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Instead, confusion reigned at every level of officialdom, according to dozens of interviews with participants in Louisiana, Mississippi and Washington. "No one had access. . . . No one had communication. . . . Nobody knew where the people were," recalled Secretary of Health and Human Services Mike Leavitt, whose department did not declare the Gulf Coast a public health emergency until two days after the storm.
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"We're going to have a third co-equal branch of government that gets to be there for life; never, ever again to be able to be asked the question they don't want to answer," Biden said. "And you know what? He doesn't have to tell us anything."
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Farther east at St. Bernard town, about 15 miles east of New Orleans, some parts were dry, but water stood as high in other areas as it does in hard-hit parts of New Orleans.
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