"Imagine every morning if the teachers had the children stand up, place their hands over their hearts, and say, 'We are one nation that denies God exists,"' Newdow said in an interview with AP Radio after the ruling.

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"You're taking care of us from heaven but someday we'll be together," Iliani Flores said, choking up and raising her face to the sky in memory of her younger brother, a fire department paramedic.

"The problem with that is it gives more time to create a large storm surge, which we think now will be 9 to 11 feet," Easley said. "It looks like we're going to get somewhere around 12 inches of rainfall."

Honore's comments echoed what Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, head of the federal relief task force, said on ABC's "This Week."