Thursday, September 01, 2005

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Stock Market News and Investment Information | Reuters.com: "UPDATE 4-New Orleans evacuation slows as shooting, chaos erupt
Thu Sep 1, 2005 11:26 AM ET

By Jason Reed

NEW ORLEANS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Chaos and lawlessness hampered the evacuation of New Orleans on Thursday and a U.S. senator said thousands may have died in Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast.

In New Orleans, shell-shocked officials tried to regain control of the historic jazz city reduced to a swampy ruin by Monday's storm. Bodies floated in the flooded city and authorities still could only guess how many people had died."

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