Someone who stayed behind in Slidell, Louisiana filmed the experience of things like his TV floating out the door. Now, he's sold the footage to CNN and others. Apparently it's enough to help him do some repairs.
A team of notables has highly recommended that Time magazine select Hurricane Katrina as their 2005 Person of the Year. Those making this suggestion are:
NBC anchor Brian Williams…
CNN's Anderson Cooper…
Time reporter Matthew Cooper…
Democratic political consultant Donna Brazile…
conservative activist Grover Norquist…
WorldCom whistleblower Cynthia Cooper, named a Person of the Year by the magazine in 2002…
Yes, exactly: […]
CNN reports in "Parish president: FEMA still fumbling" that the Prez of St. Tammany Parish, Kevin Davis, is not satisfied with FEMA's endless red tape:
…Davis cited as an example his request for trailers to house parish residents and emergency workers currently living in shelters and tents.
"I've met with so many FEMA officials outside of […]
There are apparently at least three breaches:
Dozens of blocks in the Ninth Ward were under water as a waterfall at least 30 feet wide poured over and through a dike that had been used to patch breaks in the Industrial Canal levee. On the street that runs parallel to the canal, the water ran waist-deep […]
The AP has an article that CNN has titled "Auhorities search for criminals among hurricane refugees" and Fox has titled "Half Katrina Refugees Have Records". The article's the same, and the truth is somewhere between the two headlines.
Not half of all refugees have such records, just around half of those making up the refugee groups […]
This CNN report has a lot of filler, but it does link to a segment on a "whistleblower". But, it also ends up being CNN reporting on someone who apparently used CNN as a source for remarks by Blanco, which are then re-reported by CNN:
"We told these fellows that there was a killer hurricane heading […]
CNN offers 'People making decisions hesitated'. They ask a few questions which, at some point in time, they may actually end up asking of those people to whom the questions would best be addressed. And, they link to a few of their video reports.
CNN offers their take in "Racism, resources blamed for bridge incident". It doesn't appear to be original reporting so much as a compilation of what was said on various CNN shows including Anderson Cooper and Aaron Brown.
Gretna police chief Arthur Lawson says that Gretna was locked down, and had no resources to take care of […]
AFP offers us "Vice President Cheney heckled on hurricane tour", informing us that the VP was talking to reporters in Gulfport, MS when a bystander came up and, in AFP's words, said:
"Go f—(expletive) yourself Mr. Cheney!"
"Go f—(expletive) yourself!"
My sources inform me that the "f—" above is indeed the word "fuck."
Needless to say, those at Daily […]
CNN reports that a planeload of evacuees were delivered to Charleston, West Virginia.
Just one problem: officials in Charleston, South Carolina were told by FEMA that the plane was headed for them, and they had made all the necessary preparations:
A call seeking comment from FEMA was not immediately returned.
"We called in all the available resources," said […]
