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In this Aug. 8, 2008, file photo, President George W. Bush is met by Deuce McAllister, left, and Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints football team as he arrives at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on the way to events marking the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in Kenner, La. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

George W. Bush returns to New Orleans for 10th anniversary of Katrina

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press

Restaurant owner Hieu Doan, 41, talks with customers in New Orleans, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. “Namese,” a Vietnamese restaurant in New Orleans, infuses the famous flavors of New Orleans with traditional Asian favorites. New Orleans is a city where eating has long been a serious business. But 10 years ago, that seemed imperiled when Hurricane Katrina and the levee breaches that flooded the coast threatened that rich culinary history. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)

TRAVEL: Beyond gumbo: New Orleans restaurants rebound post-Katrina

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the Andrew P. Sanchez Community Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, for the 10th anniversary since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Obama praises New Orleans’ recovery 10 years after Katrina

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

FILE - In this May 10, 2007, file photo, New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees throws a football to some of the workers that took a break while working on a Habitat for Humanity home in the Musicians Village in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Drew Brees had little choice but to sign with a downtrodden franchise in an epic disaster zone in the spring of 2006. Yet, in the decade since Hurricane Katrina laid waste to much of New Orleans, it has become apparent to the record-setting quarterback that the timing of his career-threating, throwing-shoulder injury, which left him with no better option than to become a Saint, could not have been better. (AP Photo/Bill Haber, File)

Longtime Saints recall the team’s role in Katrina recovery

By BRETT MARTEL - Associated Press

Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and New Orleans' former mayor, said far more needs to be done. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

New Orleans rebuilding unevenly benefits residents

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This combination of Aug. 30, 2005, and July 29, 2015, photos shows downtown New Orleans flooded by Hurricane Katrina and the same area a decade later. New Orleans has grown since Katrina but is still smaller than before the storm. Estimated population in 2014 was 384,320 compared to 494,294 in 2005. In 2014, the city climbed back into the nation's 50 most populous cities for the first time since Katrina. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Hurricane Katrina: How New Orleans has changed

Associated Press

Fox News Channel, chief news anchor and managing editor of the news division Shepard Smith on the FOX News deck in New York. Smith will anchor a special this weekend about the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Fox News begins the television remembrances Friday at 10 p.m. EDT with "Hurricane Katrina, Storm of a Lifetime." (Fox News Channel via AP)

Katrina: TV networks look back

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

Rescue personnel search for victims as they traverse the flooded city of New Orleans after the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina in this Aug. 30, 2005, file photo. (AP Photo/Dave Martin, File)

Obama to visit New Orleans for 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina

By Darlene Superville - Associated Press

This aerial photo shows Delacroix Island surrounded by fragmenting and eroding marshland and coastal waters in St. Bernard Parish, La., on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2015. The shrinking fishing community lies outside the the New Orleans area storm risk reduction system and is vulnerable to potential future storm surges. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Hurricane Katrina 10 years later: Gulf eats away at coast outside levee-protected New Orleans

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press

In this Nov. 21, 2014 photo, guests sit for a tasting in the main dining room of Brennan's Restaurant, a historic restaurant in the French Quarter in New Orleans. New Orleans’ tourism industry has rebuilt, rebounded and modernized in the 10 years since Katrina, and its restaurant scene has boomed. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

TRAVEL: 10 years after Katrina, New Orleans tourism industry reborn

By Beth J. Harpaz - Associated Press

In this March 31, 2015, photo, a supply vessel crosses an oil sheen drifting from the site of the former Taylor Energy oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana. Capitol Hill lawmakers from Louisiana have intervened on behalf of Taylor Energy Company that has failed to stop a decade-old oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico but lobbied for a refund of money reserved for spill containment work, according to letters obtained by The Associated Press through public records requests. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File

Lawmakers back company responsible for decade-old Gulf leak

By Eric Tucker and Michael Kunzelman - Associated Press

Spiritualist Deepak Chopra has written some 80 books and is renowned globally for his expertise in reflection, meditation, wellness and self-help techniques. (Associated Press. FILE photo Oct. 14, 2009)

Deepak Chopra to counsel Essence Festival participants

By Chevel Johnson - Associated Press

5th Circuit tells courts to issue same-sex marriage rulings

By JEFF AMY - Associated Press

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal speaks at the Freedom Summit, Saturday, May 9, 2015, in Greenville, S.C. Republicans making their pitch to be the party's 2016 presidential nominee aimed to out-do each other Saturday in arguing that President Barack Obama is a failed leader. (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt)

Bobby Jindal to run for president

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

The sun shines through concertina wire on a fence at the Angola Prison Rodeo in Angola, La. (Associated Press)

Federal judge orders last ‘Angola Three’ inmate released

By Cain Burdeau - Associated Press

Caution tape marks of the scene after the body of a police officer for New Orleans' public housing agency was found Sunday, May 24, 2015, in New Orleans. The officer was shot and killed Sunday while working overtime to patrol an agency construction site, city police said. (Kathleen Flynn/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune via AP)

New Orleans housing authority cop shot, killed in patrol car

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker speaks to the American Federation For Children in New Orleans, Monday, May 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Wisconsin Democrats seek probe of Gov. Walker over loan

By TODD RICHMOND - Associated Press

Millionaire Robert Durst is escorted from Orleans Parish Criminal District Court to the Orleans Parish Prison after his arraignment in New Orleans in this Tuesday, March 17, 2015, file photo. Durst is going back to court in New Orleans after nearly a week in a prison mental ward 70 miles away. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Robert Durst case: Bond hearing scheduled in New Orleans

By Janet McConnaughey - Associated Press

Officers guard the entrance to concourse A and B at the New Orleans International Airport, Friday, March 20, 2015, in Kenner, La. Richard White sprayed a TSA agent in the face with wasp killer then slashed a second guard with a machete before a third agent shot him three times at a security checkpoint in the New Orleans international airport Friday. (AP Photos/Jonathan Bachman)

Richard White, man swinging machete at New Orleans airport, shot by officer

By Cain Burdeau and Chevel Johnson - Associated Press