When we didn't get any assistance from the state or from FEMA in the time period that we thought was appropriate, I got someone in an automobile and said, 'Go to Baton Rouge, go find out. The Most Risky Job Ever. Reporting on ISIS in Afghanistan. Interstate 10 is shut down with damage to 40 percent of its Twin Span Bridge over Lake Ponchartrain. Most residents have evacuated the city and those left behind do not have transportation or have special needs. A hurricane warning is issued for the Southeast Florida coast. ', So they went into another section of the plane, had a meeting. Web Site Copyright 1995-2023 WGBH Educational Foundation. The storm has ripped a hole in the Superdome where the power has gone out. Before Hurricane Katrina hit, New Orleans residents gathered to ride out the storm in what seemed like a pretty safe place, the Superdome, the city's football stadium . "I got a call, I think Saturday afternoon [from] Max Mayfield, the hurricane director. As the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, explore three different FRONTLINE documentaries about the disaster, its lingering aftermath and the lessons learned. Having largely emptied the cavernous Superdome, which had become a squalid pit of misery and violence, officials turned their attention to the Convention Center, where people waited to be evacuated as corpses rotted in the streets. Refuge of last resort: Five days inside the Superdome for Hurricane Katrina. Thats whats going to help us rebuild the mosttalking about what happened and how we can move onand why documentaries like Trouble the Water are still so relevant. I said, 'If you guys don't get together and work this out, this is going to get worse.' Sept. 15, 2005, 7:50 AM PDT. I gave the governor two options. At landfall, Katrina's maximum winds were about 125 miles per hour (mph) to the east of its center. to support FEMA disaster relief efforts, but it will be two days before the troops arrive in the city. Listen 7:57. FRONTLINE reports from Iraq on the miscalculations and mistakes behind the brutal rise of ISIS. HBO. "With the evacuee situation stabilizing somewhat, and increasing numbers of armed soldiers and police on the streets, officials said Saturday they would start aggressively dealing with the bands of armed looters who pushed the city to the brink of complete breakdown. "[On Air Force One] we gave the president a briefing on everything that had gone on. Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and permanently changed life for thousands of people across the country. The storm initially formed as a tropical depression southeast of the Bahamas on August 23. Trachelle Addison cuddles her 2-week-old son, Jirra-e, in the stands of the Superdome, where some 25,000 refugees took shelter after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. Winds continue to damage or destroy buildings and blow out windows. He didn't care where the help came from, he just wanted it to be there. If we arent talking about what we still need, how can we be sure people wont forget? Instead, officers at the compound arrested Glover. Thousands of displaced residents take cover from Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome in New . And [FEMA Director] Michael Brown was with me at that time. But prosecutors have struggled to hold officers accountable. FEMA National Situation Update: The top-notch special effects are alarmingly realistic and frightening, particularly when the 17th St. Canal levee breaches and when Katrina rips the roof from the Superdome, where in the days . Trapped on Airline Drive in a traffic jam in his gas-depleted pickup truck, he didn't think he would reach his destination of Baton Rouge. In the six weeks since the Web site has been up, with almost no publicity, it has received 42 reports of sexual assaults. Walter Maestri, Jefferson Parish emergency manager: . " 11:09. Met in the little office at the Super Dome where the heliport is. A shaft of light falls throught an opening in the fully evacuated Superdome on Sept. 5, 2005 in New Orleans, La. They were finally able to leave the city on Saturday. "There was a period of days when we weren't sure who was directing the federal response and were all the actions being taken. And I said [to the president], "Here's my piece of paper. The city floods further. The hurricane caused billions of dollars of damage to the city, and killed thousands. And there seems to be this dance about who has ultimate authority. The Katrina images we see in the film -- people on rooftops, the Superdome being shredded by hurricane winds, dogs stranded in attics -- are ones that once would have been guaranteed to put lumps . FRONTLINE home+WGBH+PBS, FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of wgbh educational foundation. So I finally just walked up to Danny and said, Mr. And the bosses say, 'Oh, okay. Through their world-class scientists, photographers, journalists, and filmmakers, Nat Geo gets you closer to the stories that matter and past the edge of what's possible.Get More National Geographic:Official Site: http://bit.ly/NatGeoOfficialSiteFacebook: http://bit.ly/FBNatGeoTwitter: http://bit.ly/NatGeoTwitterInstagram: http://bit.ly/NatGeoInstaHurricane Katrina Day by Day | National Geographichttps://youtu.be/HbJaMWw4-2QNational Geographichttps://www.youtube.com/natgeo HBO. Already, these preliminary cases show a high number of gang rapes and rapes by strangers, both unusual characteristics. She sits on the edge of a bed in a dingy, dimly lit room in a motel in Baton Rouge. And that rap song she sings at the end of the film about growing up so poor, with her mother on drugs and being forced to stealit just shows that she is a strong woman, and so honest, real, determined, courageous, and intelligent. New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, as seen in the new documentary Katrina Babies. Explore FRONTLINEs collected and ongoing reporting on Russia's war on Ukraine. He came right back and he said, I dont know why, but theres probably a foot of water on Claiborne Street, Landreneau said. Around this time 17 years ago, Hurricane Katrina bore down on New Orleans, and . Katrina Cop in the Superdome. background photo copyright 2005 corbis Copyright All rights reserved. The storm flooded New Orleans, killed more than 1,800 people, and caused . We could either go with your suggestion' -- which, my suggestion was, if you don't give me the final authority give it to Gen. [Russel] Honor. He escaped the ch. Meanwhile, Lewis, the 46-year-old home health-care worker, has still not reported her assault to the police, and she has no plans to. That is why the first place we picked to do an exercise and planning was New Orleans. Abandoned cars remain on Interstate 10 in front of the heavily damaged Superdome September 14, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana. I went to the Adjutant General [Landreneau] and I went to Gov. She says she tried to report the assault at the time, but authorities weren't listening. As a shocking New Orleans documentary airs on HBO tonight, Phyllis Montana-LeBlancbestselling author and gutsy survivorexplains why the city is still drowning. FEMA Situation Update: "I was told that they could mobilize immediately 2,500 National Guards members. We'd sent them all the information they needed. She was featured in Spike Lee's documentary When the Levees Broke and is author of Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina. There is a documentary about . New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin says he'll follow the state evacuation plan and will not call for mandatory evacuation until 30 hours before projected landfall. On August 28, 2005, at 6 am, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced that the Superdome would be used as a public shelter. She describes . By the end of the day, the projected storm surge is 18 to 22 feet, locally as high as 28 feet. Exclusive: A Former MPD Lieutenant Reported Another Cop. I just expressed to her my concern about the lack of unified command, and the need to have more of a structure of what was going on. About 16,000 people . And then they'd gone around the room, and everybody's talking to the president and giving their opinions. His death came nearly two years to the day after his wifes passing. Then we kind of figure out ways that we could coordinate. The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina's arrival Monday. "At that stage, we had mission-assigned the Department of Defense to start giving us everything they could in terms of air-lift capability. People begin arriving at the Ernest M. Morial Convention Center seeking shelter, food, and water. If you would like to customise your choices, click 'Manage privacy settings'. But one man then-82-year-old Herbert Gettridge was determined to rebuild the house he had built more than 50 years earlier in the Lower Ninth Ward, with or without government support. When Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleans poet Shelton Alexander to evacuate his home, he took his truck and video camera to the Superdome. Looting breaks out in parts of the city. Thousands of troops poured into the city September. I'm just not going to go on, on public television and bash in the middle of a disaster what I think people should or should not be doing. Dave Cohen was one of the few reporters to stay in New Orleans as Katrina bore down on the city, and continued broadcasting as the . A hurricane warning is issued for north central Gulf . With Glovers story as a jumping-off point, FRONTLINE partnered with the Times-Picayune and ProPublica in 2010 to investigate six questionable shootings by police revealing that, in the midst of post-Katrina chaos, law-enforcement commanders issued orders to ignore long-established rules governing the use of deadly force. Here in New Orleans East, we desperately need a hospital. The mistake that I made was not doing that sooner and not giving them the orders that we needed them to do all of that immediately. And based upon that ["Hurricane Pam" planning exercise], I knew they needed to evacuate. The line to get in was already a quarter-mile long. Theres a river of water moving into this area.'. 7:577-Minute Listen. A Louisiana State University computer model of a 115 mph storm strike shows the overtopping of levees protecting New Orleans and nearby areas. Blanco is there. We had pre-positioned supplies, medical teams, Meals Ready To Eat, and food in the Superdome. But more and more people were being evacuated from their rooftops after being in the sun for long periods or overnight and being put on highways on high ground. - Severe flooding damage to cities along the Gulf Coast, from New Orleans to . And that this could potentially be the big one that we had planned for in Hurricane Pam.". She made a report to a local sheriff's office; it has not yet passed the report on to the New Orleans police. "I realized how serious things were on Sunday. Katrina first made landfall in South Florida. There was all kinds of crime taking place on a much higher level than usual. Flooding grows as water surges over levee breaks from Lake Ponchartrain; the 9th Ward is almost entirely submerged. The California Disaster Medical Assistance Team spent 24 hellish hours inside the Superdome. Conditions are deteriorating with bathrooms overflowing, no power for air conditioning and little food and water. Where is water? I wasnt poor before Katrina, and Im certainly not poor afterward, but Trouble the Water pisses me off all over again, in a good way. The population of New Orleans was about 400,000 by 2020, some 20 percent below its population in 2000. The numbers are not dramatic, but they are significant when seen in light of the official number of post-Katrina rapes and attempted rapes: four. The price tag has not yet been determined. The Louisiana National Guard's Jackson Barracks flood. Remembers Covering Katrina Preserving History After Hurricane Katrina Katrina's Affect on Charter schools quiz: 10 Questions on Katrina. Rapid Transit Authority buses pick up citizens and bring them to the Superdome, where the Louisiana National Guard has stocked enough MREs to feed 15,000 people for three days. After suffering heavy damage during Hurricane Katrina, the Superdome was re-opened on September 25, 2006 for the Saints' Monday night game against the Falcons. New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, as seen in the new documentary Katrina Babies. Officers were walking off the job by the dozens. There are still areas that look like Katrina hit yesterday. Producer Martin Smith: So, although you said that, you didn't feel that way at that time? and catcalls of 'What took you so long?,' a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled through axle-deep floodwaters Friday into what remained of New Orleans and descended into a maelstrom of fires and floating corpses. In downtown New Orleans, some streets were merely wet rather than swamped. The film a raw and gripping investigation of the Katrina response, its tragic consequences and its political ramifications includes candid interviews with key Katrina decision-makers, including the first televised interview with former FEMA Director Michael Brown since his resignation two weeks after Katrina hit. I probably should have asked sooner. Thats just one of the chain of catastrophes at the local, state and national level brought to vivid life in FRONTLINEs Emmy Award-winning 2005 documentaryThe Storm. FEMA National Situation Update: More women are coming forward with stories of sexual . Just last week, a federal court ordered a new trial for five officers convicted of the Danziger Bridge shootings. "I didn't see any police officers -- I could have gotten away with murder," she says. Additional funding is provided by the Abrams Foundation; the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; Park Foundation; the Heising-Simons Foundation; and the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. Concerned over unreported and underreported rapes, her organization, together with the National Sexual Violence Resource Center -- which is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- created a national database to track sexual assaults that happened after Katrina. I think the American Red Cross already had shelters and was already feeding people. An estimated 25,000 angry and exhausted people are still at the Convention Center; buses begin arriving to evacuate them. "Coastal residents jammed freeways and gas stations as they rushed to get out A direct hit could wind up submerging New Orleans in several feet of water At least 100,000 people in the city lack transportation to get out Louisiana and Mississippi make all lanes northbound on interstate highways". We were moving school buses in. In the first few hours after Katrina hit, many people believed that New Orleans had dodged a bullet. Driving in from the popular suburb of Metairie, it's the first building you pass. Then, the airman hesitated a minute, and asked Landreneau to hold. In Louisiana, New Orleans is of particular concern because much of that city lies below sea level. Gov. Blanco tours the area Tuesday evening and announces that the Superdome should be evacuated. "We know about all the other things that happened, all the thefts, all the robberies. "What we did -- under Louisiana law the parish presidents, the head of the counties, have the authority to use private resources. My old high school, Joseph S. Clark, shut down, and we dont even have parks yet for kids to hang out inthats what we did in the 70s, at leastIm still trying to petition for these things, to organize our community, and these fool ass people have not yet gotten down here to rebuild. Some parts of the city already showed slipping floodwaters as the repair neared completion, with the low-lying Ninth Ward dropping more than a foot. New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, as seen in the new documentary Katrina Babies. The outer ends of the hurricane also produced tornados . She contacted the New Orleans police in October and filed a report that she was beaten with a bat and raped on Sept. 6th in broad daylight next to a flooded McDonald's at Gentilly Boulevard and Elysian Fields, near her father's house. We go to Sam's and Wal-Mart and Winn-Dixie and gather up food and water and start distributing it because we had 60 hours' worth of resources that we had stored, but now we're out of it. We've all feared a catastrophic hurricane striking New Orleans. The Coast Guard mobilizes to respond after the storm hits. The 42 reports include assaults that happened inside New Orleans and outside the city, for instance, in host homes. And in my opinion, it was this whole 'who has ultimate authority' and whether the federal government is going to come in and impinge upon the state's authority. There's no question.". Your email address will not be published. At the peak of the Katrina recovery effort, 51,039 National Guard soldiers from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and three territories worked in Louisiana and Mississippi, making Katrina by far . Around 6 a.m., Category 4 Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast with 145 mph maximum sustained winds. Two national crime-victims' groups have reported a spike in the number of reported rapes that happened to storm evacuees. We do our video conference calls before and during disasters. On Sept. 1, with desperate Hurricane Katrina evacuees crammed into the convention center, Police Chief Eddie Compass reported: "We . In New Orleans last year, there was a rape every other day on average. Throughout the day, emergency responders and public officials complain that communication links are very poor. Per this CNN Money report, a Brian Williams' Katrina tale appears to have evolved somewhat dramatically over the course of just one year.In 2005, Williams reported in a documentary that he had "heard the story" of a man killing himself in the Superdome. He estimates 5,000 to 10,000 people are still in the city, with many of them still waiting to be rescued. There was nobody there to protect you," Lewis says. Gov. Find out in the 2015 documentary Outbreak, newly available to stream on FRONTLINEs YouTube channel. The networks all-original programming slate features a roster of hit series, epic miniseries, and scripted event programming. hide caption. Rescuers drop them off wherever there is high ground; many are dropped at interstate overpasses and the Superdome. Visit us at HISTORY.com for more info. The groups went in shifts, sneaking down over to the. Their communications center was useless. Buckles, who wrote and directed the documentary . You can change your choices at any time by clicking on the 'Privacy dashboard' links on our sites and apps. Military planners are considering setting up a permanent rapid reaction unit designed to respond to domestic disasters. Patrice Taddonio. "What you had was a situation where you've got a tremendous number of vulnerable people, and then some predatory people who had all of the reasons to take their anger out on someone else," Benitez says. ' Gettridge told FRONTLINE. And why it wasnt stopped sooner. At 7 am Katrina is a Category 5 with 160 mph maximum sustained winds. Hurricane Katrina made landfall off the coast of Louisiana on August 29, 2005. Kathleen Blanco: He had been shot by a rookie police officer while walking through the parking lot of a run-down strip mall, and his brother had brought Glover who was curled up and bleeding from a gunshot wound to the chest to a temporary SWAT compound seeking medical attention. But we need something really big, like a hospital, that shows where the $25 billion in recovery money is going. It has been nearly six years since Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Gulf of Mexico cutting a swathe of devastation and shock through the psyche of the American people. To get food out. [He] came on site, I think it was Monday after the event. By midday, water levels between the city and Lake Ponchartrain have equalized. The National Guards didn't want to hear it.". WGBH educational foundation, "A close eye will be kept this system could strengthen ", "Media reports attribute Katrina with four fatalities [in Florida], more than a million customers were without electricity", "Katrina will regenerate on Friday over Gulf of Mexico, head west-northwest then turn northward. New Orleans residents are still trapped by the floodwaters, and dispatchers receive about 1,000 emergency phone calls from people needing to be rescued. Kathleen Blanco: By the evening of August 25, when it made . More than four days after the storm hit, the caravan of at least three-dozen camouflage-green troop vehicles and supply trucks arrived along with dozens of air-conditioned buses to take refugees out of the city. We'll put a couple of medical teams on standby. Experts say it was the perfect environment to commit a crime, and the worst environment to report a crime. Katrina Babies is an assertion of presence, a proclamation that the devastating hurricane is not simply a past story, but a present one too. The Army Corps of Engineers projects it could take 80 days to pump the water out of the city. And he passes, literally, hundreds of school buses lined up to come and get these folks. Floodwaters keep rising. Buckles' intimate connection to the people he interviews many of them family members, friends, and former . Get as many people out as possible. They didn't have ammunition. Last September, when Trouble the Water first premiered in New Orleans, I remember thinking, "I have to go down to Canal Place Cinema and support this." Around 9:30 a.m. Mayor Ray Nagin issues a mandatory evacuation. The interviews done as part of this project reflect the disaster's painful, chaotic, and murky aftermath. I aint about to leave, Gettridge said. My sense now is there are victims out there whose stories haven't been heard.". President Bush's Sept. 15th address to the nation. '", Michael Brown, FEMA director: He didn't even know what efforts had been made on his behalf because he had no lines of communications open to him. His goal: To make it possible for his wife of 65 years, Lydia who had gone to live with one of their nine children in Wisconsin after Katrina to return home. I gave people clues on how to pack. New Orleans, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, as seen in the new documentary Katrina Babies. Some parishes order mandatory evacuations. First categorized as a tropical storm, Katrina hit New Orleans, flattening buildings, breaking levees, and flooding the city with terrifying 125 mph winds. Recalling her attack, she sobs, "They just left us to die. On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, causing catastrophic flooding as numerous levees failed around New Orleans. Mayor Nagin estimates 50,000 to 100,000 people remain in the city. He co-wrote the novel,"The Spencer Haywood Rule," and he was co-producer of the "Katrina Cop in the Superdome," a 2010 documentary about the experiences of a black New Orleans police officer and other citizens as they sheltered in the Louisiana Superdome during the Hurricane Katrina disaster of 2005. I spoke to an airman [over the phone] he told me that it had rained very little and there was justexcept for just a few puddles of water in the parking lot, there just was no water, the guards commander, Maj. Gen. Bennett Landreneau, who was monitoring the situation from Baton Rouge, recalled in an interview with FRONTLINE. Phyllis Montana-LeBlancthe breakout star of Spike Lees When the Levees Broke documentary and author of Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Katrina (and a consultant on David Simons new post-Katrina HBO drama)writes below about why viewers should still care about New Orleans four years later, and why Trouble the Water just may be the wakeup call we need. and catcalls of 'What took you so long?,' a National Guard convoy packed with food, water and medicine rolled through axle-deep floodwaters Friday into what remained of New Orleans and descended into a maelstrom of fires and floating corpses. "[I] got to the president. When Hurricane Katrina forced New Orleans poet Shelton Alexander to evacuate his home, he took his truck and video camera to the Superdome. Judy Benitez is executive director of the Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, a statewide coalition of rape crisis centers. Victims of Hurricane Katrina fight through the crowd as they line up for buses to evacuate the Superdome and New Orleans, Sept. 1, 2005.

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