US President Barack Obama greets patrons at the Parkway Bakery restaurant in New Orleans, USA, 29 August 2010. Obama is visiting New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures that flooded the city. EPA/A.J. SISCO/POOL
US President Barack Obama waits for a sandwich at the Parkway Bakery restaurant in New Orleans, USA, 29 August 2010. Obama is visiting New Orleans to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the levee failures that flooded the city. EPA/A.J. SISCO/POOL
Lakeview residents share an emotional moment while listening to their association president, Glenn Stoudt (not pictured) as he remembers 34 neighbors who died in their flooded homes when the 17th Street Canal containment wall collapsed due to faulty construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the morning after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Greater New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 29 August 2010. The entire New Orleans area was devastated physically and economically by Hurricane Katrina five years ago. While some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP
Lakeview residents Jay and Andrea Ridolfo along with their son, daughter in-law and two dogs were caught by rising water in their home of 30 years when the 17th Street Canal containment wall collapsed due to faulty construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the morning after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Greater New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 29 August 2010. The entire New Orleans area was devastated physically and economically by Hurricane Katrina five years ago. While some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP
NOPD Captain H.W. Dean (left), Tommy Ramelli, and NOFD District Chief, Earl Valois (right) listen as Nancy Lytle presents a wreath that holds 34 roses to represent the number of lives lost when the 17th Street Canal containment wall collapsed due to faulty construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the morning after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Greater New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 29 August 2010. The entire New Orleans area was devastated physically and economically by Hurricane Katrina five years ago. While some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP
Deacon John Peppenger and his wife, Linda (center) and Lakeview residents share an emotional moment while listening to their association president, Glenn Stoudt (not pictured) as he remembers 34 neighbors who died in their flooded homes when the 17th Street Canal containment wall collapsed due to faulty construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the morning after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Greater New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 29 August 2010. The entire New Orleans area was devastated physically and economically by Hurricane Katrina five years ago. While some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP
NOPD Captain H.W. Dean (left ), and NOFD District Chief, Earl Valois hang wreath that contains 34 roses to represent the number of lives lost when the 17th Street Canal containment wall collapsed due to faulty construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers the morning after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Greater New Orleans area and the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA 29 August 2010. The entire New Orleans area was devastated physically and economically by Hurricane Katrina five years ago. While some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP
President Obama (C), flanked by his wife Michelle (L), daughter Sasha, far left, and daughter Malia, right, get ready to board Marine One helicopter on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts Sunday, August 29, 2010. The First Family completed their 10-day vacation on Martha's Vineyard and were flying to Cape Cod to board Air Force One for New Orleans where the President is giving a speech today on the fifth year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. EPA/Vincent DeWitt / POOL
(47/50) A combo picture shows (top) homes destroyed by a breach in the London Avenue Canal containment wall as a result of Hurricane Katrina in the Vista Park section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 03 November 2005 and (bottom) empty lots and failed attempts at rebuilding remain after they were flooded by Hurricane Katrina in the Vista Park section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 18 August 2010. Many homeowners abandoned or sold their property which has left neighborhoods with a jack o' lantern effect. Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on 29 August 2005 after forming from the remains of a tropical wave and Tropical Depression 10 almost 950 miles east of Barbados. By 31 August it was estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. Thousands of people who failed or were unable to evacuate, mostly poor and elderly, were trapped on bridges, overpasses, rooftops and in the Louisiana Superdome. Katrina killed 1,833 people and has been called the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP ***PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVISORY NOTICE (epa02302869) FOR COMPLETE FEATURE TEXT***
(13/50) Singer Charmaine Neville is happy at home after surviving rising water, high winds that blew her roof off and the long, painful process of rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina hit the 9th Ward section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 19 August 2010. Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on 29 August 2005 after forming from the remains of a tropical wave and Tropical Depression 10 almost 950 miles east of Barbados. By 31 August it was estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. Thousands of people who failed or were unable to evacuate, mostly poor and elderly, were trapped on bridges, overpasses, rooftops and in the Louisiana Superdome. Katrina killed 1,833 people and has been called the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. Five years later, while some areas have recovered from the storm, many others have not. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP ***PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVISORY NOTICE (epa02302869) FOR COMPLETE FEATURE TEXT***
(03/50) A combo picture shows (top) a woman walking past a mountain of debris in the Lakeview section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 21 October 2005 and (bottom) the entrance to the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA well manicured on 25 August 2010, five years after the area was flooded by Hurricane Katrina. Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on 29 August 2005 after forming from the remains of a tropical wave and Tropical Depression 10 almost 950 miles east of Barbados. By 31 August it was estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. Thousands of people who failed or were unable to evacuate, mostly poor and elderly, were trapped on bridges, overpasses, rooftops and in the Louisiana Superdome. Katrina killed 1,833 people and has been called the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP ***PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVISORY NOTICE (epa02302869) FOR COMPLETE FEATURE TEXT***
(44/50) A combo picture shows (top) the barge that burst the Industrial Canal containment wall and caused flooding of epic proportions in the Lower 9th Ward section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 01 October 2005 and (bottom) an elevated view of the rebuilt containment wall for the Industrial Canal and some of the new homes in the Lower 9th Ward section of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, 20 August 2010. Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast on 29 August 2005 after forming from the remains of a tropical wave and Tropical Depression 10 almost 950 miles east of Barbados. By 31 August it was estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was under water. Thousands of people who failed or were unable to evacuate, mostly poor and elderly, were trapped on bridges, overpasses, rooftops and in the Louisiana Superdome. Katrina killed 1,833 people and has been called the worst natural disaster to hit the United States. EPA/BEVIL KNAPP ***PLEASE REFER TO THE ADVISORY NOTICE (epa02302869) FOR COMPLETE FEATURE TEXT***
