tracy, how big a surprise was this result for louisiana's 5th? >> well, i think it was a shocker to most of the republicans out there. it was hope springs eternal for all rational democrats like me, and hopefully, rational republicans. >> do you think that the medicaid expansion played a pivotal role here? how big a part of the political conversation has it been in the state of louisiana? >> well, it's been huge, frankly, chris, because democrats and republicans were pushing this governor to accept this money from the federal government, and at the end of the day, i think what may have pushed vance over the top was the fact that, look, folks, this isn't free money. you paid for this. and in his stump speeches, he said, of course we want to accept this money from the federal government for medicaid expansion. it's our money! ask for it back. and in those stump speeches, where he was appealing to the common sense of the poor people in his district, at that point, i thought, this guy might be on to something. >> what i found so interesting is everyt

and i felt all along that i was the big prize in in louisiana. we're still under a gag order, say. >> reporter: four years after leaving office, governor edwards was sentenced to ten years in a federal prison. >> the chinese have a saying that if you sit by the river long enough, the dead body of your enemy will come floating down the river. i suppose the fedded sat by the river long enough so here comes my body. i didn't whine and complain. >> reporter: even in prison he maintain maintained his innocence. >> part of the reason i took the assignment is because i realized this was a great opportunity to crook. >> reporter: leo is his biographer. he came to believe the prosecution wasn't fair. >> i bought into the fact that he was guilty in the 2000 trial, but when i started peeling back what the operation was, even going down to the fbi transcripts from the wiretaps, it's not there. it's just not there. >> reporter: and he said when he got convicted, i believe in in a system. i think there was a lot of unfairness in his trial. as a lawyer myself a

however, a large uptick followed where 145 were found in louisiana. less than 300 were reported last year, but officials believe fewer fisherman were calling them in, because it was less of a novelty to see the asian shrimp in their nets. department of wildlife and fisheries biologist, rob bourjois, is keeping track of the tiger shrimp catches in louisiana waters. >> the reports seem to be random across the coast, you know from calcasieu all the way to pontchartrain base siin, we're seeing reports this year. this year our numbers are up and we did do a pretty good job at getting the word out to fishermen to report it. so our numbers are higher than last year at this time. >> the problem is, this is a larger shrimp that eats smaller invertebrates, it eats shrimp and tiny crabs. so not only are you competing for resources with our native shrimp, you're also directly consuming them. it's kind of a double whammy. and the bigger question to me, the greatest potential problem the the transmission of diseases. we do know that they are capable of carrying sev

and so i thank my colleague from louisiana. i thank my colleague from florida for joining us, and i awrnlg alurge all of my colleagm president, to support action that provides immediate relief to americans facing these steep rate hikes. ms. landrieu: madam president, i thank the senator from mississippi for his comments and engaging in this exchange on the floor this morning. i see the senator from florida here, and i know he's been particularly concerned because florida has, of course, a very robust population, one of our largest states. and i think, senator, you have over 2 million policies in florida. and could you, through the chair, i'd like to ask what you're hearing in florida about this situation. mr. nelson: madam president, i thank the senator from louisiana for inquiring. and i can tell you that federal flood insurance that's not affordable is not federal flood insurance. and to go from a position that you're paying rates here and all of a sudden you go to a position there, people are completely priced out of the mar

a sag actor wants my vote now so i've been seeing a lot of movies their filmed in louisiana louisiana don't have a cap so why do we. that's one question. the other one is i work bet a the other day it's going to be filming mainly in la they're up here for a total of a week. i was wondering do the police get time and a half for that. i'm not sure if they had, you know, they get fed so well, and they move cones like a few times (laughter) and i'm not a huge fan i mean, i love texans to meet them personally but it's my opinion sometimes they screw up administrations so i was just wondering if that was something pledged by the last mayor that we get time and a half. i'm thinking there's ways to do this. >> thank you. next speaker, please good morning islam erica perez. i'm a actor in the bay area. we're very happy when they come and shoot a movie unfortunately, we only get background work because they don't want to pay all the taxes. yes. i support in but i also support my coworkers here janet mentioned why is there a cap. if we want them to come and spend their money on hotels and restau

even louisiana's governor. william cc clayborn had agreed that charging a block ship and a few gun boats could be a formidable defense for the lakes and two block ships on the mississippi would give greater security than any other defense than we could erect. well, why didn't we build a block ship? secretary of the navy williams jones believed the project to be a waste of money and he decided in early 1814 to discontinue construction of the vessel. oh, had the block ship been built. when daniel patterson replaced shaw as kbhacommander in octobe 1813, he found the station undefended. the approaches by water to the city are so many, that it requires many vessels and officers to guard them effectively and he had neither. and the station was short of men and vessels and supplies always, and this lack of resources forced patterson to usual the means at his disposal to prevent the invasion, which he believed to be imminent. working in cooperation with the two 40s on the mississippi and shore batteries, patterson plan

and here in louisiana, here in louisiana, that benefit about 265,000 people. already you've seen states, arkansas is covered, taken this up and covering almost 14% of their uninsured. republican governors and states like ohio and nevada and arizona, they are doing it too. oregon, already reduced -- has already reduced the number of uninsured by 10%. and you know, some of these folks oppose obama care but did support helping their citizens who can't get coverage. so we want to work with everybody, mayor, governor, insurance -- whoever it is that wans wants to work with us here in louisiana to make sure even if you don't support the overall plan, let's at least go ahead and make sure that the folks who don't have health insurance, let's make sure we do that. it's the right thing to do. [ applause ] >> you know, and one of the reasons to do it is, i said this before, sometimes people don't fully appreciate it, we already pay for the health care people who don't have health insurance, we pay for the most expensive version, when they go to the emergency room. what

louisiana is one of the poorer states in the country. a lot of his people are going to get health insurance from obama care, which is, after all, a heritage foundation authored plan. this is not a crazy left wing plan. so it is just fascinating to see what this is going be like. >> supporters spent saturday night celebrating uncolluding duck dynasty star willie robertson. >> i walked out of the woods a while ago and i had to find this place. he's just a regular guy and i like that. he's from here. he's a christian, a military guy. he's my kind of guy. >> no strings attached is what i'm gonna bring. every decision will be what's best for the fifth district, not what's best for anybody else. >> let's combine these two elements here and consider the republican presidential nomination and republican race. do you agree with scott walker that it needs to be someone from outside of washington? and obviously it needs to be someone who can get the "duck dynasty" endorsement. >> i think it needs to be somebody who is con if i denfi somebody who is

the elayn hunt correctional center in louisiana claims its boot camp is one of the best. the 200 inmates in the rigorous and challenging program can reduce their sentences by successfully completing the course. but you'll see it often comes at a heavy price. ♪ it's all right ♪ ♪ it's all right ♪ ♪ all i do is double time ♪ >> the boot camp program at elayn hunt is called impact. >> in my honest opinion, this is the best form of rehabilitation offered by the department of corrections. >> for every 100 inmates who complete the program, the state of louisiana says it saves more than $1 million. to qualify for impact, participants must be nonviolent offenders and free of pending felony charges. >> what motivated me to be in impact was i was trying to make a change in my life. i'm at hunt for possession of marijuana, which is actually my second felony. i mean, people used to tell me on the street that i was addicted to marijuana and i would be like, no, i just use it because i don't want to feel this pain or that pain. when the truth of it was is at first it may ha

first thee years. >> not a civic cost -- >> bernie let me explain louisiana budgets. we've cutting health care for four years and you want to put an additional cost -- >> david what i want to do for louisiana -- in vermont and all over this country, i want people to have health care. i would be concerned -- >> absolutely. >> and you have obama care is not leaning in that direction. >> we're going to come back to this, but senator vitter has a plan that will be extremely popular with voters and wildly unpopular with congress. we'll ask him about it next. [ male announcer ] at humana, understanding what makes you different is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help create a personalized healthcare experience that works for you. and you. and you. with 50 years of know-how, and a dedicated network of doctors, health coaches, and wellness experts, we're a partner you can rely on -- today, and tomorrow. we're going beyond insurance to become your partner in health. humana. does your dog food have? to become you

life in louisiana florida mississippi has never been better. but still waters beautiful deep sea. courses are banning practice that special right migrating waterfowl all over the for one hour or so if you visited earlier this year come on everybody come on back to mississippi or louisiana alabama america's getaways come out of there. and help make two thousand and twelve an even better year for tourism on the gulf will help me break the p.r. machine in the corporations ongoing assault on its critics i was joined earlier by . that's a good journalist who's been covering the spill for the last three years i first asked him about the p.r. firm matter that we hired to silence its enemies online. they were hired primarily to run the b.p. america facebook page and that's what they did in addition to basically doing the general p.r. effort for b.p. through the disaster to manage the message as they put it themselves and they did this very very effectively i mean for example when tony hayward made that gaffe of saying i want my life back it was it was ogilvy that was in charge of basicall

more than a year ago the entire town of bayou corn louisiana about 350 people evacuated. mystified scientists from around the world and federal and state regulators came to find out why. what they found was the swamp being swallowed and the bayou water burping natural gas and oil. their challenge how to stop a 5000-foot deep sink hole the size of 20 football fields from getting bigger. >> dennis came back a few weeks of after the evick evacuation. >> we have talked in august what changed since then. >> the big change for us that live on sportsman drive we have become aware there is a lot more gas under the subdivision here than previously thought. that may change. lately the ground here has become much more unstable. >> typical microer microearthqus before maybe ten to 1 15 that we noticed through the equipped and several weeks ago it got as high as 326 in a 24-hour period. because of the quakes parts of the swamp have sunk two feet. the mining company that the state blames for the disaster is out in full force digging wells to release the gases. it has to accumulate you

and this it massive sink hole swallowing up an entire louisiana neighborhood. is of. >> we're going to have the latest on the typhoon in just a minute, but president obama is it set to address the nation within the area on the affordable care act. he will make a statement around 11:35er eastern time. and aljazeera will carry the president's, remarks in their entirety. and now to the philippines. the island nation remains in a state of crisis. in the hardest-hit areas, survivors are starting to find food and water and other supplies, and they're starting to bury the bodies. that it storm hassle killed 3,057 people and 3800 are injured. and 7700, listed as had missing, and another problem seems to be security. margaret has more from tack la ban. >> all he wants to do is sleep. but he hasn't been able to do that in six days. his home was destroyed friday morning when typhoon haiyan slammed into the island. he survived the storm but he still fears for his life. >> how many of us are left? now this. something else. people coming into our houses, and in you fight bac

candidate who ended up winning in that republican-on-republican race this weekend in louisiana. and if you think that iy kidding, that the "duck dynasty" endorsement could have made the difference in that race, then you are not in full quantitative appreciation of the power of "duck dynasty." have you ever watched it? if you haven't watched it, you owe it to yourself to watch it just so you understand your country, in the sense that you need to understand what everybody else is watching. "duck dynasty" is a phenomenon like no other on the tv machine in america. their season premiere in august broke all records for cable tv. 12 million people watched, the largest audience ever in history for a nonfiction series on cable. remember when "jon & kate plus 8" was a big phenomenon? they were the old record-holder. "duck dynasty" blows them away. "the jersey shore," the housewives of whatever, "the real world," the kardashian shows, all of them are nothing compared to the duck dies. the series finale of "breaking bad," which completely dominated the american cultural conversation for we

[applause] louisiana terminal. i realizing the tracks, they will be able to increase efficiency and make moving good safer, cheaper, more sustainable. that's good news for business. to ship au are trying refrigerator, an ipad, or you are a customer waiting on one of those things to arrive. that's just one of the projects. the last five years, we have used the tiger program to direct $417 million the project in 33 ports large and small, inland and coastal. for all of these workers out here in new orleans. let's give them a round of applause for the good things that they do. [applause] folks, these are the kinds of investments that we should be making more of all across the united states. this is why the president has called on us to ensure a stronger transportation system for future generations. this is why we are here today. will continue working to support critical transportation infrastructure like this port in the future. to thank you, no word lens, per having the vision for this great port -- thank you, orleans

we had a governor of louisiana that was a challenge to work with. >> that is andy card saying it's not fair to president bush to compare the healthcare.gov rollout to katrina because during katrina bush didn't get the cooperation of louisiana governor the way obama gets it now. >> nobody is going to bully louisiana into joining part of obamacare. >> jon: bullying? the feds were going to pay for it? how was that bully something in a foureyes you need to see an ophthalmologist so we can cover that that's not only reason the comparison is unfair to george w. bush. >> george bush didn't invent a hurricane. >> crean yafs one region though -- katrina was one region. >> lord knows you saw how badly our government responded. it began and ended within a week. it could effect people's lives for years to come. >> jon: see how you disapint our audience. they think you might be out of your (bleep) mind. i mean -- hurricane katrina lasted a week and effective obamacare. spike lee documentary about katrina lasted longer than a week. [cheers and applause] for more insight we go to the best (bleep) new

natural gas is driving that growth, and with it's large energy sector, louisiana is about to cash in big time. robert gray has the story. >> the southern bend of the mississippi river, twists from baton rouge to new orleans, and the world. >> this is the super interstate of waterways. >> big barges carry commodities that feed the globe, and oil and gas that powers it. >> and america's cheap energy production costs are about to flow down the river and a surge of jobs. the united states. the next ten years in major investments. >> this is the largest port in the entire western. and as the construction boom goes here, state and local officials say that it will create tens of thousands of jobs. and bring in revenue like the state has never seen before. roy runs this port. and he says the main reason for the expansion, historically low natural gas prices that the world wants now. and with that, come as huge discount. >> because of the new and innovative way of tapping the natural gags reserves that we have running abundantly here in louisiana. >> the world's producers of everything like f

robert ray, aljazeera, reserve, louisiana. >> louisiana's exports rose 3.5% this year compared to oh the same period in 2012. that is worth about $29 billion. >> still ahead, the october jobs report is out any minute now. we'll explain what the numbers mean and why some say these figures this time are going to be distorted. >> the federal government is banning transfats. we'll tell you what foods will be most affected by the change. >> 3-d printers are moving beyond plastic. an expo where it is put to the test on a very big scale. >> i'm john henry smith. it was glitz versus grit, highlights from north cal ahead in sports. the immediate response is, "they're here to take my kids". >> from the indian perspective who sees this in terms of history, this is as about as adversarial as it gets. (vo) al jazeera america we understand that every news story begins and ends with people. >> the efforts are focused on rescuing stranded residents. (vo) we pursue that story beyond the headline, past the spokesperson, to the streets. >> thousands of riot police deployed across the capitol. (vo) we p

in louisiana we're building a bottom-up alternative, public-private partnerships. we don't knee the top-down federal government approach. >> what happens a year from now, let's say he does not delay the employee mandate, individuals having to get coverage, and next year when the employer mandate delay is off and he has -- -- and that's implemented, good likelihood a lot of companies would be looking at getting a lot of their workers, retirees and others to some type of exchange, public, private, you name it, but it will be a lot bigger an issue next year at this time. >> i think your point earlier is exactly right. right now they're talking about millions of meshes. this only grows. he only temporarily delayed the mandate on employers and you'll see a huge backlash next year. i'm hoping the pressure builds. you're beginning to see the democrats like our senator in louisiana and other democrats up for election, changing their tune. i think you'll see more and more people trying to get into the medicaid. the government-run programs but they're not going to get enough

,ork pennsylvania to louisiana louisiana to alabama. i was taken to alabama by bus on a sunday by myself. no one else but me. , to alabama. thursday was transferred back to alabama on the bus -- >> back to louisiana. >> back to louisiana. from louisiana i went to the federal penitentiary, oakdale. everywhere i go, like every two or three days, packed it up, you're leaving. i question to the officials, why am i being transferred so much? i was told by several ice officers i got caught up into the transfer. >> i want to ask you about tiombe carlos who died in to held for nearly three years despite her well- documented mental illness. she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia at the age of 15. physicians for human rights verified that in 20 11. the recommended intense medical treatment and also suggested she be put in the care for family, but she wasn't, and committed suicide. did you know her in prison? >> they separate the female and male's, but i have been imprisoned for so long, other individuals tell me about her situation. what i

have called the barrier island along the louisiana coast are watching it disappear. rob the other wrighrobert wrighe island where the land is washing away and little relief being offered. the coastal we wetlands of the f of mexico. over the past 88 joy 8 80 yee coastline is disappearing. a barrier fishing island on the front lines of the any hurricane that strikes louisiana. one very narrow road skims across the water. about 25 families live here. most descended from native americans and french settlers. father rock natquin spent his life here. >> it was full of trees and we could walk in the trees and hunt birds and everything. >> but that has changed radically. >> all of the marshes going all the way down to the gulf is just like yo what you see here i., w, water, water. >> especially after a storm. a half century ago fwase it wase miles wide and ten miles long. today it's only a quarter mile wide and two miles long. and the deep waters they get closerrer every year. that is a real problem for us the gulf of mexico is getting closer to the communities. >> recently

only occasionally did droves numbering 1,000 head enter louisiana. and if you've driven through louisiana on i-10, which was one of the follows one of the principal drove routes, you know some of the difficulties that might be encountered, woods and swamps and achafalaya basin being prince paipal among them. drovers sometimes augmented their herds with strays picked up. when bill mcfadden confronted drover abelg shanghai pierce, whose herd possessed 80 such cattle belonging to other stockmen, pierce is said to have roared in the rooster-like voice that gained him his nickname, by god, i don't hire hands to keep cattle out of my herd, i hire hands to keep them in. on the move, a trail herd traveled only about 10-15 miles a day, depending upon conditions along the route. the cattle and the weather. alise yurly pace punctuated by extended pauses for grazing, allowed beeves to maintain an even gain weight. over athlete decades of greatest activity. trailing cattle attracted an estimated 25-35,000 drovers. because some segments of the oelgd beef routes to

but louisiana governor bobby jindal decided to make a different decision. at the urging of senator david vitter, jindal has vowed to find and punish those who walked away with more food than they could pay for by taking away their ability to buy food all together. anyone who overspent their balance and has previous ebt infractions could lose at least a year of eligibility and in the worst-case scenario, those with multiple violations will lose their benefits permanently. adding to the vulnerability of those already 47 million americans who may already be missing meals due to the november 1 cut in food assistance from the s.n.a.p. program. joining me now from new orleans is someone who works every day to help fill that gap for hungry family, natalie jayrow, the president and ceo of second harvest food bank. nice to have you with me. >> good to be with you, melissa. >> what do you think of the governor's decision to prosecute people who purchased more food than their ebt benefits allowed? >> well, melissa, we're just deeply concerned about anything that distr

not my right, not the senator from louisiana's right. i don't know whether the senator wants to go to the defense authorization bill or not next. i don't know. that's not my decision to make. but the senator from louisiana says he wants to make that decision. taopbd make sure the senate -- and to make sure the senate does just that, well, i say to the senator from louisiana, when he becomes majority leader, then he would have that right. so again, he wants, again, to be able to bring up his amendment, again, which has nothing basically to do with the defense authorization bill, and, again, that no second-degree amendment be in order on his amendment. again, a little bit of a double standard. he wants the right to offer a nongermane, nonrelevant amendment to a bill, but nobody can offer an amendment to his amendment in the second degree. well, i think we see this for what it is. the senator obviously wants to vote on his amendment maybe today and maybe tomorrow and maybe next week and maybe next month. and i don't know how many times he w

jjining us now, louisiana lieutenant governor jay darden. why has this program been so successful for your state? >> we're an international destination to begin with, a very diverse culture, a lot of european countries are fascinated by louisiana, and it's enabled us to deliver our message really almost twice as well as we were before. ashley: so where does the money come from for this partnership? >> it's a fee that's paid by international travelers as part of their visa requirement, and a portion of it goes to homeland security, a portion goes to brand usa, and an individual corporate partners this state tourism organizations, local organizations and businesses partner with brand usa to, basically, increase their reach, in our case by 45% in the international market. ashley: you know, the critics have said, look, you're the private sector is benefiting from government dollars, so essentially subsidizing their buildings to basically tout their businesses. how would you respond to that? >> tourism is a human being job creator -- huge job cre

we saw that in louisiana with mary landrieu, so here we are. >> matt, we did end up with a government shutdown, the question is why? >> well, it's very clear why,

. >> president obama is visiting louisiana to talk about growing u.s. exports. the state is really to cash in. >> reporter: the southern bend of the mississippi river twists from baton rouge to new orleans, the gulf of mentixico and the world. >> this is interstate of waterways. >> big barges carry commodities that feed the globe and oil and gas that powers it. and america's cheap energy production costs are about to flow down the river and drive an economic bonanza and a surge of jobs. >> an absolutely economic boom. what you have here is just something that has not been witnessed in the united states. this is 80 to $100,000,000,000 in major investments. >> this is the largest tonnage port in the entire western hemisphere, the port of south louisiana. as the construction boom goes here, state and local officials say it will create tens of thousands of jobs over the coming decades and bring in revenue like the state has never seen before. how much will these new jobs pay? >> $83,000 annually with overtime. you may look at 120 dollars a year. >> wow. >> roy quiza

their gassy holdings in louisiana. sure, swift is dumping louisiana acreage holding them back and investing in acres that could give them a much better future. the company's already dwoegt around 80% of 2014 capital expenditure budget to the smoking hot texan shale. now swift energy expects these asset sales to take place in the first quarter of next year. that's a huge catalyst coming in the not too distant future. the eagleford shale 50 miles wide, 400 miles long, running through texas to touch on new mexico and louisiana. if this shale were a country, it would probably rank as one of the top 15 oil-producing nations in the world. let's hope it doesn't succeed. after swift sells off its louisiana acreage, this will be a very different enterprise. right now natural gas accounts for 48%. not only will swift be eagleford shale but assets are high quality. it's been masked by weakness in other areas divested. swift has 55 acres in la salle and mcmull lan counties which are located right in the sweet spot of the eagle for

i don't think you'll see chicago or louisiana, shreveport, louisiana become the next detroit. it's something that most municipalities try to avoid. >> i read in the article they recommended that fresno for example should ideally have something like 10 million dollar in an emergency found. what is the typical cushion a city you would recommend should have on hand to make sure that it can weather, for example, a weather emergency. >> well, every city is different and what they need in terms of reserve is going to vary from city to city but typically, the reason why cities are in a position they are in is they have to tap the reserves during the worst of the fiscal crisis and when they cap reserves, they cut spending letting people go like police officers, firefighters and sometimes administrators and then when that wasn't enough, they raise taxes. cities had many tools to utilize to get through the worst of the great recession and fiscal aftermath, but, you know, they are still recovering. >> how do cities get healthy again? we know in washington there is budget problems there.

tonight the great lakes, ohio river valley, louisiana and mississippi will all expect a combination of rain snow or ice. tomorrow it will be the southeast through ohio and virginia that is impacted. and wednesday it's the mid-atlantic states and northeast. drivers are urged to be cautious. it is not just the roads effected. over 3 million travelers will fly, many of them on wednesday, which triple-a calls the single busiest day of the holiday week. >> doesn't sound good. kevin is here now with more on the storm's path. what do we know? >> meteorologist: it's been impressive, a lot of winds brought storms in the higher elevations. flooding in arizona and we're still dealing with this, this is 24 hours ago. let's put this in motion. we're going to be seeing quite a bit of rain. now what happens is every six hours the models update their forecast, and we've been watching from yesterday to today the position of the low pressure center. now it makes a big difference. as the area of low pressure comes up the east coast most of what is going to be on the western part will be snow, most on the

this happens frequently in louisiana. there is a need for one and there is a need for enforcement. >> the petro chemical industry has hundreds of accidents every year in louisiana. residents complain the state's not doing enough it's too chummy with big gas and chemical. people here know how important the oil and gases industries are to their state. they are begin to go question the cost. with over 150 facilities that manufacture and release toxic chemicals, locals call it cancer ally. >> in 1998, 36 years old, i was diagnosed with breast cancer. >> i built this home in '99, because did because grady said if you do this, then and you beat this, you can have whatever you want. so after an 11-hour surgery, chemo therapy, that's what he did. he built me my dream home. >> a dream home in bayou corn. once a little slice of heaven. today, mostly buried. >> i spent 37 years, three months, three days in the army defending this nation. and when we get attacked from within, things that make our citizens unsafe, it concerns me as a