Planning consultants for the city of New Orleans are critical of the plans for the successor to Charity Hospital and are recommending that Mayor Mitch Landrieu push for changes and engage the city more in the planning process, a move that received an cool response from a spokesman for Governor Bobby Jindal's administration.  A meeting next week between City officials and the state will address what could become a tug-of-war between the state, who is making the investment, and the city, which controls street closures needed to build the facility. In this photo of the University Medical Center site, Claiborne Avenue is at the lower right, and Tulane Avenue cuts across the bottom left corner. Canal and Galvez streets also bound the site.

Anderson Cooper, a regular fixture on the New Orleans riverfront, will revisit New Orleans on his nationally televised "CNN Heroes" show tonight, taking a look at the city as it approaches the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.  The program airs at 6:30 p.m., Saturday, August 14th.  Kelly Flynn, senior executive producer of the show says of Cooper's commitment to New Orleans, "He's practically a native son now."  Read more about the heroes who will be honored at the link.