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Chertoff - deliberately or through sheer incompetence - delayed the federal response to Katrina by days, potentially causing unneeded casualties on a catastrophic scale.
As Katrina roared into the Gulf of Mexico, emergency planners pored over maps and charts of a hurricane simulation that projected 61,290 dead and 384,257 injured or sick in a catastrophic floods.
