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New Orleans officials said they were evacuating 23000 refugees of Hurricane Katrina in Houston as engineers provided opportunities for connection of injuries in the system of dikes, causing floods in 80 percent of the city.

The refugees, particularly in the Superdome stadium, it is 500 buses on the Houston Astrodome 328 miles (508 km), officials said. It may take weeks before humans are allowed, she said.

“ There is nothing that happens in New Orleans, they are kept,’’said Lieutenant Kevin Cowan, a spokesman for the Louisiana Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness. “ There is no water, no electricity, no food, no sanitation. You can not live in New Orleans.”

At least 100 people lost their lives in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida after Katrina’s toben on the gulf coast two days ago. Estimates insurance of $ 25 billion in damage would make Katrina the natural disaster the most expensive in the history of USA.

From oil and fuel prices have increased by books, with which consumers $ 3 per gallon at the pump, as the storm destroyed at sea drilling platforms and pipelines in the region, which produces one third of oil and gas from a fifth of USA said that the government, it you press the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to ease the shortage.

“ This is a big impact for a number of weeks,”Ben Bernanke, a former governor and chairman of the Federal Reserve’s chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said in an interview. “ It is large enough to show up in national statistics.”

Under the Sea

Emergency management officials in Louisiana said at a press conference that flood waters are no longer rising in New Orleans after an injury in the city dam system allows the Mississippi River to overflow in the city , Some of whom are also much more than 20 metres below sea level.

The city, 100 miles upstream from the Gulf of Mexico, has 500000 inhabitants in a city of 1.3 million people. It depends on pumps and levees to keep dry from Lake Pontchartrain to the north and the Mississippi River in the south.

The engineers are trying to block two major dam broke today airdropping five tons of sandbags, serious gaps in the, Colonel Richard Wagenaar, New Orleans district commander of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’s, said today Today in a telephone interview. If it fails, he said, “ major highways are in Barrieren”gesenkt

Texas Governor Rick Perry said at a press conference the timetable for the stage of the Houston Astrodome, the house may be at least 25,000, was in December of the storm victims home.

Polluted water

“ We want human beings, because the water was polluted,”Frank Coates, a spokesman for the Louisiana State Police, said in an interview. “ First stranded on the roofs of people on their security is a priority”

Coates said there were at least one meeting in New Orleans, some looting and that a dawn dawn curfew was imposed.

President George W. Bush aboard Air Force One returning to Washington today to oversee the recovery efforts. He wants to visit the region later in the week, either on Friday or Saturday, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff declared the hurricane an “ incident of national significance,”triggering for the first time a national emergency plan with which the division of a better coordination of agencies, in response to the disaster , Said McClellan.

Oil data exceeded a rate of $ 70 a barrel and gasoline futures rose after the storm Struck and reduced output in the Gulf region. Minister of Energy Samuel Bodman said in an interview today in Washington that the government can provide reserves of 5 million barrels per day, more than three times higher than the amount lost in the Gulf region .

Telephone ventilation

Entergy Corp., Southern Co. and Cleco Corporation, owner of electricity supply facilities along the Gulf coast to the USA, said nearly 1.6 million customers in the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana remain without power. Utilities interested say the damage caused by the hurricane, the worst in its history.

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 today. Katrina struck, 194360 lines in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida.

The company is the creation of two cities south of the tent Mississippi and around New Orleans for workers affected by the storm.

Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport is operating with one runway for flights using the organizations of boredom, Laura Brown, a Federal Aviation Administration said the spokesman. The airport is closed to commercial traffic, “she said.

The Gulfport-Biloxi Regional Airport, Mississippi is also closed, “said Brown in Washington.

Flight Restrictions

The FAA has placed restrictions on flights in the airspace of New Orleans and the states of Mississippi and Alabama coasts of airspace to keep clearly in restitutio in integrum effort flights, she said.

USA as an insurer of State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., said he can not today, before seeing the claims. Storm-Modeler-AIR World Wide Inc. yesterday estimated claims could reach $ 25 billion. This would exceed claims resulting from Hurricane Andrew in Florida in 1992, 20.9 billion dollars has been adjusted for inflation.

Carcasses were pulled out of the water to avoid health risks, “said Cowen, the Louisiana State officially state of emergency. There is no death for the territory still great, “he said. LA said yesterday that four people died on 29 August.