Agencies Poised For Storm Recovery
As Residents Suffer Through Hurricane, Disaster Relief Mobilized
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Play CBS Video Video FEMA's Katrina Plan Mike Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, spoke to The Early Show's Harry Smith about how the government will help Gulf Coast areas hit by Hurricane Katrina.
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Video Louisiana Governor On Katrina Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco spoke to The Early Show about how the state's emergency workers are prepared to handle the expected damage from Hurricane Katrina.
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Video Hoping To Miss Mississippi Residents of Biloxi, Miss., have a good reason to fear the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. Many still remember the last storm that killed 250 people. CBS News' Jim Acosta reports.
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President Bush is handed a map by Deputy Chief of Staff Joe Hagin, center, during a video conference with emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina at his ranch Sunday, Aug. 28, 2005. (AP)
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Members of the National Guard hand out ready-to-eat meals to some of the thousands of evacuees taking shelter at New Orleans' Superdome. (AP)
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Interactive Katrina Hits Florida Hurricane Katrina socked the densely-populated South Florida coast.
"We're preparing for what could potentially be a strong environmental disaster, as those floodwaters bring in all that kind of waste, we have to be prepared to deal with that, too," Brown said.
Federal, state and local agencies say recovery could be a slow process.
Former Army Corps of Engineers commander Robert Flowers says he couldn't begin to estimate the billions of dollars in damage the storm is causing.
In preparation for the storm, President Bush on Sunday urged people living in the path of Hurricane Katrina to take the storm extremely seriously and to move to safer ground. "We cannot stress enough the danger this hurricane poses to Gulf Coast communities," said the president.
"We will do everything in our power to help the people and the communities affected by this storm," President Bush said as Katrina bore down on a stretch of coastline that includes New Orleans, a city sitting below sea level with 485,000 inhabitants.
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