August 29th 2005 News Today

Age before beauty? why not both? visibly diminish wrinkled skin in... crepe corrector lotion... only from gold bond. as we watch the destructive rain and winds from hurricane ida hammer the gulf coast its impossible to think of the devastation that hurricane katrina brought to the same region 16 years ago today. katrina made landfall about 60 miles southeast of new orleans on august 29th, 2005. it quickly became one of the worst natural disasters in u.s. history. a storm surge nearly 30 feet h...

Any of that because there are emergencies right now and he has to deal with those. >> a great testament to the long-established. every president is defined by external events that no president plans for. george w. bush was not planning for the attacks of 9/11, obviously. i dont think president biden president trump was planning for a global pandemic when he ran in 2016. this is what presidents and legacies are made of. its not necessarily your a agenda, but how you respond to crises around the w...

Upgraded based on some of the numbers were seeing from grand isle where it came a shore. im not sur priced it in-- surprised it intensified like this. theyre getting better and better with intensity which in my experience and all our experience is the hardest thing to predict. the track was pretty much right on from the beginning but its the intensity thats the difficult thing to predict and its the thing you need the most. mike: i have no doubt that your office has applied lessons learned from ...

>> its truly unprecedented. its a horrific event that occurred. we have political terrorism going on right now. the president keeps talking about people from honduras eventually showing up at the border, but in our country now there is a bomber that has been sending so far ten packages out there, two presidents with assassination attempts. the whole world is watching and we have a largely mute donald trump. he just doesnt want to believe this is happening. and so, you know, its never a good idea...

Is the american disaster that was the occasion for this photo. this photo was taken in arizona on august 29th 2005. president bush and his would be successor senator mccain eating birthday cake the reason this photo ended up being famous, this one became famous alongside this pick, from the following day, from august 30th. both of these pictures seemingly very happy on the surface have both become negative touchstones, disaster touch stoens from the george w. bush administration, that pakt i pic...

U.s. woman speaker of the house in u.s. history, and although the bush administration had another two years left to run, in political terms, they limped to the finish line. the president and vice president so profoundly unpopular by then vice president cheney all by does appeared from public view for last two years of the george w. bush administration. the president, himself, never sunk approval ratings as low as cheneys but bearly showed his face in 2008 to pick his successor, and part of the r...

Puerto rico. as assistance begins to make its way to puerto rico, the president took to twitter saying, really hard to help. which press would treat fairly. on day nine, lets look specifically on how the timeline for this response stacks up against responses to other major disasters. hurricane katrina struck the gulf coast on august 29th, 2005. the response was heavily criticized during and after. but by day four, a $10.5 billion aid package was approved by congress. and the usns comfort was on ...

Much inhabited with either businesses or houses. >> reporter: along the gulf coast of mississippi, many paths lead to nowhere. >> it was a little grocery store and then a little liquor store on the side of it. >> reporter: what happened to waveland, mississippi, population 8,000 on august 29th, 2005? >> it was annihilated. ill be honest with you, it was -- we were ground zero. >> reporter: 238 people in mississippi were killed by hurricane katrina. officer acosta feared his wife and ken-week-old...

Back to one of those moments in particular, and one journalists story that personally i know ill never forget. katrina maid landfall in the morning, august 29th, 2005. throughout the first day, august 29th, it was widely reported that new orleans had been spared the worst. widely and prematurely. >> that last-minute tug to the right was all it took to spare this city from the very worst. >> at this hour, it appears as if new orleans has been spared cataclysmic damage. most levies protecting this...

This monday morning, thats the fifth anniversary of hurricane katrina. a monster storm that destroyed stretches of the gulf coast and eventually left new orleans 80% under water. >> it was a storm no doubt that changed forever the nation and the region. heres our "abc news vault" coverage from august 29th, 2005. >> august 29th, 2005. im ted koppel and this is "nightline." tonight, new orleans assesses the damage, and believe it or not, counts its blessings. >> united states coast guard just pull...