NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8, 2005
Evacuation: House By House
Cops Try To Clear Out New Orleans; Many Bodies Recovered
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Play CBS Video Video Rescuers Step Up Pace Rescuers are trying to evacuate remaining New Orleans residents as the first disease-related deaths are reported and gasoline fires remain a threat. John Roberts reports.
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Oregon National Guard Capt. Trent Klug, on cleanup detail in the Port of New Orleans, takes down and folds a hurricane-tattered U.S. flag. (AP Photo/Statesman Journal)
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A FEMA employee passes an X-ray plate to workers inside a mortuary tent in Gulfport, Mississippi, where the bodies of Katrina victims are being identified. (AP Photo/Birmingham News)
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New York City firefighters volunteering in New Orleans battle flames in a supply building in the city's central business district. Downed power lines and gas leaks continue to spark fires. (AP/The Dallas Morning News)
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The federal government also plans to hand out debit cards worth $2,000 each to families displaced by Hurricane Katrina. FEMA officials said the program is aimed at those most in need, so not all families that fled their homes will be eligible. The cards are to be used to help victims purchase food, transportation and other essentials.
Several residents said they heard Nagin's latest order on portable radios and were reluctantly complying.
Dolores Devron and her husband, Forcell, finally agreed to go. Dolores Devron said she was relieved the couple were allowed to take their dog with them but angry they were ordered out.
"There are dead babies tied to poles and they're dragging us out and leaving the dead babies. That ain't right!" she screamed, waving her arms as she was directed onto a troop carrier truck.
Picola Brown, 47, hobbled slowly down the street on her crutches. She said she had not been able to leave because a truck ran over her left foot shortly before the storm struck, breaking a toe.
"The mayor said everybody's got to go. I got ready. I just don't want them knocking on my door," she said.
"Where do you want to go?" asked a soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division. She answered, "Wherever it's comfortable."
Patricia Kelly, 41, sat under a tattered, dirty green-and-white-striped patio umbrella in front of an abandoned barber and beauty shop in the devastated Ninth Ward. Her home was flooded; she was not able to get back in, but did not want to leave the neighborhood.
"I'm going to stay as long as the Lord says so," Kelly said. "If they come with a court order, then we'll leave. I hope it doesn't get to the point where we're forced out."
Sgt. Joseph Boarman of the 82nd Airborne, standing on a corner, said he understood the reluctance to leave: "It's their home. You know how hard it is to leave home, no matter what condition it's in."
In Washington, President Bush and Congress pledged on Tuesday to open separate investigations into the federal response to Katrina and New Orleans' broken levees. "Governments at all levels failed," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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