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No one knows yet how high death toll will climb

Published: Thursday, Sept. 8, 2005 9:27 a.m. MDT
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has said New Orleans' death toll could reach 10,000. Already, a temporary warehouse morgue in rural St. Gabriel that had been prepared to take 1,000 bodies was being readied to handle 5,000. Otherwise, no one is really sure how high the toll may go.

However, the enormity of the disaster came ever-clearer in neighboring St. Bernard Parish, which was hit by a levee break that brought a wall of water up to 20 feet high. State Rep. Nita Hutter said 30 people died at a flooded nursing home in Chalmette when the staff left the elderly residents behind in their beds. And Rep. Charlie Melancon said more than 100 people died at a dockside warehouse while they waited for rescuers to ferry them to safety.

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