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A work in progress five years after the storm, the new orleans superdome played host to thousands of katrina victims. now it is host to the super bowl champions. cnns tom foreman takes a look at the massive project that got the stadium back in business. >> reporter: no place was more emblematic of all that went wrong with the evacuation of katrina than the superdome. the stadium ripped open at the height of the storm. thousands of people with nowhere to go. the man in charge then and now. >> we ...

Louisiana super dome, the place where thousands of stranded hurricane katrina victims turned for shelter from the storm. but not even the home of the saints could escape katrinas wrath. five years later, its rebuilt, it is bigger and better. tom foreman shows in todays "building up america." >> reporter: think about this for a minute. if you lost the roof to your house and buckets and buckets of water just poured down through everything there, imagine how difficult it would be to recover and whe...

Themselves out of a hole. >> i think its from the government accountability office or the g.a.o. says i have an idea. lives touched. so if were able to get somebody, define it roughly. if you can calculate the lives touched, they think they can grow that number because essentially they define it this way. if, for example, you get a job for an hour. if you get a job for a day. if you hold on to a job. if you had it for a season, you have now been touched by the stimulus package and if we hire ali...

Next week. so three storms, one, two, three, all in line. but look at how pretty the storm is. gorgeous looking storm, category four, 135 miles per hour sustained winds. you dont see this a whole lot, that well-defined eye, youre starting to see the colder cloud pops around the system developing. so we could actually have a category five storm on our hands. thats the highest on the scale. heres danielles path. the good news, its not going to affect land. great news. good news for the surfers out...

Category 4, this actually could become a category 5 with winds in excess 156 miles per hour. really impressive. this is earl. not much has changed. 145-mile an hour sustained winds. we have to watch earl, earl has a better shot at affecting the east coast. we are days away from earl making it across the atlantic. there is danielle, cat 3 storm as we head into the weekend. bermuda will have large waves, rip currents, its not going to affect land in any way. this is earl, the latest path, as you c...

Of the weeds. but day by day, the past grows dimmer, the future brighter. >> slow, very slow, but its happening. >> reporter: and for so many here, thats enough to keep battling on. >> never did it cross my mind that were finished, that its done. >> reporter: and indeed, they are not. the mayor is a real believer that you have to have a real core downtown and their downtown was taken off the planet, ali. theres nothing left. one of the big milestones coming up is when theyll finally be able to f...

It is unbelievable what happened. we talk so much about the destruction here in new orleans. you cant forget the gulf coast because that was browne and where i was absolutely the worst they are coming back. of all the towns ripped by katrina, none suffered more than waveland. and no one knows it better than the mayor. >> lost our residential structures, lost our commercial structures, lost our governmental structures. every sit, building was gone. our town was obliterated. we were wiped off the ...

Were five years out from hurricane katrina. so its hard to remember the devastation that took place back then. but imagine 250,000 homes gone in an instant. some estimates say thats how many were wiped out by hurricane katrina. getting the homes rebuilt has taken a massive effort on all fronts, from financing, to the resources, to the actual building of the homes. but a nonprofit construction company is helping katrina victims regain their piece of the american dream. >> reporter: i want you to ...

The homes of working people. the people who made the french quarter work and gulf work and made the port work, made the oil business work. who did all these things this town relied on. they had no place to live. we caught up with one group that even now five years after the storm is aggressively saying they have got to help those people build up again. when katrina hit new orleans working class neighborhoods took the worst of it. more fatalities and more flooding and less hope for navigating bew...

Resources. a nonprofit group is helping cut through the red tape. here is cnns tom foreman with a building of america report. >> reporter: hey, tony, when you think with about the quarter million homes lost all up and down the coast from hurricane katrina that, number is staggering. but equally important is to think about what kind of homes were lost. in most cases, they were the homes of working people, the people who have to make the oil business and the port and the tourism business. and ever...