and new orleans is a triumph in that sense. >> if you are not from new orleans, and much of the country has moved on, rightly or wrongly from katrina, what is in this that brings you to this series? >> well, as david was saying, the culture of new orleans is something that is a part of our daily lives, more than any other place that i've ever been, and i live here in new orleans, new york, and los angeles. and you know, when we ask about our day, if i call home, like, how was your day, the response is, well, it was pretty good. we had red beans for lunch, you know and we're going to have some baked chicken and do shrimp creole for dinner. so we talk about our cuisine and say, a little bit later i'll go here on frenchman street. so it's going to be a good day. so it's on the front burner of our lives. it's very impactful. and i think when you understand that culture is an intersection between people and how they deal with life, that that's the place we reflect on our past, hope for our future. you know, then you understand its importance, what thoughts are to an individual. that's what c

i have lived here in new orleans, new york and los angeles. when we ask about our day, how was your day? the response was, it was pretty good. we had red beans for lunch. we are going to have some baked chicken and shrimp creole and a little later on, i am going to hear john boute on frenchman's street. so it is going to be a good day. it is on the front burner of our lives. it is very impactful. when you understand that culture is the intercession between people and how they deal with life, that's the place where we reflect on our past, hope for our future, then you understand its importance, what thoughts are to an individual. that's what culture should be for a community as a whole. i think we in new orleans understand that. america can learn a lesson from us. >> david, there is a scene in the movie where the british reporter is talking about why should we care about new orleans. >> why should the american taxpayer foot the bill to fix new orleans? >> when don't we rebuild our great cities. >> reporter: let's say new orleans was once the gr

senator mary and joins us tonight from new orleans. i don't know whether to call you lieutenant governor or mayor. >> mitch will be good. tavis: we have been friendses a long time. you deserve to be called mayor. >> thank you very much, tavis. great to be with you. tavis: why would anybody respectfully want to be mayor of a city with this many challenges? >> i get asked that question a lot. there are some people that like walking into situations that are calm and peaceful. other people really like challenges. i happen to be one of those individuals that likes going where you needed the most and where you can do the most good. on top of that, it is much more basic. this is my home. it is the only place my father and brothers and sisters and kids have ever known. we're a resilient people. we love this place with all of our heart and soul. i wanted to try to make it better. tavis: you think you can do that? >> i can that i can.u@his now f years. 16 as a legislator and six as a lieutenant governor. everybody has to do what it is that they

>> it was a near-death experience for new orleans. years later, the city is well along the path to recovery, although not all of the way they're in any fundamental areas. there are still profound problems -- not all of the way they're -- there in any fundamental areas. one of the things that brought it back more than any political or economic dynamic, because there were a lot of failures, but one of the things that worked in its favor was the culture. the culture refused to die. the mardi gras indians, the jazz, the musicians. these things, they just refuse to quit, and it was not a political act for these things to come back. it was just for people involved in it that culture, what they needed to do. whether in baton rouge or houston, they had to come home. tavis: the american people have katrina fatigue, americans can together and did a lot after the storm, but five years later, i could argue with you that americans have katrina fatigue. i raise that to ask again haggle about convincing a major network like hbo that we should do a s

we are live tonight from new orleans. joining me the man who [ inaudible ] [ cheering ] >> sean: mississippi governor haley barbour. governor how are you? >> i'm great sean. >> sean: 1969 you had your first. >> first conference was held in new orleans in 1969. today the largest crowd by far we've ever had. i don't have to explain the enthusiasm to you. sean no. let me start with newt gingrich said. he's been going around the country quoting you saying numbers are better now than they were in 1994 when republicans took over 54 seats. is that overly optimistic? >> the fact is that today in april of 2010 the political environment is better for republicans than in april of 1994. there is no question about that it is not even close. the issue of course is, seven months to the election. what are our people gonna do for the next seven months to be sure that the win is just as much [ inaudible ] >> sean: what is interesting is after the bribery for health care. after cap and tax, stimulus, unemployment 9.7%, weakening of our nati

we are live tonight from new orleans. joining me the man who [ inaudible ] [ cheering ] >> sean: mississippi governor haley barbour. governor how are you? >> i'm great sean. >> sean: 1969 you had your first. >> first conference was held in new orleans in 1969. today the largest crowd by far we've ever had. i don't have to explain the enthusiasm to you. sean no. let me start with newt gingrich said. he's been going around the country quoting you saying numbers are better now than they were in 1994 when republicans took over 54 seats. is that overly optimistic? >> the fact is that today in april of 2010 the political environment is better for republicans than in april of 1994. there is no question about that it is not even close. the issue of course is, seven months to the election. what are our people gonna do for the next seven months to be sure that the win is just as much [ inaudible ] >> sean: what is interesting is after the bribery for health care. after cap and tax, stimulus, unemployment 9.7%, weakening of our nati

and here is palin today in new orleans reacting to the president. let's listen. >> now, the president, with all the vast nuclear experience that he acquired as a community organizer and as a part-time senator and as a full-time candidate, all that experience and no accomplishment today with north crea and iran. >> apparently she says nuclear like bush does. >> i don't understand why you wouldn't say have the word properly. isn't it a mistake for the president to get down in a ditch with her? >> yes. he is a guy who is at least going to try to answer the question. sarah palin said this about nuclear weapons and your policy and what do you think? if you watch that, he essentially said, i don't think much of it, moving on. so, he tried to address it, but, yeah, of course it is. it's great. a great day for sarah palin. the president of the united states got in a real tiff with her and, like it or not, chris, she speaks in sound bites. that's the way most people -- >> pat's rule, the nixon rule in the old days and a darn good rule attack up. don't attack

the republicans having a big event, southern republican leadership conference in new orleans. it is a bit of an early cattle call for the 2012 campaign. >> right. >> we've had a lot of agreement but also a little bit of disagreement in tonight. i want you to listen one of the big questions should the republicans be the party of no or some say the party of yes? listen to a divide between the former speaker newt gingrich and the former alaska governor sarah palin. >> there is no shame in being the party of no if they're proposing the other side proposing an idea that violates our values, violates our conscience, violates our constitution. >> i think we should decide we're going to be the party of yes. there are many things that we can say yes to. >> they agree on a lot of issues but there's a clear difference in their tone. how does that play out? >> you can tell who has been in washington and who hasn't. all the people in washington for a time say they have to be the party of yes. the same with newt gingrich here. although at the end of the day the statement gingrich and palin

it is called "trumay" about new orleans, post katrina new orleans. it was a fascinating discussion of, a political discussion as well. hbo, we should add, is somewhat of a sister network, all of us working for time warner. >> candy, thank you. always a pleasure when you join us. i wish i could be down there in new orleans with you but i will be watching you tomorrow. >> reporter: it's great. >> thank, candy. >>> police come hard at anti-government protesters. and when all this is over, more than a dozen people were dead, details just ahead here on cnn. >>> and if you think carry-on baggage is a cheaper way to fly, your wallet is in for a rude awakening. ceo of spirit airlines joins us next to explain why you can fly cheap, but your luggage pays full price. . >>> it is a weekend, but there is a lot going on. poland is in mourning today after an early morning plane crash in russia killed the country's president lech kaczynski. also among the 100 dead, the polish first lady and many leaders. the delegation had gone to russia to mark the 70th anniversary

one is, in terms of his early life there is an hook called louis armstrong's in new orleans. it is sort of set in context. what did you bring new informationally about his early life that we don't have from other books, not that is one-- in the second, how did he react to all the criticism he got from other jazz musicians in the younger, newer wave of the 60s and who did not like his sort of what they viewed as uncle tom of the stage at. how did he react to that? >> bears a whole bunch of questions there. thomas brothers is the most important scholarly monograph ever written about armstrong. it is a thorough prospectus of armstrong's early years. i think beyond what others did which was to look at all of the existing on site primary sources in new orleans and he was able to do this before hurricane katrina, what i bring to it is not new factual information about armstrong's younger years because they are younger as far as the facts go, but a be a different, perhaps a wider cultural perspective to set them in a larger frame and particularly the frame of someone who has been a

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i would like to welcome you to new orleans. i hope he will take time -- i hope you will take time out to spend all the money that you have before you leave and enjoy new orleans. [applause] please stand and let us pray together. heavenly father, we thank you for this gift of life. we thank you for bringing us together to share our life stories, power struggles, and sufferings, to share our hope and vision for the future of this great nation. we are also mindful of those who are not with us here today. we pray for the families of the 29 miners who died in west virginia. we pray for our troops in iraq and afghanistan. we prayed for all of those who at this time to not have a job and are struggling to make ends meet. we pray for all those who are sick and suffering, especially in haiti. amidst the trials and tribulations of life, we ask that you would teach us to be generous. teach us to serve you as you deserve, to give, to fight, to 12, to labor and not ask for words. we know that we're doing your will. amen. >> we will now welc

updating the schools in new orleans ... and washington, d.c. regulating internet providers and getting rid of guinea worm. but first: turmoil erupted today in kyrgyzstan. opposition leaders there claimed police shot and killed 100 protesters in the capital and they claimed to have ousted the government. gwen ifill has the story. >> reporter: the streets of bishkek descended into chaos as thousands of people marched through the city brandishing rifles. fire consumed vehicles. and the protesters stormed government buildings and took over the state television headquarters. at first, riot police fired rubber bullets into the air to keep the crowds at bay, but that escalated into live ammunition. hundreds were hurt, and footage showed some of the injured being carried away. >> ( translated ): people are unhappy. look around here, young people, we all are poor, no jobs. they are shooting at people, you can see for yourselves. after this, i think there will be blood for blood. >> ifill: at a news conference, bakiyev reported violence had broken out in

sarah palin wrapping up a firey speech in new orleans about 20 minute ago. palin taking to the stage to thundering applause in new orleans at the southern leadership conference. doug schoen is my guest now. you watched with it. i want to get your overall impression first. >> sarah palin uniquely speaks to the republican base. that's her strength and her weakness because she doesn't reach independents and she doesn't reach democrats. the hearts and minds of republicans she speaks to. megyn: we saw a dust-up between palin and the president. she took a shot at him because of his nuclear policy and he responded on abc news. she took another shot at his experience moments ago. >> the president with all the vast nuclear experience he acquired as a community organizer [applause] and a part-time senator. and as a full-time candidate. all that experience still no accomplishment to date with korea and iran. meanwhile, this administration alien 80s our friends -- consider -- alienates our friends. they escalated a minor zoning decision into a major breach with israel.

the republican straw poll in new orleans. we'll have the ruts when we come back. >> some of the leaders, ron paul, mitt romney, sarah palin -- compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking fewer pills. just 2 aleve have the strength to relieve arthritis pain all day. bomb bomb when you have diabetes like me, you have questions. like, why are my numbers too low? are you looking for answers? the accu-chek aviva system now has new tools to help you discover what your numbers mean and how the things you do are connected to your blood sugar patterns. [ sarah ] with this tool i can see how food affects my numbers. i discovered what i can eat and how much. [ male annocer ] discor e accu-chek aviva system and save with a prescription discount card. start your discovery today. >> hi, rick, we got the results. there were 1806 ballot casts here at the southern republican leadership conference. partly cloudy it's a good sample for any survey. these represent people from about 14 different states across the south there were a

shalom, new orleans. if i sensed the slightest tinge of racism in conservatism, i would not be going to these he parties. these people, the media wants to find it. they are looking for it. i will show you where it is. i will show you were the racism is. can we go up the mississippi for a little reverse mark twain tour to the day when the white house started to recognize, oh my goodness, the people are upset with this health care bill. they want to ask questions of their elected leaders. some of those elected leaders say, i am not going to read the bill. more people came out of their houses. they found that to be offensive. that day, the day that barack obama and his administration sent out a memo that basically said, if it punched you, punched back twice as hard. the same day that they wrote a letter out to its 11 million followers, members of organized labor, to go down to these protest and to get into these faces. what happened that night? in tampa, fla., and especially in st. louis, the union at the ne

didn't even bother to come to this gathering in new orleans. newt gingrich i think is going to make a run this year. you saw him as the opening speaker last night. you know, there will be a lot of attention later today on sarah palin. >> and i wanted to ask you about her because -- >> whether in the end she becomes a candidate i think is still a very open question. >> you've said that you don't believe she will run for president in the next election, but she is such a huge draw at these republican and tea party events. wouldn't they try to lure her into the race? >> i think she's very good at raising money, maggie. i think she's very good at coining phrases and so on, but let's not forget this is someone who resigned governorship of a very small state, a very small population. she really resigned there and i find it very difficult to believe that someone who could resign an office like that could actually be a viable candidate when it comes right down to that. you think about when she gets in a primary, when people are going to vote, her oppone

carl cameron is in new orleans. did they not want to share the stage? is it a palin thing? >> governor pawlenty accepted the invitation and canceled when he had a conflict with returning troops so he's fulfilling the obligations at the state's executive in dealing with the troops. mitt romney never accepted the invitation but tim pawlenty and sarah palin were campaigning with michelle back man a couple days ago and romney and pawlenty are appearing together tonight in minnesota. it's not so much they're campaigning in their shadows. sarah palin made it here, one of her few big speeches which she's not paid, there's a straw poll coming tomorrow in which the potential 2012 republican white house wannabees will be vetted and voted on by the participants. palin this morning unleashed on president obama, brought the crowd to its feet on a number of occasions, focuses on energy policy in attempts to broaden her reputation and portfolio on policy but made it clear she takes no breaks, pulls no punches. >> we're talking about foreign or domestic policy, the obama agenda defies logi

president, new orleans would have never flooded. if everything the corps said was good and true and gospel, we would never have had those billions of dollars of damage in terms of the catastrophic flooding of new orleans caused solely by breaches in canals which were design flaws of the corps of engineers. now, mr. president, let me go through a few specifics and explain yet again -- and i've done this with the corps over and over -- the authority they do have. one of my top -- mr. dorgan: would the senator yield for a question? mr. vitter: i'll be happy to yield when i'm through. one of my top concerns, mr. president, is the critical outflow canals in the city of new orleans. it was the breaches in those canals that led to 80% of the catastrophic flooding of new orleans, and it was those breaches that were caused by design flaws of, who? the u.s. army corps of engineers. now, mr. president, all i'm asking under this category is that the corps do a risk-cost analysis of the different options they have identified in terms of fixing t

phil barrow is covering the story for "new orleans times-picayune" in new orleans. he's joining us live on the phone. thanks very much for being with us. caller: good morning. host: what ultimately doonk will come out of this conference? guest: well, i think it's sort of a three-fold purpose. obviously the people that attend these conferences are the most energetic members of the party and some of the big donors are in town as well. they're also testing messages for 2010, you know, aiming at the national media and at people out there that are watching c-span and checking it out in other media. and then for some of the speakers, i would say speaker gingrich included their auditioning perhaps for future campaigns in front of that same group of very important donors and national media that are as much a part of presidential politics. host: chairman of the republican party has also been back in the headlines. his chief of staff resigning this week. he will be speaking to the gathering. how much political capital does he have among these party faithful? guest: well, i ta

host: s take some calls, the first from new orleans. caller: good morning. i am an electrician. ships come in from the middle east. years ago, they wanted to build a natural gas platform off the coast of louisiana. they were having a dispute whether to do and open loop or a closed loop system. can you explain the difference in that? guest: i do not know that answer. in terms of importing natural gas, a few years ago, we have much more natural gas than in the united states makes its -- both developments not as likely for as much as they were a few years ago. i am not familiar with opening close links. host: florida, independent. caller: i worked on the texaco account in my 22 years of advertising. i have some statements to make for you. where are they going to be refined? you have to modify various coastal seaports with the same result you had in new orleans, with the destruction for hurricanes. your eastern portion on the map , you got those grants without paying any royalties. you got that for free. host: do you think that is a mistake? caller: i think it was a contrived mistak

. >>> new orleans police are looking for at least two men after seven people were shot near the city's french quarter. the attack happened last night moments after a festival ended. the six of the victims were innocent bystanders and the intended target of the attack was a 17-year-old. he was shot in the chest and was one of two teens who was shot. the other was a 15-year-old girl shot in the leg. >>> families of the men who died in an explosion at a west virginia coal mine are saying good-bye. four funerals were held friday. more are held this weekend. still more in the coming weeks. 29 men died in the blast at the upper big mine branch last monday. the community held out hope the four missing men were still alive somewhere in that mine, but those hopes did end friday night when rescuers found the men's bodies. >> what i saw up until the absolute very end was a very heavy-hearted community holding on to a very fragile thread of hope. and when that hope snapped with one sentence from the mine officials, it was the most painful excruciating thing you could possibly see. >> the explosion

just fun people having fun. >> first of all it was new orleans. >> right wingers. >> somebody had to go there but it was difficult. i had to go. i had to go. this is a generation ago. literally so. kids who liked william f. buckley and read the "national review" down in the south, when the white voters, conservative white voters were in the democratic party, they moved on mass and one of the great political migrations and are now the establishment and in a way they are the core -- >> i am stunned that ron paul being bashed around. let's look now. you are looking at the washington convention center in washington, d.c., as the president welcomes heads of the delegations to the nuclear securities summit. there he is. the question is, who is leading? ron paul was bashed apart. remember how rudy giuliani would smack him down when he said something about 9/11 last time around? he's tied with mitt romney. >> the grassroots of the republican party has moved in ron paul's direction since the last election. they view obama as mr. big government or worse and so, therefore, ron paul's anti-gover

dean reynolds, cbs news, new orleans. >> couric: a day after the u.s. and russia agreeded to a nuclear weapons treaty, relations are strained over a very different issue. russia's foreign minister called today for a ban on all adoptions by american families. as richard roth reports, the move comes after a woman who adopted a russian boy changed her mind and sent him back all by himselfs. >> reporter: russian authorities say the seven-year-old boy named artyom arrived all alone in moscow after an overnight flight from washington with cookies and coloring pens in his backpack and a letter from his adoptive american mother. it was signed "torry hansen." at a siberian orphanage they remember hansen as the 33-year-old nurse from tennessee who played happily with artyom before adopting him last september. but her letter called the boy violent and mentally unstable. shown on russian t.v. today talking to a child care official, artyom's asked "did she hit you?" "no, says the boy, gesturing to show his hair was pulled." the seattle agency that arranged the adopt

people speculate, romney, huckabee, they were thought in new orleans and what does that mean? >> that does not bother me. i saw president george h.w. bush who said he saw this over the years when a party leaves a white house there is a period of competition and i think the competition in the party is good. who do we like? who makes sense? a combination of ideas could work for now. i am not worried about that. >> cheney has been out there and throwing gasoline on the fire and i like that, but where do you see the fault lines right now in the conservative movement? social conservatives versus foreign policy conservatives? the tea party folks disrupting it? >> the tea party thing is probably what is most interesting for people. on social issues, the three elections that happened last fall, and in january, virginia, new jersey, and van, -- and january, the democrats tried to payment the republicans as crazy conservatives against modern society and it did not work. the country is conservative on those issues but if you go to the first question of what is the biggest vulnerability,

the war began in 1861, twin was living in new orleans, working as a river boat pilot on the mississippi river. not wanting to be drafted in either the union or of confederate navy, twain left the war in new orleans and went to stay with his sister in st. louis. a few weeks later he went back to him hometown of hannibal, missouri, where he was talked into joining a new group of confederate military gorillas known as the marian rangers. the rangers weren't exactly a crack outfit. they spent most of their time arguing about strategy, falling off their horses, and constantly retreating from what they imagined were hoardes of union soldiers. one ranger accidentally shot his own horse one night, for not giving the proper password. another guy carried off by a watchdog, the entire group managed to fall down the hillside one night into a creek. and sam clemens sprained his ankle when he jumped out of a burning barn that he set on fire in the first place by smoking in bed. in fact, rangers did so much marching and countermarching that one old farmer in the area said they're bound to win the war

chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in new orleans. the site of the southern republican leadership conference to tell us who the players are and what we can expect. good evening, carl. >> reporter: hi, chris. activists from 14 southern states have come here to get an early peek at the 2012 republican presidential field and we'll watch what they say about the embattled republican committee and the chairman michael steele, but this is really about the white house wannabes and how they intend to take on barack obama and democrats. one of the main attractions will be sarah palin. she will receive no speaker fee for the appearance but there is a closely watched straw poll planned and she could win it. former house speaker newt gingrich has been looking at presidential run since he led them to the first house majority in 50 years and is still one of the g.o.p. most prolific idea guys. haley barbour built a dominant republican national committee as chairman in the gingrich revolution. now, as a respected chairman of the national governors ass

also in the bull's eye, and now looking at new orleans. they are also keeping a close watch of a potential for severe weather today. bonnie schneider is in the cnn severe weather center. take a look and what's narrowing in on the potential for these areas? >> fredricka, tracking tornado warnings that worked they're way from mississippi into alabama and back off farther towards arkansas. an extremely active morning. heading into the afternoon, get ready for things to fire up even more. little rock, arkansas, facing intense weather now with intense thunderstorms. on this picture now you can see the frequent lightning strikes happening across the area due to this widespread severe weather outbreak. birmingham hit hard with heavy rain and also a lot of rain working its way across the border now even into alabama and georgia. now, to the south in alabama i want to show you what mobile looks like. definitely looking at wet and stormy conditions there. mobile is part of our area that is under a tornado watch. and that will concentrate into the af

and i-10, from new orleans to houston. slippery in the mountains. and wet on i-5. >> expect airport delays in seattle, salt lake city and denver. also, kansas city, chicago, memphis, houston and new orleans. >>> as the president moves ahead to touch proposals on wall street, he may need to please the regulators. >> high-paid regulators at a federal agency, that were supposed to watch the financial system, had their eyes on something else. more now from abc's jonathan karl. >> reporter: some high level securities and exchange officials have spent more time viewing pornography than investigating ponzi schemes. a now report from abc news, reveals a staggering obsession with pornography. viewed for hours at a time on s.e.c. computers. the specifics are stunning. one senior attorney at s.e.c. headquarters in washington, spent up to eight hours a day accessing internet porn. an s.e.c. accountant attempted to access porn websites 1,800 times in a 2-week period. she had 600 pornographic images on her government computer hard drive. a senior enforcement offi

orleans saints. -- home to the world champion new orleans saints. we invite you to enjoy this beautiful weather and are great food and culture. spend a little bit of extra money in our hotels and restaurants. we have a warning to rnc staffers, you may want to stay away from bourbon street. just a word of advice. i want to speak candidly about the situation our country finds itself in. here is the good news. i want to make an important announcement. as part of my family's concern, i am not running for president of united states. i have the job that i want. [applause] i am happy to report louisiana is doing better than ever before. since i am not running for president i can speak directly to you without fear of offending you. i am under no pressure to make anybody happy, other than the people of louisiana. [applause] all i have to do is be the best governor of louisiana that i can be. [applause] people who know me know that i like lists. i started off with the top-10 list of things that i need -- things that need to be shared in the open. it is only a

young woman from new orleans named medora crams. her mother was a fortune hunting true with roger to spoil daughters to new york to find which has been. no one but sam and suzette crams believed that she was the woman for him. longfellow was impressed by herb doody up by little else and he told himself. this is medora and in 1852 book, the book of home beauty. death to all caution, sam married the door in september september 1843 when the door of our two sons in quick succession families ecstatic at his home life is happy again, but his business life was anything but. urged on by medora, sam wanted nothing more than to make a lot of money and retire from business. speculation he was certain was his ticket to fortune. in september 1847 wall street was stunned by the news of prime ward and company worried about sam's recklessness king had withdrawn, had collapsed. several million dollars for god and thousands more were owed to creditors. broke, sam had to rent his house. suzette crams back to my door and the to them to new orleans. no

orleans, what is that? is that sort of a beauty pageant in terms of -- so republicans can identify hot leaders of the party and who might be the challengers in november? or am i being too flip about it? >> i think you are ahead of yourself a little. these things happen all the time. mid western leadership conference, southern leadership conference. it is not a beauty contest. republicans are thinking the ones i've talked to focused mainly on 2010 own peripherally on 2012. this is a way to hone their skills make themselves better known. mostly to hone their skills in front of a big crowd and perfect a message. most republicans that i've talked to, i was with a bunch of southern republicans this week in mississippi getting ready to go to the conference in new orleans, their focus is on 2010, what can in fall? remember, think about it this way, in 2006 at this point, who in the democratic party was getting settled on barack obama? he was the asterisk of the polls. nobody was paying attention. the presidential

. >>> we're also at the leadership conference in new orleans. we'll talk to candy crowley, david gergen and john avalon about the raw politics what the tea party is doing. >>> plus the latest from hate take where millions are living in tent cities, the rainy season is bearing down. why is it taking people so long to move to safety? we'll talk to sean penn on the ground in port-au-prince. >>> in "raw politics," a new development for the tea party movement. more than 20 tea party groups announced they're forming a national federation to promote their message. meantime in new orleans, the southern republican leadership conference kicked off. it's the most prominent gathering of republicans outside their presidential nominating convention. so here's what newt gingrich said just a short time ago. >> what the left wants to do, they know they can't win a fight when they're honest about who they are, so they want to be dishonest about who we are. what the left wants to do is say we're the party of no. and so here's what i want to ask you to encourage, e

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tornado watch in effect for memphis, into new orleans and the early afternoon. the good news is, we have nice weather in the northeast. sunshine in new york city, but the rain moves into the northeast tomorrow. alex? >> okay. thank you for that. raphael miranda. >>> for all your latest weather alerts, be sure to check in with weather.com. >>> good news for the economy this week. the dow jones industrial average is in the middle of its longest winning streak in more than six years. finishing up for eight weeks in a row now. and after record lows in february, new home sales climbed 27% in march, according to the commerce department. that's the biggest one-month gain in 47 years and a good sign that investors are gaining confidence. but it's not all good news, of course, the fdic shut down seven more banks in illinois which makes for a total of 57 failed banks in the country this year. more banks are expected to close in 2010 than in 2009. >>> the financial reform fight continues. democratic senator chris dodd is working with republican senator richard shelby to ac

and this seems to be the one area we have done this in new orleans a lot, where we transcend partisanship. >> guest: this is passing. talk about katrina. arne duncan was attacked a couple of weeks ago. i defended what he said. i don't want to repeat trouble for and. he said made one silver lining in the cloud, katrina, it gave us a chance to redo its education system. >> host: i'm from the orange, and let me say that michael used to have a definition gap in washington is when you actually tell the truth that let me say that arne duncan is 100% right. we been able in new orleans to rebuild the school system that is so much better than the one we had before the storm. and it is because we have got the chance to say let's see how you would do it now with charter schools, public schools, various new reform way of doing this i think that criticism of arne duncan was outrageous. he was totally correct. >> guest: from what i am observing and hearing, i had a guest on the show today, fred has from the american enterprise institutinstitute was in the orange and looking at what's going on. pol who'

chief of enforcement speaking today in new orleans. >> there is a fundamental difference between somebody being short on a synthetic cdings o or taking a view that the assets will perform poorly and a world of difference between thoo and letting that person being involved in the selection process of the portfolio. >> that person being john paulson of john paulson and company, the big hedge fund company and more to the point, the concern is that investors were not made aware of that and it is a disclosure issue. it is securities fraud. also charged here in this case is fabres teuri is quoted in an e-mail saying that the building meaning the market is about to come crumbling down. trish? >> well, right now it is time for the closing bell on the stock exchange. we have my co-host for the hour, bob pisani, and sharon epperson and david faber joining us from new orleans and also in the conversation is steven wood with rus selling investments and todd shownberger managing director with a coleman trading. so full group indeed. let me start with you steven. what is the fallout, and are investors

orleans about new orleans and the civil rights movement. the landrieu family, mary landrieu and mitch landrieu who's now mayor and the morials, dutch morial, the first black mayor and mark morial who's the head of the urban league today. so it's reflecting on race and families in new orleans for julian bond. i then went and taught at tulane university and i'm now a professor of history at rice university in houston. i live in austin so i divide my time between austin-houston and i have three kids, which takes up a lot of my time. and i'm able to take them now to historic sites and parks that my parents took me to when i was young. >> yes, do they -- >> usually they -- >> -- do they resist? >> a little bit but, you know, we tend to go more to like dino parks and things like this. but i'm -- i mean we were just in waco, texas and i took them on a tour of the dr. pepper factory. or if we go to, you know, houston we try to go to the history museum as well as some of the natural history ones so i'm -- it's in my blood, and i'm planning on taking

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the road to victory begins here in new orleans. when you go home, i hope you'll take the ideas, the passions, tell your friends -- the republican party, the party of ideas, is back and we're here to win in november. thank you very much. [applause] ♪ >> we will see everybody tonight. let's go and have a good time. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> that is the end of our three- day coverage of the southern republican leadership conference. we heard remarks from several members of congress, including david vitter, texas congressman ron paul, and rnc chairman michael steele. if you miss any of these, we will research some of these later on. check our web site for details -- we will re-error some of these later on. check our web site for details. yesterday, justice john paul stevens announced he will retire at the end of this term. today, on america & the courts, all look at a life and career of john paul stevens. he talks about his life after

. >> not in new orleans. in new orleans it's -- >> i've actually seen some dreadlocks even in new orleans, mary. >> no, that's my point. i think it's a hairdo of choice for musicians or it's not a racially insave thing. you guys want to -- you always finding like -- i know we've had this conversation before. but there is not insensitivity in everything. >> it's not everything, but if there is a particular hairstyle that is one thing that is worn by a certain group of people, i'm trying to pick out what is the big deal? i don't see it as an issue. i think six flags going overboard saying you can't have dreadlocks. if you want the money of people who wear dreadlocks, then saying you can't wear them, to me it's nonsense. >> i wish i could wear dreads. i like them. i can't do them. >> oh, no, we're going to ban you from doing them. you can't do it on the air. i'm sorry. that's it. we got to go back to campbell. >> thanks, guys. >>> "larry king live" starts in just a few minutes. but up next, a sobering thought fo

mike miller was a big part of that especially in the game against new orleans. we had a new season high in that game. the interesting thing he shot 9 of 14. that is pretty good. he missed his 1st 3 shots of the game. went on to have a season high in points. he knocked down the 3. he is still 3rd in the league in that department. this is one of those plays we were talking about. finishes with the left hand and gets two more points in the paint. here steps that up and pulls up with the 3. great night for mike miller. for this team to win they have to get several players. he led the way. >> as you mentioned michael these two teams split. this is the rubber match but it is also a chicago team that still has an outside constitute make the playoffs there. it doesn't look great for them but they have to win as many as possible. you know they have their sights set on the wizards tonight. >> the real reason for the excitement is fill celebrating 25 years of action for the wizards. quite an accomplishment. >> i like the term 25 years as opposed to a quarter of a century.

nbc's anne thompson joins us from new orleans. what can you tell us about an update particularly on the environmental concerns? >> reporter: well, alex, first of all, you can take a look at the weather. as bill karins was talking about earlier, we are in the line of some storms here so the winds are high. we get on-and-off rain showers and that's not going to make anybody's job easier today. on the environmental front, it's 1 of 2 issues that officials are trying to tackle today. they are trying to contain that oil slick that is out in the gulf of mexico. they are use iing boons to corr it, if you will. using planes to drop chemicals from the air to break it up, then skimmer boats come by and pick up the dirty water. that's how they're dealing with that. they are also keeping a very close eye on the wellhead that's on the sea floor. so far they are seeing no crude oil spilling out of that wellhead. and so coast guard officials say they are cautiously optimistic that the environmental danger caused by the fire and explosion can be