LONDON--A day after the Presidential Photo-Op express breezed through New Orleans, reality returned to the pages of the T-P with a story capable of reviving all the sadness and anger the visit was designed to salve. Reporter Michelle Krupa says FEMA fund cutoffs are retarding the completion of final figures on victims of the flooding, and the public idenification of hundreds of them. But, wait, there's more:
A lack of federal money also has triggered the shutdown of a coordinated effort to locate 135 people still listed as missing, Cataldie said. The project, financed through FEMA, has resulted in the resolution of more than 13,000 reports of missing people.
That's what you call commitment.
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