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09/10/05
Former
U.S. Sen. John Breaux, along with other former Louisiana
congressional members, engineers, urban planners and economic
developers, are banding together to examine Hurricane Katrina and its
aftermath, Breaux said Saturday.
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9/4/2005, 11:25 p.m. CT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans turned much
of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a
ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to
be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's
homeland security chief warned.
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9/4/2005, 8:45 p.m. CT
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Volunteer physicians are
pouring in to care for the sick, but red tape is keeping hundreds of
others from caring for Hurricane Katrina survivors even as health
officials worry about potential outbreaks.
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Friday, September 2, 2005; 2:59 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state
relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
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09/02/05
Nearly 500 federal public health specialists will be deployed throughout the
storm-ravaged Gulf Coast region in an attempt to ward off a variety of food- and water-borne
diseases, but the most serious health threat these areas face will be psychological problems brought
on by stress, the head of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
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09/02/05
ST. LOUIS – More than 4,000 people have been rescued from rooftops, flooded
neighborhoods and hospitals throughout the Gulf Coast region since rescue operations began Monday,
and joint-agency rescue operations are continuing day and night.
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09/02/05
BATON ROUGE - Thousands of National Guard troops are converging
on southeastern Louisiana, and Gov. Kathleen Blanco on Thursday called for "no less than
40,000 troops" to be on the ground. But it remained unclear how many soldiers will be assigned
to quell the violence that is sweeping the New Orleans area.
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09/02/05
New Orleans on Thursday pulled back from an almost complete collapse of public
order, a near anarchy that had supplanted receding floodwaters as the gravest threat to the city's still
tenuous recovery.
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9/1/2005, 9:51 p.m. CT
(AP) — When the phones don't work, improvise. That's what emergency
responders and civilians were forced to do in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which
trashed the telephone system on the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi.
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9/1/2005, 10:01 p.m. CT
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress rushed to provide a $10.5 billion down
payment in relief aid for Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina on Thursday as President
Bush ordered new action to minimize disruptions in the nation's energy supplies. The Senate
approved the measure Thursday night, and the House will convene at noon on Friday to
speed the measure to Bush's desk
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9/1/2005, 10:19 p.m. CT
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called
The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly
out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape
looters.
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9/2/2005, 12:20 a.m. CT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday as
corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out, cops turned in their
badges and the governor declared war on looters who have made the city a menacing
landscape of disorder and fear.
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9/1/2005, 11:37 p.m. CT
(AP) — With the hurricane now 3 days in the past,
there have been several major developments with the continuing
increase in death, destruction and despair.
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9/1/2005, 9:15 a.m. CT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Gunfire and arson blazes
disrupted the evacuation of 25,000 people from the Superdome on
Thursday, as National Guardsmen in armored vehicles poured into New
Orleans to help restore order across the increasingly lawless and
desperate city.
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9/1/2005, 3:10 a.m. CT
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — With thousands feared drowned in
what could be America's deadliest natural disaster in a century, New
Orleans' leaders all but surrendered the streets to floodwaters
Wednesday and began turning out the lights on the ruined city —
perhaps for months.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
New Orleans glimpsed a possible turning point
Wednesday as floodwaters that had risen harrowingly for two days
reached equilibrium and began spilling back into Lake Pontchartrain
through breaches in the levee system, officials said.
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Thursday, September 01, 2005
Lucrece Phillips’ sleepless nights are filled with
the images of dead babies and women, and young and old men with
tattered T-shirts or graying temples, all of whom she saw floating
along the streets of the Lower 9th Ward.
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August 31, 2005
The 6,000 power line workers currently assembled in
southeastern Louisiana won’t be nearly enough to restore power to the
990,000 utility customers who are still without electricity in
metropolitan New Orleans, the region’s electricity suppliers said
Wednesday.
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