NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- President Bush on Monday will get his first up-close look at the streets of New Orleans, flooded nearly two weeks ago after levees protecting the low-lying city broke.
The visit is the president's third to the Gulf Coast region since Hurricane Katrina slammed ashore on August 29.
Two days after the storm hit, Bush surveyed Katrina's destruction from Air Force One on his way back to Washington from Crawford, Texas, where he'd spent a month's vacation. He visited other parts of the region in two subsequent visits.
But this trip will be the president's first ground tour of New Orleans, where officials believe thousands of holdouts have ignored a mandatory evacuation order despite the fetid floodwaters that still cover large parts of the city. [Read more - CNN]
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