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President bush was in his own administration and it was about the end of the first term or so around that time, february of 2005 is when the huge tsunami hit southeast asia and he asked his father as well as president clinton to work together to go to the region, to try to come up with this kind of massive humanitarian aid and they did that. they traveled for four days together, a long plane ride and president bill clinton said it was one of the greatest gifts he ever had working with president h.w. bush and then it was just shortly afterwards, ana. this was katrina that had hit in late august...

Worked in lower manhattan. a few weeks ago they started a petition, a couple hundred signatures, i showed them around, showed them a few more and thought they were fairly confident it would go through. >> he wanted to rename the street. >> correct. they denied it but this time we remember the fallen so chris brinkley, an army veteran heading up the petition, 5500 signatures, they want to know if family members are ever forgotten. the people who passed by a daily basis, they look up and see a real american hero. >> he was killed by a sniper's bullet in august 2005. in 2017, 149 streets, 42 for

Hold. according to tmz her therapist and lawyer sent the help after a mental break down. she has dealt with a series of arrests and hospitalizations this year alone. all right. ainsley? ainsley: thank you, steve. in august 2005, army reservist staff sergeant jimmy income naughty there i mcnaughten firstnypd officer q killed by a sniper. today his family and fellow officers are outraged after a manhattan community board down in tribeca rejected their request to co-name a street after him. not jusonly co-name not rename . here with us now are jimmy's wonderful parents bill and measure shelmichel...

Hill producer chad pergram. >> william shakespeare wrote beware of the ides of march. but in washington, it's august. august is just a month but the most volatile month in politics. martin luther king delivered his i have a dream speech on the steps of the memorial in 1963. president nixon resigned in 1974. the calendar was barely in august when soviets shot down a korean airliner killing over 20 people. iraq innovated kuwait leading to the gulf war. hurricane katrina hit the coast in august 2005. and the tea party rose to power in 2009. ted kennedy died in august 2009.

In august 2005, a powerful category 3 hurricane named katrina slams into the gulf coast, paralyzing southern louisiana and parts of mississippi. the massive storm floods communities and destroys entire neighborhoods. katrina causes more than $100 billion in damage and kills more than 1,800 people. just weeks later, louisiana is hit again, along with texas, as hurricane rita, a category 3 storm, makes landfall. after witnessing katrina, millions flee to escape rita. one of the largest evacuations in history. still, the storm devastates coastal communities with a 15-foot storm surge wiping out s...