Hurricane Katrina batters US
(AP/Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-02 08:58

Earl Wallace, right, helps his friend Kate Whittenberg after they arrived by helicopter at the evacuation staging area on Interstate-10 in Metarie, La., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Thousands of residents of the flood besieged city are seeking a way out of New Orleans. Officials were airlifting the evacuees to the staging area where they loaded buses bound for the Astrodome in Houston. [AP]

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