Katrina Coverage

Just when you'd forgotten all about the Gretna Crescent City Connection incident, it comes roaring back in this:
A March to Gretna in protest of the actions of the Gretna police in the aftermath of Katrina and in support of displaced African-Americans from New Orleans, who continue to be denied access to participation and opportunity in […]

From this:
A frustrated New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned Thursday that it would be in the state's best interest to help the Crescent City jump-start its Hurricane Katrina-riddled economy, saying the impact on the state — if nothing is done — will pale in comparison to the layoffs the city recently announced.
"You think 3,000 layoffs […]

Several far-left Congresspersons, led by John Conyers, Jr. (D-Space), are demanding that U.S. AG Gonzalez investigate the Gretna bridge incident:
From the letter:
…In particular, we are concerned that law enforcement officials may have denied minority citizens the ability to cross the Greater New Orleans Bridge to safety in the midst of the flooding, and were negligent […]

"Mayor Nagin in Secret Sitdown with Farrakhan" says that the latter great leader says he met with the former great leader and the two discussed various things, including:
"Mayor Nagin told us there was a 25-foot crater under the levee," Farrakhan explained, before cautioning that the New Orleans Democrat "didn't say there was a bomb. He […]

Let me summarize "After Blocking the Bridge, Gretna Circles the Wagons":
Gretna passed a resolution supporting the decision to block the bridge…
Gretna is 2/3 white, blue-collar, and has had an occasionally troubled relationship with NO…
They helped bus 5000 NOers out, but then the strain got too much…
… After someone set the local mall on fire Aug. […]

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 […]

A map that purports to have the two possible evacuation routes is here.
If you were confused over the west bank issue, the term "west bank" refers to the Mississippi as a whole. However, it twists and turns through New Orleans, and in Gretna the west bank is to the east of the east bank. See […]

This one was posted on Sep. 8 and is called "Surviving hurricane no vacation for tourist":
On Aug. 30, the group tried to rent a bus, but the plan fizzled.
"We heard FEMA confiscated the buses for their own use," he said.
The streets were becoming more dangerous, with looters roaming around. "We could hear gunshots in the […]

On Friday Sep. 2 at 2:24AM ET, Yahoo posted the AFP story "Police fire warning shots at tourists trying to escape New Orleans". The same or similar is here in "Police fired warning shots, New Orleans tourists tell" with a timestamp of Friday, September 2, 2005. 3:39pm (AEST). It's reposted here, and a shorter version […]

In the EMT's report they say a police commander told them there were buses at the bridge:
…the police commander came across the street to address our group. He told us he had a solution: we should walk to the Pontchartrain Expressway and cross the greater New Orleans Bridge where the police had buses lined up […]