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that picture actually we just took, i think, on twitter that you show right now of the gas station in my district where it fell over on one of the pumps, i would say having toured the district top to bottom before we came to do this, by in large limbs being down, power lines being down, trees being down are the biggest issue we saw immediately but, of course, being without power for such a long time is going to be a tremendous issue for all new orleanians. >> let's talk about how, in fact, the city plans to deal with this issue. you got folks that are going to have food spoiling. they're not going to have access to clean water likely if this continues. the cell service is fairly spotty as ali was just pointing out to me. what are the efforts from the city in order to get folks help, food and water needs, as they await their power to get turned on in sweltering summer heat? >> so a couple of different
producer jordan flaherty in "the nation" with your article talks about the glorious chaos and the organizing genius of the kids who make changes in the schools. i could just go on. go watch the show. mostly i just want to thank you for focusinging on this today and all of us for taking a moment from this victory lap. it's about a tragedy that we cannot forget. >> and that the media, from my perspective, was complicit in. those images of new orleanians literally wrapped in american flags or waving american flags and being labeled not as americans but as refugees. and it's not that there's anything wrong with -- i mean, there's moments refugee status would have actually led -- would have been helpful, right, in terms of the one-way tickets and that kind of thing. james, i keep trying to remind
accomplished, the job hasn't been completed. you haven't fulfilled the promises that were made ten years ago in front of jackson square where you said we would have an equitable recovery. it's not an equitable recovery, melissa, when in 2013 nearly 50,000 new orleans public school students were suspended out of school. we had less than 50% students in school. >> tracie, you mentioned the moment in front of jackson square, a moment burned into the minds of many people who are new orleanians. let's take a listen to president bush standing there on september 15th and what he said, the promise that he made at that time. >> there's also some deep, persistent poverty in this region as well. it has roots in racial discrimination which cut off generations from the opportunity
his niebd get by. madeleine and jason were two young people living in new orleans. ten years ago. when the levee failed an the city flooded and their lives changed decisively as their homes and belongings were with destroyed anne and their families uprooted. fad madeleine and her family evacuated fist to nashville and then texas and venchry thund found their way back to new orleans. jason and his people landed in texas. but jason was back in new orleans within six weeks of the storm. like so many other new orleanians they came back and found the city and themselves transformed. they are making their own mark on the world. madeleine has become an accomplished poet and creative writer. next year she will begin her first year at princeton. she was among an elite group of young writers appointed a national student poet at the
the public insistence that black lives matter began with katrina. the death and displacement of thousands of new orleanians focused the gaze and even though we watched as the catastrophe played out, it took days for the federal government to respond. and just as in ferguson and baltimore, the eventual response to the crisis included a military presence. like those who expressed grief and anger but were met with media shaming. so, too, did many news outlets portray dangerous gangs of looters even though many were actually organizing to aid survivors. we wrote about this for "the nation" this idea for us it was a decade ago people were first saying black lives matter in the
orleanians should note is we had part disaster, part manmade, and now we have a recovery building effort that i think is at half time, meaning there have been some significant changes. 38 new schools, many houses and businesses rebuilt, but with many neighborhoods still with so much work to do, with many neighborhoods that have been somewhat left behind by the first half of the recovery. so there is a lot more to do here in new orleans, and this is, really, i think an example of the perseverance and the spirit of the people of this city who fought to rebuild this very special american place. >> it is a special american place, mark, and the urban league of greater new orleans just released a report this week. the local paper described it this way, quote, a mostly damning assessment of the recovery of new orleans' african-american community 10 years after the levees failed.
douglas brinkly, author of the great deluge, tourism the big engine there. if you kick people out they may not come back again. >> one thing that does not happen in new orleans, the bars do not shut. they didn't shut for katrina. this whole thinking is very real, let the good times roll. every time i was ever in new orleans it was fun. ♪ >> new orleanians, we like to go with the flow, treat everybody fine. we all know each other even if we've never met. >> come out and take a picture with us over here. >> i was born and raised in an old place called lakeland, louisiana. i understood the culture in new
>> many people proclaim their innocence. >> there are a number of things that stink. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> get a conviction at all costs. let the truth fall where it may. >> world famous bourbon street. you can buy a song or a dance on a dime. >> on december 5, 1984, a >> on december 5th, 1984, ray liuzza, a fun loving 34-year-old bachelor from a prominent new orleans family was out on the town celebrating his promotion to vice president of one of the city's biggest hotels. >> ray liuzza was a true new orleanians, the fine cuisine and music.
>> he was butcher and murdered. >> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in this case, there are many things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed before my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs, let the truth fall where it may. >> world famous bourbon street. you can buy a song and dance for a dime. >> on december 5th, 1984, ray liuzza, a fun loving 34-year-old bachelor from a prominent new orleans family was out on the town celebrating his promotion to vice president of one of the city's biggest hotels. >> ray liuzza was a true new orleanians, the fine cuisine and music. >> late that night as he returned to his garden district apartment, he was approached by someone in the dark. >> he was robbed at gunpoint.
>> there's a body in the water. >> he was butcher and murdered. >> many people proclaim their innocence. >> in this case, there are many things that stink. >> this man is remorseless. >> he needs to pay for it with his life. >> the electric chair flashed before my eyes. >> get a conviction at all costs, let the truth fall where it may. >> world famous bourbon street. you can buy a song and dance for a dime. >> on december 5th, 1984, ray liuzza, a fun loving 34-year-old bachelor from a prominent new orleans family was out on the town celebrating his promotion to vice president of one of the city's biggest hotels. >> ray liuzza was a true new orleanians, the fine cuisine and