thanks to katrina for that. katrina was talking about nicola sturgeon attending that pride event earlier. here is the first minister speaking at it. scotland and the united states are long—standing allies and friends with family, cultural or economic ties between our country border kleyman both long—standing and strong are willing to the future regardless of who is first minister and whose president of the us. that is what matters. that relationship is what matters. that relationship is one that is based on values and it is those values that are most important. you think there's an onus on you to reach out to donald trump? i will meet with the president of united states if that opportunity arises, but i think any relationship between any two leaders has to be one that is is based on respect and honesty, and i'm sure the president andl honesty, and i'm sure the president and i would have much to talk about, about the links and relationship between our two countries but it's important to recognise where we dis

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katrina, you think we're all overacting to the helsinki summit. explain. >> i think we need sober realism on russia, fareed. we need more reason, less talk of treason. the open letter, yes, the mueller investigation must proceed, must be protelkted. but we must do everything we can to accident occsecure and prote election. that means protection against dark money, voter suppression, partisan gerrymandering and reduce conflict with russia. these are the two countries that control 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. so i think it's vital. our weapon was signed by people like ambassador matlock. by gloria stein hyheimsteinheim. these are people that understand that cold war is lousy for citizens, for women, for children, for progressives, deplete resources, empower war parties. we need a debate, fareed and i thank you for inviting me on. there's a lock down in the media. it's a one handed clapping when it comes to the u.s. having a relationship with russia. understanding putin is an authoritarian figure. also understanding the nation's open letter wa

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it katrina is right that most americans want good relations between the united states and russia. the issue is, does the president have any idea about how to achieve that goal? what are the requirements of it? one requirement as katrina suggests is actually a debate, although he makes it a lot harder to have a debate because everybody just has to gang up against him and has to because he requires it. the requirements are better russian-american relations are to start with a certain kind of unity in the united states and in the u.s. government. we're in the unique situation of having a president who has his entire administration and the congress against him on a major foreign policy issue. he can't do this by himself. second requirement is unity within the alliance. he's threatened that. a third requirement is some kind of leverage, the president seems to be interested in reducing our leverage. the incentives that we give russia to act responsibly. he wants to have a big deal in syria, for example, and yet he wants to -- his clear goal is to get out of syria. that isn't going to gi

what was this neighborhood before katrina? >> it was more working class, more african-americans, more nativeborn local folks, more children in the streets, more renters. after katrina, many of those renter families got jostled out because of the whole disruption to l ives here. >> were you living here during katrina? >> yes. in fact, we stayed in our house in bywater. we witnessed the entire day and week. katrina day, august 29, was incredibly intense. eveningeuphoric that that we had survived. we did not realize what was going on, because we were in a dark house cut off from the rest of the world, that the levees were breached. only the next day, biking around, surveying what happened did i start to surmise. this is not me that disaster, this is a full-blown catastrophe. was 10 times worse than the last. by the time we got out friday, the conditions were apocalyptic. you are in the lower ninth ward here. this was the hardest hit of all the katrina affected areas in louisiana and mississippi. this was the hardest hit because i

however, at the same time, hurricane katrina brought an enormous influx, very bright people from all across the country, who moved here in droves and decided they wanted to live here. based on the change of population for one thing, the food began to change. we have seen a greater diversion in the kind of food served, the kinds of restaurants we have, and an explosion in the restaurant business like nothing new orleans has ever seen before. , almost 14 years after katrina, we have over twice as many restaurants operating in new orleans as we did before the storm. when visitors come here, the most important thing to me is that they have an authentic food experience. whether it is trying a poor boy sandwich or having a bowl of gumbo, trying to pick crawfish for the first time. it is all delicious and it is a delicious adventure. and that's what i want our visitors to experience and then go home with a really special food memory they created here in new orleans. the winner of the national book award for fiction is just ward.rd -- >> i had been obsessed with the idea of history and how h

katrina: i didn't say that. there is a move on as you know for government to play a role with fake news and regulation. just last week the french president announced the freedom of the press is so important in the next day he asked the government was set up a bureau to make sure the freedom of press is used the way they want it to be used. whatever the problem, whatever the chaos, whatever the abuses, the one thing you can say about people in denver, chicago, washington, they are not the government. i would rather fight with them because you can find ways around it. you can find ways to communicate. that's one of the things we talked about earlier, is getting around the existing media. people are inventive, technology has amended. things will sort themselves out and i have great faith they will do it in a much better way than would happen if the government decided to get into it and help. ruth: especially when you've had the president talking about licensing, you know, yanking licenses and pardon me, but very ni

the post-katrina emergency management reform act requires that fema have contracts in place for recurring disaster response requirements before the disaster strikes. yet, over the years, fema has failed to procure new contracts or renew existing contracts for such commodities in advance of a disaster, therefore contributing to the state of unruliness. unreadiness. last fall, the puerto rican electric power authority entered into contracts. both contracts indicated that fema approved the contract terms. i understand the office of the inspector general is investigating these contracts to determine the accuracy of allegations. -- of the allegations. but, i want to be clear, fema should never approve contracts that limit any oversight over disaster funds. oversight does not mean exercise undue influence. just last may, they entered into with $900 million contract cobra acquisitions. we have heard since then a potential interjection by fema into that contracting process. while fema needs to be diligent in ensuring that they comply with federal laws while agreeing to contracts, that does not me

. >> doug brink lee you have britain about the flood in -- and katrina and jimmy carter. why alaska? >> right now i'm writing the whole history of u.s. conservation movement and my first volume was called the wilderness warrior and dealt with theodore roosevelt and john pure and it's -- john muir and begins in 1879, john muir, going up and seeing those incredible gray irish the inside passage of alaska and writing about putt and a whole group of what i call wilderness warriores have work to save wild alaska, including theodore roosevelt, and i'm now work on the third violent on the silent spring revolution, and the 1960s. this is not just a history book. end it in 1960, when eisenhower saved the arctic refuge, anwar and that's our nation's greatest wildlife refuge. >> host: this is a story about points. let's begin with president teddy roosevelt. >> guest: he saved the whole grid of modern oklahoma. today we have an alaska maritime national wildlife area, the aleutian chain. their stopped the timbering on the panhandle of alaska and places leak the yukon delta, i and roos

the work to reform our schools started before katrina. there's a myth out there that all the started when the levees broke, when the water came in and everybody, no. our reforming our poor performing public schools started well before katrina and it wasn't just focus on new orleans although that's where it ended up being most noticed, but it started by a group of citizens, black, white, hispanic, everyone sang look, there's something wrong with our public schools in the cities come in the counties, in the parishes come in the rural areas. let's try to fix it. and governors democrat and republican, this is not a partisan issue in louisiana,, which is sort of said our schools need to be better. we are like the 50th state in the economy. we hate being the last do we get from last to first? it's not easy. let's focus on getting a good to great education. we started, you can go back and research this, all sorts of laws and rules and regulations trying to get us to better public schools. i was part of that. i was with the legislation when i was

hurricane katrina changed the whole game. for the first time since 1718, we had a completely clean slate. well, sort of. it was kind of messy after the flood but the slate was clean. we had an opportunity to do two things. number one, the populist of the city realized how endangered our life here really is. it all seemed to matter more. it seemed to matter more that it was preserved and the practice di -- tradition was being carried forward. based on that change of population the food began to change. we have seen a greater diversion in the kinds of food served, the kind of restaurants we have and an explosion in the restaurant business like nothing new orleans has ever seen before. almost 14 years after hurricane katrina, we have twice as many restaurants operating in new orleans as we did before the storm. when visitors come here, the most important thing is they have an authentic food experience whether it's trying a poor boy sandwich or having a bowl of gumbo. trying to pick crawfish for the first time. it's all delicious

his home was damaged during katrina. it was under 12 feet of water. once the water receded it was damaged. the legs of this had broken off. the entire piano was just really in a horrible way. it had been conserved but it's not playable. it's been conserved and brought back to its original appearance. they said that if they tried to make it play, it would not have been the same piano so we didn't want to lose the nature of the piano. >> fats domino was from new orleans. he influenced really all of early rock 'n roll. he was really one of his biggest fans. he came here in 65 i believe. they asked if they could meet with fats domino and there's the famous photo of the beatles with fats domino. he had many friends, many musicians he performed with or who stayed with him during his career, they went on to influence many of the others. they created their own music and their own band. 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.

that ha the post katrina emergency c management reform onact tracreq that fema have contracts in place for recurring disaster response requirements before the disaster strikes, yet over the years fema has failed to procure new contracts or renew existing contracts for such commodities in advance of the disaster, therefore, contributing to the state of unreadiness. last fall the puerto rican electric power authority entered into two separate contracts, one with white fish energy holdings and the other with cobra acquisitions. entered on both contracts contained terms . that limited proper federal oversight. although fema denies these claims, both contractors indicated that fema approved the contract terms. the o of that t the office of inspector general is investigating these contracts to determine the accuracy of the allegations, but i want to be clear fema should never approve contracts that purport to limit any oversight over disaster funds. now by oversight let's be clear what oversight means. it doesn't mean exercise undue influence. for example, just last may prpa entered into a n

in 2004, katrina hit in 2005. let me just say 67,000 kids in new orleans schools, probably 85% to 90% african-american in our public schools. of course we're in the south so after brown versus board of education, coming back realizing everybody should be on the page here. but every city in the south, this happened in many cities around the country. our public school system is predominantly african-american. in 2004 there were 60% of our children that went to school in new orleans and schools ranked in the lowest 10%. okay? 60% of our kids in new orleans in 2004 were in schools that ranked at the lowest 10% in the state. in 2017 last year, only 11% did. that is how much growth we have achieved in a decade. moving our poorest kids still on $9,000 a year. that hadn't changed. with a little bit more bells and whistles we've been able to put together about it. moving them from failing to succeeding. we have one high school in new orleans that's 100% virtually african-american. the graduation rate used to be at that sch

. >> it ought not to happen, ironically enough after katrina hit in new orleans, the mayor tried to do that same kind of executive order, and eventually the courts ruled that was unconstitutional. this is the question. he said different things about it, the order that would've allowed people to confiscate the weapons and ammunition and other property -- i don't know how you define that one. he said he never intended to do it, this is a way of the national guard getting ammunition and guns without using the normal procurement system, i don't know what that means. our committee and we are sending a letter with chairman goodlatt goodlatte, asking them for documentation and information to find out if any guns have been seized and why would you make this order in the first place and why would you keep renewing? he is renewed at different times well after the danger is gone and trying to realize if a hurricane as devastating as those two hurricanes were, if that ever justifies the denial of a civil liberty or the denial of a constitutional right. >> tucker: why not ban free speech, people sa

patricia: katrina no reconoció a su madre. la habían sedado para calmarla tras el ataque de nervios que había sufrido. la trasladaron a un hospital, y después de varios exámenes, la dieron de alta. este es el vehículo que manejaba katrina. totalmente aplastado en la parte de atrás. se ve claramente la línea donde cayó el puente de concreto marcando una división entre la vida en la parte de adelante, y lo que pudo haber sido la muerte en la parte de atrás. permanece estacionado aquí en la casa de su madre esperando a ser presentado como evidencia en la demanda que está en curso. y también permanece cubierto, porque katrina dice no estar lista para ver el carro donde se salvó de milagro. solo unos pocos centímetros separaban el asiento de katrina de la destrucción que tenía a sus espaldas. también es difícil imaginarse qué habría pasado si su hija hubiera ido sentada en la parte de atrás. la silla de la niña quedó retorcida y atrapada entre la chatarra. ¿qué sentiste? qué pasó cuando llegaste a tu cas

but with katrina, we've seen a big lift in the president's approval rating. there's slight decline in the president's approval lating last week. to me the tribal warfare h become so rigid it's almost as if nothing can movye anthing. while we see images which should be horrific of anybody of any political persuasion, it doesn't seem to move politics. i think that's right. the place where i want to push i this -- and it's not about the politics, b's about the false choice we are being offered. what the trump adminion said is we have two choices, one is we can treat families c unimaginabuelly by separating them from their children or detaining the whole familynor as long as they t to, or we cannot enforce our laws. both to have the fir options are illegal. courts ruled against the indefinite detention of the family and separating children from the family, at ths point. they're doing something we know is not allowed by the courts. they're saying, on the other hand, we have to enforce the law. we could give ank bracelets which we've done before. folks who have alr

here's katrina mobley. and andersson with the 3. he has been phenomenal. he had 16 last week. that's a tough pass because if you lay it out there too softly it won't bounce up. hawkins saved it. to mick getty though. lays it in. he gets it back. here's nate robinson. moves from uncle drew and knocks down the jumper. >> jim: you got to give him space. he's so quick right by you. that's a fadeaway fallen back and unable to finish with a nice touch. but that's the shot you want him to take and rather than him get it, he hit a basket. nothing but net. hawk, that time he spins. good block by birdman. by robinson. both teams have the ability to knock down jump shots so they can go inside but excellent at making plays >> brian: that three no good. both of these teams are custom to winning and winning big. nate robinson because he's such up a good tkpeupbisher going to the basket he committed all the way and he couldn't drop back down. the steal by hawkins. stoudemire lost it. he wanted to challenge that call because he was saying that ball was not out om i amar'e asked for a challeng

amy: katrina vanden heuvel, thank you for being with us. when we come back, a man who critiques every level of the state. and their thoughts and not just thekatrina vanden heuvel is edir and publisher of the nation.and. she's also a co-signer of the magazine's open letter: "common ground: for secure elections and true national security." the letter is also signed by daniel ellsbsberg, gloria stein, noam chomsky, governor bill richardson, reverend dr. william barber and michael moore, among others. we will link to it at democracynow.org. when we comeme back, boots rile. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: "pimps" performed by the coup and produced by boots riley. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. we spend the rest of the hour with boots riley, director of "sorry to bother you," the dystopian social satire that follows one oakland man's rise to the upper echelons of an evil telemarketing company, only to discover a secret that threatens all of humankind. here is the crical

we will speak with katrina vanden heuvel from the nation magazine. looks the nation has released --, ground for secure elections for international security and the belief when a 2-d escalate tensions with russia and that there is a false choice between having secure elections and that relationship. nucuclear a catastrophe, elections are going to be an a afterthought. amy: masass protest are expected to greet trump as he arrives for his first visit to britain as president. protesters will float a 20 foot long giant baby trump blimp outside parliament that will ngry the president as an orange baby clututching a cell phone ready to tweet. repsents a hosof issu. it isn't just about mocking him. it is about drawingttention that his politics are havining a real i impact on real lives, not just in the u.s.s., but all over the world. amy: we will speak witith sheila menon, one of the b blimp organizers, and with colin -- guardian columnist george monbiot. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm

hurricane katrina caused human sufring not seen in this country in many years. almost 2,000 people died. >> 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

after hurricane katrina and 13 years later she checks back in with us to share her success story. >> and i have to chime in that story is an amazing story you won't wanto miss. plus, i'm also tracking the increase in hudity by sunday when it foals close to 100, and then the heat index only goes up to there. i'll let you know how h it feel >>> a live look over the district on this friday afternoon. the sun is out. humidity not tha bad tonight, but, folks, don't get used to it. >> s team 4 meteorologist amelia draper joins us in just a few minutes to tell uhen the muggies return. first a traffic alert for the weekend. >> reporter: i'm here with a look at your traffic and road closures for the weekend. outer loop, connecticut bridge, three lanes closed for resurfacing friday night until saturday afternoon around 5:00 p.m. as far as anlternate here it's going to get busy. ehe icc university boulevard or connecticut aveould work for you. westbound 66 between 7 and the beltwayernating left and right single-lane closures there. overnight friday and saturday and here this weekend westbound 6