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...White House is trying to make it clear that Bush is getting into the nitty gritty of post-Katrina operations. "The president asked a lot of questions about how they're going about getting rid of that debris," press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters Sunday after a briefing in Baton Rouge. "The president asked more about the 9th Ward, and the searches that had gone on there; where they were in terms of the progress of doing the searches of all the homes in that area...
...with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some evacuees from New Orleans, like Diane Pierce, a former Tulane University Hospital housekeeper, it's almost too much. She sat on a downtown Houston sidewalk Tuesday, all her possessions in a shopping cart, after accepting three bus tickets back to Baton Rouge for herself and two children, aged 10 and 13. "I'm getting out of Texas," she said...
...study did not cover all the shelters in Houston due to logistical issues and did not visit shelters in Baton Rouge, La. or Dallas...
...Baton Rouge trip marks the first time the Harvard Foundation has directly participated in disaster relief efforts, said Counter...
Counter’s group partnered with Southern University, a historical black college in Baton Rouge. On the trip, doctors issued prescriptions to evacuees who had lost their records and brought antibiotics, bandages, and anti-depressants to shelters...