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As many as 6,000 people died in the 1900 hurricane that hit Galveston, Texas. Patricia Bellis Bixel, who wrote about the storm and how the city was rebuilt, details the operation for Debbie Elliott.

At least nine car bombs explode in Baghdad Wednesday, killing more than 150 and injuring hundreds. Iraq's arm of al Qaeda said in a statement that it was waging a suicide bombing campaign to avenge a U.S.-Iraqi military offensive against a rebel base.

The Oreck Corp.'s vacuum cleaner plant is up and running again in the Mississippi Gulf. The company plans to keep its factory there and its headquarters in New Orleans despite the devastation wrought by Katrina.

Today was the first day of school in Lafayette, La. -- for local kids and for more than 4,000 students displaced by Hurricane Katrina.

World leaders gather in New York with the goal of adopting reforms at the United Nations. The General Assembly has approved a document that touches on issues like human rights, world poverty and terrorism. But the document was watered down greatly in negotiations just prior to the summit.

With reportedly less than 10,000 citizens left in New Orleans, the Crescent City is now home to 14,000 soldiers, National Guardsmen and assorted other armed federal agents and police officers from around the country.

For analysis of the confirmation hearings for chief justice nominee John Roberts, Robert Siegel continues his conversation with Douglas Kmiec and Jeffrey Rosen.

Tom Donohue is president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the country's most active pro-business lobby. He tells Steve Inskeep about his role in tempering the SEC and other regulators.

Fisk University plans to sell an iconic Georgia O'Keeffe painting donated by the artist in 1949. The sale, designed to raise money for the cash-strapped Nashville university, could break an O'Keeffe sale record of $6.3 million. It also may violate the terms of O'Keeffe's gift, which specified the modern art collection of her late husband Alfred Stieglitz not be broken up.

Jazz singer Dianne Reeves has received a lot of exposure recently through her singing in the film Good Night and Good Luck. Before the movie, she already had a devoted following after winning Best Jazz Vocal Performance Grammys for each of her last three recordings. Reeves is about to go on national tour with her Christmas Time is Here show. Some of the cities it will be stopping in: Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Toronto.