the beach is right there. we had an above ground pool. everybody loved it. and just -- >> now you have nothing to come to. >> nothing, nothing. >> are you going to get this done eventually? do you believe in your heart? >> if it kills me, i'm going to get it done. yelp. >> you will get your home back? >> yeah. somehow. >> heart-breaking, shep. and all over waveland these sort of abandoned lots stand like ghosts. ghosts of the lives that were once lived here, haunting reminders of what was taken away five years ago by katrina's fury. shep? >> shepard: jonathan hunt, live in waveland mississippi. jonathan, thanks. just to the west in new orleans the army corps of engineers reports a new multi-million-dollar system of levies is nearly complete. that system designed to keep this from happening again.