Katrina Death toll may be in the hundreds; saves Next
The dead of Hurricane Katrina has torn parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama this week, perhaps in the hundreds to continue the rescue efforts from what des Etats - U.S. and officials say it may be the nation worst natural disaster.
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued thousands yesterday in New Orleans, remained in the water on the flooded so deeply that 20 feet, after issuing 1200 Yesterday, the Agency said in its website.
At least 50 people died in Harrison County, Mississippi, of which no less than 30 in a residential building collapsed in Biloxi, Mississippi Emergency Management spokesman Jim Pollard said in an interview yesterday.
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, the dead as high as 80 in Harrison County, in an interview on NBC “ Today’s zeigen”gestern, while the New York Times, quoting an official emergency management, reported that 100 were killed.
More than 1.4 million customers were without electricity in Louisiana late yesterday in Florida Panhandle, against more than 2.1 million early in the day, according to estimates by Entergy Corp., Cleco Corp. and Southern Co., the parent company by distribution companies in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. The estimates were in the reports on websites.
A 200-foot long journey dam overflowed in New Orleans, flooding some roads, Trooper Marc Smith, a spokesman for Louisiana State Police, said in a telephone interview yesterday. More than 80 percent of New Orleans was under water, Governor Kathleen Blanco said in a press conference yesterday on television.
The U.S. National Guard was in downtown New Orleans, as human beings have looted shops in the city along Canal Street, New Cable Network reported.
The American Red Cross is housing 70000 people in 230 emergency shelters, said spokeswoman Laura Howe. The shelters provide food, water and toilet articles for people forced from their homes by the hurricane.
Hilton Hotels Corp., No. 3 U.S. hotel chain, said yesterday that LA was closed 17 Hotels in arrivals until late April so 2006 due to damage caused by the hurricane.
President George W. Bush has declared parts of Alabama and Mississippi a major disaster, the relief of the Confederation for disaster relief. It envisages a return to Washington today, because of the hurricane, cutting short a holiday at his Texas ranch, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. The president may visit the affected areas until the end of the week, McClellan said.
Katrina, which was blown ashore in Mississippi at dawn Monday with wind speeds as high as 140 kph (225 kph), is now a tropical depression with winds of nearly 30 km / h and forecasts the head by parts of Upstate New York, New England and Canada on September 2
USA as an insurer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., said the destruction by Katrina means left, there may be today, before we can determine, asserts that the storm-Modeler-AIR World Wide Inc. yesterday estimated could reach $ 25 billion. The storm said the researcher may be the second most expensive in the history of USA.
UAL Corp. ’s United Airlines, Southwest Airlines Co. and Delta Air Lines Inc. canceled flights Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport by at least tomorrow. Delta halted flights by 11 other airports in Louisiana, Florida, while the flight begins in south-west of Jackson Municipal Airport, Jackson, Mississippi, today, after the flights.
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