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Aug. 24, 2006
A year after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, residents find that despite promises of aid from local, state and federal governments, the city still lacks adequate medical care and other basic services.
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Aug. 21, 2006
Recent controversial reports said five elderly and terminally ill patients who were abandoned and proclaimed dead in a New Orleans hospital immediately after Hurricane Katrina were euthanized by the hospital staff.
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July 27, 2006
More than 75 percent of public housing in New Orleans is unfit for human habitation after Hurricane Katrina. Rebuilding plans for these homes are underway but will take time, even though residents are ready now to return home.
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June 26, 2006
The National Guard has been called to New Orleans to contain a surging crime problem as the city fights to rebuild its justice system.
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June 20, 2006
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Monday she would send National Guard troops to New Orleans following a weekend of violence that left six people dead.
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June 12, 2006
In the first month of a new hurricane season, the Army Corps of Engineers has completed almost $800 million in repairs to the New Orleans levee system, repairs some say still leave the battered city vulnerable.
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June 7, 2006
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused more than 400,000 people to flee New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast region, according to Census Bureau figures released Wednesday.
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June 2, 2006
John Merrow has been reporting on the efforts of New Orleans schools to remain open in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, which destroyed much of the infrastructure of the school systems in the Gulf Coast.
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May 25, 2006
The state of Louisiana is considering new ways to fund New Orleans' public defender system, which even before Katrina was criticized as one of the worst in the country. And the U.S. Justice Department has also promised funds.
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May 24, 2006
New Orleans officials enacted an updated plan Tuesday, under which an evacuation will be ordered up to 36 hours before a Category 3 or stronger hurricane hits the city. Local emergency responders used the test to prepare for the upcoming hurricane season.
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May 18, 2006
New Orleans voters head to the polls Saturday to choose between incumbent Mayor Ray Nagin and Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu in a race that will determine the future leadership of a changing city still recovering from the damage of Hurricane Katrina.
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May 17, 2006
Residents of Moss Point, Miss. have just a small clinic to cater to their medical needs after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the area last year.
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May 12, 2006
Born in Gulfport, Miss., poet Natasha Trethewey recently returned to the coast of Mississippi to witness the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the landmarks she elegized in her book "Native Guard."
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May 9, 2006
Nine months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed homes in Mississippi and Louisiana, real estate agents and residents of the area are having big problems obtaining homeowners insurance.
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April 27, 2006
The Senators who investigated the administration's performance during last year's Hurricane Katrina recommended the government dismantle the Federal Emergency Management Agency and create a new, stronger agency in its place.
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April 19, 2006
New Orleans churches are struggling to rebuild themselves and their communities after Hurricane Katrina. Ray Suarez reports on religious rebuilding.
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April 17, 2006
The 169-year-old New Orleans Times-Picayune has found itself tested by Hurricane Katrina in unprecedented ways. A report on the newspaper's changing role after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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April 13, 2006
Government officials released an analysis of flood risk in New Orleans and four nearby parishes Thursday -- the first such assessment since the 1980s -- and offered guidelines for rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina.
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April 11, 2006
As post-Katrina New Orleans prepares for its mayoral election, candidates are contending with the city's changing demographics and officials are making sure evacuees can fill out absentee ballots.
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April 10, 2006
A report on poetry in New Orleans, where one night a week, in one small corner of the French Quarter, local poets tell stories of Hurricane Katrina.
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April 7, 2006
A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimate predicts an additional $6 billion will be needed to make the levees in Louisiana strong enough to meet the standards of the federal flood insurance program.
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April 6, 2006
An education unit special report from Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, about a school that hopes to revitalize a town devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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April 4, 2006
Even before Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana was losing miles of wetlands every year due to its systems of levees and canals. Now, the Army Corps of Engineers has asked the people of New Orleans to comment on a plan that includes restoration of some of the region's wetlands.
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March 29, 2006
Some teenagers chose to spend their spring break helping gut homes in Biloxi, Miss., that were severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
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March 27, 2006
The 169-year-old New Orleans Times-Picayune has found itself tested by Hurricane Katrina in unprecedented ways. A report on the newspaper's changing role after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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March 21, 2006
Nearly seven months after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, 1,400 people are still missing. A report from Baton Rouge traces the continuing search for lost loved ones and the efforts to identify the dead bodies.
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March 20, 2006
Private grants and state funding have allowed the Mississippi Gulf Coast town of Pass Christian to recreate itself. NewsHour correspondent Tom Bearden reports on a town in search of a new image after Hurricane Katrina.
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March 9, 2006
NewsHour correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports on specially trained dogs that search for those still missing in New Orleans.
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March 8, 2006
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, Domino Sugar reopened its facilities after setting up temporary trailer parks to house its workers and their families.
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March 8, 2006
Six months after Hurricane Katrina hit, President Bush made his 10th trip to the Gulf Cost to see how communities were rebuilding.