Christmas decorations stand in a devastated neighborhood of New Orleans 20 September. Four months after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the Big Easy is limping into the new year with most of its residents still homeless and mounds of debris still littering the historic French Quarter(AFP/File/Menahem Kahana)
National Guard Sgt. Richard Watts, of Lafayette La., leads a patrol on Bourbon Street New Years Eve Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005. Watts unit has been on patrol in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A New Orleans second line Jazz funeral paying tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina winds through an Uptown neighborhood past a FEMA trailer park on New Year's Eve, Saturday Dec. 31, 2005. Revelers and residents joined the procession in memory of those who lost their lives during the storm. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
A New Orleans second line Jazz funeral paying tribute to the victims of Hurricane Katrina winds through an Uptown neighborhood on New Year's Eve, Saturday Dec. 31, 2005. Revelers and residents joined the procession in memory of those who lost their lives during the storm. The line included a group of performers dressed in pink called 'The Pussyfooters.' (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
(From L to R) Melvin Joseph, Ashley Walker and Rose Joseph cheer at midnight during a New Year's Eve celebration in the French Quarter of New Orleans January 1, 2006. The family returned to New Orleans for the holidays, after being displaced by Hurricane Katrina. REUTERS/Lee Celano
Lower 9th ward resident, Ariana Hall, center,listens during a candlelight vigil in front of a flood damaged home in New Orleans, La., Saturday evening prior to midnight Dec. 31, 2005. The gathering was a New Years celebration to promote ACORN, the Association of Community Organization For Reform Now, which is an organization helping those in the lower 9th ward rebuild their homes. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
In this image made available in London, Sunday Jan. 1, 2006, An Iraqi police officer walks with British soldiers in Basra, Iraq, early Sunday Jan. 1, 2006, where soldiers from the 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers launched a joint operation with Iraqi police officers to patrol the city overnight. (AP Photo/Ministry of Defence, ho)
In this photo released by the Italian Lower Chamber Press photographer, from right in civilian clothes, DS Democrats of the Left party's Luciano Violante, Lower Chamber President Pierferdinando Casini and AN National Alliance party's Luigi Ramponi look on with Italian Armed Forces soldiers at Camp Mittica base, near Nasiriyah, Iraq, Sunday Jan. 1, 2006 during a visit to celebrate the new year with Italian troops based in the southern city of Nasiriyah. (AP Photo/Umberto Battaglia, ho)
Iraqis stand near a burning petrol station in Rahinawa near Kirkuk, north of Baghdad January 1, 2006. Security forces killed two people and wounded three when they fired on protesters in Rahinawa near the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said. REUTERS/Slahaldeen Rasheed
Participants of the annual New Year's Day polar bear swim celebrate after leaving the frigid waters of English Bay in Vancouver, B.C., Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006. (AP PHOTO/CP, Richard Lam)
Miami Dolphins quarterback Gus Frerotte celebrates a first-quarter touchdown during their 28-26 win over the New England Patriots in NFL football at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass. Sunday, Jan. 1, 2006. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)
Homeless people warm themselves at an air vent during New Year celebrations near Moscow's Red Square early January 1, 2006. Thousands of people gathered in the Russian capital's famous square to greet the new year. REUTERS/Str
A resident of Montevideo gets soaked while walking in the financial district of the city December 30, 2005. On the last working day of the year, workers in the financial district throw water over pedestrians to celebrate the end of the year. REUTERS/Andres Stapff
Francisco Hernandez and his 2 year-old son, Genicyss, watch rain swollen Laguna Creek race past neighborhoods in Elk Grove, Calif., as the sun sets on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2005. A powerful storm sent rivers and creeks over their banks and into cities and set off mudslides that blocked major highways across Northern California on Saturday. At least a dozen people had to be rescued from the rushing water, and forecasters were warning of another storm on Sunday. (AP Photo/Steve Yeater)
Employee Michelle Lallatin shovels the left over debris at the Hansel Toyota dealership after the Petaluma River flooded auto row in Petaluma, Calif., Sunday, Jan. 1. 2006. Northern California residents are bracing for a second storm to hit the region Sunday, a day after the first sent rivers rising into cities and mud sliding into homes and across highways. (AP Photo/Tony Avelar)
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