New Orleans battles back against Katrina flooding

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans was slowly turning back the floodwaters on Tuesday as engineers closed a major break in levees swamped by Hurricane Katrina -- a disaster the mayor says may have killed 10,000 in his city.
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