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Times" published that accentuate an issue potentially with rebar. you know the issue. give me the lay explanation of what i'm looking at. >> what you're looking at there is the slab that failed or fell off that potentially was supporting that column. again, i want to caution against speculation or assigning design flaws or construction flaws. it's way too early to determine that. but i believe in the report it also recommended to have support piles added to those columns. again, if that engineer felt that strongly, i think we merit further investigation for the design constraints. >> you know ...

Column. now, again, i want to caution against speculation or assigning design flaws or construction flaws. it's way too early to determine that. but i believe, in the report, it also recommended to have pile -- support piles added to those columns. so again, if that engineer felt that strongly, i think we -- we merit further investigation for the design constraints. >> you know that there's -- there's a question being raised as to whether the amount of rebar, that's in that photograph, comports with the ori original-design drawings. i guess, though, the original-design drawings are not as tell...

Another one hits? on the telephone now is louisiana senator david vitter. he is fresh from his republican victory in yesterday's primary. senator vitter, thank you for joining us. first, congratulations on the win yesterday. the main question this morning, sir, do you think your state and new orleans is now better prepared? >> eric, thank you for being with us on this very solemn but also upbeat anniversary in a lot of ways. yes, we're much, much better prepared. we're not where we need to be by a long shot, but we're much better prepared than the day before katrina. the day before katrina, we...

Say in the words of one it was the greatest manmade engineering disaster since chernobyl. and some of that would require presidential attention so i think the reason he chose to recast it is because he's not prepared to give the city and those issues of coastal restoration a wholistic way of protecting the city from future flooding his full attention yet. >> you are doing a documentary, the title i know. the details i do not. i can guess. it's called "the big uneasy." you want to fill in the blanks? >> it's basically a factual feature length documentary with the people who did those investigat...

Engineering investigations into the flooding of new orleans that say in the words of one it was the greatest man made engineering disaster since chernobyl. and some of that would require presidential attention so i think the reason he chose to recast it is because he's not prepared to give the city and those issues of coastal restoration a holistic way of protecting the city from future flooding his full attention yet. >> you are doing a documentary, the title i know. the details i do not. i can guess. it's called "the big uneasy." you want to fill in the blanks? >> it's basically a factual fe...