NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities feared a 70-year-old man drowned when he tried to help two fishermen stranded in the Mississippi River as Tropical Storm Ida churned ashore Monday, flooding low-lying areas outside levee systems and closing schools and offices in southeast Louisiana.
Man lost in Mississippi River as Ida grazes SE Louisiana
November 9, 2009
(AP Photo/Alan Diaz)
National Hurricane Center deputy director Ed Rappaport, shows the position of tropical storm Ida at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Monday, Nov. 9, 2009.
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