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Victims search for loved ones after Katrina chaos
In the Katrina aftermath families flood the Web and TV with pleas to find missing relatives. Rachal Watson, 19, nine months pregnant, searches Houston for her 1-year-old daughter and boyfriend as New Orleans residents use every resource to locate loved ones amid disrupted phone service, with National Center for Missing and Exploited Children postings and evacuees at sites like the Astrodome sharing photographs and notices.
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Rachal Watson
Houston
Te-Erika
James Green
New Orleans
Rachal
Katrina
Eleanor Sawyer
Hirsch Coliseum
Shreveport
Louisiana
Darrell Sawyer
Patty Hein
Long Beach
Miss
National Center For Missing and Exploited Children
Houston Astrodome