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Rebuild their great cities. >> lets say new orleans was once a great city. >> is new orleans not a great city, a city that doesnt live in the imagination of the world. >> the music has seen its day, or a food, or a cuisine thats typically american, too fat, too rich, and yes, of course, new orleans has its advocates. what about the rest of the country? >> provincial, passe, hate the food, hate the music, hate the city. what the [ bleep ] are you doing down here. you limey [ bleep ] -- >> yeah, j...

Music. what are you doing down here? >> yeah. the -- john goodman, who confronts the reporter, he was speaking for a lot of new orlineans who feel very much left behind and have felt this from the moment of what was not a natural disaster, when was the single most -- largest engineering failure in american history. the hurricane missed new orleans. flooddi the flooding did not. the federal response to it has been so meager and so grudging and there have been so many comments from around the coun...

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>> i dont want to panic you, but i want to make sure that you understand that theres a major hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico. >> we did have several people come up to us and say what are you doing? were here for a hurricane. they said, oh, what hurricane? >> saturday august 27 is too late to start saying to your city that it is time to think about evacuating. >> my names michael brown and i was the undersecretary of homeland security and the director of fema. >> we have had conference ca...

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We think about the environment and energy for many years to come. heres the question. will the gulf disaster, the oil disaster in the gulf be for president obama what 9/11 was for president bush? >> reporter: i dont know and the comparisons are really different but i do know this. we know in new orleans if you have shoddy, slip shod engineering, youre going to pay in a big way. it happened during katrina. it was not a natural disaster but a massive engineering failure. this is an example of peop...