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Rebuild their great cities. >> let's say new orleans was once a great city. >> is new orleans not a great city, a city that doesn't live in the imagination of the world. >> the music has seen its day, or a food, or a cuisine that's typically american, too fat, too rich, and yes, of course, new orleans has its advocates. what about the rest of the country? >> provincial, passe, hate the food, hate the music, hate the city. what the [ bleep ] are you doing down here. you limey [ bleep ] -- >> yeah, john goodman confronts the reporter. he was speaking to a lot of new orleans leanians who felt ver...

Music. what are you doing down here? >> yeah. the -- john goodman, who confronts the reporter, he was speaking for a lot of new orlineans who feel very much left behind and have felt this from the moment of what was not a natural disaster, when was the single most -- largest engineering failure in american history. the hurricane missed new orleans. flooddi the flooding did not. the federal response to it has been so meager and so grudging and there have been so many comments from around the country about why rebuild new orleans, it is below sea level, great societies rebuild their great cities...

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>> i don't want to panic you, but i want to make sure that you understand that there's a major hurricane that is in the gulf of mexico. >> we did have several people come up to us and say what are you doing? we're here for a hurricane. they said, oh, what hurricane? >> saturday august 27 is too late to start saying to your city that it is time to think about evacuating. >> my name's michael brown and i was the undersecretary of homeland security and the director of fema. >> we have had conference call after conference call with all of those governors including the mayor about how serious this ...

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