(13 Oct 2005)

1. Tracking shot of damaged houses and debris
2. Damaged and vandalised house
3. Wide pan on resident William Copelin pushing shopping trolley towards house
4. Close-up of graffiti on house
5. Various Copelin cleaning up inside house
8. SOUNDBITE (English) William Copelin, homeowner:
"You have to go on. Life goes on. Pick up the pieces and keep going."
9. Tilt up of damage in house
10. SOUNDBITE (English) William Copelin, homeowner:
"I'm just trying to get some papers out of here that's all, after that I'm gone."
11. Close-up of feet walking
12. Resident Erwin Thomas walking into damaged house
13. Thomas opening door
14. Tilt down of damage in house
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Ervin Thomas, homeowner:
"I'm pretty sad right now, I really am but I'm alive. I can always start over again. I know many people wasn't (sic) fortunate to get out alive. As I ride through I see where some of the FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) people made marks on the houses to show that nobody was in here and I've seen a few houses where some people were in there. So I feel fortunate that way and I try to focus on that to keep myself somewhat sane. That's how I feel right now."
16. Pan to fallen street sign
17. Wide pan of damage in street

STORYLINE:

Dozens of residents returned for the first time Wednesday to New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward to see what was left after floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina drowned the neighbourhood up to its roofs.

Residents in the Ninth Ward - one of the city's most impoverished and low-lying communities - were among the last to flee the rising floodwaters.

Many were plucked from their attics and housetops with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

Six weeks after the hurricane struck and damaged levees turned the Lower Ninth into a lake, its people are last in line again - the last in the city to return home to survey the damage.

Floodwaters swept William Copelin's father from his house.

He returned Wednesday for the first time to see what could be salvaged.

His father's body still hasn't been found.

Officials say residents would be allowed past roadblocks from dawn to sundown daily, but only to "Look and Leave."

They say the destruction was too extensive and the neighbourhood is still to dangerous to allow anyone to stay.

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