Once the Iran Nuclear Deal moves forward. The gulf coast remembers the wrath of one storm as another churns in the caribbean. Forecasters say Tropical Storm erica has the potential to dump several inches of rain on florida next week. As that storm moves west, the u. S. Is marking 10 years since Hurricane Katrina ravaged the gulf coast. More than 1800 people died in one of the worst natural disasters in american history. Former president george w. Bush returned to new orleans today to praise the citys comeback. His administration was severely criticized for its response to the storm. Jonathan martin joirnzo joins us live from new orleans. Good evening, jonathan. How was the former president received . Reporter erica, good eveni eveninging to you. He was received pretty well by the people he came in contact with. Its important to point out this was a very brief stop for the former president. He made one stop here in new orleans at a Charter School, a Charter School he visited before on the first anniversary. He did not go through neighborhoods like we saw president obama come through theyre, to the Lower 9th Ward to neighborhoods struggling 10 years later. A warm welcome for president george b. Bush who returned friday, 10 years after what many considered one of the low points of his presidency. Welcome, a sharp contrast to the days following Hurricane Katrina when he first flew over the devastated city without touching down and then when he did visit, publipraised his fema director at a moment when anger with the agencys performance was rising. Brownie, you are doing a heck of a job . But on this anniversary visit, the former president was greeted at the eastern Charter High School by a marching band. He danced and posed for photographs with students. In a cruel twist, Hurricane Katrina brought despair during what should have been a season hope, the start of a new school year. Students who had recently gone back to school suddenly haul no school to go back to. Back then, warren eason was one of katrinas casualties. The citys Oldest Public School was badly flood and almost abandoned before reopening again a year later as a starter school. Historic schools like this one and others that we see a termination to rebuild better than before. It is a spirit much stronger than any storm. While the school and many others like it offered bright spots in new orleans recovery, for some, the bush response in those days after the storm is still a painful memory. Its him grandizingto, saying something about what he thinks he did. I wouldnt want to see him. I dont know how the man can talk to could look me in the face and talk to me when my father was out here for two weeks after the storm with nothing, living on crackers and stolen cokes from the convenience store. But the former president chose not to focus on the past. He praised the citys comeback, particularly its schools and new orleans switched to an all charter system after katrina. Since the storm, the citys fouryear Graduation Rate ask up to 73 . More than 9 in 10 Public School students in this city call a Charter School home. Administrators at these schools have the freedom to slice through red tape and the freedom to innovate. Parents of these schools have choices if they get dissatisfied and the results of these schools have been extraordinary. Although mr. Bushs legacy has been contentious, some were able to put his response to katrina in perspective. He failed in some ways, but he also helped the city in ways when i talk about the recovery and helping to fund, initially fund. Right . Nobody is perfect. So erica, we heard today the mayor of new orleans praise the former president. We heard state lawmakers praise the former president. But when it comes to people who live here in the Lower 9th Ward, again what many consider ground zero its hard to find people who have positive things to say about former president bush 10 years later, because a lot of people really just have personal stories and they feel that they have been forgotten not just by his administration but even by some of the local leaders here erica. Jonathan, we know tomorrow is the actual anniversary of when the storm hi the city. What does the city have planned . Reporter there are a ton of events really happening across the gulf region, particularly here in new orleans. There is a wreath laying tomorrow morning, remembering those 1800 lives that were lost during the storm. Also, there is going to be a day of service where a lot of people are getting out and really hoping to clean up some of these blighted communities and at the end of the day, an evening ceremony, really the big ceremony for the city where former president clinton will be here as the keynote speaker along with new orleans mayor rich landrieu. Reporting live in new orleans. Thank you. New orleans was not the only stop on president bushs trip to the region. He visited mississippis gulf coast which also had to rebuild. Alan shaufller joins us from bay st. Louis mississippi. Good evening. How are rebuilding efforts there . Reporter i have to say right now, its mixed a lot of encouraging signs of progress and a lot of work still to do. Erica, if you are looking for the mete meteorological bulls eye for this storm, where katrina hit and hit hardest, this is it. The mississippi gulf coast, bay st. Louis, to the east past christian to the west. These were towns that got just obliterated. In wave laptopland, they had a 30foot storm surge, standing water over the telephone polls. Town was wiped off of the map. We were there the other day. The main street used to have dozens of businesses on it. Now, it has five or six. Still, there is progress being made, and considering where they started, the former mayor of that town, waveland, says they have actually come a long way. Actually pretty amazing. Remember 97 of the Residential Structures were uninhabitable or gone. All municipal buildings, all infrastructures. Reporter absolutely amazing. About 300 million put in to rebuilding infrastructure in that area. New sewers, new electricity and, of course, all along this coast, new causeways, bridges, marineas, et cetera. There has been a considerable amount of work done here, but you just see empty lots and for sale signs all over the place the. Eri erica . Alan, what about the people along the gulf coast there in mississippi . Do they feel that they have truly recovered from the storm . March you know, that, too, is mixed. To the east of us in gulfport and bol objectioni, the casinos have come back, eight new or rebuilt casinos that have drawn a lot of income and jobs to the region. Economically those major population hubs are sort of getting boosted back. Some of the poorer neighborhoods like east biloxi, there are places that are lot after lot after lot where people havent come back and rebuilt where driveways go up and just end. There is no house there where it feels like there should be. So many people in this area left before the storm or during the storm and just havent come back. We had the opportunity to rebuild in a way that was that was structurally different, and yet 10 years out, the structural inequities essentially remain the same. Missed an opportunity . An opportunity. Reporter some disappointment over the opportunity lost. She runs a nonprofit that for 90 years has been helping lowincome women and kids in east biloxi. She said she would like to see more lowincome housing, more effort to promote job training programs, more effort to set up some kind of child care system, that it was a great chance that was just missed in this rebuilding. The casinos are fine. They bring in a lot of money, provide a lot of jobs but there are a lot of areas that are still just sort of barely alive. That must be tough to see, alan, 10 years later here alan shau schauffler, thank you there is more on the aftermath. Coming up in this hour, stay with Al Jazeera America for a special report katrina after the storm at 8 30 eastern, 5 30 pacific here on Al Jazeera America. Florida has declared a state of emergency as Tropical Storm erica makes its way through the caribbean. It is blamed for at least 12 deaths on the care bean island of dominiqua. Heavy rain caused roads and bridges to collapse and led to mudslides that are blamed for many of the deaths. Lets bring in kevin corveau. It has changed quite a bit. It has been one of the most inconsistent storms. Its an example that even a weak, unorganized storm could cause so much devastation across the region. This is an image of, erica, as the sun is going down, see the shadows coming into play. The center of the storm is located just out here to the south of the Dominican Republic right now. You are seeing a lot of precipitation, a lot of winds along the shore as well, if t themileperhour winds with this tropical system but i want to show you what the Hurricane Center is saying with the newest track. This is the one that has come out at 5 00 p. M. They expect the storm is going to go over haiti, which is not a good thing at all because of the deforestation across the island there. Then they expect the storm to cross over that northeastern coast of cuba. Because of that, they are going to bring it down to a tropical depression as it weakens a little bit. As it goes back over the keys with the warm water, they are going to bring it back up to a Tropical Storm, make landfall at this point with this track somewhere around tampa and then we are looking at, again, a tropical depression. This is how much the storm has changed from wednesday to thursday to friday in the tracks. First we were seeing here across parts of the bahamas on wednesday, and then we had an east coast landfall for florida. Now, we are looking at a west coast landfall. So there has been a lot of inconsistencies. This is the time frame on saturday evening. We are going to see cuba. On subbed evening, key west. And then as we go towards monday, we are looking at a lot of intersection toward florida. A lot of rain is going to be falling there. I dont think we are going to be seeing a lot of problems, erica in terms of wind, but i do think that florida is going to be seeing a lot of rain and possibly some flooding as well. We are going to need to see the newest track at 11 00 p. M. Keeping on it. Meteorologist kevin corriveau, thank you. Theless legal case over the nsas bulk clenings program has been kicked back to a lower corporate. Today, a federal Appeals Court reversed a ruling that declared the program illegal. Jamie mcintire joins us from the penta goodeon. I know this ruling gets pretty technical. To be clear, it does not specifically address the constitutionalty of the program. Is that right . Reporter thats right, erica. This case at this level was at a federal Appeals Court was decided on what you might call a technicality. At procedural ruling. The case overall is about the nsas authority to collect meta data on u. S. Telephone customers to create a database to look for pattern as they search for terrorists. In this case, the plaintiff, the person suing the nsa, was larry claimant, a Public Interest lawyer, and what the court ruled essentially was that he didnt actually have legal standing to bring the case because he couldnt prove that his phone number was among those collected by the nsa. He is going to go back in the case then remanded to a lower court but the constitutional question about whether this is legal or not was not decided at all by this court. The plaintiff claimant is going to refile the case using the Verizon Business customers whose numbers are in the case as a reason to keep the law legal fight going. But in some respects, this has been overtaken by events. Congress has passed a law barring the nsa from doing this. The nsa is in a transition to begin to transfer all records to phone companies and then in the future, according to the law, they will have to get a warrant to go to phone calls if they need to good phone companies to get those records. In some respects, this case is a bit moot. Despite the procedural ruling here, is the whitehouse taking this as a win for the administration . Yeah, a win, but just a little win really. The white house today, spokesman john earnest pointed out that while this ruling technically reinstates the nsas authority to collect that data and basically said that was the White House Position all along. I think the ruling of the court is actually consistent with what this administration has said for some time, which is that we did believe that these capabilities were constitutional. I think we argued as such in front of the court. However, the president believed that there were important reforms that could be put in place that would both better protect the privacy and Civil Liberties of the American People while also making sure our Law Enforcement and intelligence officials had the tools they need to keep us safe. So that was the White House Position and basically that it was constitutional. But really the president agreed this was an unwarranted intrusion of the privacy and thats why these new reforms passed by congress, signed by the president will be taking place. Erica . National security correspondent jamie mcintire, thank you. There is a new job in the Obama Administration created to ensure the safe return of american hostages overseas. The white house has just appointed its first Hostage Affairs envoy. Jim obrien, a former president envoy to the balkans will report directly to the secretary of sta state. In june, the white house ended a longstanding policy of not allowing the families of hostages to make ransom payments. Several people are now under arrest in austria after the discovery of dozens of bodies in an abandoned truck. The owners and driver of the vehicle are among those in custody. The victims, most likely refugees, included 4 children. The youngest between one and two years old. Today, u. N. Secretary banke moon says he is horrified. More from austria. The racemes of the bodies are being driven away for autopsy. We already know the 71 people who were crammed into the back of a truck must have suffered ana agonizing death, probably by suffocation. The police can only look for scraps of evidence as to who they were. Of course, we are sure that these people were refugees and more precisely were probably a group of Syrian Refugees. Austria is a Transit Company for people hoping to region germany but its also become a destination in its own right. The number of Asylum Seekers this year almost two times the total of 2014. This is outside vienna, the Refugee Reception Center is overflowing and the streets are full of people from the middle east and africa, somalia, niger nigeria, iraq, afghanistan and, of course, syria. Iman el syde fled from dada. We find here nice people, good people. Look, always give us food, medicine. Very nice people here yes. This extraordinary wave of new rivals has evoked sharp discs in austrian division. The rightwing Freedom Party which has a tough antiimmigrant message is expected to do quell but we have met austrians who have come here specifically to help people in need like katie who has come with her boyfriend and mother to hand out clothes, toys, books to whoever wants them. I think its the least we can do because these people have been through things that we cant imagine, and they have been through hardships and so the least we can do is try to make it easier for them to be integrated and make a new life. Austrias government says there must be a coordinated European Response to treat these people humanely to determine who should have the right to stay and to prevent more strategies at the hands of human traffickers. Barna bephillips. In libya, more than 100 refugees drowned when their boat capsized. Red crescent Officials Say some died after being trapped inside the boat. Also, the u. N. Refugee agency says up to 200 people are missing and feared dead after two simultaneouslers boats carrying an estimated 500 people capsized off of the western libyan coast. Authorities in norway say more than 100 Syrian Refugees have biked into that country this year exploiting a legal loop hole that only prohibits crossing on foot. They entered through the countrys border with russia. The government says it will stop by silk entry and close bicycle entry and close the loop hole. President obama hosts a webcast to talk about the Iran Nuclear Deal and the administrations commitment to Iraq Study Group plus reforming the courts. Why some people in the st. Louis area are getting a free pass when it comes to traffic violations. Stay with us. President obama today urged American Jewish groups to get behind the nuclear deal with iran. Those groups have been at the center of lobbying efforts by people for and against the deal. Kimberly halkett has more from washington. Reporter the u. S. President appealed directly to Jewish Americans in an online web address that an agreement with iran is israels and the regions best hope for peace. It deal blocks every way, every pathway that iran might take in order to obtain a nuclear we hope. The online appeal nuclear weapon. The online appeals comes weeks after netanyahu addressed opposition of the nuclear agreement. He argued it would make the middle east less safe. This is a very dangerous deal. It threatens all of us. There