my wife debbie thinks the sons of confederacy are going to burn our house down, and she is up all night looking out the window. it s aggravating to me she is going through all this suffering. so i guess you know in this big old world it s not perfect these days, is it? no, ma am. but miss debbie tells you that jesus, what? loves you. like so much. i was in the doctor s office one day, and the lady said to me, i heard you people beat up black people. that s the kind of rumors that went around. she had some of her grandchildren with her. i said you bring those babies to my bible study on wednesday night, and you re going to know what we re about. you need to have what? faith. it s so stressful, and it s so sad because i want i want to please everybody. i want to love everybody. and sometimes i often wonder, god, why did you bring me to this place? why did you bring me to this town? why?
people into different communities and just introduce them to people where they re at. and so i didn t feel like there was a need to editorialize because i think audiences can draw their own conclusions from seeing things as they are. how did you get the trust of the sons of the confederacy? because they re not look, it did help you were from there. but not every journalist could have gotten that sit-down. not every journalist could have handed him the original succession papers and gotten him to read it. right. i was very nervous when we filmed that, to be honest. and ultimately, i had no idea if, you know, buzz and the sons of confederate veterans were going to want to participate. but i just felt like when i was starting the project, i had to reach out and find out. and so sent off some facebook messages and really had had no idea if i would hear back, and a couple of days later i got a phone call.
and i can tell you we ll get through this. the lights flicker where you are in baton rouge on the other side of the screen, we were showing new orleans where the power is down. all the power is down in new orleans so we re going to go to a reporter on the ground but governor john bell edwards, thank you for bringing us the latest in your state. thank you, pamela. let s take you there to new orleans. we re seeing the video now. it a city in the dark. brian todd is there. what can you tell us, brian? reporter: well, pamela, the power is completely out in new orleans. we just got word from the new orleans department of homeland security and emergency preparedness the city is completely dark because they had what they call a catastrophic transmission damage to some of the transformers and some other power sources there. the city is completely dark. i can actually show that to you and step aside to your left, my right. i ll step aside in the photo journalist jake is going to throw t
weapons drawn, the taliban forced us back to our cars. stop filming. stop filming. just put it down. thousands of innocent lives caught in the crossfire. we re foreigners, we ve got an armored vehicle. we can get out of here. but those people, desperate to leave the country, they have to face that just to get to the military side of the airport, even if they have permission to leave. and they ve got to run the gauntlet of some of the scariest people you could ever meet. as we left, we saw children sliding through a crack in the perimeter wall. keep your camera down, i do not want to attract their attention. but we re again forced to lower the camera, as more gunfire erupted. the chaos directly contradicting any talk of an orderly evacuation process. the u.s. promising to airlift up to 9,000 people per day. but only 2,000 were flown out