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00:00The 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 how 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 to 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.
00:55And I seen, like, a group of National Guards members, like, they were sitting, like, on the backside by the ramp, 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.
01:10We 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.
01:22As a matter of fact, it just was the most beautiful sight I ever seen.
01:25My 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.
01:41As we pass by the convention center, I'm looking, I'm seeing all these people just, they don't know what's about to 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 truck.
02:04I'm holding on to my crucifix.
02:07I'm praying, I'm asking God to get us through it.
02:11This 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.
02:37More than 100 buses evacuated thousands of people from the hell hole that was once the Louisiana Superdome.
02:46And more will be brought out tonight.
02:48After a successful bus evacuation of the Superdome, the National Guard organized the people in front of the convention center, got them on buses, and we sent them to the airport.
03:03Buses are loading up on top two of the street.
03:05When 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.
03:18I 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.
03:51So we took our mother, who was in a wheelchair, and the rest of the family, and 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.
04:17At 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, which 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.
04:50They had guns.
04:53The first airplanes are getting loaded.
04:55Everything seemed to be going well.
04:56But then one of the senior pilots on the ground flying a civilian airplane said, well, we can't take off.
05:05We 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.
05:16The people have been sitting here for hours because we don't have a manifest.
05:19I said, well, let me talk to him.
05:22So I talked to him on the phone and said, look, a lot of these people out here even have identification.
05:27There's no computers out here.
05:29We can't create no manifest.
05:30I said, we can give you a yellow piece of paper.
05:33And 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.
05:42We asked, where were we going to go?
05:48Where is this plane going to land?
05:50We don't know.
05:53I 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.
06:41Help us on the way.
06:43Help us on the way.
06:45We've witnessed all day airlifting evacuees to the Louis Armstrong International Airport.
06:50Buses also arriving to take people out of the once great city.
06:54I 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
07:06refugees you can imagine, has been emptied.
07:09God bless the United States Army.
07:11God bless the United States military.
07:13They 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?
07:27Do I have freedom of movement?
07:30I thought I was still living in America.
07:32So, 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
08:06refugees.
08:07Dallas schools are opening their doors to storm refugee kids.
08:12And Dallas is delivering truckloads of donations to refugees.
08:15How can you be a refugee in your own country?
08:19It 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 a 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've got family members scattered all around.
08:49Where they scattered at, we don't know.
08:51With approximately a million refugees, 30 states in all are accepting evacuees in this country's
09:00largest migration in 70 years.
09:03These were internally displaced people.
09:07This 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.
09:18I had never even heard Austin, Texas in my life.
09:25But Austin, they showed us love up there.
09:32But I didn't know where my life was headed from there.
09:35I currently live in Memphis, Tennessee.
09:41However, 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.
09:52But now I'm in Georgia.
09:53I was born and raised there.
09:55About a month after leaving the Superdome, once the water receded, I was able to come back
10:13to check on a house in St. Bernard Parish.
10:19You can see the devastation.
10:25Coming 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.
10:52It was just, oh my God, I could not believe.
10:56I was like, this is never going to be back right.
11:03The graveyard, it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
11:07We have above-ground tombs, but the water saturated the earth, and it made a lot of the graves come up.
11:21We 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 graved, and it's right on top of my people's graves.
11:37Look all around.
11:39This, this, this not cool, man.
11:42Don't think anybody after they buried their people, they want to see graves like this, man.
11:49I wasn't ready for this.
11:50It'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.
12:13Mud was still inside the home.
12:16It was just a muddy mess.
12:19All of my belongings were ruined.
12:21All of my pictures.
12:23Everything.
12:26I had mold that was like going up to the ceiling, almost.
12:31Birth certificates, pictures.
12:35Everything was gone.
12:36When you come back to something that has been your dream, and you realize that it has been destroyed,
12:52it was like, what do I do?
12:58Nothing.
13:07Man, 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.
13:20Look at my crib.
13:23Man, this don't even feel like home, man.
13:26Hey, girl. Hey, cinema. Hey. Hey, girl. Hey, she ain't missy. She ain't missy.
13:37I was a thousand. She was in the... She was in this fucking thousand.
13:53Look at that, you know? Look at my shit, man. My face green. This devastation. Martin Luther King. I got some of my old letters from the military. My military books up there, man.
14:20We got to step over stuff, walk through stuff. Get to stuff. I can't really get in here. There's so much mud and thick stuff up in here, man. It's gonna be enough. But this house is damn gutted out.
14:38I got thick tomatoes. I can't get to nothing. I really can't find what I'm looking for. But honestly, I guess whatever I got out of the deal, I guess it'll be all right, but...
14:56I had to leave like this, man. This shit is so fucked up. Everything you ever worked for, man. Again on your own. And even if you haven't had so fucking much, man, this was yours. You know?
15:20I just leave you confused what are we gonna do how are we gonna fix this and
15:40it just seemed like it was unfixable at the time
15:44Louisiana today officially ended the search for bodies of people killed by
15:52Hurricane Katrina the death toll in the state now stands at nine hundred and
15:57sixty-four because of the heat and the lack of communication and absence of
16:04medicine a lot of the people we found in home did were elderly poor and disabled
16:11and they were alone
16:27my brother the one that when we went walking in the water kicked the stop sign and
16:32put a big hole in his leg he died from an infection and my niece that was walking
16:39with us she had a she had lupus already but then she couldn't take her medicine
16:45so she developed meningitis and it moved up to her brains so she couldn't talk all
16:52she could do is lay that with her eyes open and so you know that was one of the
16:59reasons why I didn't want to come back to New Orleans because I didn't want to have
17:04to like relive that again
17:10from the air today we saw miles of once flooded houses as many as two hundred and
17:15fifty thousand homes may be uninhabitable
17:18in New Orleans there was anger and frustration today when a sweeping new
17:22blueprint to rebuild the city was unveiled
17:25anyone who lives in a neighborhood highlighted here in yellow most of the
17:28city could be forced to move the plan calls for new parks in green that would
17:33help control flooding residents would be resettled in areas circled in red
17:37this was a plan that somebody come up with to turn different areas into into
17:45green spaces for people that would also be able to capture water during storms a
17:51great great idea except that people actually live there when it came up the
18:00plan about the new New Orleans it angered me because many of the areas where the
18:06people at the bottom of social economic scale and people who did not have a voice
18:11were being discounted immediately we need to identify and begin assembling
18:18properties that can become part of the system the lower night ward it was supposed
18:23to be a green space are you gonna make us green space out of my property when the
18:29map came out the first thing that came to my mind was hell no it was held no
18:36because it goes back to the legacy that that house that I live in provided I'm not
18:42giving up this man's property and even and I'm referring to my grandfather some
18:46worry that the black wards of the city are being intentionally neglected and may
18:51even be bulldozed leaving residents displaced and disenfranchised it did not
18:58go over well with me it didn't go well with most of the citizens who wanted to
19:04come back and rebuild their homes in their life and that's when I think folks
19:11started to think about how can we organize and fight back any area of the city of
19:18New Orleans that is sparsely populated they are going to want to use the eminent
19:24domain to take over the properties we have a resident on the phone whoever didn't hear we
19:29have a resident on the phone right now she's watching them at gavis and renee broad dozing a home
19:36give me the city attorney's number we will move the people just get your
19:42doze and stop ain't no danger as long as they stop these are people's home
19:47they're leaving all right yes now you got a whole bunch of mad citizens that's in the city
19:55and gonna get a whole lot mad so mad they were screaming today at the commission that came up
20:01with the rebuilding plan this is a big audacious plan it was put together by obviously very brilliant
20:09people but guess what you missed the boat in fairness to them there were some areas that you
20:16knew because of the elevation and because of the amount of flooding that it may have taken on during
20:21the storm it may have not made sense to to rebuild there but everything is personal in New Orleans for
20:28people that grew up here their neighborhood is everything the high school where they went to is
20:33everything so if the mayor says if the city says this part isn't going to come back we're going to make
20:38this green space like it's going to cut you deep i hate you because you've been in the background
20:44trying to scheme and get our land it's been happening that's not happening we know that they have
20:51wildfires in california they have tornadoes in the middle of america they have flooding in florida but
20:59they've never told them you can't rebuild i don't think it's right if you try to take our property
21:05because like i said over my dead body i didn't die with katrina bye
21:12the blowback of it was so bad that the mayor basically said not only we're not doing that
21:24we're not going to do anything except what the localities want us to do
21:29we as the community will have the ultimate say and how we move forward
21:36if you don't have the resources how can you put your life back together
21:42the people who live in these more fluent neighborhoods they're up here
21:48so who's going to need the most resources the people who are here or the people who are down here
21:54it shouldn't be about equal it should be about equity
21:56how you survive a disaster is directly proportion to how
22:03well prepared and how well you all before the disaster
22:07the bottom line to that the poor got poor and the rich got richer
22:12when the federal levees broke 10 years ago we in the world gasped at the possibility that in the
22:26blink of an eye new orleans as we know it would be gone but 10 years after katrina we're no longer
22:34recovering we're not rebuilding now we're creating
22:37we're in the midst of a retail and restaurant building boom can you think of any other place
22:44in the world where you can lose a hundred thousand people and gain 600 more restaurants than we had
22:47before katrina i mean come on ladies and gentlemen your city is changing before your eyes
22:55it was a tale of two cities rest of the city was pulling back together
23:06but go ask those in the night ward
23:09ask them who was left behind
23:14in some instances the city was back but it just wasn't back
23:42and work equitably for everyone
23:49louisiana got ten billion dollars in federal money to create and oversee the road home program
23:55it's the largest housing recovery effort in american history
23:59our plan off is a fair and practical solution to return people to their homes and their communities
24:05this is a great victory for louisiana
24:12the road home turned out to be the road to nowhere for a lot of people
24:17the road home was supposed to cover the costs that insurance and other federal aid didn't
24:22people have waited for months for clearance of the money and everything else strangled by all this red tape
24:28every time you went in there applying to the government for road home assistance it seemed like the rules change from week to week
24:35so now you have to expend more time and energy and you're still dealing with the mental effects of hurricane katrina it's overwhelming
24:49the road home had a fatal flaw it awarded grants based on repair costs or pre-storm value whichever was less
24:58in the poorest neighborhoods a home's pre-storm value tended to be less than the cost of repairing or rebuilding it
25:05those neighborhoods were majority black
25:08so folks who lived in lakeview uh predominantly white upper middle class to upper class area that already had the resources to rebuild
25:23they got more money than folks that lived in let's just say the lower ninth ward even though the building materials cost was the same
25:33a two-by-four for my house cost the same as a two-by-four for another person's house so why are you going to give me a different
25:42amount of money it was like they were sabotaging the recovery in areas where black folk lived
25:50everybody wants to come home it's just that we can't come home because the government is trying to keep us away from home
25:56it's gonna cost at least 250 000 to repair my property
26:03i was fully insured but i had just borrowed on the building and when i borrowed on the building it was put for collateral
26:14and when the storm hit and i went back uh the bank took the money they told me
26:21that they weren't giving me anything i got zero from road home homeowners can choose repair rebuild
26:32accept a buyout and relocate within louisiana or sell and leave the state
26:38i started looking at what they were trying to do i'm like you're not getting my property because i am not selling
26:46but some folks just did give up and say i don't want this headache i'll take the buyout
26:55and so what they accomplished with a lot of people was to get them out and away from the city
27:06after like nine and a half years being in austin i went back to new orleans but when i came back it wasn't
27:13no more affordable housing no more houses in the hood you know where you can get a one-bedroom for
27:20three hundred dollars and a two-bedroom for five hundred
27:26back in the day most of the houses was doubles you know family on this side and a family on that side
27:32but after katrina they started making single houses out of double houses like you see here
27:42that's two families that's out of a house
27:46the cost of living became so high i made a decision to leave new orleans
27:52after katrina i knew i couldn't come back home immediately since i had to go and work and make money
28:10my dad been a master carpenter for many years so i just drove all the way to california to work with him
28:19now i just got to see the scenery and travel where god want me to travel
28:24then go back home eventually
28:30i just was thinking about a new beginning because i knew what i had left behind
28:35it was a lot of devastation a lot of pain so
28:39i just had my moments when i'm like you know kind of
28:42like singing an old spiritual hymn you know from like my grandmother and going through the mountains
28:47lord i'm climbing higher mountains
28:50lord i'm climbing higher mountains
28:56trying to get home
28:59so that was kind of like my my whole thing like i just was like i'm i'm just trying to get home and i don't even know where home is just yet
29:04trying to get home and i don't even know where home is just yet
29:07trying to get home
29:10you know i'm climbing higher mountains
29:15i wanna tell you know i am
29:18well the driving force behind me coming back to new orleans was my mom's
29:27my mom my birthday was uh...
29:29November 30th
29:31i made 50 years old and that's a blessing
29:32after the storm we had fema trailers all over the land
29:37and that's another trailer in front of my house
29:39and from that road home program
29:42she did receive some money
29:44my mom bought this trailer
29:47and so with that money
29:50my mom finally bought like a big mobile trailer
29:53to make sure we had a place to stay
29:56but then maybe about
29:58twenty days later my mom's passed away
30:00all i have left is these pictures
30:04i kept remodeling i kept working on that house
30:13almost completely still have somewhere to go
30:18but as the years start going on the grants start going away
30:23eventually i had to move to another location make more money to be able to come back and put in resources
30:28so every now and again i'll just come back
30:31try to touch up on some things
30:34wow
30:36a lot of work still left to go up in here
30:40but um something that me was saying
30:42for my mom's sake and everything that she did
30:46i need to finish the house
30:49even though
30:53it was impossible
30:55to finish the house
30:59every time i come back here
31:00i got memories of my life and my mom's
31:04my stepdad
31:06all my people right there
31:08my neighbor
31:10next door she's gone
31:12everybody is gone
31:14it's depressing to come here and look around
31:16and know that none of these people who know me that know my story
31:18they are no longer here
31:19they are no longer here
31:21it's like pictures flashing
31:24videos flashing
31:26of what it used to be
31:28but it's no longer
31:35so when i finally felt like
31:37i did all i could do
31:39now maybe
31:41i felt like um
31:43my mom's spirit was all around me saying
31:46it's time to go man
31:49you can go
31:50it's okay
31:51don't worry about it
31:53and i love it
32:07hurricane katrina laid bare the massive failures of the corps of engineers hurricane protection system of levees and flood walls
32:15congress gave the corps 14.6 billion dollars to make it right
32:21all of this was done after katrina
32:26if you look at this
32:28you can see the construction of it is different
32:31it's more stable
32:33it goes down deeper
32:35and it's fortified much better to take stress from rising water or wind
32:40since katrina the u.s. army corps of engineers repaired the levees many of the repairs are quite robust
32:51however the corps of engineers themselves recently admitted that when they
32:55determined the heights
32:58they didn't take into account global warming
33:02no sooner did the corps of engineers finish the last piece of that upgrade project
33:07than it posted a notice in the federal register saying subsidence and sea level rise will cause levees to require future lifts
33:15within 70-odd years
33:18the water level around new orleans is going to be four feet higher than at present
33:26in addition
33:29many of the wetlands are gone
33:31there's no friction
33:33that water can move much further and get much higher
33:35as it relates to climate change
33:41communities of color are the ones who are impacted the first and the worst
33:45many folks that live in and among these communities do not have the resources that others have
33:55and so they are at a higher risk for what's going to happen in the future
34:02tonight maria's direct hit devastating puerto rico
34:05unfortunately it's not going to get any better
34:08sweeping devastation in lahaina
34:11it's just going to get worse
34:13the deadliest and most devastating storm in north carolina history
34:35this is home
34:37i've been here all my life
34:38but what really gets me
34:43the lower ninth ward
34:45really the hardest hit area
34:48it's forgotten
34:50an entire ward of this city the ninth ward appears to be up to its rooftops in water
35:00i told you earlier today i didn't think this it turned out to be armageddon
35:04i was wrong
35:05the environmental injustice
35:08the environmental injustice
35:10that is happening in our community
35:13this is man-made
35:15but that means also it could be man-solved
35:21yeah
35:23i can remember as a little boy we used to go back there into the swamp
35:29I can remember as a little boy, we used to go back there into the swamp.
35:42It was our wonderland, our playground.
35:46The park started out small, and it grew.
36:02It's a little bit like it was before.
36:21They're planting cypress trees.
36:24There's an outdoor classroom.
36:29You can fish.
36:32I'm an ambassador to the park.
36:36I welcome people.
36:38I tell them as much as I can about when I was growing up in that same area and what we were trying to do.
36:47Because this is something that we are doing for ourselves.
36:53The start over.
36:56A new beginning.
36:57When Katrina hit and it took so many of our elders, it was like losing so much of our history.
37:09They celebrated together.
37:16They praised the Lord together.
37:19It was a true community.
37:23A lot of people couldn't come back.
37:28A lot of people didn't come back.
37:31It's heartbreaking because New Orleans lost a whole, maybe two generations of people.
37:39And that took away a lot of the culture that sits in this area.
37:44And so I wanted to come back into the community and do what I had to do.
37:58And I was not going to stop until I got back to where I intended to be back in 2005.
38:08Every penny I have made since Katrina has gone into me getting back into my salon and my property.
38:23It's mine.
38:25And like I told the people that wrote home, you will have to prime out of my wrinkled up little brown hands to get it.
38:34There's been a lot of changes in New Orleans since Katrina.
38:46You would enter by steps here and you would come into the living room.
38:52The living room ran the width of the lot.
38:56The kitchen would have been right up in here.
39:00This is where mom did all of her famous cooking.
39:06You know, I'm a New Orleans boy.
39:11There's a certain energy that comes out of that land.
39:15That house was an extension of me.
39:20And the most difficult thing was to demolish the house.
39:24I felt like I was taking a piece of me away.
39:33I really came back here because I couldn't stay away.
39:38I wanted to be home.
39:40But now it's the new New Orleans.
39:43It's totally different.
39:45You know, it's like the roots are here, but the tree's been stubbed.
39:51We still have our culture.
39:55And that's a good thing.
39:56A lot of my friends, they kept them masking in Mardi Gras, going after Katrina.
40:07See, I talked to my dad.
40:08He said, son, don't you worry?
40:11That was their life, you know.
40:13And it was my life, too.
40:14He said, Mardi Gras, I'm on and go tell your story.
40:17I'm in a tribe that my father started, the Flamin' Arrows.
40:22We are the Flamin' Arrows.
40:23My dad, he was an Indian chief.
40:25My mom was a seamstress.
40:28We're really not Mardi Gras Indians.
40:32The correct name is just Black Mask and Indians.
40:37On Carnival Morning, we wear these suits and pay homage to the real Native Indians who helped our people.
40:44So it's a family thing passed down through generations.
40:53It's my last time putting on a suit, but I have grandchildren, and I'm going to keep the tradition going.
41:04We got to pass the torch down.
41:06One of my cousins, who I'm turning my tribe over to, he was like, well, you know, we need you to come back home, because we can't let you go out like that.
41:21I still take New Orleans with me wherever I go, but before Katrina, I would have never thought that I would have ever left New Orleans.
41:50You know, I just thought that I was going to be a New Orleans, like, all my life.
41:54I mean, I love New Orleans, but it's not the same New Orleans.
42:0420 years later, it's totally different.
42:11The talk is different.
42:13The walk is different.
42:15The neighborhoods that we grew up in with our families, it's totally different.
42:20Katrina took a lot, but it didn't take my pride, my dignity, or my culture.
42:31That's one thing I can say about New Orleans.
42:36This is some surviving people.
42:39We are the canaries in this coal mine called America.
42:44The horrors that people went through after Katrina didn't have to happen.
42:48There's no way you could justify to me why Hurricane Katrina turned from a disaster to a tragedy.
42:58I guess the bottom line, it shows how much we cared then for the most vulnerable and how much we care right now.
43:10What would make America great is our ability to reach out and help others in time of need.
43:18But that's where the lesson is learned.
43:25It's upon us.
43:27It's upon us to wake up.
43:48Fall on us.
44:01Wow.
44:02Wow.
44:03Yeah.
44:03Wow.
44:05Yeah, okay.
44:05Yeah.
44:05Yeah.
44:08Oh yeah, my people.

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