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Five years after Katrina, the infamous trailers – bought for billions, sold for pennies on the dollar – are still causing trouble. The campers were once congregated around New Orleans, but now blanket the entire country, uncounted and mislabeled in dealers’ lots, back lawns and sites for oil spill cleanup.

President Obama marked the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on Sunday with a solidarity visit to this city still recovering from the devastating storm, pledging to "stand with you and fight alongside you until the job is done."

It's been five years since Hurricane Katrina. How much environmental damage was done to New Orleans and the Gulf coast, and what sort of recovery has there been?

Hurricane Katrina, while devastating, had one bright side: It caused lead levels in children to drop due to a fresh soil layer.

Gulf Coast residents tried to put Hurricane Katrina behind them on Sunday, but part of the catastrophe lives on, in abandoned homes still bearing spray-painted circles indicating they had been searched and whether bodies were found inside.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina's wrath, President Barack Obama sought to reassure disaster-weary Gulf Coast residents Sunday that he would not abandon their cause. The president said there are still too many vacant lots, trailers serving as classrooms, displaced residents and people out of work.

The damage caused by the Hurricanes Katrina and Rita was "a very large factor" in setting the scene for rebuilding with solar and other renewables.

I’m not seeing much improvement. I don’t think most have learned very much. They still focus on “the wrath of Katrina.” The levees gets mentioned in passing, but that doesn’t get fingered as the exact cause of the disaster.

All of the levees that failed during Katrina lacked wetland protection; the levees with a wetland buffer remained intact. An innovative use of human waste aims to bring wetlands back to life and safeguard the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans.

Five years after Hurricane Katrina, President Obama recommitted the nation to repairing the Gulf Coast as the region's fragile recovery hangs in balance and his popularity sags after the BP oil spill.

President Obama spoke to the criticism of the federal response following Hurricane Katrina Sunday, vowing that his administration would “put an end to the turf wars between agencies, to cut the red tape and the bureaucracy” that he said had been obstacles to the region’s continued recovery.

Five years to the hour after the floodwalls burst in Hurricane Katrina, sending a tidal wave through their neighborhood, more than 1,000 people gathered in the Lower 9th Ward on Sunday to declare their loyalty to the place of their birth and to decry roadblocks toward rebuilding.

Observances of the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and its levee failures on Sunday were filled with equal parts gratitude, mourning, frustration and hope in the face of a mammoth rebuilding job started but not yet complete.

As the region and the nation mark the somber anniversary, New Orleans is hailing (warily) the Corps' near-completion of a 350-mile, $15 billion system of new and stronger levees. But engineers and environmentalists alike say it's even more important five years later to get the wetlands revival on track.

Gathering amid prayers of celebration and reflection Sunday morning in Shell Beach, nearly 100 St. Bernard Parish residents, government officials and first responders honored those who were taken so suddenly by Hurricane Katrina’s floodwaters.

Five years after Katrina, New Orleans is rebuilding. The system designed to protect against future storms is better than before, but questions remain about whether it is fortified enough.

President Obama goes to New Orleans Sunday to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.

The last few months were a roller-coaster run-up to Hurricane Katrina's fifth anniversary, which will be observed Sunday with prayers, a reunion of Superdome survivors, and a jazz funeral for more than 1,800 dead.

I'm overwhelmed with emotion when I see the conditions in New Orleans five years later. There is no reason that such a richly cultured city in one of the world's wealthiest nations should still be in such disrepair. We must unite and put pressure on the powers that be to rebuild and put people back to work.

If Hurricane Katrina hit this city tomorrow, it would likely cause only light flooding, according to U.S. government and other engineers. But many engineers and local politicians argue that the new ring of defenses may not be good enough.