TONY COX, host: From NPR News, this is NEWS & NOTES. I'm Tony Cox, in for Farai Chideya.</s>TONY COX, host: Welcome to the first day of summer.</s>TONY COX, host: Coming up, we've got a quite a show for you today, including Senator Chris Dodd on a bill he hoped will help solve some longstanding Civil Rights era murders. And we've got Dr. Ro kicking off summer with some healthy heart eating tips.</s>TONY COX, host: But first, let's go to the headlines.</s>TONY COX, host: Today we start in New Orleans where the Army Corps of Engineers says some neighborhoods could still see as much as eight feet of flooding if another big storm hits. Among the hardest hit would be parts of the city's northern Gentilly and Lakeview neighborhoods.</s>TONY COX, host: With that said, the Corps insist New Orleans, on a whole, is far better prepared for a one in 400 chance of storm, like Katrina, than it was two years ago. And that, they say, is because of improvements the Corps has made to the Big Easy's dated levee system.</s>TONY COX, host: Our second headline takes us to Washington, D.C. where the head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division testifies today.</s>TONY COX, host: Wan Kim is set to answer questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee about reports that his department's become increasingly politicized.</s>TONY COX, host: The Washington Post also ran a piece today on the man Kim replaced, Bradley Schlozman. You may remember, he testified before the same committee earlier this month and admitted that he had boasted about hiring Republican lawyers.</s>TONY COX, host: Now, the Post reports that at least three minority women lawyers were transferred out of the division because Schlozman questioned their political loyalties.</s>TONY COX, host: Today he denies taking any improper action against any division attorney.
NPR's Tony Cox runs through the day's headlines of news affecting black life and culture. Thursday's headlines include a levee update from the Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans and testimony from Wan Kim, head of the embattled Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice.