Looks WAY better than the old 9th ward...
I was in the lower 9th Ward last April and took hundreds of pictures.Spent a total of 10 days there---- My nephew had just bought an (undamaged) shotgun house a few miles up in the Bywater months earlier: he took me down there, since HE saw it in November, one of the first people somehow allowed back in town.(He'd been touring with his band from a few days before Katrina, right up to late Oct, early Nov. When I was there there was virtually NO police presence to be found anywhere. There were certainly no armed guards anywhere, and I think this idiot journalist is trying taking great liberties with his reportage, and I also think he knows it. Dishonesty is the order of the day for most journalists, especially those with an axe to grind.