Katrina May Have Killed Thousands

New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin is quoted today by the Associated Press that "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water, minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands." If this is an accurate account, would make the storm the nation's deadliest natural disaster since at least the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Army engineers are struggling to plug breached levees with giant sandbags and concrete barriers that failed to hold the onrushing water. The AP is also reporting there are plans to evacuate the entire city because it will not even be functional as a city for at least two or three months. MORE....