LOUISIANA:
* An estimated 80 percent of New Orleans was under water, up to 20 feet deep in places, with miles and miles of homes swamped.
* Breaches in at least two levees allowed water from Lake Pontchartrain to inundate sections of New Orleans. Officials planned to use helicopters to drop 3,000-pound sandbags into the breach.
* The Coast Guard said it had rescued 1,200 people by boat and air. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said hundreds, if not thousands, of people may still be stuck on roofs and in attics. Rescue boats were bypassing the dead to reach the living.
* The number of deaths was unknown.
* At least 370,000 customers were without power in southeast Louisiana, and the number was expected to rise. New Orleans water was unsafe to drink without boiling.
* The entire city of New Orleans, population 485,000, was ordered to evacuate before the storm struck. Nagin estimated that 80 percent of the city’s residents had fled.
* Thousands remained in the New Orleans Superdome, which was without electricity; plans were being drawn up to evacuate the refugees within two days.
* New Orleans police made several arrests for looting. About 120 armed National Guardsmen were assigned to the French Quarter.
MISSISSIPPI:
* Harrison County, home to Biloxi and Gulfport, said its death toll was at least 100. In neighboring Jackson County, officials said at least 10 deaths were blamed on the storm.
* At least 900,000 customers statewide were without power, utilities said.
* Many casinos that dot the coast were damaged or destroyed. Emergency officials had reports of water reaching the third floors of some of the barge-mounted casinos.
* More than 1,600 Mississippi National Guardsmen were activated.
* The storm swept sailboats onto city streets in Gulfport and obliterated hundreds of waterfront homes, businesses, community landmarks and condos.
* A foot of water swamped the emergency operations center at Hancock County Courthouse – which is 30 feet above sea level – and the back of the courthouse collapsed.
ALABAMA:
* Two deaths were blamed on the hurricane.
* About 718,000 homes and businesses were without power.
* Floodwaters reached 11 feet high in Mobile, according to the National Weather Service. Water was up to the roofs of cars in downtown Mobile and in bayou communities.
* A major bridge over the Mobile River remained closed Tuesday after it was struck by an oil drilling platform that floated away from a shipyard.
GEORGIA:
* One person died in a car accident during the storm.
* More than 30 buildings were damaged or destroyed by a tornado in west Georgia.
FLORIDA:
* The death toll reached 11, according to a state tally in south Florida last week.
* About 77,000 customers were still without power Tuesday in the panhandle, which was hit by the eastern edge of Katrina on Monday. In south Florida, 155,262 were without power Tuesday morning.
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