Imagine a swath of land stretching from Boston to Portland, Maine with homes on both sides of the road in ruins.
In Louisiana people don't have to imagine. That's the destruction they still see when driving from the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans to the mouth of the Mississippi River -- 90 miles of homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.
That's the image that James O'Byrne and Mark Schleifstein want to leave in minds of members of Congress, the media; of every American.
O'Byrne and Schleifstein are reporters at the Times-Picayune, the New Orleans newspaper that won two Pulitzer prizes for covering Hurricane Katrina even as employees were displaced.
If you have Real Player, click here to listen to an interview with the two.
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