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Katrina at Five: The Lower Ninth Ward

Michael Knight lived those harrowing images so many others remember from Hurricane Katrina: the waters rising and rising, people trapped in their homes racing to their rooftops, crawling through windows to escape Katrina's wrath. "We've been running," Knight said back in 2005. "I feel like crying. A lot of people just died, bro." After the pounding winds and hammering rains of Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans, the worst was still yet to come. Flood waters rushed into the Ninth Ward,...Full Story
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