Officers plead with residents to evacuate New Orleans

Friday, September 9, 2005

NEW ORLEANS -- Like the other holdouts in a city nearly emptied by Hurricane Katrina, Chan Chun Nin, 75, had no running water. He had no electricity. And the medicine supply for his 70-year-old wife was dwindling. Still, he would not move.

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