New Orleans A Slow Rescue Operation
A row of buses make their way to the Superdome to evacuate victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana Sept. 2, 2005. Hundreds of people were rescued from their homes as the city continues to face rising flood waters. U.S. commercial airlines plan to ferry more than 25,000 New Orleans residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina from the city to safer locations, the airline industry and the U.S. government said on Friday.
Homes are submerged by flood waters after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. Authorities are still struggling to evacuate thousands of people from hurricane-battered areas as food and water are scarce and looters raided local businesses. President George W. Bush said it would take years to recover from the devastation to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
No way out: A man waits to be rescued from the roof of a house as flood waters continue to rise.
Sought after aid: A soldier hands out pre-prepared meals to a mother and child outside the convention center in New Orleans.
Air Bridge: The injured and ill are preparing to board a plane that will take them to Texas for treatment.
Supplies are unloaded from a military helicopter at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans.
Rescued: A man is hoisted into a US Coast Guard helicopter after being rescued from the flood waters surrounding his home.
US military personnel distribute water and food to the victims of Hurricane Katrina outside the Convention Center
Tortured uncertainty: Hurricane Katrina victims wait to be evacuated in New Orleans
Thousands of Hurricane Katrina survivors wait to be evacuated from the Superdome in New Orleans, where sanitary conditions have become disastrous.
A US military convoy drives through floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina in downtown New Orleans.
Trapped by the floods: A woman stands on her porch as flood waters rise.
Anger and desperation: A Hurricane Katrina refugee confronts a solider demanding to get answers to why food has not come for him and everyone at the New Orleans Convention Center.
A flooded highway on-ramp in New Orleans
