20 years later, what did we learn from Hurricane Katrina?

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  Good morning. It's Friday, August 29th.

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  I'm Gideon Resnick in Versamita, Basu.

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  This is Apple News Today.

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  On today's show, the continued fallout from firings at the CDC,

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  how the president is flexing his view of executive power,

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  and why the Yellow Brick Road leads to Las Vegas.

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  But first, today marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana,

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  one of the most powerful and deadly storms to ever hit the U.S.

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  Nearly 1,400 people died, thousands of homes flooded,

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  entire neighborhoods were swept away, and over 1 million people were displaced.

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  A quick warning to our listeners, in this segment, you'll hear some accounts from survivors.

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  No one could control Katrina's intensity.

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  But in the years since, it's become clear that man-made failures made it even more disastrous.

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  New Orleans authorities failed to quickly evacuate residents as Katrina was getting stronger,

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  and many people stayed.

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  The U.S.

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  Army Corps of Engineers, which built the levees to barricade the city from flooding, failed.

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  They made serious engineering mistakes during construction.

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  FEMA, which is supposed to quickly address disasters of this scale,

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  responded slowly, taking days to get aid to New Orleans.

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