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Bbc: New Orleans: Nature's Revenge?

For Students 9th - 10th
August, 2005, report that discusses the flooding of New Orleans and the levee system designed to protect the city.
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Bbc: Hard Task of Draining New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
September, 2005, article tracing the draining of the flooded New Orleans and the repairing of the levee system devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
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Bbc: Drama of New Orleans' Premature Babies

For Students 9th - 10th
In an extraordinary report, the rescue of premature babies from the flooding of New Orleans brought on by Hurricane Katrina is chronicled. Along with the article is a video report.
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Bbc: Mapping the Destruction: New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive map that allows you to see before and after pictures of areas of New Orleans. There are also two enlightening videos that shows the conditions of New Orleans in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina.
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Bbc: Rebuilding New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out how New Orleans considered how to rebuild the levee system that was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Maps of New Orleans and the levee system are available. (January, 2006)
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Bbc: Fixing New Orleans' Thin Grey Line

For Students 9th - 10th
An October 2005 report on the reconstruction of the devastated New Orleans levees. The levees failed during Hurricane Katrina causing the city of New Orleans to flood.
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Bbc: Thousands Return to New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the formation of the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, the return home of many who were evacuated by Hurricane Katrina, and the post-disaster problems in New Orleans. A video report accompanies this article. (September, 2005)
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Bbc: Police Told to Clear New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
As New Orleans remained underwater, fears of pollution, health hazards, and safety moved Mayor Ray Nagin to order a mandatory evacuation of the city. Photos accompany the September, 2005 article.
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Home of the American Civil War: Benjamin Butler's New Orleans "Woman's Order"

For Students 9th - 10th
How did women display their distaste and anger about the Union occupation of New Orleans? Read about how their behavior forced Gen. Butler's to issue orders on how they should be treated. From "Historical Times Encyclopedia of the Civil...
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Bbc: Left Behind in New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Fascinating look at a New Orleans rescue mission by volunteers who are attempting to help those impacted by the flooding of New Orleans brought on by Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.
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Bbc: Storm Hit New Orleans in Turmoil

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief BBC report illustrating the conditions of New Orleans soon after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. Report is from August, 2005.
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Bbc: New Orleans' Victims in Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief BBC News report portraying the plight of some of the people stranded in New Orleans and effected by Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.
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Bbc: 'Thousands Dead' in New Orleans

For Students 9th - 10th
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina, reports of the devastation of New Orleans is explored by BBC News. A video, other report links, and an interactive map of Katrina's path accompany this August, 2005, report.
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Bbc: Saving New Orleans' Animals

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News explores the fate of many missing and abandoned animals in New Orleans. Many of those impacted by Hurricane Katrina stayed in the flooded city because they did not want to leave their pets behind. Article is from September, 2005.
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Bbc: New Orleans Starts to Remove Dead

For Students 9th - 10th
In this September 2005 report, the BBC covers the removal of dead victims of Hurricane Katrina, the fear of disease from pollution, and the federal government's response.
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Bbc: New Orleans Violence 'Overstated'

For Students 9th - 10th
Amid reports that there was an increase in crime and violence in New Orleans during in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this September 2005 article contends that those reports were exaggerated.
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Bbc: Hurricane Aid Efforts Gather Pace

For Students 9th - 10th
The Bush administration receives some criticism for its response to Hurricane Katrina. Also, the rescue and relief effort for impacted by the hurricane is also chronicled. Video, photo slideshow, and a speech by New Orleans Ray Nagin...
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Bbc: Mapping the Destruction: Levee Repair

For Students 9th - 10th
Graphic and photographic slideshow that shows how the failed New Orleans levees are repaired.
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Bbc News: Hurricane Rita: The Impact

For Students 9th - 10th
Find out about the impact of Hurricane Rita on the Gulf Coast. Find a map of the path of the hurricane, satellite photo, graphic of New Orleans levee, information on the oil industry, and more.
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Bbc: Homes Pledge for Katrina Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News reports on the Hurricane Katrina response as well as the continued search and rescue of New Orleans that continues. Report also includes a report of the discovery of victims found in a hospital. Photographic essay and a video...
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Bbc: 'We Knew It Was Bound to Happen'

For Students 9th - 10th
September 2005 report that chronicles the experiences of three New Orleans evacuees displaced by Hurricane Katrina.
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Bbc: Help 'Too Late' to Save Patients

For Students 9th - 10th
BBC News reports that a number of patients hospitalized in New Orleans died before they could be evacuated from the city very heavily damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Report is from September, 2005.
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Bbc: Patrolling the 'Venice From Hell'

For Students 9th - 10th
September 2005 report chronicling the devastation, flooding, rescue efforts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. A photographic slideshow accompanies this report.
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Bbc: Bedraggled Survivors Seek Safety

For Students 9th - 10th
The evacuation of New Orleans is chronicled in this September 2005 report.

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