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The Families Who Could Decide New Orleans' Fate

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- Michael Canedo remembers clearly the day his neighbors gathered at the local playground and vowed to rebuild. It was two months after Hurricane Katrina. The days were still warm. Ten feet of flood had turned Burbank Gardens, a neighborhood of tidy shotgun homes and "camelback" duplexes, into a dead...

Katrina Helped Danny Wuerffel Spread Message, Outreach to Underprivileged

Danny Wuerffel returned to New Orleans five years ago and looked around. His house was under water, his work had been destroyed and a lot of people he cared about were presumed dead. Even for Wuerffel, it was hard to see much good coming out of Hurricane Katrina. But this was Danny Wuerffel. He knew something positive...

After Katrina: 'The Sanity We Have Now Is a Gift From God'

NEW ORLEANS (Aug. 29) -- By the time I arrived here from Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Blackwater guards had settled in at the Sheraton on Canal Street. Some of them had rappelled into downtown from Blackhawk helicopters, or so they told us. We never knew if that was actually true, or if their tale was...

Nagin and Brown Now Agree: US Not Prepared for Another Katrina

(Aug. 27) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina pummeled New Orleans, the city's former mayor, Ray Nagin, and ex-Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown finally agree on one thing: The country remains unprepared for another storm of such magnitude. "I don't see any major changes that we've done in this...

First Katrina, Then BP: Life in the Gulf's Unluckiest Town

CHALMETTE, La. (Aug. 27) -- The sleek Bell helicopter, one of the perks BP is making available to cranky officials whose coastlines it oiled, lifts off from the lawn in front of the St. Bernard Parish government complex, tilts toward the Gulf of Mexico and flies straight into the thunderheads of Tropical Depression 5. The...