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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. ....
Ring, many smugglers bringing these people, preying on these people as they try to get through europe to safer places. the investigation continues, and this particular incident is really focusing the world s attention on this migrant problem that s been sweeping across europe now for quite some time. separately, there are also people trying to cross the mediterranean sea, and there is a rescue operation going on there now. there are some 200 people who are missing and as many as 200 are dead from one boat. this is in austria, and imagine what s been happening in italy and greece where literally thousands of people have been coming on shore, not only fleeing syria but also libya, which is a disaster. ron allen, thank you very much for being with me from london. good to see you. coming up, president george w. bush speaks in new orleans marking ten years after hurricane katrina. we ll take you there live when we come back. ....
Because if folks go to new orleans and see a huge influx of tourism in the last couple years, when people go to new orleans, what they see is the spruced-up areas where you re at, and they think everything is fine and dandy. but you re saying it needs a lot more work here. if you go down a couple blocks and take a few turns, you ll see it looks like katrina hit yesterday in many areas, especially the neighborhood that i grew up in. you ll see a lot of schools, you know, that are still closed down. you ll see poverty everywhere. you ll just see it. it s not hard to find. but if you re in, like, the quarters and certain other areas that is spruced up, you hear the music, you see the festive spirits from the people, but just a couple blocks down, it is disaster. thank you both for being with me. i really appreciate your time. they lost them as well as the ....