From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point.

In New Orleans, the disaster continues.

Hello again, I'm Mormon-Aulny, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

Politicians of both

parties, including President Bush, are streaming into New Orleans for tomorrow's first

anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Despite billions of federal dollars, there's not even a plan

for rebuilding 12 months after America's worst natural disaster. On to the point, with the population

still only half what it was, we'll hear

about intermittent water and power in the heat of a southern summer. If there were another Katrina,

could levees rebuilt by the Army Corps of Engineers hold back the water? And what does race have to do

with the lack of planning? On reporter's notebook later on, why does rebuilding New Orleans

look so much like rebuilding Iraq?

First, here's the news.

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whose contributors include the Ford Foundation and the John D. and Catherine

T. MacArthur Foundation. Hello again. We're on. I'll be back with To the Point. Fortune

magazine says in the year since Katrina, the big easy has become the big difficult. State, federal,

and city coordination have given way to 73 neighborhoods in New Orleans, all trying to make

plans on their own. On to the point,

what's the role of race in the rebuilding process? Could levees rebuilt by the Army

Corps of Engineers prevent the same disaster from happening again? On reporter's notebook,

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