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Updated: 11:41 AM Aug 31, 2005
Louisiana Governor Asks For Day Of Prayer
Looting Widespread Louisiana Gov. Kathryn Blanco is asking New Orleans residents to spend the day in prayer.
Posted: 12:05 PM Aug 31, 2005 |
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Faced with widespread rooting in New Orleans, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco is asking residents of the hurricane-ravaged city to spend the day in prayer, Wednesday.
"That would be the best thing to calm our spirits and thank our Lord that we are survivors,” Blanco said.
"Slowly, gradually, we will recover; we will survive; we will rebuild,” she said.
Some of the looting is taking place in full view of police and National Guardsmen.
New Orleans Police say one officer was shot in the head by a looter, but was expected to recover.
On Canal Street, dozens of looters ripped open the steel gates on clothing and jewelry stores.
Looters at a Wal-Mart brazenly loaded up shopping carts with items including microwaves, coolers and knife sets.
Others walked out of a sporting goods store on Canal Street with armfuls of shoes and football jerseys.
The city's homeland security chief says looters are breaking into stores all over town and stealing guns. He says there are now gangs of armed men moving around the city.
The mayor of New Orleans says it could be months before evacuees from Hurricane Katrina will be allowed back into the city.
Two broken levees continue to spill water into the streets, swamping an estimated 80 percent of the below-sea-level city.
Efforts to plug the leaks aren't going very well and the governor has ordered the city abandoned for now.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: HURRICANE ASSISTANCE WEB SITES
Click Here For Charity Tips From FEMA
Click Here For American Red Cross Web Site
Click Here For Salvation Army Web Site
Click Here For Second Harvest Web Site
Click Here For Catholic Charities Web Site
Click Here For National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Web Site
Click Here For United Methodist Committee On Relief
Click Here For Episcopal Relief & Development Web Site
Click Here For Information On Southern Baptist Relief Efforts
HURRICANE INFORMATION RESOURCES
Click Here For WWL-TV Survivors Web Forum
Click Here For National Hurricane Center Web Site
Click Here For National Weather Service Web Site
Click Here For Hydrologic Information Center For Information On River Flooding
Click Here For Federal Emergency Management Agency Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Homeland Security Web Site
Click Here For City Of New Orleans Web Site
Click Here For Louisiana Governor’s Web Site
Click Here For State Of Mississippi Web Site
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