7 September 2005 By The Morning News — 07 Sep 2005 New York's currently: aware of how easy it has it Pumps slowly begin to drain New Orleans--60 percent (down from 80 percent) of the city is still submerged. Operation expected to take 80 days. Mayor Ray Nagin authorizes police to force remaining Orleaneans to evacuate. The contaminated water now going back into Lake Pontachartrain is no longer the same water that flooded New Orleans. Safe drinking water may not be available in New Orleans for years to come. What diseases medical workers have to deal with in the Gulf Coast disaster. Bush will ask Congress for at least $40 billion more in Katrina aid. Evacuated children enroll in schools across the nation; there too, the separation between the haves and the have-nots is evident. View survivors' accounts of the storm and floods. Bush says he'll lead investigation to find out what went wrong in disaster recovery efforts. Eventually. During the fallout from Hurricane Katrina, political advisors rush to the scene. Welcome to Reliant City, population 24,900: The zoning plan for the Astrodome and surrounding areas. Once rebuilt, how a new New Orleans could be made less susceptible to disaster than before. Video: "We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back." Rumors of violence at Astrodome proving untrue. (Track more rumors here.) The city has long been full of people living in brutal poverty; the city has long been full of cheap violence. Today is the day to donate to the Red Cross.
