1 00:00:08,808 --> 00:00:11,345 WE SUPPORT SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING AT LOCAL SCHOOLS TO 2 00:00:11,478 --> 00:00:16,417 BUILD A BRIGHTER PATH TO BETTER JOBS AND HELP PREPARE THE NEXT 3 00:00:16,583 --> 00:00:21,255 GENERATION, BECAUSE TOGETHER, WE POWER LIFE. 4 00:00:21,422 --> 00:00:24,858 ENTERGY. ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED 5 00:00:25,025 --> 00:00:31,965 BY THE FRED B. AND RUTH ZIEGLER FOUNDATION AND THE ZIEGLER ART 6 00:00:32,132 --> 00:00:36,737 MUSEUM LOCATED IN JENNINGS CITY HALL. 7 00:00:36,870 --> 00:00:38,138 THE MUSEUM FOCUSES ON EMERGING LOUISIANA ARTISTS AND IS AN 8 00:00:38,305 --> 00:00:39,473 HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CENTER FOR SOUTHWEST LOUISIANA. 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:40,807 AND THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN LOUISIANA PUBLIC 10 00:00:40,975 --> 00:00:47,447 BROADCASTING WITH SUPPORT FROM VIEWERS LIKE YOU. 11 00:00:47,615 --> 00:00:56,457 ♪♪ ♪♪ 12 00:00:56,623 --> 00:01:00,693 BY PUTTING THIS OUT THERE, IT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE 13 00:01:00,860 --> 00:01:03,897 SCALED AND REPLICATED ACROSS OUR COAST AND COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS 14 00:01:04,063 --> 00:01:06,633 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. A NEW TOOL FOR LIVING IN 15 00:01:06,800 --> 00:01:10,903 LOUISIANA. I'VE ALWAYS HAD A PASSION FOR 16 00:01:11,072 --> 00:01:13,340 EDUCATION. AND AT 19, HE'S THE STATE'S 17 00:01:13,507 --> 00:01:19,647 YOUNGEST SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER. I KIND OF IMMERSED MYSELF IN 18 00:01:19,813 --> 00:01:22,315 LOUISIANA CULTURE. A NATIVE SON ON HIS MUSICAL 19 00:01:22,482 --> 00:01:25,385 JOURNEY TO THE WORLD STAGE. HELLO, EVERYONE, I'M ANDRÉ 20 00:01:25,552 --> 00:01:26,820 MOREAU. NATASHA WILLIAMS IS OFF TONIGHT. 21 00:01:26,987 --> 00:01:30,157 WE'LL HAVE MUCH MORE ON THOSE TOP STORIES IN A MOMENT ON THIS 22 00:01:30,290 --> 00:01:34,093 WEEK'S EDITION OF "SWI," BUT FIRST, GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS 23 00:01:34,260 --> 00:01:38,032 SAYS IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN NOT THAT THE SPILLWAY WILL BE OPEN 24 00:01:38,198 --> 00:01:40,267 BECAUSE OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER'S RECORD HIGH WATER 25 00:01:40,433 --> 00:01:43,837 LEVELS, A DECISION TO BE MADE IN THE COMING DAYS. 26 00:01:44,003 --> 00:01:48,175 THE SPILLWAY HAS BEEN OPEN ONLY TWICE BEFORE SINCE IT WAS BUILT 27 00:01:48,308 --> 00:01:50,643 BACK IN 1954. NOW A LOOK AT SOME OF THE OTHER 28 00:01:50,810 --> 00:01:55,515 STORIES MAKING HEADLINES ACROSS THE STATE. 29 00:01:55,682 --> 00:01:56,917 GOVERNOR JOHN BEL EDWARDS IS ASKING THE PRESIDENT FOR A 30 00:01:57,083 --> 00:01:58,518 FEDERAL DISASTER DECLARATION FOLLOWING DEVASTATING TORNADOES. 31 00:01:58,685 --> 00:02:02,455 THE DECLARATION IS FOR LINCOLN, MOREHOUSE, AND UNION PARISHES. 32 00:02:02,588 --> 00:02:05,625 THE LATE APRIL TWISTERS KILLED TWO PEOPLE AND LEFT MORE THAN 33 00:02:05,792 --> 00:02:09,162 $12 MILLION DOLLARS DAMAGE, ESPECIALLY IMPACTING LOUISIANA 34 00:02:09,330 --> 00:02:12,165 TECH UNIVERSITY AND THE CITY OF RUSTON. 35 00:02:12,332 --> 00:02:15,268 THE GOVERNOR ALSO TOURED HIGH WIND DAMAGE IN VILLE PLATTE 36 00:02:15,435 --> 00:02:18,838 WHERE AT LEAST 50 HOMES AND BUSINESSES WERE DESTROYED. 37 00:02:18,972 --> 00:02:21,542 THIS YEAR'S WIDESPREAD AND LONGLASTING FLOODING HAS MADE IT 38 00:02:21,708 --> 00:02:26,380 LIKELY THAT A BIG, OXYGEN-STARVED DEAD ZONE WILL 39 00:02:26,547 --> 00:02:32,285 FORM OFF THE LOUISIANA COAST THIS SUMMER. 40 00:02:32,452 --> 00:02:35,988 OCEAN SCIENCE LEADERS SAY EARLY COMPUTER MODELS INDICATE A LARGE 41 00:02:36,157 --> 00:02:39,192 TO VERY LARGE YEAR FOR THE AREA WHERE THERE IS TOO LITTLE OXYGEN 42 00:02:39,360 --> 00:02:41,895 TO SUPPORT ALL MARINE LIFE. SIGNIFICANT AMOUNTS OF WIDELY 43 00:02:42,062 --> 00:02:45,298 USED FERTILIZERS HAVE RUN FROM FARMLAND INTO WATERWAYS IN THE 44 00:02:45,465 --> 00:02:49,970 31 STATES THAT FEED THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER AND ULTIMATELY 45 00:02:50,137 --> 00:02:52,707 THAT FLOW IS INTO THE GULF OF MEXICO. 46 00:02:52,873 --> 00:02:55,108 HIGH WATER IS MEANING AN EARLY SUMMER VACATION FOR SOME 47 00:02:55,275 --> 00:03:01,115 STUDENTS IN ASSUMPTION PARISH. THOSE AT PIERRE PART ELEMENTARY. 48 00:03:01,282 --> 00:03:02,917 SCHOOL OFFICIALS SAYS THIS PAST TUESDAY WAS THEIR LAST SCHOOL 49 00:03:03,083 --> 00:03:09,457 DAY OF THE YEAR. ROUGHLY 550 STUDENTS PRE-K TO 50 00:03:09,623 --> 00:03:14,428 EIGHT GRADE ARE INVOLVED. THE SCHOOL IS IN A LOW-LYING 51 00:03:14,595 --> 00:03:16,597 AREA, WHERE CONTINUED HIGH WATER ON THE MISSISSIPPI AND 52 00:03:16,763 --> 00:03:24,003 ATCHAFALAYA RIVERS HAS CAUSED BACK WATER FLOODING IN THE LAKE 53 00:03:24,170 --> 00:03:25,838 VERRET BASIN. FOR THE SECOND TIME IN RECENT 54 00:03:26,005 --> 00:03:27,540 YEARS, THE COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHORITY, CPRA, 55 00:03:27,673 --> 00:03:29,943 HAS BEEN NAMED A NATIONAL WINNER FOR BEST RESTORED BEACHES FROM 56 00:03:30,110 --> 00:03:34,213 THE AMERICAN SHORE AND BEACH PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION. 57 00:03:34,380 --> 00:03:38,652 CPRA'S CAMINADA HEADLAND BEACH AND DUNE RESTORATION PROJECT 58 00:03:38,818 --> 00:03:42,890 RESTORED MORE THAN 13 MILES OF BEACH AND DUNE STRETCHING FROM 59 00:03:43,057 --> 00:03:45,592 BELOW PORT FOURCHON IN LAFOURCHE PARISH EASTWARD TO THE END OF 60 00:03:45,758 --> 00:03:48,995 ELMER'S ISLAND IN JEFFERSON PARISH. 61 00:03:49,162 --> 00:03:52,298 CPRA CONTINUES TO HEAD UP THE BIGGEST SINGLE ECOSYSTEM 62 00:03:52,432 --> 00:03:58,138 RESTORATION PROJECT THE STATE HAS EVER UNDERTAKEN. 63 00:03:58,305 --> 00:04:00,373 THE STATE'S CHILD WELFARE AGENCY IS LAUNCHING A NEW RECRUITMENT 64 00:04:00,540 --> 00:04:02,777 CAMPAIGN SEARCHING FOR POTENTIAL FOSTER PARENTS WILLING TO CARE 65 00:04:02,943 --> 00:04:06,347 FOR TEENAGERS. THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND 66 00:04:06,513 --> 00:04:09,348 FAMILY SERVICES SAYS TEENS ACCOUNT FOR ABOUT 20% OF THE 67 00:04:09,517 --> 00:04:13,053 CHILDREN UNDER THE STATE'S OVERSIGHT, BUT FEWER THAN 5% OF 68 00:04:13,220 --> 00:04:20,260 NON-RELATIVE FOSTER HOMES ARE TAKING IN TEENAGERS. 69 00:04:20,427 --> 00:04:23,763 THE SESSION IS HEADING INTO THE FINAL COUPLE OF WEEKS NOW AT 70 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:25,998 THE CAPITOL. HERE'S A LOOK AT SOME OF THE 71 00:04:26,167 --> 00:04:27,033 HIGHLIGHTS AND ACTION FROM THIS WEEK. 72 00:04:27,200 --> 00:04:28,468 LAWMAKERS THIS WEEK TOOK ANOTHER STEP TOWARD CHIPPING AWAY AT 73 00:04:28,635 --> 00:04:31,805 ABORTION RIGHTS. A STEP CLOSER TO PASSING A BILL 74 00:04:31,972 --> 00:04:34,642 THAT WOULD ASK VOTERS TO REWRITE THE STATE CONSTITUTION AND BAN 75 00:04:34,808 --> 00:04:41,080 ABORTION PROTECTIONS. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE IS ONE 76 00:04:41,248 --> 00:04:44,317 OF SEVERAL ANTI-ABORTION MEASURES PROPOSED THIS SESSION. 77 00:04:44,485 --> 00:04:48,555 A BILL IS ALSO NEARING FINAL PASSAGE THAT COULD BAN THE 78 00:04:48,722 --> 00:04:50,457 PROCEDURE AS EARLY AS SIX WEEKS OF PREGNANCY. 79 00:04:50,623 --> 00:04:53,993 SAYING HE DOESN'T HAVE THE VOTES, A NEW ORLEANS SENATOR 80 00:04:54,127 --> 00:04:57,697 SCRAPPED HIS LATEST BID TO RAISE THE STATE'S MINIMUM WAGE. 81 00:04:57,865 --> 00:05:05,238 DEMOCRATIC SENATOR TROY CARTER HAD PROPOSED TO SET OUR MINIMUM 82 00:05:05,405 --> 00:05:07,073 WAGE AT $9 DOLLARS AN HOUR, UP FROM THE $7.25 FEDERAL LEVEL. 83 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:08,642 SAID CARTER, "SHAME ON US IF WE CONTINUE TO LET THIS BE OUR 84 00:05:08,775 --> 00:05:11,478 LEGACY." IT'S THE FOURTH YEAR OF DEFEAT 85 00:05:11,645 --> 00:05:14,782 FOR AN EFFORT BACKED BY THE GOVERNOR. 86 00:05:14,948 --> 00:05:18,185 A BID TO LEGALIZE SPORTS BETTING IN THE STATE EDGED FORWARD. 87 00:05:18,352 --> 00:05:24,792 IT WON THE SUPPORT OF A COMMITTEE FILLED WITH A NUMBER 88 00:05:24,958 --> 00:05:26,827 OF ANTI-GAMBLING LAWMAKERS. MORE HURDLES REMAIN THOUGH ON 89 00:05:26,993 --> 00:05:28,428 THE BILL THAT WOULD ALLOW WAGERING ON COLLEGE AND PRO 90 00:05:28,595 --> 00:05:33,533 SPORTS AT STATE CASINOS AND RACETRACKS. 91 00:05:33,700 --> 00:05:36,102 HOUSE REPUBLICANS ARE PUSHING AHEAD WITH A PLAN TO UNDO THE 92 00:05:36,270 --> 00:05:38,072 SEVEN-YEAR SALES TAX PASSED LAST YEAR TO STABILIZE STATE 93 00:05:38,238 --> 00:05:41,208 FINANCES. THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS 94 00:05:41,375 --> 00:05:48,615 COMMITTEE VOTED TO ADVANCE THE BILL TO PHASE OUT THE ALMOST 95 00:05:48,782 --> 00:05:51,452 HALF-PENNY TAX OVER FOUR YEARS OR BY MID-2023. 96 00:05:51,618 --> 00:05:55,288 THE HOUSE AGREED UNANIMOUSLY TO BOOST THE AMOUNT THE STATE PAYS 97 00:05:55,455 --> 00:05:57,823 PARISH SHERIFFS FOR HOUSING STATE INMATES IN LOCAL JAILS. 98 00:05:57,992 --> 00:06:02,862 THE INCREASE WOULD EVENTUALLY COST ABOUT $30 MILLION A YEAR. 99 00:06:03,030 --> 00:06:04,965 IT NOW GOES TO THE SENATE FOR DEBATE. 100 00:06:05,132 --> 00:06:08,368 NO DEBATE AGAIN FOR A PROPOSED GAS TAX HIKE. 101 00:06:08,535 --> 00:06:12,505 BATON ROUGE REPRESENTATIVE STEVE CARTER SHELVED HIS BID TO RAISE 102 00:06:12,672 --> 00:06:17,210 THE STATE GAS TAX TO PAY FOR ROAD PROJECTS, SAYING IT'S TOO 103 00:06:17,377 --> 00:06:20,747 LATE TO WORK HOUSE BILL 542 THROUGH THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. 104 00:06:20,913 --> 00:06:24,718 HE DID ISSUE A CHALLENGE TO THE NEXT GOVERNOR, SAYING AFTER THE 105 00:06:24,852 --> 00:06:28,122 FALL ELECTIONS, THE GOVERNOR SHOULD CALL A SPECIAL SESSION TO 106 00:06:28,288 --> 00:06:30,757 ADDRESS OUR D-RATED INFRASTRUCTURE. 107 00:06:30,923 --> 00:06:44,838 ♪♪ ♪♪ 108 00:06:45,005 --> 00:06:47,507 LOUISIANA IS THE MOST FLOOD-PRONE STATE IN THE U.S., 109 00:06:47,673 --> 00:06:51,545 BUT THE STATE IS BEING PROACTIVE TO STAY DRY, AND IT'S DOING THAT 110 00:06:51,712 --> 00:06:54,413 WITH A NEW SET OF POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS. 111 00:06:54,582 --> 00:06:58,352 WE KNOW THE COASTAL MASTER PLAN THAT'S IN PLACE, BUT NOW LA 112 00:06:58,518 --> 00:07:01,822 SAFE, WHICH STANDS FOR LOUISIANA'S STRATEGIC 113 00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:03,190 ADAPTATIONS FOR FUTURE ENVIRONMENTS, GIVES US WHAT'S 114 00:07:03,357 --> 00:07:07,227 BEING CALLED MAYBE A MORE DOWN TO EARTH APPROACH. 115 00:07:07,393 --> 00:07:10,430 PAT FORBES IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY 116 00:07:10,597 --> 00:07:13,567 DEVELOPMENT, WHICH OVERSEES THIS, AND MATT SANDERS IS ONE OF 117 00:07:13,733 --> 00:07:17,937 THE LEAD WRITERS, PROGRAM MANAGERS FOR LA SAFE, SO WHAT 118 00:07:18,105 --> 00:07:23,510 ARE YOU TELLING PEOPLE? WHAT THE LA SAFE PLAN SAYS IS 119 00:07:23,643 --> 00:07:29,783 THAT WHILE STRUCTURAL PROTECTION MEASURES AND COASTAL RESTORATION 120 00:07:29,917 --> 00:07:32,485 ARE ALL ONGOING AND PLANNED FOR THE COAST, THERE ARE OTHER 121 00:07:32,652 --> 00:07:37,323 THINGS WE CAN DO AND NEED TO DO TO ADAPT TO THIS CONTINUED LAND 122 00:07:37,490 --> 00:07:40,060 LOSS THAT LOUISIANA'S SUFFERING. WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD 123 00:07:40,227 --> 00:07:43,163 INFORMATION FROM THE COASTAL MASTER PLAN THAT HELPS US 124 00:07:43,297 --> 00:07:47,500 UNDERSTAND OUR CURRENT RISK AND WHAT WE THINK OUR FUTURE RISK 125 00:07:47,667 --> 00:07:49,468 WILL LOOK LIKE, AND THOSE ARE VITAL TOOL SETS TO THINK ABOUT 126 00:07:49,637 --> 00:07:51,938 THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITIES AND WHERE AND HOW WE BUILD NOW 127 00:07:52,105 --> 00:07:56,543 AND INTO THE FUTURE. THIS PLAN IS GIVING A REAL 128 00:07:56,677 --> 00:07:58,812 ACKNOWLEDGMENT TO CLIMATE CHANGE, THAT BEING REAL, AND 129 00:07:58,945 --> 00:08:02,548 THAT'S BEING PART OF OUR NEW REALITY AND OUR FUTURE, AND IT 130 00:08:02,682 --> 00:08:08,888 ALSO COMES ON THE HEELS OF ALMOST 15 YEARS OF REALLY STORMS 131 00:08:09,055 --> 00:08:14,895 HITTING THE STATE IN A WAY WHERE THEY NEVER HAVE BEFORE, FROM 132 00:08:15,062 --> 00:08:17,830 KATRINA, TO OTHER TROPICAL SYSTEMS, TO THE FLOODS OF 2016. 133 00:08:17,963 --> 00:08:22,368 THE LA SAFE PLAN IS NOT THE FIRST TO ACKNOWLEDGE GLOBAL 134 00:08:22,535 --> 00:08:24,972 CLIMATE CHANGE. CERTAINLY, THAT'S ACKNOWLEDGED 135 00:08:25,138 --> 00:08:28,942 BY THE STATE'S COASTAL MASTER PLAN. 136 00:08:29,108 --> 00:08:33,813 MATT WAS TALKING EARLIER ABOUT HOW WE RELIED ON MODELING FROM 137 00:08:33,980 --> 00:08:40,520 THAT PLAN THAT PREDICTS RELATIVE SEA LEVEL RISE FOR 50 YEARS INTO 138 00:08:40,687 --> 00:08:45,592 THE FUTURE, AND SO THAT'S SORT OF WHAT OUR PLAN IS BASED ON, 139 00:08:45,725 --> 00:08:49,295 LOOKING AT THOSE FUTURE RISKS, KNOWING THAT THEY ARE 140 00:08:49,462 --> 00:08:51,365 INCREASING. AND THAT LIFE IS CHANGING, IT 141 00:08:51,532 --> 00:08:57,537 WILL NOT BE THE SAME AS IT WAS. THERE MAY NOT BE AS MUCH LAND 142 00:08:57,703 --> 00:08:59,238 AND THAT THE WATER MIGHT BE HIGHER AROUND IT. 143 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:05,478 YOU START OUT WITH SIX PARISHES THAT GRANT HAS ALLOWED YOU TO GO 144 00:09:05,645 --> 00:09:08,282 IN AND ADAPT PLANS FOR THOSE PARISHES? 145 00:09:08,448 --> 00:09:11,985 THE PARISHES THEMSELVES WERE ALL PARISHES HEAVILY IMPACTED BY 146 00:09:12,152 --> 00:09:16,155 HURRICANE ISAAC IN 2012, WHICH IS WHERE THE GRANT SOURCE CAME 147 00:09:16,322 --> 00:09:18,358 FROM, BUT WE THINK THAT THEY WERE REALLY GOOD PARISHES FOR US 148 00:09:18,525 --> 00:09:21,127 TO WORK IN. COLLECTIVELY, THEY REPRESENT 149 00:09:21,293 --> 00:09:25,398 ABOUT 8.5% OF ALL PAYOUTS FROM THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE 150 00:09:25,565 --> 00:09:27,533 PROGRAM, FROM THE LIFE OF THE PROGRAM TO PRESENT DAY. 151 00:09:27,667 --> 00:09:31,405 SO IT WAS A GOOD PLACE TO START, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU 152 00:09:31,572 --> 00:09:33,407 TALK ABOUT SOMETHING LIKE CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOU GET ON 153 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:36,777 THE GROUND AND YOU TALK TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE SEEN CHANGES 154 00:09:36,943 --> 00:09:40,047 HAPPEN FOR THE DURATION OF THEIR LIVES, IT IS NOT A CONCEPT LOST 155 00:09:40,213 --> 00:09:43,983 ON PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN LIVING IN THESE PLACES FOR AS LONG AS 156 00:09:44,150 --> 00:09:45,352 THEY HAVE BEEN. IS THERE ANYWHERE IN THIS 157 00:09:45,518 --> 00:09:47,953 PLAN YOU'RE SUGGESTING TO PEOPLE THAT THEY MAY HAVE TO MOVE IN 158 00:09:48,122 --> 00:09:49,857 THE FUTURE? SURE. 159 00:09:50,023 --> 00:09:53,927 IT ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THERE ARE PLACES ALONG THE COAST THAT THE 160 00:09:54,060 --> 00:09:57,030 50-YEAR RISK IS SO HIGH, THAT IT'S UNLIKELY THAT COMMUNITY IS 161 00:09:57,197 --> 00:10:01,802 GOING TO BE VIABLE. WE HAVE AN EXAMPLE NOW, PAID FOR 162 00:10:01,968 --> 00:10:08,808 THROUGH THIS SAME GRANT, THE RESETTLEMENT OF THE COMMUNITY IN 163 00:10:08,975 --> 00:10:11,778 A SOUTHERN PARISH, AND WE'RE MOVING THE WHOLE COMMUNITY ABOUT 164 00:10:11,945 --> 00:10:15,548 40 MILES NORTH TO GET THEM TO A SAFE, HIGH, DRY PLACE. 165 00:10:15,715 --> 00:10:19,052 SO THERE COULD BE OTHERS? WE'RE HOPING BY PUTTING THIS 166 00:10:19,218 --> 00:10:22,655 OUT THERE, THAT IT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT CAN BE SCALED AND 167 00:10:22,822 --> 00:10:25,292 REPLICATED ACROSS OUR COAST AND IN COASTAL ENVIRONMENTS ACROSS 168 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:26,993 THE COUNTRY. PEOPLE WANT TO CHECK THE 169 00:10:27,160 --> 00:10:31,097 WEBSITE TO SEE ALL ABOUT IT, WHERE DO THEY GO? 170 00:10:31,263 --> 00:10:36,235 LASAFE.LA.GOV. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING 171 00:10:36,402 --> 00:10:37,437 HERE. THANK YOU. 172 00:10:37,603 --> 00:10:41,073 WHILE LOUISIANA HAS BEEN PROMISED $1.2 BILLION FROM THE 173 00:10:41,240 --> 00:10:44,210 FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO FUND A STATEWIDE PLAN OF FLOOD 174 00:10:44,377 --> 00:10:47,880 MITIGATION PROJECTS, 15 MONTHS HAS PASSED AND IT HASN'T 175 00:10:48,047 --> 00:10:52,985 RECEIVED A DOLLAR. WHY THAT IS IS ONE OF THE TOPICS 176 00:10:53,118 --> 00:10:54,753 COVERED IN THIS MONTH'S "LOUISIANA PUBLIC SQUARE" 177 00:10:54,922 --> 00:10:57,023 EPISODE ABOUT HOW THE STATE IS ADDRESSING THE EFFECTS OF 178 00:10:57,190 --> 00:10:58,758 CLIMATE CHANGE. WE HAVE A SERIES OF 179 00:10:58,925 --> 00:11:02,895 MONITORING STATIONS, ALMOST 400 STATIONS ACROSS THE COAST THAT 180 00:11:03,062 --> 00:11:06,900 ARE MONITORING RATES. WE ALSO HAVE TARGETED RESEARCH 181 00:11:07,067 --> 00:11:14,573 EFFORTS, IF YOU WILL, I KNOW THAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER. 182 00:11:14,740 --> 00:11:17,177 SUBSIDED SUPERSTATION, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT'S BEING INSTALLED, 183 00:11:17,343 --> 00:11:21,280 SO THERE IS A LOT OF WORK. WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S AN 184 00:11:21,447 --> 00:11:25,852 AREA WE NEED TO IMPROVE ON, AND I MENTION THAT IN MY GREAT 185 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:28,855 ASSESSMENT, AS WELL, THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT. 186 00:11:29,022 --> 00:11:30,757 THE PLANNING THAT THE STATE IS PUTTING TOGETHER NOW TO TRY 187 00:11:30,890 --> 00:11:36,897 TO PRESERVE CULTURES AND HAVE THIS MORE THOUGHTFUL APPROACH TO 188 00:11:37,063 --> 00:11:40,800 MIGRATION AND MOVEMENT OF PEOPLE IS -- MAKES A LOT OF SENSE, 189 00:11:40,967 --> 00:11:47,040 BECAUSE THESE EPISODES OF DRAMATIC LAND LOSS, 216 MILES 190 00:11:47,173 --> 00:11:51,645 OVERNIGHT, SQUARE MILES LOST DURING HURRICANE KATRINA, AND 191 00:11:51,812 --> 00:11:55,815 THEN RIGHT AFTER THIS, THOSE STORMS ARE GROWING MORE INTENSE 192 00:11:55,982 --> 00:12:00,487 SINCE 1980. THE LANDFALLING HURRICANES FROM 193 00:12:00,653 --> 00:12:03,423 THE ATLANTIC BASIN HAVE INCREASED IN VIRTUALLY ALL 194 00:12:03,557 --> 00:12:05,958 MEASURES OF INTENSITY. THE MAJORITY OF THE FUNDING 195 00:12:06,125 --> 00:12:08,895 FOR THE COASTAL MASTER PLAN IS COMING FROM THE OIL AND GAS 196 00:12:09,062 --> 00:12:13,500 INDUSTRY IN SOME FORM, WHETHER IT'S FROM THE BP SETTLEMENT OR 197 00:12:13,667 --> 00:12:18,772 FROM THE SALE OF OFFSHORE LEASES, AND THEN THERE ARE THESE 198 00:12:18,938 --> 00:12:22,208 COASTAL PARISH LAWSUITS AGAINST THE OIL AND GAS COMPANIES THAT 199 00:12:22,375 --> 00:12:25,012 COULD PROVIDE NOT A VERY SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNT OF MONEY, BUT 200 00:12:25,178 --> 00:12:28,047 THEY ARE SYMBOLIC IN A SENSE. YOU KNOW, ARE THERE OTHER WAYS 201 00:12:28,213 --> 00:12:31,885 THAT WE COULD LOOK TO THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY TO, YOU KNOW, 202 00:12:32,052 --> 00:12:38,558 MAKE RIGHT FOR THE CANAL THEY'VE CARVED IN THE MARSHES OVER TIME 203 00:12:38,725 --> 00:12:40,893 THAT HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO SOME ACCOUNTS TO UP TO 70% OF THE 204 00:12:41,060 --> 00:12:44,965 LAND LOSS. SOME 51% OF OUR STATE IS IN A 205 00:12:45,132 --> 00:12:48,568 SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA. THE GEOGRAPHY OF OUR STATE IS IN 206 00:12:48,735 --> 00:12:53,072 A SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA, SO THE COST OF INSURANCE IS GOING 207 00:12:53,238 --> 00:12:57,910 TO DETERMINE WHERE PEOPLE LIVE, IT'S GOING TO DETERMINE WHAT 208 00:12:58,077 --> 00:13:01,882 PEOPLE ARE IN VULNERABLE POSITIONS WHEREVER WE DO HAVE 209 00:13:02,048 --> 00:13:07,653 STORMS AND DISASTERS, AND IT'S CRITICAL TO HOW WE ADDRESS THE 210 00:13:07,820 --> 00:13:15,095 ISSUE, BECAUSE IF WE CONTINUE TO HAVE PEOPLE LIVE IN PLACES THAT 211 00:13:15,262 --> 00:13:17,963 WE KNOW ARE DANGEROUS AND WE DON'T DISCOURAGE THAT AND WE 212 00:13:18,130 --> 00:13:22,802 DON'T MAKE IT POSSIBLE, WE DON'T FACILITATE PEOPLE'S ABILITY TO 213 00:13:22,968 --> 00:13:27,740 LIVE IN SAFER PLACES, THEN WE'RE SETTING OURSELVES UP FOR HAVING 214 00:13:27,907 --> 00:13:31,712 OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS LIVING IN OUR MOST DANGEROUS 215 00:13:31,878 --> 00:13:33,880 PLACES. THAT FULL PROGRAM, "SINKING 216 00:13:34,013 --> 00:13:37,583 CITIES," AIRS ON SUNDAY AT 11:00 A.M. AND NEXT TUESDAY AT 10:00 217 00:13:37,750 --> 00:13:38,183 P.M. ♪♪ 218 00:13:38,352 --> 00:13:52,965 ♪♪ THERE'S ONE SCHOOL BOARD 219 00:13:53,132 --> 00:13:55,902 MEMBER IN PARTICULAR IN AVOYELLES PARISH THAT CAN REALLY 220 00:13:56,035 --> 00:14:00,440 RELATE TO STUDENTS AND HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT SCHOOL. 221 00:14:00,607 --> 00:14:06,980 THE REASON STANLEY CELESTINE JR. IS SO IN STEP WITH KIDS IN HIS 222 00:14:07,147 --> 00:14:09,682 DISTRICT, TWO YEARS AGO HE WAS A STUDENT HIMSELF IN BUNKIE. 223 00:14:09,848 --> 00:14:16,990 THEN LAST NOVEMBER, IN A ROUT, HE WON A SEAT ON THE SCHOOL 224 00:14:17,157 --> 00:14:26,900 BOARD. HE'S NOW 19, AND HE FEELS HE'S 225 00:14:27,067 --> 00:14:31,437 IN A GOOD POSITION TO HELP THE PARISH IMPROVE ON ITS "C" GRADE. 226 00:14:31,603 --> 00:14:35,675 NOT YOUR TYPICAL 19-YEAR-OLD. HE SAYS THAT INTEREST WAS 227 00:14:35,842 --> 00:14:38,545 SPARKED WHEN HE WAS STILL IN GRADE SCHOOL. 228 00:14:38,712 --> 00:14:43,417 IN SEVENTH GRADE, MY SEVENTH GRADE ENGLISH TEACHER KIND OF 229 00:14:43,583 --> 00:14:49,355 INTRODUCED US TO EDUCATION POLICY MAKING, SOME OF THE 230 00:14:49,522 --> 00:14:52,625 INEQUITIES THAT EXIST IN EDUCATION, NOT JUST IN AVOYELLES 231 00:14:52,792 --> 00:14:54,527 PARISH, BUT ACROSS THE UNITED STATES. 232 00:14:54,693 --> 00:14:57,063 LATE LAST YEAR HE TOOK THAT PASSION TO ANOTHER LEVEL. 233 00:14:57,230 --> 00:15:01,300 NOW THAT I SERVE ON THE SCHOOL BOARD, I'M ABLE TO DO 234 00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:04,037 THAT, BUT IN A MORE OFFICIAL CAPACITY, AND NOW I'M ABLE TO 235 00:15:04,203 --> 00:15:07,607 LEVERAGE THE VOICES AND OPINIONS OF NOT JUST STUDENTS, BUT ALSO 236 00:15:07,740 --> 00:15:11,945 THEIR PARENTS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS OF OUR SCHOOL 237 00:15:12,112 --> 00:15:13,713 SYSTEM. IN NOVEMBER, STANLEY 238 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:17,417 CELESTINE JR. WAS ELECTED TO THE AVOYELLES PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, 239 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:21,087 GETTING 65% OF THE VOTE. HE'S CURRENTLY THE YOUNGEST 240 00:15:21,253 --> 00:15:25,492 ELECTED SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER IN THE STATE, AND THE YOUNGEST EVER 241 00:15:25,658 --> 00:15:27,860 ELECTED IN AVOYELLES PARISH. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HELPED 242 00:15:28,027 --> 00:15:33,165 ME WITH MY CAMPAIGN WAS MY PRIOR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE SCHOOL 243 00:15:33,332 --> 00:15:39,338 SYSTEM, SO SOME PEOPLE, IT'S JUST A NATURAL FIT. 244 00:15:39,505 --> 00:15:42,675 SO YOUR FAMILY, DID YOUR FAMILY HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT YOU 245 00:15:42,842 --> 00:15:49,415 DOING THIS PROCESS? DID YOU SIT DOWN WITH YOUR MOM 246 00:15:49,582 --> 00:15:51,350 AND DAD AND SAY, HEY, I WANT TO RUN FOR SCHOOL BOARD, AND THEY 247 00:15:51,517 --> 00:15:56,288 WERE LIKE, WHAT? RUNNING FOR SCHOOL BOARD HAD 248 00:15:56,422 --> 00:15:58,625 BEEN IN THE WORKS FOR ABOUT TWO YEARS. 249 00:15:58,792 --> 00:16:01,928 MY MOM AND DAD THOUGHT ONCE I WOULD START COLLEGE, YOU KNOW, 250 00:16:02,062 --> 00:16:05,498 PRETTY MUCH THAT THOUGHT WOULD GO AWAY, AND I REMEMBER THE DAY 251 00:16:05,665 --> 00:16:09,902 I QUALIFIED, I THINK I MAYBE TOLD ONE OF THEM, AND SO THEY 252 00:16:10,068 --> 00:16:13,707 HADN'T HAD TIME TO COMMUNICATE WITH ONE ANOTHER, BUT ONCE I DID 253 00:16:13,873 --> 00:16:18,778 IT, THEY WERE IN SUPPORT. CELESTINE SAYS HE'S PREPARED 254 00:16:18,945 --> 00:16:21,113 TO SERVE. EVEN WHEN I WAS IN HIGH 255 00:16:21,280 --> 00:16:25,083 SCHOOL, I FOUND OPPORTUNITIES TO ENGAGE WITH MY LOCAL SCHOOL 256 00:16:25,252 --> 00:16:28,588 BOARD, ATTEND MEETINGS, VOICE MY CONCERNS ABOUT ISSUES, AND 257 00:16:28,755 --> 00:16:34,193 REALLY REPRESENT A STUDENT VOICE. 258 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:36,595 MY CAMPAIGN SLOGAN WAS "STAN FOR KIDS." 259 00:16:36,762 --> 00:16:40,200 NOW AS AN OFFICIAL VOICE FOR KIDS, HE'S JUMPED RIGHT IN AND 260 00:16:40,367 --> 00:16:45,272 IS MOVING AHEAD WITH MANY OF THE ISSUES HE RAN ON, THINGS HE SAYS 261 00:16:45,438 --> 00:16:48,708 PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS TOLD HIM NEED IMPROVEMENT IN THEIR 262 00:16:48,842 --> 00:16:51,577 CHILDREN'S SCHOOL. MY FOUR-YEAR PLAN IS JUST TO 263 00:16:51,743 --> 00:16:57,350 ENSURE THAT STUDENTS' VOICE IS EMBEDDED INTO NOT JUST OUR LOCAL 264 00:16:57,483 --> 00:17:01,220 SCHOOLS, BUT ALSO ON THE DISTRICT LEVEL, AS WELL, TO 265 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:05,358 ENSURE THAT WE ARE A THRIVING SCHOOL SYSTEM, NOT JUST 266 00:17:05,492 --> 00:17:09,728 FINANCIALLY, BUT ALSO IN JUST THE PERCEPTION OF OUR SCHOOL 267 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:13,800 SYSTEM, AND JUST REALLY CREATING A SCHOOL SYSTEM THAT IS 268 00:17:13,967 --> 00:17:18,237 INNOVATIVE AND THAT IS PUSHING THE EDGE IN TERMS OF THE 269 00:17:18,403 --> 00:17:23,242 OFFERINGS AND PROGRAMS THAT WE PROVIDE TO STUDENTS, THAT WILL 270 00:17:23,408 --> 00:17:25,312 ALLOW THEM TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL. 271 00:17:25,478 --> 00:17:29,715 THE DISTRICT CURRENTLY HAS A "C" GRADE. 272 00:17:29,882 --> 00:17:33,185 UP FROM A "D" GRADE, SO YOU'VE MADE SOME PROGRESS, I GUESS, IN 273 00:17:33,352 --> 00:17:36,588 RECENT YEARS, BUT WHAT WILL YOU DO TO MOVE THE NEEDLE? 274 00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:41,893 I MEAN, TO GET THE HELP TO BECOME A "B" SCHOOL AND 275 00:17:42,062 --> 00:17:44,897 HOPEFULLY, ULTIMATELY, AN "A" SCHOOL? 276 00:17:45,063 --> 00:17:47,267 FIRST THING, IN ORDER TO DO THAT, IS REALLY GETTING AN 277 00:17:47,433 --> 00:17:51,070 UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SCHOOLS ARE MEASURED WITH SCHOOL PERFORMANCE 278 00:17:51,237 --> 00:17:53,072 SCORES AND THE FORMULA THAT IS USED. 279 00:17:53,238 --> 00:17:56,542 AND ONCE YOU'RE ABLE TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING, YOU ARE ABLE TO 280 00:17:56,708 --> 00:17:59,545 LOOK AT DIFFERENT AREAS THAT FACTORED INTO THAT PERFORMANCE. 281 00:17:59,712 --> 00:18:03,515 FOR ME, IT'S TAKING A LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT FACTORS 282 00:18:03,683 --> 00:18:07,653 AND IDENTIFYING AREAS WHERE WE CAN MAKE IMPROVEMENTS, BUT IT 283 00:18:07,820 --> 00:18:11,590 ALSO REVOLVES AROUND SUPPORTING OUR TEACHERS, MAKING SURE THAT 284 00:18:11,757 --> 00:18:13,425 THEY HAVE MEANINGFUL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND 285 00:18:13,558 --> 00:18:18,597 ALSO MAKING SURE THAT OUR PARENTS UNDERSTAND THE 286 00:18:18,765 --> 00:18:21,733 CHALLENGES THAT WE'RE FACING AS A SYSTEM AND INCLUDING THEM IN 287 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:25,872 THE DECISION MAKING PROCESS. CELESTINE SAYS HE EXPECTS HE 288 00:18:26,038 --> 00:18:28,240 AND THE OTHER SIX BOARD MEMBERS TO BE CHALLENGED. 289 00:18:28,407 --> 00:18:32,945 AS A BOARD, BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE, NOT JUST WITH OUR 290 00:18:33,112 --> 00:18:36,248 CONSTITUENTS, BUT ALSO -- NOT JUST THE CONSTITUENTS THAT 291 00:18:36,415 --> 00:18:38,150 ELECTED US, BUT ALSO BY STUDENTS. 292 00:18:38,317 --> 00:18:41,087 WE ARE HERE TO SERVICE THEM, SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT THERE'S 293 00:18:41,220 --> 00:18:44,023 ACCOUNTABILITY, NOT JUST AT THE BOARD LEVEL, BUT ALSO THE 294 00:18:44,190 --> 00:18:47,827 DISTRICT LEVEL, AND ALSO AT THE LOCAL SCHOOL LEVEL. 295 00:18:47,960 --> 00:18:57,570 AND HIS SCHOOL BOARD JOB ISN'T THE ONLY THING HE'S 296 00:18:57,737 --> 00:19:00,407 TACKLING, HE'S ALSO IN COLLEGE, COMMITTED TO MAKING THE SCHOOLS 297 00:19:00,573 --> 00:19:04,577 ONE OF THE BEST IN THE STATE. MAKING OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM MORE 298 00:19:04,743 --> 00:19:06,812 INNOVATIVE, JUST PROVIDING LIFE-CHANGING OPPORTUNITIES FOR 299 00:19:06,978 --> 00:19:09,415 OUR STUDENTS. THANK YOU, NATASHA WILLIAMS, 300 00:19:09,582 --> 00:19:12,518 FOR THAT REPORT. THE AVOYELLES PARISH SCHOOL 301 00:19:12,685 --> 00:19:16,022 BOARD RECENTLY APPROVED A FOUR-DAY SCHOOL WEEK IN HOPES OF 302 00:19:16,188 --> 00:19:18,157 ATTRACTING MORE CERTIFIED TEACHERS. 303 00:19:18,323 --> 00:19:20,660 TEACHERS IN AVOYELLES ARE CURRENTLY THE LOWEST-PAID 304 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:21,693 EDUCATORS IN THE ENTIRE STATE. ♪♪ 305 00:19:21,860 --> 00:19:34,707 ♪♪ WHEN YOU THINK OF THE BLUES, 306 00:19:34,873 --> 00:19:39,112 NAMES LIKE B.B. KING AND BUDDY GUY COME TO MIND, AND ANOTHER 307 00:19:39,278 --> 00:19:43,448 PELICAN STATE BLUES MAN, CHRIS THOMAS KING. 308 00:19:43,615 --> 00:19:44,917 CHRIS GREW UP IN HIS DAD'S JUKE JOINT TABBY'S BLUES BOX IN BATON 309 00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:46,985 ROUGE. IT WAS AT TABBY'S WHERE HIS OWN 310 00:19:47,153 --> 00:19:48,553 UNIQUE STYLE OF THE BLUES GUITAR QUICKLY GARNERED NATIONAL 311 00:19:48,722 --> 00:19:53,158 ATTENTION. WE HAVE THIS REPORT NOW FROM 312 00:19:53,292 --> 00:20:04,403 WILL LURKER. ♪♪ 313 00:20:04,570 --> 00:20:28,527 ♪♪ MY NAME IS CHRIS THOMAS KING. 314 00:20:28,693 --> 00:20:32,898 I WAS BORN AND RAISED BY TABBY'S BLUES BOX. 315 00:20:33,065 --> 00:20:38,938 FIRST JOB, I THINK, AS A TEEN, AND THAT TOOK ME -- I MOVED TO 316 00:20:39,072 --> 00:20:43,542 EUROPE, MADE MY WAY BACK TO NEW ORLEANS, AND EVERY SINCE I MADE 317 00:20:43,708 --> 00:20:48,613 MY WAY BACK, KIND OF IMMERSED MYSELF IN LOUISIANA CULTURE. 318 00:20:48,782 --> 00:20:52,918 CHRIS THOMAS KING, A LOUISIANA NATIVE BLUES ARTIST 319 00:20:53,085 --> 00:21:00,460 MOST KNOWN FOR HIS MUSICAL AND ACTING WORK ON FILMS "RAY" AND 320 00:21:00,627 --> 00:21:05,698 "O BROTHER WHERE ART THOU." INTRODUCED TO THE BLUES AT A 321 00:21:05,865 --> 00:21:09,102 YOUNG AGE BY HIS FATHER, WHO ALREADY ESTABLISHED A NATIONAL 322 00:21:09,268 --> 00:21:13,605 REPUTATION AS A BLUES LEGEND. TOGETHER, THEY EMBRACED THE 323 00:21:13,738 --> 00:21:20,012 BLUES AND THEIR WORLD-RENOWNED JUKE JOINT CALLED TABBY'S BLUES 324 00:21:20,178 --> 00:21:21,747 BOX. MY DAD WAS SPECIAL. 325 00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:24,317 HE HAD QUALITIES I COULD NEVER DREAM OF INHERITING. 326 00:21:24,483 --> 00:21:29,855 HE JUST HAD A GIFT, YOU KNOW, FOR ENGAGING PEOPLE. 327 00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:32,292 HE JUST LEFT AN IMPRESSION ON THEM. 328 00:21:32,458 --> 00:21:35,862 WHEN I LOOK BACK AT THOSE DAYS, COMING TO AGE IN TABBY'S BLUES 329 00:21:36,028 --> 00:21:40,967 BOX, WHICH OPENED IN 1979, I WOULDN'T TRADE IT FOR THE WORLD 330 00:21:41,133 --> 00:21:44,603 NOW, BECAUSE THE THINGS I LEARNED THERE AND THINGS THAT 331 00:21:44,770 --> 00:21:51,910 WAS KIND OF -- I WENT THROUGH THIS, I COULDN'T GET IN ANY BOOK 332 00:21:52,077 --> 00:21:55,280 OR ANY SECONDHAND WAY, SO I GOT A LINEAGE, YOU KNOW, TO THE 333 00:21:55,413 --> 00:21:59,952 ROOTS OF THE BLUES AND THE ROOTS OF LOUISIANA MUSIC. 334 00:22:00,118 --> 00:22:04,990 KING BECAME A NATIONALLY RENOWNED FIGURE AFTER FOLK 335 00:22:05,157 --> 00:22:09,128 LORISTS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE DISCOVERED HIM IN 336 00:22:09,295 --> 00:22:10,897 1979. HE SUBSEQUENTLY WENT ON TO 337 00:22:11,063 --> 00:22:14,667 RELEASE SEVERAL ALBUMS. BEGAN ENCOURAGING ME AND 338 00:22:14,800 --> 00:22:18,670 WRITING TO OTHER FOLK LORISTS AND STUFF THAT THIS GUY, YOU 339 00:22:18,803 --> 00:22:23,475 KNOW, LIKE LED BILLY, MUDDY WATERS AND OTHER PEOPLE, 340 00:22:23,642 --> 00:22:25,612 REPRESENT SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT. 341 00:22:25,778 --> 00:22:31,883 AND IT TURNS OUT, LOOKING BACK, I WAS THE LAST, YOU KNOW, 342 00:22:32,050 --> 00:22:34,753 FOLK/BLUES ARTIST TO BE DISCOVERED BY A FOLK LORIST IN 343 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:39,092 THE 21st CENTURY. I'M KIND OF LIKE THE END OF A 344 00:22:39,258 --> 00:22:42,193 LONG TRADITION. MANY AMERICANS BELIEVE THAT 345 00:22:42,362 --> 00:22:46,198 THE GENRE OF BLUES ORIGINATED IN MISSISSIPPI, BUT KING FIRMLY 346 00:22:46,365 --> 00:22:49,935 ADVOCATES THAT IT ORIGINALLY CAME FROM LOUISIANA. 347 00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:55,775 IT'S A CREOLE TERM, THE WORD "BLUES" COMES FROM OLD 348 00:22:55,942 --> 00:23:01,880 PROTESTANT WORDS LIKE "BLUES LAWS," NO DANCING, NO MIXED 349 00:23:02,047 --> 00:23:04,750 DANCING, ALL THESE MORAL RULES, AND BECAUSE LOUISIANA CULTURE 350 00:23:04,917 --> 00:23:09,422 WAS BEFORE THE AMERICANS CAME, CREOLE CULTURE THAT, YOU KNOW, 351 00:23:09,588 --> 00:23:11,990 WAS MORE WIDE OPEN THAN THE BRITISH COLONIES. 352 00:23:12,157 --> 00:23:15,460 AND THAT'S WHAT THE BLUES CAME OUT OF, PUSHING BACK AGAINST 353 00:23:15,595 --> 00:23:18,897 BLUE LAWS AND THESE RIGID TYRANNIES OF WHAT YOU CAN AND 354 00:23:19,065 --> 00:23:22,302 CAN'T DO. IT WAS A MUSIC THAT KIND OF 355 00:23:22,468 --> 00:23:25,070 EXPRESSED ITSELF. DESPITE HIS UPBRINGING IN 356 00:23:25,237 --> 00:23:28,607 TRADITIONAL CLASSIC BLUES, KING WANTED TO EXPAND UPON FROM THE 357 00:23:28,773 --> 00:23:31,910 CONVENTIONS OF HIS ELDERS BY INCORPORATING MODERN MUSICAL 358 00:23:32,077 --> 00:23:34,847 ELEMENTS INTO HIS MUSIC, SUCH AS THE DRUM MACHINE. 359 00:23:35,013 --> 00:23:38,317 LIKE MOST YOUNG PEOPLE, YOU GROW UP IN A CERTAIN CULTURE, 360 00:23:38,483 --> 00:23:41,353 BUT YOU'RE MORE CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT'S OUT THERE, OUT IN THE BIG 361 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:45,123 WIDE WORLD, AS OPPOSED TO THIS FARM YOU'RE GROWING UP ON OR 362 00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:50,295 THIS FAMILY STORE. WE HAD A FAMILY JUKE JOINT, AND 363 00:23:50,462 --> 00:23:51,297 I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE WIDER WORLD. 364 00:23:51,463 --> 00:23:55,233 ♪♪ ♪♪ 365 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,773 I MADE MY FIRST HIP HOP/BLUES STATEMENT, "21st CENTURY BLUES 366 00:24:00,907 --> 00:24:06,012 FROM THE HOOD" IN '93. THAT WAS THE FIRST RAP BLUES 367 00:24:06,178 --> 00:24:08,380 STATEMENT. KING'S FIRST VENTURE INTO THE 368 00:24:08,547 --> 00:24:11,017 HIP HOP WORLD WAS WELL RECEIVED OVERSEAS, BUT AMERICAN AUDIENCES 369 00:24:11,183 --> 00:24:14,353 FOUND A DIFFICULTY IN EMBRACING HIS NEW MUSICAL STYLE. 370 00:24:14,520 --> 00:24:17,957 MY MUSIC LATELY, I'VE BEEN RUNNING UP AGAINST THESE -- I 371 00:24:18,123 --> 00:24:23,562 CALL THEM BLUES MAFIA PEOPLE, WHO WANT TO MAINTAIN AND 372 00:24:23,728 --> 00:24:26,065 CONTINUE THESE TROPES FROM THE PAST. 373 00:24:26,232 --> 00:24:32,405 ♪♪ KING'S MOST RECENT BATTLE 374 00:24:32,572 --> 00:24:35,473 WITH THE MUSIC INDUSTRY COMES WITH THE RECORDING ACADEMY'S 375 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:41,847 GRAMMY AWARDS, WHICH RECENTLY REMOVED HIS NEWEST ALBUM, "HOTEL 376 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:44,750 VOODOO" FROM CONSIDERATION FOR BEST CONTEMPORARY BLUES ALBUM. 377 00:24:44,917 --> 00:24:49,788 THE ACADEMY'S REASON WAS DUE TO AN UNAUTHENTIC BLUES SOUND. 378 00:24:49,955 --> 00:24:52,658 IT'S ABSURD. IF WE ALL HAVE TO PAINT WITH THE 379 00:24:52,825 --> 00:24:55,862 SAME BRUSH AND PAINT THE SAME PICTURE AND PLAY THE SAME NOTES, 380 00:24:56,028 --> 00:25:03,335 THEN WHAT'S THE POINT IN THAT? ♪ MUDDY WATERS COME WASH MY 381 00:25:03,502 --> 00:25:06,672 BLUES AWAY ♪ KING IS CURRENTLY WRITING A 382 00:25:06,838 --> 00:25:11,377 MEMOIR ON THE HISTORY OF THE BLUES TITLED "THE BLUES." 383 00:25:11,543 --> 00:25:16,548 IT'S A MEMOIR, BUT A BROADER HISTORY OF THE MUSIC, AND AS FAR 384 00:25:16,715 --> 00:25:21,353 AS I DON'T KNOW, IT'S THE FIRST BLUES HISTORY BOOK WRITTEN BY AN 385 00:25:21,520 --> 00:25:22,655 AFRICAN-AMERICAN. AND THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM, 386 00:25:22,822 --> 00:25:26,925 YOU KNOW, I USED TO BE ANGRY AT PEOPLE FOR NOT KNOWING THE 387 00:25:27,092 --> 00:25:30,328 AUTHENTIC STORY OR THE AUTHENTIC HISTORY, BUT THEN AGAIN, IF YOU 388 00:25:30,495 --> 00:25:33,065 DON'T TELL PEOPLE YOUR STORY, IF YOU DON'T PUT YOUR STORY OUT 389 00:25:33,232 --> 00:25:39,172 THERE, HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW? 390 00:25:39,338 --> 00:25:42,542 THAT WAS WILL LURKER REPORTING. 391 00:25:42,708 --> 00:25:47,680 THIS MONTH IN LOS ANGELES, KING OPENED IN THE STAGE PLAY 392 00:25:47,847 --> 00:25:50,415 "LACKAWANNA BLUES." PREMIERING ON LPB AND PBS JUNE 393 00:25:50,582 --> 00:25:56,688 6th, THE ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY, IS A BATTLE OF WORLD WAR II 394 00:25:56,855 --> 00:25:59,192 THAT'S RELATIVELY UNEXPLORED. THE BROADCAST OF “SEIZE AND 395 00:25:59,358 --> 00:26:00,558 SECURE: THE BATTLE FOR LA FIERE," WILL SHED LIGHT ON IT 396 00:26:00,725 --> 00:26:02,027 AND ITS IMPORTANCE ON SECURING A CRITICAL ROUTE INLAND FOR ALLIED 397 00:26:02,193 --> 00:26:04,297 FORCES INVADING FRANCE ON THAT DAY IN 1944. 398 00:26:04,463 --> 00:26:07,700 THE FIGHT FOR THE LA FIERE CAUSEWAY AND BRIDGE IS REGARDED 399 00:26:07,867 --> 00:26:11,403 AS ONE OF THE BLOODIEST SMALL-ARMS BATTLES IN U.S. 400 00:26:11,570 --> 00:26:15,673 MILITARY HISTORY, FOUGHT LARGELY BY PARATROOPERS AND GLIDERMEN 401 00:26:15,842 --> 00:26:24,750 FROM THE 82ND AIRBORNE DIVISION. IF YOU ASK AMERICAN TROOPS 402 00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:29,755 WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE BATTLE OF LA FIERE, JUNE 7th IS THE ONE 403 00:26:29,922 --> 00:26:33,925 THAT BURNED INTO THEIR BRAIN. A TURNING POINT IN WORLD WAR 404 00:26:34,058 --> 00:26:36,062 II. AS FORCES LANDED ON THE BEACHES 405 00:26:36,228 --> 00:26:40,632 OF NORMANDY, OFTEN OVERLOOKED BATTLES FOUGHT BY UNSUNG HEROES 406 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:44,203 THAT DROPPED IN ADVANCE BEHIND ENEMY LINES LAID THE GROUNDWORK 407 00:26:44,370 --> 00:26:47,773 FOR VICTORY. THE FIGHT AT LA FIERE BRIDGE 408 00:26:47,940 --> 00:26:53,278 IS LARGELY UNKNOWN. THE AVERAGE INFORMED PERSON HAS 409 00:26:53,445 --> 00:26:57,115 NEVER HEARD OF THIS BATTLE. THIS ISN'T JUST A GREAT 410 00:26:57,282 --> 00:26:59,185 MOMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE U.S. ARMY, IT'S A MOMENT, I 411 00:26:59,352 --> 00:27:01,120 THINK, SHOULD MAKE ALL AMERICANS PROUD. 412 00:27:01,287 --> 00:27:03,222 LA FIERE IS A BATTLE FOR THE AGES. 413 00:27:03,388 --> 00:27:09,027 IT WAS ONE OF THE BLOODIEST SMALL-UNIT ACTIONS OF THE WAR. 414 00:27:09,195 --> 00:27:12,430 MORE HAND-TO-HAND, MORE ONE-ON-ONE. 415 00:27:12,598 --> 00:27:16,868 FOUGHT OVER A SMALL BRIDGE ON A CRITICAL ARTERY FOR ALLIED 416 00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:19,872 FORCES. HOW COME HE DIDN'T KILL US 417 00:27:20,038 --> 00:27:23,075 ALL IS HARD TO EXPLAIN. FAILURE COULD HAVE CHANGED 418 00:27:23,242 --> 00:27:27,513 THE OUTCOME OF THE INVASION. GENERAL RIDGEWAY SHOWED UP 419 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,782 AND SAID LINDQUIST, I WANT THAT BRIDGE, AND I WANT IT NOW. 420 00:27:30,950 --> 00:27:32,017 NO BETTER PLACE TO DIE. WE STAY. 421 00:27:32,183 --> 00:27:38,157 AND WE STAYED. VICTORY OR DEFEAT IN NORMANDY 422 00:27:38,323 --> 00:27:42,995 WOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE VALOR OF MEN LIKE THOSE WHOSE MISSION 423 00:27:43,128 --> 00:27:51,237 IT WAS TO SEIZE AND SECURE LA FIERE. 424 00:27:51,403 --> 00:27:55,273 THIS DOCUMENTARY, PRODUCED BY LPB IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE 425 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:56,675 NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, WILL PREMIERE ON PBS STATIONS 426 00:27:56,842 --> 00:28:02,080 ACROSS THE COUNTRY. LPB WILL FEATURE IT AT 8:00 P.M. 427 00:28:02,247 --> 00:28:06,018 ON JUNE 6th, WHICH IS THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY. 428 00:28:06,152 --> 00:28:17,362 THAT'S OUR SHOW EVERYONE, AND I'M ANDRÉ MOREAU, UNTIL NEXT 429 00:28:17,528 --> 00:28:20,632 TIME, THAT'S THE STATE WE'RE IN. 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