Young men even though we deduct a chance to see them, but he did acknowledge them and their experiences. And i thank cspan for covering the story as well. Host thank you. If youd like to tweet us, you et us cspan. You can also post your comment on facebook. Eric in st. Petersburg, florida. Go ahead. Caller hello. Host youre on the air. Caller i want to send my thoughts out to all the people that we lost life with katrina, and i want to send my thanks to nation, but ihis want to Say Something about tragedies. Hurricane intranet was the number one tragedy of the United States of america. We are teaching our kids wrong. One tragedy in the United States was slavery. A peacock about all the people if you talk about all the people who were killed, the people who are buried, that was the number one tragedy in the United States of america. Joe is in louisiana. How did katrina impact you, joe . Are you with us . Some background noise. We will put joe on hold and see if we can get him back on th
The 10year anniversary on friday and saturday. Live tomorrow, we will be at the Democratic National committee meeting, a number of democratic president ial candidates speaking at 11 00 a. M. Friday morning. We will hear from lincoln chafee, hillary clinton, arjun a and berniealley, sanders, and we at your phone calls and reaction from that tomorrow morning. Visitscspan cities tour Historic Sites across the nation to hear from local historians, authors, and leaders every other weekend on cspan2 and cspan3. Tour isth, the cities on cspan each day at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Welcome to key west, florida, the southernmost city in the continental united states. Tourism is its major industry, s mostwas once florida populated city. We will look at how the cuban migration shaped key west. Key west was the island that was closest to them mainland of so there was more contact between key west and cuba than between key west and the rest of florida
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
Amy 10 years ago this week, Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast, killing 1800 people, forcing over one million to evacuate. As president obama heads to new orleans, we will speak with local activist and attorneys still fighting to rebuild the city. But first, to guatemala. There is an uprising. Today there is a National Strike , a mass demonstration calling for the followed president perez molina. If it develops, you can leave to the fall of the army and oligarchy and the system of hunger. The u. S. Is try to stop that, the oligarchy is, but no one knows if they will succeed. Amy a general strike has been called in guatemala two days after the Supreme Court approved a request by the countrys attorney general to impeach president Otto Perez Molina in a Corruption Scandal. The matter is now in the hands of the guatemalan congress. We will speak with journalist allan nairn. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy
It is raw and, yes, it is sometimes inspiring. Your money is affected. Refineries are shutting down, and that is cutting the supply of gasoline. Prices are rising. How many drivers nationwide will gas up as a precaution today . Just like they did after katrina. And, yes, there is a political element as well. President trump says he will go to texas tomorrow. Should he go in the middle of the rescue operation . He will want to avoid the negative publicity that greeted president bushs flyover after katrina. There you have it. Cando texas, perhaps the most dynamic state in the nation, hit with a catastrophe. President trump faces his first Natural Disaster. Watch it here. Varney company is about to begin. Stuart you are going to be seeing a lot of video like this on the lefthand side of the screen and a lot of weather maps like one on the righthand side of your screen. More rain is coming, and rescue operations are, indeed, underway. I should tell you, it is still raining in houstonen x t