of the present day YORK -- New Orle...

of the present day YORK -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when encountered in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

'CAN'T earn A HOLE FIXED'

In the "60 Minutes" interview, a correspondent pointed disclosed flood- damaged cars still forward the streets of New Orleans' devastated Ninth Ward. Nagin replied, "You dowdys in New York can't earn a hole in the land fixed, and it's five years later. in this way let's be fair," according to CB

The program is to air Sunday night. paragraph and a video clip from the Nagin piece were seated on the CBS' Web site Thursday.

Kevin Rampe, chairman of the Lower Manhattan increase Corp., the agency created to supervise the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and downtown Manhattan, said tremendous progres has been made in lower Manhattan, with the Freedom Tower, a transportation nave and a memorial to the nearly 3000 attack victims beneath construction.

Nagin, known for his bluff style, is not the first to compare the couple cities. New Orleans residents have complained that the federal government's rejoinder after Katrina has been more sluggish than it was after family 11.

RULING BOOST HOMEOWNER

Meanwhile Friday, the Louisiana predominant Court upheld two new state laws giving policyholders more time to supplicate their insurers or file claims from one side of to the other damage from hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

An attorney for Northbrook's Allstate Insurance, the second- largest homeowner insurer in Louisiana, said the laws could hinder the retrieval by sending a message to the business community that the legislature can change existing contracts.

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