New Orleans gets slammed with another Hurricane

Officials warned Friday that Hurricane Rita would start causing trouble long before it slams into the Gulf Coast, spawning tornadoes and lashing the region with strong winds and heavy rains.

HURRICANE RITA SATELLIGHT LOOP:
http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/TROP/DATA/RT/float-wv-loop.html

HURRICANE RITA PROBABILITIES:
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/text/refresh/MIASPFAT3+shtml/221455.shtml











































A bus carrying about 45 elderly evacuees burst into flames on Interstate 45 south of Dallas killing as many as 24 people.

Hurricane Katrina Pictures

Before the Devastation

Bush: 'I take responsibility' for U.S. failures on Katrina

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- President Bush on Tuesday said he takes responsibility for the federal government's failures in responding to Hurricane Katrina.

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

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The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

America paused Sunday in their recovery work
for Hurricane Katrina to observe the fourth
anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

Louisiana is under water

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Hurricane Katrina Pictures