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Slideshow: Astrodome Radio Station Blocked

A group trying to launch a low-power radio station for hurricane evacuees at Houston's Astrodome is frustrated by government officials. Joel Johnson reports from Houston.
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An oil platform ripped from its mooring in the Gulf of Mexico rests by the shore in Dauphin Island, Alabama. The potential damage to oil platforms, refineries and pipelines that remain closed along the Gulf Coast drove energy prices to new highs, with crude futures briefly topping $70 a barrel and wholesale gasoline costs surging to levels that could lead to $3 a gallon at the pump in some markets.AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove

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Rhonda Braden walks through the destruction in her childhood neighborhood in Long Beach, Mississippi. Braden was there checking on her father's house, which received major water damage from Hurricane Katrina.

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A dead body lies in the floodwaters on Canal Street in New Orleans. The city is littered with bodies, some of them victims of Hurricane Katrina and some victims of the post-hurricane violence that gripped the city for several days before troops arrived.

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A tattered American flag flies in front of the blown-out Hyatt Hotel in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.

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An apartment complex damaged by Hurricane Katrina is shown in this aerial view Wednesday in Long Beach, Mississippi.

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Hospital nurse Melanie Perkins feeds Hurricane Katrina victim Alysa Blackwell at Woman's Hospital in Baton Rouge. Blackwell, who was eight weeks premature and now 18 days old, was one of over 200 babies evacuated from hospitals in New Orleans and brought to the intensive care units of Womans' Hospital.

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Oklahoma National Guard Spc. Craig Yates patrols the streets of New Orleans during a night patrol Thursday.

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Dale Graham gathers supplies from a Wal-Mart store for victims of Hurricane Katrina on Aug. 31, in Waveland, Mississippi. Graham said store officials had given him permission. The store was damaged by the hurricane.

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Juliana Douglas, 9, right, rests while her sister Callie Douglas, 7, walks their dogs after searching through remains at their parents' home in Biloxi, Mississippi. Their house was destroyed by powerful winds from Hurricane Katrina.

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Cars are piled up among debris from Hurricane Katrina in Gulfport, Mississippi.

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Debris from a fallen building covers several buildings in downtown New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina battered the Louisiana coast.

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Residents seek higher ground on the roof of a home as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover streets Aug. 30 in New Orleans.

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Anthony Batts looks for clothing for his three daughters at a clothing distribution area set up in Gulfport, Mississippi.

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