(9 Mar 2006)
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New Orleans, Louisiana - 8 March 2006
1. Various aerials of presidential helicopter tour
2. Bush walking through street in lower Ninth Ward with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco
3. Various of tractor loader
4. Bush and worker walking along talking
5. Bush emerges from house in lower Ninth Ward
6. Bush talking with workers
7. Wide of substructure for levee dyke along Mississippi River
8. Pan from structure to Bush talking to engineers
9. Wide of Bush looking at plans for rebuilding dykes
10. Bush walks up to microphone
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"The determination by the folks down here to rebuild, I fully understand and I hope our country understands the pain and agony that the people of New Orleans and Louisiana, and the parishes surrounding New Orleans went through. But I think people would be impressed by the desire for the people in this part of the country to pick up and move on and rebuild."
12. Bush with Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
"To get the debris, the residents need to get permission in most cases to the local authorities and so they need to get back to their houses so they can decide what to keep and what to remove. The problem is, obviously, many of the homeowners are still displaced. And that's why we're working at all levels of government to encourage evacuees to inspect their property and to salvage what they can and to make decisions about the future.
14. Cutaway of Bush with Blanco and Nagin
15. Bush shakes hands with Blanco and Nagin
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Buloxi, Mississippi - 8 March 2006
16. Helicopter arrives on roadway
17. Wide of home under construction
18. Bush with construction worker installing light
19. Bush with family and construction workers installing flag
STORYLINE:
US President George W. Bush returned to New Orleans on Wednesday for a first-hand look at progress being made to rebuild throughout the gulf region six months after Hurricane Katrina.
Many residents are frustrated and angry that more progress has not been made.
Bush's trip, his tenth since the hurricane hit, was aimed at three problem areas: efforts to restore the ravaged city's levees, removing still-persistent debris from affected communities and lagging efforts to get people back in their homes.
By air, Bush toured the areas around Lake Pontchartrain where water flooded into an upper middle class neighbourhood along the shores of the lake.
In the Lower Ninth Ward, an area ravaged by flood waters and hurricane winds, Bush walked down a street where debris removal crews were clearing away limbs, plywood scraps and personal possessions left by people who fled the city.
He stopped briefly to talk to construction workers and went into a house in the neighbourhood that is almost ready for habitation.
On the banks of the Mississippi River, the president visited the construction project that is repairing and upgrading the levees.
More than three-fourths of New Orleans was flooded after Katrina sent water through failed levees.
The president was told that the new levees will be equal to the levees in place before Katrina struck last August and by 2007, the levees will be able to withstand a force five hurricane.
Before leaving the nearly deserted city, Bush praised the efforts of its inhabitants to rebuild the city and called on Congress to come up with billions of dollars to rebuild the city.
After visiting New Orleans, the president flew on the Buloxi, Mississippi, where one family is rebuilding their home.
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