Committed to PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO KNOW Vol. 5 Num 453 Sat. September 03, 2005       International World pledges aid to US Clockwise: People get on a bus from the Superdome; residents are rescued by helicopter; others stay on rooftops with SOS call while hundreds of others wait around the Superdome for evacuation. Alicia Schulz, 94, is wheeled on a hotel luggage cart during evacuation. The National Guard patrols as Louis Jones and Catherine McZeal help each other walk down flooded Poydras Street in New Orleans days after Hurricane Katrina flooded the city. A vast refugee crisis is developing, unbelievably, within US borders, following a mass human exodus from Hurricane Katrina. Grim reality of desperation, deprivation and human agony hit Americans who are used to see those only on their television screens from the world's hotspots. PHOTO: AFP