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Anyone. going back to katrina and the post-katrina, i saw heartbreaking stories also of the way the people are being affected. they're talking about bringing in mental health specialists and church aides but how can people, we have the terrible apparent suicide of fishing boat captain in mobile, alabama. how do people cope with this? their lives are wrecked. >> families don't have a way to make an income and little kids here mom and dad talk about having to move. this is going to change a way of life. that's just sickening. you can take a $7 true value trowel and tell the whole story right the...

And save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. welcome back. we're talking to the governor of michigan, jennifer granholm , detroit. lots of press about detroit lately, that it's a dying city, no longer the big motor city we talked about before. david simon that's been in the series for hbo on post-katrina new orleans and the battle to come back said something to me in an interview which struck me that great countries don't abandon their great cities. is there a feeling in detroit that a great country has abandoned a great city. >> i think there's a lot more hope in detroit. there's no doubt. the ...

Controversy yourself. >> what controversy? >> getting a lot of credit for doing dramatic things in new orleans, where the school system pre-katrina was a disaster. walk us through the big ideas here. tell me a couple of things you think are so key to saving our failing schools? i know you say curriculum is probably first and foremost. something that has to be top priority. >> right. well, let me just say this. what i'm doing is i'm facilitating reform. because so many reformers from across the country, as well as local reformers, just saw post-katrina as an opportunity to build a school distri...

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Those numbers into account. so the thing that is distressing to me is when the governor goes to a place like keensberg and said we made mistakes and we're sorry and we recognize that, but doesn't say what those mistakes are. this came to light only because somebody else outside the government figured out there was a problem. if fair share had not done that analysis, those 4,000 people would still be out in the cold. and that's what's really not appropriate here. >> and mark, this is part of what, as we're sort of planning and thinking and trying to think through what this is, as someone who is...