Algiers Residents Return as New Orleans Continues Counting the Dead (text)
September 28, 2005: Transcript of Jeffrey Kaye( of KCET-Los Angeles) reporting on the latest information from officials in New Orleans on the search for and identification of those killed when Hurricane Katrina tore into the region more than four weeks ago. JEFFREY BROWN: Jeff, officials say more than 780 bodies have been recovered and 100 autopsies done, but only 32 identified and released to families so far. Why are they saying that number is so low? JEFFREY KAYE: Well, just think about the scope of the problem. You've got hundreds and hundreds of bodies that are basically unrecognizable. The bodies have deteriorated to the point -- and this gets grim and fairly macabre, and I apologize for that, but it's reality; you can't even list fingerprints.
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