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Updates as they come in on Katrina
12:08 PM CDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005
Tom Planchet
11:35 A.M. -- Officials said Jefferson Parish residents can return to their homes Monday for a brief time to get some belongings, but must bring identification, sealed food and safe water with them.
10:10 A.M. - MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- The Bush administration sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, its highest ranking black official, Sunday to visit the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast amid criticism it had responded slowly to the suffering of poor, minority victims. She returned to her native Alabama to attend services at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile.
10:06 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands, the first time a federal official has acknowledged what many had feared. "I think it's evident it's in the thousands," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Sunday on CNN, echoing predictions by city and state officials last week about the death toll.
10:00 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday the federal government is in control of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans after days in which authorities failed to reach stranded refugees and evacuate the city. He said a house-to-house search will be conducted to find the living and the dead.
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9:10 A.M. -- The Jefferson Parish animal shelter said it has rescued over 100 animals from evacuees at Interstate 10 and Causeway Boulevard. The shelter issues an urgent appeal for national pet and veterinarian organizations to bring trucks to the animal shelter in Tylertown, Miss., and take animals away to places where they can be cared for.
8:45 A.M. - Washington (AP) -- Amid widespread criticism about a slow and ineffectual response to the crisis, the Bush administration dispatched several top officials to the region: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President Bush planned to return to the region Monday.
8:28 A.M. - (AP) "A Marshall Plan for the Mississippi." That's what New Orleans native Andrew Young thinks is in order to get the hurricane ravage area back on its feet. The former U-N ambassador and Atlanta mayor says getting the region's economy back on track requires thinking similar to what was done for Europe after World War Two.
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8:26 A.M. - (AP) With each passing day, health concerns continue to grow for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Some are obvious, some less so.
CUT CUT .. gastrointestinal illnesses like dysentery are among the immediate concerns. So are staph infections CUT CUT West Nile Virus.
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8:24 A.M. - BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) -- Nearly 40 buses filled with evacuees from the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast have arrived at an Oklahoma National Guard barracks.
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8:10 A.M. - Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu - The images you've seen on TV was the lawless young men who did horrible things and have to be dealt with but what you didn't see, because the cameras weren't allowed in there, was that 99 percent were golden.
8:08 A.M. - Landrieu: This was the largest, most gargantuen [sic] storm in history. Ninety percent of the harm, tragedies and deaths were because of things beyond anyone's control. About 10 percent will be because of what someone didn't do.
8:05 A.M. - Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu - There's a lot of blame to go around, and a lot of credit. Heroes and demons. This is an American tragedy.
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8:00 A.M. - Landrieu: - We need to stop calling them refugees, they are American citizens. I've made that mistake myself.
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