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Way? >> what weve been really focusing on is that elevation. its height. we are looking at whats going to happen if the river gets the 19 feet. fortunately, in our modeling, we are not showing overtopping. our system, again, its 20 to 2. we are not seeing the water go over. unfortunately we do know that forecasts can change and that can change as well. >> harris: what has changed since we saw new orleans cross hairs years ago with the hurricane that came in slow and wasnt much bigger than the st...

Frequently. it angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city thats failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, theres a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more of...

It angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city thats failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, theres a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more often than not...

It angers me to see a place like, you know, detroit, a great american city thats failed, or allowed to fail. to see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, theres a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it. but there is much more, i still think. beauty and kindness and humor, and people doing the best they can in often very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and, more often than not...

An advantage incumbents have, a geographic advantage, theres the gerrymandering issues, seven points for democrats, thats probably right around what they need to win the house. that night get it there for them, it might not. how about this, though, how does that compare? being ahead by seven points to the democrats right now to the last time we had wave elections. 2006, remember democrats, they won back the house from republicans in 06. george w. bush, post-katrina. iraq was spinning out of cont...

Mannering issues, seven points for democrats, thats probably right around what they need to win that t house. that night get it there for them, it might not. how does that compare? being ahead by seven points to the democrats right now, to the last time we had wave elections. 2006, remember democrats, they won back the house from republicans in 06. george w. bush, post-katrina. iraq was spinning out of control. in 06, if you go back and law school at the polling, pretty steady, you can see it co...

Rainfalling, it is new video of like to show you some rainfalling in and around new orleans, shot by one of our photographers not too long ago. it has been falling steadily last go hours or so. the mayor of new orleans just holding a press conference. the worst of it hits 7:00 tonight local time, through 7:00 tomorrow morning. now the army corps of engineers today closed two giant floodgates on two of the citys canals. this infrastructure was put in post-katrina to help keep storm surge out of t...

Fears of a government shut down, this could get to be a very dire situation very quickly. >> yeah, and its already early in his presidency right. hes seven, eight months in. typically you see these kind of numbers in a second term right? these are numbers you saw in bushs second term post-katrina when people started to lose faith in him as a leader and whats going on with the foreign policy, iraq and afghanistan war. thats why mitch mcconnell is looking at this and wonder requesting worrying whe...

To see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, theres a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it, but there is much more, i still think, beauty and kindness and humor and people doing the best they can in often very, very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and more often than not beautiful people. there are few american cities, places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as ...

Best walls in the world to protect us, the best levees if we dont have citizens that have access to jobs that pay well and can support families. >> corey, that is the obviously katrina exposed problems with the levee and questions that should have been asked well before the storm. but it also exposed the issues of education and the public school system there. crime, which is still a problem even in the heavily traveled tourist streets of the french quarter, which is right where you are now. >> r...