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PHOTOS: Action News in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina

In September 2005, Action News Reporter Nydia Han, Executive Producer John Morris and Photographer Nick Morgan spent a week in Louisiana, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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Friday, August 28, 2015
Nydia Han's view from inside a search helicopter over New Orleans, searching for people trapped, days after Katrina struck.
From the ground, a search helicopter flies over New Orleans continuing the search for victims.
Jason Mouliere and Mike Murray from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries helped more than 100 stranded people get to safety.
Days after the storm, rescuers with a boat reach a man in a wheelchair and take him to safety.
DEA Agents go door to door in Orleans Parish looking for anyone still stranded by the storm.
Every house got a mark with the date of the search, the agency, and what was found inside, in this case, a dog.
A stranded dog looks through a window as search teams go door to door in Orleans Parish.
In the empty St. Bernard Parish, abandoned pets seek out help from reporters. Animal control officers were also going through the neighborhood, rescuing animals.
St. Bernard Parish, empty and battered.
Another dog comes out as Nydia Han and Action News walk through the street of St. Bernard Parish.
Animal Control officers go door to door, looking for the dogs and cats left behind by fleeing residents.
The residents of the hardest hit neighborhoods had to flee without their pets. A week later, animal control officials went through the area.
Outside an abandoned home in St. Bernard Parish.
Robert and Tammy Miller, living in tents outside of Baton Rouge asked us to check out their home. We found that their home had been destroyed.
A mud covered teddy bear lies in the dirt outside of the Miller's home.
We returned to the Miller's home 6 months later and found it abandoned, still covered with mud and mold from the flooding. We could find no signs that they had ever returned.
Two dolls lie in a yard in St. Bernard Parish.
The center of the French Quarter, Bourbon Street, stands empty.
The U.S. Army Airborne patrols Bourbon Street.
The New Orleans Convention Center, where thousands of evacuees went seeking help.
Outside of the convention center, an abandoned police car sits without tires.
Almost a week after Katrina made landfall, we saw small groups of people still being arrested for looting in the city.
In this dark blurry photo is a boat. It mysteriously floated by the Action News liveshot location on Canal Street late one night. It was empty and no one ever claimed it.
Nydia Han and Nick Morgan broadcast live from a flooded Canal Street in downtown New Orleans.
The only lights in the city at night were from the television crews reporting from Canal Street.
Nydia stands along the wall of house, 6 months after the flooding receded. The flood line was above her shoulders.
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PHOTOS: Action News in Louisiana after Hurricane KatrinaNydia Han's view from inside a search helicopter over New Orleans, searching for people trapped, days after Katrina struck.
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NEW ORLEANS, La. (WPVI) -- Action News Reporter Nydia Han, Executive Producer John Morris and Photographer Nick Morgan spent a week in Louisiana, reporting on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The storm made landfall on August 29th and the search for victims continued as we arrived in early September.

New Orleans was empty and, at night, completely dark.

Action News went into the neighborhoods that had been abandoned, met and rode with the rescuers who were still trying to account for the missing, and talked to the people who had to flee their homes and were not sure whether they would ever be able to return.

Here are some images from that trip.

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