a step, mr bayou says, is in the right direction. so you obviously love the bayou...what would you like to see it become? >> before i die i would like to see it restore back to its normal state... it protection for everybody but everybody do not know that until they started taking all these surveys and stuff... >> but it is from the last 10 years of studying what went wrong during katrina that a multi- pronged plan has been put in place... it's been a long, costly process that can't completely protect southern louisiana from every storm but will hopefully dramatically reduce the damage from them. >> after seeing all this, there's one thing that's so clear to me which is that new orleans was at risk... is at risk... and probably always will be at risk and obviously lives are the priority but when you stand here in a historic district you also realize that there is a lot of history at stake as well. >> yeah and it doesn't get more iconic than jackson square and there's no question new orleans is an american gem. and virtually everyone w

orleans but also across the southern parishes and bayou communities of louisiana and the southern counties of mississippi, coastal counties there, too. >> also, mrsinclair, when katrina happened, i heard people saying over and over again that this isn't a third-world country. this is the united states of america. so, how much of a role did the shame factor play in the changes that we have seen come about? >> well, it's certainly played a role for us. was watching news clips and feeds like everyone else. someone should do something. wh when i got to the region, new orleans three days later, i said oxfam should do something. we are a large, international humanitarian response agency. this is the first time we responded to any emergency here in the united states. it overwhelmed the capacity to respond, but the capacity was so lackadaisical that the government responded so femly it justified oxfam stepping in. >> on that note, as we look back 10 years later, are we sugar coating the fact with these celebrations it did take days for the government to mount any meaningful response and that many of those people appearing in the packages and newscasts t

mr. hughes: do you believe that the bp oil spill is still having a negative effect on the bayous and coastalnvironment of louisiana and, if so, what is being done to counter any long-term effects of this spill? mayor landrieu: well, again, as i started the speech, tried to remind everybody that the city of new orleans, because at the time we were a massive tourism destination, had suffered dramatically after the attacks of 9/11, that the whole tourism economy went to nothing, that we were in a weak state but we had just gotten back up after three years of devastation. then katrina hit us. then three weeks later rita hit us. then ike, gustav, then the national recession, then the bp oil spill. a lot of lives lost in the bp oil spill. an untold amount of more physical damage that was done. i would say our relationship with bp had been somewhat strained since then. i do think that there is residual damage from that storm. i do think that recently bp and the state of louisiana and most of the litigants have now resolved their differences. i think we are on path to cleaning up and making sure tha