[applause] the former mississippi Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with the many years of work in the nations capital, and also hes a man that gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to develop mississippian and novelist who asked the time was doing a teaching summit in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new settings and he opens the door to the lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on International Politics in front of them rightparen ireland. So a governor with many talents but i will say what we have may have been the most significant chapter in mississippi was the politician Public Servant began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering into what would become the monster storm of hurricane katrina. Over the next years the governor, his wife marcia and First Responders and Public Officials followed from mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly and absolutely an unchar
Meeting with president obama in the oval office. The cheering fans greeted the pontiff as he drove through the streets of washington waving. And then he delivered an address to Roman Catholic bishops. He wrapped up that day celebrating mass in spanish in front of a crowd of 25,000 where he cannonnized a new saint. Speaking in spanish, the pope can ionized Jetblue Jetblue who was Junipero Serra. And it was acknowledgement of the latinos role in the american church. Ktvu is in washington, d. C. This week covering the popes visit and attended this weeks mass. I know im supposed to ask yeses ask questions after your report. I watched the mass. It was a beautiful service. What was it like for you . Reporter it was really breath taking, and almost everyone that we spoke to got tears in their eyes when they spoke about pope francis and what he means not just to catholics, but to everyone. Right now he is actually inside the basilica which is behind me and he is meeting with a group of indians
And the fact that there are a lot of rings that are grassroots that uses the innovative programs that roberta talks about and when we revisit the successes the people that built those are being pushed out. I wonder if this is an issue in new orleans. I think the answer very certainly is yes. Its the paradox of urban upgrades generally. You have an artist cadre. New york. C the art world discoverer so goes it did 50 years ago and turns it into suburbia and then moves on. The neighborhoods become increasingly expensive as the jackbooted fashion walks over them. We have seen that definitely new orleans. There is still however in new orleans a very long way to go. There are a lot of neighborhoods that would benefit from an infusion of money and new ideas and it would remain to be seen whether there was unaffected detection in place for the original population thats being forced out. There are nonprofits and there are philanthropic groups but certainly address those issues. There are Commun
This evening. I want to give a special thank you for our book friends for this beautiful spread of snacks and also really to take another opportunity to thank lemuria bookstore. We are grateful for them as always. [applause] really, former governor mississippi governor needs no introduction. You are familiar with many years of work in our nations capitol. I was talking years ago with richard ford, former mississippian and novelist and was describing and wandering around the campus and open it is door to a lecture hall and there is barber. So governor with many, many talents. But i will say what may have been the most significant chapter for mississippi was governor barber. Over the next year governor, First Responder and Public Officials all over mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly in an chartered territory. They give a behindthescenes look and the important lessons he has taken away from that particular journey. I have been fortunate to experience firsthand the government
[applause] wed take you to right now, president obama will give an update on the situation in missouri. Erguson, ive been following closely. Our Ongoing Operations in iraq, and the situation in ferguson, missouri. With respect to iraq, we continue to see important progress across different parts of our strategy to support Iraqi Government and combat a threat from the terrorist group isil. First, our military operations are effectively protecting our personnel in iraq. They have successfully pushed back the terrorists. Meanwhile, we have provided arms and assistance to iraqi forces, it including the kurdish fighters on the front lines. Today, with our support to my the iraqi and Kurdish Forces took a major step forward by recapturing the largest dam in iraq near the city of mosul. It fell under terrorist control earlier month and is vital to our objective of protecting americans in iraq. If that dam was breached to make could have proven catastrophic with floods that wouldve threatened