Reply #21: New Orleans mayor: 'Likely thousands dead'

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http://www.cbc.ca/storyview/MSN/world/national/2005/08/31/New_Orleans20050831.html


Last Updated Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:58:08 EDT
CBC News

The mayor of New Orleans said hundreds, maybe thousands of people are dead in the city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Two breaches in the Florida Street levee, looking toward the Mississippi River

Mayor Ray Nagin said there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water and others dead in attics.

The Bush administration declared a public health emergency for the entire Gulf Coast.

The government is rushing food, medicine and water to the victims as part of a virtually unprecedented rescue-and-relief response.


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