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tamron hall is live in new orleans for us. and good day to you, tamron. >> good day, nora. we've talked so much about where the folks in the gulf coast are right now compared to the images that we saw five years ago almost to this day. even the weather today is kind of an eerie feel, a reminder of how mother nature can certainly turn her wrath on us. but the new mayor of new orleans said something very interesting yesterday. he was talking about and he compared it to gumb ocht and the recovery effort is just a mix of everybody getting together and making this work. there are great st...

piazza. he took me on a tour of some of the hardest hit neighborhoods and introduced me to some of his friends along the way. so, tom, this is the 17th street canal. >> here is where one of the most serious breaches happened during katrina. if you had visited t eed this p two or three months after the storm, four months after the storm, six months after the storm, it looked truly like a war zone. just destruction every place, smashed houses, overturned cars. >> how jarring of a contrast is it to have a home, obviously, once here and now completely gone. the family choosing not to reb...

gulf region. the lower ninth ward, not far from where we are is the hard e hit part of new orleans when the levees failed. we saw horrifying pictures of people stranded on rooftops waiting to be rest cued. according to a new estimate, about 25,000 people who lived there before katrina, only 1,000 have returned to what's called the nine. thousands of people sought shelter at the new orleans convention center and the superdome, but they ended up stranded there for weeks, with little food and no water. at least six deaths consider confirmed at the superdome and four bodies were recovers...