This is just the beginning of the things we are going to hear this week.
Police here in St. Bernard Parish have to spend their time on the living. Nearly every building in this parish of 70,000 people was wiped out in the storm.
Rescuers have spent nearly every moment looking for survivors trapped in attics, stranded on balconies, stuck up in trees.
So Sheriff Jack Stephens can’t give a lot of details about deaths in the parish. What he has is numbers.
Thirty died over at St. Rita Nursing Home. Eleven died down at the hospital at Chalmette.
About 100 bodies have been found in the parish so far. Stephens says the final count could be five times that many.
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