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20 years after Hurricane Katrina, survivors reclaim their stories in National Geographic’s Race Against Time. Streaming July 28 on Disney+ & Hulu.

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Faces of Katrina: Former NOPD superintendent Eddie Compass reflects on the storm 20 years later Compass was New Orleans top cop when the storm hit in 2005 Beginning of dialog window.

Scalise was elected to Congress in 2008. He discussed how the country has learned from mistakes made in the wake of the storm. "It put pressure on government to do better at every level," he said.