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New Orleans firefighters wade forward to battle a building fire in downtown New Orleans on Wednesday. The cause of the fire was unclear.
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A paramedic points the way for another man pushing an elderly New Orleans resident to a triage area as they sit on Interstate 10 in Metarie, Louisiana, Wednesday. The evacuees had been airlifted out of flood-besieged New Orleans a few minutes earlier.
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Gerry and Joe Catanese view what’s left of their home, far left, in the Pirate’s Harbor subdivision of Slidell, Louisiana.
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New Orleans residents walk through floodwaters besieging the Crescent City. Hurricane Katrina devastated the Louisiana and Mississippi coasts when it came ashore Monday.
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Evelyn Turner cries alongside the body of her common-law husband, Xavier Bowie, after he died in New Orleans. Bowie and Turner had decided to ride out Hurricane Katrina when they could not find a way to leave the city. Bowie, who had lung cancer, died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday afternoon.
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Terri Jones tries to cool fellow flood victim Dorthy Divic, 89, who became overheated and exausted at the convention center in New Orleans.
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Volunteer Mickey Monceaux, right, uses his boat to help rescue elderly flood victims from an apartment building on the east side of New Orleans.
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A man pushes his bicycle through flood waters near the Superdome in New Orleans on Wednesday.
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Gipson Blanchard, front, and Robin Tanner paddle a small boat down flooded Broadway Street in New Orleans on Wednesday. Flood waters continue to rise in the Crescent City, and thousands of residents are being evacuated.
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Flood victims wait to enter the Superdome in New Orleans on Wednesday. Hurricane Katrina left much of the city underwater. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many residents remained and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels.
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New Orleans residents wait to be rescued from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.
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Sheila Dixon of New Orleans weeps, clutching her 18-month-old daughter Emily, as they sit on the side of Interstate 10 after being airlifted out of New Orleans. Dixon lost everything and said she had no idea where she was being taken.
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New Orleans residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in a photograph taken Wednesday.
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A distress message spray painted on the bottom floor of a destroyed apartment complex is seen in in Slidell, Louisiana. A quick check of the building showed that the attic steps were pulled down and nobody was left trapped in the structure.
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Boats damaged by Hurricane Katrina are stacked on top of one another.
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This phto provided Wednesday by the Coast Guard shows Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott D. Rady, 34, giving the signal to hoist a pregnant woman from her apartment in New Orleans. In all, the Coast Guard rescued 11 people from the apartment building.
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A New Orleans police officer holds a shotgun as he tries to keep people away from a drug store in a flooded area of downtown New Orleans. Numerous other nearby stores were previously looted.
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Orleans Parish prisoners are evacuated Wednesday from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.
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The damage from Hurricane Katrina near New Orleans is seen from Air Force One on Wednesday. President Bush viewed the damage on his way back to Washington.
