death toll may already be over 1,000

[PurdueWx80]

are there any updates on the official death toll from today?

http://tinyurl.com/achye

[Derek Ortt]

and the numbers just keep on rising and 40% of the city si still under water, plus, many areas have not been searched

[recmod]

according to NOLA.com, the officials are not giving any new death toll figures until sunday afternoon. They a re now reaching the really bad areas of the Lower 9th Ward and "dozens of bodies are being found everywhere, with multiple deaths in individual households."

I bet when they issue the new total tomorrow, we will see an official number at or over 1,000

--Lou

[f5]

according to NOLA.com, the officials are not giving any new death toll figures until sunday afternoon. They a re now reaching the really bad areas of the Lower 9th Ward and "dozens of bodies are being found everywhere, with multiple deaths in individual households."

I bet when they issue the new total tomorrow, we will see an official number at or over 1,000

--Lou

Katrina's aftermath is worse and worse eachday it as she is your worst nightmere

[streetsoldier]

Remember, they originally thought the toll would exceed 10-25K.

Be thankful that it was NOT higher.

[Solaris]

concerning the number of missing:

according to this: http://www.redcross.org/news/ds/hurrica ... facts.html

201,000 people have registered on the familiy links redcross homepage to either search for their loved ones or to inform they that one is ok.

also on the nola.com missing forum there are 26,780 entries.

sure, you can't equal these numbers to the number of missing because posts get repeated etc.

but the numbers are huge and my estimate is that there are currently at least 25,000-75,000 missing persons.

[recmod]

This is the latest report from Reuters issued on Sunday morning:

The receding waters allowed search and rescue teams their first look into many homes that had been submerged for nearly three weeks and were said to reveal a growing Katrina death toll.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune reported the teams were turning up large numbers of bodies in districts such as the 9th Ward, Gentilly and the Desire-Florida, which quickly filled with up to 12 feet of water after Katrina broke a nearby levee.

"Parts of the city have become a target-rich environment for human remains," said Federal Emergency Management Agency rescue squad liaison Charles Hood. "It's becoming a very difficult task."

FEMA Urban Search and Rescue spokesman Louie Fernandez said he had not heard of a dramatic increase in the number of dead.

As of Friday, Katrina's death toll stood at 816, with 579 of those in Louisiana, 218 in Mississippi and a total of 19 in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Louisiana officials said they would not update their numbers until Sunday.

--Lou

[drezee]

8000 missing

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.a ... E_ID=46385

[Derek Ortt]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/18/news.update/index.html

646 now confirmed by the state

[jkt21787]

I'm surprised this hasn't been posted yet but the official death toll hit 973 today, more than 700 from LA.

[Derek Ortt]

anyone know the latest death toll?

We really should be blaring the death toll from Katrina all over the news so that those in Texas decide to get out now

[PurdueWx80]

Death toll officially over 1000 now according to CNN:

Katrina death toll in Louisiana rises to 801, according to state officials, bringing overall storm death toll to 1,035. Details soon.

[LAwxrgal]

Death toll officially over 1000 now according to CNN:

Katrina death toll in Louisiana rises to 801, according to state officials, bringing overall storm death toll to 1,035. Details soon.

This needs to be blared to the people in Texas so that they will evacuate from Rita, which looks to be another monster storm.

[cjrciadt]

1036 offical death toll today.

[cancunkid]

Any update on the death toll since the 21st?

[Solaris]

yup, LA Katrina toll at 864, total at 1098.

http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/news.asp?Detail=664

[jpigott]

new numbers per CNN.com - Louisiana's death toll stood Wednesday at 896. Katrina has claimed a total of 1,130 lives in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Georgia -- making it the third deadliest storm in U.S. history.

A Category 4 storm killed an estimated 8,000 people in Galveston, Texas, in 1900. Another storm killed 1,836 people in South Florida 28 years later.

[Derek Ortt]

its really the 5th deadliest, CNN kind of forgets the 2 from 1893 that killed about 2,000 a piece

[sfgal]

Louisiana's death toll now stands at 932 (and counting); Mississippi's is now 221. See last paragraph of linked article:

http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_s ... 11751.html

[simplykristi]

Katrina has the third highest number of deaths from hurricanes that have hit the US.

Kristi