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What's your hope, however, what or who will benefit directly from the money raised during today's extravaganza? >> this money is going directly to bring awareness to the issues that we're facing along the gulf coast. it's going directly to the fishermen who are going to be affected by this. it's going to help with the cleanup of the gulf. and it's going to be a voice, speaking directly to our government, for legislation to improve the regulation of offshore drilling, which for the better part of my life has gone unregulated. >> ben jaffe, thanks so much, with the preservation hall jazz band. y...

Be it -- regardless of who wins in the primaries. they want to keep control in congress. that's very important for this president as he wants to get his agenda passed through congress not only this year but in years to come, fred. >> thanks so much, gentlemen. i think this was a first. we finally got you all together. even though you're not in the same city. that's okay. we got you on the air together. excellent. thanks so much. coming up, we're going to take you back to new orlean. there's an incredible undertaking under way. you're going to hear from ben jaffe on why he is so involved on g...

The afternoon hours and evening hours? well, we're looking at a chance of thunderstorms there. about an 80% likelihood. but most of those have already moved through. so i think those rain chances drop off just a little bit. here's some pictures out of new orleans there. you can see some difficulty. this is very low lying territory, fred, as everybody knows. below sea level in some cases. it's very easy for them to flood with even just a little bit of rainfall. it does move in. it moves out fairly quickly. it was a stormy day. >> yeah. to say the very least. look at that. some people trying to ...

This beautiful place that we were fortunate to be raised here, right here in new orleans. we want this place to still be here. with the rate that things are going on, i mean, come on. >> ian and ivan neville, you guys perform in about four hours from now. so you've got a little time on your hands in which to, i guess, converse with all of your fellow entertainers out there and get warmed up. we'll be popping in from time to time with our live cameras. hopefully we'll be able to catch you a little bit later on this evening. have a great show. >> cool. >> thanks so much. of course, we will be ...

Hall jazz bad is with us now. ben, good to see you. >> thank you for having me. >> so no hesitation whatsoever that you wanted to be part of this huge event. it's like ten hours over two different stages there in new orleans today. >> absolutely. the most powerful voice that we have as musicians is our music. and this is a way to get out the message that we're facing one of the largest catastrophes in our history. >> so what will you all be performing today? >> we're actually going to be performing a song we recorded just two days ago with lenny kr kravitz and mos def. i woke up one morning, o...