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Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused
to salvation Saturday, leaving the city of New Orleans to the dead
and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without
food, water or medical care.
(09/03/2005)
A calendar listing of events to raise money and supplies in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
(09/03/2005)
The region's largest food bank has set aside thousands of pounds of food and grocery products for victims of Hurricane Katrina. But donations are stuck in a Maple Grove warehouse while the organization searches for semis and drivers to transport the items to southern states.
(09/02/2005)
A walk through New Orleans is a walk through hell - punctuated,
it must be said, by moments of grace.
(09/02/2005)
The devastation from Hurricane Katrina reaches far across the Gulf Coast. Twin Cities Public Television's Fred de Sam Lazaro is Biloxi, Mississippi, reporting for PBS. He says the devastation is extensive. All Things Considered host Tom Crann talked with him.
(09/02/2005)
Facing sharp criticism of the federal
response, President Bush toured the hurricane-battered Gulf
Coast, where he says the damage is "worse than imaginable."
(09/02/2005)
More than four days after Hurricane Katrina
struck, the National Guard arrived in force Friday with food, water
and weapons, churning through the floodwaters in a vast truck
convoy that was met with both catcalls and cries of "Thank you,
Jesus!" from the suffering multitudes.
(09/02/2005)
Members of Minnesota Public Radio's Public Insight Journalism network share their thoughts on the Hurricane Katrina situation.
(09/02/2005)
Minnesotans are gearing up to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina in a variety of ways. Relief organizations are asking mostly for money to help those in need. Meanwhile other groups are offering their services to help those in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
(09/01/2005)
The Bush administration intends to seek more
than $10 billion to cover immediate relief needs in the wake of
Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Thursday, and
lawmakers made plans to approve the request by the weekend.
(09/01/2005)
Fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out
in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers
were shot at as flood-stricken New Orleans descended into anarchy
Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.
(09/01/2005)
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans
called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue,
saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced
to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.
(09/01/2005)
The Gulf Coast is still reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which may have left thousands dead, hundreds of thousands homeless and millions without power. How will America cope with the natural disaster that President Bush has compared to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 in its magnitude?
( 09/01/2005)
Audio of a news conference with President George Bush, former President George H.W. Bush and former President Bill Clinton on Katrina relief efforts.
(09/01/2005)
The estimate, if accurate, would make the storm the nation's deadliest
natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
(08/31/2005)
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