and at that point people were lined up at the superdome.hey figured that was the best shelter they could find. >> it started out the day as a shelter for those with special needs, but now for many it's their only option. >> we've all been warned early enough to get out. >> we were going to leave, but the car broke down. >> at that point on sunday before the storm hit you were there and you were not getting out. and essentially you had to ride it out. >> there was a 27-foot wall of water that came ashore and knocked almost everything down in its path. some of the towns like waveland ♪ >>> it's about five minutes after 5:00 a.m. and new orleans is standing, the lights are on though the water and sewer are still working. right now we're doing okay here, brian. >> this has to be a scary time for anybody in mississippi because it's dark, because lightning's crashing over there, because your power's out, because you can't see a darn thing. >> don't know exactly where it will make landfall, but right now it looks as if the area between new orleans

and at that point people were lined up at the superdome.hey figured that was the best shelter they could find. >> it started out the day as a shelter for those with special needs, but now for many it's their only option. >> we've all been warned early enough to get out. >> we were going to leave, but the car broke down. >> at that point on sunday before the storm hit you were there and you were not getting out. and essentially you had to ride it out. >> there was a 27-foot wall of water that came ashore and knocked almost everything down in its path. some of the towns like waveland ♪ >>> it's about five minutes after 5:00 a.m. and new orleans is standing, the lights are on though the water and sewer are still working. right now we're doing okay here, brian. >> this has to be a scary time for anybody in mississippi because it's dark, because lightning's crashing over there, because your power's out, because you can't see a darn thing. >> don't know exactly where it will make landfall, but right now it looks as if the area between new orleans

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we were taken off of our roof to the superdome. the lady y'all road around with nine years ago, she was in the ninth ward and gentilly, and she was saying these houses are fine. people can come back. what a lot of people don't realize is there were no schools for the children. there were no doctors. there was no public transportation. all of that was going on, and a lot of people had to deal with that. the second thing is about the lady that called that was well read talking about airships -- heirships, you know the people that inherited property. what happened in a lot of the ethnic neighborhoods, -- a lot if a grandmother would die no one would take possession. they would just keep paying the bills in the grandma's name. they did that for decades. when this happened and they were trying to get help, the government was helping a lot of people. the katrina trailers were wonderful. my husband and i lived in a trailer for two years rebuilding our house. my husband is a handyman so we basically did it ourselves. we were 60 years old.

host: jake in louisiana brings up the superdome.ou may remember pictures that we have shown you of the superdome. you may remember that many residents of new orleans ended up there, as part of the recovery effort. in next call is from rose texas and says that she was in the superdome, is that the case? caller: yes, i was. all those people from cherry hospital where there. i just want to say that hopefully, if this ever happens again, the federal government or whoever, the state government, should have a place where sick areple, first of all, i pu put away. they should have something in place right now for all the .eople in the hospital i have people down there right now who are very sick, on dialysis, and i never want to see them go through what i went through in the superdome. they were killing people and raping people, and all kinds of stuff happened in the superdome. i witnessed a. i'm a christian, i would not lie. we had no food, no water. the national guard was pointing guns at us, telling us they were going to kill us because

there was understand waters around the superdome. and walking through the flood waters, with my cameras overhead. i'll never forget opening up that door and blast of putrid air came blasting out. that smell, that heat was just something i had never experienced in the u.s. i remember looking down into the superdome there was this one piercing ray of light that came through the hole in the roof and looked like a ray of light from the heavens shining into the depth of hell. and there were just a few people left on the ground, had been there for four days now. had no electricity or anything or any supplies given to them. the epic symbol of american success, superdome, it was incredibly shocking. >> dickerson: you talk about the sim become of american success, the storm hit people differently whether they were rich or poor, did you see that? >> in the aftermath the first thing in regards to that is how people were able to evacuate or not. some 100,000 people in new orleans did not have access to a vehicle. the evacuation plan was great fo

in houston where behind me in this building there are about 4,000 people who have come from the superdome in new orleans. >> there's a much better place than what you might have had, you know, in other kind of shelters at times. >> don't tell me 40,000 people are coming here. they're not here. it's too doggone late. now get off your [ bleep ] and let's do something. and let's fix the biggest [ bleep ] crisis in the history of this country. >> i think his rant made sense if it would have come two days earlier. mayor nagin i think had some kind of a brokedown. he gave himself a vertical

if the water climbed another few inches, the superdome's generator would have been overcome by water and the 30,000 people inside plunged into total darkness and utter chaos. >> you have a panic situation on your hands. people won't know how to get out of the building. i mean, literally, you wouldn't be able to see your hand in front of your face. >> reporter: thornton says he and his team keep the potentially dire situation confidential. then the decision was made to mark the current water level to see if it would actually go up. >> you know, we know where it is right now. it's got to go another 3 to 4 inches before it hits the generator. >> reporter: this part of the wall in the central plant at the bottom of the superdome was updated with markings every 30 minutes. >> the water rose 2 inches and stopped. >> reporter: and because the generator survived, really, so did the dome. >> for me, it was probably the scariest moment. and it was one of those tipping points, i think, in this whole disaster. if we lose power, full power in here, we could have had a terrible loss of life. >> re

they were rescued by boat and taken through a maze of human suffering and death to the superdome. >> i went to go tap her, like, grandma, come on, get up so we can get dressed. she didn't respond. >> reporter: on their second night, her grandmother died on her cot. >> that was my first time dealing with somebody close dying in front of me. >> reporter: you were 11 years old, surrounded by all these strangers, and she's gone. what did you do? >> i just kept myself balled up. >> reporter: danielle spent two more days alone in the superdome before being bussed to relatives in texas. >> it just, wow, hits you. >> reporter: jamichael lewis was 14 years old when katrina hit. the storm ripped the roof off his family's home and they ended up in a fema trail two hours away. he missed two years of school. >> that was major setback. i felt like i wasn't making any progress. i was just in the world, lost. >> we wanted to know what happened to all the children in the city. >> reporter: sociologist lori peek has written a book called "children of katrina." she said more than one-third of louisiana

. >> reporter: when the levees broke, the superdome became housing of last resort, a life- and-death struggle for stranded residents, including thousands of children like danielle mollett. >> i was just like i have to put my fears aside and try to see, what can i do to get my grandma out of this situation. >> reporter: danielle, then 11, was trapped in the attic of her house with her 64-year-old grandmother. after two days and nights without food or water, her grandmother's health started to fail. they were rescued by boat and taken through a maze of human suffering and death to the superdome. >> and i went to go tap her, like, "grandma, come on, get up so we can get dressed." she didn't respond. >> reporter: on their second night, her grandmother died on her cot. >> that was my first time dealing with somebody close dying in front of me. >> reporter: you were 11 years old, surrounded by all these strangers, and she's gone. what did you do? >> i just kept myself balled up. >> reporter: danielle spent two more days alone in the superdome before being bussed to relatives in texas. >> i

i met him at the superdome where ten years earlier he led the evacuation of the city. what do you remember seeing when you came into the city? >> storm came through and ripped the roof off this place sunday night/monday. and by the time i got here on wednesday morning people were standing outside because the inside of that place had turned into like a sweat box. >> reporter: 20,000 people were crowded inside of the superdome. >> i could see people standing out here and i could see the look in their eyes of desperation, ready to get the heck out of here. >> reporter: today the superdome is one gleaming example of new orleans recovery but general honore says there's much more work to be done. >> when you take you something as large as katrina that disrupted the lives of almost a million people, when you count mississippi and louisiana, and homes and destruction and the displacement of half million people just out of the surrounding parishes, i think we probably finished the first half of the recovery. >> reporter: he says the city's poor are still trying to catch up. >>

they were in the superdome, because you put that in your mind.oes anyone know about the katrina less? we have a museum in the historic trieme area. you can visit us online. you got your plug in. thank you very much. >> speaking as someone who moved here 10 years ago and immediately fell in love with the city, and moved here to run the second harvest food banks, i would like to ask you about the paradoxes you have all been describing. how can we have this incredible economic resurgence that we all love, these great, hopeful signs in our community, yet have poverty rates as high as we did, even having lost population? poverty rates just as high as before the storms? lolis: i think our measures of progress are based on how quickly rich people are getting richer. [laughter] [applause] we need new statistics. gwen: nice, brief answer. we have another question. right back here. >> i am with creative alliance. i want to give a shout out to the artist of the city -- artists of the city, who came back for a quickly along with the restaurant, and helped us

inside the superdome. >> a significant amount of water coming through the roof. later the levees would break. >> we need help! >> this woman, a diabetic, told me this. >> i don't want to die. >> collapsing in front of me. and this nurse, an evacuee herself, quickly getting to work. ten years later, we wanted to know what she carries with her. you were the one that jumped into action. >> adrenaline took over. >> now, that woman, grateful to that nurse. >> i realized i was stronger than i thought i was. >> ten years ago, we heard about a hospital that flooded. no power. >> trying to get to charity hospital where patients have been waiting five days. inside we would meet doctor peter w. he showed us the icu. ten years later, we find the doctor, remembering the tryiumphs triumphs. and tonight, the new university medical center had just opened. and we had one more question about a patient we met. who had just given birth. what a time to have a baby. >> on the floor. >> ten years later -- she and her daughter, about to turn 10. listen to what mariah told us about her m

mother nature unleashing its fury on the superdome in the entire city. as hurricane katrina battered the call -- coast, the superdome became a shelter of last year or -- resort. the walls holding back the water surrounding the city below sea level broke a decade ago. one of the hardest hit areas with the city's lower ninth ward. today in a march through the neighborhood, people celebrated how far they have come even though there's still much more to do. more than 1800 people died in katrina's wake all along the gulf coast. earlier today, memorial was dedicated to 30 people who died but were never identified. [ music ] >> reporter: all week, current and former presidents made their way to the big easy. tonight, it was bill clinton.>> we have moved mountains and made miracles. it's astonishing, and we're proud. >> reporter: while much of new orleans is thriving, there are still people who never returned. joel waldman, fox news.>> even though hurricanes are no threat here, northern californians need to be prepared for disasters. today the emergency services

. >> reporter: the superdome was a shelter of last resort for people with nowhere else to go during the height of katrina. 10 years later those who chose to stay are celebrating. a wreath-laying ceremony and jazz band and singer and flowing robes. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: the memorial is part of this weekend's ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> it was a flood of people. >> reporter: more than 1800 people on the gulf coast died. katrina was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the nation. louisiana's governor bobby jindal says although katrina devastated a major american city, it did not extinguish the flame of hope for recovery. >> we can take comfort in knowing that although hurricane katrina brought us to our knees we weren't kept down permanently. louisiana and new orleans have come back stronger and better than ever before. >> reporter: here at the superdome the repairs cost $336 million. 10 years after katrina, the city of new orleans has about 100,000 less residence. in new orleans, joel waldman, fox news. >>> a man was charged with capital murder fo

talk about the superdome with no electricity, with no plumbing, with no restaurant facilities, with 30,000 people in that facility trying to just survive, the convention center, the same scenario, no food no water no restaurant facilities no air conditioning and we're talking about during the summer months where the temperature exceeded 98 to 100°. >> the smell of dead bodies, inside the smell of feces and urine. it's terrible, it's an awful situation we have to live in. they made a promise to us that they were going to move us and move us and move us and we believing and people getting frustrated at this point. >> on day 4 the government finally sends help to the city. >> president george w. bush saying, this photo was a huge mistake. it's become the yardstick of presidential responses ever since. another image that will live on in the minds of americans for quite some time. american citizens being described as refugees as they were forced to take shelter inside the superdome. there were descriptions of dead bodies and raw sewage and then there is this. two photos that tell it all.

. >> reporter: from the convention center to the superdome, the people of new orleans looked like refugeesincluding erika harris, a 10-year-old girl frightened and hungry. you getting water and food or anything like that? >> i'm not drinking that water. that water is hot. >> reporter: this week, we found her in houston, now an honor student in college who volunteered to help others in haiti and wants to become a minister when she graduates next year. >> i feel like all these events have shaped me and -- for the better. and i'm able to minister and to talk to people. i know what it's like, or, i've been there. >> reporter: more than half of the people from here fled. fortunately, today, the population has grown again, regaining more than 90% of what it once was. the big easy has gone through ten years of suffering, but today, the people here are marching again. ♪ now, you can see that the celebration is continuing late into the night. i should tell you that three presidents have already participated in all of this. obama and bush the first couple of days, and tonight, it will be bill clinto

and we will never forget the families, inside the superdome, before katrina even hit.e were with them as the storm approached. >> david muir is inside the superdome. >> a significant amount of water coming through the roof. we all know, later the levees would break. countless families going to the convention center. >> we need help! >> this woman, a diabetic, told me this. >> i don't want to die like this. >> collapsing in front of me. and this nurse, an evacuee herself, quickly getting to work. >> there you go. >> ten years later, we wanted to know what she carries with her. you were the one that jumped into action. >> it just, adrenaline took over. >> that woman survived that day. grateful to that nurse. if anything good could come of katrina, what would it be for you? >> i realized i was stronger than i thought i was. >> so many stronger than they thought. ten years ago, we heard about a hospital that flooded. no power. wading through water almost up to our waist to get to charity hospital. where patients have been waiting five days for rescue. inside we would meet

by 1999 michael and gordon had proven thompson had not committed the carjacking outside the superdomehad yet to prove their client was innocent of killing 34-year-old ray liuzza in cold blood. however, material they finally received from the new orleans' d.a.'s office provided ample ground for an appeal. >> the daily police reports showed us that these witnesses, freeman and perkins had told very, very different stories in 1985 before the trial as compared to what they said on the witness stand. we began to see how their stories were contrived to secure a conviction of an innocent man. >> there were numerous pieces of evidence inconsistent with john's guilt or consistent with freeman's guilt and that showed that freeman had lied at trial in his testimony on behalf of the state. >> after testifying he saw thompson murder ray liuzza, kevin freeman was given a plea deal and only served ten months in prison. >> we also received leads about potential witnesses who would be helpful. there was a woman who lived across the street from mr. liuzza, she got a very good look at the perpetrator. m

i never forgot this 10-year-old girl who i met in this darkened superdome. are you getting water and food or anything like that. >> i'm not drinking that water. that water is hot. >> reporter: erica harris, who fled with her mother to houston, and never returned. how badly do you want to get out of here? >> bad. >> reporter: this week, we found her. can you believe we traced you down? after living through foster care and family tragedies, today 1450ez these thriving in student, an honor student in college, a volunteer in haiti. planning to become a minister. >> i can help so many other people in ways that others can't because of what i've gone through and experieed and overcome. >> reporter: tomorrow, there will be mourning for those that died. and in true new orleans fashion, there will be a huge mardi gras-style parade that ends in a street party. tom? >> bob woodrough from new orleans, thank you. >>> new images from a deadly crash. a stunt plane suddenly going down during a rehearsal for an upcoming air show. it had been practicing tricks in the air. a tr

families stranded on rooftops, bodies in the streets, children crying, crowded in the superdome.an american city dark and underwater. and this was something that was supposed to never happen here. maybe someplace else, but not here, not in america. and we came to realize that was started out as a natural disaster became a man-made disaster, a failure of government to look out for its own citizens. and the storm laid bare aeeper tragedy that had been brewing for decades because we came to understand that new orleans, like so many cities and communities across the country, have for too long been plagued by structural inequalities that left too many people, especially poor people, especially people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing. amy: president obama went on to herald the progress new orleans has made rebuilding since hurricane katrine devastated the city 10 years ago. >> as hard as rebuilding levees is, as hard as rebuilding housing is, real change, real lasting structural change, that is even harder. and it takes courage to experiment with

. >> people trapped and drowning in their homes, hungry and abandoned in the superdome, beg begging for home. >> we have been sleeping in the streets five days and nights. somebody has to come out here and do something. >> reporter: this is what many americans saw, a president flying safely high above the tragedy, removed, detached. >> i'm satisfied with the response. i'm not satisfied with all the results. they start pulling people off roofs immediately. >> now locals say they don't want the former president at ten year remembrance. >> he shouldn't even show in the space. when he waited all those -- all those days. he came and just flew over when we needed him? why come back now, ten years later? to see the progress that has been made? he doesn't need to come. >> i don't know how the man could talk to -- could look me in the face and talk to me when my father was out here for two weeks after the storm with nothing. living on crackers and stolen cokes from the convenience store. >> reporter: >> reporter: but many say this doesn't paint an accurate picture of what happened. karen carpent

and theld be mardi gras superdome on sundays in the fall.he superdome on sundays in the cosmic socialzing experiment that nobody could replicate if they tried to. it is where all races, genders, economicio-, cultural barriers seem to be stripped away. it is crazy to watch. it is a beautiful thing. i have been reliving the past couple of days. but that was the extreme of it. i rarely get to go to it. i used to go to games and i got sent there for work. to be in that building on a sunday afternoon, watch the way that everything is stripped away. the barriers, the prejudices. everything is gone. watch how everybody reacts. if we can just keep this going. outside andrry this live like this every day, it's all the same people. it's all of us. we retreat to our barriers and lives. i have lived in other cities. we don't have everything fixed here. i think we try harder than most places. mardi gras, the same thing. do you go down to the same street corner year after year? it's the same people and they are usually not even from the neighborhood. we j

as the refuge of last resort. >> when you talk about the superdome, electricity, no plumbing, no rest 30,000 people in that facility, trying to just survive, the convention centre, the same scenario, no food, water, restaurant conditions, and we are talking about during the summer months, where the temperature exceed the 98 to 100 degrees. >> it's the smell of dead bodies inside. it's just terrible. it's an awkward situation, and they were making promise that they were going to movize, move us, and we've been believing it. people were getting frustrated with that. >> day four the government sent help to the city >>> the storm cost politically. former president george w. bush saying that photo was a huge mistake. it shows him flying over katrina in air force one, it's the yardstick of presidential responses since. another image that will live on in the minds of americans for some time, american citizens required as refugees. there were descriptions of dead bodies and raw sewage. then there is this. two photos that tell it all. an elderly woman and a wheelchair dying waiting for help. a

cnn's martin savidge was there, first reporting from the superdome, and then from the convention centerts on what he saw, there was one phone call that stands out to him. >> i was in the superdome when katrina struck. a couple of days later, i was here at the convention center. this place was far worse. there were thousands and thousands of people without any help. they were desperate. >> we can't take it. we've been out here for three days. >> they begged us to take them with us. they assumed that we were leaving every day. >> we want help! >> we weren't. we never left the city. and so when we told that to them, they then said, well, you've got to have some way of talking to people. they said well, we had satellite phones. and that's when people began tearing up pieces of paper or writing down telephone numbers. they were certain if someone knew, that they would come and be rescued. they gave me the numbers and begged that i call. and every evening when i got done with work and when there were a few free moments, i'd start making my way down the list. the first thing i realized is that

sam: murphy, who stayed in the superdome two weeks, remember the worst. females getting raped. sam: they never went back. they have worked in maryland. this woman got a job in virginia, met a man, and remarried. she is a grandmother now. he married a woman here, working in laurel. new orleans is still a big part of their lives. the art made from abandoned cars. and therdi gras, saints. and i called cell phones with the area code 504, new orleans. >> you can chase people out of new orleans, but you cannot take new orleans at of your heart. kellye: coming up, one of the most majestic stretches of road in our area. do you like the passaaadd? it's a good looking car. this is the model rear end event. the model year end sales event. it's year end! it's t rear end event. year end, rear end, chececk it out. talk about turbocharging my enginine. you're gorgeous. what kind of car do you like? new, or many miles on it? get a $1000 volkswagen reward rd on select 2015 passat models. or lease a 2015 passat limited edition for $189 a month ter a 000 nus. arlington county scrapped plans for a

the superdome, french quarter is not the only area that was hit, but it is the money part of the citywhat about people who are living run the outskirts of the city? what about us? what are you going to do? there are a lot of people who want to go home, but they cannot afford to. >> 80% of white residents wellve them to be recovered since the storm. what percentage of black people believe the opposite. the city has emerged from the store and has a different face. it is wider and richer. father of the journalist shot on life television on thursday because bad to buy for morgan control. has pledged to fight for gun control. he appealed to president obama. >> my mission now, is i'm going to make her life matter, as it were, and i'm going to do everything i can to try and strengthen gun control laws where crazy people do not get a gun. this guy, he was crazy. -- if the nraing sits there and says if she had a gun, this would have been prevented, if she was wearing a some product met rifle around no one would have seen it coming, it was not have prevented it. i'm not going to let this slide.

they managed to get his mother to the superdome but they were separated and she did not survive. >> i love my mother. i still love my mother like she's alive in my heart right now. what happened, i didn't witness it. it was a story i was told. >> reporter: he says he misses the new orleans clubs where he used to play, but he says playing music in philadelphia has helped him heal institute fate of a new hampshire prep school graduate is now in the hands of a jury. closing arguments wrapped up yesterday in the case of 19-year-old owen labrie, accused of raping a 15-year-old freshman two days before he graduated from st. paul school last year. labrie and the alleged victim both testified they agreed to meet for a senior salute, a sexual conquest contest, but the girl says it went to far and she was forced to have sex. labrie says there was never any intercourse. >> this someone saw how vulnerable a 15-year-old freshman was and took advantage of it. this someone was going to get what he wanted. and not take no for an answer. >> labrie pleaded not guilty. the jury may have a verdict today.

officers are reported to have said they wanted no superdomes in their city.o wonder reverend your wit and i were threatened with arrest. dr. king said that racism, poverty, and war where the three pillars of injustice. i think it's very clear that racism, poverty, and war have been unmatched -- unmasked in the american setting with what happened to the katrina survivors. the pentagon had admitted that a war did affect their response. it is now time for this congress to ignore it and address the roles that racism and poverty played in the conditions facing black people in new orleans. this committee should recommended passage of the congressional black caucus legislation to introduce -- introduced in order to address the issues that katrina has exposed to us. including seriously addressing the issue of poverty in this country. i want to commend the witnesses for taking the time, the effort, the resources, the precious resources to come here and enlighten us today. and i hope that we all will be listening. thank you, mr. chairman. yourd the other members? state

we are on the bridge across from the superdome. there is video to prove it. we stand in front of the place where the cops are screaming by, make the cops stop and say this baby is going to die unless you take the baby. if you don't take the baby, i'm putting it on the news tonight. he took the baby and i wondered how many dead babies are there because decisions were made about money over man. >> that's what happened. >> this storm did not hit new orleans. a category two hurricane hit nor let's. orleans.t's -- new haveeason you did not people screaming at you for mississippi is because they were dead. a 32 foot wall of water came into my state. new orleans got spared. they cannot even take being spared. so poor atn preparing a city under sea level to be prepared for the absolute they were so poorly prepared that they could not take a brush of the category two storm. it will happen again. it will be worse. make is point i want to that today, it would not happen. today, we have twitter and facebook and people would know, you cannot go to the convention center. y

by the way buses started showing up at least at the end of the superdome.some of what i wanted to do in this book is -- a corrective of sorts. you know, things moving so fast that impressions last that often aren't accurate. i think maybe the best compliments i've gotten on the book so far, i thought i knew that katrina story. but from locals and people outside of new orleans, but i didn't. president bush. that first -- those first days, the failures of, you know, the president and his white house were near criminal. they just botched the recovery. they moved slowly. they, you know, you had the head of homeland security who is over fema. thursday, on npr saying like, i don't think there are people at convention center to average person at home watching cable knows more than the man in charge. you know, convention center people show up there tuesday. by the way, it was never meant to be a refuge of last resort they department have the key. so nagin had to send the police to break in they have to break glass to break their way in no provision other than 25,00

a decade after tens of thousands were pushed to the convention center and superdome by the storm. today survivors and supporters gathered to remember the more than 1,800 lives that were lost. >> anytime you lose a life especially when you lose a life where people lost their lives in katrina, it becomes important to make sure it doesn't happen again. >> reporter: there is a new front line of defense now, which includes this massive wall. part of a $14.5 billion maze of updated levees and canals. right now new orleans is the fastest growing city in america. but in some of the hardest-hit areas like new orleans east, pockets of debris and destruction here a decade now. the 9th ward remains in ruins and across the city there is still as many as 60,000 homes that need to be rebuilt or repaired. former president bill clinton talked about the recovery and the work left to be done during this afternoon's memorial. >> you got a lot to celebrate tonight. but the celebration must be leveed by rededication. >> reporter: a renewed effort now in the hardest-hit areas. >> i believe we're going t

. >> this superdome was the shelter of last resort for people with nowhere else to go during the height of katrina. ten years later those who chose to stay here in new orleans are celebrating. >> in true new orleans style, a wreath laying in the crescent city is accompanied by a jazz band and a singer in flowing robes. come by here. >> the memorial laying is part of this weekend's ceremonies marking the tenth anniversary of hurricane katrina. >> flood came in, the water began to recede, but another flood came, and that flood was each other. >> more than 1800 people along america's gulf coast died. according to federal statistics, katrina was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the nation. louisiana's governor, bobby jindal, says although katrina devastated a major american city, it did not extinguish the flame of hope for recovery. >> we can take comfort this knowing that although hurricane katrina brought us to our knees, we did not allow that storm to keep us down permanently. new orleans and louisiana have come back stronger and better than ever before. >> here at the superdome th

my sister and i were on a rooftop in downtown new orleans looking at the superdome.anted to give back. it was my job. i had some extra time. i wanted to have my own program. i wanted to do something my way. we decided to start. we have been around since 2011. we are growing. their fathers have been murdered. or are in long-term incarceration. they quickly to have no connection to their father. their ages 10-13. a boy could be with us from five years to eight years. this organization and nurtures the boys we have now in the program. we talked to them all the time about education and job opportunities and what they do now in school to be a success. it will affect their happiness in the future. we talk about crime with them. if they get into the wrong now, it goes on the permanent record. we want to prevent them from having a long rap sheet. folks who have been incarcerated -- we want to make sure they don't choose the wrong thing or hang around with the wrong crowd. a lot of people talk about the issue we have with our youth. if we don't do anything about it, it will o

caller: my cousin bobby was down there in the superdome. water,d not have any food, anything, it was a mess. they wound up all the men and we giving them shots. they were saying that they got a shot in the arm. they were vitamin shots. my cousin did not understand. he wanted a woman to take the shots, take care of the women. there are only giving it to the men. they said it was a men shot. he took the shot. it was all ok. three days later, he noticed something changed and hi -- in him. he did not understand, but he said the shot turned him gay. ev from flint, michigan. go ahead. caller: how are you doing today? i want to say god bless the people of katrina. i wanted to mention something thing.he air the minority. that they were taxing the property. that is false. i am caucasian, and they do it in michigan to us, too. i think it is a nationwide thing. this is not a black and white thing. a poverty thing. they're trying to do a poverty control, because they are doing it in flint, michigan, wiping out whole neighborhoods. there taxing the wate