07:15 PM CDT on Monday, September 19, 2005

Associated Press

(AP) --The officials death toll from Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana rose by 90 to 736, a spokesman for the state Department of Health and Hospitals said.

Asked to explain the sudden increase, spokesman Bob Johannessen said, "Folks are collecting bodies."

The announcement came as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said he was suspending the neighborhood-by-neighborhood repopulation of the city and ordering a new round of evacuations because of the threat of a new tropical storm that appeared to be headed toward the Gulf of Mexico.