NEW ORLEANS — A decade after Hurricane Katrina hit this ... to try to identify the dead. But Cataldie confirms medical records lost to floodwater, badly decomposed bodies and collecting DNA ...

While hundreds drowned in Hurricane Katrina's filthy floodwaters ... Coroners examining the 1,090 bodies recovered in and around New Orleans occasionally find something suspicious: a bullet ...

There are many challenges in the collection of bodies, reports CBS News Correspondent Mark Strassmann: Identifying the dead ... to families scattered by Hurricane Katrina and said FEMA would ...

Four years later, researchers still count New Orleans' Katrina dead, parsing them into categories ... the construction of a fortress at home: a hurricane-resistant shelter that city officials ...

The official ranks of Hurricane Katrina’s dead include a New Orleans man fatally ... Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard said this week that the bodies recovered from a nursing home and ...

As body counts mounted and missing-person reports multiplied after Hurricane Katrina, some morgue workers began using tiny computer chips to keep track of unidentified remains. Radio frequency ...

Katrina also retains its rank as the third-highest death toll from a hurricane in recorded U.S. history, behind the estimated 8,000 dead in the ... and to identify the bodies.

Most Hurricane Katrina relief efforts are focused ... power and medical attention. The dead are a lower priority, and many bodies have been putrefying since the water receded Monday.

The number of bodies the central morgue has released to funeral homes since Hurricane Katrina has nearly doubled in the last week, the Louisiana emergency medical director said Friday while ...

A grim reminder of the catastrophic institutional failures associated with Hurricane Katrina ... Working backward from the 45 dead bodies discovered in Memorial Hospital, it’s a compelling ...