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00:04The flooding in this city is leveling off, but 80% of New Orleans is still underwater.
00:09And while the mayor wants everyone to get out of the city, people here are still trying to figure out
00:14how to leave.
00:17The Superdome, which was the shelter of last resort, has become the last place anyone wants to be.
00:24No one's allowed just to walk out of here.
00:25No, no, no, no.
00:27When you say you want to just leave, what do they say?
00:29They tell us there's alligators, dead bodies, disease, and you won't make it.
00:37My cousin, that's the one I picked up from home, told me he didn't know how much he was going
00:41to be able to take.
00:42He said, I don't think I'm going to make it.
00:44He was about to break down up in there.
00:46I said, though, we're going to get out of here.
00:49Right next to the Superdome, they have a ramp.
00:53The bottom of the ramp was flooded out.
00:56And I seen, like, a group of National Guards members, like, they were sitting, like, on the backside by the
01:01ramp, just kicking it, relaxing, chilling.
01:03I guess they ain't thinking nobody going anywhere because of the water down there.
01:07So I was like, I'm going to try to sneak up and get my truck.
01:13We found my truck.
01:14I'm all excited.
01:15It just looked like this beautiful horse sitting on a hill.
01:20Right?
01:20I call it Pegasus.
01:21As a matter of fact, it just was the most beautiful sight I ever seen.
01:26My heart was beating.
01:29Got to the truck, put the keys in, turned up, cranked it.
01:33Thank God, it started up again.
01:38We're just driving through the water.
01:39There's waves just pushing and pushing and pushing.
01:43As we pass by the convention center, I'm looking, I'm seeing all these people just, they don't know what's about
01:50to happen next.
01:52They just want to survive.
01:54They just want to get out of here.
01:56And all them people just looking up at me like, man, you about to get out of here in this
02:02truck.
02:04I'm holding on to my crucifix.
02:07And I'm praying, I'm asking God to get us through it.
02:26This is where they're picking up some of the refugees out of the Superdome.
02:29And as you can see, these people look like they've been here for quite some time.
02:34There is one scrap of good news from New Orleans.
02:38More than a hundred buses evacuated thousands of people from the hell hole that was once the Louisiana Superdome.
02:46And more will be brought out tonight.
02:51After a successful bus evacuation of the Superdome, the National Guard organized the people in front of the convention center,
02:59got them on buses, and we sent them to the airport.
03:03Buses are loaded up on top two streets.
03:07Let's put it all in there. Let's get the whole family in there.
03:10When they put us on the school buses under the interstate bridge, they didn't tell us nothing.
03:16They didn't tell you where you were going.
03:22I was still out there by the convention center.
03:25I didn't feel like I could go no more.
03:27Like, I didn't even feel myself, you know.
03:31I was just done.
03:34And so when they say that the military is taking people to the airport and they're going different places,
03:40I said, man, I don't care where I go, I was going anywhere, the plane was going to fly me.
03:50The water had receded.
03:52So we took our mother, who was in a wheelchair, and the rest of the family,
03:57and we walked to a vacant lot where a helicopter landed.
04:07That Saturday, we had over 200 helicopters from the 82nd Airport on landing in New Orleans.
04:13The idea was to recover people and get them evacuated and take care of them at the airport.
04:20At the airport, we were met by National Guardsmen with guns who said, we must get on the plane.
04:29And we begged them to let us go to our sister, who lived in Houma, Louisiana,
04:38which is about an hour's drive away from New Orleans.
04:42We had family that was ready to receive us, but we were forced to get on the plane.
04:48We had no choice. They had guns.
04:53The first airplanes are getting loaded. Everything seemed to be going well.
04:58But then one of the senior pilots on the ground flying the civilian airplane said,
05:04well, we can't take off. We don't have a manifest.
05:08So he told my major, and my major called me up and said, hey, boss, we got a problem.
05:15They haven't taken off. The people have been sitting here for hours because we don't have a manifest.
05:20I said, well, let me talk to them.
05:22So I talked to him on the phone and said, look, a lot of these people out here even have
05:26identification.
05:26There's no computers out here.
05:29We can't create no manifest.
05:30I said, we can give you a yellow piece of paper.
05:32And when they walk on the airplane, you take their names down, and that's going to be your manifest.
05:38And I fly the fucking airplane.
05:40And the planes took off.
05:44We asked, where were we going to go?
05:48Where is this plane going to land?
05:50We don't know.
05:52I said, you don't know.
05:54I said, everybody has to know where they're going to land.
05:58Don't they have to have a flight plan and this kind of thing?
06:03They said, just get on the plane, ma'am.
06:08Nothing.
06:08We didn't know anything.
06:10We knew that we were leaving New Orleans.
06:13My mind was blank.
06:14I didn't know what was going to be next.
06:16We didn't really have control over our destiny.
06:21They tell you you're going to go to Houston.
06:23They tell you you're going to go to Atlanta, to Chicago, San Francisco.
06:27God knows where you'll end up.
06:33The New Orleans International Airport is part of the largest airlift ever on U.S. soil.
06:39More than 10,000 hurricane survivors.
06:42Help us on the way.
06:43Help us on the way.
06:44We've witnessed all day airlifting evacuees to the Louis Armstrong International Airport.
06:49Buses also arriving to take people out of the once great city.
06:57I tell you what a difference a day makes.
07:0024 hours ago, this building behind me, crowded with thousands and thousands of the most desperate refugees you can imagine,
07:07has been emptied.
07:09God bless the United States Army.
07:11God bless the United States military.
07:12They pulled this thing together from chaos, confusion, anarchy.
07:17God bless you.
07:18Oh, I tell you what, it's great.
07:19The All-Americans are here to help Americans.
07:21That's it.
07:24Is this America?
07:26Do I have freedom of movement?
07:29I thought I was still living in America.
07:38So, you know, it was like, okay, I'm going to do what they tell me to do.
07:44I'm going to cooperate.
07:45I'm not going to cause a ruckus.
07:47But I will get back to New Orleans.
07:51The first wave of hurricane refugees from Louisiana is arriving in Texas this morning.
07:56They're being bused from the New Orleans Superdome.
07:58As we were moving around the country, the news media, we're calling people from New Orleans refugees.
08:07Dallas schools are opening their doors to storm refugee kids.
08:11And Dallas is delivering truckloads of donations to refugees.
08:15How can you be a refugee in your own country?
08:18It offended not only me, but a lot of people.
08:22We are not refugees.
08:23We are American citizens that have got caught up in the bad way.
08:26And we resent that word, refugees.
08:29And they shouldn't use that anymore.
08:32We've been traveling and traveling.
08:35We've been going from one shelter to the next shelter.
08:38But that's okay because we're living.
08:42The thing that's not all right is we got family members scattered all around.
08:49Where they scattered at, we don't know.
08:53With approximately a million refugees, 30 states in all are accepting evacuees in this country's largest migration in 70 years.
09:03These were internally displaced people.
09:06This was the forced migration of people because of Katrina.
09:12And I think within modern history, that was the first time for a lot of Americans that that happened.
09:21I had never even heard Austin, Texas in my life.
09:24But Austin, they showed us love up there.
09:32But I didn't know where my life was headed from there.
09:38I currently live in Memphis, Tennessee.
09:40However, I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana.
09:43I'm here in Georgia.
09:44I have lost everything in my home.
09:47I live in Norman, Oklahoma.
09:49Houston, Texas.
09:50But I want to go back home, but now I'm in Georgia.
09:53I was born and raised there.
10:05About a month after leaving the Superdome, once the water receded, I was able to come back to check on
10:13the house in St. Bernard Parish.
10:19You can see the devastation.
10:26Coming back after the city was emptied out, it was strange, for sure.
10:32A city that is known for celebrating, known for its food, known for being loud.
10:36It was dead quiet.
10:43When I came back to New Orleans, everything looked dead.
10:48Everything smelled dead.
10:50It was just desolate.
10:53Just, oh my God.
10:55I could not believe.
10:56I was like, this is never going to be back right.
11:03The graveyard, this is the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
11:11We have above ground tombs, but the water saturated the earth, and it made a lot of the graves come
11:19up.
11:21We've got caskets coming out, man.
11:23One of my cousins we had just buried, like, not too long ago.
11:27Her casket was actually sitting out in the open, exposed.
11:32Now my people graze, and it's right on top of my people's graves.
11:37Look all around.
11:39This is not cool, man.
11:42I don't think anybody after they buried their people didn't want to see graves like this, man.
11:49I wasn't ready for this.
11:53It's one thing to think about the loss.
11:57It's another thing to see it.
12:00When you see it, it's real.
12:05When I saw my home for the first time, I was devastated.
12:10The tears just kind of rolled down my face.
12:12Mud was still inside the home.
12:16It was just a muddy mess.
12:19All of my belongings were ruined, all of my pictures, everything.
12:25I had mold that was like going up to the ceiling almost.
12:31Birth certificates, pictures, everything was gone.
12:41When you come back to something that has been your dream,
12:47and you realize that it has been destroyed,
12:55it was like, what do I do?
13:08Man, look at my crib.
13:10It smashed down to the ground.
13:13My mama trailer.
13:15Look at my other crib that we just built, leaning to the side.
13:19Look at my crib.
13:23Man, this don't even feel like home, man.
13:27Hey, girl.
13:29Hey, cinema.
13:30Hey.
13:31Hey, girl.
13:32Hey, shake, missy.
13:35Shake, missy.
13:37Mother, darling.
13:44She was in the...
13:49She was in this...
13:50Look at her, you know.
14:01Look at my shit, man.
14:02My big screen.
14:04This devastation.
14:06Martin Luther King.
14:09I got some of my old letters from the military.
14:12My military books up there, man.
14:20I got to step over stuff, walk through stuff.
14:26I can't really get in here.
14:29There's so much mud and dick stuff up in here, man.
14:33It's gonna be enough.
14:35But this house is damn gutted out.
14:38I got dick to mud in here.
14:40I can't get to nothing.
14:41I really can't find what I'm looking for.
14:44But honestly, I guess whatever I got out of the deal,
14:49I guess it'll be all right, but...
15:03I got to be like this, man.
15:06This shit is so fucked up.
15:11Everything you ever worked for, man.
15:14Again, on your own.
15:16Even if you had so fucking much, man.
15:18It was like, this was yours, you know.
15:30It just leaves you confused.
15:33What are we gonna do?
15:36How are we gonna fix this?
15:39And it just seemed like it was unfixable at the time.
15:48Louisiana today officially ended the search
15:50for bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina.
15:54The death toll in the state now stands at 964.
16:00Because of the heat and the lack of communication
16:03and absence of medicine,
16:05a lot of the people we found in home dead
16:07were elderly, poor, and disabled.
16:11And they were alone.
16:27My brother, the one that,
16:29when we went walking in the water,
16:31kicked the stop sign and put a big hole in his leg.
16:34He died from an infection.
16:37And my niece that was walking with us,
16:39she had lupus already,
16:42but then she couldn't take her medicine,
16:44so she developed meningitis,
16:47and it moved up to her brains.
16:50So she couldn't talk.
16:52All she could do is lay that with her eyes open.
16:56And so, you know,
16:58that was one of the reasons why
17:00I didn't want to come back
17:01to New Orleans,
17:03because I didn't want to have to, like,
17:04relive that again.
17:10From the air today,
17:11we saw miles of once-flooded houses.
17:14As many as 250,000 homes
17:16may be uninhabitable.
17:18In New Orleans,
17:19there was anger and frustration today
17:21when a sweeping new blueprint
17:23to rebuild the city was unveiled.
17:25Anyone who lives in a neighborhood
17:26highlighted here in yellow,
17:28most of the city,
17:29could be forced to move.
17:30The plan calls for new parks in green
17:32that would help control flooding.
17:34Residents would be resettled
17:36in areas circled in red.
17:39This was a plan
17:41that somebody had come up with
17:42to turn different areas
17:44into green spaces for people
17:47that would also be able
17:49to capture water during storms.
17:52A great, great idea,
17:54except that people actually lived there.
17:59When they came up
18:00with the plan
18:00about the new New Orleans,
18:02it angered me
18:03because many of the areas
18:05where the people
18:06at the bottom
18:07of socioeconomic scale
18:08and people
18:09who did not have a voice
18:11were being discounted.
18:14Immediately,
18:15we need to identify
18:16and begin assembling properties
18:18that can become part
18:19of the system.
18:21The Lower Night Ward,
18:22there was supposed
18:22to be a green space.
18:24How are you going
18:25to make a green space
18:26out of my property?
18:29When the map came out,
18:31the first thing
18:32that came to my mind
18:33was hell no.
18:35It was hell no
18:36because it goes back
18:37to the legacy
18:38that that house
18:39that I live in provided.
18:41I'm not giving up
18:42this man's property
18:43and I'm referring
18:44to my grandfather.
18:46Some worry
18:47that the black wards
18:48of the city
18:48are being intentionally
18:49neglected
18:50and may even be bulldozed,
18:52leaving residents
18:53displaced
18:54and disenfranchised.
18:57It did not go
18:58over well with me.
19:00It didn't go well
19:01with most of the citizens
19:03who wanted to come back
19:05and rebuild their homes
19:07and their life.
19:08And that's when
19:09I think folks started
19:11to think about
19:12how can we organize
19:13and fight back.
19:16Any area of the city
19:18of New Orleans
19:19that is sparsely populated,
19:22they are going to want
19:23to use the eminent domain
19:25to take over
19:26the properties.
19:27We have a resident
19:28on the phone,
19:28whoever didn't hear,
19:29we have a resident
19:30on the phone right now.
19:31She's watching them
19:32at Gavez and Renee
19:35bulldozing a home.
19:38Give me the city
19:39attorney's number.
19:40We will move the people.
19:42Just get your doors
19:43and stop.
19:43Ain't no danger
19:44as long as they stop.
19:45These are people's home.
19:48They'll leave.
19:49All right!
19:50Yes!
19:52Now you got a whole bunch
19:53of mad citizens
19:54that's in the city
19:55and going to get
19:56a whole lot mad.
19:58So mad they were
19:59screaming today
20:00at the commission
20:00that came up
20:01with the rebuilding plan.
20:03Don't tell me
20:04about what this
20:04public time is.
20:05This is a big,
20:06audacious plan.
20:07It was put together
20:07by obviously
20:08very brilliant people.
20:09But guess what?
20:11You missed the boat.
20:13In fairness to them,
20:14there were some areas
20:15that you knew
20:16because of the elevation
20:17and because of
20:19the amount of flooding
20:20that it may have
20:20taken on during the storm.
20:22It may have not
20:23made sense
20:23to rebuild there,
20:24but everything
20:26is personal
20:26in New Orleans.
20:27For people that
20:28grew up here,
20:29their neighborhood
20:30is everything.
20:31The high school
20:31where they went to
20:32is everything.
20:33So if the mayor says,
20:35if the city says,
20:36this part isn't
20:36going to come back,
20:37we're going to make
20:38this green space,
20:39like, it's going
20:40to cut you deep.
20:41I hate you
20:42because you've been
20:43in the background
20:44trying to scheme
20:46and get our land.
20:47It's been happening.
20:49That's not happening.
20:50We know that
20:51they have wildfires
20:52in California.
20:54They have tornadoes
20:56in the middle
20:57of America.
20:58They have flooding
20:59in Florida,
20:59but they've never
21:00told them,
21:01you can't rebuild.
21:02I don't think
21:03it's right
21:04if you try
21:04to take our property
21:07because,
21:07like I said,
21:08over my dead body.
21:10I didn't die
21:11with Katrina.
21:12Bye.
21:17The blowback
21:18of it was so bad
21:19that the mayor
21:20basically said,
21:22not only are we
21:23not doing that,
21:24we're not going
21:25to do anything
21:25except what the
21:27localities want
21:28us to do.
21:30We as a community
21:32will have the
21:33ultimate say
21:34in how we move
21:35forward.
21:38If you don't
21:39have the resources,
21:40how can you put
21:41your life back
21:42together?
21:43The people
21:44who live
21:46in these more
21:46affluent neighborhoods,
21:47they're up here.
21:49So who's going
21:50to need the most
21:51resources?
21:51The people who are
21:52here or the people
21:53who are down here?
21:54It shouldn't be
21:54about equal.
21:55It should be
21:56about equity.
21:59How you survive
22:00a disaster is
22:01directly proportion
22:02to how well
22:04prepared and how
22:05well you all
22:06before the disaster.
22:08The bottom line
22:09to that,
22:10the poor got
22:11poorer and the
22:12rich got richer.
22:21When the federal
22:21levees broke
22:22ten years ago,
22:23we in the world
22:23gasped at the
22:25possibility that
22:26in the blink of
22:26an eye, New
22:28Orleans as we
22:29know it would
22:30be gone.
22:31But ten years
22:32after Katrina,
22:33we're no longer
22:34recovering.
22:34We're not
22:35rebuilding.
22:36Now we're
22:36creating.
22:38We're in the
22:39midst of a retail
22:40and restaurant
22:41building boom.
22:42Can you think
22:43of any other
22:43place in the world
22:44where you can
22:44lose 100,000
22:45people and gain
22:46600 more
22:47restaurants than
22:47we had before
22:48Katrina?
22:48I mean,
22:49come on.
22:49You want
22:50tomatoes on there?
22:51Ladies and
22:51gentlemen, your
22:52city is changing
22:53before your eyes.
22:56I'm going to
22:56try this
22:57alligator
22:58salsa.
22:59It was a tale
23:00of two cities.
23:02The rest of the
23:03city was pulling
23:05back together.
23:07But go ask
23:08those in the
23:09night ward.
23:12Ask them who
23:13was left behind.
23:37In some instances,
23:39the city was
23:40back.
23:41But it just
23:42wasn't back
23:42equitably for
23:44everyone.
23:50Louisiana got
23:51$10 billion
23:52in federal
23:52money to
23:53create and
23:54oversee the
23:54Road Home
23:55program.
23:56It's the
23:57largest housing
23:57recovery effort
23:58in American
23:59history.
24:00Our plan offers
24:01a fair and
24:02practical solution
24:03to return people
24:04to their homes
24:05and their
24:05communities.
24:06This is a
24:07great victory
24:08for Louisiana.
24:12The Road Home
24:14turned out to be
24:14the road to
24:15nowhere for a lot
24:16of people.
24:18The Road Home
24:19was supposed to
24:19cover the cost
24:20that insurance
24:21and other
24:21federal aid
24:22didn't.
24:23People have
24:24waited for months
24:25for clearance of
24:26the money and
24:26everything else,
24:27strangled by all
24:28this red tape.
24:30Every time you
24:31went in there,
24:31applying to the
24:32government for
24:33road home
24:33assistance,
24:34it seemed like
24:35the rules
24:36changed from
24:37week to week.
24:39So now you
24:40have to
24:40expend more
24:41time and
24:42energy and
24:43you're still
24:44dealing with
24:44the mental
24:45effects of
24:47Hurricane Katrina.
24:48It's
24:49overwhelming.
24:51The Road Home
24:52had a fatal
24:53flaw.
24:53It awarded
24:54grants based on
24:55repair costs
24:56or pre-storm
24:57value,
24:58whichever was
24:59less.
25:00In the
25:00poorest
25:01neighborhoods,
25:02a home's
25:02pre-storm value
25:03tended to be
25:04less than the
25:05cost of repairing
25:06or rebuilding
25:06it.
25:07Those neighborhoods
25:08were majority
25:09black.
25:11So folks who
25:12lived in
25:13Lakeview,
25:15a predominantly
25:15white, upper
25:16middle class to
25:17upper class
25:18area that
25:20already had the
25:21resources to
25:22rebuild, they
25:24got more money
25:25than folks that
25:27lived in, let's
25:28just say, the
25:29more ninth
25:29white, even
25:30though the
25:31building materials
25:32cost was the
25:32same.
25:34A two-by-four
25:36for my house
25:37cost the same
25:38as a two-by-four
25:39for another
25:40person's house.
25:41So why are you
25:42going to give me
25:42a different
25:43amount of
25:43money?
25:44It was like
25:45they were
25:47sabotaging the
25:48recovery in
25:49areas where
25:49black folk
25:50lived.
25:51Everybody wants
25:52to come home.
25:53It's just that
25:53we can't come
25:54home because the
25:55government is
25:55trying to keep
25:55us away from
25:56home.
25:59It's going to
26:00cost at least
26:01$250,000 to
26:02repair my
26:03property.
26:04I was fully
26:06insured, but I
26:08had just
26:09borrowed on the
26:10building, and
26:11when I borrowed
26:12on the building,
26:13it was put for
26:14collateral.
26:15And when the
26:17storm hit and I
26:18went back, the
26:19bank took the
26:20money.
26:20They told me
26:21that they
26:24weren't giving me
26:24anything, I got
26:26zero from
26:27Road Home.
26:28Homeowners can
26:29choose repair,
26:31rebuild, accept a
26:33buyout and relocate
26:34within Louisiana, or
26:36sell and leave the
26:37state.
26:38I started looking at
26:40what they were
26:41trying to do.
26:41I'm like, you're
26:42not getting my
26:42property because I
26:44am not selling.
26:47But some folks just
26:49did give up and
26:51say, I don't want
26:52this headache.
26:53I'll take the
26:54buyout.
26:56And so what they
26:57accomplished with a
26:58lot of people was to
27:00get them out and away
27:01from the city.
27:07after like nine and a
27:08half years being in
27:09Austin, I went back to
27:11New Orleans.
27:12But when I came back,
27:13it wasn't no more
27:14affordable housing.
27:16No more houses in the
27:17hood, you know, where
27:18you can get a one-bedroom
27:21for $300 and a two-bedroom
27:23for $500.
27:27Back in the day, most of
27:29the houses was doubles.
27:30You know, a family on
27:31this side and a family
27:32on that side.
27:35But after Katrina, they
27:38started making single
27:39houses out of double
27:40houses like you see
27:41here.
27:43That's two families
27:45that's out of a house.
27:47The cost of living
27:49became so high, I made
27:51a decision to leave
27:52New Orleans.
28:05After Katrina, I knew I
28:07couldn't come back home
28:08immediately since I had to
28:10go out and work and make
28:11money.
28:12My dad had been a master
28:14carpenter for many years,
28:15so I just drove all the way
28:17to California to work with
28:19him.
28:21Now I just got to see the
28:22scenery, travel where God
28:24want me to travel and go
28:27back home eventually.
28:31I just was thinking about a
28:32new beginning because I
28:33knew what I had left behind.
28:36It was a lot of devastation,
28:38a lot of pain, so I just had
28:41my moments when I'm like,
28:42you know, kind of like singing
28:44an old spiritual hymn, you
28:45know, from like my grandmother
28:46and going through the
28:47mountains.
28:50Lord, I'm climbing higher
28:57mountains, trying to get
28:58home.
29:00So that was kind of like my
29:01whole thing, like I just was
29:03like, I'm just trying to get
29:05home and I don't even know
29:06where home is just yet.
29:08Trying to get home, you know
29:12I'm climbing higher mountains.
29:16I want to tell you who I am.
29:21Well, the driving force
29:23behind me coming back to New
29:25Orleans was my mom's.
29:27My mom, my birthday was
29:28November 30th.
29:30I made 50 years old,
29:32ain't that some blessing?
29:33After the storm, we had FEMA
29:36trailers all over the land.
29:37And that's another trailer in
29:39front of my house.
29:40And from that road home
29:42program, she did receive some
29:44money.
29:44My mom bought this trailer
29:47and sold with that money.
29:50My mom finally bought like a
29:52big mobile trailer to make sure
29:54we had a place to stay.
29:56But then maybe about 20 days
29:59later, my mom's passed away.
30:05All I have left is these pictures.
30:11I kept remodeling.
30:13I kept working on that house.
30:15Almost completely, still have
30:17somewhere to go.
30:18But as the years started going on,
30:20the grants started going away.
30:24Eventually, I had to move to
30:25another location, make more
30:27money to be able to come back
30:28and put in resources.
30:30So every now and again, I'll just
30:31come back, try to touch up on
30:33some things.
30:36Whoa.
30:38A lot of work still left to go up
30:40in here.
30:40But something that me was saying,
30:44for my mom's sake and everything
30:46that she did, I need to finish the house.
30:52Even though it was impossible
30:55to finish the house.
31:00Every time I come back here,
31:02I got memories of my life,
31:04my mom's, my stepdad,
31:06all my people right there.
31:09My neighbor, next door, she's gone.
31:12Everybody is gone.
31:14It's depressing to come here
31:16and look around and know that
31:17none of these people who know me,
31:18that know my story,
31:20they are no longer here.
31:22It's like pictures flashing,
31:25videos flashing of what it used to be,
31:28but it's no longer.
31:35So when I finally felt like
31:38I did all I could do,
31:39now maybe,
31:42I felt like
31:44my mom's
31:45spirit was all around me
31:47saying,
31:48it's time to go, man.
31:50You can go.
31:51It's okay.
31:52Don't worry about it.
31:53And I love you.
32:07Hurricane Katrina laid bare
32:09the massive failures
32:10of the Corps of Engineers
32:11hurricane protection system
32:13of levees and flood walls.
32:16Congress gave the Corps
32:17$14.6 billion to make it right.
32:24All of this was done after Katrina.
32:27If you look at this,
32:28you can see the construction
32:30of it is different.
32:31It's more stable.
32:33It goes down deeper.
32:35And it's fortified much better
32:37to take stress
32:38from rising water or wind.
32:43Since Katrina,
32:45the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
32:46repaired the levees,
32:48many of the repairs
32:49are quite robust.
32:51However,
32:52the Corps of Engineers
32:53themselves recently admitted
32:55that when they determined
32:57the heights,
32:58they didn't take into account
33:00global warming.
33:03No sooner did the Corps
33:04of Engineers finish
33:05the last piece
33:06of that upgrade project
33:07than it posted a notice
33:09in the Federal Register
33:10saying subsidence
33:11and sea level rise
33:12will cause levees
33:13to require future lifts.
33:15within 70-odd years,
33:18within 70-odd years,
33:19the water level
33:20around New Orleans
33:22is going to be
33:23four feet higher
33:25than at present.
33:28In addition,
33:29many of the wetlands
33:30are gone.
33:31There's no friction.
33:32That water can move much further
33:34and get much higher.
33:38as it relates to climate change.
33:42Communities of color
33:43are the ones
33:44who are impacted
33:45the first and the worst.
33:48Many folks
33:49that live in
33:50and among these communities
33:51do not have the resources
33:54that others have,
33:56and so
33:57they are
33:58at a higher risk
34:00for what's going to happen
34:02in the future.
34:03Tonight,
34:03Maria's direct hit
34:04devastating Puerto Rico.
34:06Unfortunately,
34:07it's not going to get any better.
34:09Sweeping devastation
34:11in La Haina.
34:12It's just going to get worse.
34:13The deadliest
34:14and most devastating storm
34:16in North Carolina history.
34:35This is home.
34:37I've been here all my life.
34:41But what really gets me,
34:44the lower night ward,
34:46really the hardest hit area
34:49is forgotten.
34:53An entire ward of this city,
34:56the ninth ward,
34:57appears to be
34:58up to its rooftops in water.
35:01I told you earlier today,
35:02I didn't think this.
35:03It turned out to be Armageddon.
35:05I was wrong.
35:06The environmental injustice
35:10that is happening
35:12in our community
35:13is man-made.
35:22But that man also
35:23could be man-solved.
35:36I can remember
35:37as a little boy,
35:38we used to go back there
35:40into the swamp.
35:42It was our wonderland,
35:43our playground.
35:56It started out small
35:59and it grew.
36:13It's a little bit
36:15like it was before.
36:21They're planting cypress trees.
36:24There's an outdoor classroom.
36:26There's an outdoor classroom.
36:30You can fish.
36:33I'm an ambassador to the park.
36:36I welcome people.
36:37I tell them as much
36:40as I can about
36:41when I was growing up
36:42in that same area
36:43and what we're trying to do.
36:47because it's here
36:48is something that
36:49we are doing for ourselves.
36:53To start over.
36:56A new beginning.
37:00When Katrina hit
37:03and it took so many
37:05of our elders,
37:06it was like
37:07losing so much
37:09of our history.
37:12They celebrated together.
37:16They praised
37:17the Lord together.
37:21It was a true community.
37:26A lot of people
37:27couldn't come back.
37:28A lot of people
37:29didn't come back.
37:30It's heartbreaking
37:31because New Orleans
37:32lost a whole,
37:35maybe two generations
37:37of people.
37:39And that took away
37:41a lot of the culture
37:44that sits in this area.
37:52And so I wanted
37:54to come back
37:55into the community
37:56and do what I had to do.
38:00And I was not going to stop
38:02until I got back
38:03to where I intended
38:05to be back in 2005.
38:11Every penny I have made
38:15since Katrina
38:16has gone into me
38:18getting back
38:18into my salon
38:19and my property.
38:23It's mine.
38:24And like I told
38:26the people
38:27that wrote home,
38:28you will have to prime
38:29out of my wrinkled up
38:31little brown hands
38:33to get it.
38:37there's been a lot of changes
38:39in New Orleans since Katrina.
38:46You would enter by steps here
38:49and you would come
38:50into the living room.
38:52The living room
38:52ran the width of the lot.
38:56and the kitchen
38:57would have been
38:58right up in here.
39:02This is where mom
39:03did all of her famous cooking.
39:05You know,
39:06I'm a New Orleans boy.
39:11There's a certain energy
39:12that comes out
39:13of that land.
39:15That house
39:16was an extension
39:17of me.
39:19And the most difficult
39:21thing was to
39:22demolish the house.
39:26I felt like
39:27I was taking
39:28a piece of me away.
39:33I really
39:35came back here
39:36because I
39:37couldn't stay away.
39:38I wanted to be home.
39:40But now
39:41it's the new
39:41New Orleans.
39:43It's totally different.
39:45You know,
39:46it's like
39:46the roots are here
39:48but the tree
39:49has been stubbed.
39:51We still have
39:53our culture
39:54and that's a good thing.
39:59A lot of my friends,
40:01they kept
40:02the masking
40:03and Mardi Gras
40:04going after Katrina.
40:07See,
40:07I talked to my dad.
40:08He said,
40:09son,
40:09don't you worry.
40:11That was their life.
40:12You know,
40:13and it was my life too.
40:14He said,
40:15Mardi Gras
40:15morning,
40:16go tell your story.
40:17I'm in a tribe
40:18that my father started.
40:20The Flaming Arrows.
40:22We are
40:22the Flaming Arrows.
40:23My dad,
40:24he was the Indian chief.
40:25My mom
40:26was a seamstress.
40:28We're really not
40:29Mardi Gras Indians.
40:32The correct name
40:33is just
40:33Black Mask
40:34and Indians.
40:37On Carnival Morning,
40:39we wear these suits
40:40and pay homage
40:41to the real
40:42Native Indians
40:43who helped
40:44our people.
40:49So it's a family thing
40:51passed down
40:52through generations.
40:57It's my last time
40:58putting on a suit,
40:59but I have grandchildren
41:00and I'm going to keep
41:01the tradition going.
41:04We got to pass
41:05the torch down.
41:10One of my cousins
41:12who I'm turning
41:13my tribe over to,
41:14he was like,
41:15well,
41:16you know,
41:17we need you
41:18to come back home
41:18because we can't
41:20let you go out
41:20like that.
41:43I still take New Orleans
41:44with me wherever I go,
41:47but before Katrina,
41:48I would have never thought
41:49that I would have
41:49left New Orleans.
41:51You know,
41:51I just thought
41:52that I was going
41:52to be a New Orleanian
41:53like all my life.
42:00I mean,
42:01I love New Orleans,
42:03but it's not
42:03the same New Orleans.
42:0620 years later,
42:08it's totally different.
42:11The talk is different,
42:13the walk is different,
42:15the neighborhoods
42:16that we grew up in
42:17with our families,
42:18it's totally different.
42:22Katrina took a lot,
42:24but it didn't take
42:26my pride,
42:28my dignity,
42:30or my culture.
42:33That's one thing
42:34I can say
42:35about New Orleans.
42:36This is some
42:36surviving people.
42:39We are the canaries
42:41in this coal mine
42:42called America.
42:44The horrors
42:44that people
42:45went through
42:46after Katrina
42:47didn't have to happen.
42:49There's no way
42:50you could justify
42:51to me
42:51why Hurricane Katrina
42:54turned from a disaster
42:57to a tragedy.
43:00I guess the bottom line
43:01shows how much
43:04we care then
43:05for the most vulnerable
43:07and how much
43:08we care right now.
43:12would make America
43:13great
43:14is our ability
43:16to reach out
43:16and help others
43:17in time of need.
43:21But that's where
43:22the lesson is learned.
43:25It's upon us.
43:27It's upon us
43:28to wake up.
43:29and we'll be right back.
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