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Florida is a cultural mosaic. The Panhandle seems to have more in common with neighbouring states, Alabama and Georgia that Fort Lauderdale and Miami in the southern part of the state. The house canyons off the coast of the world are far from the sugar cane plantations and inside orange.

But how the state is preparing for its main presidential elections Tuesday, there seems to be a problem to sew together the disparate parts: Real-Estate-crisis.

The Florida has felt the impact of problems of national mortgage and housing slowdown acute as in every state in the country. Rampant construction came to the stalemate, the house collapsed, turnover and job losses in the housing sector, related industries have officially broken out. At the same time, residents have seen an increase in land prices and taxes, after the devastating hurricanes in the years 2004 and 2005, an increase in insurance rates.

In interviews with about two dozen people in this fast-growing Central Florida City, almost all said that slumping property values and higher taxes and cost of insurance was the top of their concerns.

“After the cyclone was the whole sky was high - property taxes, insurance,” said Muhammad Yusaf, 53, a native of Guyana, withdrew his family in Saint-Cloud the Bronx, NY, in 1995 and now owns a small bands Mall here and a motel in Kissimmee. Yusaf said the tax and insurance in his hotel were approximately $ 24000 a year, more than twice as high as prices in 2004.

Candidates of both parties have talked more and more on the need for the economic incentive to avoid a recession, and some of them proposed plans for reducing the plethora of foreclosures.

The former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, committed, the future of its results of the campaign in Florida, tried to differentiate itself from other Republican candidates by promoting his support for a national catastrophe fund would contribute to this that the lower costs of the hurricane - Insurance.

Apart from the fact that the Fund, but there was no indication of Florida during the real estate crisis of the two-hour Republican debate Thursday in Boca Raton.

(Christian Democrats are also the vote Tuesday, but the main candidates for the Party of the appointment had not fought in Florida. And the National Party gestrippt the status of the Assembly of Delegates, as punishment to maintain its main ago on February 5)

For many Floridians, real estate, vault, the duration vis-à-vis other crops such as public security, immigration and public health. Last year, in response to the growing anger on the costs of owning a home, the Florida legislative approval of a tax reduction plan as a basis of a proposal to amend the Constitution. The amendment appears on the ballot Tuesday.

The measure, declaration of love to you, Charlie Crist, a Republican, simply, taxation, although the reductions for most homeowners. Florida does not have an income tax, and local governments have been lobbying against the amendment, they say that devastate their homes.

Florida’s property, taking into account the problems sharpness emphasis here in St. Cloud and along the Interstate 4 corridor that runs from Tampa on the Gulf Coast on this page in the centre of Orlando, Daytona Beach on the Atlantic coast.

The region has traditionally been a strong concentration of undecided voters, so as Florida in the key swing region for the elections. In fact, most voters interviewed at Saint-Cloud said they were candidates, taking into account the two parties.

“I am a registered Republican,” said Richard McConahay, 63, former owner of a feed stored here. “But when it comes to the final minutes in the cabin, which plays no role.”

McConahay said he tends to Senator John McCain, R-Ariz. “I think it is quite frankly, quite honestly,” he said.

Regarding the main contenders for the Democratic nomination, Sens Hillary Rodham Clinton in New York and Illinois Barack Obama, “I am simply not possible for a good feeling Hillary,” said McConahay. “Je ne sais not Obama. ”

Yusaf, motel owners, said he was a registered Democrat and the proposed vote by party, but he tried to choose between Clinton and Obama. Although the crisis of real estate was the beginning of its concerns, it was the evaluation of candidates on other issues, including health care.

Hurricane Katrina natural disaster is the most expensive of all time.

The strong storm is expected to cost personal and commercial property / accident insurance, at least $ 34.4 billion damage to insured property.

Fortunately - for industry and guaranteed not to worry about paying claims - insurers were pleased by 29.1 percent to an increase in net income in the first half of 2005, well before Hurricane jumped into the Gulf of Mexico, damage, destroy or leaving inaccessible, some 851000 housing units.

During the first public estimate of costs related to hurricanes, Jersey City, NJ-based risk Wrangler ISO Properties Inc., said on October 4 Katrina, the costs easily exceed the previous record of $ 20.8 billion cost of catastrophes certainly limited Damages by Hurricane Andrew in 1992.

In countries where the USA, first on the peninsula of Florida on August 25, and again, died four days later, the center of golf along the coast, Katrina caused extensive damage in the wake of houses and businesses in six states: Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, Georgia. Greater New Orleans was the hardest hit after the dam was casting protection against flood waters in the city largely under sea level.

Both residential and business insurance in the states concerned is expected to file more than 1.6 million claims for damage to property, including structures (households and businesses), cars, boats and yachts, ISO reported.

In recent years, the three words are almost mandatory on each paragraph of market commentary. Leasing is lifted with the exception of downtown. Rents are, apart from streamlining the city centre. Big block of space are rare, except in downtown.

Now, another sentence added to the list. Nobody has an idea, if the housing market is really to improve the - except downtown. While brokers and owners continue to waffle on whether Midtown is better or worse or stay about the same, they all agree that the primary responsibility of the space in the centre City, is a revival of the species.

“We see the first signs of strong demand from users in four years,” said Lawrence S. Tannenbaum, an executive director at Cushman & Wakefield.

“The class A-firming market,” said Robert G. Martin, Senior Managing Director at Wm A. White / Grubb & Ellis. “It is more a question of if but when.”

What is also encouraging to note that most players of the city lies in the fact that many large-scale publicity in recent years - Bank of America’s 360,000-square-foot lease in One World Trade Center, to say or 2 to rent for Prudential, 1 million square feet at One New York Plaza, the building in One Water Street in possession of Chase Manahattan - are no longer isolated.

Raymond T. O’Keefe, Executive Director Edward S. Gordon ’s center, said that the 3.6 million square meters in the downtown by the end of August exceeded the leasing sector in volume for the whole of 1992. And many other offerings are offing.

Deloitte & Touche, last June, roused speculation that relocate Midtown purchased, if its lease on the World Trade Center, is however expected that 350000 square metres on 2 World Financial Center. Goldman Sachs participates in New York Prudential Plaza One, with a lease of 160000 square feet. Arnhold & S. Bleichroder, Premon Yamane, WM. McGee, Lewco Securities, the Legal Aid Society and many others speak of the extension or development in the city centre.

Turnover is active, too. The New York City Housing Authority, which is currently at 250 Broadway near Park Place, is likely to buy, or 2 Broadway, near Morris Street, or 60 Broadway, near Exchange Place. And the pension of Alabama has taken, 55 Water Street, the history of the 52 Behemoth, Off bankrupt Olympia & York, with his hands.

Companies whose headquarters is in Midtown are beginning to relocate functions less visible south.

Credit Suisse, which has its front-office on the sparkling Tower 49, 12 to Jerusalem-49th Street, has recently launched its new offices of 150000 square feet in One Liberty Place arrivals of at least 25 percent below those of its Midtown space. Alitalia, is opening a new ticket office in ground-floor room at 444 Madison expensive, about 48th Street, takes 55000 square metres in One Whitehall Street, for his hotel.

“A comparable treatment in Midtown would cost $ 5 at least one foot more,” said Maurice Solomon, a vice-president, Julien J. Studley Alitalia.

Smaller tenants are signs of life too. Mr. O’Keefe conjectures Gordon, wide-ranging that represents less than 35 percent of downtown leasing in the activities this year. Indeed, several reports of increased brokerage activity, particularly in the new law firms and financial services companies.

Richard A. Doolittle, Managing Director of Newmark Real Estate Services, handles leasing for 111 Broadway, an old building on Thames Street. It has been carving much of 400000 square feet of space in the building movement-ready offices 2500 square feet or less. Mr. Doolittle said that in this year alone, he rented more than 60000 square metres as precompiled place in the low annual rental $ 20’sa square feet.

Two years ago, was 45 per cent in the empty building today, he said, its vacancy rate only 18 percent.

“Small tenants are the driving force behind the downtown in terms of recovery,” Mr. Doolittle planned. “They have money, they serve to broaden and know before tenants, they are of average size.

It is a little earlier, of course, that the champagne débouchez. Downtown total vacancy rate still over 22 percent, compared to less than 16 per cent for Midtown. Even Mr. Doolittle acknowledges that the mirror images of 111 buildings, 115 Broadway, Cedar Street, remains empty 40 per cent, despite massive renovation, fairly reasonable to ask a price of $ 24 on rent and an offer of $ 45 a Square feet in the direction of costs related to customization of a space.

Around the country this summer, at least half a dozen hospitals have closed obstetric stations, others are limited trauma services, and a series of rural clinics have been temporarily locked in the wake of the increased costs of medical insurance found.

Mercy Hospital in West Philadelphia closed its maternity station on Friday and Largo Medical Center, near Tampa, Florida, to make plans for that, in December.

During recent weeks, the only Trauma Center in Las Vegas closed for 10 days, the Central Florida Regional Hospital in Sanford, Fla., reduced surgical procedures for five days, and a handful of rural clinics across the Mississippi empty sat in the summer heat for a part in the week. All closures was bad because of insurance problems.

The rising costs of misbehaviour during the last two years, doctors, for batteries of tests costly and risky to limit, many doctors decided very early retirement. Now the cost has a direct impact on medical institutions and medical care of patients, to provide, through interviews with hospital administrators in many countries.

In total, more than 1300 health care institutions are already affected, according to a survey by the American Hospital Association. The survey, published in June that 20 per cent in 5000 Member of the Association of hospitals in health and other organizations have been back on interfaces services and 6% have eliminated some units. Many of these units are obstetric stations, including medical errors in the past have led to expensive jury awards and settlements.

”This is likely to want to be “much more serious,’’said Carmela Coyle, Senior Vice President of the policy of the hospital association.”We are likely to see more closures of services.” ‘

So far, no cases of deaths were due to reductions, but hospitals say the risks for patients increases.

Trauma”Notre system has actually fallen apart,”Cameron said Saturday, the Chief Executive of the Mississippi Hospital Association. ”This is a so-called golden hour, in which a patient with severe head injuries a need to see a specialist, as a neurosurgeon, and in some areas of our State of the service n ‘is more available.”

In WV, two maternity hospitals closed stations and several hospitals no longer have neurosurgeons to treat head injuries or orthopedists mending broken bones, said Steven Summer, the executive director of the West Virginia Hospital Association.

In New York, many of the biggest hospitals have their prices down insurance in its own nonprofit insurance. No reductions have been in service in the city or elsewhere in the state.

Mr. Steven Visner, an insurance expert with Ernst & Young, consulting company, has had many hospitals had inquired about the creation of an own insurance companies. But it takes more funds than many of them, he said, and inform the institution to greater risk than buying coverage support.

The New Jersey Hospital Association says insurance costs in the state, have almost doubled over the past year. Gary Carter, Chief Executive of the Association, said that although most services have been maintained, some hospitals in New Jersey say the specialists are balking on taking office emergency call.

”But this is just that in New Jersey,”he said. ”We expect to see, hospitals, more and more to return to cut services.”

The insurance costs have also risen sharply in Connecticut, said Ken Roberts, a spokesman for the Connecticut Hospital Association. But he said the association has not received any reports about reductions in service.

Around the country, hospitals say they are both cutting services, because the high cost of their own insurance is overwhelming and because specialists, is not prepared to bear the new costs for ‘assurance of their practices, are increasingly rare.

Some specialists, for example, have abandoned the practice and life began again in countries where abuses insurance prices are still too degenerate. Many birth assistants and surgeons are confined to low risk. Other specialists have advisers, counsel to leave, but actual treatment to others to avoid medical insurance recorded as a whole.

The costs are really staggering. Premiums for doctors have doubled, tripled or, in some cases as high as $ 200000 per year for the birth assistants in Fort Lauderdale and Miami. But prices are starting to look mild in comparison with the huge bills for health insurance houses.

At Philadelphia, for example, the costs of liability insurance law doctor Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, operates several hospitals, has doubled this year to $ 32 million. As a result, on June 30, Jefferson concluded the maternity unit in its Methodist Hospital of Philadelphia and Southeast cut 270 jobs at Thomas Jefferson and the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience.

In June, the Brandywine Hospital closed the trauma center, which served as the suburbs southwest of Philadelphia and Paoli Hospital, also in the vicinity of Philadelphia, closed its paramedic unit, said Andrew Wigglesworth, president of Delaware Valley Health Care Council.

Most units birth of aid financially to fight, because of increased competition and reduced payments by the Confederation and private insurers. This was the case during delivery, so that the Friday at Mercy Hospital in West Philadelphia.

”We were funded the program because we have the resources,’’said Gavin Kerr, Chief Executive of the Mercy Health System. ”But how to be fault premiums increased dramatically decreased and resources.

Mr. Wallison noted that the nation’s largest banks have $ 165 billion of capital to mitigate losses, far more than the $ 13.2 billion of reserves at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Bank Insurance Fund.

But Congress is expected that the resistance against the idea.

”It is a question of whether Congress is up to this type of step,’’said Robert E. Litan, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. ”He likes general deregulation and the guilt of regulatory authorities for all problems.”

The $ 100000 person-a-plan

Nevertheless, a number of changes during the next year. Many experts say that the concept seems to have drawn the greatest attention is now in Congress on the one hand, that the secretary Brady said last week that the administration in charge.

It would guarantee deposits up to $ 100000. Now applicants are assured of $ 100000 in deposits placed in different organs, where they have accounts, and for money to accounts at $ 100000, creating nearly unlimited cover.

Predicting that the Congress could be the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, for their insurance premiums on deposit insurance systems in accordance with the risk of bank assets, strength and major depositors of banks, an automatic loss — About 10 to 15 percent - in its unversichert deposits in the event of failure.

The fear of charges for banks

The question of borders on DGS insurance and the state commercial banks are closely linked. For always, financial experts wonder if the Nation’s Commercial Banking System is the meeting of these tribes, that the Government is invited to assist.

Few are assuming that even in the worst conditions, commercial banks had problems dimension of the crisis economies of the industry. The legal structure of the Bank was much higher, banks have a much more diversified range of goods and their management in general, more professional.

But the banking sector is almost three times larger than the economies of the industry. Even a modest impact could be very costly for taxpayers.

An Industry May disappear

While the fate of the Industrial Bank is uncertain, the future of the industry savings seems obvious. Until the end of the decade, experts say, it is off, in large part because of the bailout legislation.

On the reasons that the industry must first be before the U.S. taxpayers is to pay the necessary steps to healthy institutions, remained on a significant amount of its profits each year and place it in the direction of the cleanup-as well as their costs, expenses have been collected. According to the legislation, capital requirements has been increased to a level roughly equal footing with banks, the amount of money, an institution to a single borrower has been limited, and a new rule states that at least 70 per cent of the wealth of an institution, from 60 per cent have been mortgaged for investments in the corresponding assets.

While some dispute caution in these changes, the speed with which they have been in the industry seems draconian, especially in the area of the harshest criticism.

“In the spirit of vengeance, legislation”

”It was a sort of revenge in the legislation that I think nobody really expected,’’said Bert Ely, a financial adviser with headquarters in Alexandria, Va. RIFTS”Il has made citizens the second class.”

At the same time, regulatory authorities, with a plethora of new skills and discovered a new zeal, to close almost every institution, which do not meet the higher standards of capital. For much of this action is to prevent an accumulation of losses to institutions, probably doomed to failure, it also has a strong political component.

The regulators do not want cars before Congress and grilled, why not act quickly enough to conclude a maroden institution. The result is that the government for casting the buyer for hundreds of seizures institutions, investors found relatively little tense.

S. & L. loses the value of charters

”All this means that the value of a Charter of the economy is now much less than in the past,’’said James R. Barth, Lowder Eminent Scholar in finance at Auburn University, Alabama. ”And it is more difficult to obtain for people coming from investing activities in this sector, and you have pushed the cost of the bailout.”

Yet there is a large school of thought, indicating that this type of pain is inevitable and that pain must be even longer be imposed. In this mode, transforming the deposit guarantee scheme is not the safest way to prevent a repetition of savings and credit to the debacle. Instead, these people say, the two banks and savings banks should be required to keep the cushion of capital, including cash reserves and investment from shareholders, more than 10 percent of their assets, compared to the current level of 6 per cent.

The era is largely disappeared, with the sentence structure of flat. But Wall Street hopes, other relaxation of the Fed is still, at least to some degree. At the same time, concerned about the prevention of risks are largely disappeared, given that many banks has been able to cut some risks such as amortization of loans to prior periods have proved themselves have a value.

It is a measure of Wall Street moods that enthusiasm for stocks is much higher, after having enormous work. And enthusiasm is sometimes the biggest banks with less than sterling records. “We are looking for actions that are vulnerable to acquisitions,” where the threat of action, is the inspiration of management needed to take measures to increase profits or the purchaser, “said Michael Mayo, an analyst at the bank Lehman Brothers. The current list includes Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, Southern National of North Carolina and First Commerce of New Orleans.

That is intramarket mergers, most attention. The combination of the two banks in the same sector may lead to cost savings in marketing and personnel, as competing branches are closed. Bankers deny that it also reduces the incentive for price competition, but probably. These savings, why both Chase and Chemical jumped in price yesterday.

Mr. Peabody, the UBS analyst, said he was concentrating on areas where the Bank of consolidation was most likely, and came to the conclusion that even the states of Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and Michigan. Among its targets, Ex parte candidates AmSouth and Regions Financial, both based in Alabama, Tennessee and First American First of Tennessee; Signet in Virginia, Louisiana and Hibernia.

Much of the takeover talk reflects the fact that break down regional barriers, and there is much talk of truly national banking - the adoption, as will mergers and not by new competitors. The possible extension of insurance companies and Wall-Street-banking business - which is perhaps legalized or not, if Congress is the law on the deregulation of financial markets - is that the creation of any buyers, competition may drive prices down.

It is, to be sure still some concern about a possible bad loans. Mr. Peabody said he thinks the next credit crisis, when he comes in loan contracts, and its recommendations reflect faith in commercial banks with the loan or other nonconsumer franchises.

Admittedly, there are signs of overcapacity in credit, how many people can testify that, using all credit cards and mortgage second answer their path. But the general opinion is that the economy is not likely to descend into a recession and that, as this is not the case, banks are not the profits of problems.

At the same time, profits for many banks are probably better in the third quarter due to Federal Deposit Insurance premiums have been reduced. And the excess capital, analysts of $ 50 billion to 100 billion dollars, the acquisition of shares and funding of higher dividends for shareholders pushed the two yields.

Another problem is that some speak received one or two years, but it is now almost ignored the potential that banks could franchise consultancy banks disappear, as well as money market investment funds have a big party Account savings and business investment firms siphoned off a corporation loan amount by the Commercial Paper. The risk is that new technologies could, for example, computers or communications companies - perhaps AT & T or Microsoft - for banking services for much less than banks, burdened by the cost of branches.

Instead, the dominant mode of Wall Street, it appears that banks have a lot of money to invest in new technologies that are wisely for such considerable market shares. It also became an argument to wait for the wave of mergers and acquisitions to continue.

Hours Best Co. has confirmed the financial rating (FSR) A + (Superior) and issuer credit rating (ICR) of “AA-” Alfa Insurance Group (Alfa) and its members. At the same time, hours Best has affirmed the ICR and debt-Ratings “a” Alfa Corporation (NASDAQ / NM: ALFA).

In addition, overtime Best has affirmed the FSR of A + (Superior) and the ICR of “AA-” Alfa Life Insurance Corporation (Alfa Life). The outlook for all ratings above is stable. Best hours also confirmed the debt rating of AMB-1 on the Commercial Paper Program Alfa Corporation. All businesses, except Alfa-Allianz Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, their home or habitual residence in Montgomery, AL. (See below for a detailed list of companies and ratings.)

The ratings reflect the strength Alfa risk adjusted capitalization, its operational performance in the long term and sustainable competitive advantage. These rating factors stem from the direction of the conservative operating philosophy, Customer Service and the group exceptionally strong position in the market for personal lines of Alabama.

The ratings also reflect Alfa adverse operating results during the last five years in its ownership of branches, competitive market conditions and its continuity, even if it significantly reduced vulnerability to weather in the context of events because of its geographic concentration risks in the Gulf region. In addition, the group has increased the surplus delivered during this period and improved equity in the last hour.

Currently, Alfa Mutual Insurance Company, Alfa Mutual Fire Insurance Company and General Alfa Mutual Insurance Company (Alfa Mutual Group) jointly maintain approximately 55% of the majority of Alfa Corporation and unconditionally guaranteed all Alfa Corporation’s economic excellence, paper and of long-term debt.

The ratings of Alfa Life recognize its key position as a subsidiary of Alfa Corporation, whose operating performance and cost-effective strong Stand-Alone risk-adjusted case sensitive. The ratings confirm production growing new business in his heart of normal business segment by strong sales of its mandate of life. H Best notes to the Alfa-Life’s Profile narrow geographical and heavy dependence linked to damage-Agent field. But these concerns are somewhat mitigated by the company to the use of new distribution networks outside of Alabama and Alfa Life’s effective cross-selling activities within the organization.

Insurance companies could with a score of 500 million pounds sterling bill to cope with the devastating effects of Hurricane Dennis, industry analysts warned today.

The first estimates for the hurricane, 32 died as a result left Haiti and Cuba before battering the USA, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi in the last month, were considered as experts predict a further six hurricanes this year.

According suppliers dADVERTISEMENTata ISO,
Dennis, the first hurricane of 2005, will mean that nearly 130000 applications for homeowners and businesses.

ISO affirm the real estate services unit, “said Florida were the most affected state of the USA, suffering losses of up to £ 355.8m housing and real estate and vehicles. Alabama was hit next, with losses of £ 63.9m, followed by Georgia to £ 47.2m and Mississippi, losses of nearly £ 33.4m.

The hurricane season officially runs from 1 June at 30 November, but the sheer force of Dennis persons detained in custody.

The highlight of the period of storm activity, while 90 per cent of cyclones occur, usually 1 August 31 October.

Defined as a category four hurricane - a storm with wind speeds of between 131 and 155 km / h - Dennis was the first to give an assault on the strike the USA in July since 1916.

Hundreds of thousands of homes remained without electricity after Dennis blew through the Gulf of Mexico, with nearly 1.4 million people affected by the evacuation orders.

Meanwhile Hurricane Emily, the second storm to strike in the north-east of Mexico this year, it is expected that the saddle with an insurer £ 5m bill, after sending Aspen, in the first half the year 2005 provides for the protection of reinsurance for natural disasters to the tune of nearly £ 750m.

Oliver Peterken, Aspen Re’s Chief Risk Officer, said: “We had an active season this year yet, but we expect up to eight hurricanes [total]. It was lively early as men had thought, but there are still three months to go. ”

Storm activity comes in the year 2004 was one of the worst years hurricane record for the insurance industry. Four major storms in the USA and Japan abused was taken with ten typhoons, resulting in some quarters calculations of £ 12.8 billion of insurance.

Experts in meteorology, said the trend and the most powerful devastating cyclones in the past three years, partly on global warming and warned the trend should continue.

Kerry Emanuel, professor of meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said: “My results suggest that future warming may lead to an upward trend in tropical cyclone destructive potential and - reflecting an increase of coastal populations — net increase of Hurricane Damage to the 21st century.

Standard & Poor’s announced today that it has started coverage of facts Bank report in Donegal Group Inc.

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The Port of New Orleans reopened, the airport and expects its first commercial flights today since Hurricane Katrina jumped ashore more than two weeks.

In the meantime, coroners are planned autopsy of patients in at least 44 dead in a flooded-out hospital.

In New Orleans, a shipment of steel coils left the port by river last night for a Hyundai auto plant in Greenville, Ala., said spokesman Chris Bonura port.

The port awaiting the arrival of its first cargo ship since the end of the hurricane, now and at least three other vessels weekend, “said Gary LaGrange, Port-President and Chief Executive.

The ship had arrived, with a maximum of 500 containers of coffee and wood products from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, LaGrange said.

“This is a historic moment. Two weeks ago, the forecast six months, drag it so that our customers have enough faith and confidence in us is very renovation,” said LaGrange.

He added: “In a commercial and psychological, this is five stars. This shows that people of their city of New Orleans is back in business.”

The Port of New Orleans is the gateway to a river system in 33 countries along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Wearing a connection to six lanes.

Today, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, it was expected to receive its first commercial flight since Katrina on 29 August.

The exact number of posts at the resumed Sunday on 317-bed Memorial Medical Center was unclear. An official said the body of 45 patients were found, a hospital administrator said there were 44, plus three on the ground.

The discovery of Louisiana’s perceived official victims to nearly 280

It was not immediately clear that the patients died.

Dave Goodson, an assistant administrator at Memorial Medical, said patients died while waiting times were evacuated after Katrina struck, as temperatures inside the hospital reached 106 degrees. He said the heat probably contributed to some deaths.

Family members and nurses were “literally was on the patients, fanning it,” he said.

However, Steven Campanini, a spokesman for the hospital owners Tenet Healthcare Corp., said that part of the patients had died and were in the morgue before Katrina came, and no deaths resulted from lack of food, water or electricity to power medical equipment.

Dr. Frank Minyard, Orleans Parish coroner, said autopsies conducted on the bodies.

In the case of an appearance in the NBC Today, he said he thought the evacuation of the city was a success Verified, as hitherto, the earthquake was significantly weaker than anticipated. However, he noted that research continues.

“It can only be a multitude of people who are still in deep waters,” said Minyard. “My greatest fear is that we find something that there is the issue. I hope this does not happen, but we are afraid.”

While the competent authorities of Public Health have been warning about the risk of germination of dirty water, workers in the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention are not seeing many cases of disease.

Instead between 40% and 50% of patients who have injuries emergency - CDC has counted 148 injuries in the last two days, Carol Rubin, an agency hurricane relief specialist.

She said they are part chainsaw injuries and poisoning of carbon monoxide generators.

The recovery was visible spots. Nearly two-thirds of south-east of LA’s and sewage treatment plants underway and 41 in New Orleans’ 174 pumps were operational permanent.

Officials expect that half gefluteten city completely discharged, on October 8.

Business-owners, yesterday we were still in New Orleans, damage assessment and recovery of vital importance and devices.

John construction, a lawyer and Construction Manager, filled his SUV with computer servers, monitors, fax machines and crates of files. He said he planned to make the most of the disaster, the creation of a new business to help people handle disaster claims and reconstruction projects.

“Everybody’s were scattered to the four winds,” said construction, evacuation, Baton Rouge. “How are they dealing with rights of insurance? Meet partnership contract? Discover their homes restored, as they were?”

Sergeant John Zeller, an engineer from California National Guard, said he is at least three months before New Orleans’ public distribution system is fully operational.

Some homes have running water, but it is mostly untreated water of the Mississippi. For each request, a bathroom “It’s like jumping into the river at the moment,” he said.

Some of these refugees until the end of May in temporary accommodation made available to FEMA, was expected, trailers to be used to create housing “temporary cities”, where some 200000 victims of the Hurricane - most of them in Louisiana - could live up to five years.

“This is perhaps not quite on the scale for the construction of the pyramids, but it is very close,” said Brad Fair, head of the FEMA housing effort.