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AP - Thu Sep 22, 9:43 AM ET
Jeremy Stone takes pictures of the waves in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22, 9:45 AM ET
Indonesian officials check a duck in anticipation of a spreading of the bird flu virus in the region, in a poultry market in Solo, Central Java, September 22, 2005. REUTERS/Andry Prasetyo -
AP - Thu Sep 22, 9:55 AM ET
The sun rises over the Gulf of Mexico as seen from the beach in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) -
AP - Thu Sep 22, 9:56 AM ET
Surfer Tommy Phelps heads in after riding the waves in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) -
AP - Thu Sep 22, 9:57 AM ET
Surfer Joe Capistran heads out to ride the waves in Galveston, Texas as Hurricane Rita heads for the Texas Gulf Coast Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22, 9:58 AM ET
Pope Benedict blesses the faithful at the end of his weekly audience in Saint Peter's Square at the Vatican September 21, 2005. (Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:04 AM ET
U.S. soldiers examine the burned-out interior of a house in the Mansour district following a gun battle with insurgents in Baghdad September 21, 2005. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen -
AP - Thu Sep 22,10:12 AM ET
Cars are bumper to bumper on Interstate 45 near downtown Houston on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. Thousands of people are evacuating the Texas coast and officials will be reversing the Southbound lane on the interstate to four lanes of north bound flow. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) -
AP - Thu Sep 22,10:19 AM ET
Gilbert Cabrera posts a sign on his store in Houston on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. Cabrera said his station ran out of gas between 2-3 a.m. and a number of fights broke out as people tried to gas up their vehicles in an attempt to evacuate Houston as Hurricane Rita approaches. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:20 AM ET
Children collect safe drinking water brought in by truck in Delmas, 70 km east of Johannesburg, following a deadly outbreak of typhoid in the town, September 20, 2005. REUTERS/Mujahid Safodien -
AP - Thu Sep 22,10:20 AM ET
Houston residents line up at a gas station that was running low on fuel in Houston on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. Thousands of Texas residents are evacuating inland as Hurricane Rita approaches landfall. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) -
AP - Thu Sep 22,10:22 AM ET
A woman stands outside her car on Interstate-45 near downtown Houston on Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. Thousands of people are evacuating the Texas coast and officials will be reversing the Southbound lane on the interstate to four lanes of north bound flow. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:40 AM ET
A police convoy transporting Ethiopian-born Briton Osman Hussein leaves a Royal Air Force base at Northolt in Middlesex, September 22, 2005. (Kieran Doherty/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:46 AM ET
Yi Guan, a microbiologist from the University of Hong Kong, during an interview in Hong Kong, September 22, 2005. Yi Guan warned on Thursday against misusing oseltamivir, the antiviral drug that governments are stockpiling to fight a possible human pandemic caused by the H5N1 birdflu, saying that could lead to resistance. REUTERS/Paul Yeung -
AFP/Getty Images - Thu Sep 22,10:49 AM ET
Key West resident Isaac Steckler paddles his boat after Hurricane Rita passed the low-lying island chain in Key West, Florida on September 21. Monstrous Hurricane Rita sent millions fleeing, threatened vital oil production and cast fear far and wide as it ripped across the Gulf of Mexico whipping up winds of 170 miles an hour(AFP/Getty Images/Carlo Allegri) -
AFP/File - Thu Sep 22,10:49 AM ET
Galveston Independent School District buses help to evacuate residents of Galveston, Texas ahead of Hurricane Rita on September 21. Monstrous Hurricane Rita sent millions fleeing, threatened vital oil production and cast fear far and wide as it ripped across the Gulf of Mexico whipping up winds of 170 miles an hour(AFP/File/James Nielsen) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:56 AM ET
Houses lay wrecked by Hurricane Katrina on the eastern outskirts of New Orleans, September 20, 2005 between Gulfport and New Orleans. (Jason Reed/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:56 AM ET
New Orleans Police Constable Anderson checks identification at a checkpoint on Interstate 10 heading into New Orleans September 19, 2005. (J.P. Moczulski/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:59 AM ET
Bumper to bumper traffic heads out of Galveston, Texas towards Houston, September 21, 2005. (Tim Johnson/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:59 AM ET
Thousands of vehicles slowly make their way out of Houston, Texas heading north on Highway 59 to escape Hurricane Rita September 21, 2005. (Rick Wilking/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,11:04 AM ET
Uprooted trees and half-fallen power cables block a street in Havana after Hurricane Rita passed near Cuba September 21, 2005. (Claudia Daut/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,11:04 AM ET
Traffic flows on the Florida Keys Overseas Highway near Key Largo, Florida, September 21, 2005. Wednesday marked the first day resident evacuees could return to Florida Keys after Hurricane Rita lashed the Keys Tuesday but did little damage to the vulnerable Florida Islands. Hurricane Rita grew into a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm on Wednesday and took aim at Texas as officials began evacuating more than a million people from most of the coast and parts of Houston. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,11:04 AM ET
Traffic flows on the Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon, Florida, September 21, 2005. (Andy Newman/Florida Keys News Bureau/Handout/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,10:59 AM ET
Elderly wheelchair-bound citizens from the Edgewater Retirement Community in Galveston, Texas September 21, 2005 get ready to board a bus to evacuate the city in preparation for Hurricane Rita. (Tim Johnson/Reuters) -
Reuters - Thu Sep 22,11:04 AM ET
Enriquie Jaramillo (top) holds the line to steady a piece of plywood as Carmelo Mateo secures the plywood over a window in preparation for Hurricane Rita in Galveston, Texas, September 21, 2005. (Tim Johnson/Reuters)