reporter: what happened to waveland, mississippi, population 8,000, on august 29, 2005. it was annihilated. i ll be honest with you. we were ground zero. reporter: 238 people in mississippi were killed by hurricane katrina. officer feeder his wife and seven wield old son brennan were among the victim is. be of the phone died she told him they were standing in the bathtub and the water was rising. i wasn t going to abandon my post at the city. i was tasked to do something. justs i know these officers are taskerred to do the same thing. his wife put the baby in a car seat and wrapped the car seat in a life jacket in case she lost the strength to hold on, and climbed to the roof. she is a personal hero. she kept him alive. it takes a lot of strength to hold on to that car seat in 100-miles-an-hour winds. today bren fa indian is a