reflect hope. young people like victor york carter. where is victor? stand up, victor. i was just talking to victor. i had some lunch with him. he s a fine young man i just met with. stand up, everybody. these are the guys who i ate chicken with. really impressive. have overcome more than their fair share of challenges. but are still focused on the future. sit down, i don t want you to start getting embarrassed. so i ll just give you one example. victor grew up in the 8th ward, gifted art student, loved math. he was 13 when katrina hit. he remembers waking up to what looked like something out of a disaster movie. he and his family waded across
leanians who forced america to confront black vulnerability and to understand how that vulnerability existed. this is september 4, six days after katrina hit. several new orleans police officers pulled up to the bridge in a budget rental truck. they opened fire on two families. one family was in search of food and water. the other was trying to find a way, any way, out of the city. two people were killed in a barrage of police gunfire, 17-year-old james bursett and 40-year-old ronald mason, who was mentally disabled. four others were badly injured. the officers say they were shot at and were defending their lives, but prosecutors say they fired unprovoked on unarmed civilians and then immediately tried to cover it up. five officers were convicted in the shootings and cover-up, and we learned just this week that those convictions may not stand. on tuesday a federal appeals court ruled that the officers should get a new trial because of misconduct of the prosecutor,
back surge that wiped out the levies parts of it in new orleans creating catastrophic flooding and leaving most of that city or not most of it but large parts of new orleans under water. nearly 2,000 people it s estimated died because of the storm. the white house says president obama plans to meet with the new orleans mayor and the survivors who spent the past decade trying to rebuild their lives. and tonight i ll be taking part in a panel discussion here in washington, which is why i m here, of the devastation, aftermath and lessons from hillary clinturrican hurricane katrina. that s where katrina hit, not louisiana. i ll join the historian douglas brinkley. come by if you re here in washington or you can watch it streaming live at newseum.org. 15 years of persistent droughts that done a number on lake mead. nasa captured the drama of it
hurricane isaac, the year before, katrina hit. well, it devastated connecticut, parts of long island, but in new york city, it was okay. it wasn t quite so bad. people say, that wasn t so bad. tell that to the folks who lost their homes in connecticut and long eye land. what was your biggest takeaway from writing this book? we have a lot of hubris. we believe we are masters of our environment and domain, and we re not. al roker, the book is the storm of the century. i thought they could be talking about you, my friend. so funny. i love you. i know. al roker. thank you so much. we ll tell you in the morning on wake up with al. i ll see you saturday and sunday on weekends with alex vehicle. a man mohyeldin is next with the explosion from china. and a possible biden 2016 run. it s all ahead. stick around. r been the king of the campus on day one.
moving into the $1.1 billion university medical center new orleans. it s being held up as the center piece of the big easy s improving health care system. the new facility replacing the charity hospital which was the primary health care provider in new orleans before katrina hit in 2005. well this week the director of the international atomic agency is expected to go to capitol hill to brief lawmakers there about the disputed iranian nuclear program. what will he say when he appears there? joining us now, a former adviser to four united states ambassador to the u.n. including john bolton. knows what they re going to say behind the closed doors. what could he say to convince the skeptics or maybe support those who do support this deal? i m not sure that he can say much because he s just as