we are talking about hurricane katrina and the medical ethics. sheri fink is a medical doctor. (202)585-3890 for eastern and central time zones and (202)585-3891 is the mountain and pacific phone number. you can also send us a tweet. >> there is great dissension over this, there were people who felt like this was the right thing to do and some of them bravely spoke to me and i say bravely because ultimately there were arrests involved because of this. so there were people who thought that we should give these patients some medicine and help them to their death, it essentially. one of the doctors i spoke with said that he was so frightened that he called his wife and said i don't think i'm going to see you again, he thought he had to get out of that hospital and what would happen to the patients. >> which doctors this? >> he was -- he passed away recently, but he was a critical care doctor at memorial. >> he was there for the five days? >> he certainly was. and he felt it was the right thing to do but there were others who didn't. >> can you say t

>> i am talking about five days in 2005 when the levees failed in new orleans after hurricane katrina and water drowned one of america's most beloved cities and looking specifically over what happened at those days in one of the hospitals that was surrounded by water. >> what is memorial hospital? >> memorial medical center was one of those longstanding community hospitals that had been built in 1926 and was the place people went for storms. staff would go there even if they didn't have to work. they brought along their pets sometimes. if you are going to work a hurricane you need somewhere for the pets, they brought family members and even checked an extra patient in who might not be safe at home. this was a place everybody thought was safe in a storm. >> they would ride out hurricanes like the 1965 hurricane. >> yes. what happened was this at several vulnerabilities that i learned many american hospitals do in flood zones and one of the was elements of the electrical power system were below flood level so when the water started approaching the hospital they knew they had to evacuate

-- >> is this going to be obama's katrina? >> president obama's katrina. >> it's crazy. it's like, no matter what happens during the obama administration, there is the perfect bush [ bleep ]-up for the occasion. >> could health care be obama's iraq? >> is this, as some are suggesting, barack obama's enron? >> unemployment rate from 9% to 11% could be obama's 9/11. >> are we now watching obama's "mission accomplished" speech? >> they've got their heck of a job brownie moment. >> this is obama's my pet goat moment. [ laughter ] >> the crazy part is, it's conservatives and republicans that are in the biggest rush to make the comparisons. remember that terrible thing that bush did that we thought for eight years to convince you wasn't bad but actually good? well, now we use those very incidents as the low water mark for your guy! >> the katrina comparison specifically deserves a five-second rebuttal. you do it by showing this handy chart from media matters of debts in katrina compared to those from the affordable care act rollout.

this going to be obama's katrina? >> president obama's katrina. >> it's crazy. it's like, no matter what happens during the obama administration, there's the perfect bush [ bleep ]-up for the occasion. >> could health care be obama's iraq? >> is this, as some are suggesting, barack obama's enron? >> unemployment rate from 9 to 11 could be obama's 9/11. >> are we now watching obama's mission accomplished speech? >> they've got their, you know, heck of a job brownie moment. >> this is obama's my pet goat momen moment. >> the crazy part is, it's conservatives and republicans that are in the biggest rush to make the comparisons. remember that terrible thing that bush did, that we fought for eight years to convince you wasn't bad, but actually good? well, now we use those very incidents as the low water mark for your guy. >> the katrina comparison, specifically, deserves a five-second rebuttal. you do it by showing this handy chart from media matters of debts in katrina compared to those of the affordable care act rollout.

when people in katrina left their homes were destroyed. we want to make sure we'll take care of the city and county of san francisco. you can bet on this it has to be all of us working together to the the nonprofits and city we need to know what we have and what resources we can work with including those food debt stopovers and that's another thing but we'll make sure we can take care of ourself. thank you for the funding because 9 work we're doing will save lives when it happens (clapping.) just to add to that in the lens of the environment commission and the real that the environment place is that many of the things you can do to make the community happier. we take a piece of of the bayview and we bring in urban mrarndz and give them a tool kit like solar panel and verdict in this case garden to modify 6 square blocks so for 7 days they can generate the water and food and power they need without outside help. so on sustainability and global warming and stuff like that are invaluable. we'll pout during the restoration recovery phase that'

the damage was caused by katrina in 2005. the u.s. judge dismissed the case late yesterday, ruling that 500,000 residents, businesses and governments would have to pay their own damages. the class action suit accused the u.s. army corps of engineers of poor maintenance of the industrial canal. the ruling comes more than a year after the original ruling was overturned that the corp was responsible for billions in damage. the judge dismissed a parallel lawsuit against a contractor. this suit meant the excavation work weakened the flood walls. the judge had presided over the case for the last eight years, and was chosen as he was a judge that did not receive personal damage to property due to flooding. >> there no evidence that al qaeda played a role in the assault an a consulate in benghazi. u.s. ambassador chris stevens and three other americans were kill. an investigation concluded the truth is complex. suggesting an american-made video did spark anger in the run-up to the assault, and al qaeda did not infill freight benghazi prior to

case closed - a judge stops lawsuits against the federal government for flooding caused by hurricane katrina. >> unrest in ireland, a former american diplomat steps in to calm tensions between catholics and protestants. >> hello, welcome to al jazeera america. i'm morgan radford, live from new york city. al qaeda was not involved in the attack of the american consulate in benghazi, that's what a new york times investigation found. the new report says the attack was led by militants who the u.n. tried to recruit as allies. since the attacks some republicans argued that not only had al-qaeda planned the attack, but the barack obama administration covered up the connection. the report says the benghazi residents joined in the attack, fuelled by an anti-islam video, as well as misinformation. the attack was not meticulously planned. it wasn't spontaneous, and there were warning signs. a diplomatic cable described growing problems with security and suggested that the focus on al-qaeda distracted from more serious threats in the country. jim walsh is from mit and specialises in international secur

in august 2005, hurricane katrina changed all that. >> okay, this was our master bedroom. and we had a utility room over here. and over here was like a storage and a pantry. >> reporter: like all residents of the lower ninth ward he and his wife and two kids were forced to evacuate. >> we couldn't get back in this area. and you had the military telling you that's as far as you could go. >> reporter: so he moved with his family to baton rouge, louisiana before returning to a different new orleans neighborhood where he now rents. still the 63-year-old contractor longs to return to the house he grew up in. but eight and a half years after the storm, his house is still a shell of what it was. >> i'm all cried out. >> reporter: joseph's story is hardly atypical. the lower ninth ward had a population of 14,000 before the storm struck. but now it's only 3,000. and though construction is underway on a new school, a fire station, and a community center, most of the neighborhood looks much the way it did immediately after the storm surge sent a 20-foot wall of water into the communi

>> caller: >> guest: i am not think you. >> host: how much of katrina cost healthcare systems? >> guest: not only were these doctors and nurses brought before in this case a grand jury , but there were many lawsuits against the corporation for a new theory of liability and failure to prepare for a possible disaster they knew that hurricanes could hit new orleans and there could be flooding and that there was a vulnerability in many of the hospitals so the hospitals had been sued by the people who were in them not only the people who died with the people who suffered during those days of fear. they became certified as a class-action on behalf of basically everyone in the hospital except for staff because of workers' compensation law i & they couldn't be a part of that lawsuit. and just as it reached the state of the jury selection, the corporation and the plaintiffs settled for $25 million without any sort of the admission of responsibility. so that money was just decided that this year and every one i've talked to is pretty much unhappy with the amount that they received. peopl

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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

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 wher

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills. in just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45, cindy still looks impossibly young and gorgeous. >> oh, my god, she's just stunning. her skin is just amazing, and so i feel like now i have a chance. >> what's cindy's beauty secret? we're about to find out. ♪ >> the first time i saw cindy in person, she turned around, i went, "whoa!

this is a major civil rights case and nationally known after hurricane katrina. they thought they had closure. now they know that they don't. >> that has to be true of the glover team. we've just seen those pictures. bell he continue to see that. thank you. >> the obama administration said it has met it's deadline to fix the healthcare.gov website. the administration promised all would be well in november. we will gather to the white house with more details, mike, this was a big deadline for the administration. are all the problems with the website solved? >> reporter: they aren't all solved but they say its like night and day after that disastrous launch of octobe october 1st. they cite certain benchmarks, certain metrics, error rates down to 1%. they were 6% at the outset of this debacle in the estimation of administration officials. as many as 800,000 a day and they achieved 90% functionality. you recall that by the end of last month, november 31st they had promised an 80% functionality. by their own estimation they have exceeded that. but that's by their own

he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was sentence to life behind bars. in prison mr. colwell contacted the center for help and located two witnesses who saw the murder and said mr. colwell was not involved in anyway. they located the real killer who confessed and he committed the murder. that man is serving a life sentence for a subsequent murder . on march 28, 2011 after more than 20 years in prison, maurice colwell is free. thank you for being here. [ applause ] linda star is the legal and cofounding in the santa clara law, law center clerk received her ph.d.. she wrote and argued post conviction matters in state and federal court and supervisor in the sex crimes unit. she worked as a staff attorney

. >> the horror that followed hurricane katrina is being relift in court. david warren is charged with shooting a man to death. al jazeera's ben lemoine joins us, how is this different than the first? >> major difference, in the first trial there were three defendants in the case, and the reason for this, there were three officers involved in this. but with all that testimony, an appellate court decided last year that that had to be tossed out, there was essentially inadmissible evidence. these three officers were sort of implied to be in the cover up as opposed to officer david warren who is accused of shooting glover. the family's got to go through all that evidence, sit through trial, all over again. >> the first time, i don't know how we made it through that. i don't. i really don't. you know. i mean we saw graphic pictures, of henry in the car. blood, zed and everything else, so i don't know how we're going to deal with this, this time, to relive this all over again. i really don't. all i'm doing is praying and asking my god to strengthen us. >> tough

is shows the dependency mentality of katrina. self-sufficiency in to pull together as a community to handle this ourselves. i thought it would be interesting from two points of view where in our culture is the debate everything from mayor bloomberg from what size shrinks we drink when i grew up they would say how coffee would kill you. i am still around. i figure that was news and also aided the stock show for the happy days of eisenhower with the unprecedented world power. it seemed like everything was all quiet but of course, that is not the case. still holds the shin that wheat was bad and cholesterol was a killer especially with the bloomberg agenda to live in a certain kinds of foods. >> was there any chapter where you learned something? >> the chapter about how rock music helped to bring down communism. to a connection through the keyboard player to interview all of these rockets rulers for the book. what i've learned was amazing how the structure of rock-and-roll, the musical structure itself is of liberation. if he were i

we have had things being called obama's katrina. it literally does feel like -- insinuating things -- his iraq. are we literally going to have the right replay the entirety of the bush presidency, but as a way to attack barack obama? >> well, i think that any of bush's liabilities are sort of fair game. if you're republican. i mean, if you think about it this way, one way -- there are two ways to rehabilitate your image after you've -- you've you've damaged with it with iraq or katrina. one is do hard work oh of repairing your reputation by governing well again. the other is to neutralize the damage by tarring your opponent with the same sort of liability. and i think that that's why the analogies to katrina and iraq have been impressive lengths. if in six years now republicans repeal obama care and try to implement paul ryan care and it's an implementation debacle, democrats will say it's worse. it's an easy way to balance things out when you've kind of screwed up your own image. >> it feels like a combination of trolling and worki

it's the same as hurricane katrina with bush. bush's numbers were high. even people who didn't like him had to acknowledge he was likable as a person. what happened with katrina was the ability to look competent was cratered. that one photograph of him looking out the plane window as an american city went underwater, he never recovered from that. is this website going to recover and the program going to recover in a way that obama can never recover? or is he going to lose the senate in november? the house republicans going maintain a majority? he will be able to do almost nothing certainly through laws, you know, for the rest of his presidency. >> at least president obama did not say sebelius you're doing heck of a job. you have to help us fix not only healthcare.gov but the whole government system for procurement for i.t. is messed up. >> with silicon valley's role in health care, absolutely important. but there's another aspect of silicon valley that promotes problems for obama, that is this increase divide in income. the haves and have-nots. we're seei

. >> i got laid off because of katrina. they shut down the school system. some people were forced to retire. they had years since they were supposed to retire. unfortunately i didn't have the years, nor the age, so i was just cut out. >> the terminated teachers got unemployment benefits, matilda received additional aid from programs developed to help in recovery. still... >> it changes your lifestyle, you know, your salary decreased. i was getting $250 a week in unemployment benefits. it was only for about two years, then they extended the benefits. under that i had a mortgage for $800, home owner's insurance and other expenses. >> with help she held on to her home, with its $800 a month mortgage. barely. >> unemployment stuff - the mortgage people was contacted. i got approved for the making homes affordable program. where i paid $5 a months and i took advantage of that for a whole year. if not for that i would have lost my home. >> it was all about timing. when matilda lost her job and almost her home there was a wealth o

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills. in just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45, cindy still looks impossibly young and gorgeous. >> oh, my god, she's just stunning. her skin is just amazing, and so i feel like now i have a chance. >> what's cindy's beauty secret? we're about to find out. ♪ >> the first time i saw cindy in person, she turned around, i went

katrina, that script is an example on one hand, on the other hand. on the one hand but on the other hand. >> i like the basic drift, moving in the right direction. >> on the press -- precipice of 2013, into 2014 are you optimistic the progressive left will have more of a place at the table? >> i'm hopeful it will have more of a place. it hasn't had enough of a place. it seems to me addressing inequality, downward mobility, fairness, these are not issues of left and right, these are issues of right and wrong as elizabeth warren spoke so eloquently of. the center of our politics moved so far to the right. for millions of americans the center is where their lives are at. fairness, inspirational populous politics. the polls, that's not the central issue but it's there. it's going to take movement politics to drive those inside like a good house progressive caucus, like a caucus in the senate with elizabeth warren and others. we have seen bill de blasio winning a mandate but ohio, maryland, this can be a winning message but going to take good politics and

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills. in just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45,

, i'm beauty and style journalist katrina szish on location in beverly hills. in just a few minutes we'll meet one of the most beautiful women in the world, supermodel cindy crawford. at age 45, cindy still looks impossibly young and gorgeous. >> oh, my god, she's just stunning. her skin is just amazing, and so i feel like now i have a chance. >> what's cindy's beauty secret? we're about to find out. ♪ >> the first time i saw cindy in person, she turned around, i went, "whoa! that woman's gorgeous and she doesn't have a drop of makeup on." whatever she has, i want it bottled and i want to use it. >> cindy crawford is one of the most beautiful women on earth. she's iconic, and the buzz is like what is she doing? >> i wanna have what cindy has because she gets the super secret info that we don't get. >> what is cindy's secret? >> after more than two decades on the job, cindy remains one of the most visible faces and sought after supermodels in the world. >> yet her skin still looks remarkably youthful and gorgeously wrinkle free. >> everybody wants to know what

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they compared hurricane sandy to president obama's katrina. and we know that katrina comparison has been popular on the right. and on benghazi, it was going to cost obama his presidency. let's remember, he won the 2012 election by over 5 million votes. but now they're back to that waterloo moment. look. there's no question the president is in a tough spot politically. and no question there have been problems, even he acknowledges it. >> if you remember, i've gone up and down pretty consistently throughout. the good thing about when you're down is that usually you've got nowhere to go but up. >> he's got nowhere to go but up. i wouldn't count him out. the right has been saying president obama and his health law are dead for weeks. months, years. but guess what. both are still here. today the national journal writes about president obama's resilience. can obama recover? he did already. joining me now is the reporter with that story, national journal political correspondent alex sikes wald and james peterson, professor at lehigh university. thank

new orleans is once again reliving the aftermath of hurricane katrina. jury selection has gun in the retrail -- begun in the trial of david warren. he was convicted of shooting a man to death in the aftermath of the storm. a federal judge overturned his conviction saying he was unfairly tried ben lemoine joins us live. what can you tell bus this new trial? >> the original trial was in 2010. the big difference is that in that trial, there were three defendants in that case, all three new orleans police officers including officer david warren who was eventually convicted. now, as you just said, one of the major problems is that the focus was on the aftermath, the gruesome burning after the shooting, the burning of the car with the body inside of it. so, what an appellate court decided last year was that the officer should have been tried separately. >> i think it's a waste of time, you know. you have proven that they think he is innocent. i don't know. it is a waste of time. you have drawn this man up several times in this court case. 2010 all of these peo

. >> a federal judge threw out the last of the lawsuits against the government for katrina. >> a new york times investigation says the deadly attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi did not involve al qaeda, alleging the assault was a response by local fighters to an american video. four americans were killed in the attack, including u.s. ambassador. >> at least 20 people were killed by bombs dropped on a market in the northern syrian city of aleppo. two children are among the dead. the government stepped up attacks. >> 400 have been killed in these attacks since december 15th. president bashar al-assad said the attacks targeted terrorists. i'm jonathan betz, i'll be back with more news. "america tonight" is up next on al jazeera america. >> good evening i'm joie chen. thank you for joining us for the weekend edition of "america tonight." we begin our conversation with a resource crisis of sorts in texas. oil is plenty. but water, a basic necessity is harder to come by. the problem started two years ago when the first fracking trucks arrived in town. for the people in town some were s

we saw this even in katrina, as you noted. after katrina. the other challenge is there's also a desire to look at policies that help a citizen not rebuild in the areas that are at greatest risk. these are the tough policy decisions that it often takes awhile for a government to responsibly work through through a solution. so our strategy was to, first of all, provide the urgent life saving shelter material that got people out of the element. we have the shelter expert on the ground to work on transitional shelter programs. and we will be very supportive of particularly the issue of ensuring there are people's rights very much respected as we look forward to the longer term shelter solutions that will take awhile to come forward. for a program turk low sis or doing relief operations in a typhoon or other natural disaster that the advocacy is enhanced when faith-based operations are, again, robustly included. they have networks. they have people on the ground. the multiplier effect is -- i've seen it over and over again. when i found is only 9

katrina campins. >> great to see you, pretty lady. dagen: based on what you are seeing, how tight or supplies at this point? >> today's numbers are an indicator the real estate market is indeed helping the u.s. economy. inventory levels are so extremely low throughout the entire nation. which is why builders are taking the risk and they're going out and they are starting to build. another reason why they feel more confident is because the job market is doing better, so some people argue what about interest rates rising. they are still historically low. dagen: down in south florida, how much new construction are you starting to see, how much supply is on the market left over from the last building boom before the collapse? >> inventory is still pretty low, but we are seeing it little bit because developers are going ahead and starting new projects. south florida is a different animal than the rest of the market because so much is coming from international market. it is definitely continuing to do well. i still see inventory relatively

. >>> no relief for hundreds of thousands of hurricane katrina victims. a federal judge throws out all of the remaining lawsuits against the government. >>> a new report now says al-qaeda was not responsible for the attack on the american consulate in been gas i. a humanitarian disaster in syria. a refugee camp where people are starving to death. >>> it's been a particularly difficult holiday for millions of americans. nearly 11 million people are unemployed. 4 million have been unemployed for more than six months. as of today, nearly a third of those people are being cut off from a federal lifeline. 1.3 million americans lost long-term unemployment benefits. on average, each person got a little more than a thousand dollars a month. the benefits began in 2008 at the height of the recession. since then, the payouts have cost the federal government $225,000,000,000. congress had renewed them regularly until this year. rebecca dixon said the government should do something. >> we would need to have a robust job creation program. there have been lots of ideas

. >> katrina says the kitchen has about 50 peoples in there,er error mark employees, deputies and inmates. >> i'm not sure where she was standing at when it happened, but she usually stands right there. >> according to the sheriff's department the oven was almost 25 years old and was put in in 1985 when the jail opened. >> now to reno where police are investigating a shooting inside a medical building. two people are dead, including the gunman. it happened inside a neurology office. the gunman took his own life. there's been no word on the shooter's identity or the motive. >> relatives of 13-year-old jay had. she was declared brain dead and doctors declared her brain dead on monday. doctors say no one has never recovered from brain dead. the family will seek an injunction if the hospital attempts to remove life support. >> robbers snuck into mcdonald's and forced the workers into the freezers. only the drive thru was open at this mcdonald's. the robber held at gun point a manager and employee forced them to the back of the restaurant and stripped their clothes. >> unbelievable. >> there a

people in katrina were able to do that. having a central point of contact to say, i am okay. that person can receive that information. your grandmother may not be the person to do that. no offense grandma. think holisticly when you think about the future. what it's like to live. imagine living in a disaster for several weeks >> thank you for coming today and we hope this has enlightened you. thank you very much. see you next month.

a judge closes the book on katrina lawsuits. >> unrest in northern island. flames and flags inflaming deep divides. how holster's great granddaughter plans to attract new readers to his novel. >> tonight the life line for more than a million americans has been cut. 1.3 million people will no longer have long-term unemployment benefits. on average each person got 1,000 a month. benefits began five years ago during the height of the recession. the cost to the government $225 billion. congress renewed the payouts until now. >> tom ackerman stepped down with people hit by the loss. >> the u.s. economy is adding jobs but is well short of a total before the bottom fell out of the labour market in 2007. the hardest hit are the long-term unemployed. many will exhaust benefits unless congress renoose the program. meanwhile people like norbert franzak are being cut off. >> i won't be able to pay for utilities. after this check i have to pay the mortgage. i'll have less than $200 in the bank. palmar appealed for benefits to be restored. >> unemployment is a life line t

we have katrina pearson here with us. we invited pete sessions in on the show as well. let's start with you, katrina. you guys have seen this coming, you know what is coming. what are you doing about it? >> that is why many of us have stepped up and actually run to fill some of the positions where we have entrenched incumbent politicians that are afraid to do what is right, that's the protect the american people in front of government. charles: by the way, why are people afraid? is not just democts and if so, why are they also afraid? >> absolutely. the thing is we have this thing called the constitution. and we have the administration and congressional numbers that are in the teens and the single digits and no one wants to do anything. no one has gone to jail, we can't even get people subpoenaed. there's no accountability in washington dc. why are they afraid? that's a very good question. the american people are going to have to let people that are not afraid to governccording to principle and not let others dictate our policy based out of fear. >> but it's going to be

what spur has done is look at that in terms of recovery and in new orleans with katrina and lost many of the people, hasn't recovered the building stock. it's not a good situation. i think we can agree and in san we want to rebuild well and quickly after a major disaster so we have defined what that means for our life lines. how do we need the gasolines to perform and water perform after an earthquake and the building stock as well, so we have the goal of 95% of our homes to be ready for shelter in place after a major earthquake, and that way people can stay within the city. we don't lose our work force. we don't lose the people that make san francisco so special. we keep everybody here and that allow us to recover our economy, and everything because it's so interdependent. >> so that is a difficult goal but i think we can achieve it over the long time so thank you very much for hosting us and hosting this great exhibit, and thank you very much for joining

katri katrina. the financial melt down. >> keep your hands out of my piggy bank. >> you don't have to -- listen -- >> do you know liberation theology? >> i studied theology. i went to a >>ha critics who say we are far from fair and balanced? >> i gave up caring a long time ago. my passion is politics. >> my taxes and yours. >> that's twice what i'm making. >> you don't pay 60% in taxes. >> michael, i pay 60%. you have half the country that doesn't pay any. then the other half literally pays all the bills and gets a baseball bat to the head saying you're not paying enough. >> the time has come for affordable universal health care in this country. >> health care is an issue hannity and his guests continue to debate. >> you and your cronies in the government -- >> you want to be let out of here, you're welcome to go. >> listen, sean. i don't have anything to apologize for. t not to you or anyone. >> this is about the dismantling of this country. i'm only 35 years old. i have never been interested in po

we have katrina pearson here with us. we invited pete sessions in on the show as well. let's start with you, katrina. you guys have seen this coming, you know what is coming. what are you doing about it? >> that is why many of us have stepped up and actually run to fill some of the positions where we have entrenched incumbent politicians that are afraid to do what is right, that's the protect the american people in front of government. charles: by the way, why are people afraid? is not just democrats and if so, why are they also afraid? >> absolutely. the thing is we have this thing called the constitution. and we have the administration and congressional numbers that are in the teens and the single digits and no one wants to do anything. no one has gone to jail, we can't even get people subpoenaed. there's no accountability in washington dc. why are they afraid? that's a very good question. the american people are going to have to let people that are not afraid to govern according to principle and not let others dictate our policy based out of fear. >> but it's going t

the retrial of a police officer who shot and killed a man in the aftermath of hurricane katrina up next. first, let's get a look at temperatures across the nation today. nicole. >> good morning. we're not doing too bad this morning, bess spite all the arctic doom and gloom i've been talking about. a lot of 30's and 40's and all across the country, even down to 60's in the south. none of those teens this morning yet. enjoy it while you can. for the ref of the day, one of the warm spots out here. another one of our stories is at the south, which runs warm are that that the north is going to run above average, 10-15 degrees in a lot of cases. 77 today in houston or 61 in memphis. that is accurately above average and pretty comfortable if you're headed this direction, it is parts of the northwest that are really going to feel that difference. even though we have forties around billings this morning, by tomorrow, the high, which might be early in the day only 17 and probably temperatures continuing to fall. stephanie. >> nicole, thank you. freeze in rain is blamed for a huge pile up on a mas

katrina was a critical moment, but you had a fairly steady loss of support for the iraq war and that was kind of a heavy baggage that the president had to carry. tried a couple of instances of social security reform, and he tried information reform -- immigration reform, and he was trying to that she was unable to get his own party, let alone the regrets and christian -- democrats interested. then you have this president, and the people who were contrasting it this party and low president with the republican party. fluidity,s to be more i would say, with this president. he is certainly down now, let's if thereonths from now are 7 million people signed up on obamacare. host: other examples of presidents overcoming a tough year? guest: that is a great question, because although it is a jinx, i do not think it is a curse. bill clinton is a very good example. people zero in on the impeachment efforts, on the other hand they overlook the in athat he turned balanced budget, welfare reform, and significant process on kosovo. sure, hadgan, to be to deal with iran contra, but in his second te

all you can really compare to the is katrina, or something like. that we had family members that their houses were completely gone. just gone. all there was, was a concrete slab. we went through, and we took toll of are everything that needed to happen, all materials and such, and when the stores that sold that type of -- those materials, the lumber and all the different stuff, when they opened up, we just went there with a list and bought everything. but to have my brother and i actually show up and ensure that we're there to make sure things were taken care of and to pay for these things, you see it in their eyes. it was something that they were praying for and luckily my brother and i were in a position to answer that calling. >> the resiliency that you see is amazing. the joy on their face just to meet us, let alone for how we were helping them. >> it meant a lot to us. you could see it meant a lot to them. it just helps put things in perspective as far as what to be thankful for. on christmas day i'd like to really just take some time to refle

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katri katrina. the financial melt down. >> keep your hands out of my piggy bank. >> you don't have to -- listen -- >> do you know liberation theology? >> i studied theology. i went to a seminary. >> what do you say to critics who say we are far from fair and balanced? >> i gave up caring a long time ago. my passion is politics. >> my taxes and yours. >> that's twice what i'm making. >> you don't pay 60% in taxes. >> michael, i pay 60%. you have half the country that doesn't pay any. then the other half literally pays all the bills and gets a baseball bat to the head saying you're not paying enough. >> the time has come for affordable universal health care in this country. >> health care is an issue hannity and his guests continue to debate. >> you and your cronies in the government -- >> you want to be let out of here, you're welcome to go. >> listen, sean. i don't have anything to apologize for. t not to you or anyone. >> this is about the dismantling of this country. i'm only 35 years old. i have