What is the most current death toll number?

[benburch]

And is there a place that can easily be found on a regular basis?

I have some freeper who is insisting that it is less than 200 and that this is proof of Bush's great leadership!

Thanks!

[Zynx]

1. Last number I saw was around 710 or so.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. Last I read was up to 800? No link tho. n/t

[booksenkatz]

3. I figured it was still a negative number. nt

[Ruby Romaine]

4. i tried Google News-"death toll"

All stories dated from Tuesday 9/13!!!!
they aren't reporting what is happening.
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The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals on Tuesday said the state's confirmed death toll as a direct result of Hurricane Katrina was 423, up from 279 the day before.

The revised Louisiana total brought the overall confirmed death toll from Katrina to 648, including 218 deaths in Mississippi and 7 in Florida.

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13592973.htm

[Ruby Romaine]

5. are they waiting for Friday news dump?

[Watchmaker]

6. no word from Mississippi on deaths

but stories and personal accounts from last week are confusing to say the least. I doubt it's possible to hide thousands of dead bodies, but I seriously wonder how the official death toll for Mississippi could be what is being reported (around 300 I think).

http://www.moberlymonitor.com/articles/2005/09/06/news/news1.txt
Davis said Gator has been busy rescuing as many people as he can; when she spoke to him last, he had taken over 50 people into his home to give them food and shelter. He has pulled almost that many dead bodies out of the water and taken them to I-90, where he told Davis there were about 800 corpses lined up along the road for rescue workers to retrieve.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7000069092
But those numbers are considered low by law enforcement and medical rescue squads. One law enforcement officer estimates it is more likely to be between 600 and 800 Bay St.Louis alone. The residents are “in for a shock,” he tells the Washington Post.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1473894/posts?page=2690

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/12575557.htm
With the search-team's tales of horrendous findings and the official death toll not matching up, rumors in this disconnected part of the world seem to be spiraling out of control.

A Florida EMA official, brought in to handle media in Hancock, told the Sun Herald the county would not release "any more numbers" until the coroners complete their collecting process.

Several armed guards stand near the front gate of the old Alcan Cable site in Bay St. Louis, where five, 53-foot, refrigerated tractor-trailers sit behind a chain-linked fence.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1480391/posts?q=1&&page=101#114

a dear friend (who is a doc in Biloxi/Gulf Port)finally called me to let me know that he was alive, said that they had found (I believe it was this morning)a shelter about 1/4 from the beach that housed 800. All 800 were found to have drown. Sad, Sad, Sad. I was relieved to hear his voice, but feel bad for what he has seen. He happened to be in the ER when the hurricane hit. All at the hospital were saved,PTL. He did, however, loose his home and all earthly possessions. He said the AFB is obliterated.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476540/posts?q=1&&page=51#70
The death toll in Miss is in the thousands. I have now spoken to at-least 4 people who have worked down there during recovery.If you did the math between the 4 of them you would be over 1,500 alone as far as tagging bodies is concerned.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1473894/posts?page=2690#2674
My wife works part-time for an answering company. One of their clients is a funeral home up here in Upstate New York has a couple of its employees down in Biloxi as volunteers. Anyways, one of the employees called in from Biloxi - via the answering service - to let their employer know of their status. She said that they were "processing 300+ bodies per day" in Biloxi alone...