Katrina becomes a Category 3 with 115 mph maximum sustained winds. A scene from 2006s 'When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts' (Photo: Everett Collection) This week marks a . And I said [to the president], 'Look, we talked about that option, and then we also talked about another option, that we would federalize, and the governor said she needed time to think about it. [He] came on site, I think it was Monday after the event. We can only deal with what we know.". And when I saw it then, and watching it again now, I think that Trouble the Water is an amazing accomplishment, and something everyone should see about the people who had to live through what we all went through here in New Orleans. Kathleen Blanco, governor of Louisiana: The two of us are going to leave. The skies darkened, and the wind started to pick up. Why haven't the bosses decided to move the people out?' More than 1 million more in the Gulf region were displaced. Visit us at HISTORY.com for more info. "I know more sexual assaults took place. Blanco and said, 'We've got to move National Guard troops in there. I gave the governor two options. Phyllis Montana-Leblanc is a Hurricane Katrina survivor. '", Michael Brown, FEMA director: I said, 'If you guys don't get together and work this out, this is going to get worse.' In his speech, he calls on all federal, state and local agencies to review their performance. The film a raw and gripping investigation of the Katrina response, its tragic consequences and its political ramifications includes candid interviews with key Katrina decision-makers, including the first televised interview with former FEMA Director Michael Brown since his resignation two weeks after Katrina hit. Four were wounded, and 17-year-old James Brisette and 40-year-old Ronald Madison were killed. "Most of the area will be uninhabitable for weeks perhaps longer. Hurricane Katrina created enormous public health and medical challenges, especially in Louisiana and MississippiStates with public health infrastructures that ranked 49th and 50th in the Nation, respectively. Officials said the complete evacuation of New Orleans two days earlier was necessary, citing the prospect of diseases caused by rotting bodies and polluted waters as well as other risks caused by Hurricane Katrina. Over 1,800 people lost their lives in the hurricane and an estimated 1 million people were displaced from their homes. 1) At least 1,800 people died due to Hurricane Katrina. Two national crime-victims' groups have reported a spike in the number of reported rapes that happened to storm evacuees. In the decade since Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) which came under harsh criticism for its response to the storm says it has improved its preparedness for future natural disasters. Judy Benitez is executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, a statewide coalition of rape crisis centers. Watch it: For a powerful story of resilience and determination in the face of tragedy. Walter Maestri, Jefferson Parish emergency manager: Richard Falkenrath, Homeland Security Adviser (2001-2004): In Fight Against ISIS, a Lose-Lose Scenario Poses Challenge for West. President Bush arrives in New Orleans and holds a meeting on Air Force One with federal and local officials. "We know about all the other things that happened, all the thefts, all the robberies. When presented with the additional cases collected by victims' advocates groups, Benelli acknowledges that the police simply doesn't know the extent of sex crimes after the storm. FEMA Situation Update: I was able to get Governor Blanco to sit with me several times in the office that she had and talk about what needed to be done. I laid that out for him. The Times-Picayune reports the Convention Center evacuees are still being loaded onto buses and evacuated and search-and-rescue operations continue. Phyllis Montana-LeBlancthe breakout star of Spike Lees When the Levees Broke documentary and author of Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Katrina (and a consultant on David Simons new post-Katrina HBO drama)writes below about why viewers should still care about New Orleans four years later, and why Trouble the Water just may be the wakeup call we need. There is a documentary about . "I at least wanted a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans and the surrounding parishes [on Saturday]. "[On Air Force One] we gave the president a briefing on everything that had gone on. Now, other than media reports, I don't know what's happening at the other end. The expected storm surge is 15 to 20 feet, locally as high as 25 feet. We knew what had to be done. The account of her rape was verified by a trained forensic nurse at Earl K. Long Hospital in Baton Rouge, where Lewis sought treatment. Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina. Here's a [powerful] hurricane. Having largely emptied the cavernous Superdome, which had become a squalid pit of misery and violence, officials turned their attention to the Convention Center, where people waited to be evacuated as corpses rotted in the streets. Crime is at an all-time high. I had all the police, the firefighters in rescue mode, so the looting thing started to rear its head. A Tropical Depression with 35 mph maximum sustained winds is located 250 miles east-southeast of southeast Florida. 11.1.2005. In television interviews, Michael Brown, FEMA director, states that he only just heard about the suffering at the Convention Center, when in fact, he tells FRONTLINE, he misspoke; he was told the previous day about the situation. "All I know is on Wednesday night I was convinced that there were no FEMA buses. Judy Benitez, of the Louisiana rape crisis group, says the non-report rate would be far higher given the nightmare of Katrina. The storm that would later become Hurricane Katrina surfaced on August 23, 2005, as a tropical depression over the Bahamas, approximately 350 miles (560 km) east of Miami. "I'm telling you the number of reported rapes we had.". Kathleen Blanco. But for five days in the midst of the storm, about 20,000 of these . Female victims, now displaced from New Orleans, are slowly coming forward with a different story than the official one. After being damaged by. That is why the first place we picked to do an exercise and planning was New Orleans. After the genocide in Rwanda and atrocities in Srebrenica, Bosnia, in the 1990s, the world vowed never again. Then came the conflict in Darfur, Sudan, which began 20 years ago. Mahogany describes her actions before deciding to evacuate her home, her trip to the New Orleans Saints' Superdome, her horrific time at the Superdome, and finally her decision to leave New Orleans. Met in the little office at the Super Dome where the heliport is. Commander Dave Lipin says they saw two women who said they'd been raped -- different women than those the police attended to. The film features 15 minutes of live hurricane video shot by Kimberly Roberts, an aspiring rapper whose family was too poor to leave New Orleans, and follows Kims family and others through the horrific aftermath of the storm. FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of WGBH Educational Foundation. And if you dont trust the system to deliver the money to the right places, call a school yourself and ask them what they need. According to a New York Times article of September 29, "During six days when the Superdome was used as a shelter, the head of the New Orleans Police Department's sex crimes unit, Lt. David . President Bush's Sept. 15th address to the nation. Around 6 a.m., Category 4 Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast with 145 mph maximum sustained winds. Some parishes order mandatory evacuations. It is 45 miles northwest of Florida Keys. home+introduction+watch online+interviews+analysis+14 days Law-enforcement authorities dismissed early reports of widespread rapes in New Orleans during the lawless days following Hurricane Katrina. It was there, she says, that an unknown man with a handgun sexually assaulted her. But problems persist. And Michael Brown tells FRONTLINE that in order to quell panic, he misled the public in saying that everything was going fine at the local level. hide caption. (48) 7.4 1 h 13 min 2010 13+. Their back-up generators flooded. Gov. ', And we left and had a press conference. We began search-and-rescue missions using local state resources, waiting for the federal cavalry to arrive and believing that it would be here in 48 to 60 hours. We all did. They cast a wide net over this important event and So I went to the premiere, knowing Danny Glover was hosting it, and I couldnt get into the screeningso I texted Spike Lee, who directed When the Levees Broke, the documentary I was in, and asked him to pull some strings, but he didnt have Dannys number. And they hadn't. And they both shook their heads and said, 'Yes, you're right.' Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.Get More National Geographic:Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSiteFacebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeoTwitter: http://bit.ly/NatGeoTwitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/NatGeoInstaHurricane Katrina Day by Day | National Geographichttps://youtu.be/HbJaMWw4-2QNational Geographichttps://www.youtube.com/natgeo I've heard some terrible stories since that the stuff wasn't getting there. We have got to start getting people out.' But there were also profane jeers from many in the crowd of nearly 20,000 outside the Convention Center, which a day earlier seemed on the verge of a riot, with desperate people seething with anger over the lack of anything to eat or drink. Storm refugees reported being raped, shot and robbed, gangs of teenagers hijacked boats meant to rescue them, and frustrated hurricane victims menaced outmanned law officers. Years later, much of the money committed to New Orleans residents had yet to reach them. Blanco is there. Looting breaks out in parts of the city. Katrina makes landfall near Grand Isle, Louisiana as a Category 3 storm with winds near 127 mph. August 28, 2005. We need you to take over logistics, distribution of commodities, etc. In what looked like a scene from a Third World country, some people threw their arms heavenward and others nearly fainted with joy as the trucks and hundreds of soldiers arrived in the punishing midday heat. The population of New Orleans was about 400,000 by 2020, some 20 percent below its population in 2000. "What you had was a situation where you've got a tremendous number of vulnerable people, and then some predatory people who had all of the reasons to take their anger out on someone else," Benitez says. Hurricane Katrina Superdome. At least one half of well constructed homes will have roof and wall failure. Copyright All rights reserved. Just last week, a federal court ordered a new trial for five officers convicted of the Danziger Bridge shootings. So I finally just walked up to Danny and said, Mr. I gave people clues on how to pack. Michael Brown, FEMA director: What happened next was more than just a natural disaster especially in New Orleans, where the . The Katrina images we see in the film -- people on rooftops, the Superdome being shredded by hurricane winds, dogs stranded in attics -- are ones that once would have been guaranteed to put lumps . We have so much intelligence down here in New Orleans, and yet, even four years after the hurricane, we cant rely on the school system. "Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out A direct hit could wind up submerging New Orleans in several feet of water At least 100,000 people in the city lack transportation to get out Louisiana and Mississippi make all lanes northbound on interstate highways". The only person I saw from FEMA was basically this guy named Marty [Bahamonde]. We go to Sam's and Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie and gather up food and water and start distributing it because we had 60 hours' worth of resources that we had stored, but now we're out of it. "We'd heard the story of a man killing himself, falling . " Troops poured in to restore order after almost a week of near-anarchy. More women are coming forward with stories of sexual . And we need to get these people out of the Superdome because it's a shelter of last resort, and they only have a limited amount of resources.". [Note: The information in this timeline is drawn from the news and government agencies' reports, as published daily during the crisis, and from FRONTLINE's research and reporting.]. Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, says he is "extremely pleased with the response of every element of the federal government and federal partners to this terrible tragedy." Interstate 10 is shut down with damage to 40 percent of its Twin Span Bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. He escaped the chaotic shelter a few days later with a truckload of people and video documentation of history.Check out exclusive HISTORY content:Website - http://www.history.com?cmpid=Social_YouTube_HistHomeTwitter - https://twitter.com/history/postsFacebook - https://www.facebook.com/HistoryHISTORY, now reaching more than 98 million homes, is the leading destination for award-winning original series and specials that connect viewers with history in an informative, immersive, and entertaining manner across all platforms. It hit land as a Category 3 storm with winds reaching speeds as high as 120 miles per hour. Katrina Babies is an assertion of presence, a proclamation that the devastating hurricane is not simply a past story, but a present one too. And the guard unitspent most of the next 24 hours saving itself. By. Rescuers drop them off wherever there is high ground; many are dropped at interstate overpasses and the Superdome. ", Leo Bosner, FEMA watch officer: If we arent talking about what we still need, how can we be sure people wont forget?. The Superdome is an intrinsic part of the city of New Orleans. ". By the end of the day, the projected storm surge is 18 to 22 feet, locally as high as 28 feet. It was called "Hurricane Pam" and the exercise was conducted with state and local emergency managers. Find out in the 2015 documentary Outbreak, newly available to stream on FRONTLINEs YouTube channel. Newly rescued people are still being brought to the Superdome. FEMA Situation Update: "I went into New Orleans and stood beside Mayor Nagin and emphasized the need to leave. ", Mayor Ray Nagin: Thats why films like Trouble the Water are so important, and why its great that its making it to a wide audience via HBO. That she could turn this 15 minutes of footage into an Oscar-nominated documentaryIm amazed by it. The storm initially formed as a tropical depression southeast of the Bahamas on August 23. Anastasia says thugs were still wandering the streets of her neighborhood more than a week after the flood. Very shortly, he said, Cars are beginning to float out of the parking lot. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip). The death toll in the city is not known, but the dying continues as people succumb to illness, exhaustion and days without food and water. Its just rawits a look at the poorest people of the Ninth Ward, and those who couldnt afford to leave, and if you have a heart in your body, you will feel this film 100 percent. During Hurricane Katrina, around 20,000 people took refuge in the Superdome. There's this lunch. "I realized how serious things were on Sunday. ", Richard Falkenrath, Homeland Security Adviser (2001-2004): The Times-Picayune reports that 4,600 active duty troops under the command of Gen. Russel Honor arrive in New Orleans. Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation. And based upon that ["Hurricane Pam" planning exercise], I knew they needed to evacuate. On August 28, 2005, at 6 am, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that the Superdome would be used as a public shelter. Mayor Ray Nagin orders the total evacuation of New Orleans due to the dangers posed by the contaminated standing water. Hurricane Katrina: Caught on Camera Over three days in August 2005, a cataclysmic storm brought flooding and disaster to the Gulf Coast of America, leaving over 1,800 people dead in Louisiana and Mississippi. Why would we think there was less rape typical of any given week in the city? And I wanted to cut to the chase because I knew what the real issue was. A hurricane warning is issued for north central Gulf . We were moving school buses in. FEMA National Situation Update: Team members said they delivered babies, treated gunshot and stab victims, and ultimately fled for their own safety. And in my opinion, it was this whole 'who has ultimate authority' and whether the federal government is going to come in and impinge upon the state's authority. His death came nearly two years to the day after his wifes passing. Pack carefully. Some 11,000 National Guardsmen are now on duty in Louisiana and increased security begins to have an effect on lawlessness in New Orleans, although some violence continues. A timeline of the warnings, some of the decisions leading up to the disaster, and what went wrong with the government's response. ', We immediately did turn to the military and mission-assigned them to start doing airlifts, start bringing things in. And you need to order mandatory evacuation. A hurricane warning is issued for the Southeast Florida coast. 7:577-Minute Listen. (Weather forecasters classify hurricane strength on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the strongest.) As a shocking New Orleans documentary airs on HBO tonight, Phyllis Montana-LeBlancbestselling author and gutsy survivorexplains why the city is still drowning. "We're not downsizing anything," Benelli says. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Sept. 27, 2005, 12:58 PM PDT / Source: The Associated Press. Believing the authorities abandoned her after the storm, she wonders why they would care about her now. And then finally I just stopped and said: 'Excuse me, but time is of the essence. He estimates 5,000 to 10,000 people are still in the city, with many of them still waiting to be rescued. And I had a piece of paper where I wrote down like a five-point plan of the things that we needed to do. They didn't have communication. And that rap song she sings at the end of the film about growing up so poor, with her mother on drugs and being forced to stealit just shows that she is a strong woman, and so honest, real, determined, courageous, and intelligent. The eye of Hurricane Katrina made landfall near Buras in Plaquemines Parish at approximately 6:00 a.m. on August 29 as a Category 3 hurricane. I don't think that's the proper thing to do. The storm has ripped a hole in the Superdome where the power has gone out. The Times-Picayune reports that Jefferson Parish residents are allowed to return to the area to inspect the damage to their homes.The breach in the 17th Street Canal is finally repaired, and engineers continue to work on other levee breaks. But by late morning, when FEMA director Michael Brown arrives in Baton Rouge, water is already coming over levees in the 9th Ward and there are reports of breaks in the Industrial Canal and 17th Street Canal levees. More than 1,800 people died in what was the costliest . National surveys show that half of all sexual assaults are never reported. And Michael Brown was there listening. And he was the first guy that told us about the amount of devastation and the levee breaches. Gettridge,a fifth generation New Orleanian, would go on to die from a heart attack in 2014 at the age of 91 at the home he had successfully rebuilt. Gov. To get medical teams and search teams out the door and get 'em down there. Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News/epa/Corbis "The fact that something wasn't reported to the police doesn't mean it didn't happen," Benitez says. Pack as though you're going on a camping trip. President Bush flies over the area on his way back to Washington. The National Weather Service writes that Hurricane Katrina is "one of the five deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States." Hurricane Katrina caused up to $161 billion worth of damage, largely due to the fact that the breached levees led to flooding in 80% of New Orleans. Officers were walking off the job by the dozens. New Orleans resident climbing through roof of house. And then they'd gone around the room, and everybody's talking to the president and giving their opinions. 49 But it was the subsequent flooding of New Orleans that imposed catastrophic public health conditions on the people of southern . Lewis and others had taken refuge in the Redemption Elderly Apartments, in the Irish Channel section of New Orleans. The line to get in was already a quarter-mile long. Some parts of the city already showed slipping floodwaters as the repair neared completion, with the low-lying Ninth Ward dropping more than a foot. By afternoon, officials issue a citywide call for more boats to help. ", President Bush arrives in Louisiana. Kathleen Blanco: The spot urges victims to report their assault by calling 1-800-656-HOPE. Do You Have News to Share? Panels blew off and the roof was severely damaged, but it was the only shelter . In September 2006, the New Orleans Saints marched into the Superdome for their first game since Hurricane Katrina, providing the spark for a revival. Walter Maestri, Jefferson Parish emergency manager: We knew we were gonna have to shelter people. Refuge of last resort: Five days inside the Superdome for Hurricane Katrina. Gov. By midday, water levels between the city and Lake Ponchartrain have equalized. Blanco tours the area Tuesday evening and announces that the Superdome should be evacuated. Reports stream in from people needing rescue. I've got to know. [Secretary of Homeland Security Michael] Chertoff is there. With all due respect, Mr. President, if you and the governor don't get on the same page, this event is going to continue to spiral down, and it's going to be a black eye on everybody -- federal, state and local.' In one notorious incident known as the Danziger Bridge case, police opened fire on a group of civilians, who were later found to be unarmed and searching for food and medicine. Gallery. WGBH educational foundation, "A close eye will be kept this system could strengthen ", "Media reports attribute Katrina with four fatalities [in Florida], more than a million customers were without electricity", "Katrina will regenerate on Friday over Gulf of Mexico, head west-northwest then turn northward. Note: In the last hours before Katrina made landfall, dozens of copies of the Hurricane Pam report are distributed to emergency planners. That's the attitude I would take if I was operating in the dark too. That's where Katrina Babies comes in. He came right back and he said, I dont know why, but theres probably a foot of water on Claiborne Street, Landreneau said. "I'm not gonna go on television and publicly say that I think that the mayor and the governor are not doing their job, and that they don't have the sense of urgency. I spoke to an airman [over the phone] he told me that it had rained very little and there was justexcept for just a few puddles of water in the parking lot, there just was no water, the guards commander, Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, who was monitoring the situation from Baton Rouge, recalled in an interview with FRONTLINE. But there were also profane jeers from many in the crowd of nearly 20,000 outside the Convention Center, which a day earlier seemed on the verge of a riot, with desperate people seething with anger over the lack of anything to eat or drink. Its efforts fail. And he said definitively, "Mr. Mayor, the storm is headed right for you. And New Orleans itself has worked to rebuild. President Bush declares Louisiana and Mississippi major disaster areas. A spokesperson with the Resource Center said the number is steadily growing. Exploring the experiences of a black member of the New Orleans Police Department and assorted other New Orleans residents during their stay in the Louisiana Superdome during and after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005. / HBO Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and permanently changed life for thousands of people across the country. With camera lenses and lights abounding, the . And at that time I took some liberties I probably shouldn't take. Reports put the population there in the tens of thousands. Kathleen Blanco: At the peak of the Katrina recovery effort, 51,039 National Guard soldiers from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and three territories worked in Louisiana and Mississippi, making Katrina by far . Thats whats going to help us rebuild the mosttalking about what happened and how we can move onand why documentaries like Trouble the Water are still so relevant. As the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, explore three different FRONTLINE documentaries about the disaster, its lingering aftermath and the lessons learned. A New Orleans house submerged in floodwaters. And that this could potentially be the big one that we had planned for in Hurricane Pam.". Since many New Orleans streets are still filled with stagnant, fetid waters smelling of garbage and raw sewage, the military was considering using planes to spray for mosquitoes.". Locals adopt it in their idea of the city. 5 Must-See Documentaries About Hurricane Katrina. His goal: To make it possible for his wife of 65 years, Lydia who had gone to live with one of their nine children in Wisconsin after Katrina to return home. Get as many people out as possible. More women are coming forward with stories of sexual assault in the lawless days after the storm. I think the American Red Cross already had shelters and was already feeding people. I probably should have asked sooner. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina's arrival Monday. With a death toll of more than 1,800, Katrina was the third-deadliest hurricane in US history after Galveston in 1900 (which killed 8,000 to . There's no question.". The majority of industrial buildings will become non functional. And he basically asked me, 'Mr. And nothing happened. Already, these preliminary cases show a high number of gang rapes and rapes by strangers, both unusual characteristics. According to the New Orleans Data Center, racial disparities in income and employment are more pronounced in the city than they are nationally; the poverty rate is 11 points higher than the national average; and the incarceration rate is approximately three times the national average. The Army Corps of Engineers attempts to plug breaches in the 17th Street Canal and Industrial Canal levees. The hurricane caused billions of dollars of damage to the city, and killed thousands. Required fields are marked *. FEMA National Situation Update: "As I have said, I think that one of the biggest mistakes that I made as the FEMA director during Katrina was not immediately turning to the military and saying: 'We have been overwhelmed. ", Leo Bosner, FEMA watch officer: special video+discussion+teacher's guide+readings & links 'Rebirth in New Orleans' reflects on . Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and permanently changed life for thousands of people across the country. They lost 15 high-water trucks with mobile communications packages. Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and permanently . And the bosses say, 'Oh, okay. Then we kind of figure out ways that we could coordinate. Ten years ago this Saturday, Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast. Because of the ensuing . Left to right: Mayor Ray Nagin, President Bush, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, FEMA Director Michael Brown, Gov. and catcalls of 'What took you so long?,' a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled through axle-deep floodwaters Friday into what remained of New Orleans and descended into a maelstrom of fires and floating corpses.
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