St. Bernard Parish

The FEMA crews are marking the sites of corpses using global positioning system technology. There’s no official count of the dead, which officials estimate may reach into the hundreds. So far officials have reported 31 people found dead at St. Rita’s Nursing Home in Poydras and 22 other bodies found tied together in Violet. Officials believe they bound themselves by rope in a desperate effort to survive the storm.

But the main task remains finding survivors.