just months after hurricane katrina, he knew he was getting into something much bigger than sports, and he led the saints to their first super bowl victory against the colts. it helped lift the spirits of those there. his new book is called "home team: coaching the saints and new orleans back to life," in his book is about to make its debut, as you might imagine, on "the new york times" bestseller list. i do not know if you all can zoom in on this. there is a lot of bling, maybe too much for the camera, but this is the first time for me to hold a ring like this. >> thank you. it is good to be here. wednesday night, we have got a number of team awards that we are up for, it is good. it is good to be out here with a bunch of the players, representatives from our team, and a number of other teams. tavis: you have won the championship of the world. do awards matter? >> i think it is different than maybe some of the other zero wards, when you are waiting to receive the award, and in this case, -- some of the other zero wards -- the other awards. i think you are right. tavis: have you been ab

he lost his grandpa in the aftermath of katrina. what do you miss most about him? >> i miss the way that i used to run up to him and kneel on him, knees, and give him a hug. >> reporter: johnny hanson organized a workshop for young people to coincide with the display of katrina photos. after a private viewing the kids would have their turn. >> we want you guys to go out today against the backdrop of where we were five years ago and tell us where we are now. >> you framed it. >> reporter: photo journalists coached the kids on how to capture just the right frame. >> what's your impression of this? >> it's lonely. >> this is cool. let's hang for a while. >> reporter: 20-year-old kaitlyn sullivan lost two friends to suicide after katrina but now sees beauty in the new orleans tradition of a musical funeral procession. ♪ >> reporter: their photos telling a new story about their city. >> it is about the people and the culture and not the physical. >> just how hurricane katrina came, i took those pictures to remind them that new orleans is still the same. >> reporter: f

the lesson from that is mourn the losses of katrina. don't forget them. but at the same time you're moving and transitioning to a greater state or existence-- hopefully greater. >> brown: for michael white that greater existence means composing and performing new work while continuing to play and teach the old musical traditions of new orleans. >> lehrer: again the major developments of this day. president obama formally declared an end to the u.s. combat mission in iraq. he said it's time to turn the page and focus on restoring the american economy. the number of americans killed in afghanistan this month reached 56 . and hurricane earl advanced on the outer banks of north carolina. forecasters said it would swipe the coast, then turn north. the newshour is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari? >> sreenivasan: on art beat, watch a performance by michael white, and more of his interview with jeff. we've asked foreign policy and political experts to weigh in on president obama's speech. find that in a special annota

we don't have trials like what happened with katrina. so many of you that have been sparks of hope and imagination, people that are engaged we have someone that will talk about how she has sparked the imagination and engagement of a city that was ready to abandon, not just her but the entire broadmoore community. in fact, the mayor who is a friend, this is not a critique, put together after the challenges in katrina, put together a diverse group of what we say the best and the brightest. came up with a bad idea. we don't always get it right. they said broadmoore had been wiped out. they said, it ain't worth bringing back. we are going to make it open space. and the speaker i will introduce in a moment she like many of you said, wait that's my community. that's my neighborhood. you made that decision without us in mind. the community was forced to leave. they were not part of this discussion. and she said, like so many of you said to me and others, no that's not the way it's going to be. she stepped up and stepped in and she was heard. an

this is something that we have done today after katrina. it is something you can do now as well in the event a disaster does strike. again, i told you about other things, the ride share program we have created now. it's aiding residents to get out. as i mentioned there is no place of last resort. again, it's the neighbors who are responsible for one another. we have residents can sign up to take an elderly out. we can take kids out or whom ever needs a ride, pets, things like that. a lot of people in broadmoore and in the city of new orleans because of their pets. pets are our family. i had a beshon that went with me and i wouldn't leave him or plan to in the future. tailor the information to the residents that live within your community and give them the information that they need to make sure they survive. and that we continue to help one another. it's all about what we can do not only for ourselves but for our communities. in closing, i want to leave you with some additional points that i have made throughout the presentation. just it's

the lesson from that is mourn the losses of katrina. don't forget them. but at the same time you're moving and transitioning to a greater state or existence-- hopefully greater. >> brown: for michael white that greater existence means composing and performing new work while continuing to play and teach the old musical traditions of new orleans. >> lehrer: again the major developments of this day. president obama formally declared an end to the u.s. combat mission in iraq. he said it's time to turn the page and focus on restoring the american economy. the number of americans killed in afghanistan this month reached 56 . and hurricane earl advanced on the outer banks of north carolina. forecasters said it would swipe the coast, then turn north. the newshour is always online. hari sreenivasan, in our newsroom, previews what's there. hari? >> sreenivasan: on art beat, watch a performance by michael white, and more of his interview with jeff. we've asked foreign policy and political experts to weigh in on president obama's speech. find that in a special annota

and you decided to write a book for kids on hurricane katrina. why? >> i have wanted to write a book for children since i was in the third grade. and hurricane katrina worried me so much, i felt devastated for the children. so i wanted to write about a character that showed how strong and how wonderful they were. so lanisha really takes tragedy and turns it into a triumph. >> first of all, let's talk to eva. what's your question. >> hi, well, there's a certain supernatural element to the story that i like and i wanted to know what made you want to include this trait in the characters of molly yaya and lanisha? >> i wanted to create a sense that there was mysteries and wonders in the world and things you couldn't see, and that was to encourage lanisha to call on her inner wisdom and instincts. >> all right, miles i know you're kind of leaning forward. >> jewel, now in the book you particularly talked about mama yaya, did you have the same relationship with your grandmother as lanisha did with mama yaya because i know i have a very special relationship

katrina, good to you have with us tonight. we brought up this subject last week on how the democrats aren't saying enough good things about historic legislation that simply will save lives. now, they're starting to turn a little bit. what do you make of it. >> well, ed, i know a lot of progressives who are disillusioned and who are thinking about sitting it out and i say to them, you can't sit it out. sit in. you want to eat, pray and then vote because your apathy is going to hand the right wing running the republican party a victory and not just a choice election, ed. we're looking at a fundamental reordering of the priorities and possibilities of america because you have in the right wing today a party that wants to roll back the civilizing advances of the 21st century and the 20th century. talk about health care. you've got 20 states run by conservative republican attorneys general who are challenging the health care bill, want to overturn it. the republicans come back to congress, they will try to overturn the signature, t

to inquire about the needs of those hurricane ike victims across the whole gulf region as we did for katrina and rita, the opportunity to work on this matter so the benefits can be continued for the families in need. i yield to the gentleman. mr. hoyer: clearly, this is as

>> son 5 años de katrina, que pasó por el área de la florida el día que empezó locura deportiva, y el equipo de new orleans nunca había ganado nada, se tuvieron que salir de la ciudad, porque el súper dome era un albergue y nosotros en univisión radio estaremos ahí. >> por supuesto que esperaremos rafa todos los comentarios. >> yo dije, las camisas y las gorras. >> te traigo la camisa, pero la de allá, estamos el miñrcoles para noticias y más en nueva orleans. >> tambiñn es parte de la cultura, muy importante, así que gracias por todo que sigas muy bien. >> felicidades y cuidado con manejar y tomar, que es más barato el taxi que una noche en la carcel >> nos tenemos que ir, muy buenos días. >> (todos hablan) >> como cortas, si aún no se acaba. >> ya queda menos de medio minuto. >> por el momento no hay nada sucediendo en las carreteras esta tarde los espero en stereo sol, los dejo en pantalla con las temperaturas para el día de hoy , ahí las tiene. >> que tengan un día sensacional, lo esperamos aquí a las 7 . >> noticias y más regresa mañana a partir de las 7 de la m

the pros and cons of a high-tech technique to help you sell your home. >>> and remembering katrina on stage. ♪ praying that i'll see another day ♪ >> it's a play about survivors, their anger and their hope. it's friday, september 17th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >>> as i continue my tour of new york, it was great on monday night being up there at the apollo theater in harlem. having a chance to check out that play. it really was an incredible performance. very moving, very real. >> kind of a tearjerker? >> yeah. but also kind of leaving the message of hope, which is kind of cool too. you get through the bad stuff but then the resilience. so, it was cool. >> we look forward to seeing it on this friday morning. good morning. i'm vinita nair. >> and i'm rob nelson. >>> there are new questions this morning about hospital security following a deadly shooting inside a world famous medical >> a gunman shot a doctor, then killed hd jim sciutto reporoh hopkins in baltimore. >> reporter: for more than two hours johns hopkins was under siege. >> they moved us all

for more let's bring in katrina vanden heuvel editor of "the nation." katrina, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you, ed. >> if you had been there, what would have your advice been there today. >> i think that president obama has shown that he realizes he needs to remobileize the base that he demobilized after his powerful campaign based on people power from below. he's been out there on the stump speaking to people's concerns and i think those going back to their districts need to bring back a smart, populous message about job creation, about protecting social security, and about standing against the rapacious deprivations of wall street, and finally, exposing the republicans for what they are, putting wall street cronies. and the job-killing agenda, that john boehner and others have put forth and just expose, expose and propose, because this country is looking for fair minutes. dnc put out an ad today targeting boehner. here it is. this is the strategy. >> first, the tobacco industry came calling and republican john boehner did their bidding

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.

katrina, all the best. katrina price having a good day at the jobs fair by her own characterization. you heard dan say it. our economy for decades for functioned or not by moving from one bubble to the next. many americans have accepted this as the way, well, it works. that, quite simply, is wrong. here's the real reason why people like katrina and so many others may not have jobs in this country. more and more, the values of fairness and capitalism we founded this country on are being sold to the highest bidder. they are strangling the american dream. why? because the politicians who are supposed to be representing your interests are tied to special interests because they would rather keep your job than help you keep yours. we're talking about serious money here. nearly 20 billion in lobbying, another 3 billion in campaign donatio donations. that's only by the big six. what will that buy you? how about tax breaks to ship jobs out of the country, turning a blind eye to china's rigged currency. your biggest

i saw this firsthand, i went down to help out with katrina thing in september. it's weird. because you are dealing with people that lost everything and it's kind of hard to imagine that if you haven't done it yourself. basically, you know, she's looking at her curtains here, she probably hand-stitched those things. maybe they have been hanging there the last 5 or 6 years. everything in the house is wrecked, photos, keepsakes, it's a tough thing. and people deal with this kind of stress in different ways. we as disaster workers, we see it all the time. but we have a word we use, professional. we try to be professional around people that have suffered a loss like this because they don't want us to come -- you don't want to go into somebody's house and be joking and having a good time. it's unprofessional. when you are dealing with somebody who has a loss like this, just think of the word professional. that's what we try to do. this sort of body language here, she's trying to comfort here, do you think she's buying it? not with that body language. she's not really buying it. s

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. >>> hurricane katrina devastated the gulf coast five years ago. but for so many in that region, the pain is still fresh. >> a play recounting that story through the experiences of a group of women is being revived here in new york. i had a chance to go check it out. ♪ 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. >> reporter: the play, "swimming upstream," first hit stages in 2008. but acclaimed playwright and activist, eve ensler, brought the play back this month in new orleans and new york, for katrina's fifth anniversary. >> in particularly in new orleans, and really everywhere, always keep the world alive after disasters, after conflicts. >> reporter: written during a year and a half by 16 new orleans women, some of whom are also performers in the show, "swimming upstream" is a mix of poetry and song. humor and pain. rage and resilience. >> this story r

america's remembering the eighteen hundred victims of hurricane katrina five years since the disaster struck west hate towards the city of new orleans as its trees flooded with water the city became so much to violence and looting residents complain that not only did the authorities fail to protect them they stopped them from protecting themselves their reports. it's a sunday afternoon in louisiana i just came out here to shoot practice. and guns are a blazing at this shooting range. so our forty percent believe everybody should have the right to defend themselves at any cost in this part of the united states the right to bear arms is part of everyday life i believe person has a right to sue for i ask questions later. but rob to go on for before i know what it's like i believe that. living in america maybe said we should be able to carry a handgun but that wasn't always the case so what do you do it so we take in your weapons. richard styrene and his friend wayne shoom were on lake ponchartrain about a week after hurricane katrina made landfall and i had almost to say any way shape ce

from new orleans on an effort to establish clinics for people who lost health care after hurricane katrina wiped out the city's charity hospital. >> the storm, the flooding was horrific but it really was an opportunity for us to try something new and better for our patients. >> lehrer: gwen ifill has a conversation with online editor and liberal commentator arianna huffington on her new book about the declining middle class. >> warner: and jeffrey brown talks with composer and musician herbie hancock, whose 70th birthday tour fuses jazz with global beats. >> taking what happens and trying to make it work. that's something i add life >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy prod

from new orleans on an effort to establish clinics for people who lost health care after hurricane katrina wiped out the city's charity hospital. >> the storm, the flooding was horrific but it really was an opportunity for us to try something new and better for our patients. >> lehrer: gwen ifill has a conversation with online editor and liberal commentator arianna huffington on her new book about the declining middle class. >> warner: and jeffrey brown talks with composer and musician herbie hancock, whose 70th birthday tour fuses jazz with global beats. >> taking what happens and trying to make it work. at's something i add life >> lehrer: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> this is the engine that connects abundant grain from the american heartland to haran's best selling whole wheat, while keeping 60 billion pounds of carbon out of the atmosphere every year. bnsf, the engine that connects us. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy produc

one of the big issues in katrina, people were forceed to evacuate. if we had a large fire. we might have to force an evacuation. >> one the things we're trying to develop is an expectation, this is our bottom line expectation for building performance. your building, while it might not be damaged. will it be sufficient to camp out it? >> we are not quite there yet. >> that's the kind of expectation. >> i think we should pass this along to the audience. there should be design standards. there's a discussion, what should our design standards be for new construction? and the building department, we on caps are going to say, what standards should those be? and there's a group of us that have come up with a concept that hasn't been universally adopted of at some point in the future, this might be 15, 20, 25 years out, where our retrofits and our renovations are implemented at that point. it's not going to happen within next week. but where occupants of buildings, 95 percent of the population can expect to shelter in place within 12 hours of an earthquake. that's where a group of

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

you lose sight but it took katrina and then the oil disaster, all of these things have an effect. there is a song or two about that. then we would cut the record. somewhere in february, i heard about the bp thing, the membrane on that thing was seen by people who were working. that was in february. this thing did not happen until later. on and on, this is about big corporations and their lie. with all of the thousands and thousands of deserted oil that has been left all over the gulf of mexico from when the oil companies just said, we are not getting enough oil on of this. if the state of louisiana had enough money, they could be in the oil business. but true to louisiana corruption and all the rest of the corruption, louisiana gets no money from all of the oil offshore. there are the fragile wetlands that i am praying at least that could be something that our president could say, i will give you some wetlands. but the mississippi river goes like any other river. rivers do not naturally go west, north. that is what the engineers will have to figure out how to do. tavis: what do yo

are we building another katrina in the delta and are we doing so that increases the delta failure that has profound water shortage implications and we have them claiming yes climate change is real, yes, it has implications, but, no, they would not evaluate them. so being the reasonable people we are, we sued them. but we think it require as real analysis especially when agencies are making long-term issues with profound effects for public safety and we hope the courts resolve that rapidly and the legislature can do that as well. >> as far as regional exercises, i think i'm all for it. they do have their limitations but the way to improve these models and to understand their capabilities is to use them and try to confirm that they work on big events that we actually have observed, and so you know, typically, we look retrospective simulations and try to introduce as much independence in the tests that are used, in order to gain confidence that the models work in future situations. i'm not familiar with the environmental quality act or activity that you mentioned but i think it's worth di

plus, reaction from reverend al sharpton and katrina vanden heuvel of the nation. >>> america's mayor bernero 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 i