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The police chief even repeated a lot of them. Rosenthal: I would say that was absolutely the coup of my organization. Tuskegee. And I mean, I was—I never stopped running. Give me an O’Doul’s.”. Newkirk II: We had a long day talking. You with me? And Mark is a guy who covered the worst disasters for years. It’s forced state officials to divert scarce resources to neighborhood patrols, hoping that a show of force will keep the looting in check. Not a street, a road—rocks. A house here and there, but plenty of open fields of grass. And I was looking all over to find a house. And I was looking all over to find a house. The city was still rebuilding. They went out to try to find supplies. Because we heard about what happened.” My cousin stood in front of the class and started talking about herself. I’m not going to justify Haley Barbour “shoot to kill.” I’m not going to justify that. Like, we were saying they were a bunch of negligent fools. Floodlines is a production of The Atlantic. That meant the FEMA head now reported to DHS, not the president. I’m headed back to New Orleans.”. Craft-Kerney: Now, what I will say is when I was there my mission was to make sure they treated my people well. Lakebound. You and I both would. The federal government was promising a lot of money to build new mixed-income units. Performance & security by Cloudflare, Please complete the security check to access. I would compare it to the sound of someone talking on a … Archival (news clip): Sergeant, when you hear them, are you hearing the same stuff we’re hearing coming out in New Orleans? The Corps had designed and built the levees, but it was the local government’s job to maintain them. I mean, you’re opening the kimono up to the world and saying, “You know what? Or Mom, how you feel since Katrina? Katrina was bad. Absolutely. Newkirk II: Around the time the two families crossed paths, police nearby got a call. They don’t have jobs. We travelled to Rolla, Missouri, to speak with him. Newkirk II: He admitted to getting some stuff wrong. The water destroyed lots of houses. I need your help.” So he’s shaking me. Her family did their best to find somewhere to make a new life. I’m here with my baby; nobody’s coming.” And the wonderful firefighters, boat rescue, everything—we’d hear it, and everybody would head for it. Brown: I think the acknowledgment piece, I think you’re right. And just downriver from Treme is the Seventh Ward. An autopsy revealed that Brumfield was shot in the back. Archival (West): George Bush doesn’t care about black people. RZZMG is a fanfiction author that has written 192 stories for Harry Potter, X-Men, A Court of Thorns and Roses, StarTrek: The Original Series, Vampire: The Masquerade, Supernatural, and Terminator. Rogers: You know, there were just—there were some things that were just really stupid. And I find it offensive. Boy, stop. Archival (news clip): There is late word tonight from Louisiana State Police that a New Orleans police officer was shot by a looter. A novelty pen radio. We’d been telling ourselves a story that America comes together in the face of hard times. Following the same path as Katrina. And all that talk about snipers, it almost did the job. Newkirk II: Alice Craft-Kerney was back in the city too. And if you’re wondering what corruption looks like in the Arabian-horse–breeding world … I was wondering the same thing. The governor was there, and so was Michael Brown, the FEMA director. From the beginning, he had a bad feeling about the storm. You know, it really was. They headed toward the headquarters of the Black Men of Labor: a bar called Sweet Lorraine’s. Honoré’s visit would help kick-start efforts to bring food and water to the thousands of people in the convention center. And that’s the crazy part. It’s absolutely huge. Who worrying about me? Only one home, house totally silent. Newkirk II: As investigators worked, Congress started holding hearings. So I got the jacket. He hadn’t slept. New Orleans had its savior. She’ll tell you what she will say. We found one gas station that we were going to in Birmingham. Weak sunshine but quite warm at 16C/61F this morning. This is rumors. You can’t have New Orleans no other way; it wouldn’t be New Orleans. • So I guess now we’re somebody. Johnson: My primary feelings. They say that 'time assuages,' — Time is a test of trouble, But not a remedy. There was no evidence of sabotage from 1965, but still, that’s what lots of people believed. So it’s a bridge that goes over the Industrial Canal in the eastern part of the city. It took 10 years, but they’d gotten the author of the most influential report on the levees to correct the record. I think we just have an unrealistic expectation [that] massive federal bureaucracy can just instantaneously do stuff, and it just cannot. Archival (news clip): Word that local police have been involved in what appears to be a tragic case of mistaken identity. Archival (Siegel): But this is the convention center. Newkirk II: Fred co-founded a group in the city called the Black Men of Labor. Production assistance from Emily Gottschalk-Marconi, Myles Poydras, and Kaila Philo. Richard and the old horse had made it. Newkirk II: That act put the Army Corps of Engineers in charge of controlling the flooding all up and down the Mississippi. It came up from the south and east of Florida. This time, the cavalry was not coming. Archival (congressional hearing): Would both of you raise your right hand. They’re talking about the progress of rescue efforts in New Orleans. Newkirk II: In the days after he first landed at the Superdome, the rumors and misinformation had done their work. No ambulances either. She was the only member of her family on Last Island to survive. Newkirk II: If Katrina had really been the big one, the answers would have been easy. It is the federal assistance that New Orleans has literally been begging for. And I’m like, Okay. Rescues, supply runs. I mean, they drinking their asses off. Either they were fed up, or they just wanted to escape Katrina. Le-Ann actually liked it in Scottsdale. The president had cut his vacation in Texas short to respond. Katrina was a huge storm, and people like you don’t deserve help.” He just insulted every person I know. And I told him that, you know, I’m not nervous about it, but I’m really curious about the line of questioning and the tone of the questioning and everything. The Atlantic covers news, politics, culture, technology, health, and more, through its articles, podcasts, videos, and flagship magazine. The country was trying to figure out who to blame. People had worried about sabotage in 1965 during Hurricane Betsy too. Mark and John predicted a city uninhabitable for at least four months with up to 100,000 people dead. It’s my home. In this story, there is a wolf but no pigs, instead you get tamales. It’s been called the “first great storm” in the recorded history of Louisiana. Oh! Were you appreciative of other people’s contributions? You know about him? And Le-Ann went home. In charge of the whole thing. Folks who had seen Jim Crow or heard the stories. Like so many other Katrina kids, her life had been disrupted over and over again. Newkirk II: As Sandy watched TV, she started to recognize a pattern. What do you make of all this? Newkirk II: The problem is that history of flood control is also full of floods. The White House had created Joint Task Force Katrina and put him in charge of units in Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, and Louisiana. Yeah. And I did my job until I was actually forced out of my job. She was like, “Do you want to just stand in front of class and tell us about y’all self? Newkirk II: When you think about it, all the pushback—the comments and emails and confrontations—they were all over what might be considered small details. He chews people out and curses a lot. But a bluff was all they had. The few bad things that happened, which were horrific, just overshadowed all the good things that went down. Johnson: You had the collectiveness of a village. And Alice was let go. Robinette: It sounded like whoop, whoop, whoop. And I was not in tune to the weather. Archival (radio clip): It’s United Radio Broadcasters of New Orleans. You have your mission. It ain’t one thing; it’s multiple things. Newkirk II: Le-Ann Williams and her family had spent a year traveling across the country. Archival (news clip): Gangs of thieves who armed themselves from local stores now roam the streets, looting even the hospitals. Maybe it’s easy to dismiss all this as a conspiracy theory. For people who knew the history of being treated like second-class citizens, it was easy to find patterns. He sent one John Wayne dude down here that can get some stuff done. I had home. Okay. Newkirk II: Bush’s flyover wasn’t exactly good PR. Didn’t knock all the buildings down, but it sure knocked a lot of them down. I’m tired. My press secretary was instructed, “You find every freakin’ outlet that I can talk to so that I can tell them that I think this is going to be really bad and that you need to get the hell out of dodge.”. Newkirk II: That’s Mark Schleifstein, an environmental reporter in New Orleans. In a Gallup poll released weeks after Katrina, most Americans said they thought the residents of New Orleans handled things poorly right after the storm. And I’m just stuffing the bag with food and drinks for us so we could have to eat. Either a blind spot or an unwillingness. Dozens of people drowned. They’d been separated from home and from family; dealt with violence, homelessness, and PTSD. I got—I’m with you. I think you have more of that going on than people looking for food. Growing up, all of Alice’s friends used to stop by for Miss Hattie’s cooking. They prescribed me Zoloft; I remember that. And it is not simply a natural disaster tonight. But for Fred, it’s not really about the houses. You gotta get out the way. They cared for a lot of poor folks without insurance, and [it] was the only place lots of them could get mental health care. They didn’t have power. Richard found his master’s 18-year-old daughter bleeding from a head wound and delivered her to safety. Newkirk II: The difficulty I’m having is [that] when we talk about the convention center, especially, we have a reason. Generations in New Orleans had lived behind the great levees that had been built and rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers. Newkirk II: Le-Ann was limping now. She was found not guilty. And you just see them lined up. And what did he say to you? J.J. Brissette is shot dead. … But even their editors were kind of skeptical about the reporting. Craft-Kerney: One day I was in my room at my brother’s house, and I don’t know how to describe it except it was like I was lying down and it was like I could hear it. Somebody to get the chaos under control. Archival (Nagin): People don’t wanna talk about this, but I’mma talk about it. Johnson: And there was a lady, a white woman who was driving a cab. And I’m not going to accept responsibility for that because I told that governor and I told that mayor. The intensity of this storm simply exceeded the design capacity of this levee. Something was wrong with the levees. It’s from “Decision Points Theater,” an interactive exhibit at the museum … more like a video game, really. Newkirk II: On the radio, he found that the callers were just as nervous as he was. But Katrina’s the first time I saw something happened to a whole group of people who look like me, and it was because they look like me, right? And she happened to see us. Like so many other Katrina kids, her life had been disrupted over and over again. Newkirk II: That giant window behind Garland started rattling. After a week passed, they decided to walk back to their home in the east. They having a hurricane party. Do you federalize the response? Newkirk II: I mean, Baghdad? And Chief Compass did what he could to keep things together. There were so many tall tales being told about New Orleans, some of them from official sources, that you had to be skeptical about everything. That’s where Mark lived. Archival (Michael Chertoff): Well, first, let me tell you there have been deliveries of food, water, and medical supplies to the Superdome. Somewhere the government might be able to help them. Editing by Scott Stossel. Several groups were doing the same: the Army Corps of Engineers, private researchers, groups of amateurs. Maybe the water is waiting to betray us again, because to betray also means to expose the truth. It would be white neighborhoods, wealthy ones, city buildings, fancy condos. He’d gotten there days after the storm. Newkirk II: Well, I guess that you have access to the most powerful person in the world. Archival (news clip): One tourist inside the city who snapped pictures of looting in the French Quarter called the scene insane, that tourists likened it to downtown Baghdad. Fact-checking by William Brennan. Honoré: The lights were out. Williams: I think I took my shoes off because they were soaking wet, and I remember me stepping on something. Newkirk II: So explain to me as if I’m a person in the convention center. So I made a pallet on the floor, and I had on a khaki shirt and the khaki pants and a pair of little summer shoes. I talked about how the levees were faulty and shouldn’t have broken. Rogers: We’re trying to see what the mobilized sheer strength of those little horizons were. It was absolutely an amazing sight …. Compass: And, you know. I mean, those were the three most prevalent diagnoses that I saw in my clinic. Archival (news clip): A general with the Army Corps of Engineers says he does not know how long it will take to drain the flooded city of New Orleans. Can you?” And she was like, “Sure. Newkirk II: Looking down from above, Ivor saw that his computer models had been right. There’s a fine line between—I’m never going to say to somebody “I think the levees are going to breach.” I’m not going to say that. You know what I mean? There are great things. Fred wanted to go see for himself. Newkirk II: When Le-Ann’s mother heard that, she panicked. Le-Ann started to think they were all going to die there. “Tell Dad I’m here.” It was great. Here we are and here it is. I just didn’t understand. Craft-Kerney: I was just literally exhausted because so many people had called off. Feces rolls downhill. Less than half of the 400 or so units there belong to people who used to live there. It was the era of the 24-hour cable news broadcast, but before everybody had smartphones and social media. No one’s kidding. Newkirk II: Levees.org put this sign there. Williams: My dad took me school shopping, and I had my Jordans that I wanted. Thanks to Adrienne LaFrance, Jeffrey Goldberg, David Dennis Jr., Hannah Giorgis, Clint Smith, and Shan Wang. You’ll get a briefing, expert policy advice, and vote on what you what to do. Archival (news clip): Sir, you’re not telling me you just learned that the folks at the convention center didn’t have food and water until today, are you? I’m dealing with that. Everybody is wearing something green, green socks, green panties, green lingerie, and the half naked girls are looking so hot and sexy, turning the crowd on by having hot lesbian sex, making out, masturbating each other, rubbing and fingering their gushing slits. There wasn’t going to be an easy answer, no matter how long we talked. She went to trial. Are you doing fine?” None of that. Everything. I just …, Newkirk II: Saw race matter in like a way that was …. That local officials had a hand in forcing the Army Corps to build bad levees. What I know was there were a lot of women and children and old people in that building. Laughing can make you live longer. So we went from land owners to renters. He raised cows for segregated 4-H shows. He never wrote back. Couldn’t come back … and I don’t know why. Finding fuel for airplanes. Archival (Nagin): When you mention New Orleans anywhere around the world, everybody’s eyes light up. There’s nothing wrong with those levees. Williams: I just couldn’t believe it. I heard it all over town. You know, it’s a lot of questions. Archival (documentary): The Army engineers were instructed to develop and put into effect an overall plan for controlling the floods, which for years …. White people used the opportunity to take it. Across the city, all of the defiance in the face of the storm settled into a kind of tension. Lots of the danger from a hurricane doesn’t come from the rain or the wind itself, but from a wall of water the wind pushes out in front of it. Good evening. Come here. The Army Corps took that patchwork and turned it into mighty walls that could hold back river, lake, and storm. But you oversee a country. I know some Honorés right here in New Orleans.” So and they were yelling, “Hey, bruh! Controlling the narrative. It’s right before dark. She was going to rally people to demand answers. The storm’s eye approached. The show’s producers, Alvin and Katherine, kept asking if we wanted to take a break, get some coffee. But we were—The question was, When are we going to get rescued? The experts will not agree among themselves, but your job is to make a decision. We know how to do tough shit, but you gotta get the logistics set to get it done. That was the high rise. Elderly and sick people needed airlifts to hospitals. Being on the air so much meant Garland got more than his fair share of call-ins. A couple months after they got to Magee, Le-Ann’s parents took her to Scottsdale, Arizona. Sahvage has been living under the radar for centuries—and he has … Rogers: They didn’t like what I was saying, and they felt that it was damning of the Corps of Engineers. That would be like—it would have made more sense to say martians had landed. To do a tough job in the middle of a crisis. Le-Ann Williams: I could just remember this loud whistling sound. They didn’t wear uniforms. He served on the city council. Michael was desperate. Those gold-standard levees built by the Army Corps of Engineers just weren’t so great. It wasn’t a love story. Newkirk II: Mayor Nagin had made the Superdome the official refuge of last resort. After the Danziger Bridge shootings, the families sued the department and revealed the cover up. The stuff they predicted was alarming. And my cousins, when they came to school and they kind of blended in with my friends and we were just all always together, all us. There’s Lake Pontchartrain to the north. Some people who got FEMA trailers found out they were laced with formaldehyde. I’m just saying, “I’m never going to be back home. Was it poor planning, or was it by design? Katrina validated that. Honoré: So you go on and on that there’s nobody out there blowing levees. But they were still closed when she got back. Newkirk II: If you go to the site of the breach in the Lower Ninth Ward today, you’ll see that the walls have been repaired. The people who evacuated could come back soon. Do you feel like after this maybe you will? It all came into view on Friday when he first went to the convention center. Looting on a scale that was just so staggering, so overwhelming. Newkirk II: Sandy felt that her fight was not just about facts, but about an idea. Somebody walked down the street, said, “Hey, what happened to you last night?” “Well, I saw five people get raped at the convention center.” They don’t go ask the police if they know anybody. But, as it later turned out, the man who first reported the shots wasn’t even a cop and might not have actually seen or heard gunshots at all. There are, I estimate, 2,000 people living like animals inside the city convention center and around it. This town is better today than it was yesterday, and it’ll be better tomorrow than it was today. He couldn’t find any signs that the water had gone over the top of the levees. Without wetlands to stop the surge, it would grow higher and higher. I don’t know where he was born or where he died. You’ve done your homework; you’ve Googled my name; you know the stories that are out there. There’s old stories of escaped enslaved folks hiding out there. This person needs this, this, and this.” And I was their advocate, but I had great nurses before me who taught me. And the past will always find its way back to us. When he got back to New Orleans, he had his hands full with logistics. Yeah. But for him, the Sunday parade is where it all comes together. That people with power and money might see an empty city as an opportunity for change. He gave it a shot. She was gonna have to start over again. I named my daughter Destiny. It’s like 50–60 of us. I’m sorry.” Like he right here telling me “I’m sorry.” I’mma get y’all two. Williams: Yeah. Alice spent a lot of time at her brother’s house in the Lower Ninth Ward after she got back. But even being a scapegoat means that people know who you are. Honoré stayed behind to rescue stragglers and help get the city up and running again. But he’s also one of the guys people call when big engineering projects fail. The canal was designed to drain water out of the city and pump it up to the lake. If you feel like that’s an apology, then that’s fine. Most cell towers were down in the city. DeBerry: Ronald is basically chased down and hunted and shot dead. He shook the shit out of me. Even if it wasn’t, why didn’t they do more to help people? Yeah, that’s beautiful. Archival (footage): Who said that we want our homes demolished? They said, “I’m not coming to work. Yeah. Brown: They perform cosmetic surgery on the horse. The White House was offering Special Ops troops to provide order. In the Lower Ninth, it was especially bad. You know? They were stranded too. Don’t go in there!” I’m like, “Mom, we have to get food and stuff.”. But in New Orleans, the next week wouldn’t quite work out that way. But it was hard to get stability. Who cares about a poor, black 14-year-old girl? I totally get that. The apartment was dry, but the streets around it were filling up with water. Williams: Our kids would be here, and they would be able to experience it, and they’ll be like history repeating itself. Newkirk II: They went back to the newspaper office, but soon that was flooding, too. She had numbers. There’s no food. Newkirk II: Today, Le-Ann Williams is a long way from where she grew up. They’ve been walking for days.” And the lady, she opened the bus. Newkirk II: On Sunday night, Katrina got closer and closer to New Orleans. This was just four years after 9/11. Journalists like Jarvis, paranoid police officers, and people just trying to make their way out of a city in chaos. I struggle with—and I know you, you’re not gonna answer the question—but it’s like, What do people want me to apologize for? Lance and Ronald Madison. There ain’t no “Hold up your hand and put your hand on the Bible” and all that. We gotta go.” So I remember us packing the stuff we had—like, our purses, you know, book bags and stuff we had. A few years after she opened the clinic, she had to close it down. Kids were out of school and having fun. It really appeared that people didn’t matter what color you were. They need a female player. Archival (news clip): Looting is widespread. He stayed behind for weeks in the Hyatt hotel, running missions for the police and authorities. But behind their leisure was the hand of slave power that ran everything. Williams: No, I’m telling you, we just kind of swept under the rug for 14 years. I was raised by two incredible parents to see people as humans. The hysteria got so bad that the Red Cross waited a month to get to New Orleans.
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