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Mannering issues, seven points for democrats, that's probably right around what they need to win that t house. that night get it there for them, it might not. how does that compare? being ahead by seven points to the democrats right now, to the last time we had wave elections. 2006, remember democrats, they won back the house from republicans in '06. george w. bush, post-katrina. iraq was spinning out of control. in '06, if you go back and law school at the polling, pretty steady, you can see it coming. democrats did win pack the house. the next time control flip, the last big wave we had was ...

Rainfalling, it is new video of like to show you some rainfalling in and around new orleans, shot by one of our photographers not too long ago. it has been falling steadily last go hours or so. the mayor of new orleans just holding a press conference. the worst of it hits 7:00 tonight local time, through 7:00 tomorrow morning. now the army corps of engineers today closed two giant floodgates on two of the city's canals. this infrastructure was put in post-katrina to help keep storm surge out of the city of the mayor says that the pumping stations in and around the city that we've been reportin...

Fears of a government shut down, this could get to be a very dire situation very quickly. >> yeah, and it's already early in his presidency right. he's seven, eight months in. typically you see these kind of numbers in a second term right? these are numbers you saw in bush's second term post-katrina when people started to lose faith in him as a leader and what's going on with the foreign policy, iraq and afghanistan war. that's why mitch mcconnell is looking at this and wonder requesting worrying whether or not the president can bet this thing back together. >> garrett i want to ask you about ...

To see new orleans post-katrina makes me angry. to see camden, new jersey, in my own state that i grew up in, it makes me angry. yes, there's a lot of scary, ugly stuff in it, but there is much more, i still think, beauty and kindness and humor and people doing the best they can in often very, very difficult situations. it is a magnificent planet filled with fascinating and more often than not beautiful people. there are few american cities, places where things have gone as disastrously wrong as camden, new jersey. once a manufacturing powerhouse. home to the new york shipbuilding corporation....

Best walls in the world to protect us, the best levees if we don't have citizens that have access to jobs that pay well and can support families. >> corey, that is the obviously katrina exposed problems with the levee and questions that should have been asked well before the storm. but it also exposed the issues of education and the public school system there. crime, which is still a problem even in the heavily traveled tourist streets of the french quarter, which is right where you are now. >> right. yeah, but i think we've seen a dramatic improvement in education. i kind of disagree a little...