the battered shores of waveland. no community was hit harder by katrina, and none has been more mindful of the fact that children suffered just as much as adults. caroline collins can attest to that, because she remembers her father staying through the storm and returning to find him amid the wreckage. coming home in like seeing him when he walked through the door and i remember him kissing all of us on the head. i still remember it. reporter: and so from the start this town has focused on the recovery of children as much as the return of adults, because as the mayor tommy longo puts it, more than business and more than government families are the heart and soul of the community. reporter: as a result, some of the earliest recovery projects here were family-oriented. baseball fields and parks, a community center, a new librar new schools, and safe places for children and their parents to
on the head. so choked up about it. so from the start, this town has focused on the recovery of children as much as the return of adults, because as mayor tommy longo puts it, more than business, more than government the families are the heart and soul of the community. as a result, some of the earliest recovery projects here were family-oriented. baseball field and parks, a community center, a new library, new schools, and safe places for children and their parents to retreat from the devastation and debris. it s an ongoing process. at st. clair s church, still in a temporary building, a new youth group has just been started. beth is an organizer, and she has never had any doubts about staying. i lived here my whole life. you know, this is where i belong, and this is where my children belong and my family. and there was no question that we were going to rebuild.
msnbc contributor who was not playing last night. but let me tell you the press corps did really well because they started out really slow, but that seventh inning. it was a great night to store. we ll still be talking about tony hayward s disastrous performance here at these hearings up on capitol hill, but tomorrow we ll definitely be talking about the president s trip tomorrow to ohio to tout the projects that are being funded by the recovery act and actually over the next six weeks, the white house is going to be sending members of the cabinet across the country to herald a ramp up of recovery projects, roads, bridges and national parks. vice president biden heads out to michigan on monday and so i think we ll be talking about you know, what s been going on with the recovery act, apparently this ground breaking that the