Official La. death toll at 59; rescuers go door-to-door; chopper crashes

NBC News and news services Updated: 9:53 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005 NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. “It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine,” the nation’s homeland security chief warned.
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