Brigadier General Michael Walsh, Commander of the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that $1.2 billion is going directly toward helping small and disadvantaged businesses recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina (0:56)

 

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Brigadier General Michael Walsh, Commander of the Mississippi Valley Division of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says the Corps has completed more than one-third of the construction for improvements in the greater New Orleans area following the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Walsh says “the system is stronger and more resilient than prior to Katrina or any other time in history”. (0:40)

 

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