Author clint smith his new book is called how the word is passed subseventeen and you might know mr. Smith or his writing in the atlantic or his youtube series crash course in black American History. You were raised in new orleans. What was your life like . It was great. New orleans is the best city in the world and its onee of those facess that you dont fully appreciate until youre not there anymore. I was 17 years old when Hurricane Katrina hit new orleans. Six weeks marks the 70th anniversary of katrina so its a surreal moment for me to reflect on the fact that this was half a lifetime ago and so many ways it feels like it was just yesterday. Ive been thinking a lot about how new orleans shaped me as a husband and as a father and a writer and a person but also thinking about all the ways my life was upended in ways that i almost dont think i fully processed yet and i wrote about this in this incredible documentary katrina baby which came out on hbo done by a young man who is similar
Through the ceiling, it ruptured and soaked some of the ceramic tiling that has fallen down. And that is directly above the shot you see there, that is where the security screening area is. That is what is causing the big traffic headache and mess out here. So what happens is, if you have a flight leaving from terminal a, from either virgin or american Jetblue Delta or hawaiian, you come in, check in, if you have bags, you get on a shuttle, go to terminal b, have your bags screened, and come back over here. If you do not have bags, go over to the International Terminal and that is where you check through and the cart from your flight is from terminal a. We have an interview with a spokesperson for the airport here. Im not sure at this point. Certainly we will look at that. But our primary focus is getting customers to the flight on time as well as cleaning up the standing water to get the affected areas opened up as quickly as possible. Reporter so the shot you are looking at now, this
I want to encourage everybody to stop by if you can, to show your solidarity. We want to be part of getting back to normal. Nothing about today at the Columbia Mall is business as usual. For it to happen in your own backyard, a place you go to at a regular basis is very surreal. Need to do this for me to get closure so i wouldnt feel unsafe trying to come back here some other time. So clearly, some anxiety here mixed in with the grief and the determination to come back. Representative cummings reminding all of us that howard county, maryland, is among the safest communities in maryland to live. He said, if it could happen here, it could happen anywhere. Reporting live from the Columbia Mall which has been reopened now, scott broom, wusa9. Such a tough day for workers there, scott, thank you. At the gun shop where aguilar purchased the gun, there was no sign he was any kind of risk. More on that part of the story. Bruce. Reporter yeah, lesli, we are outside the home that aguilar shared
John planning s car trip . Warmer weather means driving season. We all have opinions about the price of gas, what might be don abt it, but it turns out some much ofhat we think that we know is not so. And one reason we get it wrong is that companies and Interest Groups like to ask. Politicians, well, like maybe too harsh a word. They mislead. They pretend that was a few law they can make everything better. President obamas says gas cost too much and he feels our pain. The serious blow to your budget. Getting hit with a new tax coming right out of your pocket. John the president took action. We have taken steps to softe the blow by making sure that ou cars use less gas. We put in place the toughest to economy standards history. Over the life of a new car the erage family will save more than 8,000 at the pump. John it sounds good. He does not want to save 8,000. But the magic of fuel economy standards is just one more myth that politicians sell us. Here to tell us the truth, susa dudley
Now its time the last word ari melber is for lawrence odonnell. Ill be watching your interview with former attorney general holder. Should be very interesting. I hope you have a great weekend. Thank you very much. I will be contacting you for questions to cheat in the prep. Two is better than one. Okay. Have a great weekend. Thank you. Im ari melber in for lawrence odonnell. Yesterday john kelly went to the Briefing Room to defend President Trump. As a journalist summed it up tonight, quote, it was spectacularly shambolic week for the white house and trump has no regrets about any of it. Watching a grieving military family become a political football . Pretty disgusting fie you want do get into a debate with a fourstar marine general, i think thats something highly inappropriate. If youre the chief of staff of the white house and you Say Something thats wrong, we are going to call you out only it and we are going to look into it and we are going to investigate it and you are responsibl