GULFPORT, MISSISSIPPI (AP) -- As dawn broke over the ravaged Gulf Coast Tuesday, rescuers in boats and helicopters furiously searched for possible survivors of Hurricane Katrina even as the governor said the death toll in just one Mississippi county could hit as high as 80.
"The devastation down there is just enormous," Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday on NBC's "Today" show. Barbour said there were unconfirmed reports of up to 80 fatalities in Harrison County and the number was likely to rise.
The official death toll jumped sharply late Monday when Harrison County emergency operations center spokesman Jim Pollard said an estimated 50 people had died in the county, with some 30 dead at a beach-side apartment complex in Biloxi. [Read more]
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