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Updates as they come in on Katrina
08:02 AM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
Tom Planchet
8:01 A.M. - St. Tammany spokesperson: All routes from the Northshore to Metairie and New Orleans are closed. People are trying to get to those areas through the Northshore and are running out of fuel.
7:46 A.M. - St. Tammany spokesperson: No emergency worker or parish official or law enforcement official was hurt during the storm.
7:45 A.M. - St. Tammany spokesperson: People trying to return are getting stuck in parish because there is no fuel to get out.
7:44 A.M. - St. Tammany spokesperson: Every building in Madisonville had water inside.
7:37 A.M. - (AP) The evacuation of the Superdome was suspended Thursday after shots were fired at a military helicopter, an ambulance official overseeing the operation said. No immediate injuries were reported.
"We have suspended operations until they gain control of the Superdome," said Richard Zeuschlag, head of Acadian Ambulance, which was handling the evacuation of sick and injured people from the Superdome.
He said that military would not fly out of the Superdome either because of the gunfire and that the National Guard told him that it was sending 100 military police officers to gain control.
"That's not enough," Zeuschlag. "We need a thousand."

http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050901/NEWS0110/50901002/1260

'No one expected it to be that bad'

By Riva Brown
rbrown@clarionledger.com

Brian Albert Broom/The Clarion-Ledger

Christine O'Bannon, a survivor of Hurricane Camille, recovers belongings Wednesday from her Second Street home in Gulfport that was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

BAY ST. LOUIS — With Hurricane Camille in 1969, Alex Jordan recalls the water only coming to the railroad tracks in the Middle Town area of Waveland.

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"[Waveland of Bay St. Louis] Longo said in his city alone, the death toll is approaching 50.

Amid the stench of death, rescue workers tried to help the living Wednesday.

Trucks and volunteers from Virginia, Florida, Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas brought food to people whose homes and lives were devastated by Katrina.

People grabbed food off the trucks. "They're kind of panicking. Most of them lost everything, and it's kind of like security for them," said Dee Lumpkin, deputy director of the Hancock County Emergency Management Agency.

At least 14 bodies are being stored at Edmond Fahey Funeral Home in Bay St. Louis in a cooler powered by a generator. Coroner Norma Stiglet said downed trees have kept emergency personnel from recovering many other bodies."