i got nothing. we got a german shepherd that just got a trout. what are you doing? so excited. his tail wagging trotting along. the fish says i give in. i don t know what this is but i ve never been in more pain. congratulations to all dogs. swimming upstream, up the road. all right. coming up coming up straight ahead at 20 minutes before the top of the hour. that says it s a go for shuttle discovery launch. liftoff set today. patrick from our affiliate wofl is live at cape canaveral. good morning, patrick! yeah, good morning. we re at 70% go for launch here at the kennedy space center in nasa, mission managers made that decision earlier this morning and right after that, they gave the ok to begin fueling the big orange external fuel tank with 500,000 gallons of oxygen and hydrogen to hopefully get the shuttle off on time this
pride leave me my thoughts, my words, and my voice so i can testify for the love i have for my people. reporter: or abandonment. humor what? closing? reporter: or an aching sense of loss. we watched as the storm took my home, my livelihood, my friends. let it shine let it shine reporter: these are the stories of new orleans women, all survivors of hurricane katrina. what our story does, it allows people to put themselves in our shoes, and so by being able to see it from our viewpoint. and i think it just makes them know how we felt. reporter: the play is swimming upstream. it first hit stages in 2008. but acclaimed playwright and activist eve ensler brought the
whoever is around us in need. reporter: ensler, who directs the play, earned huge acclaim in the 90s through the vagina monologues and has become a leading voice in ending violence against women around the world. she is now successfully battling uterine cancer and says bringing swimming upstream back to audiences has lifted her spirits. i really forgot for the last week that i was in chemotherapy. but the cancer s gone. i got a really great prognosis. i m so grateful. reporter: and new orleans natives who saw the show in new york this week are grateful too that their story is still being told. they ve really grasped that sense of loss and recovery and rebuilding. no matter how many times i ve heard the story and witnessed the performance, it speaks to a part of my humanity, my struggle. it s not just this storm, the storm that happened in 2005. it s like life s storms. and that s why it resonates with people who weren t in new orleans. reporter: swimming upstream g
activist eve ensler brought the play back this month in new orleans and in new york for katrina s fifth anniversary. i think, you know, women really, and particularly in new orleans but really everywhere always keep the world alive after disasters, after conflicts, after and yet it s the invisible work. it s the work that people don t see. you know, it s holding families together and holding communities together. reporter: written during a year and a half by 16 new orleans women, some of whom are also performers in the show, swimming upstream is a mix of poetry and song and there s water all around me but i can t get a bit to drink reporter: humor and pain, rage and resilience. this story reminds people that though we ve come a long way we still have a long way to go before we re back like we were before the storm. this is hopefully, you know, a cry for all of us to for our humanity, to reach out to
reporter: whether it s pride leave me my thoughts, my words, and my voice so i can testify for the love i have for my people. reporter: or abandonment. humor what? closing? reporter: or an aching sense of loss. we watched as the storm took my home, my livelihood, my friends. let it shine let it shine reporter: these are the stories of new orleans women, all survivors of hurricane katrina. what our story does, it allows people to put themselves in our shoes, and so by being able to see it from our viewpoint. and i think it just makes them know how we felt. reporter: the play is swimming upstream. it first hit stages in 2008. but acclaimed playwright and