luckily, denny hastert did not get to decide about new orleans rebuilding after katrina. we're doing it. to find out if we're doing it right, i went to the levees and the floodwalls today with jon barry who is named chair of the bipartisan flood control working group here after katrina and also carries a really cool badge as a levee commissioner. >> this area is sort of the point of the spear for the entire world. what we do here is going to be a model, whether it's a model to be avoided or to be imitated remains to be seen. but one of the things that gives this area a chance, a good chance against rising sea level is the fact that this is a live, living, dynamic system. the marsh is alive. and if you give the marsh sediment from the river and freshwater, it will actually rise as sea level rises. so that buffer will -- >> it can come back, it lives. >> yeah. >> well, in terms of the