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Exposition. This evening, a good friend of the historical society. I wanted to take a moment to greet everyone and without further ado, lets welcome him. [applause] good evening, thank you. Hes put on a terrific number of programs here, including some conversations about where i first met him. Its a pleasure to have liz in the book. This is a book about a career based in the strong premise that cities were important and vital to this nation and country and to this world. Ill tell you one story, which lets you know how i felt about him. I was about 25 years old, working in my first week in new york city and i had worked but had already left and lost the primary from there. I was anxious to work for him again. It happened on a very odd day, in an elevator. We were working on the 46th floor of a building inside the burlington house. We were the only tenants in the building at the time because the fisher brothers couldnt find anyone else who would sign a lease in a difficult time. The year
More than 1800 people died from the storm and flooding after more than a Million People had to be evacuated. The death and destruction along the gulf coast from florida to texas although the situation in new orleans is remember the most. They should get underway shortly. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast. We will hear an update shortly from housing secretary Julian Castro and the housing and urban Development Recovery department. One of several programs on the anniversary of katrina. We will email but a program next monday at an allday form bean house did buy the atlantic. Thisll be hosted by the atlantic with fema administrator craig fugate. Looking at the Disaster Preparedness, how doors i
Wanted it to do, which is billed build relationships with the city and Cable Partners and gather great programming for American History tv and book tv. Watched the cities to her on the cspan networks to see where we are going next. See our schedule at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. Next, housing and urban Development Secretary and members of the Recovery Team present a Media Briefing on the gulf Recovery Efforts in the 10 years since hurley Hurricane Katrina. This is just under one hour. Good morning. We want to welcome you for the Media Briefing ahead of the 10year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Today you will hear from secretary castro and senior policy experts who have worked tirelessly on the gulf recovery from day one. Before i turn it over to secretary castro, i want to let you know we will be taking questions from the media as well as viewers on the webcast and cspan2. Link urge you to send questions via twitter we encourage you to send questions via twitter or by email. H. U. D