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New Orleans begins counting its dead
Sep 4 2005 11:33PM (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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Small La. town getting makeshift morgue
Sep 4 2005 10:47PM (CT)
ST. GABRIEL, La. (AP) - The dead recovered from the flooded streets of New Orleans will be brought to a warehouse in this small Mississippi River town, where medical teams will try to identify potentially thousands of bodies.
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French Quarter holdouts create 'tribes'
Sep 4 2005 10:28PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.
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States struggling with Katrina refugees
Sep 4 2005 10:25PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - With a shattered New Orleans all but emptied out, an unprecedented refugee crisis unfolded across the country Sunday, as governors and emergency officials rushed to feed, clothe and shelter more than a half-million people dispossessed by Hurricane Katrina.
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Hurricane Maria forms over open Atlantic
Sep 4 2005 9:55PM (CT)
MIAMI (AP) - The fifth hurricane of an already deadly season developed in the open Atlantic Sunday, growing stronger as it moved over warm water but on a course expected to keep it away from land.
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Witt says La. crisis 'our worst nightmare'
Sep 4 2005 9:09PM (CT)
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - James Lee Witt, the former Federal Emergency Management Agency director hired to advise Louisiana's governor, described the crisis Sunday in the hurricane-ravaged state as "our worst nightmare."
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U.N. members divided over summit document
Sep 4 2005 8:16PM (CT)
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - There is a growing sense of crisis as the United Nations prepares for history's biggest gathering of world leaders next week. Secretary-General Kofi Annan wants the leaders to take action to tackle poverty, reform the United Nations and address global security. But the 191 member states are deeply divided on what the summit should accomplish, and negotiators have not agreed on a single key issue.
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Paperwork greets evacuees at Fort Chaffee
Sep 4 2005 8:02PM (CT)
FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. (AP) - After arriving in Arkansas weary and hungry, thousands of people driven from their homes by Hurricane Katrina faced one more task before they could rest _ filling out paperwork.
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Texas to airlift some Katrina refugees
Sep 4 2005 8:01PM (CT)
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - With nearly a quarter-million Katrina refugees already in Texas and more still pouring in, Gov. Rick Perry ordered emergency officials Sunday to airlift some of them to other states that have offered help.
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Cities raising glasses to help Big Easy
Sep 4 2005 7:28PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Big Apple will raise its glasses to the Big Easy _ not for toasts, but to collect money for more than 80,000 hospitality workers from the hurricane-ravaged city.
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Hardship turned to horror at Superdome
Sep 4 2005 7:26PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The thing that hit me first was the noise. People talking, praying, shouting. Babies crying. Children laughing and shrieking as they played amid the crowd. Hurricane Katrina was still hours away, and some people even slept through the din.
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Gunmen attack contractors on La. bridge
Sep 4 2005 6:35PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
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New Orleans' thin blue line stretched taut
Sep 4 2005 6:33PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - There may be no better way to explain the desperation on the city's ravaged streets than this: In the past few days, two police officers took their lives with their own weapons and dozens have turned in their badges.
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Five children die in Calif. apartment fire
Sep 4 2005 5:22PM (CT)
CARSON, Calif. (AP) - Fire roared through a two-story apartment Sunday morning, killing five children who were found in upstairs bedrooms, authorities said.
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Six children killed in rural Mich. fire
Sep 4 2005 4:23PM (CT)
CALEDONIA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A late night explosion blew apart a rural farm home, killing six young siblings who had been visiting from out of state and severely burning three other young people.
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Hardship turned to horror at Superdome
Sep 4 2005 4:17PM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The thing that hit me first was the noise. People talking, praying, shouting. Babies crying. Children laughing and shrieking as they played amid the crowd. Hurricane Katrina was still hours away, and some people even slept through the din.
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Miss. motels under miserable conditions
Sep 4 2005 3:54PM (CT)
BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss. (AP) - For thousands stranded along the Mississippi coast since Hurricane Katrina, the damaged hotels where they took refuge have become almost uninhabitable.
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Cities raising glasses to help Big Easy
Sep 4 2005 12:18PM (CT)
NEW YORK (AP) - The Big Apple will raise its glasses to the Big Easy _ not for toasts, but to collect money for more than 80,000 hospitality workers from the hurricane-ravaged city.
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Eerie Saturday night in the French Quarter
Sep 4 2005 10:01AM (CT)
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - The only lights Saturday night on Bourbon Street were the flashing blues of police vehicles on patrol, the headlights of rumbling military trucks and an occasional flashlight or cigarette glow among bedraggled holdout residents.
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Hurricane survivors must decide future
Sep 4 2005 9:27AM (CT)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) - He didn't choose to leave New Orleans; Katrina came through and wrecked Jerry Hymel's native city, driving him away. And now he does not know what to do. He is asking the same questions posed by thousands of others who fled the storm and its aftermath: Should he and his wife rebuild, a long and arduous process?
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General roars into action in New Orleans
Sep 4 2005 9:22AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - When the cavalry finally arrived in New Orleans to help the survivors of Hurricane Katrina, a cigar-chomping three-star general led the way.
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Mississippians' suffering overshadowed
Sep 4 2005 8:50AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi hurricane survivors looked around Saturday and wondered just how long it would take to get food, clean water and shelter. And they were more than angry at the federal government and the national news media.
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New Orleans couple weds in Miss. shelter
Sep 4 2005 7:08AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Trenise Williams and her fiance were going to be married in New Orleans just hours before Hurricane Katrina unleashed catastrophic damage on the Gulf Coast. They fled the area instead and "with the snap of an eye, I lost everything," she said. The only remnants of the wedding-to-be was a marriage license Williams, 28, tucked into her purse.
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Katrina evacuees distraught over lost pets
Sep 4 2005 5:31AM (CT)
ATLANTA (AP) - As Valerie Bennett was evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, rescuers told her there was no room in the boat for her dogs. She pleaded. "I offered him my wedding ring and my mom's wedding ring," the 34-year-old nurse recalled Saturday. They wouldn't budge. She and her husband could bring only one item, and they already had a plastic tub containing the medicines her husband, a liver transplant recipient, needed to survive.
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Survivors search for missing loved ones
Sep 4 2005 5:28AM (CT)
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) - The only word 1-year-old Leah knew was "Da-da." She lay in a stranger's arms as her mother, Christi Scott, floated away in a hot tub. "I thought, there's no way I'm going to find her," said Scott, who drifted in her makeshift lifeboat atop Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters for 20 minutes before reaching land. "She doesn't know her name. She can't say my name."
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Bush aides meet with black leadership
Sep 4 2005 1:31AM (CT)
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - President Bush's top advisers met Saturday with black leaders concerned about the administration's slow response to blacks suffering from Hurricane Katrina, while the head of the NAACP said it was not time for "finger-pointing."
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Miss. shelter closes as several fall ill
Sep 4 2005 12:45AM (CT)
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Officials closed a shelter Saturday because more than 20 people there fell ill, and doctors believe the patients may have contracted dysentery from tainted water. Another 20 people in the area also were treated for vomiting and diarrhea.
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