I’m here with my baby; nobody’s coming.” And the wonderful firefighters, boat rescue, everything—we’d hear it, and everybody would head for it. In it you can choose one of four crises that Bush experienced in his time as president: Saddam Hussein, the Iraq War troop surge, the financial crisis …. It’s the way God wants it to be. Archival (John Burnett): Let me clarify for the secretary and for everyone else what myself and [audio loss] Hawk just drove away from three blocks from here in the Ernest Morial Convention Center. So I got the jacket. Newkirk II: We gave her some headphones and sat there while she listened. Due to COVID-19 there are currently no events scheduled. Johnson: So late that evening when we said, “Okay that’s all we can do for the day,” when we come out, the guy said, “Hey, man. Would become a part of the narrative that New Orleans somehow brought this on itself. The apology from me would be, “We made mistakes. Passing down memories. But the people left behind were going to need somewhere to go. I hope none of our friends. Tidmouth Sheds are the main engine sheds of the North Western Railwaylocated at Tidmouth. Lots of people don’t really like talking about the day the levees broke, and I get that. Newkirk II: It all might sound conspiratorial. He’s a forensic scientist for disasters. I don’t know. He never wrote back. Lots of people were gone. Across the city, all of the defiance in the face of the storm settled into a kind of tension. Yeah. Two days later, there was another tragedy on the Danziger Bridge. Some had evacuated, and they weren’t coming back. Our doctors are experts in cardiovascular disease and ensure a whole-person treatment plan tailor-made for you. I remember, and she turned to me, and I just cried. Alice Craft-Kearney was trapped there. Everything’s different. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at online@wellstar.org. Even the enslaved people had to take the holy day off. I think you’re right on that one. And I definitely wanted to get back to my home. Johnson: Everything. And I look up, and I see Miss Melville. ], Archival (Nagin): I gotta go. Le-Ann and her cousins stopped for a minute and had some ice cream. Newkirk II: Back in that week after Katrina, Mayor Ray Nagin was on the radio with Garland Robinette. I’m telling you, if I win the lottery, I’m buying the whole block. 1 rule in the Army: Fill up every time you can. We both know racist people. Growing up in the Bahamas, he played soccer and tuba until he moved to San Diego in seventh grade to get a free education and pursue a basketball career. New Orleans was his responsibility now. She was gonna have to start over again. Le-Ann Williams: We didn’t have any transportation. Newkirk II: Le-Ann Williams and her family didn’t really have a way out of the city. They could describe my house. This is rumors. Newkirk II: Has anybody ever apologized to you? The first time he experienced any kind of real racial integration in his life was when he joined the ROTC. Was it poor planning, or was it by design? “Honestly, it wasn’t the level of care – especially in terms of empathy – that I was used to,” he admitted. There are good things now. It was water everywhere. It’s, it’s—“Don’t do this. And who would get to come back? Just felt alone again. The lines of the staff, from bottom to top, are G, B, D, F, A, and the spaces are A, C, E, G (the saying is “All Cows Eat Grass”). You know what? So if you push us out, what’s gonna be left? These aren’t rumors. Like him, like talking directly to me, saying that he’s sorry. Michael Brown wasn’t gonna take all the blame for Katrina. So Michael became FEMA’s general counsel. general response to Haley Barbour and to Bob Riley is they did a fantastic job. We’re debating how should we rebuild one of the greatest cultural cities the world has ever seen. Archival (footage): The city’s resources are overwhelmed, the police cannot cope with the crisis, and Americans are facing lawlessness and chaos. And I asked to speak to him. It’s right before dark. We were rendering first aid to people who were in need of medical attention. I got—I’m with you. In this scenario, the main “decision” the audience is supposed to make is whether to send in federal troops with law-enforcement power. USED UP Lines based on certain regrets that come with rumination upon the painted faces of women on North Clark Street, Chicago Roses, Red roses, Crushed In the rain and wind Like mouths of women Beaten by the fists of Men using them. It’s … It was just, it was something. DeBerry: It just took that little bit of deprivation for people to see people who live in this city as enemies. Brown: And I know these microphones are still. And it started raining. Please confirm accuracy before quoting. They ain’t corroborating shit. When Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005, I chose to send in federal troops without law-enforcement authority. It was cleaved by the hurricane, broken into pieces … and then slowly reclaimed by the salt and the waves. Newkirk II: They went back to the newspaper office, but soon that was flooding, too. But I was so afraid of being involved in a cover-up. Only a few stores and restaurants returned. Bar rooms and grocery stores on the corner. They made fun of my braids, because we, that’s how we wear our hair in New Orleans. Maybe it remembers as the levees sink a little more. The updated, mobile-friendly online presence will help you find critical resources in just a few taps. If you’re driving toward the river, you can see it on the horizon. Because he was just, when he first came on like, “What am I saying I’m sorry for?” Like, “Vann, [make] me understand what I’m saying I’m sorry for—then that mean, I’m admitting that I did something wrong.” So you don’t feel like you did nothing wrong? He talked about some of it, and we kind of wanted to let you listen to it and see what you made of it. Over 44 different states. I am saddened by the damage and the suffering that I have seen. If I was saying the Earth was flat. Yeah. Archival (congressional hearing): Would both of you raise your right hand. They got a storm coming, and they calling for an evacuation.” And I’m like, “Oh, shit. Before Katrina, Alice had been a nurse at Charity Hospital for almost 20 years. It was really hard. Archival (news clip): And we’re learning more about a shooting on a New Orleans bridge. Those levees weren’t deep enough. But it felt like home didn’t want her anymore. “Tell Dad I’m here.” It was great. But Le-Ann’s family managed to find a two-bedroom house to rent on Marigny Street, not too far from the French Quarter. Newkirk II: Alice wasn’t the only person hitting weird roadblocks. No president had done that since his father did—during the L.A. riots in 1992. That’d be the best way to describe it. Finding fuel for airplanes. Some weren’t properly connected to others. It’s: Can you run as fast as and long as the Army wanted you to? Archival (news clip): This is the center of one of the great centers of America, New Orleans. When we asked the question “Where are we going?,” we were told, “We don’t know.” Which I found was strange because, I’m not a pilot, but I know you have to file a flight plan. So as you get closer to Galvez and Miro, the water was getting deeper and deeper and deeper. He very specifically has said, literally, he does not want this to look like Iraq. Newkirk II: She hadn’t lost anything. It’s a combination. I mean, I knew that was completely unprecedented. That New Orleans shouldn’t be rebuilt. The rain and winds got stronger and stronger all night. They didn’t want to fix anything. Katrina happened during a weird technological moment. Can we take a break? All us. I know.” But I didn’t want to focus on that. It all became a feedback loop. Newkirk II: Yeah. Sometimes I irritate people with the questions I ask, including my husband. We want to make sure that you get the information and resources you need as quickly as possible. “The decision to move to Georgia was difficult because of my heart conditions,” John shared. Newkirk II: Some of the comments weren’t just mean; they were scary. Why they weren’t doing that? See—when I saw that Welcome to New Orleans sign, I’m like, I’m home. After Katrina, it was basically an island in the darkness. LSU told him he wasn’t qualified to be commenting on engineering mistakes and said the university shouldn’t be “pointing blame.” But he kept talking. Optics are kind of a big thing for Honoré. My ma registered me in Magee High. I said, “No shit, you used the wrong word.”, So I call back down to the governor’s office and say, “Hey, tell the governor, ‘Don’t tell the troops to shoot to kill. Archival (documentary): But sometimes, the giant gets out of control. Archival (news clip): You think it’s okay to take that? Lakebound. Archival (Lyndon B. Johnson): I have just completed an extensive tour of New Orleans and the surrounding area. Newkirk II: It almost didn’t matter what was true or not. Passing down wealth through homes. Because by the time I could get to them, there were 40 different colors. Houses were flooded. And he turned to the guy standing next to him, FEMA chief Michael Brown. Rogers: I worked on the Interstate 880 Cypress [Street] collapse in Oakland in 1989. Magee, Mississippi, is something like the exact opposite of New Orleans. In the Lower Ninth, it was especially bad. The city was still rebuilding. Fonso seemed distracted. They need a female player. Newkirk II: Le-Ann’s aunt heard that somebody was going to send buses to come pick everyone up. It meant that most of the city was going underwater. Honoré: And when I asked the mayor what’s the priority, he said, “General, we got to evacuate the city.” So we had that meeting. Newkirk II: New Orleans was built by levees and pumps, by holding and moving water to create dry land. In his book, Decision Points, the president does go a bit further than the exhibit does. Newkirk II: In the days after he first landed at the Superdome, the rumors and misinformation had done their work. No. It’s getting increasingly chaotic in New Orleans. Williams: I just remember it being hot, smelly. The last school year, she had worked hard to get good grades, and she had just gotten into a fancy high school. Newkirk II: Yeah, I’d seen, I knew people who were racist like my whole life. Every year, he and the Black Men of Labor threw their parade on the Sunday before Labor Day. I’m Bob Schieffer. Newkirk II: On Friday, not long before police killed a man outside the convention center, Le-Ann Williams was inside. She had a job at Sbarro. Newkirk II: That’s Mark Schleifstein, an environmental reporter in New Orleans. But they don’t often say who paid the price. And I just remember us, we started walking up Convention Center Boulevard. I felt like, You talk a good game about “Oh, we love our people. And it is not simply a natural disaster tonight. That’s—we didn’t know what to make of it. Rosenthal: I was 48 years old at that point. Newkirk II: A barge did hit the Industrial Canal levee. She decided to start a clinic to help people trying to come back to the Lower Ninth Ward. And I get emotional about it because when you’re portrayed, if you—I had dinner with a friend last night. He thinks an Army general should look the part, and he still does. They showing us not nobody. But going into the 10th anniversary, Sandy was still worried that New Orleans was getting blamed for the levee breaches. I mean, you’re opening the kimono up to the world and saying, “You know what? Newkirk II: It was hard, but eventually, she realized things weren’t going to get better. News, news, news, news, news. So, you know, still to this day, I don’t know how they felt as parent. Williams: Me and my girls, we come sit up here with the kids, and they run around, and we get some seafood and some daiquiris! Each with their Richards. Newkirk II: It was hard to ignore the pattern. Here we are and here it is. The lights were out. I got one of them. At other points in the call, he was on the brink of tears. Brown: Yeah, but stop blaming me. We collaborate with experts in other medical specialties to provide you with exceptional care that addresses your individual needs. Let’s take a look at the storm right now. She came back and was forced to grow up. Williams: Oh my God. Nothing was certain, really. She’ll tell you what she will say. And his mom hollered for him to get the phone. Alone in my city. Some of the first public housing for black folks in the country. Ice cream! She had numbers. It came and went several times before he ended up behind the wheel of his car. [. What do I tell the president to tell them to do? But it seemed like it was harder for him to talk about responsibility beyond that. What I do know is his name: Richard. We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way.