Rebuilding New Orleans (text)

September 30, 2005: Transcript of background report With the city still largely in tatters and engineers studying how to fix the levee system, New Orleans officials and planners are looking at the challenges and opportunities facing the city as it looks to rebuild. On a day in which he reopened neighborhoods that once housed more than 100,000 residents, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced a 17-member commission to draft a rebuilding plan for New Orleans, tapping business owners and others, including Roman Catholic Archbishop Alfred Hughes and jazz musician Wynton Marsalis, to the job.

Rebuilding Louisiana

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