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The latest on Rita and Katrina
 Three buildings burn in the historic Strand District of Galveston, Texas. Check here for the latest information on Hurricane Rita and from the Katrina-stricken Gulf Coast region. Items are time-stamped when entered. What a difference a storm makes: 1 Rita-related fatality reported CAMERON, La. (CNN) -- Towns near where Hurricane Rita made landfall over the weekend have had all but a handful of buildings destroyed, including nearly all homes in Cameron, Holly Beach and Creole, officials said Sunday. Along the border with Texas, Cameron Parish was under as many as 15 feet of water, and thousands of homes of its 10,000 residents were destroyed, said Freddie Richard, the head of the parish's emergency preparedness office. About 45 miles south of nearby Lake Charles, every home was destroyed in the town of Holly Beach, Richard told CNN. In the parish seat of Cameron, 90 percent of homes were destroyed, he said. In Creole, 70 percent of residences were destroyed, with little more than the courthouse and an elementary school still standing, Richard said. (posted 7:37 p.m.) Louisiana to seek $31 billion-plus in reconstruction funds from feds BATON ROUGE, La. (CNN) -- Louisiana officials will ask Congress for more than $31 billion to rebuild and improve levees and major roadways damaged by hurricanes in the past month, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said Sunday. Blanco said more than $20 billion will be needed to beef up levees and pump stations from Morgan City north and east to New Orleans and Slidell, around the shores of Lake Pontchartrain and in the Atchafalaya River basin. Another $11.5 billion will be needed for road work, including the replacement of the Interstate 10 causeway between New Orleans and Slidell, the improvement of major evacuation routes and repairs to ports and airports damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. (Posted: 5:10 p.m.) 
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