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NEW ORLEANS Alarming predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than feared.
"Some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred," said Col. Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief.See the full content of this document
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Officials Find Fewer Bodies Than Feared
He declined to give a revised estimate. But he added: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000."
The encouraging news came as workers repairing New Orleans' system of levees and water pumps projected Friday that it will take a ...See the full content of this document
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