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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 boat to come and help with the rescues but that process was chaos and few of the boaters got instruc...

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. watch. i had a gate here. all the grass was gone. and they business. the gate was halfway zigzagged....

>>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 gotten a lot of attention. and we went there to find out if that attention has helped at all. you n...