The reality of the matter is thoughtful consideration should be given to the economics of the situation. Unfortunately, the City of New Orleans, has been built/destroyed a number of times. It has been unfortunate but this type of disaster was inevitable. Can the American taxpayer afford to build a city below sea level. I think before we rebuild a city we need to address the Levy issue. It might be cheaper to relocate the city of New Orleans on higher ground.

Brian, Thank You so much for your coverage of this tragedy. When I see that the devastated area is far from recovering, it makes it clear that your news program must keep showing the suffering for all the nation to see until New Orleans and affected areas are once again returned to some normalcy. It is frightening to see citizens struggling this many months after the hurricane still not getting the assistance and support they desperately need. Keep the story going, Brian. You and your hard-working colleagues are such an asset to NBC and the nation. 'Integrity' is not a term that most viewers associate with news broadcasting these days -- but it is the one word that sums you up. Thank You.

I am sorry that one viewer is "just plain sick and tired" of hearing about Katrina and its aftermath. I'm sure the people of New Orleans and the entire hurricane-affected south are also "just plain sick and tired" of not having any electricity, of not having any water, of not having a place to sleep or cook meals or go to school. The only way the rest of us continue to remember that these people still have a long way to go, is by you continuing to make the story part of our daily lives, just as the constant struggles are now part of life in the hurricane zone. I am always amazed when I see those stories at how far that area still has to go to recover and how important it is for the rest of the country not to forget.

Your comments were written and delivered beautifully, Brian. Our frenetic society needs such reminders. I am heartened by the fact that you and NBC have not made this story "news de jour."

I would also like to thank Brian Williams for keeping New Orleans in the news.

Let me put it this way: I would prefer to be a non-resident who complains about the continuing coverage instead of a resident who must live daily with the stress and depression that comes with living in a cramped trailer, wondering if the repair work on your house will ever get done, seeing trash and debris everywhere you look, seeing and hearing about friends and family struggling to function in the aftermath, wondering if life will ever get back to normal, and wondering that next hurricane season will bring. Unfortunately, I don't have the luxury of being able to change the station and pretend that the effects of Katrina are over.

To Brian Williams:
After Wednesday's broadcast, I was very, very disappointed with your choice of words when refering to the e-mails you have gotten from others about the Katrina Coverage. Your quote, "Again, that’s the MINORITY view..." seems like it meant it was exclusively targeted to the minority public (hispanics, blacks, etc.). The news used to highlight the positive aspects of a story. Now it has become negative and prejudicial. As said on Law & Order, "If their white put them in the spotlight, if their black, put them in the back." That is what the national networks, including NBC, are doing now with or without knowing it. I am disappointed with NBC. Not in the 10 years that I have seen Nightly News has this ever been an issue. You have lost a valued viewer and many others as well.

Dear Mr. Williams,

Thank you so much for continuing to cover the story in New Orleans. My family evacuated to a small city in Louisiana. After the storm was over and the coverage of the levee breaks began to seem monotonous, the local news in that town stopped covering the story. The national news was our only link home. We craved information. We needed it like the air we breathe. I have no doubt that the thousands of people still displaced by this storm still need and want information about their hometowns. I applaud your efforts to give them that information.

Many of us here are afraid we'll be forgotten. We're afraid that once we're not "newsworthy", people will forget what happened and the assistance will stop. Our country needs to be aware of what happened here and what continues to happen here. The failure of our government to respond well to this situation needs to be addressed. This could be Anytown, USA. The problems associated with Katrina need to be covered and resolved so this will never happen again - ANYWHERE.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank your readers from all across America for what they have done for my city. There are no words to express the thanks in my heart for all they’ve given and for all they’ve done for those affected by this storm. Their generosity was unprecedented. I do love my city, and I know that it will one day be great again. But it is the spirit of the American people, their desire and need to help, their empathy and their caring that makes this country great.

Mr Williams,
I used to live and work in New Orelans and still talk to many of my friends there. Everyone of them has asked me to not let the rest of the nation forget them and their on-going plight. So I applaud your commitment to continuing coverage of New Orleans and the area including Mississippi. I think only the earthquake and fire in San Francisco in 1906 can compare to this story in terms of death, destruction, displacement and on-going misery to Americans. Let's no forget our American friends there as they try and cope with unprecedented natural devastation to their homes and life.
Paul Greeley
VP of Markating
Nexstar Broadcasting
pgreeley@nexstar.tv

Don't ever stop being our voice. We need influential people like you to keep our plight on the front page. Everyone needs to know what it means to miss New Orleans.

Mr. Williams,

I have come to respect your coverage of the "situation" going on in my home city right now. We as a city and state have to take a long look in the mirror and try to figure out if we really like what we see. Right now we do not. It will take a herculean effort by our politicians as well as the average Joe to get this ball rolling again. We have such a chance to make this city great again. I just hope our leaders know this as well and don't drop that ball. Your coverage has been very comprehensive and still keeps our city on the radar. Because once we get off the radar our road to recovery will get steeper.

we were displaced by katrina.we are in d.c. and not happy.but we have alot of stories to tell.i enjoy the news about my home town.i don't like the way it is turning out but that is beyond my controll.you can check out our blog and see pics and read our story.we were there for 5 days after the hurricane.so check it out if you will and lerave us a comment.i want someone to ask us how we are doing.....the real nola.thank you courtney blanchard......

When I read that people are tried of hearing about Katrina I wonder if it is because they are heartless or if they are just overwhelmed by all of the things that are wrong in the United States right now. There is no end in sight and it may hard for people to have the sympathy these people of the Gulf Coast deserve.

Dear Mr. Williams,
Back in November, I summoned up the courage to go see my childhood home in New Orleans. It was the house my parents bought in 1952, our family gathering place for 50 years. Even tho it was sold by my siblings and I in 2003, almost all seven of us have been drawn back since Katrina.
It is in East New Orleans. Though some of that area had declined of late, it was the place to live in the 60's. Till Katrina, many of my former neighbors still resided there, as did their children (my classmates), and their grandchildren. In New Orleans, people love their neighborhoods, and families tend to stick close.
About 40% of the city's tax base came from East New Orleans. Most of it was not destroyed by the winds or rushing waters, even though it flooded. The majority of the homes have not shifted from their foundations. The interiors just need to be gutted, cleaned, and rebuilt.
There is no electricity, however. No water, sewer, or phone service. Why do you think that this working class area has been slated to become largely green space?
It was surreal to drive down those deserted streets: no animals,not even birds. No traffic, no children. 50 years of memories engulfed me as I took it in; words cannot express the sadness of heart that such a picture engenders.
It seems that the emotions, at a time like this, are more difficult to handle than the actual events.I am heartbroken for all the good, hardworking people of the entire city. I want them to know that I truly grieve with the living who cannot return, for the families who lost loved ones because of the storm, and for the ones who are back, struggling to pick up the pieces of their life.
One soulful song asks: "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?" I do.
I am grateful that my parents did not live long enough to experience this pain. In the memory of a couple who worked all their lives for their little piece of ground and modest home, kind hearts who raised seven children and helped raise four of my cousins, I thank you.

It sickens me to see that some people would like to see a whole region be abandoned because they disagree with Mayor Nagin's statements. Nagin is but one man among the hundreds of thousands who were affected by the hurricane; he just happens to have access to a microphone whenever he wants. What NBC News has done is given that same access to those who are far less fortunate than the Mayor, and they should be applauded for it.

Thank you Mr. Brian Williams for remembering those of us from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Region. It is so true that a lot of suffering still continues even five months after this disaster. Rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will not happen if the region and it's people are swept under the rug and forgotten. You, Mr. Williams, and NBC must continue the coverage on Katrina to keep us in the spotlight so that the nation does not forget our plight. Thank you, sir, for what you had to say in your broadcast.

As a New Orleanian, I feel as if I've traveled to Oz and back. I clicked my heels together so many times when we were away, wanting to go home, but I wasn't wearing ruby slippers...and the beginning of our journey was in technicolor. Now it's only shades of gray. Still, there's no place like home and I'm relieved to say that's where we are now.

Thank you, Brian Williams, for your continuing coverage on the Long Road Back. You are a true friend to all of us in this part of the world. May God bless you.

MOVE ON!! Believe it or not, there are 191 other countries in the world and 49 other states in the US. I’d like to hear about what’s going on there too. I tune in looking for current events, not a rehashing of old, irrelevant news.
How about we have a minute by minute update of what’s currently going on in the life of Elian Gonzalez, **scoff** of course that would be equally pointless.

Here's a thought. Instead of doing less coverage of the storm damage in the south...why not take the considerable resources of NBC and MSMBC (you already share many of the same reporters) and do an entire day with every show taking a perspective of the same issue. The good and the bad. What the government is or is not doing. Put it right on the front burner. If you don't (NBC)don't take this lead and focus on major issues that lead to corrective action...who will?

Here's a thought. Instead of doing less coverage of the storm damage in the south...why not take the considerable resources of NBC and MSMBC (you already share many of the same reporters) and do an entire day with every show taking a perspective of the same issue. The good and the bad. What the government is or is not doing. Put it right on the front burner. If you don't (NBC)don't take this lead and focus on major issues that lead to corrective action...who will?

JUST WANT YOU TO KKNOW THAT I DO APPRECIATE THE COVERAGE AND HAVE PRAYED FOR THSE FOLKS SINCE BEFORE THE TROUBLE BEGAN......AND I PRAY THAT WHOEVER'S IN CHARGE OF THE CASH, WOULD PLEASE START HELPING THEM OUT IN REBUILDING THEIR TOWN AND THEIR LIVES, JUST GIVE THEM 50 MILLION TO GET STARTED, ANYTHING TO START CLEANING UP AND OUT....THEY CAN BICKER ON, BUT PLEASE HELP THEN GET STARTED WITH LIVING AGAIN!!!!

Thank you Brian and your staff for being among the few Profiles in Courage associated with network coverage of Katrina. The treatment of our fellow citizens in one of America's great cities continues to be a national scandal. If this story isn't important to each of us, then what is? We applaud your efforts.

Keep pushing the story Brian. You have owned
it since day one.

Quite frankly, the destruction of a major city
and the plight of our fellow Americans makes this
a "breaking news" situation, even today.

In response to the folks who wrote you about your continuing coverage of Katrina saying "enough already." I'd like to invite them to N.O. and Gulf Coast; I'd gladly take them on a drive around the area myself. Perhaps then they might see and realize the sheer magnitude of this disaster. Perhaps then they might comprehend just how much so many have lost. I wonder if these people say "enough already" to the news of Iraq. And ultimately I wonder how these people define being a patriot and loving America and its people.

All of those complaining about too much Katrina coverage on the news need to move down to the New Orleans area. That is virtually all that appears on our local news even now. Your coverage of Katrina is a quickie highlight of our area, and at this point, that is all I need. I am tired of the constant local TV focus on Katrina.

This storm exposed the existance of the lower economic class people in our area to everyone who thought New Orleans was just a big party city. That situation knows no color and those of us living in the area have known about it for years.

I have always thought the US needed to take care of their own people at home before sending millions and millions of dollars and goods to other countries. If we can't help our own people and fight over what we will and won't help with, and keep helping other countries while our own people are suffering, then there is something wrong with the people holding the purse-strings!

Thank you Brian Williams, and keep reporting on the Katrina fiasco. Somewhere along the line (probably about the time the FCC loosened broadcast regulations restricting big media)news became entertainment.
This story is just as big, if not bigger than 9/11, and deserves persistent efforts by journalists unafraid to be scorned by those in power.