Water recedes in New Orleans; death toll rises

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - As pumps slowly emptied New Orleans of the flood waters that turned it into a ghost town, the death count from Hurricane Katrina grew on Saturday, although to nowhere near what worried officials had feared.
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