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Search for Missing Katrina Victims Continues

NPR

By Howard Berkes

Published October 20, 2005 at 12:00 AM EDT

The "debris line" extending more than a mile from hurricane-ravaged home sites in Waveland, Miss., includes this Elmo doll.

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Howard Berkes is a correspondent for the NPR Investigations Unit.

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