with science >>> just last month the country paused to remember the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina, a storm that forever changed the gulf coast. >> and to mark the anniversary through art the stories of katrina survivors have come back to the stage. not only in new orleans but also right here in new york. ♪ praying that i'll see another day ♪ >> reporter: whether it's pride -- >> leave me my thoughts, my words, and my voice so i can testify for the love i have for my people. >> reporter: or abandonment. humor -- >> what? closing? >> reporter: or an aching sense of loss. >> we watched as the storm took my home, my livelihood, my friends. ♪ let it shine ♪ let it shine >> reporter: these are the stories of new orleans' women, all survivors of hurricane katrina. >> what our story does, it allows people to put themselves in our shoes, and so by being able to see it from our viewpoint. and i think it just makes them know how we felt. >> reporter: the play is "swimming upstream." it first hit stages in 2008. but acclaimed playwright and activist eve ensler brought the play back th

plus, reaction from reverend al sharpton and katrina vanden heuvel of the nation. >>> america's mayor ber narrow is showing democrats basically how to get it done. his opponent was too much of a weenie to debate him in michigan, so he took matters into his own hands and crashed the town hall. we got the story for you. >>> and the professor of paranoia, glenn beck, is warning his viewers with a prediction of liberal violence, led by president obama. i will show you some unbelievable tape of the battleground story tonight. and then we will put that "psychotalk"er right in his place. >>> and a big development today on the jobs bill. within the last hour, the senate has voted to break the filibuster. two republicans have come on board. a couple of georges, george lemieux from florida and george voinovich of ohio have voted with the democrats to move the small business jobs bill, something very positive in the job market in this country. we will tell you more about it later in the show. >>> this, i admit this isn't the biggest story in america but it is the one that has me fired up because

blue dog katrina swett facing ann custer. right now, ann custer well out ahead of katrina swett. in new york, where veteran democratic congressman charlie rangel is trying to hold his seat, we cannot give you results in that race. we're keeping a close eye on it. in new york state, the republican nomination for governor. rick lazio facing a strong challenge from carl paladino. with just 6% of precincts reporting now, carl paladino well out ahead of rick lazio. the story of the night, christine o'donnell has pulled off the upset in delaware's senate primary. defeating mike castle for the republican nomination for senate. with tonight's win, christine o'donnell becomes a name of which americans will be much more familiar. tonight she actually won, which should not be confused with her false claims during the campaign, that she defeated or maybe tied joe bind when she ran in the 2008 senate race in two of delaware's three counties and still managed to lose. you may also recall she floated the suggestion that her opponent, congressman castle was secretly gay. she defended herself aga

>> as we discovered in katrina the out of area contacts are important for communication. because no one you couldn't call a new orleans area code it was not happening. he was able to reach myself in california and our aunt in dallas,texas on a land line. how many know their relatives phone numbers. i'm not meaning picking up your cell phone and clicking, mom. the red cross has a wallet card there is your emergency contact plan where you write down a land line number. we're discovering that text mess anning and e mails work. having the information in your son's back pack or your purse or the car in multiple places so you community with your out of state contact and through that you coordinate your reunionification. >> you have to speak into the microphone. >> it says all the communications will probably be down. >> on your pile of rubble that's your house there is no reason why you can't put a note saying this is where the family is. when you listen to the radios and the radios tell you where the shelters the first thing we set up is communications. you can go there and ge

personally, the plan came into affect during katrina. my family is from new orleans. they were born and educated there. my grandparents are buried there and my sisters lived there. my sister did not evacuate until the last minute. she didn't voluntary evacuation and got stuck in a traffic jam and her car ran out of gas and had 2 kids in the back and was scared to death after that. when they said hurricane warning she was gone. she would pack up the kid in the car and the dog heading to dallas, texas where we have relatives and did that every time. there were times she would get 75 miles out of town and they would say, turn around come on home. and they said cheryl stay come to our hurricane party. they always say new orleans will flood. she said. i was wrong this time but i only need to be right, once. when they called the voluntary evacuation with katrina and when the levies broke we knew she was safe. she had her disaster kit and family. the only one missing was the nephew. he knew his out of state contact and knew where his family was and knew how to get there much

sound undermining the entire economy and fareed zakaria also mentions that the federal response to katrina demonstrates exactly the danger of this situation the federal government's fastest and most efficient response to hurricane katrina was the creation of a guantanamo like prison facility in days in which one thousand two hundred american citizens were some really detained and denied any of their constitutional rights for months. you know look i agree with three eight in terms of the overreaction to nine eleven and the material lost lives lost does not a big deal i mean insurance covered all the material laws and remember many of the lives lost on nine eleven were essentially financial mercenaries i mean these are bankers on the front line trying to impose their financial will as financial mercenaries and we shouldn't think about the loss of these financial mercenaries any differently than we think about the loss of mercenaries like blackwater working in iraq or afghanistan now they were there was collateral damage of people they weren't informed that they were working side by side with

sound undermining the entire economy and fareed zakaria also mentions that the federal response to katrina demonstrates exactly the danger of this situation the federal government's fastest and most efficient response to hurricane katrina was the creation of a guantanamo like prison facility in days in which one thousand two hundred american citizens were some really detained and denied any of their constitutional rights for months. you know look i agree with three eight in terms of the overreaction to nine eleven and the material lost lives lost does not a big deal i mean insurance covered all the material loss and remember many of the lives lost on nine eleven were essentially financial mercenaries i mean these are bankers on the front line trying to impose their financial will as financial mercenaries and we shouldn't think about the loss of these financial mercenaries any differently than we think about the loss of mercenaries like blackwater working in iraq or afghanistan now they were there was collateral damage of people they weren't informed that they were working side by side with

katrina the scale of this event is really quite something isn't it can you in total for us some of the the main aims and issues that will provide the focus for the forum here. bill as you and sophia both know this is quite a new platform especially in the international community this is only the second year that the world policy forum is being held here in the russian city of yugoslavia but already many of the guests that we've managed to speak to the participants are being quite optimistic about its potential and what it could possibly bring to the international community the discussions that are on schedule this year the discussions that and of course that the debates that were held last year all very significant to the twenty first century the growing up democracies the strengthening of economies and russia as many here believe it could play a key role in that. russia. as a hugely important influence in europe and in the world it has a right to be held and it has important things to see. it is however too often misunderstood suspected and ignorant play written off that is a mystique

fema got kind of a bad name in katrina. have we overcome that? is fema ready able and willing to tackle whatever occurs here? >> i think we are, mr. king. we were moving folks in several days before the hurricane ever got up to the coast. we've been working with governor purder perdue's teams there. we have teams in all the coastal states ready to support them, up to the new england states. we're not going to wait till things get bad. we've got supplies going into fort bragg in case they're needed. down in north carolina. we have supplyies going to massachusetts in case they're needed there. our role is to support the governors. if we think they need it, we're going to make sure it's ready to go. >> larry: the president signed an emergency declaration for north carolina. what does that mean? >> what it does for the governor here, it helps her for the cost of the response. provides up to 75% federal dollars to support that. as well as being able to provide direct federal assistance if they need additional resources. again, we were there already. i

seven months after hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast. the people of new orleans were looking to rebuild. and coming off a disappointing season, and major shoulder surgery, so was drew brees. take me back to that time. you've got a decision to make. you've got a contract you can sign and new orleans comes and offers you a deal. but it is the worst time for the city. it would have been fine, a lot of other guys, nobody would have blamed them for turning away and saying, i don't want anything to do with that. that's a city in decline. why you didn't think it was a hopeless situation, not to play here, but to live here. >> i really felt like it was a calling. i saw it as an opportunity. to be a part of something that most people don't get a chance to do in their entire lifetime. and that is to be a part of a resurgence of a city, even more so than that, a mind-set. that is no matter what knocks us down, we're going to find a way to come back stronger. >> going back to the super bowl last year, it was one of those few times where i think a sp

still to come today, marking the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina live on c-span. ms. hirono: mr. speaker, i move to suspend the rules and agree to the resolution house res. 1473, as amended, supporting backcountry airstrips and recreational aeration. -- aviation. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 235, house resolution 1473, resolution supporting backcountry airstrips and recreational aviation. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from hawaii, ms. hirono, and the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. petri, each control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from hawaii. ms. hi roe nee: i ask unanimous consent that all members have -- ms. hirono: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include ex-troin -- extraneous material on h.r. 1473. i yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise in support of h.r. 1473 as amended, introduced by the gentleman from montana, mr. rayburn, which expresses support f

fema got the bad name in katrina. have we overcome that? is fema ready, willing and able to attack whatever comes here? >> i think we are. we were moving before the hurricane ever got up to the coast. working with governor perdue's teams there. we have teams in all of the coastal states, ready to support them all the way up to the new england state. so, we're not going to wait until things get bad. we've got supplies already going into ft. bragg in case they're needed down in north carolina. we have supplies in massachusetts in case we need it there. our role is to support the governors but we're not going to wait for them to ask for help. if we think they need it we'll make sure it's ready to go. >> larry: the president signed an emergency declaration for north carolina. what does that mean? >> what it does for the governor there, it helps her with the cost of this response, particularly some of the local cost of the evacuation, provides up to 75% federal dollars to support that, as well as being able to provide direct federal assistance,

. >> a family escapes hurricane katrina only to have their lives shattered by violence here in the bay area and also doctors examine if your heart needs immediate attention. plus.... >> a local credit union teaches union teaches life's most valuable lessons. >> a family moved to oakland to have a transplant but that was shattered when their young daughter was murdere. >> the grandfather was a fay moist bebop trumper they could not escape it. >> and she says, all the time. >> she and her family did imagine to escape hurricane katrina. barely. her mother's business and the family's dreams washed away in the flood. >> oakland was a place to start over or so they thought. it was labor day neighbors were outside barbecuing and this quiet neighborhood was rocked by gunshots. >> i don't even remember what happened after that. >> just stood straight up. you don't even know what you are doing. i stood straight up and i went to straight to hell with that phone call. >> a hell from which this mother has yet to emerge and a murder which police have yet to solve. desiree was walking with a friend w

katrina swett is one of the biggest name there. >> it is becoming a liability. the really big thing happening this year which is different from many past years, you're seeing real pillars of the establish many fall. that doesn't just matter because they're losing the primaries. it matters because because if a katrina swett or a bob bennett can go down, who are you to say you can't? and that mean that when congress comes back in november. whatever happens in the election. every liberal, every moderate, every conservative let's a lot hard better crossing their party. the long term effect will make us a much more elected parliamentary team. over there people will be much, much more concerned about facing a primary. there is no one who can say there is a reason i'll be safe when these other people weren't. they were supposed to be safe. >> certainly the cudgel is much bigger than the one being wielded by the left. i await the sort of beltway media narrative about democrats being afraid of their base. it so rarely happens but we do see a little evidence of it tonight

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fugate, fema has just gone through the fifth year anniversary of hurricane katrina . is fema a different organization than it was five years ago? >> i think it's very much a different organization. but we never quit trying to get better. the lessons learned from katrina cannot be forgotten and as we face hurricane earl, again, some of these lessons are can aming into play now, particularly where congress gave us newer thorities in 2006, the post-katrina emergency management format clarifies fema would not have to wait until a governor declared a disaster to request assistance from the president to start getting ready inspect this case i think it is really paying off. we're not sure which states are going to get hit, so we can't wait to find out and wait for those requests. we had to get ready just in case across entire east coast as we did this past weekend in puerto rico and v.i., and congress gave people fema new authorities to make sure we're prepared to support governors without waiting for them to be overwhelmed in a disaster. >> lehrer: are you keeping president

fugate, fema has just gone through the fifth year anniversary of hurricane katrina . is fema a different organization than it was five years ago? >> i think it's very much a different organization. but we never quit trying to get better. the lessons learned from katrina cannot be forgotten and as we face hurricane earl, again, some of these lessons are can aming into play now, particularly where congress gave us newer authorities in 2006, the post-katrina emergency management format clarifies fema would not have to wait until a governor declared a disaster to request assistance from the president to start getting ready inspect this case i think it is really paying off. we're not sure which states are going to get hit, so we can't wait to find out and wait for those requests. we had to get ready just in case across entire east coast as we did this past weekend in puerto rico and v.i., and congress gave people fema new authorities to make sure we're prepared to support governors without waiting for them to be overwhelmed in a disaster. >> lehrer: are you keeping preside

no one will ever come clean of the katrina of the new orleans and the stinking house of the setting sun. but it's the black and the blue of the loving on the shoes, let alone a dime or water, america, you are always scotched earth in our mouth. always a rain of disaster of streams of our broken eyes. now the rags are the most turn. our pores the poorest that can be worn in the souls shop. now that all is lost and there is only nothing to lose. long live the courage and the poor. they begin to waiver. [applause]. >> vennetia. i was enranged at your body enettia. chicanery that cried out of an awfulor gast. slowly i found you should side streets where you practice a strolling stillness without any engine sounds and the skies turning on into color and then eternal magnificence of twilight, it accompanies your every move and theirs doubt about it, you are more adorable without the car wrapped around you, where you can be what you are. walking water. that gently laps. i have come to you this midnight and lane down in your black body with it's soft red blush and pulled the starkly blue cover

great protocol that generated a lot of resources for shady -- haiti and for what occurred in the gulf, katrina. we make that available for all city employees and ask that to the extent that they are willing, that they make themselves available to help those that are in need. under the circumstances, again, i just want to tip my hat to all of your around this room, and thank you to pg&e. the big take away here is now we need to know our assets. we need to know about our infrastructure, and we need to work collaborative live together so that this never occurs anywhere else ever again. -- we need to work collaboratively so that this never happens again. i appreciate both of you willing to be here under this circumstance. >> [inaudible] mayor newsom:: thank you. 9/11 commemoration tomorrow. she's, you are doing a number of things. perhaps you could just let folks know. >> certainly. tomorrow is the day that none of us will forget and none of us should forget. at every fire station in the city, we have 43, including our station on treasure island. all of our members and the public are certainly wel

katrina, thanks so much. >> thank you. >> we'll put ul all the looks and information katrina has given us on our website. harry, back to you. >> thanks, maggie. we all know falling in love is easy. it's staying together that is sometimes the hard part. one high-profile couple decided to call it quits then suddenly found love again in divorce court. for the past 18 months the former super model and billionaire husband have been engaged in a very public and bitter divorce. headlines have detailed their accusations of adultery, drug use, even theft. but tuesday, with over 100,000 court documents filed and millions of dollars spent in legal fees, the couple shockingly decided to call off their divorce to try to make their marriage work. but, as we've seen in countless headlines recently, a happy ending isn't always the case. this summer, oscar winner san dran bullock's heart was broken by her philandering husband, jesse james. former vice president al gore ended his 40-year marriage to wife tipper and tiger woods and wife elin divorced when word of his numerous infidelitys became public an

, since katrina, everywhere we went was katrina. concern about the response to katrina and this response be the same. in state and local government concern was raised to us that they were already beginning to end her costs. some of these three simple things like standing up eocs, emergency operations there is and police officers providing traffic control, to more sophisticated items. and they believe that maybe in the past they have never been compensated for this and they were expressing concern to us that the response may be inhibited by concerns about funding and reimbursement for their costs. so we ask what could we do about that through these discussions, care about this concept we will give you the money up front. we were paying for the cost of this spill right from the beginning. so we said why do we alleviate that concern from the very beginning, and we will give you this grant and place. there was a civil contract of doing it ourselves and the original grants with the state. not with the local government but with the states

. >> reporter: it's been five long years since hurricane katrina ripped through the gulf coast, killing more than 1,800 people and devastating an entire region. the floodwaters have receded in new orleans, and life in parts of the city is back to normal. but some neighborhoods in the big easy remain abandoned, including the hardest-hit lower 9th ward. >> i'm still kind of, you know, stunned that in 2010 we're looking the way we're looking. >> reporter: the government has spent $14 billion upgrading and building new levees. >> this was one of the largest corps of civil engineers efforts ever undertaken. we're doing about 15 to 20 years' worth of construction in about 36 months. >> reporter: residents remain cautious about another breach but optimistic about the future. following in bill clinton's footsteps, former president jimmy carter won the release of aijalon gomes from north korea. gomes was arrested earlier this year for trespassing and sentenced to eight years hard labor and a nearly $700,000 fine. president clinton successfully won the release of two journalists last year. >>> re

the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after. in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour. there is enough to go around. drink every hour and every hour after. go to the river there is enough to go around. drink up the hours and every after burned down by the river -- drink air land is here for after survivors go around they are enough. [applause] >> flood song 8 stray dogs duet. >> the every i learned. food. for the good. love. your hand smiled with me. you wanted me to understand you with -- my teeth. hunger seemed the only -- tongue we shared. the sky -- opene

this is our risk analysis and has done work to reconstruction especiallily in kobe and post katrina. >> thanks for joining us >> you are going to be coming to the caps meeting. >> i am on the advisory committee. >> most of san francisco of densely built and not very tall. >> what is the relationship of hazard between large buildings and the typical san francisco low rise? >> most large buildings are structural steel buildings and they do well in earthquakes. there's a class there were popular in the 50's and 60's, there's a lot of apartment buildings, about 10 or 15 story tall. they are the worst class to be in. those midrise buildings >> how many of those do you think there are? >> about 500 plus or minus 200. >> we have seen how they perform. for example, in mexico city. >> they look like stacks of pan cakes. they built row after row of these concrete buildings and mexico city is built around an island in the middle and a big lake and they filled it in, just like san francisco. the floors were stacked like this. it looked like a stack of pan cakes. >> how did this compare older bui

we have gone through hurricane katrina and rita. as i stand here today, there are a number of hurricanes that are in the gulf region. we add our sympathy to the people in california experiencing an enormous and terrible explosion. to my friend from utah, he knows that those dear friends have experienced their own share of concerns and certainly with natural disasters. and so we don't take anything away from the suffering of the american people or others. many of us remember the tsunami for all of our communities where were engaged in trying -- were engaged in trying to get our hands around that natural disaster and trying to help. but as many have expressed as they've come back to the united states from pakistan, madam speaker, i can assure you that this is so large that it is without description. and the reason is because we know that there was rain, we know there was a flood or flooding. but we probably are not aware that the water has remained in place in so much and so many areas of pakistan that it equals the size of states lik

katrina and then on. we have just witnessed the gulf spill which looks at our addiction to oil and that kind of energy use going back to the transportation that you said and look at the dismal results we have there to clean up probably for years. >> that is correct. any time you have that large release of toxins into anything, that will affect wherever it is reaching into for a long time and we know oil is piled up on the beach. it has seeped into the sand. that will affect the ecosystems and the generations to come that would have been healthy and reproductive. that will affect all of that. if we have thousands of oil wells all over the gulf, something is going to go wrong at some point. when you have that level of dependence on one level of energy that is that over the top, you're inviting disaster. >> they will have to do special things in that area. what can we do here in california to start making a difference today. >> well, every time we buy anything we vote with our dollar. that is something we go

after hurricane katrina we participate 5 days. for work a lot of work places have supplies. make sure they do. if they don't keep one for yourself and may be your coworkers. a first aid kit a flashlight any pair of shoes in case you are driving you have to get out. water. how much water do you need for 72 hours? if you use the hot water heater you have to turn off the gas. if you don't stop the gas it will light up and cause a little explosion or fire. vegetables. the back of the tank you go up and treat water with bleach. but remember, it should be a fresh pot of bleach. once you open bleach it looses the effectiveness of the bleach. one capful for a gallon of water. wait 20 minutes. wash your hands. wait a half-hour, to drink it, tastes like pool water but it kills germs. >> what kind of food do you want to keep? open the fridge don't open it too much. eat all perishable food first. you want to save emergency supplies. what emergency supply food do you want to /kaoepl. keep? energy bars. dry food. canned vegetables. can corn, can peas, you can drain that and drink the wate

or we could have a katrina type event when it hits. if we don't invest in levies and improve meant on the water supply can in fact be the cork in the bottle when the global warming raises the sea level. i listened to a professor the other day that's chair to one of the groups that talked about what levy groups ought to be. the levies on the west side are not worth saving because their big islands and i raised my hand and i said so the delta will become salt water and what are you going to say to the species and the people that live there because that's salt water. we can't all go into silos. those are levies for water quality. we have to integrate and adopt. lesters program. everybody talks about robust and adaptive. i will tell you the programs we invest in, we'll get fired if we under invest the point of the matter is we have to invest in something. we filled our first waste water plant. you build one that sat there waiting for the population you would get fired and that thes terminology we have to use. we invest the things to day th

. >> shend her family did imagine to escape hurricane katrina. barely. her mother's businessnd the family's dreams washeaway in the flood. >> oakland was a place to start over, or so they thought. it was labor day, neighbors were outside barbecuing and this quiet neighborhood was rocked by gunshots. >> i don't even remember what happened after that. >> just stood straig up. you don't even know what you are doing. i stood straight up and i went to straht to hell with that phone call. >> a hell from which this mother has yet to emerge and a murder which police have yet to solve. desiree was walking with a friend when a red car pulled up. three men were inside. at least 20 shots were fired. she was hit twice. inveigators say this oakland senior with dreams of becoming a veterinarian was not the intended target and they don't know the identity of the shooter. the family is connced that other people do know bt they are not comin forward. >> it would be helpful if people overcame this becau people are still dying. >> as she lay dying. franklin ran ther side. >