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New orleans really is starting to thrive. listen. >> a lot of great things happen in the city. if you see downtown, we have lots of folks here. 38,000 hotel rooms. 1100 restaurants open. we just got $1.8 billion to rebuild the schools. we're heading in the right direction. >> reporter: it really is going in the right direction. you can see as you walk around the area it's beginning to thrive, at least on the front. you know, the business side of it is starting to pick back up dramatically. boy, the if you go in the outlying areas, if you go in the ninth ward, this st. bernard parish and the ot...

We're joined by rick kritman, mayor of st. petersburg, florida, and the man at much of the attention tonight as is st. petersburg. give us a status report on st. pete. >> so we're -- and thank you for having me on. we're at a point where we are prepared for the storm, which is -- we're going to get the hurricane-strength winds somewhere between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. we're expecting gusts or sustained winds of somewhere between 80 and 85 miles per hour with gusts up to 100 miles per hour. but what we're really most concerned about, which i think some of the other mayors around the state have worri...

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Couldn't fit into this church, this st. elizabeth ann seton catholic church there in tucson. i'm sure it's a capacity crowd as is. is the family -- are they allowing members of the community? i know tucson is so tight-knit. so many people knew christina. who is allowed in and who are these people standing in front of it? >> well, i had an opportunity to go into the church before this started about two hours ago. it's a very large church. they've invited guests. they're not allowing everybody in the community to come because everybody would obviously show up. their story has become synonymous w...