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New Orleans mourns dead, celebrates life on Hurricane Katrina anniversary

Buildings in New Orleans submerged in water from the impact of 2005 Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans remembered the dead and celebrated its painstaking comeback from disaster on Saturday, a decade after Hurricane Katrina ripped through the "Big Easy" leaving devastation and chaos in its wake.

City leaders placed wreaths at a memorial to Katrina's scores of unknown victims, marking the hour that the Category 5 storm struck with catastrophic force, overwhelming the Louisiana port's system of levees.

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