orleans just. -- new orleans jazz. this is a cornet lewis armstrong learned to play. it was sent to him after shooting off a pistol on new year's eve. ♪ >> lewis armstrong was born on jane ally, which is now where the municipal court is. he was born about as poor as you could probably be in this country. in groups singing with his friends, one of those kids you see with bottle all caps on -- bottlecaps on the bottom of their shoes. a very resourceful kid. played a little bit, sang, and was arrested on new year's eve when he was seven for shooting andmom's boyfriend's pistol sent to a year iand a half in a colored wayhome. he started playing in the band there. by the time he got out, he had the idea he wanted to be a musician. almost a father figure to him, h a liver and his wife would -- oliver and his wife would have him home for dinner. >> you can see this was played not just by armstrong, but for many years afterwards. presented as a gift to the new orleans jazz museum in 1965. the his byirmed to the notches you s

new orleans. you can stand on the street corner and you'll hear somebody walking down the street talking about what they had to eat yesterday, what they're going to have for dinner, how they cooked those ducks that they just shot at the hunting camp. we are a city obsessed with food. one of the greatest confusions about the food of new orleans, is it creole or cajun? what is it? well, originally, you see, creole and cajun food were two completely different kinds of cuisines. cajun food was big-pot cooking. it was done by the cajun people over in southwest louisiana. creole food or the word creole itself comes from the hispanic word which means native. so the first creoles were the first native offspring of the french and spanish settlers, and their food is really city food. it's more refined. it's not as spicy as perhaps cajun food is, but it's very well seasoned. and we're situated right across from the french market, the site of the old french market, which there was an active market here in the

here we are in new orleans, i love new orleans, and i thought he would be a way to show how a different mix of ethnic groups and people coming back from the spanish-american war, spiritual songs from the old limitations, all melded together around 1900 through 1950 to be the birthplace of jazz. i think i learned almost everything you could learn about louis armstrong except who he was. notnnot quite -- i could quite get behind that mask, that smile, i could not quite figure out if he was really happy, what did he like? aside, and someday i may try to take on that period of time. . may work with wintun marsalis have things you go back to. >> can we talk about your connection to new orleans? >> i was born and raised in new orleans, here we are at tulane. my grand parents and grandparents and anson uncles all went to tulane. i love the city. the house i grew up in my brother lives in, but we have a house in the french quarter. especially after the hurricane 15 years ago, i came back as the vice chairman of the louisiana recovery authority, the entity for rebuilding. you realize that a city

if you look at this plan it should look familiar to anyone who has been to new orleans because new orleans is laid out on a similar grid with your church in the middle and a promenade. so this is the later settlement of new mobile and if we move over to -- this is the original settlement, old mobile. they founded this was not a good site for their settlement so they moved it up river to a different location. during new orleans' earliest years the settlement was a little bit more than a backwoods town, but what it was doing was envisioning what its future was going to look like. one of its versions of its future that people wanted to see was it develop into a prosperous colony similar to haiti. what we are looking at now is a view of haiti, this is a sugar plantation. this is the world that new orleans at least the european settlers and colonists aspired to be. this is a prosperous sugar plantation. they are hoping that new orleans makes them money. one of the most interesting aspects of this drawing is that you in addition to seeing all of the aspects required for sugar production, you in

they are hoping that new orleans makes them money. one of the most interesting aspects of this drawing is that you, in addition to seeing all of the aspects required for sugar production, you in the foreground also get to see the treatment of the en slaved population. the african population that was taken as captives from africa to the new world. he is being held by a rope by another individual and then this is likely the overseer and this is the slave driver with whip in hand. >> this is giving you a glimpse of some of the instruments that were used as they were navigating the atlantic ocean. this gives you a great cross section of what a ship would have looked like on the inside. and over here we actually have a travel log by a young man who came to new orleans in 1721 and this is a watercolor that he drew of the ships gathered at the mouth of the mississippi river. and in the very foreground you can see a tiny little ship. that is an example of how people and cargo would have actually made it up to new orleans. the big ships themse

they had a strong influence on the music here in new orleans. less than a year ago was a major blow to the city, and to his family of course, he left a wonderful legacy though. and he influenced so many people. with his warmth and his community. so this musician was born in 1897 and died in 1984. she was really well known. she wore bells on her ankles as you could see in this photo right here. she was a wonderful musician and in her later years, she began playing preservation hall and was in -- and was a well- thought-out musician. with got a wonderful video of her performing in the first just -- in the first jazz fest. she had a pretty broad style. >> so now moving into the collection storage areas so come this way. this was a unique drum set here. the drum set, as you could see, the longtime driver -- the longtime drummer of the band. there some wonderful footage of this drum being played in the band. so this would have been the jazz band that was led by kit. we were happy to have this it came to us about six years ago as a donation. right ove

he was granted a post conviction hearing to present new evidence a criminal court in new orleans if you're in was the culmination of years of amateur detective work by his sister sandy who never lost hope. no way you can guess and i know we've been down it with the innocence projects help sandy cox a number of reluctant with this is to come forward many who pointed the finger at another suspect. when you look at his physical description exactly matches the description initially given by the two witnesses to the crime june sixteenth two thousand and ten george polk is post conviction relief hearing open in new orleans for new witnesses testified another man shot eric battista nine affidavits were presented tokers a boy or is made the case that research on cross racial identifications prove them to be biased then judge julian parker ended the hearing. tearful testimony today from the victim's family was not enough to grant george token a chance at freedom several other witnesses said that another man confessed about judge julian parker dismissed those claims. jersey literally sit there all t

he was granted a post conviction hearing to present new evidence a criminal court in new orleans if you're in was the culmination of years of amateur detective work by his sister sandy who never lost hope and nobody even second guessed that i know even downey with the innocence projects help sandy coax a number of reluctant witnesses to come forward many who pointed the finger at another suspect. when you look at his physical description exactly matches the description initially given by the two witnesses to the crime june sixteenth two thousand and ten george polk is post conviction relief hearing open in new orleans for new witnesses testified another man shot eric battista nine affidavits were presented tokens lawyers made the case that research on cross racial identifications prove them to be biased then judge julian parker ended the hearing . tearful testimony today from the victim's family was not enough to grant george hope that chance at freedom several other witnesses said that another man confessed about judge julian parker dismissed those claims. jersey nearly said yeah all thos

and the leader of our new orleans new schools for new orleans which is our harbor master to kind of recruit and bring all kinds of wonderful people to help us is african-american. i'm going to conclude there by saying, you know, blowing a few myths. this did not start when the levies broke. it is not going to be fixed by just old fashioned solutions. we have to be bold and innovative and focused on the kids. african-americans can lead in african-american city and have great diversity and we're building that model. and the numbers speak for themselves. you don't even have to believe me although i think i'm pretty convincing and my record is very strong in terms of integrity. just go look at the numbers for yourself. they're like david said. it's unassailable. there are room for unions. and when they don't work, we close them down. we will be the first city that moves and continues to move this needle in a very difficult, mostly poor, mostly african-american but we have a growing hispanic and white population and wealthier african-americans coming back to our public school system. we're going

he was granted a post conviction hearing to present new evidence a criminal court in new orleans if you're in was the culmination of years of amateur detective work by his sister sandy who never lost hope and nobody even second guessed that i know even downey with the innocence project helping sandy coax a number of reluctant witnesses to come forward many who pointed the finger at another suspect. when you look at his physical description exactly matches the description initially given by the two witnesses to the crime june sixteenth two thousand and ten george polk is post conviction relief hearing open in new orleans for new witnesses testified another man shot eric battista nine affidavits were presented tokens lawyers made the case that research on cross racial identifications prove them to be biased then judge julian parker ended the hearing . tearful testimony today from the victim's family was not enough to grant george hope that chance at freedom several other witnesses said that another man confessed about judge julian parker dismissed those claims. jersey nearly said yeah all th

the present of our school board is african-american, and the leader of our new orleans new school for new orleans which is our harvard master to recruit and bring all kinds of wonderful people to help us is african-american. i'm going to conclude their by saying blowing a few minutes. this did not start when the levees broke. it is not going to be fixed by just old-fashioned solutions. we had to be bold and innovative and focus on the kids. african-americans can leave an african-american city, and have great diversity and we building that model. and the numbers speak for themselves. you don't even have to believe me, although i think i'm pretty convincing and my record is based on in terms of integrity. just look at the numbers for yourself. they are like david said, it's unassailable. it's just unassailable. there are room for unions. you can unionize these innovative schools and when they don't work we close them down. we will be the first city that moves, continues to move this needle in a very difficult mostly poor mostly african-american, but we have growing hispanic and white po

i could not find a damn crane. >> cooper: in new orleans, you could not get a-- >> landrieu: in new orleans. i couldn't find a crane in louisiana. >> cooper: mayor landrieu eventually found a contractor from out of state, and finally, after years of legal wrangling, took down four confederate monuments. the last one removed was a 16.5-foot bronze statue of general robert e. lee. it had stood for 133 years... ( cheers and jeers ) ...until may 19, 2017, when, to the cheers and jeers of onlookers, the confederacy's most celebrated military hero was hoisted off its 68-foot pedestal. >> landrieu: in a city that i represent, that's 67% african american, to have a young african american girl pass by that statue and look at it every day, i ask myself, "am i really preparing for her-- a really good future? is she feeling like she's getting lifted up by the government, or is she being put down?" i mean, i think the answer's pretty clear. really, what these monuments were, were a lie. >> cooper: a lie in what sense? >> landrieu: well, in the sense that-- that robert e. lee was used as an example, to s

the city of new orleans has a continuous government. i as mayor at this point in time was continuing the work. we had the course correct. >> you removed this and three other, sort of icons of the, of the cult of the lost cause. around this city. but it was not easy. >> no. it was hard. awe all. but once, once, i started put might self in the shoes of winton and other people. this was so clearly wrong. and so clearly out of sync with the people of the united states, about new orleans. we are a great cull tie culturl mecca. there is no city in america. that have the kind of accumulation of this, nuclear american notion out of many we are one. our food, music, ethos. we are all in this together. to have icons like this standing in place of reference. that were things that were antithetical to anything new or leends is or was. once i knew it became clear what had to be done. >> yet, yet you couldn't find a contractor. you found a contractor. his car was fire bombed for taking on the assignment. he backed out. couldn't give somebody to lease

orleans and now i'm forgetting about new orleans and going to l.a. so i do sometimes feel a little bad about that but i also think that people in these places should write their own books about these places. i'm trying to do a number of different cities because they think that gives me perspective on the cities, but i do think there's people who have lived here their entire lives and know the geography a lot better than i do who please, write these stories because my writing this book doesn't prevent anybody else from writing a book. right. thank you very much. [applause] >> cspan were history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company. and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. : : >> and now on book tv, we bring you the 2018 ralph reading philadelphia at the franklin roosevelt presidential lie flare hyde

new orleans was an exception in many ways . oldest city, much smaller city and it had this unique french, spanish caribbean history and heritage that really sets it apart from i think virtually any other american city but even new orleans had this same kind of growth logic. it was located at the mouth of the mississippi river so anything coming down the mississippi had to be offloaded to new orleans and onto ocean going vessels so there was a certain logic to why new orleans group where it was at that you have and there is no compelling geographical region for their behavior and center in this area there are a number of factors working against it. to make the city grow here requires a lot of imagination, a lot of out-of-the-box thinking and i contend a certain amount of deception and as we will see, the city that resulted from this extraordinary process of growth turned out to be extraordinary in and of itself . i did something a little different with the prologue of this book. all three of the books have prologues and in this

at the louisiana superdome. >> new orleans is no longer safe to live in. it is that simple and that stark. more than a day after katrina hit, things should be getting better, but they have gotten worse. a major breach in a levee overnight sent more water pouring into an already flooded city. residents are being urged to find higher ground as soon as possible to get out. >> new orleans has essentially been swept off the map. not even on 9/11 did i remember seeing a dead body that closely. i'd never seen a dead body just floating in the street of a major city on roofs. >> there are like bodies floating past my front door. you know? bodies floating past my front door. >> you can't find your wife? >> i tried. i hold her hand tightly. and she told me you can't hold me. she said take care of the kids and the grandkids. >> it looked like a great american city was about to disappear right before our eyes. and george bush was made to seem indifferent. >> he doesn't actually go to new orleans in the beginning. he flies above it. and that was a metaphor for a preside

at the louisiana superdome. >> new orleans is no longer safe to live in. it is that simple and that stark. more than a day after katrina hit, things should be getting better, but they have gotten worse. a major breach in a levee overnight sent more water pouring into an already flooded city. residents are being urged to find higher ground as soon as possible to get out. >> new orleans has essentially been swept off the map. not even on 9/11 did i remember seeing a dead body that closely. i'd never seen a dead body just floating in the street of a major city on the news. >> there are like bodies floating past my front door. you know? bodies floating past my front door. >> you can't find your wife? >> i tried. i hold her hand tightly. and she told me you can't hold me. she said take care of the kids and the grandkids. >> it looked like a great american city was about to disappear right before our eyes. and george bush was made to seem indifferent. >> he doesn't actually go to new orleans in the beginning. he flies above it. and that was a metaphor for a pres

terrible. >> i can't ever show my face in new orleans again. >> come with me, come with>> whv ace. fth wa and then holly grove, so i was all t ou go to french vanessa that is the best place to hear music. >> will you probably here a batiste. >> any night you will hear somebody from my family playing, i bet you $100. >> after the jazz festival loads of musicians go and play in that little bar which i love. >> maple leaf. >> maple leaf. >> i grew up playing there i played there when i was in fourth grade. >> did you really? >> yeah. >> i saw the other place the best place to see and best drum ever. >> . >> drn than the face piano. >> you had a good name. >> we call him piano face slim. >> yeah. >> it is very hard to play in a squatting position. >> most things are tough in a squatting position, you he seen the mama mia movies, jon. >> i haven't seenm but i'm going to see them now that we met. >> here's the thing, thank you, jon. >> absolutely. eets >> laset's t malk aboue ma miaecently in celebration of the new mama mia coming out and my family sat my down and said you have to watch

get everybody in new orleans had a big easy attitude. the big one is never going to hit pu . >> it's vulnerable to a direct lit. katrina exploezs this city's worst nightmare. the waterways on which they have worked and thrives for centuries now threatened to drown it. the city center surrounded by protective levies could fill up like a bathtub with storm surge. >> ladies and gentlemen, i wish i huh better news for you. but we are facing a storm that most of us have feared. a mandatory et evacuation order is called for all of the perish of new orleans. >> the storm is the size of the state of florida. it will be in the top five in terms of strength. >> they declared an evacuation. it was too late. >> thousands of people have been in line for hours here at the superdome where 30,000 people may end up spending the night inside this giant shelter that officials are confident will hold up. >> hurricane katrina, the category 4 storm is baring down on louisiana. >> this is what everyone feared. the storm surge. >> it is a very frightening scene

new orleans. it was breaking news last night at 11:00. police say the pair opened fire on an unsuspecting crowd, killing three people. nbc has more on what the mother of one of the victims is saying tonight. >> reporter: 8:30 saturday night, a crowd gathered outside a small cocktail shop in new orleans neighborhood, when police say two men in hooded sweatshirts opened fire, one appearing to have a handgun, the other a rifle. >> we have three people with gunshot wounds. everyone respond, please respond. >> reporter: when the shots stopped, two man, a woman dead, and two others rushed to the hospital. six people have been killed in this spot in the last decade, and robin jackson said her son is one of the latest victims. >> it's just bad, and it's heart breaking, and i'm begging, put the guns down. you took somebody i love so much. >> reporter: police are offering a $5,000 reward for help tracking down the shooters. the message from new orleans police chief harrison to the give upmen, we're coming for you. >> i mean, this has to be, this sh

(justine) a shooting in new orleans that killed three people and injured several others has triggered a manhunt. (jr stone) authorities say two suspects opened fire into a crowd outside a business... three miles from the french quarter. two men and a woman died at the scene... and seven others were injured. including one person in critical condition. the motive for the shooting is still under investigation. however authorities say the suspects walked up to a crowd gathered at a strip mall...approached the victims from behind and fired multiple rounds "indiscriminately." (sot) chief michael s. harrison, new orleans police department: "we believe that they actually stood over one of the individuals and fired multiple rounds. and then after that fled."(jr stone) and we have an update in the investigation. according to the new orleans police department, evidence supports the theory that the shooting was likely gang related no arrests have been made tonight. (jr stone) in world news. house democratic leader nancy pelosi....is pledging to help speed up puerto rico's hurricane recovery proce

. >>> in louisiana, a manhunt is under for two armed suspects who opened fire outside of a new orleans strip mall, killing three people and injuring seven more. police say the suspects appear odd to have fired indiscriminately into the crowd. they were wearing hoodies and fired a long rifle as well as a handgun. police are asking the community to share any information they may have about the shooting. nbc's chris malone has the latest. >> reporter: 8:30 saturday night, a crowd gathered outside jazz dacquari's, a small cocktail shop in new orleans. that's when police say two men wearing hooded sweatshirts opened fire. one appeared to have a handgun, the other a rifle. >> we have three people with gunshot wounds. every unit that can respond, please respond. >> reporter: when the shots stopped, two men and a woman were dead, seven others wound and rushed to local hospitals. at least six people have been killed at this spot in the last decade. robin jackson says her son is one of the latest victims. >> it's sad and it's heartbreaking. i'm begging, put the guns down. it took somebody that i

we're here in your hometown of new orleans, in the cafe reconcile. tell me why this is such a special place to you. >> well, when i grew up, there was a jesuit priest, father harry thompson, who became the pastor of a downtown inner city church, and started talking about ways to help kids and to connect people with money with people who needed money. and he wanted to start a place where kids could have a better future. and he said, look, we've got to go to, you know, the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. the children and young people that are working here are kids who have lived the toughest of the toughest lives in america. some of them have been shot. some of them are parents of children that have been shot. some of them are young men and women that have served time in jail and have come out and now are running the facility. >> and they go on. >> they go on generally, every restaurant, hotel, looking for great employees, these kids, because these kids, one of them who hwas shot three times, is nw working hard and

harrison, new orleans police department: "this was an extremely tragic incident."police searching for hours for two suspects accused of killing 3 people and injuring 7 others. and making a plea for help-- chief michael s. harrison, new orleans police department: "a lot of people we know saw what happened, heard what happened, and we need more than anything for people to come forward." authorities say the suspects were wearing hoodies when they fired a long rifle and handgun. they also say the suspects walked up to a crowd gathered at a strip mall, approached the victims from behind and fired multiple rounds "indiscriminately."chief michael s. harrison, new orleans police department: "we believe that they actually stood over one of the individuals and fired multiple rounds. and then after that fled."two men and a woman died at the scene and several others were injured. including one person in critical condition.police are hoping the community will share any information they have about the shooting. the motive for the shooting is still under investigation. i'm kim hu

in new orleans, just like richmond, it did not happen in a bubble. it did not happen because nine people were murdered. it happened because that community was grappling with things in their public square that were in a complete defiance of the majority of the population and the sensitivit. in new orleans, they will taiyo -- this is a conversation that has been going on for 20 years. they have been wanting to get statue in liberty park. this was a statute specifically honor the great anglo-saxon race for driving out, you know, reconstructionists and reclaiming white supremacy. that is essentially what this thing said straight it is honoring a massacre against black citizens, in the middle of the public square, being paid for by that public' moneys! that is what started the conversation. and if you look for it carefully, you begin to see that we have similar things on the landscape in each of our communities, where some of this language is dominant. now, is that to suggest -- now here is an example. can you see that? took overtes troops the government,

in new orleans that doesn't make sense to us because the thing that helped us rebuild new orleans besides the gratitude of the people of this country and federal investments was making sure everybody was at the table talking about ways that that i can take responsibility but realize opportunity. and the second was there is no ideological bent to what we're going to do although we want to be informed by good values and common sense. the order of the day was find an answer to that problem. in new orleans we had to find a new way to educate our children and the debate wasn't about should we be pro-union or anti-union the answer was what is the best model so kids can learn and what is the answer that surrounds that given the circumstances we're in. in new orleans dealing with the criminal justice system, the issue wasn't soft or hard on crime, it was how to keep the community safe and can you be tough and smart at the same time? isn't it wise to make sure people in jail for minor offenses that are costing you $30,000 a year, wouldn't it be better if you found a pathway back into the city and

theessage from new orleans police chief michael harrison to the gunman, we're coming for you. this has to be personal. i t mean,s firing indiscriminately into a crowd, p shooting ten , killing three? that's personal. it doesn't get more personal. >> new orleans mayor latoya cantre said of the violence plaguing their city, it has to end. ris pollone, nbc news. >>> a frightening scene in india caught on camera. at least 17 people were hurt after tin shed collapsed during a tractor race. hundreds had climbed on thehed to watch the competition when you see the roof giving way there authority says the injured we rushed to t hospital for treatment. there were no reports of fatalities. >>> nbc meteorologist bill karins is hereur with monday forecast. good morning. >> good morning. we're returning to the stagnant weather pattern we dealt with he when we had flooding of early last week. here is the scenario. two areas of hmm. e one in theest bringing the extreme heat. it's not helping the firefighters at all. and that's going to continue in the west. we're going to see very warm mperat

has never been back to new orleans, she tells us. she said she recently recorre reconnected with a childhood friend where they used tolive. it hasn't been an easy journey for her. look at what he's been able to soldier through, and the fact that she wants trd move for and help other people, it just is a testimony to how her own life experiences and challenges can really turn out to bfor the better. they're blessings in disguise. we wish her all the best. i was just noticing your bring. >> thank you. thank you. >>rk sng just blinded me. >> sparkling, yes.rk >> sng like the sunshine. i'm excited for this weekend. >> it's not going to behat bad. maybe a few isolated showers tomorrow. that's it.ac humidity tomorrow. we thought maybe it would come back in yesterday but yesterday turned out to be really, really nice. and then today we're still looking at low humidity. we'll take i slox we can get it. >> your hair looks good. >> exactly. we're not talking about the big hair. maybe tomorrow because of the humidity overnight. look at that out

that's not our experience in new orleans. our experience is if we go together, if everybody is at the table, we win. the reason is simple. none of us have everything we need to get everything done. you actually have to reach out to other people. as a mayor n as i lisa mayor, when i listen the washington, d.c. theory of life that in order to win as a democrat you have to be anti- business, or you have to be completely anti--- anti-energy, or you have to be in a certain way about infrastructure. and then i listen to the other side sets a few want to win you have to be all for it. in new orleans, that doesn't make any sense because the thing that helped us rebuild the city of new orleans despite the wonderful gratitude and blessings of the people of this country and federal investments was making sure everybody was at the table talking about ways they can take responsibility but that -- but at the same time recognize opportunity. that's number one. the second is there is no ideological bent to what we are going to do, although w

police say there was an adult in the apartment at the time. >>> investigators in new orleans are trying to figure out how a jaguar escaped a enclosure and killed six other animals. officials say the 3-year-old jaguar was spotted outside his enclosure. he went on a deadly rampage, targeting animal exhibits nearby. >> while there were no human injures we suffered the death of four al paca and one a few. >> officials have promised a review to try to determine what went wrong. >>> the oregon woman missing for a week and last heard from while in half-moon bay is now reeyed with family. angela hernandez was found late last night injure in the monterrey county after her car went off a cliff near big sur. pictures from the monterrey county sheriff's office show pictures of her. she told the rescuers she had stranded since last thursday. she used the radiator hose from her car to divert water from a stream. >> goes to show you how resilient she was. she was a trouper the whole time and never complained. >> her family says they are alated she's been found and is okay. >>> rescue workers inside ea

there is tom brokaw stephen ambrose. 200,000 people on the street of new orleans. it was a great day for the museum and our city and state. fortunately we had c-span capturing all of it live. forjust the opening but eight hours, we had a lucky break. there was no competing news event that crowded the news cycle. withre able to launch tremendous publicity. spielberg, tom hanks and brokaw were all there. it was not just a great day for the national d-day museum but it was a good day for the good war. that is what tom brokaw referred to as the greatest generation -- it is a bucket of of many of the themes in saving private ryan. for spielberg, it was a trifecta. he had already put option is list. idler's list and now private ryan. here is the national d-day museum authenticating those two sides of the story. this was all with the express purpose of -- what conversations about it with steven spielberg and others, these were the guys that were coming in to liberate europe and for the people in the concentration camps. was the epicenter of that story. just with private r

she has never been back to new orleans. she says she recently connected through facebook with a childhood friend who sent her a tcture of the streett she used to live and all that's left there was the street sign at the corner. >> she's a tough young woman. very resilient. >> excellent. >> our weather has been really nice. heading into the weekend, we'll have humidity and when will w t some rain because everything really is dry? dry aroundeen real here for the last two weeks. just dry at the surface. n we're worried about drought conditions forming but it's not good news foraw your and garden. pat, the humidity not an issue tomorrow but it does feel a little bit and monday it waswe shattered s and thunderstorms. 88 degrees is the current temperature in washington. we're at 85 in martinsburg and 85 down inredericksburg and i want to remind you though it might seem comfortable, remembeu with tempes near 90 degrees the heat inside of a car increases very quickly. ten minutes of a child or pet left inside of a car and the tempe

our cities tour visits new orleans, louisiana. to learn more about its unique history and literary life. for seven years now we've traveled to u.s. cities bringing the literary scene and historic sites to our viewers. and you can watch more of our visits at c-span.org/citiestour. >> we're in the french quarter here in new orleans. today we're going to be visiting the historic new orleans collection to learn about the origins of this city

thursday, the conference from new orleans, new jersey senator cory booker, and pencil lieutenant candidate fetterman. this week in prime time on c- span, cspan.org, and on the free cspan radio app. >> next, from the heritage foundation, a discussion about president ronald reagan's cold war strategy.

the details coming right back. t >>> a zoo in new orleans will reopen tomorrow morning after a jaguar escaped from its habitat and killed six animals today. this happened this morning. the zoo was closed to the public, that is good news, the jaguar killed four al pack kas, an emu and a fox. an hour of the escape, a vet tracked him down and sedated him. he is returned to his enclosure. officials say this is the first time something like this has happened. >> the guest and the staff, the animals are the number one priority and we take this situation very seriously and are working to investigate everything that happened so that we can prevent the anything like this from happening again. >> zoo officialses have launched a investigation how it got out in the first place. the zoo in new orleans will reopen tomorrow morning. >> not sure if i would be ready to go back. >>> house fires are not a threat just to people. they are a threat to family pets and first respond erps are fund rassing to get pet oxygen masks in every firefighter in the state. it raises money for police dogs but this year,

jersey. 101 in chicago. 110 in new orleans, 104 dallas. extensive heat advisories are in place up and down the midwest and here in the northeast. we talked about chicago down to memphis. in the midwest plenty of people are having fun in the sun. it was brutal yesterday in chicago. we are talking a heat index of 112 degrees. that is what it felt like yesterday with humidity.a record 49 million people will be traveling this week and of course, there will be some fun in the sun. >> it is hot outside. being in the house, it is still hot. >> i take my shirt off so i knew it would be hot out here. it has been amazing since i took my shirt off! >> i am planning on getting burned today. >> the heat index of 110 in new orleans, i do not know how you all do it down there. >> my mom is there. i spoke to her this morning. she said i'm going to church and then i'm going home and i will stay there inside. a smart lady! >> exactly, she is. >> for certain stretch of time, it is considered a heat wave. talk about the health risks. brian! who is byron? >> f

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. >> i joined brad in new orleans two years after hurricaine katrina devastated the lower ninth ward. >> that was where the barge went through. that's where the levee broke, right on the other side of this house. >> it's falling apart. get back, get back! come on. let's go for cover. >> pitt laid out an ambitious plan -- rebuild the neighborhood with affordable housing. >> in a tragedy like this, you know, we're supposed to help the most vulnerable. >> brad pledged $5 million of his own money and enlisted world class architects for his "make it right" campaign, but now, twelve years later, some residents claim the project isn't living up to it's promise. they say many homes have serious problems -- rotting wood, structural flaws, and mold. resident constance fowler lives next door to a "make it right" home she says was abandoned because of a mold problem. >> the problem has more do with design. flat roofs equal leaks, equal mold, equals trouble. >> 18 of the homes here appear to need new roofs, but we should point out more than 100 homes complete the development. so, what's being done

in his move to remove the last of new orleans' confederate monuments. mr. mayor, thank you very much. he's in the author of "in the shadow of statues: a white southerner confronts history." >> thanks for having me. >> the most famous political saying out of louisiana, james c carball, it ooh es the economy, stupid. gdp growth is 4.1% in the second quarter, unemployment at an 18-year low or near an 18-year low, the economy booming. why should voters look to democrats? >> it's a new development. we've had 19 months of growth since the great recession and president obama had four times economic growth. the long-term question are wages growing, are the right people getting the jobs, the resources, the job training? is american healing and moving together or moving in a different direction? the other thing, of course, you just had larry kudlow on saying trust me, it will sustain itself over time. likely the next quarter will be lower. we all hope it's higher. the elephant in the room is the trade war, whether or not the actions now taken by the president wil

in his decision to remove the last of new orleans' confederate monuments. mr. mayor, thank you very much. he's in the author of "in the shadow of statues: a white southerner confronts history." >> thanks for having me. >> the most famous political saying out of louisiana, james carville, it's the economy, stupid. gdp growth is 4.1% in the second quarter, unemployment at an 18-year low or near an 18-year low, the economy booming. why should voters look to democrats? >> it's a good number. we've had 93 months of growth since the great recession and president obama had four times economic growth. the long-term question are wages growing, are the right people getting the jobs, the resources, the job training? is american healing and moving together or moving in a different direction? the other thing, of course, you just had larry kudlow on saying trust me, it will sustain itself over time. likely the next quarter will be lower. we all hope it's higher. the elephant in the room is the trade war, whether or not the actions now taken by the president will undermin

this is what they went through in new orleans and baton rouge for girls segregated the high school and life threatening the difference that the girls started to fight back and actually that help to make the violent little more manageable. in general people want to know when i write about the jean women what happened afterwards? how did they survive this? most of them were exhausted emotionally and then to figure out what they want to do desegregate because what will people do? many failed out and then they had a hard time. the by the time i interviewed them for those six years after the fact, all of them had achieved to desegregate business offices the chicago symphony orchestra have taken these experiences to use those later in life and if you think about when i them throughout the united states, they did a lot and it was the kind of wisdom from desegregating faces about hatred and to not backhand how to survive. and then i would like to and take the question by mentioning she graduated from university of oklahoma first african-american to pass the bar was actually educated in oklahom

. >>> new orleans was the epicenter of female empowerment at the largest festival. the essence festival took over. janet jackson returned to the stage for the first time since her father, joe jackson, passed away. >> i didn't know how to move forward. if i should cancel this festival, cancel the entire tour. >> the 52-year-old held back tears, revealing it was the memory of her father that helped her push forward. >> i think my father -- i think my father would have said, "janet, please. finish what you've started." >> janet kicks off her "state of the world" tour wednesday in austin, texas, and last night in new orleans, she was closing out the essence festival. it included dozens of performances from blige and brandy. and it seems the annual event has grown in popularity since being featured in last year's comedy "girls trip." >> first of all, i blame you for all of this. >> i blame them for the success of girls trip. >> people were on bourbon street looking for the zipline. >> yeah. maybe someone should think of that. >>> coming up, our action-packed tom cruise e

why investigators think it could be part of the series of crimes. >>> plus, a scare at a new orleans zoo after a jaguar escapes. we're going to tell you about the killing spree it went on. ina coin shop. around 9 this morning, police say three armed robbers stormed >>> a string of armed robberies all targeting a coin shop. around 9:00 this morning three armed robbers stormed into the store on west third street demanding coins and other valuable merchandise. an employee confronted the robbers. one of the men fired a shot, but it did not hit the worker. the suspect then took off. several armed robbery reports over the past two months. they are now looking to see if these incidents are all related. >>> crazy story out of new orleans where a zoo is closed after a jaguar escaped from its habitat and killed six animals. happened this morning while the autobahn zoo was closed to the public. the adult jaguar killed four fox. anouown the jaguar and sedated him. officials say the first time an incident like this has happened in the history of that zoo. >> our guests and our staff and animals a

. >> and more than a million people were displaced from new orleans and surrounding areas there. hundreds of them ended up here in the d.c. area.ws and 4's jackie bensen covered some of their stories. >> that's right. she joins us tight with a story of an unexpected reconnection. im that's right. you know, som you get a story that stays in your heart and this is one, kiesha hale was just 12 when i met her. hererstory, strength and bravery in the face of the horror she lived through stayed with me. i wondered many times what became ofher. a few weeks ago, i received an e-mail that began "i'm not sure if you remember me," and i sent her a reply, how could i ever forget you. >> i'm speaking to you from the city of orleans. >> reporter: just 12 years old, kiesha hale sat next to mother in a relative's apartment in there was a look of dazed shock on her face as she watched then president george bush address the nation about the annihilation that was hurricane catrin. >> >> i think it's nice that he's get everything together now. people really need >> reporter: we met her days after sh

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. >>> new orleans was the epicenter of female empowerment at the largest festival. the essence festival took over. janet jackson returned to the stage for the first time since her father, joe jackson, passed away. >> i didn't know how to move forward. if i should cancel this festival, cancel the entire tour. >> the 52-year-old held back tears, revealing it was the memory of her father that helped her push forward. >> i think my father -- i think my father would have said, "janet, please. finish what you've started." >> janet kicks off her "state of the worl tour wednesday in austin, texas, and last night in new orleans, she was closing out the essence festival. it included dozens of performances from blige and brandy. and it seems the annual event has grown in popularity since being featured in last year's comedy "girls trip." >> first of all, i blame you for all of this. >> i blame them for the success of girls trip. >> people were on bourbon street looking for the zipline. >> yeah. maybe someone should think of that. >>> coming up, our action-packed tom cruise exc

i was on a boat in the port of new orleans right behind me yesterday afternoon. and one of the ports of the new orleans boats, and we were looking at the bulk container ships and the bulk break ships losing soybeans, losing aluminum, losing steel i think one of the things that is going to happen with this trade dispute is it will educate a lot of people in the united states that trade is actually a good thing, not something that we should be fighting against. >> yeah, walter, certainly we're seeing that play out in prices for things like soybeans, also some of the furniture stocks today and handbag maker stocks today. stay with us, because we want to get your thoughts on the other news of the day. 21st century fox raising its bid for sky as the company ramps up bid for comcast over control of the european broadcaster julia boor steen is joining us live from sun valley where the media moguls are meeting julia? >> reporter: good morning to you, morgan. the future of fox and the future of sky is very much in focus here in sun valley we caught up with rupert murdoch