Loved ones search for victims of Katrina
9th Sep 2005, 02:52 GMT
Rachal Watson is 19 years old and nine months pregnant. Her 1-year-old daughter is missing. So is her boyfriend. She paces the floor of a Houston motel, far from her former home in New Orleans, rubbing her belly while her worries run wild. "I just can't take it no more," she says in a high-pitched wail. "I really can't. I have no momma and no daddy. That's the only family I have." Her posting, on the Web's National Next of Kin Registry: "I am safe in Houston hotel looking for baby girl." She is one of thousands upon thousands looking for the ones they love in any way they can. In the wreckage of Katrina, not much works, especially the phones. So desperate families try to reach the missing through television or the Internet.