa is hoping a series of plane crash consist help save lives. beaco

the outcome: today's uneven recovery says got gotham. >> more affluent neighborhoods tended to be rebuilt faster than lower class neighborhoods. there were more resources that tended to go into more affluent neighborhoods. >> couldn't they reasonably argue we had our act together, yes we had more resources and those resources over the years have allowed us to be more organized, we've had a good homeowners association. >> yes and all that's very important and significant, it certainly is a driver of post-disaster recovery and rebuilding but we also have to look at there were programs that actually seeded and facilitated public access to government officials. >> he's are referring to the road home program, a federal initiative meant to provide money to help people rebuild. >> unfortunately, the road home system continued to build on the system of entrenched and systemic racism and segregation. >> kashana hill heads up the center. >> we found that white homeowners and black homeowners had a very large gap on the funds available to them based on the prestorm value of their homes. >> hill's or

bus boulevard between race and spring garden, so during the midday when they are not there, those uneven surround if a cents will be there for you, maybe that raised sewage great there that's going to knock your front ends alignment out of wack. route 401, route 202, crews working out there in malvern, chester county, and work crew out on the northeast extension, near the quakertown interchange. otherwise, mass transit and the airport, off to good start. lauren, back to you. >> thank so much, bob. 4:03, breaking news from overnight. police investigating violent night in the city's point breeze neighborhood. our jenny joyce live at one of the scenes right now, good morning, jenny. >> reporter: good morning, lauren, four people shot and two separate incident here along south 30th street. see renmant of shell casings signifying a have i lent scene, police say, at least 24 shots were fired at this location. two men, who are sitting on front porch, struck by bullet, they are being treated at press presbyterian hospital, in stable condition. so the shooting happened at 11:42 last night here on

the storm just exposed the extent of the unevenness of development in the city of new orleans. anchor: we have been looking at pictures of president barack obama in new orleans. he was given a warm welcome when he visited thursday. today the former president george w. bush has been visiting. what sort of a welcome to you think he was given and how you think people felt seeing him there? he was the president who presided, or should have presided, over the disaster management of hurricane katrina. >> i have not looked at the news today, but i would assume that african-americans would have a negative reaction. i assume his wife republican friends would be pleased to see him. i assume that most african-americans would not be pleased to see him because he is a national symbol of the incompetence of the federal government during a crisis. my reaction is what are you coming for, another photo op? you were there before. nothing has changed. i don't think it is necessary for him to be here. there are white republicans in the city who may feel differently. [laughter] anchor: thank you. w

.>> is the terrain uneven, are there stairs? you know, how are my legs fitting today?>> reporter: she says those worries are gone when she is swimming.>> i feel like it is free. >> reporter: with no hands and no legs from the knees down, she glides with grace and speed. she recently qualified for the paralympic tryouts. -- trials.>> when i went to the er, i thought i had pneumonia and would be in their overnight. >> reporter: she had contracted two infections, influenza be an mircera. doctors prescribed of drug -- a drug to restrict blood flow. that led to gangrene. >> i cannot think of anything worse than waking up knowing you're going to lose all four limbs.>> reporter: she was inspired to look forward by a pair of athletes. competing on tv.>> if i don't do something about this, my life could be bleak. i didn't want that. >> reporter: she practices here almost daily. she says every stroke is a step towards overcoming challenges and obstacles.>> little kids pull away for me. even adults don't know how to approach you. you since the awkwardness. they recoil. that's har

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he remains popular, but many here have complaints about what they see as the city's uneven recovery. >> they should give the people here, the majority of these people was black and poor. >> to rent a home now, one bedroom, is at least $900. so the rental issue for housing, the market just is skyrocketing. >> reporter: to compound that, the lower 9th ward carries the scars that for many changed anything. to witness the challenges president obama was talking about, you have to walk a couple of streets to see things like this. less than half the population of the 9th ward returned to the city. and to address the challenges of rising rents maybe the biggest channel. it's made significant progress. residents acknowledge that and the efforts hadn't gone unnoticed. >> i'm here to say, i'm here to hold up a mirror and say because of you, the people of new orleans, working together, this city is moving in the right direction. and i have never been more confident that together we will goat where we need to go. you inspire me. >> reporter: the president's focus on poverty and race will be welco

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he remains popular in the community, but many have complaints about what they see about the uneven recovery >> they should have gave it to the people here, but they didn't. the people were black and poor. >> to rent a one bedroom home is $900. the rental issue for housing, the market is skyrocketing. >> reporter: to compound that, the lower 9th ward still carries visible scars. to witness the challenges president obama was talking about, you only have to walk a couple of streets from where he made his speech to see things like this. less than half the population returned to this city. and to address the challenges of wealth disparity, jobs and rents may be the biggest challenge. despite the challenges, new orleans has made progress. the president acknowledged that and their efforts hadn't gone unnoticed. >> i'm here to say, i'm here to hold up a mirror and say because of you, the people of new orleans working together, this city is moving in the right direction. i have never been more confident that together we'll get to where we need to go. you inspire me. >> reporter: the president's focu

and remains popular in this community but many here have complaints of what they see as the city's uneveny. >> they didn't because the majority of these people were black and they were poor. >> to rent a home now, one bedroom is at least $900 so the rental issue for housing, the market just is sky rocketing. >> reporter: to compound all that the lower ninth ward has highly visible scars of a storm that for many changed everything. to witness firsthand. >>> live to austria where they are holding a press conference after the discovery of a large number of refugees found dead in a truck on the side of the road. >> translator: at the press conference we told you that we in the area here that we found in that area lots of dead parties there that we said that there might be 20-50 people in there who have died there and we have to tell you today that the truck and we had viewed the whole truck and we have to tell you that there are 71 people who died in that tragic event. the 71, 59 men, 8 women and 4 children and one of them one to two-year-old little child, a baby, a girl and ten-year-old boy.

right, worried about china, maybe european recovery is going to be uneven.o doubt about t >> china still not good a good force. it affect the industrials, a core group of companies, already down, so not worried about china. >> the way the market reacted based on the evaluation. >> the misunderstanding, the impact create the opportunity. that's what we saw. if you take a look at what china means to us, something about disadvantaged because our exporting goods, they have had goods available here, cheaper prices for years, compete with cat and the other industrials. they don't have the dealer network. nobody is going out and buying heavy machinery without a dealer network to keep it, to keep it running. also they don't work very well, i'm not really worried about it i'm worrying about the german standpoint and their exports. the market is going to look good, still looks good, not a lot of to downside, maybe a correction, hey, why not? the second longest period in time. >> can i jump in? modification to what you are saying, slight disagreement, steve. >> been a

while it is an uneven recovery, there are parts of this city that are thriving.s you can see, the french quarter packed tonight. >> resilience at its best. thanks so much. >>> miles down the gulf coast in mississippi, the echoes of katrina still remain as well. ten years after that hurricane wiped out towns and destroyed families, the population hasn't fully yet recovered. while the scars are slowly healing, some towns are struggling to return back to normal. nbc's mark potter has our report tonight. >> reporter: when hurricane katrina struck the mississippi coast, the town of waveland bore the brunt of the storm. >> look how fast this water is rising. >> reporter: and was obliterated by 120-mile-per-hour winds and a nearly 30-foot-high ocean storm surge. most of the homes and businesses when we arrived were destroyed. 25 residents were killed. susie destephano lost her mother to the storm. >> it was like the biggest bomb you could imagine had gone off. >> reporter: although scars still remain, waveland has cleaned itself up and many residents have rebuilt their

look, we've also had incredibly uneven economic growth as well.hink what's been happening here is the federal reserve has been propping up the stock market and there's no historical evidence to support that we can perpetually do this. i think if you couple that really with, you know, these regulations that we've seen under president obama and this regulatory state, as i said, we could potentially be heading for a breakdown. >> she's talking about regulations, chuck, but you have the new overtime rules, you have a health care system that has been completely torn apart, that was -- is and continues to be a burden on businesses. how can we not see economic weakness ahead? >> you know, it's weeks like this that remind me my pathologist was a pretty wise man keeping his money? a cigar box. we're creating about 200 jobs a month, unemployment is down from 10% to 5% and foreclosures are at a ten-year low. obviously i'm a political consultant and this is not my forte, but looking at the 401(k) investment for everyday americans, whether you're a small busin

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but many here have complaints of what they see as the uneven recovery. >> the majority of these peopleck and they was poor. >> to rent one bedroom is now $900. so the rental issue for housing, the market just is skyrocketing. >> reporter: the lower ninth ward still carries highly visible scars of a storm that changed everything. you only have to walk a couple of streets from where the president made his speech to see things like this, less than half of the population ever returned to this city, and to address the challenges of wealth disparity, jobs and rising rents may be the biggest challenge for post katrina new orleans. but new orleans has made significant progress. the president acknowledged that and told residents their efforts hadn't gone unnoticed. >> i'm here to say, i'm here to hold up a mirror and say, because of you, the people of new orleans working together, this city is moving in the right direction, and i have never been more confident that together we will get to where we need to go. [ applause ] >> you inspire me. >> reporter: the president's focus on poverty and race

funds, of inefficiency in delivering the public services that the population craves for in a very uneven or unequal society like guatemala. >> reporter: and the president's refusal to resign is bringing more people to the streets. for four months they have been protesting against political corruption and on thursday afternoon organizers say more than 30,000 people will crowd into guatemala city central plaza. they say it's going to be a show of solidarity with rural people coming together with people from the city. elena considers herself a political activists. they need to get involved, she says, if there is to be any lasting change. >>> dozens of people in north korea are feared dead after floods caused by a typhoon. more than a thousand homes were destroyed in cities close to the chinese and russian borders. mudslides killed more than 20 people in the philippines last weekend. >>> u.s. president barack obama returns to new orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. it killed more than a thousand people and caused billions of dollars of damage. the city has made a stead

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same time you don't have to look very far from where i am to see the rebirth of this city has been uneven. yet there remains here a deep reservoir of hope and determination. the tale of two cities is a familiar one to much of urban america. the haves and have nots. it's just that in new orleans it seemed to be mostly the latter who we remember were left desperate and abandoned in a drowning city. >> help! help! >> we couldn't get out. no transportation. just was no way. >> reporter: you were left behind? >> we was left behind. >> reporter: today some wonder if the contrast isn't more glaring. 15 minutes from the iconic tourist mecca sits the hard-hit lower 9th ward, dotted with the overgrown scars of katrina. who would have believed that it would have taken a decade for a simple grocery store to open here? >> where would i find a fresh tomato or fresh lemon around here? >> right here. this is the only place. this is the only place. the only other grocery store, full-service grocery store we have is walmart, and it's in the next city. you have to catch three city buses. >> reporter: army v

while it is an uneven recovery, there are places celebrating. >> in mississippi, the echoes of katrina remain as well. ten yea after the turn destroyed families, the population hasn't yet fully recovered. and while the scars are slowly healing, struggling to return back to normal. mark potter as our report tonight. hurricane katrina struck the mississippi coast, the town of waveland bore the brunt of the storm. and was obliterated by 120 miles per hour winds and a nearly 30-foot high ocean storm surge. most of the homes and businesses when we arrived were destroyed. 25 residents were killed. this woman lost her mother to the storm. >> it was like the big biggest bomb you could imagine went off. >> reporter: waveland has cleaned up and many have rebuilt their homes near the coast. >> why would you not want to live here and rebuild? >> this right here was a rest restaurant. >> reporter: the mayor says there are problems as the town still struggles with its recovery. since katrina, waveland has slupg from shrunk. the mayor blames strict building codes and high insurance rates. >> my flood

>> the thing about insider trading it makes the markets unfair for the other investors, it's an uneven playing field. so what the government has tried hard to do in recent years is to root out some of these cases to serve as deterrents to people who might do it in thefurt. again, it's early days on this case but if the facts are proven and it's a classic insider trading case the idea would be that someone like phil mickelson perhaps had an unfair information advantage make due to his connections and wealth that average investors didn't have and that moved the stock in a way that may have disadvantaged others. >> others, right. kate, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> keep following the story for us. >> will do. >>> days after an epa-led team accidently released 3 million gallons of toxic sludge from an abandoned mine into the colorado river the economic damage is just starting to be tallied and as scott cohn reports from durango, colorado, there are thousands of mines just like that throughout the west. >> reporter: to look at it, it seems like things are back to normal. the sickeni

through the years people jump up and down on them so that makes them uneven and they give you back problems for the rest of your life. that's it. this is my home. this is my -- this is where i live. >> bailey is also allowed out of his cell once a day for an hour of recreation in an enclosed yard. >> you know, why is it important to keep someone like this segregated? it seems to be a sociable kind of guy. >> a lot of sociopaths are. a lot of jocco's problems are substance abuse related. that leads to other problems, such as violence in the institution. that's why he is where he is. he hasn't been successful in open population. >> i've stabbed offenders for snitching. i've had drug activities. i've organized gang group demonstrations. i've been incorrigible and been all-around troublemaker for most of my years here at the prison. >> but bailey says there's a practical side to his behavior. >> prison is a delicate balance. some guys here are never going home. and for those of us who are, if we lose our edge one bit, then, like wolves, your own could turn on you, right? being in this environme

remains popular in this community but many here have complaints about what they see as the city's uneveny. >> they should have gave it to the people here but they didn't because the majority of these people were black and they was poor. >> to rent a home now, one bedroom is at least $900. so the rental issue for housing, the market is sky rocketing. >> reporter: to compound all that the lower ninth ward still carries a highly visible scars of a storm that for many changed everything. to witness firsthand the kind of challenges that president obama was talking about you only have to walk a couple of streets from where he made his speech to see things like this, less than half of the population of the lower ninth ward officer returned to this city and address wealth disparity and jobs and rising rents may be the biggest challenge for post katrina new orleans. it has made significant progress and their efforts had not gone unnoticed. >> i'm here to say, i'm here to hold up a mirror and say because of you, the people of new orleans working together this city is moving in the right direction

. >> reporter: not to mention the cost of vehicle repairs from bumpy, uneven roadways. >> upgrade the infrastructure of our roads, because it's costing our economy. >> reporter: when asked if the governor had plans to increase taxes, he didn't really answer, only saying he didn't want to prematurely close the door on the issue. of reporting live in san jose, michelle roberts, nbc bay area news. >> michelle, thank you. 2n our neighbors are sinking. the san joaquin valley is literally sinking up to 2 inches a month. owus is according to some bdearch released from nasa. aou can see here, just how much the area has sunk. this bridge over the delta mendotaa canal in the central salley is so low, yes, you can see it there, it's actually ssuching the water. here's why. eur drought. it's driving farmers to use massive amounts of underground water reserves. ls that water supply dwindles, the ground above it sinks. nasa says in some places, satellite pictures show the land hs sinking at a rate of about an tch-and-a-half every month. >>> from the drought to the el nino. in the south bay, people