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Louisiana, the governor of New Orleans to evacuate after 80 percent of the city flooded, two days after Hurricane Katrina.

“ We have absolutely the evacuation of inhabitants of the dome and other shelters in the city,”Governor Kathleen Blanco, said the Cable News Network. “ It is a logistical nightmare.”

More than 20000 people use the stadium Superdome after Katrina swept the USA on the Gulf countries two days ago and killed more than 100 people and caused damage of up to $ 25 billion in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

“ It looks like Hiroshima,”Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour said parts of Harrison County, including the hardest of these cities of Biloxi and Gulfport.

The water is still rising in New Orleans, Frank Coates, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police, said in an interview. At least five injuries in the city dam system allows the Mississippi River to overflow in the city, some of which are so much more than 20 feet (6 m) under the sea.

“ First stranded on the roofs of people on their security is a priority,’’said Nigel Coates. “ We want human beings, because the polluted water.”He said that there was at least one meeting, some looting and a dawn-dusk exit was pronounced.

Oil data exceeded a rate of $ 70 a barrel and gasoline futures rose in New York as damage to oil rigs and pipelines in the region, which produces one third of oil and natural gas one fifth of the USA, increased concern about deficits.

It may take weeks or more before the return of persons are entitled to certain sectors of the city, said Lieutenant Kevin Cowan, a spokesman for the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. He said ,”“ of thousands of people in and around New Orleans remains to save.

Complete rebuild

“ The infrastructure damage is so bad that we have completely transformed,”Cowan said in a telephone interview from Baton Rouge. “ Down buildings, parts of roads have been washed away and utilities have disappeared. There is no food, no water, no food, which is more and more, there are no services in the area of New Orleans, so that people are poor.”

Exercised in New Orleans have been injured or overflowed in at least five areas, Jim Hill, an officer of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s, said in a telephone interview from Baton Rouge, citing a “ preliminary assessment” today.

A violation of the 17th Street Canal may be as wide as 500 feet (150 meters), he said. A portion of the industry waterways Meter”wurde measure “ a few hundred wounded or overtopped, and there are small breaks or three sections übervolle Bayou Bienvue, east of the city, he said.

Sandbags, stone

Hill said “ alle”Optionen be considered for the water flow. Are put in sandbags, there is a barge loaded stone, steel, said in a telephone interview.

More than 1.4 million customers were without electricity in Louisiana late yesterday in Florida Panhandle, against more than 2.1 million early in the day, according to estimates by Entergy Corp., Cleco Corp. and Southern Co., parent companies of businesses in Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

BellSouth Corp., the largest provider of local telephone lines in nine states in the south-east, has lost 101821 or 5.1 per cent of the total volume of its lines of Louisiana, said spokeswoman Nadine Randall in an e - mail. Katrina struck, 194360 lines in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

President George W. Bush has declared parts of Alabama and Mississippi a major disaster, the discharge of federal aid. The USA their relief, tap oil reserves after Hurricane Katrina and refineries Rigs arrested in the Gulf of Mexico, disrupting deliveries of gasoline and led to record prices of crude oil.

Claims indefinite

USA as an insurer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., said the destruction by Katrina means left, there may be today, before seeing the claims. Storm-Modeler-AIR World Wide Inc. yesterday estimated claims could reach $ 25 billion. The storm said the researcher may be the second most expensive in the history of USA.