big hotels, uptown royals, st. charles, the garden district but it wasn't clear about the black middle class, it wasn't clear about the white middle class, the young urban recovery professional. [laughs] >> they came months and volunteered and fell in love with new orleans. hey, this is a pretty cool place to live, relative to a book -- brooklyn or san francisco, it's pretty cheaper to live. culture. you can buy a house 100, 150,000 early on. it's beginning of a start-up scene. the community is being remade. it's a complicated thing. to me it's ground zero. a home, 80, a thousand here. all of the people have been priced out. people who eight, six years after the storm had this idea that at some point i'm going to move out. there's tension, and also i think what the media is seeing and i'm talking about this myself, if you look at the eastern half of the city, it's a long, long way to recovery. i was talking about the five-year mark. it was doing better than it was back then, but there's still empty office buildings

famous jimmy lee quote uptown sky here, we're going to change the city demographically, 68% black citied at the time che it politically. black run city at the too many or we, up town royalsare leaving. reagan put him in office and people helping to run new orleans had had a plan and it meant they were going to take ad

famous jimmy lee quote uptown sky here, we're going to change the city demographically, 68% black citied at the time che it politically. black run city at the too many or we, up town royals are leaving. reagan put him in office and people helping to run new orleans had had a plan and it meant they were going to take advantage of this moment in new orleans's history. there's also i called it the blue sky syndrome. you know, there was this sense that we lost everything, but man we could remake the city. you know a lot of it was positive. so people were imagining remaking everything from -- the schools. to the health care system, to public housing, to the entire city. you know, to shrink the footprint to shrink the footprint by 20, 40% the entire neighborhood like i don't know if we have the resources to rebuild. you have a mayor cracking up before everyone's eyes. you had the husband, communication director announcing that he's going to run against his wife's boss. you had a mayor and governor who weren't talking to each other in the middle of this crisis. the bush presidency for all purposes ended with katrina, i mean, his popularity numbers plummeted in the fall of 2005,