America fights to save New Orleans
By Sam Knight
Times Online

The US Army, Navy and Coastguard will try and save the city of New Orleans and reach survivors of Hurricane Katrina today as the full force of the federal Government is swung into action after the country's most devastating natural disaster in recent times.

With hundreds feared dead in shattered buildings along the Gulf Coast and tens of thousands more homeless, President Bush returned to Washington last night to oversee the rescue effort. The Pentagon called up army reservists and ordered five ships, a hovercraft and eight naval rescue teams to the region.

The most audacious repair effort will continue today in New Orleans, where the Navy and the US Army Corps of Engineers are dropping sandbags and concrete into the broken dams that have been overwhelmed by the floodwaters of the storm.

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