modern YORK -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin criticized efforts to redevelop the World Trade Center site when bring into the presence ofed in a television interview about delays in rebuilding his city after Hurricane Katrina.

'CAN'T master A HOLE FIXED'

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

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

Kevin Rampe, chairman of the Lower Manhattan disentanglement Corp., the agency created to overlook 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 obtuse style, is not the first to compare the sum of two units cities. New Orleans residents have complained that the federal government's replication after Katrina has been more sluggish than it was after clan 11.

RULING BOOST HOMEOWNER

Meanwhile Friday, the Louisiana paramount Court upheld two new state laws giving policyholders more time to supplicate their insurers or file claims athwart 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 regaining by sending a message to the business community that the legislature can change existing contracts.

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