Marking Katrina commemoration, Wal-Mart makes $25M commitment to disaster

ESPN’s Outside the Lines will feature Hurricane Katrina-related content on Friday, August 28.

A relic of the 812 Medical Company, the copter is among the artifacts contributing to the Louisiana National Guard’s exhibit marking Katrina’s 10 anniversary.

As the water receded and families and picked up the pieces, the one thing that many say helped keep them hopeful about the future was music. It also created heavy rainfall and flooding in Kentucky, Ohio and north into Quebec, Canada.

The massive storm battered the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, destroying many towns and communities, and causing the deaths of 1,833 people. Al Roker and Stephanie Abrams will anchor Wake Up With Al live from New Orleans while Cantore returns to Gulfport, MS – where he covered Katrina in 2005 for live reports throughout AMHQ.

Holden’s comment seemed to reflect an initial trepidation about the influx of new people into the city, but he later took it back.

Over the past decade, New Orleans has shifted its focus to an overall prevention and wellness approach to healthcare across the board.

29 at the Power of Community Gathering in the Smoothie King Center, the largest of the many observances surrounding the anniversary of Katrina, which killed nearly 2,000 people.

Like much of Jackson Barracks, its museum was completely rebuilt and is now part of a modern complex just north of St. Claude Avenue. ESPN.com’s coverage launches on Monday and will look at Katrina through the lens of sports, including the Saints’ first game back in the Superdome. “So, she’s as important as you can get”.

Despite the more complex nature of crime in the parish, the murder rate has dropped fairly steadily, from some 92 parishwide killings in 2007 to 80 in 2010 to 63 past year.

This was the start to repairing the healthcare industry so that the current and future patient care needs could be met. It was an opportunity to recruit and train talent who were interested in making New Orleans even better and healthier than before. “It’s come back stronger in so many ways”, he said. Faith-based groups, who volunteered across the region and came year-after-year to rebuild the Gulf Coast brought, also shored up a belief in the future. Others I located online but they didn’t reply, perhaps as they didn’t want to talk about a hard period in their lives.

We watched a boat pull up to a almost submerged house where an elderly man needed help getting out through his window. Back when Katrina hit, Trymaine was a new reporter with The Times-Picayune who chose to not evacuate, but to stay and cover the storm. “And that’s what the past 10 years have been about”, Landrieu said.