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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...

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...

Opinion: In Remembering Katrina, Don't Forget Rita

(Aug. 28) -- A few nights ago, courtesy of our local PBS station, I spent three hours reliving the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. My evening began with "Frontline: Law & Disorder," a harrowing look at post-Katrina police corruption in New Orleans. With relief, I moved on to "Still Waiting," a poignant but...

Gallery: The Hurricane Katrina Photos You'll Never Forget

(Aug. 26) -- Five years after Hurricane Katrina, photos of the storm and its aftermath bring the incomprehensible scope of the devastation and suffering vividly back to life....

The Katrina 4: Where Are They Now?

(Aug. 25) -- It has been nearly five years since President George W. Bush turned to then-FEMA director Michael Brown and spoke those words: "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,300 people and flooding New Orleans in one of the...