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The stuff that wasn't destroyed hasn't been shored up. >> that's correct. however, the surge barrier that is under construction should take care of that. pretty nervous for each hurricane season since katrina and this next one will be the last one, i think, when we're going to have to worry about it for this part of the city. >> our thanks again to john barry. he is chair of the bipartisan flood control working group. his best-selling book on the great mississippi flood of 1927, which gave us the good levies, it's great. i've been reading it for this trip. while the biggest super bowl party ...

Hasn't been shored up well enough? >> well, that's correct. however, the surge barrier that is under construction should take care of that. pretty nervous for each hurricane season since katrina and this next one will be the last one, i think, when we're going to have to worry about it for this part of the city. >> our thanks again to jon barry. john is a levee commissioner here in new orleans. he's chair of the bipartisan flood control working group. his best selling book on the great mississippi flood of 1927, which among other things, gave us the good levees that some of which did hold, tha...

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 ag...