Katrina anniversary warning, new CDC leader, foreign aid ruling & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:31.9 | Hi there from CNN. I'm Charlie Dreeva with the five things you need to know for Friday, August 29th. |
| 0:39.4 | Today marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. |
| 0:43.5 | And now former FEMA leaders are warning that lessons from the disaster are being forgotten |
| 0:48.0 | under the Trump administration. |
| 0:50.3 | A bungled local, state and federal response to the hurricane contributed to nearly 1,400 deaths, |
| 0:57.0 | mainly in New Orleans, and led to an overhaul of FEMA. |
| 1:01.0 | But now President Donald Trump is vowing to dismantle the agency and shift the burden of disaster response to states to improve efficiency. |
| 1:09.0 | CNN spoke to five former heads of FEMA from every |
| 1:12.4 | administration since Katrina, who were all concerned about the recent changes. And those worries |
| 1:17.8 | were echoed by former FEMA press secretary Jeremy Edwards. That disaster, that catastrophe, |
| 1:23.3 | taught us some very hard-fought lessons. Number one is that you need someone who's an expert to lead the agency. |
| 1:29.3 | Number two is that FEMA needs a flexibility to do its job to get resources and people pre-position in a timely manner. |
| 1:35.3 | And number three is that FEMA needs to be able to help state and local officials prepare for disasters. |
| 1:40.3 | And under this administration, they've gotten an F grade on each one of those hard-fought lessons |
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