August 29th, 2005, 947 a.m. Lieutenant General Russell Honoray touches down in the New

Orleans that's virtually unrecognizable. The general, a Louisiana native and a self-described African-American Creole,

has been called into command more than 20,000 federal troops assigned to Joint Task Force Katrina.

His mission? Do a search and rescue, keeping people alive, conduct

evacuation, provide food and water, I'm going to tell we can evacuate the city and

get people out of the flood zone.

More than 50 of the city's levies and flood walls have failed. Entire neighborhoods are underwater.

Hundreds of people have lost their lives and hundreds more are trapped in their homes at risk of drowning,

hypothermia, and starvation.

But it's not until Honorary arrives at the Superdome where thousands are taking shelter, that he grasps the magnitude of the disaster.

And you saw those people standing around the superdome and you said to yourself what?

Oh my yacht, how did this happen? But let's get it fixed. But, let's get it fixed.

But before he can fix New Orleans, he's got to make it safe, or so he's been led to believe it began in plain sight residents trying

to shatter windows and climb into stores the looting broke wide open at this Walmart

in New Orleans stolen goods. Journalists and public officials Shooting stores. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco tells one reporter, what angers me the most is that disasters

like this often bring out the worst in people.

Thank you so much, brother.

We appreciate everything.

Thanks a lot, man.

Thanks a lot, man. We need to see it you. Thank you.

But as he travels through the city, General Honoray finds a different reality.

In neighborhood after neighborhood, he sees what he calls the patience of the poor.

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