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Times" published that accentuate an issue potentially with rebar. you know the issue. give me the lay explanation of what im looking at. >> what youre looking at there is the slab that failed or fell off that potentially was supporting that column. again, i want to caution against speculation or assigning design flaws or construction flaws. its way too early to determine that. but i believe in the report it also recommended to have support piles added to those columns. again, if that engineer fe...

Column. now, again, i want to caution against speculation or assigning design flaws or construction flaws. its way too early to determine that. but i believe, in the report, it also recommended to have pile -- support piles added to those columns. so again, if that engineer felt that strongly, i think we -- we merit further investigation for the design constraints. >> you know that theres -- theres a question being raised as to whether the amount of rebar, thats in that photograph, comports with...

Another one hits? on the telephone now is louisiana senator david vitter. he is fresh from his republican victory in yesterdays primary. senator vitter, thank you for joining us. first, congratulations on the win yesterday. the main question this morning, sir, do you think your state and new orleans is now better prepared? >> eric, thank you for being with us on this very solemn but also upbeat anniversary in a lot of ways. yes, were much, much better prepared. were not where we need to be by a ...

Say in the words of one it was the greatest manmade engineering disaster since chernobyl. and some of that would require presidential attention so i think the reason he chose to recast it is because hes not prepared to give the city and those issues of coastal restoration a wholistic way of protecting the city from future flooding his full attention yet. >> you are doing a documentary, the title i know. the details i do not. i can guess. its called "the big uneasy." you want to fill in the blank...

Engineering investigations into the flooding of new orleans that say in the words of one it was the greatest man made engineering disaster since chernobyl. and some of that would require presidential attention so i think the reason he chose to recast it is because hes not prepared to give the city and those issues of coastal restoration a holistic way of protecting the city from future flooding his full attention yet. >> you are doing a documentary, the title i know. the details i do not. i can ...

Recast it is because hes not prepared to give the city and those issues of coastal restoration a holistic way of protecting the city from future flooding his full attention yet. >> you are doing a documentary, the title i know. the details i do not. i can guess. its called "the big uneasy." you want to fill in the blanks? >> its basically a factual feature length documentary with the people who did those investigations, setting forth how they started to doubt the official explanation that the le...

Greeters at walmart who check your receipt. it is ridiculous. it makes you wonder sort of why arent we learning from mistakes of the past. >> when it comes up, money often comes up. in the back-and-forth is a lefty are plenty republicans, you cut funding and all this other stuff but when you see the wasteful spending in washington, dont you think the embassy and consulates security in the wake of all of the beheadings should be made a priority? >> absolutely when you look and see construction fl...