>> new orleans, the city with the highest death rate in the country. streets typically vibrant with music and tourists, empty tonight. meantime, the hospitals are filled and rapidly running out of supplies. >> things were being said about whether you could or couldn't have a funeral, whether you should or shouldn't. the real concern was whether or not you came into contact with a live host of covid-19. and so brass band processions and horse and carriage processions are currently not in play. >> the idea of the jazz funeral is actually to help the family. and the journey from the church to the burying ground, it's a process where you can not only think and reflect, but you have people that are there to support you. >> we're a jazz funeral town. it's hard to tell a family you bul.t we have to..rafu >> that is very painful, particularly to a city like the city of new orleans, how we celebrate life, and how we celebrate death. ♪ ♪ >> you know, you say, "look, there's a limit, i'm sorry. you can't come in."pe s th ceyta gleetg. filrtled up. people want

he served as surveyor of customs for the post, as a surveyor for the port of new orleans. and he would hold many other positions. he had opportunities to retreat. the republican party in louisiana was deeply factionalized and longstreet could have chosen to alie in the 1870s with the more conservative of the louisiana republican factions with the liberal republicans who favored removing federal troops from the south and granting broad amnesty to confederates. but instead, longstreet chose in louisiana's bitter gubernatorial election cycle of 1873, he chose to back the faction led by union veterans. william h. kellogg and a black southerner led that. in a battle at liberty place, longstreet led the largely african-american new orleans metropolitan police and state militia and literally fought to defend the republican state government against a violent takeover by the white supremacist group, the white league, which was essentially a paramilitary arm full of confederate veterans, some of longstreet's own former soldiers of the democratic party. and in this battle in new orle

from his office in new orleans. give me some perspecti of how race has factored in to the relationships that the citizens have with what they would consider justice. >> we are the incarceration capital of the world. the united states leads in incarceration. louisiana leads the country. and the city of new orleans is responsible for most of those bodies in the state penitentiary. we also lead, here in new orleans, in the number of exonerations, meaning the wrong person was arrested, an innocent person sat in jail while the real perpetrator was left out on the city streets. we also have some of the highest rates of violent crime. so, what you see is this sort of disproportionate, inequitable justice has led us down a pathy of rendering us less safe. so, we've been unfair. we've been unsafe, and our project of undoing jim crow juries is about delivering that fairness and equity to start to rebuild trust. >> sreenivasan: we hear this term of wrongful conviction. when you give these individuals new trials, are you essent

>> new orleans, the city with the highest death rate in the country. streets typically vibrant with music and tourists, empty tonight. meantime, the hospitals are filled and rapidly running out of supplies. >> things were being said about whether you could or couldn't have a funeral, whether you should or shouldn't. the real concern was whether or not you came into contact with a live host of covid-19. and so brass band processions and horse and carriage processions are currently not in play. >> the idea of the jazz funeral is actually to help the family. and the journey from the church to the burying ground, it's a process where you can not only think and reflect, but you have people that are there to support you. >> we're a jazz funeral town. it's hard to tell a family you can't have a jazz funeral... but we have to. >> that is very painful, particularly to a city like the city of new orleans, how we celebrate life, and how we celebrate death. ♪ ♪ >> you know, you say, "look, there's a limit, i'm sorry. you can't come in." people start crying. th

in march of 1867, he wrote to the new orleans time the following. quote, there can be no discredit to a people for accepting the conditions offered by their conquerors, nor is there any occasion for feeling humiliation. we made an honest, and i may say a credible fight, but we have lost. let us come forward then, and accept the ends involved in the struggle. let us accept the terms, as we are duty bound to do. longstreet wrote the times again, a few days later, developing his theme. and again longstreet spoke of the need to accept defeat, only this time, he enumerated. exactly what he felt confederates had staked and lost in the war. the surrender of the confederate army in 1865 as wrote one, the right of secession. the surrender of the former political relations of the negros as he put it. and three the surrender of the southern confederacy. the south duty in his view, was to speed the work of reconstruction, and to put our people in a condition to make their own laws. so he noted in this letter, that he was aware of the prevailing southern opinion

in new orleans, marching band is a culture. just like in some places they have football as a culture. but here in this city, they live, breathe, eat, sleep, everything marching band. >> alfonsi: st. aug, as its known, is one of the few predominantly black, all-boys catholic high schools in the country. it sits in new orleans' seventh ward, seven blocks from the mississippi river-- not the part of the city usually found on postcards. the school is surrounded by reminders of a city forever rebuilding. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ray johnson: don't rush! >> alfonsi: in here, ray johnson is rebuilding too. >> ray johnson: accent! >> alfonsi: the "best band in the land" is more of a mission statement these days. >> ray johnson: you got wrong notes coming from over here. >> alfonsi: since hurricane katrina flooded the school in 2005, it's been a long haul. the music library is still a temporary trailer on the blacktop. >> ray johnson: school didn't come back the same. and instruments-- we didn't have enough. and the uniforms were damaged. so, we

new orleans has lagged behind on that. and it's frustrating to see that because covid, irrespective of what did you was going to hurt your business. but when you have the chance to open the doors back up, why not do so? and that hasn't been the case to the point where businesses and because we are so tourism related, those are things that are going to take a while to back up why not accelerate those patterns. it doesn't seem like the case. pete: feels like the governor has done a good job the city of new orleans holds back on tourism and that hurts. have a lot of folks to talk to you about at the diner. back to you in new york. steve: all right, pete, thank you very much. be back later on. straight ahead on wednesday, police in the nation are paying tribute to officer eric talley pictured screen right remembered as a hero for rushing into a boulder supermarket to save others during that shooting last week. this morning, an update from tunnel 2 towers on how you can help mr. tally's wife and seven children. that is next. â™

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. ♪ ♪ >>> when the pandemic hit, new orleans emerged as one of the nation's worst hot spots. and now a year later the city bears the scars from the virus that's hit its black community especially hard morgan radford has more ♪ >> reporter: a once vibrant city fueled by music and mardi gras, now reeling from the effects of tragedy how was your organization impacted by covid >> well, we lost 17 of our members. >> reporter: it's a story that's become all too common for the members of the zulu social club, one of the oldest mardi gras fraternal clubs in new orleans. a city where the per capita death rate from covid was once the highest in the u.s and where black residents account for 60% of the city's population but 72% of its covid-related deaths >> the devastation was highly concentrated on us >> reporter: do you think enough was done to stop the spread in the past year? >> this reminds me of like a katrina type of situation where you have so much catastrophic damage to businesses but it's not surface damage >> reporter: how does the pandemic compare to your experience of kat

host: had we not engineered new orleans with dikes would it continue to grow? >> parts of it would be growing parts would be shrinking that is the natural process the river overflows the banks to lay down land known as the delta lobe to geologist and then the river has then impeded its own flow the greeting becomes too steep so the river decides to find a faster route to the sea and then it slips course that is known as he motion and geologist have very carefully reconstructed the history of the mississippi there have been half a dozen devotions the last several thousand years and each time it lays down a new stretch of land in the natural course of events those would be sinking away and a new one created. now what was happened because he put the mississippi in a straitjacket that all the sediment that is in the mississippi gets shot out the end of the birds but the spit of land south of new orleans. host: elizabeth t13 you visited the site upriver where the actual flow of the river is controlled. correct? >> i yes. >> it is called old river control this gets b

>> guillermo: i love you and i love new orleans. >> you're shining like new money, i see you. [ laughter ] i have a tray. not to be outdone by guillermo. >> jimmy: uh-huh? okay? >> i put together a tray. >> jimmy: great. [ cheers and applause ] >> see that? guillermo-style. >> jimmy: okay. >> guillermo: okay. >> so i -- i'm going to show you how to make a mexican mojito. >> jimmy: perfect, you're mexican, right? >> guillermo: yes, let's see that, i want to see that, okay? [ laughter ] >> okay. so what you do is, i like mine with mezcal. i got a nice mezcal here. so 2 ounces of mezcal. >> jimmy: okay. >> a nice, generous pour. >> jimmy: you're not making me one, i guess? >> guillermo: oh, oh yeah, sorry. [ laughter ] >> two straws, y'all can share, it's on "lady and the tramp." i'm not going to say which one is the tramp. >> guillermo: all right. >> so then you get you a nice ginger beer. 1.5 ounces of ginger beer on 2 ounces of tequila. >> oh, he's free pouring, okay. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's a professional, anthony. >> exactly. not his first st. paddy's. >> guillermo: yeah. >> .75 ou

>> guillermo: i love you and i love new orleans. >> you're shining like new money, i see you. [ laughter ] i have a tray. not to be outdone by guillermo. >> jimmy: uh-huh? okay? >> i put together a tray. >> jimmy: great. [ cheers and applause ] >> see that? guillermo-style. >> jimmy: okay. >> guillermo: okay. >> so i -- i'm going to show you how to make a mexican mojito. >> jimmy: perfect, you're mexican, right? >> guillermo: yes, let's see that, i want to see that, okay? >> okay. so what you do is, i like mine with mezcal. i got a nice mezcal here. so 2 ounces of mezcal. >> jimmy: okay. >> a nice, generous pour. >> jimmy: you're not making me one, i guess? >> guillermo: oh, oh yeah, sorry. [ laughter ] >> two straws, y'all can share, it's on "lady and the tramp." i'm not going to say which one is the tramp. >> guillermo: all right. >> so then you get you a nice ginger beer. 1.5 ounces of ginger beer on 2 ounces of tequila. >> guillermo: you know what this. >> oh, he's free pouring, okay. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: he's a professional, anthony. >> exactly. not his first st. paddy's. >> guill

that's particularly a problem in the city like new orleans. but it's not just said this is actually true. if the new orleans southern louisiana loses a football field worth of land basically every 90 minutes. peter: that said, having not engineered new orleans dikes in the truck, louisiana continue to grow.ou elizabeth: parts of it would be going and parts of it would be shrinking. thus the natural duct tape, processes, the river overflows its banks and lays down this voltage land which is known as a delta load. to dig geologists and then the river has impeded its own flow. this radiant becomes too steep for the river and the river decides okay let's find it faster route to the state. mixups course. and that's known as impulsion. and geologists carefully reconstructed the history and there have been at least half a dozen emulsions in the last several thousand years. and each time the river they downed a new set of land and then in the natural course. the overloads would be sinking away in the new laws would be created. because of the way we ba

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what's happening in new orleans? >> reporter: we're following audi, tracks down students who don't show up for school. >> did she go to school today? >> that's me. >> that's you? >> i like to show my i.d. and badge in the open to give them a little bit of comfort i'm from a school, not from new orleans police department. nobody home? yeah. so try to move on. i just feel like throughout the city's just like feel like kids are getting lost. >> reporter: pandemic has wreaked havoc on the lives of just about every american student. students from underserved communities, impact is even worse. experts are still gathering national data but there's anecdotal evidence of economically disadvantaged students and students of color getting left behind and sometimes dropping out of the system altogether. research shows that students who lack high-speed internet access, experiencing homelessless or living in foster care are higher risk. estimated 3 million marginalized students like that were missing from u.s. public schools by lat

about, yeah, quite a ways north of new orleans, maybe 100 miles north even. maybe not quite that much. to basically freeze the river in place. but at that point, 30% of the water that went by old river control, 70% was going down the main branch. so that was every day, you know, that water flow is measured and adjusted accordingly to try to maintain that flow at 30/70. that's -- >> host: that's quite an engineering feat, isn't it? >> guest: yes, it is. and very nearly it ran out of control in the '70s during a huge flooding event in the '70s. it had to be shored up and more controls added. but since then i think it has, you know, kept control of the mississippi. 70% of that water is still flowing past new orleans and down into the bird's foot. but, you know, how long that can go on is unclear. i mean, certainly it can be perpetuated for a while. but in the grand scheme of yeeology, i think -- gee ology, i think eventually it can't be maintained. >> host: you talk about this in your new book, would change the direction of the chicago river. >> guest: yeah. tha

saying he's retiring only from football, not from new orleans. in a video, his four children say they're thrilled he will be retiring to spend more time with them. >>> and a spacex falcon 9 rocket launching successfully from florida around 6:00 a.m. this morning, sending 60 satellites into orbit. minutes later, this sight over new jersey. 1,000 miles away. not a ufo, but exhaust from that rocket. >>> and when we come back, a tribute to the front line workers in the pandemic. intimate portraits, and a story only they can tell. be right back. with moderate to severe crohn's disease, i was there, just not always where i needed to be. is she alright? i hope so. so i talked to my doctor about humira. i learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief in as little as 4 weeks. and many achieved remission that can last. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis, and

what's happening in new orleans. >> we're following serrano. he tracks down students who don't show up for school. >> did you go to school today? >> this is me. >> oh, that's you? >> i just like to show my i.d., my badge just out in the open. >> just to give them a little comfort i am from a school and not from new orleans police department. >> nobody home? >> no one home, yeah. so try to move on. i just feel like throughout the city it's just like, you know, just feel like kids are getting lost. >> reporter: the pandemic has wreaked havoc on the lives of just about every american student. and for students from underserved communities, the impact has been even worse. experts are still gathering national data on just how bad things are. but there's anecdotal evidence all over the country of economically disadvantaged students and students of color getting left behind. and sometimes dropping out of the system altogether. research shows that students who lack high-speed internet access or who are experiencing homelessness or live in foster care ar

starts when at the french settled new orleans which is in a strategically, incredibly important spot, where the mississippi -- right before the mississippi hits the gulf of mexico, and all of the land in southern louisiana, all of the mississippi delta was formed when the mississippi would overflow its banks, which it used to do all the time and it was carrying a great dole of sediment from the great plains, and it would drop that sediment as it overflowed, and all of the land in southern louisiana is this kind of soupy deltaic soil and those soils require being replenished by the river or they sink, and new orleans is sinking very fast. one of the fastest sinking places on earth because we prevented the mississippi from flooding, quite successfully, sometimes they're disastrous exceptions but basically we prevent the mississippi from flooding so all of southern louisiana is sinking away, and this is obviously particularly a problem in a city like new orleans but it said and it is not just said, this is actually true, that southern louisiana loses a football field's worth of land basi

is more lax, but new orleans is the fuel that drives the rest of the parishes and we have to get new orleans back to normal. >> well, new orleans is the draw and so if they are not functioning well, we don't get the overflow and most people that live in jefferson parish, we go to new orleans all the time. it's not a big difference, but that's where the restaurants are in the music and it's really hurt us all over louisiana for mac i in downtown new orleans in the french quarter yesterday behaving myself and you could start to feel it come alive a bit, but a lot of businesses are still closed and with such a huge tourism industry, cruiseship's, everything has to happen kind of at once and when it does you feel like new orleans is ready to go. do you hope by summer it will be gangbusters? >> yes. >> pete, we are big on change. we are big on small businesses and homegrown businesses, our restaurants and we are renowned for those. if you give people money they don't go back to work. reporter: you talked about that a lot. getting people back to work and they don't necessarily have to beca

ing out of new orleans. >> not moving to new orleans. [laughter] so i'm living out of a hotel and getting divorced and a face time dad. >> sorry all good material. [laughter] >> all good material. >> how you can mind this -- and -- is there -- i didn't hear is there a raise or anything? no. greg: we'll talk about it after the show. >> that means there's nothing. >> thank you for having me. [laughter] >> tom. you're going to be -- going to be so excited to be continuing my deborah impersonation and show goes to weeknights going to be fantastic. but yeah we're going to be -- lots of stuff. special plans for you. >> you know what i don't think it is gong to work. >> didn't you say that about first show. >> i was right on the -- >> you are undertakers of your career. when we show up it means show is over. >> right. [laughter] greg: all right we'll be right back after this. an invitation... ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. get 0% apr financing on the 2021 rx 350. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. i'm not hun

yes, anthony mackie joining us live from the air base in his beloved hometown of new orleans. >> what a great guy. >>> it is st. patrick's day. helping us celebrate are incredible irish step dancer taking over tiktok with over 2 million followers since last year. the videos are getting the attention of people around the world including shakira who shared this video of the guy who is dancing to her hit song. they have a very special performance all the way from ireland coming up. >> we are looking forward to that. >>> first more of my interview with president biden. he has not done many interviews since he took office so did cover a lot of ground including what's next on his agenda in the face of republican opposition on things like voting rights and tax increases on the wealthy. we talked about vice president kamala harris and his rescue dog major. you are he out here selling your relief package. what's next on your agenda. >> the criticism of the covid relief package from my republican friends, as they say it spends too much money and gives too many tax breaks. all go to the bottom 6

ing out of new orleans. >> not moving to new orleans. [laughter] so i'm living out of a hotel and getting divorced and a face time dad. >> sorry all good material. [laughter] >> all good material. >> how you can mind this -- and -- is there -- i didn't hear is there a raise or anything? no. greg: we'll talk about it after the show. >> that means there's nothing. >> thank you for having me. [laughter] >> tom. you're going to be -- going to be so excited to be continuing my deborah impersonation and show goes to weeknights going to be fantastic. but yeah we're going to be -- lots of stuff. special plans for you. >> you know what i don't think it is gong to work. >> didn't you say that about first show. >> i was right on the -- >> you are undertakers of your career. when we show up it means show is over. >> right. [laughter] greg: all right we'll be right back after this. ♪ and a little bit of chicken fried ♪ ♪ cold beer on a friday night ♪ ♪ a pair of jeans that fit just right ♪ ♪ and the radio up ♪ get 5 boneless wings for

ing out of new orleans. >> not moving to new orleans. [laughter] so i'm living out of a hotel and getting divorced and a face time dad. >> sorry all good material. [laughter] >> all good material. >> how you can mind this -- and -- is there -- i didn't hear is there a raise or anything? no. greg: we'll talk about it after the show. >> that means there's nothing. >> thank you for having me. [laughter] >> tom. you're going to be -- going to be so excited to be continuing my deborah impersonation and show goes to weeknights going to be fantastic. but yeah we're going to be -- lots of stuff. special plans for you. >> you know what i don't think it is gong to work. >> didn't you say that about first show. >> i was right on the -- >> you are undertakers of your career. when we show up it means show is over. >> right. [laughter] greg: all right we'll be right back after this. if these beautiful idaho potato recipes are just side dishes, then i'm not a real idaho potato farmer. genuine idaho potatoes not just a side dish anymore. always look for

a career-ending injury with san diego, and new orleans was decimated after hurricane katrina. decimated. i thought, how will these two things come together and create magic and you ended up winning the super bowl -- the saints won the super bowl a few years later it should not have worked, that combination. why do you think it did? >> you know, i feel like there was divine intervention there. i can remember like it was yesterday, britney and i visiting new orleans it was six months post katrina, and the city was in shambles i think the saints were trying to show up the best of the city. they were trying to show us, you know, maybe some neighborhoods that were still intact and, "hey, look, you can live here, raise a family this is a great place. it wasn't until sean payton got lost driving us back to the saints facility, because keep in mind, he'd been there a month. and he got lost in lakeview right next to the 17th street canal where some of the worst flooding and destruction occurred i remember seeing houses ripped off the foundations. at one point, the car stopped, and we b

like a new orleans blues bar. lemonis: does it feel like a blues bar in here? lady: it does not feel like a blues bar. lemonis: and so what's the model that you use for pricing? lady: so, basically, we have about a 50% margin, which is a huge improvement for us, just by trying -- lemonis: so you're proven, but you're not gonna get there. lady: no. lemonis: today, blues jean bar is operating at about a 50% margin. the retail minimum for a clothing store should be north of 60%. if they want to make more money, they need to compliment the jeans with more products that have higher margin. for example, if jeans had a 50% margin and a t-shirt has a 70% margin and a sweater has a 68% margin, you'll add those all together and come up with a blended average -- somewhere around 62%. why is the inventory so anemic? lady: well, i think we've been cash-poor. i have been trying to pay old debt and buy new inventory. -lemonis: at the same time. -lady: at the same time. amy: our stacks used to be, you know -- every single one was

orleans in new orleans more than 60% of the population is african-american. but 80 some 80 to 85 or higher percent of the wealth is owned by the white community. right, but that's a reality. great, so i have a theater company and i want my theater company to be financially successful. that means i've got to charge. 50 let's just i'll be conservative. let me say i had to charge $30 for a ticket, right? the largest portion of the population can't afford my $30 tickets this past weekend. i went and i saw a racing in the sun at ashe cultural center. twenty five dollars to get in and see it. white no, and i say there. okay, so there are groups of black people in new orleans that were like, you know, what if we're gonna support a theater. we're gonna pick this one. so i went and saw that and there was a largely black audience but one of the realities here is if i've got 250 seats or 200 seats in my audience. i've got to market it market that to the people who have money. so this play in fact all of august wilson's plays. are aware of the realities of that? right. i

in new orleans more than 60% of the population is african-american. but 80 to 85 or higher percent of the wealth is owned by the white community. but that's a reality. great, so i have a theater company and i want my theater company to be financially successful. that means i've got to charge -- let's just -- i'll be conservative. let me say i had to charge $30 for a ticket, right? the largest portion of the population can't afford my $30 tickets. this past weekend i went and saw "raisin in the sun." it's $25 to get in and see it. there are groups of black people in new orleans that were like, you know what, if we're going to support a theater, we're going to pick this one. so i went and saw that and there was a largely black audience. but one of the realities here is, if i've got 250 seats or 200 seats in my audience, i've got to market that to the people who have money. so this play -- in fact, all of august wilson's plays are aware of the realities of that, right? it's putting black lives and black existence on -- can you give me an example that's h

ing out of new orleans. >> not moving to new orleans. [laughter] so i'm living out of a hotel and getting divorced and a face time dad. >> sorry all good material. [laughter] >> all good material. >> how you can mind this -- and -- is there -- i didn't hear is there a raise or anything? no. greg: we'll talk about it after the show. >> that means there's nothing. >> thank you for having me. [laughter] >> tom. you're going to be -- going to be so excited to be continuing my deborah impersonation and show goes to weeknights going to be fantastic. but yeah we're going to be -- lots of stuff. special plans for you. >> you know what i don't think it is gong to work. >> didn't you say that about first show. >> i was right on the -- >> you are undertakers of your career. when we show up it means show is over. >> right. [laughter] greg: all right we'll be right back after this. it all starts with an invitation... ...to experience lexus. the invitation to lexus sales event. get 0% apr financing on the 2021 is 300. experience amazing at your lexus

after i'd been photographing the architecture in new orleans for a while, i wanted to get back to my love of the natural world, but i didn't know the path to it. hurricane katrina, of course, happened, and that was a huge water story, how water came into the city of new orleans. and then the disaster with the oil spill in the gulf of mexico, that was another story that was connected to the water. both of these were dramatic photographic events that captureded allll o of o our att. i just realized that in louiuisiana all o of the storir comeme from thehe water. the photographs are made of natural subjects, they're made of trees, made of water, and made of skies and stars, but they're made for people. and the most profound way that we connect with people is through relationships and something we can all understand, we all understand the shape of an embrace. they become something that has a human connection in it. >> reporter: relle's former studio director believes that human connection has the power to reflect both our pessimism and our optimism, sometimes together. >> i think that fr

i interviewed six tennis players from the university of new orleans who are from germany, france and australia. the sense of appreciation they had for the fact they were able to come out here, between 19 and 22 years old, and get vaccinated was acute, because in their own countries, they can't get vaccines right now. they're not sure when they will ever get the vaccine, if it's not 2022, if it's later this year, they're not sure. some of the pullback and hesitancy you're seeing in communities, you really see where this country is evolving and where we're trying to go. let's talk to an organizer of this event, dawn peavy. thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> how emboldened are you by the cars you're seeing right now? >> this makes my heart so happy, bring the vaccine to the community. as you mentioned, the appreciation and the smiles on people's faces is so powerful. it's been a great day. >> some of the local polling here from the npr station showed that 57 of the 64 parishes of counties in this area showed the black population underrepresented in terms of getting the v

but let's move on to news from new orleans, where the drinks are strong, the people are friendly, and the waynes are lil. today is mardi gras, when the city would normally throw its famous costumed parade. but in corona times, things are a little more subdued. >> it may be the quietest bourbon street has ever been on mardi gras. normally the heart of the city's most-iconic celebration, the french quarter, is virtually empty. almost a year into the pandemic, new orleans isn't taking any chances. it limited liquor sales and shut down all bars for the five days leading up to fat tuesday. >> it's not going to not be celebrated. it's just going to be celebrated differently. >> local artists are turning mardi gras into yardi gras, with themed outdoor displays inspired by both tradition and pop culture. even a global pandemic can't keep these beads away. >> trevor: yes, friends. this year, mardis gras is yardis gras. and i think this is the right move. the sooner the people of new orleans can stop the spread of covid, the sooner they can get back to spreading gonorrhea. and, yeah, it's sad.

get to the deep south, new orleans, alabama, mississippi, mid-70s. another nice warmup headed our way for the east coast i'll show you when. >> finally getting nice around here thank you, janessa. >>> we'll be right back in two minutes. we've got new details on the horrific highway crash in california. >>> plus a celebrity chef pays it forward to help restaurants in need. have you seen mine? like looking in a mirror, right? now that one makes sense. look guys, i don't even have a stand-in. of course, you do. hold on, is that drake?? that's right. drake from state farm. (in unison) like a good neighbor (in unison again) like a good neighbor hey, stand-ins don't have lines. oh, okay. like a good neighbor, state farm is there ♪ ♪ ♪thick like homemade. no way around it.♪ ♪prego's so good they may as well crown it.♪ ♪your sauce is lookin' think hon' fix that quick.♪ ♪when you're in my house you pour it on thick.♪ ever wonder why your just washed laundry doesn'tk smell... just washed.k.♪ that's because there's hidden sweat and body so

players in the nfl is stepping away from the game new orleans quarterback drew brees is retiring after 20 seasons in the league, 15 with the saints the 42-year-old announced his retirement on sunday saying this is not goodbye, rather a new beginning. this morning, drew brees will join hoda kotb live one interview on his decision and to share what's next for the future hall of famer. >>> president biden is gearing up for showdown with big tech, tapping two major critics of giants like amazon, facebook, google, and apple for roles in the administration our jake ward has more good morning, jake >> good morning, frances we heard the president on the campaign trail talk about the need to take on big tech and there has been a lot of rhetoric on both sides of the aisles about it. what we're seeing here, though, with the nomination of lena kahn to the ftc and tim wu at columbia on track to join the economic council, both these people who are not just politically interested in this, but know an incredible amount about how tech works in the past we've seen regulations and administrators coming i

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new orleans even come close. the president then responded to the situation at the southern border and said the focus should be on why migrant children are fleeing their home countries because of earthquakes floods. it's because of lack of food as because of gang violence. but republicans like west virginia senator shelley moore capital say the biden administration needs to do more to discourage migrants from crossing the border. >> first of all, put sending signals that if you come here and you step onto soil of the united states. you're going to stay and go into the country and you're asylum case is going to be heard and 45 years on capitol hill. lawmakers are considering a bill that would lower the barriers for voting president biden says he supports it and condemned states that acting voting restrictions. when i'm worried about is how an american. this whole initiative it's sick. next week the president plans to roll out the next phase of his domestic agenda. now in that press conference today, the president w

there's a new position, why i never thought i could run for election in the city of new orleans. i was approached by a judge who saw me day in, day out in court representing victims of domestic violence. it was a new area of law that judges were getting acquainted to and i was going through the ada commission on domestic violence and i got my training and able to represent victims of domestic abuse and when the judge approached me and said you know more than any of us on this bench. why don't you run for the family court seat. we doesn't have a family court in new orleans and you should run for that seat and i did and i am so humbled by that because, you know, to run an election, being an indian-american was very, very humbling for me. so, yes, you need to go after what you want, have that dream, have the passion, but you also need a mentor to encourage you and that's what i do now as a judge mentoring new law students. >> we touched on this, you all stood on the shoulders of someone, they're nameless, but the question is to recognize you didn't get where you were alone, you had

i never thought i could run for election in the city of new orleans. i was approached by a judge who saw me day in, day out in court representing victims of domestic violence. it was a new area of law that judges were getting acquainted to and i was going through the ada commission on domestic violence and i got my training and able to represent victims of domestic abuse and when the judge approached me and said you know more than any of us on this bench. why don't you run for the family court seat. we doesn't have a family court in new orleans and you should run for that seat and i did and i am so humbled by that because, you know, to run an election, being an indian-american was very, very humbling for me. so, yes, you need to go after what you want, have that dream, have the passion, but you also need a mentor to encourage you and that's what i do now as a judge mentoring new law students. >> we touched on this, you all stood on the shoulders of someone, they're nameless, but the question is to recognize you didn't get where you were alone, you had

new orleans, jackson, birmingham and so many smaller towns and cities in the path of this. and of course, another real concern that this line of storms will be hitting after dark. ginger with the track and abc's victor oquendo in birmingham, alabama. >> reporter: a dangerous, potentially deadly night ahead across a huge swath of the south. the storm prediction center warning of a rare high risk threat level for long-track, intense tornadoes. >> literally like a tornado and -- >> reporter: wayne county, mississippi, and chilton county, alabama, among places twisters reported already. >> oh, major tornado. major, major! >> reporter: these university of alabama students sheltering in a parking garage. >> there is a tornado down. it's very dangerous. this is about six miles south of downtown tuscaloosa. >> reporter: it's just after 1:00 here in birmibirmingham. we are under a tornado watch. officials want to make sure that people have a plan in place and know where shelters like this one are located. this one can hold 80 people, and as you can see, they're starting to file in.

meantime new orleans is so hot and heavy for russell wilson that the mayor made this blatant play for cr is man. and i want to make sure that you saying that you and your beautiful family and can the mayor of the city new orleans and i know. mister wilson that you be a great addition to the new orleans saints and more i bowl championship want safety and the the see here will be on main during the just want to stop the intellect know that we not only in my we we want love you last you. >>a bold seattle's mayor tweeted back keep your eyes off of russell. not to mention of the moment, the states are still buried you brees who say look at why else would he post this work out and remind everybody that he's still got what it takes to push a sled. and to play football impressive at the age of 42. you know, i don't watch football. but how can you not road for alex smith. he gets a gruesome leg injury then of flesh eating bacteria that almost killed him, he lives to walk and play another day at least washington's football team all the way the playoffs. but now after all of that. they're expect

orleans and i'm mister wilson that you be a great addition to the new orleans saints and more i bowl championship. one and the the see here will be on main during the just want to stop him to let you know we not only in my we we want love you last oh you. >>a bold seattle's mayor tweeted back keep your eyes off of russell. not to mention of the moment, the states are still buried to do brees who say look at why else would he post this work out and remind everybody that he's still got what it takes to push a sled. to play football impressive at the age of 42. you know, i don't watch football. but how can you not road for alex smith. he gets a gruesome leg injury then of flesh eating bacteria that almost killed him, he lives to walk and play another day at least washington's football team all the way the playoffs. but now after all of that. they're expected to kick him to the curb in the coming days in change i know that you have been a fan. i'm alex smith's since 9 or days is 49 even when they were parting ways with him you are like gosh i just think he's such a great guy he had a lot

activity it takes me back to 2005 when with hurricane katrina in new orleans and the cubans are free doctors new orleans is right there you know bordering the caribbean sea and the cubans could get doctors there and offer doctors quicker than the president the time george bush could pardon this ideological war into quote leaks that garcia general hospital in havana the life of one person is worth more than all the private property of the rich in the world and i think we see that for the u.s. that's not the priority this is more about politics than saving human lifetimes. i just want to do just coming back to the point i made you think that both well actually so a grade to this i mean what sort of leverage does america have over brazilian politics i can understand personally why he would just say yeah the russian backed thing. well they'll be elections next year so this was certainly one of the issues that you could be a bombshell seen as u.s. officials try to bribe riverine officials and lean on them to take back scenes from elsewhere putting their own interests in front of us lives

new orleans, jackson, birmingham and so many smaller towns and cities in the path of this. and of course, another real concern that this line of storms will be hitting after dark. ginger with the track and abc's victor oquendo in birmingham, alabama. >> reporter: a dangerous, potentially deadly night ahead across a huge swath of the south. the storm prediction center warning of a rare high risk threat level for long-track, intense tornadoes. >> literally like a tornado and -- >> reporter: wayne county, mississippi, and chilton county, alabama, among places where tornadoes were reported already. >> oh, major tornado. major, major! >> reporter: in tuscaloosa, these university of alabama students sheltering in a parking garage. >> there is a tornado down. it's very dangerous. this is about six miles south of downtown tuscaloosa. >> reporter: it's just after 1:00 here in birmingham. we are under a tornado watch. and officials want to make sure that people have a plan in place and they know where shelters like this one are locate. this one can hold 80 people, and as you can see,