center until the government did. but the government should have known about it earlier. that s one of the big reforms to come out of katrina, is that the federal government is now aimed at getting real-time information and not depending, as it has in past emergencies, from the state and local people to provide information about what s going on on the ground. how does that view stack up against what we know what happened in katrina? reporter: they only found out about the convention center because of the tv coverage. the real question was this is important, because people lost confidence in the bush administration at that point. why didn t the bush administration, knowing that it had that lack of information, send in its own communications gear? if they couldn t find out what s going on in new orleans, how could they find out what was happening in iraq? those two things were connected in voters minds, in the public mind. if karl rove is going to be reflected at this point, which
conservative in the fight, rove offers an unflinching defense of the bush presidency, that includes the decision to go to war in iraq and take out saddam hussein. you can go back and try to rewrite history. that the moment, we as a nation were faced with the believer he had wmd, was a threat to the stability of the region and after 9/11, the calculus changed. rewriting history, using 500 pages to spin and revise history on some of the most controversial moments of the bush presidency. msnbc political analyst richard wolffe, the author of the book renegade. it s interest iing. rove throughout this book goes back and looks at who, among the democrats, he can blame. let s talk about what he says about the iraq war. there was lots of dispute over the reasons why president bush said we should go to war. how does rove s version stack up? reporter: well, unfortunately, karl is engaging in the same fudges and the same
history here? i read a lot about him taking on, for instance, the former vice president, al gore. is there a lot of just rehashing the people who took strong stands against the bush administration? reporter: there seems to be a lot of rehashing going on. look, karl is an important voice in the conservative movement, obviously in the bush administration. and if he had used his enormous brain more fully, maybe the book would be more enlightening. it s not about saying people are right or wrong, but explaining some of those decisions, why they couldn t move quicker than they did, either in new orleans or the run-up to the war. that would have been a useful book. richard, thank you. reporter: thank you. two of the oldest people in the world died on the same day. mary josephine ray died at age of 114 years, 294 days. ray died hours before daisy bailey of michigan, who was 113 years old, 342 days, oldest living american now lives in
hospitalized after getting the calk-filled shots. they re reportedly all hispanic. back in our country, our culture is a little more different. we re not used to checking our doctors. people trying to save some money, not knowing that they re risking their lives to begin with, but also, you know, they re going to spend a lot morm more money. reporter: the health department says these women all survived because they got quick medical attention. authorities are now investigating and hope to speak with at least one of the women soon. if anyone is interested in getting a cosmetic injection or a cosmetic procedure that you do go to a medical care provider, a physician to get some advice, get some good guidance about where to go to get these procedures done safely. reporter: linda viquero, nbc news, new york. firing the executive who compared michelle obama, the first lady, to a chimpanzee. likening the first lady to tarzan s sidekick, cheetah.