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Updated: 8:04 p.m. EDT (00:04 GMT), September 1, 2005
'A DESPERATE SOS'
Violence disrupts rescues
A New Orleans police officer patrols the dirty, empty streets of the French Quarter.

Violence disrupts rescues

  • New Orleans mayor issues "desperate SOS"
  • Hospital halts evacuation after sniper fire, doctor says
  • Convention center survivors without food or water
  • 'We saw a man... dying in front of us'
  • Mississippi death toll rising

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