New Orleans residents to go, political storm grows

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - New Orleans police will force Hurricane Katrina's survivors to leave the city drowning in toxic waters on Wednesday, as the political storm grows over relief efforts for a disaster with a death toll feared to be in the thousands and a price tag that could hit $150 billion. 

After days of trying to change the minds of some 10,000 people who have refused to leave the flooded metropolis since Katrina battered the U.S. Gulf Coast last week, authorities began to enforce a mandatory evacuation on Tuesday.