Most of New Orleans Still Struggles to Recover
Also: Music by three jazz bands in the city hit by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005. Transcript of radio broadcast:
20 January 2010
HOST:
Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I'm Doug Johnson.
This week on our program …
We visit New Orleans, Louisiana, to learn about the recovery efforts since Hurricane Katrina …
And play music from several of the city's many jazz bands.
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The French Quarter and Garden District are two of New Orleans' most famous and popular neighborhoods. Walking through these historic areas, visitors today might find it hard to believe that a deadly storm swept through the city over four years ago. However, most of New Orleans and its people are still struggling to rebuild and recover after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in August of two thousand five. Barbara Klein has more.
BARBARA KLEIN:
Katrina was the costliest and one of the deadliest hurricanes to ever strike the United States.
Jackson Hill is a photographer who has lived in New Orleans for over thirty years. He took us on a tour through the city's neighborhoods to help understand more about the storm's damage and the slow recovery process.
A house sits next to an empty lot in New Orleans, LouisianaJACKSON HILL: "Where those cars are going over that little bridge down there where those lights is where the floodwall is. We're going to go right up to it, then we will go over to where the new pumps have been built and the floodgates."
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