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Taking care of my family, my extended family, and hopefully the rest of -- everybody feels like were family. >> reporter: hurricane gustav tested their work two years ago and it went well but they keep improving, always mindful of the chaos of katrina. >> i think organization exists to reduce and never have happen what happened five years ago. i mean, that just cant happen. >> reporter: beverly mitchell is counting on that. there are people here who dont have transportation, people with medical ...

>> i think our organization exists to reduce and never have happen what happened five years ago. that just cant happen. >> reporter: beverly mitchell is counting on that. there are people here who dont have transportation, people who have medical problems, people who have financial problems, people have questions who are afraid. >> yes. evacuteer is a blessing for all of us. >> reporter: and assurance that as long as the evacuteers can find a way in, they will have a way out. tom foreman, cnn, n...

Its been almost five years since hurricane katrina slammed into new orleans exposing tragic failures in the citys preparation plans. now hundreds of volunteers want to make sure help will be available before the next storm hits. its an example of tearing down obstacles and building up america. heres tom foreman. >> reporter: in the wake of katrina, tens of thousands of new or liens residents were stranded because they lacked transportation, knowledge or the inclination to move. beverly mitchell ...

Weeks away. they have made enormous progress to have a rebirth in the city. they are mindful, of course, that another devastating storm could strike. which is why one group is making sure that everyone is prepared for it. here is tom foreman. >> reporter: in the wake of katrina, tens of thousands of new orleans were stranded because they lacked the inclination to evacuate before the storm. beverly mitchell with a clunker of an old car was one of them. >> i really didnt believe that katrina was g...

>> reporter: in the wake of katrina, tens of thousands of new orleans residents were stranded because they lacked information, transportation or the inclination to evacuate before the storm. beverly mitchell was one of them. >> i really didnt believe katrina was going to be so devastating. >> reporter: you found out otherwise? >> i sure did. yes, i did. >> reporter: she wound up in the super domes heat, squalor for days. another group is building up their plan to avoid a repeat of this calamity....

intact enabling four other passengers to survive the crash. rescuers were kept at bay for 12 critical hours. ted stevens body is back home this morning, the longest serving republican in u.s. senate history being remembered as the man who literally put alaska on the map. casey wian is live in anchorage for us this morning with the very latest. >> reporter: good morning, john. were at the hospital in anchorage where those four su vifrs of that horrific plane crash have been taken. we ha...

sold for sex on craigslist. the site promised to crack down on prostitution. now confronting craig from craigslist. cnn goes under cover. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 on the west coast. im kirkuk. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." it is just before sunrise in alaska. the investigators have a long day of work. this plane that slammed into a side of a mountain killing five people. including former senator ted stevens, the longest serving republican in the history of the u.s. senat...

enough. hes being called a folk hero. one of the passengers saw and heard it all. we begin by keeping it honest. one of the battles of illegal immigration. texas lawmakers are claiming that illegal immigrants are having babies here so they can return to their homes, raise the babies as terrorists, and then 20 years from now send them back to attack us. youll hear from the lawmakers in a moment. first, how he got to this strange place. it all began when republicans began suggesting that...

you might have a heat pump. it takes liquid ammonia, removes the excessive heat from one side -- the part thats facing the sun, where temperatures can get up to 250 degrees, takes it to the other so i had, the dark side, where it could be negative 250 degrees. a 500-degree range on that space station, and this is the sophisticated cooling system that actually fixes it. now, they were supposed to take two space walks to fix this. they went out on saturday. and that was a remarkably unsu...