Recently, do during the throat surgeryii there were extreme complications. Over the next days she was in intensive care, there was word she was in a coma, she was on life support, and then yesterday we got word the family had moved joan rivers to a private room where she could, quote, rest comfortably. We dont know if she was taken off life support. At least we dont at this moment. We do know that was the last move for joan rivers and she had been her friends and family since, and now word from her daughter, mel lisa, an melissa, that at the age of 80, joan rivers died. All my jokes over the last 30 years. Why should a woman cook so her delicious cake to some hook center. The daughter of russiansa immigrants, born in Brooklyn New York in 1933. She worked odd jobs before changing her name to rivers and breaking into comedy in the early 60s. Welcome joan rivers. First gained National Attention in 1965 when she appeared on the tonight show. With Johnny Carson. He told her she would be a s
msnbc, my friend and colleague melissa pa melissa harris perry. i m so excited you you re in new orleans! i m moving into your home. please. i want you to first weigh in on the story of new orleans. nationally we hear about how slow economic recovery s been but those stats point to a new orleans that s on the up and up, though perhaps the economic recovery has not been equally distributed over all parts of the city. melissa, your take? i think that s always the question is that new orleans is always a tale of multiple cities. that was true before katrina but it is particularly true in the recovery period. so the question isn t just is there job growth in general, but the ways in which whether or not what we re seeing is economic justice in the city. so when we talk about, for example, population growth, you have to remember our city has been declining in a sort offer is collar way. th secular way. then a huge outflux because of katrina. now folks are coming back, but