Lower 9th News Today

2nd Annual Lower 9 Festival returns this weekend with extended hours and more performers

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a homicide in the Lower 9th Ward Sunday morning.

Displaced. on august 30, 2005, the hurricane made landfall. the entire coast of mississippi was wiped off the map. and the levees that protected the parish in new orleans lower 9th broke. many americans were just realizing the horror unfolding along the gulf south. cameras could not get to mississippi. in new orleans, water 6 to 8 deep or higher. those who made out had nowhere to go. and then the second major levee broke and water covered 80 percent of the city. leaders call for anyone with a bo...

Touched in five years, almost falling down. it still has the facous paint marks that told authorities how many bodies were inside? you look up and down the streets and you see some homes, some crews but not enough of either. before katrina there were 5,300 homes in the 9th ward. every single one of them was flooded between 3 and 18 and since then 1,200 homes have been repaired or rebuild. and a man name roy, first people to rebuild in the 9th. here is his story from video taken then. and now. wa...

>>shepard: from the museum in washington, dc along pennsylvania avenue, opening a new exhibit to mark five years since hurricane katrina sit with a series of reports from the hardest hit areas. one not hit bit storm itself but by the flooding, and the aftermath, the lower 9th ward in new orleans. you may not have heard of it before katrina but in the aftermath you saw it as a place where the locals were rescued from their homes or in some cases throaft die inside. in the years since, the 9th had...

Symbol of survival, of pride: the familiar x. look at the date. august 10. august of 2010. the house has been rebuild and repained and they sprayed that x back on so they do not forget. when the 9th raises again, and it will rise, it is those who came back first that may provide the inspiration for those who will come back. >>shepard: trace, thank you, those who came back first were the bravest. a new report on the fox report on the gulf throughout the weekend. on sunday, special coverage of the...

Doubt, why he would take a rare trip out of country during a more rare visit from a former united states president. sit no secret that relations between the united states and north korea have chilled recently, after investigators warship from south korea and killed a bunch of sailors. kim chong-il is suggested to be there to present his son to chinas leaders before he names him as an meir. china is north koreas biggest source of financial support, and the main political ally. after hurricane kat...

During katrina we have pictures of your home and what happened to it. your neighborhood was ruined. >>guest: washed gully. looked like a bomb was dropped in the lower 9th. this time, i commend mayor landrieu on his plan this time. it seems like he did a better job than the former mayor. >>shepard: your neighborhood, and how thinks have transformed we are showing before and after pictures, it is rebuilt and looks great but the problem around the neighborhood there is not a school, and there is no...