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...know what it means to return to New Orleans? Right now, it means facing some heath hazards, While Mayor Ray Nagin is in a big rush to welcome back business and residents to The Big Easy, especially in The French Quarter and Central Business District, which were relatively untouched by Hurricane Katrina, federal officials, worried about undrinkable water, possible health problems, and few hospital facilities, issued a warning Saturday that coming back might be risky. Admiral Thad Allen, in charge of FEMA's efforts in the area, urged business owners and residents to consider delaying their return rather than risk...
...more remarkable, then, that rescuers believe the death toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will...
...first of the dead--26 bodies--arrived six days after Hurricane Katrina, in refrigerated trucks at a temporary mortuary set up in the tiny town of St. Gabriel, to the northwest of New Orleans. Fearing the worst, Nagin ordered 25,000 body bags. By then, most of the 1.3 million who lived in New Orleans and its suburbs had been bused or airlifted out. But a week after the levees broke, at least 10,000 were believed to be still in the city--some determined to stick it out, others inaccessible to rescuers. Health officials tested and found E. coli...
...already left hundreds dead and has decimated or practically erased towns from the Gulf Coast. Lawmakers have predicted that the hurricane would ultimately cost the federal government more than $300 billion, more than the combined cost of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to date. Mayor C. Ray Nagin had initially speculated that the death toll might reach 10,000, though a preliminary body recovery last week authorities shrunk those estimates. New Orleans, a city that had won fame among conventioneers and nighttime revellers, had become a waterlogged ghost town, patrolled by rescue workers and military police shouldering...
...still don't know what happened to New Orleans' $7 million grant in 2003 for a communications system that would connect all the region's first responders. Soon after the hurricane struck, the radios used by police, fire fighters and Nagin drained their batteries. Then their satellite phones would not recharge, according to the Wall Street Journal. And, of course, land-line and cell phones went out. For two days, the mayor and his emergency team were cut off--holed up in the Hyatt Regency, fending off gangs of looters. We don't know why the mayor and his emergency...