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Video of the Crescent City Connection incident

September 10th, 2005
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There's a video of Geraldo Rivera and Shepard Smith begging the local (and perhaps state) authorities to let people get out of New Orleans over the Crescent City Connection. The shoot date is Sep. 2, and it appears both were near the Connection.
Geraldo refers to the Interstate and a WalMart on the other side of […]

Blanco orders schoolbuses: on Sep. 2

September 7th, 2005
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The following Executive Order (PDF file) is dated Sep 1:
…WHEREAS, there is an immediate need for mass transportation to move citizens to shelters and other safe locations from disaster areas; and
WHEREAS, given the current exigent circumstances, buses are the most reasonable and practical mode of mass transportation to move our citizens to safety;
NOW THEREFORE I, […]

Ray Nagin: the "CIA might take me out"

September 5th, 2005
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…Last night [Sep. 2] he told a reporter for the Associated Press: "If the CIA slips me something and next week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened."
Today [Sep. 3] he told interviewers for CNN on a live broadcast he feared the "CIA might take me out."
From this.