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From: Jagfan	9/9/2005 4:57:31 PM
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Death Toll May Be Far Less Than Expected By DON BABWIN, Associated Press Writer 16 minutes ago NEW ORLEANS - Dire predictions of as many as 10,000 dead in New Orleans may have been greatly exaggerated, with authorities saying Friday that the first street-by-street sweep of the swamped city revealed far fewer corpses than feared. "Some of the catastrophic deaths that some people predicted may not have occurred," said Col. Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland security chief. He declined to give a revised estimate. But he added: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000." The encouraging news came as authorities officially shifted most of their attention to counting and removing the dead after spending days cajoling, persuading and all but strong-arming the living into leaving the city because of the danger of fires and disease from the fetid floodwaters. news.yahoo.com

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