NOAA released this satellite image of Hurricane Katrina taken on Aug. 28, 2005, at 11:45 a.m. EDT when the storm was a Category Five hurricane. (UPI Photo/NOAA) | License Photo
Water pours through a break in a levee in this aerial photographs of the devastation caused by the high winds and heavy flooding in the greater New Orleans area on August 30, 2005 following Hurricane Katrina. (UPI Photo/Vincent Laforet/Pool) | License Photo
Houses are swamped by floodwaters following hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on September 4, 2005. (UPI Photo/Liz Roll/FEMA) | License Photo
New Orleans suffers from massive flooding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 29, 2005. (UPI Photo/USCG/Kyle Niemi).. | License Photo
Residents are evacuated from their homes in New Orleans by a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team on August 31, 2005. .(UPI Photo/Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA) | License Photo
Deandra Simon, pregnant and already a mother of two, recieved an MRE and one bottle of water at the convention center in downtown New Orleans on Sept. 2, 2005. Many people there have had little food or water for the last three days. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo
Katrina refugees sleep in the Astrodome in Houston, Texas on Friday, September 2, 2005. (UPI Photo/Chris Carson) | License Photo
Hurricane Katrina refugees fill the Astrodome floor in Houston, Texas on Friday, September 2, 2005. (UPI Photo/Chris Carson) | License Photo
From left, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, City Councilman Oliver Thomas and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco speak at a press conference at New Orleans City Hall Saturday, August 27, 2005. Residents were told to make plans for a possible evacuation as Hurricane Katrina appeared headed for a direct hit on the city Monday, August 29. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Residents of New Orleans cross Interstate 10 Tuesday, August 30, 2005 after Hurricane Katrina slams into the city. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
A man carries a baby through the flooded streets of New Orleans outside the cities Super Dome football stadium on August 31, 2005. Tens of thousands of displaced citizens sought shelter at the dome, before, during and after Hurricane Katrina, but have been forced to evacuate as floodwaters continue to rise throughout the area. (UPI Photo/Jeremy L. Grisham/Navy) . | License Photo
A young Hurricane Katrina survivor hugs her rescuer Staff Sgt. Mike Maroney after she was relocated to the New Orleans International Airport on Sept. 7, 2005. Maroney is a pararescue from the 58th Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (UPI Photo/Veronica Pierce/USAF) | License Photo
As Category 5 Hurricane Katrina bears down on New Orleans Sunday, August 28, 2005, hundreds of residents with nowhere else to go wait in a long line on Poydras Street to take shelter in the Superdome, ramp at left. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued a mandatory evacuation for the city Sunday at noon, but for people without any means to evacuate the domed stadium was opened as a shelter of last resort. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Members of the MO/TN Incident Response Teams Urban Search and Rescue teams and local officials help evacuate people trapped in their flooded homes by Hurricane Katrina, in New Orleans, Louisiana, August 30, 2005. Floodwaters engulfed much of New Orleans on Tuesday as officials feared a steep death toll and planned to evacuate thousands remaining in shelters after the historic city's defenses were breached by Hurricane Katrina. (UPI Photo/Vincent Laforet/Pool) | License Photo
Flood water from a levee break, caused by Hurricane Katrina, fills the streets of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Army Medic James L. Clark talks to a sick teenager at the convention center in downtown New Orleans on Sept. 2, 2005. The unidentified boy was dehydrated, but otherwise in good health. Thousands of people there have had little food or water for the last three days, and almost no medical attention. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco)
Army Medic James L. Clark talks to a sick teenager at the convention center in downtown New Orleans on Sept. 2, 2005. The unidentified boy was dehydrated, but otherwise in good health. Thousands of people there have had little food or water for the last three days, and almost no medical attention. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco)
President George W. Bush (C) talks with a resident of the shelter at Bethany World Prayer Center in Baker, LA, on September 5, 2005. (UPI Photo/Patrick Dennis/Pool) | License Photo
Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Shawn Beaty, 29, of Long Island, N.Y., looks for survivors in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans on August 30, 2005. Beaty is a member of an HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter rescue crew sent from Clearwater, Fla., to assist in search and rescue efforts. (UPI Photo/NyxoLyno Cangemi/USCG) | License Photo
Volunteers collect donated items at a comfort and rest stop for busloads of evacuees from New Orleans just outside Dallas in the city of Mesquite on September 3, 2005. Officials estimate 7,000-8,000 people recieved food, water and minor medical care in the first 24 hours the stop was open. From here the buses headed to shelters across Texas and to Oklahoma. (UPI Photo/Ian Halperin) | License Photo
Lifetime New Orleans resident Mama D (Dyan French) testifies about how police intimidated survivors with guns during the aftermath of Katrina before the House Select Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Preparation for and Response to Hurricane Katrina on Capitol Hill in Washington on December 6, 2005. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo
U.S. Navy sailors and U.S. Army National Guard members load water and ice into a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Gulf Port International Airport in Biloxi, Miss., on Sept. 1, 2005. Department of Defense units are mobilized as part of Joint Task Force Katrina to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster-relief efforts in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The airport is now one of the main staging areas for hurricane-relief efforts in Mississippi. The sailors are from the USS Bataan (LHD 5) that is operating in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 100 miles south of New Orleans, La., while the Guard members are from the Biloxi area. (UPI Photo/Ken J. Riley/USN) | License Photo
Waves crash up against the seawall near a boarded-up Coast Guard station on New OrleansÕ Lake Pontchartrain Sunday, August 28, 2005, as Category 5 Hurricane Katrina bears down on the city. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
A man questions local and federal responses to the disaster as he wades through mud at a car wash in St. Bernard Parish, east of New Orleans, on Sept. 9, 2005. Mud from the receding floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee break fills many streets and parking lots. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo
While Mardi Gras parades roll through New Orleans February 25, 2006, the 9th Ward remains devastated with little progress to be seen since a storm surge created by Hurricane Katrina last year compromised many levees throughout the area causing wide spread flooding. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Laura Bush visits with people affected by Hurricane Katrina at the Cajundome at the University of Louisiana in Layfayette, Louisiana on Friday, September 2, 2005. (UPI Photo/Krisanne Johnson/White House) | License Photo
A church sits in debris on Sept. 16, 2005, left there after a levee broke in the 9th Ward district of New Orleans. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin announced, business workers will be allowed into the central business district on Saturday, for the first time since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. (UPI Photo/ Ken James) | License Photo
A pile of personal belongings sit on a sidewalk in the 9th Ward area of New Orleans, Sept. 16, 2005. Hurricane Katrina left hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless in the New Orleans area. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
A worker in a hazmat suit and gas mask shovels rotting chicken at the New Orleans Cold Storage facility in eastern New Orleans, Oct. 14, 2005. The facility has been declared a toxic waste site after flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off power for a month. Twenty-six million pounds of chicken, destined for foreign markets, must be cleaned up after it spoiled in the company's warehouses. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Cleanup crew’s pickup trash and other debris as New Orleans continues the massive reconstruction effort on Oct. 10, 2005. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Army Corps of Engineers Col. Duane Gapihski, commander for the unwatering of the city of New Orleans, stands next to the Seventeenth Street canal levee, Sept. 21, 2005. The gave way during Hurricane Katrina last month. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Former President Bill Clinton applauds as former President George H.W. Bush announces major grants from the Bush-Clinton Katrina fund during a visit to the University of New Orleans December 7, 2005. The area was devastated when levees collapsed during Hurricane Katrina flooding most of the city. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Boats washed up into the backs of yards remain trapped in Slidell, La., on Sept. 10, 2005. Dozens of homes were completely wiped out during Hurricane Katrina and boats were scattered throughout the town on Lake Pontchartrain. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
A mountain of trash, which residents of New Orleans refer to as "the pile,"Êcontinues to grow November 14, 2005, as people return to the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to gut and repair their homes. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
A Coast Guard Guard member looks on as a tug and barge brings approximately one thousand New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina to a safe haven near the Algiers Point ferry terminal on Sept. 1, 2005. (UPI Photo/Bobby Nash/USCG) | License Photo
A member of the California Task Force (CATF) 4 out of Oakland, CA, watches through glasses and breaths through a mask as his team searches through the rubble of a house in Biloxi, MS September 7, 2005. CATF joined the U.S. military and other agencies from around the country to search for missing Biloxi residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. (UPI Photo/Jennifer C. Wallis/USAF) | License Photo
Fats Domino's house is innundated by flood water from a levee break, caused by Hurricane Katrina, in the streets of the Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo
In photo dated September 7, 2005 and released on September 9, a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, with the pilots from Airstation Atlantic City, N.J., prepares an elderly man and woman for transport to safety from the New Orleans flood waters. (UPI Photo/U.S. Coast Guard) | License Photo
A dog stares up from inside its cage in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on Friday, Sept. 16, 2005 at the Project Halo animal shelter in Gulfport, MS. The shelter is one of several which take in and care for stray animals and pets that were abandoned or otherwise separated from their owners by the storm. (UPI Photo/Billy Suratt) | License Photo
US civil rights leader Jesse Jackson surveys the damage left behind by Hurricane Katrina during a trip to the ravaged 9th Ward of New Orleans, Oct. 4, 2005. The 9th Ward was especially hard hit by Hurricane Katrina, and was re-flooded by Hurricane Rita just weeks later. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne patrol the outskirts of the now-empty Louisiana Superdome on Sept. 11, 2005. Thousands of people took refuge there from Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaks, leaving behind tons of garbage. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
This man refused to evacuate the French Quarter because nobody would let him take his 40 chickens into the shelters in New Orleans on September 4, 2005. (UPI Photo/Liz Roll/FEMA) | License Photo
Rick Torres and T.J. Huges bring out supplies from Torres' flooded Freret Hardware store in New Orleans on Sept. 5, 2005. Torres carried a flag to help let circling helicopters know he was not looting. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Hurricane Katrina evacuess protest outside The White House in Washington in support of hurricane victims, August 8, 2005. (UPI Photo/Yuri Gripas) . | License Photo
Millions of bags and boxes of chicken are decaying into a smelly, slimy mess at the New Orleans Cold Storage facility in eastern New Orleans, Oct. 14, 2005. The warehouses where perishables awaited shipment all over the world have been declared a toxic waste site after flooding from Hurricane Katrina cut off power for a month. Twenty-six million pounds of chicken, destined for foreign markets, must be cleaned up after it spoiled. (UPI Photo/ A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
Ninety-one-year-old Catherine Carrere sits outside her Lakeview home in New Orleans November 14, 2005, as relatives inside try to retrieve some of her belongings. The houseÊwas flooded after nearby levees breached during Hurricane Katrina. Carrere said she had no flood insurance and doesn't know how she will rebuild her home. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
While Mardi Gras parades roll through New Orleans February 25, 2006, the 9th Ward remains devastated with little progress to be seen since a storm surge created by Hurricane Katrina last year compromised many levees throughout the area causing wide spread flooding. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco) | License Photo
President George W. Bush steps off Marine One on the south lawn of The White House after returning from his eight visit to New Orleans where he participated in housing relief projects for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, in Washington on Oct. 11, 2005. (UPI/Photo Kevin Dietsch)
President George W. Bush steps off Marine One on the south lawn of The White House after returning from his eight visit to New Orleans where he participated in housing relief projects for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, in Washington on Oct. 11, 2005. (UPI/Photo Kevin Dietsch)
Residents of the Ninth Ward in New Orleans have nearly cleared out, but have left behind declarations of their attitudes towards local and federal officials on Sept. 9, 2005. Many Ninth Ward residents are angry at the slow response to the crises caused by Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaches. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg) | License Photo