Rescue And Clean-up Efforts Continue In Katrina's Wake

UNITED STATES - CIRCA 2005: Ann-Veronica Recasner puts her arm around her 90-year-old mother, Mildred Foley, while they wait on an overpass next to the Superdome, in New Orleans, Louisiana where they have spent the last five days. They and thousands of others stranded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, which hit the Gulf Coast states on August 29th, 2005, and are still awaiting evacuation from the flooded-out city of New Orleans. (Photo by Michael Appleton/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)