and what s wrong with america s school system. a special investigation on the federal program meant to help students. billions of your tax dollars are paying for it. hello. i m don lemon reporting from the lower ninth ward of new orleans. we re here to chronicle a comeback of a neighborhood, a city and the entire gulf region. it was five years ago tonight that hurricane katrina slammed into new orleans and blasted the coast with devastating results. this is an aerial photo of the area i m standing right now. this is how it looked five years ago when the levees broke and a barge floated right into this neighborhood from the industrial canal. this is what it looks like right now. starting from the bridge over that industrial canal into the lower ninth ward. a neighborhood decimated by wind and water. these modern energy efficient homes are going up throughout the area and on tennessee street where we are. all part of actor brad pitt s make it happen foundation. people here in n
he will also testify the agency lacks sufficient guidelines and inspectors to police the industry s operations in the gulf. today s most important person you don t know but whose name might ring a bell is kenneth feinberg. he ll be charge of the $20 billion fund for victims of the oil spill. feinberg s name rings a bell because he was the special master of the september 11th special victim compensation fund. it handed out $7 billion to more than 5,000 people. he is also overseeing funds to compensate the victims of agent orange and the virginia tech shootings. he even helped arbitrate a fair market value of the zapruder film of president kennedy s assassination, $16 million. feinberg is a law degree. let s talk about that and other developments with our guest, robert traynor. and our cnn and contributor in red state.com editor-in-chief eric erickson joins us. this s this a job worth having
guy. he doesn t speak english as a first language. his english a lot better than my swedish, although if that bikini is still around, maybe tutoring? i hope my wife is not watching. robert was talking about the importance of this $20 billion. i m not trying to pick a fight with mr. gibbs at all. but i want you to listen to how he described how important this $20 billion will be to the people of the gulf coast who right now can t work. this provides certainty and peace of mind for those in the gulf. if there was any wonder or concern that they would not be made whole for the disaster they didn t cause. that assurance we have today. i want to play that in contrast with the fisherman i met the other day, nello barber who says the only thing he wants to do is not to get a check fwourks get back on his boat. what has it done to me? well, it wreck mid livelihood. my livelihood was from a teaspoon full of water to
bp also quieted a political storm in the united states, but perhaps angered some big investors around the world by deciding it would not pay any new shareholder dividends this year. all this from a white house summit described as polite and business-like. top bp officials across the table from the president and his team. sorry, no accounts of the president kicking you know what. but for mr. obama, whose handling of the crisis is being graded as so-so at best, it was a chance to claim progress. what this is about is accountability. at the end of the day, that s where every american wants and expects. for 57 days, the president not once talked to a top bp official. but today he spent time at the big negotiating session, and also met one-on-one with bp s chairman in the oval office. maybe this was a lost in translation moment. in america we talk of the little guy, to blue collar worker. i hear sometimes that large oil companies are greedy companies or don t care. but that