Katrina News
- Fifty six percent of 609 adults polled by telephone said that the city of New Orlens will never completely recover from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
- The head of the US senate budget committee said on Wednesday that the Hurricane Katrina relief operation is costing $1bn a day.
- Hurricane Katrina will reduce employment by 400,000 people in coming months while trimming GDP by as much as a full percentage point in the second half of the year.
- The death toll in Mississippi, the state worst hit by Hurricane Katrina after Louisiana, stood at 152.
