Sunday, September 04, 2005
Official New Orleans death toll 59, certain to rise
http://www.wwltv.com/sharedcontent/nationworld/katrina/stories/090405ccKatrinajcMainstory.5c031bb6.html
New Orleans tries to deal with its dead
04:01 PM EDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005
By ALLEN G. BREED / Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Rescuers going house to house searched for hurricane survivors Sunday, and New Orleans turned its attention to gathering up what could be thousands of bodies from the floodwaters. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.
No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating in the ruined city, crumpled in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.
"I think it's evident it's in the thousands," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Sunday on CNN, echoing predictions by city and state officials last week about the death toll.
New Orleans tries to deal with its dead
04:01 PM EDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005
By ALLEN G. BREED / Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS — Rescuers going house to house searched for hurricane survivors Sunday, and New Orleans turned its attention to gathering up what could be thousands of bodies from the floodwaters. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.
No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating in the ruined city, crumpled in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.
"I think it's evident it's in the thousands," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Sunday on CNN, echoing predictions by city and state officials last week about the death toll.
# posted by Jude Boudreaux @ 9/04/2005 01:36:00 PM 
