the hurricane flood and new orleans but lasted -- left its mark and used in as many fled new orleans and traveled to houston. some are still there today. a focus on the lower in ward and a preview of the president's speech that will happen later today at 3:00 eastern time, just past noon for those of you on the west coast, live on c-span. we will focus more on how the communities are rebuilding as "washington journal" continues. it is sunday morning, august 29. we are back in a moment. >> yesterday i signed a declaration for the state of louisiana. this morning, i signed a disaster declaration for the state of mississippi. >> as the gulf coast marks the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina, look back at how the federal government responded to the crisis on spent at the cspan video library. every program since 1987. this is washington your way. >> monday starts science and technology week on book-tv prime time. digitally save all your experiences? we will talk about the rapid advancements in technology. stephen baker will talk about computer scientists who want to manipulate our beh

when you talk about the new orleans psyche and a syndrome in this city, what is new orleans when you're asked for a definiti definition? >> we look at the fifth anniversary, you have to remember that mississippi got whacked too. >> we mentioned that at the top of the broadcast. >> terrib i passed over the city of mississippi. >> we went out to try to honor what happened out there too. mississippi river we're looking at a steamboat here nicholas roosevelt first came down. this is a great historical city and it has to be proud of its history. but too often the politicians here have been corrupt. you had bill jefferson, congressman during katrina is in jail. edward edwards in jail. toxic superfund sites that are buried here between baton rouge and new orleans is called cancer alley when you love your state and you love your country, you have to be good conservationists and i believe louisiana became treated like a third-world place because people wanted to make money and they didn't do the tough things that needed to be done to save the wetlands. there's been a lot of talk for generations

hurricane katrina devastated his beloved new orleans. he shared the heart breaking pain was. >> it's almost unbelievable. i can't even think of how to articulate it. >> larry: and now his efforts to repair, rebuild and recover. >> people are living here now and establishing a whole new tradition. so it's pretty exciting for me to walk these streets. >> larry: on the scene in new orleans, the man who believes music revives. ♪ won't your give your lady a fair little smile ♪ ♪ for the beautiful dreams ♪ way down yonder in new orleans ♪ >> larry: harry connick jr. is next on "larry king live." ♪ that's new orleans right there ♪ ♪ this is heaven right here ♪ for the beautiful queens ♪ way down yonder in new orleans ♪ >> larry: it was five years ago this weekend that hurricane katrina ravaged the gulf coast. that storm killed more than 1,800 people, destroyed more than a quarter of a million homes, countless families were shattered economically and emotionally. here to talk about his beloved new orleans tonight is harry c

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after five years, the press has hollered new orleans, new orleans, new orleans. we got the hurricane. they got the flood. we went to work. we did not go for the government handout. all you hear is how the government has not done, has not done, has not done. the government has hammered us since this thing started. if the government would go on and get out of our lives, leave us alone, we would fix this problem. new orleans has been run by one political party for 50 years. look at the mess. the truth hurts. nobody will tell the truth. thank you, sir. host: thank you, richard. allison, any response to that? caller: the caller is right. along the mississippi gulf coast, it was a natural disaster. a hurricane wiped out those areas. it was tremendously devastating. new orleans was a man-made disaster where the levees broke and flooded the city. they should have withheld and there would not have been a problem. one thing that folks need to understand is that there is a lot that we can do as citizens, obviously, to rebuild their homes, it's a trendline -- to rebuild our

connick jr. >>> back to new orleans today. when those days after katrina hit, brian williams sent time with a native son, singer and actor harry connick, jr. at the convention center, where the world saw so much of the horror unfolding in realtime. this weekend they revisited the convention center. >> last time you and i took a walk through this city it was the heart of darkness. it was the worst time in the world. this is your hometown. tell me how you reflect back on that time and tell me how you view new orleans today. >> well, being here in particular is difficult, brian, because this is where i saw most of that heart of darkness. there were tens of thousands of people told to come here and wait to be evacuated. they were essentially abandoned. the visions in my mind include malnourished people, other group of people that said, i have epilepsy and i need -- this guy needs help and he starts having a seizure. i'm thinking this is 2005 in one of the most beloved cities in the united states in the world. how can this be happe

he believes in new orleans. after every challenge we face, the opportunity exists to change cannot improve, and grow. there is no more pressing issue than the crisis off of our coast. on april 19, the bp read exploded and 11 men lost their lives. we still grieve for them today. for nearly three months, bp could not find a way to tap that well which spewed the equivalent of the exxon valdez disaster every four days. over 200 million gallons of oil flooded into the gulf and the effect will be felt for years to come. in the coming months and years, but the $6 billion in economic output, 24,000 jobs could be lost not to mention the cost to the suffering families. everyone is affected. from shrimpers to boat dock operators, hotel workers to waiters, crane operators to tour bus operators, it just keeps going and going. the bad economy has hurt local government with the bp disaster for their impact in revenue. this is a cascading and far reaching crisis. our way of life is threatened and everyone of us knows what is at

was not affected but the 20 percent aided new orleans in it's recovery. people were able to come back sooner. they could live on land that was not inundated with water. regardless if the disaster hits you you still have the responsibility. much is given and much is required. that's a part of the resiliency you will not only see in yourself or the neighbors that live adjacent from you or in a neighboring community not far from you. get involved and do your part in your recovery and do your part today to make it all worth it. and strengthen your neighborhood associations now. know your neighbors now. and understand that we are not just homes we are people. so thank you for your time and thank you for having me. and i really appreciate being here with you today. thank you. [applause] >> the mayor is engrossed in the remarks that latoya shared with us. on behalf of the city and county of san francisco and the mayor wanted to present you with this. we want to thank you and we are honored to have you here today. >> thank you. this is -- they are telling me or y

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new orleans five years after katrina. we'll look at those working so hard here at things like education and health care. >>> and you may know him as brad pitt, but around here in the lower ninth ward he's known as the guy making new homes available for families. the guy making new homes available for families. "nightly news" begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> good evening. this is it. we are back in the lower ninth ward tonight, the one iconic post katrina new orleans neighborhood people have heard about all over the world. the old neighborhood was all still here in place five years ago tonight. that's because katrina was still offshore in the gulf, bearing down, but still at least two days out. the flood wall behind us is new. when the old one failed, this neighborhood got blown to pieces, washed away. it became, as we said, an icon for the damage and the suffering. we'll see how the lower ninth ward is faring in just a moment. we want to begin tonight instead with the economy. we got more evid

joe is joining us from new orleans. we have a video from the ninth ward, this is what it looked like five years ago. caller: good morning, i was listening before when you were talking about new orleans and you were talking about houses. your callers are misinformed. the lower ninth ward was a residential area and 98% of those people down there were homeowners. when the people returned, their rent skyrocketed. people who should have been able to rent could not run because they did not on the rental property. because of the rental properties went through the roof because they were folks who live in outlying parishes and or the recipient of all that money coming in. there was no rent control because it did not have anything to do with people who actually live in these hard-pressed area. it was the folks who had abandoned new orleans. that is one of the reasons why they could not make any headway the politicians knew that the money was going in one direction only. guest: i am essentially in agreement with the caller. one of

orleans coming up tonight on nbc "nightly news." jenna? >> thank you. >> switching gears, we're talking a lot about weather this ninging. dangerous rip currents continue o be a big problem along the east coast, now experiencing the effects of hurricane danielle. the weather channel's mike seidel is in rohoboth beach, delaware, for us, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, another beautiful day defies what's going on along the beaches on the east coast. rip currents yesterday, a drowning in brevard county, florida, one south of here in ocean city, maryland. two fatalities. ocean city had over 250 risks. more of the same today. island to florida.ricksbuorecas do not swim after dark. the congo line of storms in the atlantic. danielle basically a non-player, it pulls away. rip currents will die off tomorrow. meanwhile, on its heels, a minimal category 1 hurricane with 75 mile-per-hour winds and what will likely be our next tropical depression. already hurricane warnings up for a good deal of the leward islands, hurricane watches now

new orleans. august 29, 2010: it has been a cloudy, rainy day here, but no match at all for what this city saw on august 29 five years ago when hurricane katrina rolled in with a vengeance. in the next 30 minutes, we'll take a look at new orleans' past, present and future. but first, the news of the day. president obama ended his vacation this sunday and came here to new orleans to pay his respects and make some promises. here is senior white house correspondent bill plante. >> reporter: fresh from their vacation on martha's vineyard, the obama family's first stop was for lunch. >> i'm going to try this alligator sausage. >> reporter: like most of the city, this popular restaurant was underwater after katrina roared through. at historically black xavier rebound story, mr. obama hailed the city's renaissance but admitted new orleans still has a long way to go. >> there's still too many people unable to find work, and there's still too many new orleanian folks who haven't been able to come home. i w

she had grown up in new orleans. she raised her family in new orleans. and she wanted to stay. but she just didn't know if she could. her entire neighborhood was destroyed. >> it was just so much misery that lasted for so long. i just was never in a story like thisis that just seemed to fest. just week after week after week that turned into months, that even turned into years. i don't expect we'll ever see anything like it again. >> what do i hope for new orleans? it's what i hope for all of us, that tomorrow will be better than yesterday. >> yeah. i think we all kind of speak for what harry said, you hope you never see anything like this again. it was sheer devastation back then. still in parts of new orleans. parts that still have a long way to go, as we mentioned. lonnie quinn is outside with another check of the weather for us. lonnie. >> good morning to you, chris. good morning, everybody. that's a sign we have to talk about. young lady, what's your name. >> rachel sykes. >> your trip to new york city. you want to see the new york city. checked that out. and you want to se

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reporting tonight from new orleans. >>> good evening from the french quarter in new orleans where five years ago tonight it was still a few days off. we could see it out there. we knew katrina was a big one, but we had no idea what it would do to this city and this region. back then when the storm hit, it covered an area of 90,000 square miles. 80% of this great, historic city was underwater. 1.5 million people were affected in that storm's aftermath and, worst of all, of course, more than 1,800 deaths at the hands of katrina. things these days here are getting much better, in part thanks to a fortune, a potential pool of $16.7 billion in federal funds includes almost $2 billion for schools here. and 90% of the new orleans neighborhoods -- and there are over 70 different neighborhoods in this city -- are back, meaning they have at least half the population having returned. we begin with how things have changed, new people, new places, some old problems and some new ones. [ cheers and applause ] >>> here in the very place that came to symbolize the failure of the katrina response, the c

some optimistic -- >> there's a sadness that everybody knows that new orleans is still new orleans. >> others angry that things haven't changed enough. >> it seems like the justice, injustice is piling up. >> the city's new mayor visited the memorial for 100 victims of katrina who were never identified. and residents tossed a wreath off the clayborn avenue bridge in 2005, people were stranded there for days. jane jacobs took the day off from renovating her home. >> we lost everything. >> but not everyone did. >> just another day. we just got to come back here and finish cleaning up the mess. >> 60 miles outside new orleans, paul gibson is rebuilding on the same lot in the town where katrina made landfall and ripped the asphalt of the main highway right from the ground. that highway is back. the water tower that was brought down by a wall of water 21 feet high stands tall again today. and this weekend for some, that progress was reason enough to throw a party. >> it is the new orleans way to throw a party, but brian, we talked about so many people today, and some didn't want anything t

i believe we're going to make new orleans better. we're going to make at this time greatest city in america, i don't have any doubt in my mind. >> reporter: for "nightline," i'm bob woodruff in new orleans. >> good luck to them, and thanks to bob for that report. when we come back, tonight's closing argument. firs first, jimmy kimmel with what's coming up next. >> thanks. tonight, eva mendes, callan mcom tonight, eva mendes, callan mcom south of laredo, there's a place... gotta cross an ocean of scorpion-covered earth. so hot, rattlesnakes... combust, spontaneously. we're drawn like moths to a flaming jalapeÑo. but, you gotta eat bold, know what i'm sayin. [ male announcer ] subway has turned up the heat! introducing subway fiery footlong subs. the hot new turkey jalapeño melt and bold-acious buffalo chicken. eat bold! [ biker ] subway fiery footlong subs, burn the wimp right outta ya. the most powerful half-ton crew in america has a powertrain backed for 100,000 miles. chevy silverado half-ton a consumers digest best buy and the m

yet another kind of new orleans song is being sung. by some of the nine hundred thousand people in the city who are homeless we heard about the good train and all the other stuff that was long and my would guarantee jobs for it easy you know there'd be work to be available but there wasn't loretta smith is one of the many who came to new orleans after katrina looking for work but instead ended up on the streets is once you get to that point you have no idea how you come out of. people like her added to the city's overwhelming number of residents who ended up homeless in the aftermath. of the storm carol self lost everything in katrina she left the city temporarily came back a few months later and has been homeless ever since mom wanted to do was come home you know my son my mom the word thing you do not down and down the family not there and it's what i know it's home you know it sounds stupid but it is you know. carol story is not unique new orleans now has one of the highest percentages of homeless people in america after katrina the

from new york and new orleans. i'm matt lauer in the lower ninth ward here in the city and, as i mentioned earlier, ann is back in new york. this city has come an awfully long way in the last five years. we talked about that at the top of the show. there is a lot of work to be done. evidence of that in the lower ninth ward. take a look behind. that is a dilapidated, abandoned building. the familiar "x" on the side of the building. no one is allowed to live in that building. an empty foundation here. a home simply swept away by the floodwaters. 4,000 homes were destroyed here during the hurricane and the flooding that followed and yet, just yards away, you can see signs of progress. a new home built there. this home over here that looks somewhat unusual, that's one of those make it right homes, an organization that brad pitt is so closely associated with. there are plans to build about 150 of those here in the lower ninth ward. ann curry, as i mentioned, back in new york. you've come down here to new orleans and hig

"no, i'm just a cop." >> narrator: but in 1994, new orleans got a new police chief, richard pennington, brought in from washington, d.c., with new ideas. >> most citizens are afraid. that's why they don't call us. because they feel if they call us, we're not going to do anything to protect them. >> pennington comes in as an outsider. fired police officers, instituted integrity checks. he just professionalized the police department. he brings it into the 20th century. >> narrator: the pennington era didn't last. in 2002, pennington ran for mayor, without support of the police, and lost to ray nagin. >> nagin gets in office and he chooses to appoint a good street cop, eddie compass, as chief of police. >> chief pennington did an outstanding job as it relates to getting the police department in the right direction. i tried to continue that in vein. >> and so the... the discipline, the internal affairs reviews, that kind of stuff that chief pennington set up... >> we kept those things in place. >> narrator: but under compass, investigations of complaints against officers dropped dramatical

for "nightline," this is david muir in new orleans. >> in new orleans, the federal government already spent about $15 billion on preventing that flood prevention system. you say they have more work to be done with that. >> this should be a critical year but they promise the city the army corps of engineers, by the end of summer 2011, there should be rlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrlrl@t@t >>> and welcome back, everybody. of course, the talk of the town today, a big night for television last night, the emmy awards. interesting kind of night last night. kind of a mixed -- a good mixed bag of winners. some familiar winners. not a bad broadcast at

there is so much focus on new orleans, and i think that is good. i trust the people who have been here the most, and i would include you in jonathan in that group. i trust that group to tell the story as best they can and tell the story as it deserves to be told. i am fairly confident that what people will see watching television, i am hoping it is a fairly accurate representation of where we stand. tavis: so much of it gets blamed on the media. take me back five years ago and tell me whether you think the media did a pretty good job of telling the story so that the american people could be in touch with what was happening there. we beat up the media, some of it deserved, but give me your assessment of how they have done on this story five years ago? >> at the last minute, i left town before the storm made landfall so i could be somewhere where there was electricity to watch the coverage, a decision my boss and i made at the last minute. otherwise i would have stayed through the worst of it. i'm glad i got to see the coverage because i think you co

over the next few days, nbc news is taking a look back at new orleans then and a look at new orleans now. tonight, we take a look at one of the ways the city rebuilt a shattered school system. >> reporter: this fall, third grader santanna has a new school and a new goal. >> i'm going to college. >> and her new charter school, maze prep, in the desired kmupt of new orleans, is helping to make it happen. charter schools have become a fixture here since hurricane katrina devastated the city's public school system five years ago. >> if you're going to rebuild the city you have to rebuild beginning with schools. >> the maze prep principal says new orleans public schools were in poor shape. >> new orleans as a result of hurricane katrina had an opportunity to stop and pause and say -- this is what we want public education to look like in this city. and so we can create that from the ground up. >> last school year, 61% of new orleans' public school students attended charters. the next highest percentage of charter school students in a major city was washington, d.c. at 36%. then detroit, 32

is new orleans safer? >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: colonel edphlegmings, the new commander of the u.s. army corps of engineers. >> it's a reliable system. it's a resilient system and it is tied in, in all areas. >> reporter: but after the levees failed, a federal judge blamed the corps for mismanaging the patc patchwork barrier systm that collapsed for creating the disaster. but it's not just the corps now rebuilding reputations. take mike brown, who found infamie in a presidential atta boy. >> brownie, you're doing a heck of a job. >> if you watch that tape again, you'll see my wince. >> reporter: this mike brown the former fema director. >> i was asking for things, telling them what we needed. >> reporter: brown said all government agencies involved in katrina's second disaster, the response, learned a great deal from katrina. the question from ken dorsey and so many other people here whether those agencies learned enough. could katrina happen again here? >> no doubt in my mind. i believe it could.

harry smith will join us a bit later from new orleans. we begin, though, tonight, with the economy and new concern that the recovery from the recession may be stalling. the government put out a new report today showing growth in the second quarter was just 1.6%. and that's far less than an earlier estimate of 2.4% and less than half the growth rate in the first quarter. in a speech watched closely by wall street, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said the fed is ready to take action if necessary. anthony mason is here now with more about that. anthony? >> reporter: erica, bernanke did not forecast another recession, but he did acknowledge the economy is slowing. at an economic conference in jackson hole, wyoming, the fed chairman said the recovery is on fragile footing. the economy, he said, remains vulnerable to unexpected developments. >> with growth so weak and confidence so fragile, we are very vulnerable to anything else that could go wrong. if anything does, we will be back in recession. >> reporter: bernanke's promise of fed su

orleans today, we turn to new orleans mayor mitch landrieu, who took office last may. and amy liu, deputy director of the brookings institution's metropolitan policy program and co-author of the report. mayor landrieu, i want to go through that triple whammy there-- katrina, the economy, the oil spill. let's start with what's happened since katrina, especially on the housing front. are people back? are their homes rerebuilt? >> there's no question those three things hurt and hurt badly but i think you can see from the report we're heading in the right direction. we're rebuilding the core infrastructure but we have some challenges. housing in in parts of the city are doing well, housing in other parts not so much. i'll be leaving here to go down to lower 9 and upper 9 to talk to the community about ways the city can continue to work to rebuild that neighborhood because it's so important to us. but the report was positive. i want to thank aimet and brookings institute for giving us some baseline to work off of, and as i said , heading in the right direction but some what

new orleans smells the same as it always did. kind of a mixture of gumbo, garlic, sweaty people dancing. >> rose: but it seems to me you are saying too as to the president as he swam in the gulf and the governor of mississippi saying it's safe to come to our beaches. and we need it you to come to our beaches because that is our revenue source. >> yeah, i would go down there. i would buy me a good dinner at a seafood restaurant, bring my family and put a towel out and sit out on the beach, absolutely. i'm back with pie wife for six days in a few days from now. >> rose: thank you for coming. >> my pleasure. >> rose: this is your finest hour and an example of where, i think, you guys and other networks and other new agencies covered a story like it ought to be covered and go back an remind us. you know, and it's an interesting time. tomorrow the foreign minister of pakistan is coming here. >> that's right. you know what he is going to say. help us. help us. we have got a flood over there. we need your help. only 50,000 americans hav

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orleans, samantha hays. >> carolyn: here in san francisco, a new orleans native screened her documentary about the aftermath of hurricane katrina. in the movie, the film maker returns to new orleans to document the impact the disaster had on her family. >> basically, the whole gamut of what has been happening in new orleans through the eyes of my family, and i guess what i would like to take from it is that human beings have been affected by this. not just buildings. >> carolyn: it included appearances by al sharpton and then-senator president barack b. >>> after a relatively cool weekend, we are due for some changes. leigh glaser will let us know when to expect the forecast. >> mike: giants and a's on the winning slate, and the raiders have injury issues for a couple of key south of laredo, there's a place... gotta cross an ocean of scorpion-covered earth. so hot, rattlesnakes... combust, spontaneously. we're drawn like moths to a flaming jalapeÑo. but, you gotta eat bold, know what i'm sayin. [ male announcer ] subway has turned up the heat! introducing subway fiery footlong subs. the

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host: new orleans, go ahead. caller: 50 t-wall --if the t- wall areas -- i was in new orleans east and i was told that that area that flooded and we got between nine and 12 feet of water. guest: if you live in new orleans east, you would be now inside the perimeter of the new 100-year risk reduction system. when you go outside the perimeter, there is a two-fold levee system. there is the the river levees and as you, and further into the greater new orleans area, there is a hurricane system. some things we are doing is part of the program is to bring the non-federal levees into the federal levee system. that means using new design criteria. we will make those levees higher and broader and stronger. we are also looking at where the mississippi river levees and that tributaries system intercepts by hurricane system and to make improvements for that. there is the factor of the amount of surface that can come up a river during a hurricane. we have two projects going on right now where the mississippi river levees may

>> reporter: michelle miller, cbs news, new orleans. >> that is the "cbs evening news." for katie couric, i'm erica hill. i'll see you in the morning on the "early show." good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org homeowners blame electrical currents from muni... so - who >>> it's the leak that will not die. home owners blame electrical currents from muni. who will pick up the tab for the latest busted pipe? >>> how about this as a keepsake for your trip to northern california? your plane on fire. >> a bay area sewage leak much worse than first thought. >>> good evening, i'm allen martin. the news starts now. >>> your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. caption colorado, l.l.c. comments@captioncolorado.com >>> good evening, i'm dana king. it is an ongoing mystery that we have been reporting on now for three years. a san francisco neighborhood where residents believe stray electric current from muni is causing water pipes to rupture. last night we saw it again, multiple gushers. don knapp joins us from 15th ave

he believes in new orleans. after every challenge we face, the opportunity exists to change cannot improve, and grow. there is no more pressing issue than the crisis off of our coast. on april 19, the bp read exploded and 11 men lost their lives. we still grieve for them today. for nearly three months, bp could not find a way to tap that well which spewed the equivalent of the exxon valdez disaster every four days. over 200 million gallons of oil flooded into the gulf and the effect will be felt for years to come. in the coming months and years, but the $6 billion in economic output, 24,000 jobs could be lost not to mention the cost to the suffering families. everyone is affected. from shrimpers to boat dock operators, hotel workers to waiters, crane operators to tour bus operators, it just keeps going and going. the bad economy has hurt local government with the bp disaster for their impact in revenue. this is a cascading and far reaching crisis. our way of life is threatened and everyone of us knows what is at

as you can tell, i love new orleans. what a gorgeous morning. >> you grew up in slidell. >> about 30 minutes outside of the city here, what used to be the country, now slowly engulfed in new orleans. cooking up some shrimp and grits today. >> you know what -- >> perfect brunch dish. >> before the storm, if you came to new orleans and engaged in conversation with a local, it only took about 22 seconds before it always came to food. >> it takes that long? >> maybe it's five seconds. >> we're passionate about our food, our music. look, i'm burning this dish here. beautiful, wild louisiana shrimp. yes, you can eat the shrimp. they are incredible. >> the shrimp season is open again. >> beautiful fresh white shrimp. in season. they are gorgeous. harry, if you wouldn't mind grab the pepper right there. pepper mill. go ahead and give me a nice little douse of it. excellent. we're going to saute this with andoulle sausage. tastes great. cayenne pepper. add a little shallot to it. >> nice. >> some boosted red pepper and some tomat

. >> reporter: post-k, new orleans is a city of contrast. the government invested $15 billion to build a 350-mile perimeter of levees, flood gates and pumping stations. tourism is back in the french quarter, about 80% of what it was five years ago. and another trend, many have come here to find opportunity, like twin brothers matt and dan, who have more heating and air work than they can keep up with. >> i'm hoping this is a great neighborhood by the time we're done. >> reporter: but even as new houses are being built, it's estimated a third of the city's liveable home, some 50,000 like this one, are vacant. now the population is down about 100,000 compared to before the storm. more than 800 louisiana families are still living in fema trailers and the decaying remnants of katrina are everywhere. not just in the lower ninth ward. on this five-year anniversary, the president told a crowd at louisiana xavier university the government is committed to rebuilding. >> my administration is going to stand with you and fight alongside you until the jo

>> bob woodruff in new orleans. bob, thank you. >>> robin roberts was back in the gulf this weekend, as well. robin was on the air as katrina hit and did not hear from her family in pass christian, mississippi. she did get word shortly before going on the air, the next morning. >> robin, i know when you left here last night and flew down you hadn't been able to make contact with your own family yet. have you done so? >> they're okay. >> they're okay? >> i spoke with robin when the two of us teamed up for a program on facebook marking this anniversary. we talked about her role that morning as reporter and daughter. >> in fact, i wasn't going to be on the air unless i found my family, and i was able to. and i thought i admit emotions in check, you know, professional, okay, my family is okay, i've got to report the news, and the sun was starting to come up and i was just looking around me. and this is an area where i've lived since 1969. my father was at the air force base. we moved here then, we never left and i could

it is wonderful to be back in new orleans. it is a great honor -- >> [unintelligible] [laughter] >> can you see me now? [laughter] >> it is a great honor to be here. it isn't part -- it is inspiring to spend time with people who demonstrated what it means to persevere in the face of tragedy. to rebuild in the face of bruins. -- the face of ruins. i congratulate you on being .rowned miss xavier [ she was a junior at brand -- at ben franklin high school five years ago when the school came. after katrina, ben franklin high school was terribly damaged by wind and water. millions of dollars were needed to rebuild the school. many feared it would take years to reopen if it could be reopened at all. but something remarkable happened. parents, teachers, students, volunteers, they all got to work making repairs. donations came in from across new orleans and around the world. soon, those silent and darkened corridors were bright and filled with the sounds of a bright young men and women who were going back to class. and then jade commit

he'll be heading to new orleans. bianna? >> jake, any reaction from the president to the comments made by ben bernanke yesterday? >> reporter: no reaction so far. the white house says they know that president obama has to discuss the economy some time this week. but it's a packed schedule. you have the katrina anniversary on sunday. on tuesday, a major address, on the withdrawal of u.s. combat troops from iraq. wednesday and thursday, middle east peace negotiations. so, even if the president does address the economy, he's going to be competing with himself. bianna? >> a packed schedule, indeed, for a president who was hoping that his summer would end with an economic recovery. >> bianna, in jake's piece. it mentions the interest rates are at historic lows. corporations are sitting on a ton of cash. what do the experts tell you it will take to actually get a recovery going, finally? >> we keep talking about re-igniting this recovery. but history shows that recoveries that were stemmed and led on by businesses, have tended to

but they became a metaphor for the beating heart of new orleans. tonight, we will hear his story of loss, survival, hope, and renewal in his own words. our look at new orleans, five years after hurricane katrina, coming up right now. >> all i know is his name is james, and he needs extra help with his reading. >> i'm james. >> yes. >> to everyone making a difference, you help us all live better. >> nationwide insurance supports tavis smiley. with every question and answer, nationwide insurance is happy to help tavis improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: among the many facets that makes new orleans the great city is its deep-rooted college community. schools like to lane, loyola, xavier -- like tulane, loyola, and xavier. dr. norman francis is the longest tenured university president in the nation. in late august of 2005, the

it has been five years since hurricane katrina has devastated new orleans. and some at the hays takes a look back of the disaster and a long road to recovery. >> visiting new orleans five years to the day after katrina struck, president of brock a bomb a promise not to forget. >> the city has become a symbol of resilience and community. and the responsibility that we have to one another. >> this is a disaster they still live with every day. neighbors in st. bernard paris gathered inside the church where they had more of their loved ones killed in a storm-the devastating aftermath. >> today we come together to bury katrina. in >> side as a border casket is the memories of what could turn a tip from them five years ago. their homes their loved ones and for a while even hope. >> katrina's but in moving forward if we carry with us the guests that have been offered. these experiences that we have been stored have made us better. >> in the lore 94, the celebrated in the street and tumor nor lean sorrow. . not everyone is back. but the view from always front porch,