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CDC warns parents to beware button batteries

By Jennifer Bixler- CNN Medical Executive Producer
They are used to power everything from flashlights to remote controls. So called "button batteries," which are the size of coins (and sometimes smaller), have grown in popularity over the past few decades.

Romney to survey storm damage in Louisiana

By Rachel Streitfeld- CNN Political Producer
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will travel to Lafitte, Louisiana Friday to view storm damage from Hurricane Isaac after his joint morning event with Paul Ryan in Lakeland, Florida, according to his campaign.

Two bodies found in flooded Louisiana home

By Phil Gast and Josh Levs
The bodies of a man and woman were found in 7 feet of water at a home in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, which was hit hard by Isaac, officials said late Thursday.

Communities focus on cleanup as Isaac weakens

By Lateef Mungin
A weakened Isaac moved over Arkansas on Friday, leaving weary residents in southern states digging out of its muddy mess and hundreds of thousands without power.

Isaac Power Outages

By CNN Staff
Nearly a million customers were without electricity due to Isaac on Thursday morning. Power providers say at least 948,564 customers are without electricity across Arkansas, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.

Isaac claims fatality as thousands forced to evacuate

By Josh Levs and Chelsea J. Carter
Authorities warned people in a handful of towns outside of New Orleans to get out early Thursday ahead of rising water brought on by hurricane-turned-tropical storm Isaac, which dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some areas.

In flooded parish, rescues from rooftops, animals taking refuge

By Phil Gast and Steve Almasy
Kim Duplantier's three-story colonial plantation-style home survived Hurricane Katrina, albeit with 3 feet of unwelcome water on the bottom floor.

State by state: Isaac floods, whips coastal regions

By CNN Wire Staff
Slow-moving Tropical Storm Isaac continues to drench the central Gulf Coast region. Heading into Thursday, thousands of people in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were under states of emergency.

Isaac's storm surge forces thousands to evacuate, traps others

By Chelsea J. Carter and Philip Gast
National Guard troops were working early Thursday to evacuate thousands of people west of New Orleans after a storm surge brought on by hurricane-turned-tropical storm Isaac forced water over the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

Isaac Is Weakening

By CNN Staff
Hurricane Isaac is weakening "slightly" as it moves inland over southeastern Louisiana, the National Weather Service said.