Happened here. George w. Bush, the man who gave him the nickname and told him he was doing a heck of a job. He was here today. President obama was here yesterday. Tonight with a serious storm making its way toward the gulf of mexico how two president s, countless, state, federal agencies and others are and are not living up to promises they made to rebuild homes, lives to make the levee stronger, to make new orleans better than it was before the storm. In short, well look at what is being done to keep the faith with all the people we have met and good friend we have made here over the years. Starting in the very worst of times. These are some of the very first aerial pictures of what new orleans looks look today. Reporter who can forget what it looked like. The fires, the flooding, the desperation. The Lower 9th Ward almost completely under water. More than 1,800 lives lost. More than 100,000 homes destroyed. The levees were flawed in their design. The local state and federal governmen
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and it depend. if you have another hurricane. hurricane katrina and rita caused 200 square miles to disappear. 200 square miles. for some one that doesn t follow this. why is that important? what is the coastal land there? you have got this basically, this pillowen front of the levee system. that stretches out for miles. and so, it reuses the storm surge. in the wetlands. what the state plan is to put the wetlands back in specific areas to protect the levee system. along with ridges as well. along with a, a regrown cypress forest on the eastern side of the city that will help reduce the storm surge. mark, appreciate all of your reporting. thank you. so great to see you. thank you. thank you. just ahead one man s inspiring journey from despair to hope. russell gore, he lost his wife in katrina. then nearly lost his will to
thesleeping in the house. what s on your right arm. love for life. rest in peace. cynthia. true. russell learned that hitting golf balls into the lake across the street from his home helped him deal with stress andage sigh tee. and his passion for art always helped soothe him. thank you, lady. reporter: then he met a woman who became his girlfriend and her two sons. they came in my life at a time that i really needed somebody to trust. reporter: russell gore says it finally started to dawn on him that his life needed to go on. when it first happened i blamed myself. if i could have committed sue sigh. i probably would. i don t feel that way. you feel today. ten years later you have healed. i feel good. i feel good. what an incredible story. i understand something
took his will to live without her. in the last ten years though he has found unexpected gift that helped him to heal. gary tuchman has his story. reporter: russell gore is a creative soul. one for five, two for nine. i m the artist who makes them. reporter: earrings, pins, broaches. he makes and sold them for 27 years at the famous french market tourist siten new orleans. i make a pretty decent living. enough to feed myself. reporter: many people know his face. but very few know anything about the torment he has dealt with in his mind. russell gore lives in the city s new orleans east neighborhood. in this house. the same house he lived in when katrina came through. a day in which his life changed in ways he never could have imagined. we met him at this house seven years ago when hurricane gustov
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