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| Bush marks two years from Katrina |
| US President George W Bush has praised the people of New Orleans and insisted the city will fully recover, two years after being hit by Hurricane Katr
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 29-August-2007
10:16:34 AM |
| Better days are ahead," the president told an audience at a school in one of the districts flooded in 2005, before heading to neighbouring Mississippi.
In the wake of the storm Mr Bush vowed to "do what it takes" to rebuild the city, but he has since faced criticism.
Katrina killed 1,600 people in the states of Louisiana and Mississippi.
The storm made landfall as a strong Category Three hurricane at 0610 on 29 August 2005 and flooded some 80% of the city after levees broke under the pressure of the storm.
Spirit
Mr Bush spoke at the Dr Martin Luther King Charter School for Math and Science, the first school to reopen in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward, one of the areas most affected by the flooding.
Hurricane Katrina broke the levees, it broke a lot of hearts, it destroyed buildings, but it didn't affect the spirit of this community," he said.
He recounted federal efforts to rebuild and make stronger the city's flood defences, rebuild damaged communities and restore wetlands along the Gulf coast.
The president was then due to travel on to a community centre in Bay St Louis, Mississippi.
Across the region hit by the storm, churches are holding memorial services and ring bells in honour of the victims.
In New Orleans, public officials will attend a groundbreaking at Charity Hospital for a victims' memorial and a mausoleum that will house the remains of more than 100 victims still not identified.
At dusk, a candlelit vigil will be held in Jackson Square.
Resentment
The president arrived in the region on Tuesday, meeting Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin at the city's famous Dooky Chase restaurant
He praised the people of New Orleans, and singled out the "social entrepreneurs" - among them athletes, artists, musicians and developers - who sat around the table with him.
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