Hurricane Katrina batters US
(AP/Reuters)
Updated: 2005-09-02 08:58

U.S. President George W. Bush pauses while speaking in the Rose Garden, after a meeting with members of the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Recovery, in Washington August 31, 2005. he devastation of Hurricane Katrina is a dangerous political challenge for President George W. Bush even as he grapples with a string of bad news on the Iraq war, soaring gas prices and slumping approval ratings. The widespread destruction on the Gulf Coast, one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history, threatens to hit all Americans in the pocketbook by wreaking havoc on gas prices and the U.S. economy. [Reuters]

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