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More than 1800 people died from the storm and flooding after more than a Million People had to be evacuated. The death and destruction along the gulf coast from florida to texas although the situation in new orleans is remember the most. They should get underway shortly. Live coverage here on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] its been 10 years since Hurricane Katrina slammed into the gulf coast. We will hear an update shortly from housing secretary Julian Castro and the housing and urban Development Recovery department. One of several programs on the ann ....
Wanted it to do, which is billed build relationships with the city and Cable Partners and gather great programming for American History tv and book tv. Watched the cities to her on the cspan networks to see where we are going next. See our schedule at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. Next, housing and urban Development Secretary and members of the Recovery Team present a Media Briefing on the gulf Recovery Efforts in the 10 years since hurley Hurricane Katrina. This is just under one hour. Good morning. We want to welcome you for the Media Br ....
They will turn to journalists to recount what so many indoor it and what none of us can forget. Amid the devastating numbers more than 1800 lives lost. And more than 1 million americans displaced, a million homes destroyed across five states. 150 billion in economic damage. Amid all of those numbers, americans will also look for answers. How much progress have we made in the years since katrina particularly in new orleans which was the hardest hit community and what are we doing to continue supporting the housing and overall recovery in the affected communities . Today is about providing answers but its also about more than that. We are also reaffirming their commitment to the people of the gulf to continue working with them and for them until the job of recovery is complete. You see, as long as there are people who want to come home and communities that need to be rebuilt, our job is not done. Thats the true meaning of commemoration. Not to simply mark a day on our calendars but to en ....
Questions called in from cspan and cspan will now answer. Saturday march the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. Julianek, hud secretary castro and members of the housing and urban Development RecoveryTeam Presented a on the recovery efforts. This is one hour. Good morning. We want to welcome you for the Media Briefing ahead of the 10year anniversary of hurricane katrina. Today you will hear from secretary castro and senior policy experts who have worked tirelessly on the gulf recovery from day one. Before i turn it over to secretary castro, i want to let you know we will be taking questions from the media as well as viewers on the webcast and cspan2. Link urge you to send questions via twitter we encourage you to send questions via twitter or by email. That is h. U. D. Public affairs at. Gov. Please join me in ....
We get back on our feet. We will pay you back 100 fold. Mark my last question. The federal government, where do you see them in your community now . Doris icn this point, they are at this point see theyre beginning to pull out. The process,ith they have a longterm Recovery Team in place, but most of that support system is being withdrawn. Longterm presence, but a longterm smaller presence. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2015] announcer thursday, Hurricane Katrina attend anniversary coverage continues. Joinema administrator environmentalist, journalists and others as they evaluate recovery. Norlinpresident obama in new orleans to meet with residents. Our live c ....