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The seventh ward. In new orleans. It is behind tremaine, behind the Historic District. Itis not historically district itself. Even though there are Historic Homes here. This is where we are at a year after the storm. The houses, 56 feet. These houses were built in the traditional style. Maybe not raised enough. This style of home is double shotgun. What is great about these homes as far as being built for this environment is they are raised. They cant be ventilated. They have windows and doors a...

Daughters lived had they tried to swim out of their houses, the water only got deeper. I would have lost two children and six grandchildren, okay . So like i say, im glad that they didnt remain in the houses. We were abandoned. City officials did nothing to protect us. We were told to go to the superdome, convention zrp, interstate bridge for safety. We did this more than once. In fact, we tried them all every day for over a week, we saw buses, helicopters, fema trucks but no one stopped to help...

Perhaps five to six feet, depending on the home. These houses are raised in the traditional style. Maybe not raised enough. This style of home, this is a double shotgun. What is great about these houses is, first being built for these environments, they are raised. Water can go underneath them. They can be ventilated. They have windows and doors on all sides. Good for air circulation. But the construction is what the best thing about it. It is cyprus framing and it is the old river cyprus that g...

That we got blamed for. I was living at the time in a three bedroom apartment and thank god for that because even though i have six children and 11 grandchildren, the amount of people that was in my house during the storm was 22 because i could not refuse anybody of shelter, okay . We were packed in like sardines. During this time my 22yearold daughter had a threemonth old baby, this child cried constantly because she was uncomfortable, she cant stand being hot. I had a pregnant 22yearold that i...

We get back on our feet. We will pay you back 100 fold. Mark my last question. The federal government, where do you see them in your community now . Doris icn this point, they are at this point see theyre beginning to pull out. The process,ith they have a longterm Recovery Team in place, but most of that support system is being withdrawn. Longterm presence, but a longterm smaller presence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content an...

About, we did have a lot of water. The lowpressure gas lines were affected. Although you may not have had water in your neighborhood or in your house, because of the design of the gas system, it is a network system, built like a spider web. The water can enter the system from an area a mile away. Want to get there, it is a process we use where we have to tap into the main, and stuck the suck the water out. In this case, we have a lot of water. Under our houses next to mine that have gas. The lad...

Or washington to come here and determine we would have to raise that kind of leverage, i went through all the floods. Could you explain that for me . Mayor nagin what are you running for . Excuse me . Mayor nagin what are you running for . Dogcatcher. No, im not running for anything, im just a working person. I just asked the question. Mayor nagin let me try to answer you never answer any question. Mayor nagin enough of the political ads. Im not political. Mayor nagin these are legitimate questi...

He created a series treme after the storm. We will discuss his groundbreaking series the wire, his portrayal of what he describes as rock, unencumbered capitalism in his city of baltimore. And we will hear what happened when simon recently met president obama at the white house. Quite at the front end, to tell you im a huge fan of the wire and i think it is one of the greatest not Just Television shows, but pieces of art in the last couple of decades. I am a huge fan. Amy , today david simon for...

Upper segregate their city. The history was the history of history was unconstitutional. Amy david simon is back, the Acclaimed Television writer and producer joins us today to talk about his new hbo series show me a hero. As well as norlins 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. He created a series treme after the storm. We will discuss his groundbreaking series the wire, his portrayal of what he describes as rock, unencumbered capitalism in his city of baltimore. And we will hear what happened when...

Upper segregate their city. The history was the history of history was unconstitutional. Amy david simon is back, the Acclaimed Television writer and producer joins us today to talk about his new hbo series show me a hero. As well as norlins 10 years after Hurricane Katrina. He created a series treme after the storm. We will discuss his groundbreaking series the wire, his portrayal of what he describes as rock, unencumbered capitalism in his city of baltimore. And we will hear what happened when...