Fewer homeless in New Orleans than after Katrina?

“I’d thought I’d seen bad things, but seeing so many people just so torn up their entire lives, it hit me that what I could do best was cook around the clock”, Besh told ABC News. Johnson said when the helicopter came down to rescue them, the propeller winds were so strong that a bag she packed with some of her clothing and other possessions fell into the water. “It’s just very hard”.

This month marks the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Smith said he received thousands of emails from annoyed Fox viewers and expects to get more with the story being revisited. “It became real when we saw the newspapers”.

“The world is a hell of a lot more complex than it used to be”, says Thad Allen, the now-retired U.S. Coast Guard admiral who stepped in when FEMA Director Michael Brown was ousted shortly after Katrina hit. “Some people were passing right there”, said Johnson.

Hurricane Katrina was a defining event for so many. That’s what we did.

“We’re still standing”, said Jannis Moody, a young African-American woman enjoying one of the city’s many free outdoor concerts, this one featuring the Grammy award-winning Rebirth Brass Band. Ten years after Katrina, New Orleans remains a work in progress, aiming to reverse historic racial and economic injustices. She’s from Move Christian, too. I want to thank and recognize all the people who came together and demonstrated tremendous courage and compassion. “I really feel good about myself”.

MSNBC’s Trymaine Lee will be reporting live from New Orleans beginning on Thursday, August 26. Her mother and sister were safe, although storm damage displaced them for a year. The funneling effect was the main cause of levee failures to the east of New Orleans.

A recent count found about 1,703 chronically homeless people in New Orleans and the neighboring metropolitan area of Jefferson Parish, according to UNITY of Greater New Orleans, a collaboration of homeless agencies.

Al Jazeera America on Sunday night (10 p.m. ET) airs a new original documentary, Only New Orleans (pictured), by filmmaker Vassili Silovic, exploring the role of music in New Orleans and how the city used its roots in jazz, R&B, rock “n” roll, soul, funk, reggae and hip-hop to re-build spirits after Hurricane Katrina. Anderson Cooper reports “Katrina: The Storm That Never Stopped” at 9 p.m. Tuesday on CNN.

-CBS News said it will report on the anniversary throughout its various broadcast and digital platforms, but didn’t offer specifics. “We’re not celebrating what happened 10 years ago, but celebrating spirit, celebrating the strength of people that are still and what we have done”.