Faces of survival

Newborn Jade Leshelle Joseph sucks a pacifier Tuesday at the Cullman Regional Medical Center in Cullman, Ala. Jade's parents, Donyelle Jean Jacques and Wilbert Joseph, left New Orleans Sunday with 48 members of their extended family. By midnight Sunday Jacques was having labor pains, forcing the family caravan to stop in Cullman.

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Willie Davis shouts from the roof of his hurricane-flooded home in 9th Ward, a poor area of New Orleans, on Tuesday.

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Shelia Dixon, of Gentilly, La., weeps as she holds her 18-month-old daughter Emily, as refugees wait Wednesday for evacuation in Metairie, La. Dixon and her family rode in their boat from a home to I-10 and then were evacuated by helicopter.

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Volunteer Mickey Monceaux, center, uses his boat and one in-tow to rescue residents from a flooded neighborhood on the east side of New Orleans on Wednesday.

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New Orleans residents wait for their next transportation a few minutes after being evacuated by helicopter from a flooded New Orleans to I-10 in Metairie, La., on Wednesday.

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Alison Dean carries what she can from her home in Waveland, Miss.

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New Orleans resident Eileen Glenn, 26, grieves at a shelter in San Antonio, Texas. She and her four children escaped New Orleans but left behind her mother and others.