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Hurricane Katrina: Day 4 — Part 2

Desperate hours in New Orleans

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• Sept. 1: New Orleans residents appeal for help as they gather at an evacuation staging area in Metarie, La.
• Sept. 1: A cemetary is covered by floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
• Sept. 1: A man holds armfuls of hygiene products he took from the shelves of a pharmacy in New Orleans.
• Sept. 1: Volunteer Mary K. Edwards sorts through donated items at the Red Cross Shelter in Shreveport, La.
• Sept. 1: Residents are rescued by helicopter from the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
• Sept. 1: Victims of Hurricane Katrina camp out on a bridge as flood waters show an oil contamination.
• Sept. 1: A heavily armed Coast Guard sailor protects a facility in New Orleans.
• Sept. 1: Hurricane Katrina evacuee Mary Jackson, 82, is transported by paramedics to a Dallas shelter from New Orleans.
• Sept. 1: Hurricane Katrina refugees begin to fill up cots on the floor of the Huston Astrodome.
• Sept. 1: Isabell Oliver, of New Orleans, cries while waiting with her family to register for assistance as refugees.
• Sept. 1: Lazonia Baham carries her daughter, Deborh, off a helicopter in Metairie, La.
• Sept. 1: Refugees of Hurricane Katrina roam Interstate 10 in search of a place to go.
• Sept. 1: A large alligator swims in Lake Pontchartrain past a pile of debris from Hurricane Katrina in Slidell, La.