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AP-APTN-2330: ++US Hurricane Saturday, 28 August 2010 STORY:++US Hurricane- NEW Symbolic funeral service for Hurricane Katrina on 5th anniversary LENGTH: 03:14 FIRST RUN: 2330 RESTRICTIONS: AP Clients Only TYPE: English/Natsound SOURCE: AP TELEVISION STORY NUMBER: 655797 DATELINE: Chalmette, New Orleans - 28 Aug 2010 LENGTH: 03:14 AP TELEVISION - AP CLIENTS ONLY SHOTLIST: Chalmette, Louisiana 1 Pan from church choir to Funeral for Katrina service 2 Close up, choir member singing 3 Close up, sheet music used by choir 4 SOUNDBITE (English) Jesse Boyd, pastor: We're here to say arrivederci, adios, goodbye to Katrina Rest well Oh, yes 5 Knights of Columbus honour guards 6 Ceremonial coffin holding notes from community honouring Katrina victims 7 Boyd, delivering sermon 8 Various of the congregation 9 SOUNDBITE (English) Rhonda Pirtle, service attendee: I had four families in my family that were across the Gulf coast and here in Chalmette that lost everything in the storm, and I just felt like I wanted to be here They can't be here They have relocated, and so I'm here because they are not 10 Crowd waving handkerchiefs, singing as pallbearers carry coffin 11 Pan from open coffin with notes inside to Goodbye Hurricane Katrina embroidered inside 12 SOUNDBITE (English) Rhonda Pirtle, service attendee: I'm glad to be here This is something that this area will never forget You do feel a lot of emotion for the people who actually were here and who actually lived through it, and you saw what they lost, and it's just important for me to be here New Orleans, Louisiana 13 Pan from rainy skies to hurricane monument in Lower Ninth Ward 14 Rain falling on flowers at monument 15 Inscription on monument 16 Pan of inscription of date Katrina made landfall 17 Sign on building (English): Welcome to The Lower Ninth Ward 18 Weeds on overgrown housing lot with street sign in Lower Ninth Ward 19 Abandoned house in Lower Ninth Ward 20 Door, boarded up STORYLINE: It was a sombre, yet spirited start to events to mark the fifth anniversary of the landfall of Hurricane Katrina About 100 people gathered at Our Lady of Prompt Succour Catholic Church in Chalmette, Louisiana, for an ecumenical Katrina memorial service Billed by speakers as a Funeral for Katrina, the centrepiece of the service was a steel-grey coffin filled with letters and mementoes honouring the victims of the storm which led to flooding of large swaths of New Orleans and neighbouring Chalmette We're here to say arrivederci, adios, goodbye to Katrina, Jesse Boyd, pastor at the Praise Temple Fellowship in nearby Violet, Louisiana, said Rest well The disaster killed more than 1,800 people Saturday's service was one of several events taking place one day before the fifth anniversary of Katrina's arrival; 29 August, 2005 Many were cancelled because of a driving, all-day rainstorm, not unlike the weather across the city in the hours before Katrina's winds whipped up in 2005 In New Orleans, rain-drenched flowers were placed at a memorial site in the devastated Lower Ninth Ward City leaders will mark the anniversary at the site on Sunday morning with a rally and a march Later on Sunday, US President Barack Obama will deliver a speech at Xavier University The city's mayor, Mitch Landrieu, will later lead a memorial event in the historic Jackson Square Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: infoaparchivecom (ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory APTN APEX 08-28-10 2028EDT