City, state leaders push to honor Hurricane Katrina as a Louisiana holiday [Video]

NEW ORLEANS — Nineteen years ago one of America’s deadliest hurricanes struck the city of New Orleans. Hurricane Katrina was a category three storm that ended up being one of the country’s most costly natural disasters. Nearly two decades on, the city is still healing.

Now city and state officials are pushing for August 29th to be a state holiday.

Here in New Orleans, too many families share the same heartache as Robert Green. At a press conference including Louisiana State Representative Alonzo Knox, Hip Hop Caucus, and the New Orleans Katrina Commemoration Foundation, Green said, “I am a survivor, I am a resident of the Lower Ninth Ward as I walked up you saw the pictures of two people who died that day, my three-year-old granddaughter, …