Disaster and Recovery:
A Year in the Life of New Orleans

AUGUST 2006: The Great Flood commemoration and memorial service in the lower 9th ward, with jazz trumpeter Marlon Jordan; Scenes of people returning to the lower 9th ward and the area around the industrial canal levee wall that breached a year ago causing the flooding of the lower 9th ward; Brian Williams of the NBC Nightly News visits the areas that are still desolated and destroyed; areas around Lake Pontchartrain that re still ruined.
August 29, 2006.