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NAME: US NEW ORLEANS 20070829I TAPE: EF07/1024 IN_TIME: 10:53:23:16 DURATION: 00:03:16:14 SOURCES: AP TELEVISION/ABC DATELINE: New Orleans, 28 August 2007/FILE RESTRICTIONS: Part No Access NAmerica/Internet SHOTLIST ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet 28 August 2007 1. Wide of US President George W. Bush walking down steps of Air Force One, being greeted by Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana's First Gentleman Raymond Blanco, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and other officials 2. Aerial of New Orleans 3. Helicopter Marine One landing 4. Bush walks out of helicopter 5. Wide of Bush having dinner with cultural leaders 6. Bush talking to Chef Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole cooking AP Television 28 August 2007 7. Wide of Harry Bellinger and his wife Ray Bellinger inside their home 8. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ray Bellinger, New Orleans Resident: " They've asked us to come back home but sometimes I wonder if there is a reason, I ask why, why are we back here. I don't feel safe, I want to cry sometimes when I come out and look at the houses, the homes it don't look like people are ever coming back." 9. Zoom out of waste in front of house 10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Harry Bellinger, New Orleans Resident: "I'm really scared for my family; and whose visiting my wife and little grandson here." 11. Pan to Ray Bellinger 12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ray Bellinger, New Orleans Resident: "We don't come out; once it's dark we're in, locked in." 13. Mid of workers 14. Set-up shot of New Orleans Resident Irma Cutis 15. Pan across working scene 16. SOUNDBITE: (English) Irma Curtis, New Orleans Resident: (SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT) "I don't feel as safe as I did before Katrina. I usually try to accomplish what I need to do between the hours of 8 and 8:30 and at night time I am usually not out." 17. Mid of workers 18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Colonel Terry Ebbert, New Orleans homeland security director: "No city in America since the civil war has had their criminal justice system shut down; that's their courts, their jails, their DA (district attorney office), their crime lab, their evidence room, their headquarters, their buildings, all of that has been destroyed." ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet 28 August 2007 19. Various of building on 17th Street Canal ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet FILE: 2005 20. Aerial of Katrina aftermath ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet 28 August 2007 21. Wide of ship near canal ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet 28 August 2007 22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Prof. Oliver Houck, Professor at Tulane University Law School: "They're thinking levees, they're thinking pumps, they're thinking concrete, they're thinking beat nature." ABC - No Access NAmerica/Internet FILE: 2005 23. Aerial of Katrina aftermath STORYLINE: US President George W. Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina's arrived in New Orleans on Tuesday, a day ahead of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, as anger over the stalled rebuilding is palpable throughout the city. The president and Laura Bush arrived dined with New Orleans cultural leaders. Leah Chase, the Queen of Creole cooking, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees and musician Irvin Mayfield were among them. Hurricane Katrina made landfall south of New Orleans at 6:10 a.m. on August 29, 2005, as a strong Category 3 hurricane that flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,600 people in Louisiana and Mississippi. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. On Wednesday, protest marchers, accompanied by brass bands, planned to walk from the obliterated Lower 9th Ward to Congo Square, a venerable spot where slaves were able to celebrate their culture. At Charity Hospital, a 21-story limestone hospital adorned with allegorical reliefs, public officials will attend a somber groundbreaking for a victims' memorial and mausoleum that will house the remains of more than 100 victims still not identified. Churches will hold memorial services, including one at the historic St. Louis Cathedral on Jackson Square, and ring bells in honor of the victims. In keeping with the somber atmosphere, a candlelight vigil is on the schedule in Jackson Square at dusk, right around the time the French Quarter may start getting tipsy with street parties and anniversary revelers, as happened last year. While the city's population is rebounding, and a few neighborhoods thrive, much of the houses are abandoned. Basic services like schools, libraries, public transportation and childcare are at half their original capacity and only two-thirds of the region's licensed hospitals are open. Rental properties are in severely short supply, driving rents for those that are available way up. Crime is rampant and police operate out of trailers. "We don't come out; once it's dark we're in, locked in," said Ray Bellinger, a New Orleans resident. Meanwhile, work continues on New Orleans' levees, which failed dismally during Hurricane Katrina. Bush's Gulf Coast rebuilding chief, Don Powell, noted the federal government has committed a total of 114 (b) billion US dollars to the region, 96 (b) billion US dollars of which is already disbursed or available to local governments. Most of it has been for disaster relief, not long-term recovery. Still, Powell's implied criticism was that it is local officials' fault, particularly in Louisiana where the pace has been slower, if money has not reached citizens. Powell also said the president intends to ask for the approximately 5 (b) billion US dollars federal share of the 7.6 (b) billion US dollars more needed to strengthen New Orleans' levee system to withstand a 100-year storm and improve the area's drainage system. Though the levees are not yet ready for the next massive storm, they are slated to be strengthened by 2015.