METRO - Workers clean out refrigerators filled with rotten food at a St. Tammany Parish site where household hazardous waste is taken to be processed before being recycled or transported to landfills on Saturday, January 7, 2006. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - Seventy-year-old Isiah Thornton takes a break from cleaning out the ruined contents of one of his rental homes where his girlfriend lived in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans as the city tries to recover from Hurricane Katrina on Friday, January 6, 2006. Without the financial means to hire workers, Thornton and his family are doing the work on their own. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - A photograph of Lionel C. Randall, Jr., left, and his brother, Kelvin J. Randall, hangs on the wall of their parent's home in the lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans on Friday, January 6, 2006. The home was flooded by the Industrial Canal levee breach during Hurricane Katrina.Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - The contents of a home in the Lower Ninth Ward are exposed on Friday, January 6, 2006, several months after floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina devastated the neighborhood in New Orleans. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO -Lynnell Rovaris embraces her neighbor, Davanna Miller, left, while Larry Jackon, center, and his brother-in-law, Troy Soublet, right, stand by outside Press Place, the rent-to-own townhouse complex where they lived before Hurricane Katrina hit, in New Orleans on Monday, January, 9, 2006. The sheet Rovaris used to escape by boat from her second floor window still hangs, more than four months after Hurricane Katrina. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - Dust remains in the air after Isiah Thornton, 70, took an armload of debris out of the bathroom of one of his rental homes in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans on Friday, January 6, 2006. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO -Dried mud covers the pink carpet of a young girl's bedroom in a flooded home in the city of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish on Sunday, January 8, 2006. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - A military patrol passses destroyed homes next to the Industrial Canal levee breach in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans as the sun sets on Thursday January 5, 2006. Homes closest to the breach were pushed off their foundations and reduced to rubble. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO - Lawrence Brown helps gut First New St. Mark Baptist Church in the Zion City neighborhood of New Orleans after floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina flooded it and winds tore off its roof, on Tuesday, January 10, 2006. The two sons of the pastor, Rev. Sylvester Williams, Jr., church members, including Brown, and friends are working to rebuild the church which has been there since 1952. Brown now lives in Houston with his wife and six children. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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METRO -Echoing the sentiments of residents who feel they cannot bring their children back to live in the neighborhood devasated by the Murphy Oil Spill, a stuffed rabbit hangs in the doorway of a home on a street where children once played in the town of Chalmette in St. Bernard Parish on Sunday, January 8, 2006. The floodwaters caused by Hurricane Katrina completely flooded the parish but the area effected by the oil spill has more to deal with than water. Lisa Krantz/STAFF
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