Flooded New Orleans to be evacuated
Web-posted 8/31/2005
NEW ORLEANS - Army engineers struggled without success to plug New Orleans' breached levees with giant sandbags, and the governor said Wednesday the situation was worsening and there was no choice but to abandon the flooded city.

Officials throw up hands as looters ransack city
Web-posted 8/31/2005
NEW ORLEANS - Officials watched helplessly as looters around the city ransacked stores for food, clothing, appliances and guns.

Katrina's refugees will be moved to Houston
Web-posted 8/31/2005
NEW ORLEANS - At least 25,000 of Hurricane Katrina's refugees, a majority of them at the New Orleans Superdome, will travel in a bus convoy to Houston and will be sheltered at the Astrodome, which hasn't been used for professional sporting events in years.

Georgia Guardsmen, power crews head for Gulf
Web-posted 8/31/2005
ATLANTA - At least 15 members of the Georgia Army National Guard, three Guard helicopters and more than 240 electrical workers from the state were headed Wednesday to hurricane-ravaged areas to assist with relief efforts.

Energy markets remain jittery
Web-posted 8/31/2005
Crude oil prices fell in jittery trading Wednesday even after the U.S. government said it would loan oil to refiners struggling in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to keep production of gasoline and other fuels steady. But wholesale and retail gasoline prices leaped higher nationwide.

Tiny island on edge of gulf counts its blessings
Web-posted 8/31/2005
GRAND ISLE, La. - Survivors took shelter in trees, coffins rose out of the ground and most of the homes on this spit of sand bordering the Gulf of Mexico were torn apart by winds and waves. But nobody died.

Katrina's effects, state-by-state
Web-posted 8/31/2005
Hurricane Katrina's effects, at a glance:

Navy orders ships to Gulf Coast to aid in relief effort
Web-posted 8/31/2005
WASHINGTON - The Navy is sending four ships carrying water and other supplies to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina, while medical disaster teams and Red Cross workers from across the country converged on the devastated Gulf Coast region.

New Orleans paper publishes online only for second day
Web-posted 8/31/2005
Working out of a small office where some staffers are sleeping, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans published a 13-page online edition Wednesday detailing the catastrophic flooding in the city.

Red Cross says number of people in shelters growing
Web-posted 8/31/2005
WASHINGTON - In what it said was its largest-ever mobilization, the Red Cross reported that more than 45,000 victims of Hurricane Katrina were housed in its shelters Wednesday and the number was growing steadily.

Americans contribute millions for Katrina disaster relief
Web-posted 8/31/2005
WASHINGTON - Americans are pouring in millions of dollars in donations for disaster relief in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, rescue organizations said Wednesday.

Cash donations sought for hurricane victims
Web-posted 8/29/2005
WASHINGTON - While a variety of government and private agencies are en route to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, federal officials said Monday people wanting to help should not head to the affected area unless directed by an agency.