Is there a better media update on Katrina 710 deaths to date than dailykos

[papau]

http://mrblifil.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/8/1837/41163

OFFICIAL DEATH TOLL
As of 9/14/05

Alabama -- 2
Florida -- 14
Georgia -- 2
Louisiana -- 474
Mississippi -- 218
Total -- 710

One possible reason for low death counts to date:

According to the Washington Post:
The reason the number is so low is that the state only counts bodies that have been recovered and positively identified .



PRESS ACCOUNTS DEATH TOLL
As of 9/12/05

Alabama -- 2
Florida -- 11
Georgia -- 2
Louisiana -- 457 to 776
Mississippi -- 218 to hundreds more
Total -- 690 to 1,009 and upwards



PRESS ACCOUNTS


Louisiana Estimates
est. up to 40,000 : Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT)
est. >10,000 : Sen. David Vitter

~1,000 : calls as of 9/12 to NOLA missing, feared dead hotline
At makeshift morgue in St. Gabriel, LA warehouse
83 : Louisiana Dept of Health and Hospitals

(*28 : NOLA highway intersection of interstates 10 and 610)

(*29 : from Jefferson Parish coroner's office)

(*23 : stored in refrigerated trucks next to warehouse)

45 : at Memorial Medical Center


Convention Center, LA
at least 40 mutilated bodies, most elderly; one 7 year-old with throat cut : Arkansas National Guardsman Mikel Brooks

(*3 babies, from heat exhaustion) : Mark Kyle, Medical Relief Provider

(*1 female elderly woman in wheelchair on front steps)

(*1 male covered in a black drape, blood running to gutter)

(*1 male, having lain on a chaise lounge for 4 days)
Superdome, LA
10 : Louis Cataldie, LA Emergency Medical Director

(*1 male beaten to death) : Charles Womack

(*1 male suicide) : Charles Womack

(*200, original figure given) : Louis Cataldie, LA Emergency Medical Director
Other areas in NOLA: Downtown, Garden District, French Quarter
1 : female at the corner of Jackson Avenue and Magazine Street, passersby creating a tarp and brick grave covering her

1 bloated corpse curled up against seawall in French Quarter : Mike Roberts, bulldozer operator
22 bodies of people who’d lashed themselves to pole to survive in an eastern suburb : Sheriff report
5 caught on barbed wire at suburban Metairie country club : resident Eric Breaux
1 male tied to the Interstate 610 sign : Vanessa Magee, Elysian Field resident

1 : female left for days on Interstate Highway 10

1 male, on elevated section of Interstate 10 : Barbara Patt
NOPD
2 : Mayor Ray Nagin
Louis Armstrong International Airport, LA
10 : Dr. Louis Cataldie, LA Emergency Medical Director

30, some elderly and ill, kept in refrigerated trucks as a temp morgue : Roy Williams, Airport Director
Jefferson Parish, LA: Westminster/Lincolnshire
100 : Joseph Donchess, Executive Director of LA Nursing Home Association
(est. *200 deaths in West Bank homes, some of this # may be included in above total)
St. Bernard Parish, LA
30 bodies at flooded Chalmette nursing home : State Rep. Nita Hutter

>100 bodies at warehouse, died waiting for rescuers to ferry them to safety : Rep. Charlie Melancon
Victims of Disease: MS, TX, LA
at least 5, of bacterial infections caused by dirty water : US Center for Disease Control and Prevention

(*3 from Hancock County, MS/3 more sick currently) : Public Health Officials
Mississippi Estimates
est. 1,000’s : EMS Paramedic, adding illegals in area may not be counted
est. 4,000-5,000 : Lt. Rusty Pittman, MS Bureau of Marine Resources
???, final count may not be known in MS because many bodies washed out to sea, and some were eaten by wildlife (such as gators)
Mississippi Official Totals
156 : Col. Joe Spraggins, Harrison County Civil Defense Director

(*196, figure above is included in this count) "unofficial but credible estimate", still rising, with more than ¼ of deaths in inland counties, not along the coast : Gov. Haley Barbour
Harrison County, MS: Gulfport, Biloxi, Long Beach, D'Ilberville, Keeler AFB
83 : Col. Joe Spraggins, Harrison County Civil Defense Director
30 believed to have died in Biloxi Quiet Water apartment complex

at least 6 bodies carried out of Biloxi rubble one week ago
Hancock County, MS: Bay St. Louis
43 : Hancock County Coroner’s Office
est. 600-800 in Bay St. Louis, MS – a town of 8,000 people – alone : law enforcement officer
Jackson County, MS: Ocean Springs/Pascagoula/Gautier
10 : Hancock County Coroner’s Office
Pearl River County, MS
7 : Hancock County Coroner’s Office

Stone County, MS
1 : Hancock County Coroner’s Office

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Morticians told to expect 40,000
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/8/02256/79554
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[Ruby Romaine]

1. Hallibushton doesn't want us knowing- more money for them that way

Did you see the story about rescue of elderly man?
In the last few days, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has ordered searchers NOT to break into homes."
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/special/05/katrina/3353135

try local newspapers in Mississippi
http://newsdirectory.com/news.php?co=USA&p=ms

N.O.-"Bring us our dead"
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/bourbon/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_bstdiaries/archives/2005_09.html#079524

there was a story yesterday that evacuees are dying in Houston

[papau]

3. I saw the Bush FEMA protection of property "don't break in to save life"

I could not believe it - then I could not believe the self-imposed by the RW editors media gag order about it-

then I could not believe the Not controlled by the GOP-we just act like it media not reporting the body count.

Just like Irag.

When Bush pulls together Iraq, 911, and Katrinia tonight, I wonder if any in the media will note the body count Bush rules vary by PR need(when he needed WTC dead to make it the worst disaster for PR purposes it was 7000 to 10,000 rather than the final real number of 2800).

I do love our media.

[Ruby Romaine]

2. latest official toll-from AP

September 15, 2005 Thursday 12:08 AM Eastern Time
Reported Katrina Deaths, State by State

Hurricane Katrina death tolls reported by state and local officials as of Wednesday:

ALABAMA: 2
FLORIDA: 14
GEORGIA: 2
LOUISIANA: 474
MISSISSIPPI: 218
TOTAL: 710
September 15, 2005

[papau]

4. Thanks :-)

:-)

[Ruby Romaine]

5. this lists database of missing

http://littlecoop.100megsfree5.com/katrina/

http://www.nola.com/forums/memoriam/index.ssf?initial=true

[papau]

6. That is indeed part of what I was looking for! Thanks - :-)

:-)

[Ruby Romaine]

7. useful?

http://groups.msn.com/NewOrleansBodyCount/messages.msnw

[papau]

8. I wish them good luck, but if Bush wants a lower total of the dead, he

will get it from the media and those gov officials that want to keep their jobs.

[Ruby Romaine]

9. more missing

http://neworleans.craigslist.org/laf/