bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new orleans drowns i mean

[Guest guest]

he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...

 

Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: " Who is Left Behind?...The Sickest, The

Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest "

 

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As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues to unfold, we

go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill Quigley of Loyola University.

Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital, said, " The people who are in

New Orleans are - in all honesty - dying and there could be a lot more

casualties unless there's a lot of help, real fast. " [includes rush transcript]

--

New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe following the

devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater.

The city has no electricity and little drinkable water. Officials say New

Orleans will be uninhabitable for weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding

areas of the city that had appeared to survive the storm.

The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama remains unknown

but officials fear it will be several hundred. Officials in Harrison County in

Mississippi say at least 100 people died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi

and Gulfport. At least 30 people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi

known as the Quiet Water Beach apartments. Thousands of homes in the region were

destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator Trent Lott.

 

The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire city of New

Orleans to be evacuated.

 

On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from City Hall due to

the rising waters. Officials are now planning to evacuate everyone inside the

SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought refuge. The emergency generators at

the sports complex are now failing, there is no air conditioning and the

building is surrounded by water.

 

Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the city's newspaper

the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due to the rising waters.

The paper has been forced to publish only electronic versions of its newspaper.

The city's main public hospital is no longer functioning and being evacuated.

The U.S. military is reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from

Tulane University Hospital.

 

Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of disease spread

through sewage contamination of drinking water, spoiled food, insects, and bites

from snakes and other animals.

 

The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented preparations to

house at least 1 million people in the region whose houses were damaged or

destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane " the most significant natural

disaster to hit the United States. "

 

The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime rescue teams to

the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift boat rescue teams are being

flown in from California.

 

While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue operations and law

enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and Mississippi Guard have been

forced to watch the catastrophe from 7,000 miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of

Mississippi's National Guard force and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in Iraq.

Over the past eight months 23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died

in Iraq - only New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths.

 

The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is expected to worsen over

the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane flows into Lake Pontchartain

from upstream rivers and streams. With the levees broke, the water will keep

rising in the city of New Orleans until it is at same level as the lake and

Mississippi River.

 

President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two days and return

to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego.

 

" Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in the midst of

search and rescue operations, " Bush said.

 

During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to briefly play

guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark Wills. Bush is expected to

fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour parishes ravaged by the hurricane.

 

On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared. There have been

reports of looting including many people breaking into stores in search of food

and drinkable water. Others took electronics, alcohol and guns. The Times

Picayune reported the looting was so widespread that even police officers took

part. One uniform officer was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart.

Another was seen carrying a 27-inch TV.

 

Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more than Hurricane

Andrew which cost $21 billion.

 

The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of the oil and gas

production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut off since Monday and

many sustained damage. The area normally accounts for a third of domestic oil

production and a fifth of its natural gas output. The cost of gasoline is

expected to soon rise to about three dollars a gallon in many parts of the

country. Areas including Atlanta may also face severe gas shortages. The two

main pipelines that bring gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now

only has a two-day supply of gasoline.

 

Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have done more

to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995 Congress authorized the

Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. Over the past decade the Army

Corps of Engineers has spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building

pumping stations. But another $250 million in work remained. According to press

accounts, the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years

the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the cost of

the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and flood control

funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed significantly reducing the

amount of federal money for the project. He proposed spending $10 million. Local

officials said six times as much money was needed.

 

 

Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who is

volunteering at Memorial Hospital.

 

--

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AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I reached Bill

Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I spoke to him on his

cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is volunteering, helping out

his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology nurse. He said there are 1,200 people in

the hospital. I asked him to describe the situation in the city.

 

BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody was really

worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that everybody who had their

health, had money and had a car, they left. Okay, so we have probably 100,000

people trapped in the city right now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the

Superdome who are there without electricity, without flushing toilets, without

food, without water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a

bus, because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in nursing

homes, there’s people in these little hospitals all over the place.

 

And then there's still -- we can see when you’re looking out the window at

night, you can see flashlights in the water where people are walking around out

in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a flashlight where somebody's

walking down the water. As you said, tomorrow night, you are not going to see

those flashlights because tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have

nine to 15 feet of water. So those people that are walking out there with

flashlights, they're not going to be there.

 

And the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people away, because they

don't have enough food and water to be able to take care of the people who are

in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people that came apparently to the

hospital this morning or this afternoon, a father, a mother and two little kids

came in a boat, and the people at the hospital turned them away, sent them away,

because they didn't have room for them.

 

Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage. They had been

in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost electricity, lost everything.

So those people just left, and they have been wandering around the city looking

for a place to stay, and the security guards had to turn them away. They sent

them back into the flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or

that to even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here.

 

So who’s left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking about tens of

thousands of people who are left behind, and those are the sickest, the oldest,

poorest, the youngest, the people with disabilities and the like, and the plan

was that everybody should leave. Well, you can’t leave if you’re in a

hospital. You can’t leave if you’re a nurse. You can’t leave if you are a

patient. You can’t leave if you’re in a nursing home. You can't leave if you

don't have a car. All of these things. They didn’t have – there wass no plan

for that.

 

And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I think, of 100,000

people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area that are still here. And

the suggestions from local officials are, you know, in the suburban parish next

to us, they announced on the radio -- we have one radio station, have no TV,

have no cell phones. Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls

that come in. And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward

the interstate, and then they would pick them up there. But, you know, these

people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with their mother, you

know, people who are sick. That's why they couldn't leave. They don't have cars.

They certainly don't have boats. And so, there's a huge humanitarian crisis

going on here right now.

 

AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an odd question.

You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about the crisis that's going on

in Haiti, where you have been a number of times and represent, among others,

Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison there. How does what you are seeing in New

Orleans right now, how does it compare to Haiti?

 

BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would become more

like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans has become more like Haiti

here recently. You know, we don't have power. We don't have transportation. At

this point, I think, at least the people in the hospital have some fresh water,

but they're telling people you can’t drink the water out of the taps. So

there's people wandering around the city without water, without transportation,

without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million people in the

New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what Haiti it like.

 

AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard?

 

BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on the roof, who

are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or two here or there. There's

been reports that there's thousands of them that are coming in, but again, I

don't know how they would get in. People are not able to – you know, the

communication system is so bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the

chief of police, the governor and those people couldn't call the one working

radio station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able to talk

to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's going on. So it is

really a disaster, and the people who aren’t in New Orleans, I know, are dying

to get back to their houses. But the people who are in New Orleans are, in all

honesty, dying, and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of

help real fast.

 

AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University. He was

speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant Memorial Hospital in

New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an oncology nurse. After we spoke to him

early this morning, the electricity, backup electricity, went out at the

hospital.

 

 

a blinding flash

hotter than the sun

dead bodies lie across the path

the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one

[Guest guest]

Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

 

FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." And yet this article mentions that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished, if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have helped.

This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...Wednesday, August 31st, 2005Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: "Who is Left Behind?...The Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest"Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD --As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital, said,

"The people who are in New Orleans are - in all honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help, real fast." [includes rush transcript] --New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater. The city has no electricity and little drinkable water. Officials say New Orleans will be uninhabitable for weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that had appeared to survive the storm. The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama remains unknown but officials fear it will be several hundred. Officials in Harrison County in Mississippi say at least 100 people died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. At least 30 people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi known as the Quiet Water Beach apartments.

Thousands of homes in the region were destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire city of New Orleans to be evacuated. On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from City Hall due to the rising waters. Officials are now planning to evacuate everyone inside the SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought refuge. The emergency generators at the sports complex are now failing, there is no air conditioning and the building is surrounded by water. Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the city's newspaper the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due to the rising waters. The paper has been forced to publish only electronic versions of its newspaper. The city's main public hospital is no longer functioning and being evacuated. The U.S. military is reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from Tulane University

Hospital. Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of disease spread through sewage contamination of drinking water, spoiled food, insects, and bites from snakes and other animals. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented preparations to house at least 1 million people in the region whose houses were damaged or destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift boat rescue teams are being flown in from California. While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue operations and law enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and Mississippi Guard have been forced to watch the catastrophe from 7,000 miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of Mississippi's National Guard force and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in

Iraq. Over the past eight months 23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died in Iraq - only New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths. The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is expected to worsen over the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane flows into Lake Pontchartain from upstream rivers and streams. With the levees broke, the water will keep rising in the city of New Orleans until it is at same level as the lake and Mississippi River. President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two days and return to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego. "Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in the midst of search and rescue operations," Bush said. During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to briefly play guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark Wills. Bush is expected to fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour parishes ravaged by the hurricane.

On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared. There have been reports of looting including many people breaking into stores in search of food and drinkable water. Others took electronics, alcohol and guns. The Times Picayune reported the looting was so widespread that even police officers took part. One uniform officer was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart. Another was seen carrying a 27-inch TV. Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more than Hurricane Andrew which cost $21 billion. The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of the oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut off since Monday and many sustained damage. The area normally accounts for a third of domestic oil production and a fifth of its natural gas output. The cost of gasoline is expected to soon rise to about three dollars a gallon in many parts of the country. Areas including Atlanta may also

face severe gas shortages. The two main pipelines that bring gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now only has a two-day supply of gasoline. Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995 Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations. But another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts, the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the project. He proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as much money was needed.

Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital.--RUSH TRANSCRIPT This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I reached Bill Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I spoke to him on his cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is volunteering, helping out his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology nurse. He said there are 1,200 people in the hospital. I asked him to describe the situation in the city. BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that everybody

who had their health, had money and had a car, they left. Okay, so we have probably 100,000 people trapped in the city right now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Superdome who are there without electricity, without flushing toilets, without food, without water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a bus, because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in nursing homes, there’s people in these little hospitals all over the place. And then there's still -- we can see when you’re looking out the window at night, you can see flashlights in the water where people are walking around out in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a flashlight where somebody's walking down the water. As you said, tomorrow night, you are not going to see those flashlights because tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have nine to 15 feet of water. So those people that are walking out there with flashlights, they're not going to be there. And

the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people away, because they don't have enough food and water to be able to take care of the people who are in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people that came apparently to the hospital this morning or this afternoon, a father, a mother and two little kids came in a boat, and the people at the hospital turned them away, sent them away, because they didn't have room for them. Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage. They had been in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost electricity, lost everything. So those people just left, and they have been wandering around the city looking for a place to stay, and the security guards had to turn them away. They sent them back into the flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or that to even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here. So who’s left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking about tens

of thousands of people who are left behind, and those are the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with disabilities and the like, and the plan was that everybody should leave. Well, you can’t leave if you’re in a hospital. You can’t leave if you’re a nurse. You can’t leave if you are a patient. You can’t leave if you’re in a nursing home. You can't leave if you don't have a car. All of these things. They didn’t have – there wass no plan for that. And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I think, of 100,000 people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area that are still here. And the suggestions from local officials are, you know, in the suburban parish next to us, they announced on the radio -- we have one radio station, have no TV, have no cell phones. Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls that come in. And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward the interstate, and then

they would pick them up there. But, you know, these people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with their mother, you know, people who are sick. That's why they couldn't leave. They don't have cars. They certainly don't have boats. And so, there's a huge humanitarian crisis going on here right now. AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an odd question. You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about the crisis that's going on in Haiti, where you have been a number of times and represent, among others, Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison there. How does what you are seeing in New Orleans right now, how does it compare to Haiti? BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would become more like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans has become more like Haiti here recently. You know, we don't have power. We don't have transportation. At this point, I think, at least the people in the hospital have

some fresh water, but they're telling people you can’t drink the water out of the taps. So there's people wandering around the city without water, without transportation, without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million people in the New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what Haiti it like. AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard? BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on the roof, who are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or two here or there. There's been reports that there's thousands of them that are coming in, but again, I don't know how they would get in. People are not able to – you know, the communication system is so bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the chief of police, the governor and those people couldn't call the one working radio station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able to talk to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's

going on. So it is really a disaster, and the people who aren’t in New Orleans, I know, are dying to get back to their houses. But the people who are in New Orleans are, in all honesty, dying, and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help real fast. AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University. He was speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an oncology nurse. After we spoke to him early this morning, the electricity, backup electricity, went out at the hospital. a blinding flash hotter than the sun dead bodies lie across the path the radiation colors the airfinishing one by oneJonnie

Mail Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour

[Guest guest]

like i said..gas is over $3 through out most of the bay area....

it'll prolly hit $3.50 in another week...

i mean..some oil platforms are just gone!

(thats gotta be great fer the environment)

 

and..china starts their strategic oil reserve project

today

glug glug glug

 

in the homesteading groups i belong to, everyone has gone squirrel..they are all out buying up gas Jonnie Hellens Sep 1, 2005 10:15 AM Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new orleans drowns i mean

Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

 

FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." And yet this article mentions that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished, if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have helped.

This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

a blinding flash hotter than the sun dead bodies lie across the path the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one

[Guest guest]

When I passed by the Getty station on the way to school yesterday, regular was 2.67 a gallon. When I passed by on my way home (maybe three hours later) it was 2.89. That blew my mind!

 

Love,

Anna

 

 

 

 

-

Jonnie Hellens

 

9/1/2005 1:17:58 PM

Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new orleans drowns i mean

 

Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

 

FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." And yet this article mentions that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished, if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have helped.

This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...Wednesday, August 31st, 2005Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: "Who is Left Behind?...The Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest"Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3 Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend Purchase Video/CD --As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital, said, "The people who are in New Orleans are - in all honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help, real fast." [includes rush transcript] --New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of New Orleans is underwater. The city has no electricity and little drinkable water. Officials say New Orleans will be uninhabitable for weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that had appeared to survive the storm. The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama remains unknown but officials fear it will be several hundred. Officials in Harrison County in Mississippi say at least 100 people died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. At least 30 people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi known as the Quiet Water Beach apartments. Thousands of homes in the region were destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator Trent Lott. The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire city of New Orleans to be evacuated. On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from City Hall due to the rising waters. Officials are now planning to evacuate everyone inside the SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought refuge. The emergency generators at the sports complex are now failing, there is no air conditioning and the building is surrounded by water. Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the city's newspaper the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due to the rising waters. The paper has been forced to publish only electronic versions of its newspaper. The city's main public hospital is no longer functioning and being evacuated. The U.S. military is reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from Tulane University Hospital. Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of disease spread through sewage contamination of drinking water, spoiled food, insects, and bites from snakes and other animals. The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented preparations to house at least 1 million people in the region whose houses were damaged or destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift boat rescue teams are being flown in from California. While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue operations and law enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and Mississippi Guard have been forced to watch the catastrophe from 7,000 miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of Mississippi's National Guard force and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in Iraq. Over the past eight months 23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died in Iraq - only New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths. The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is expected to worsen over the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane flows into Lake Pontchartain from upstream rivers and streams. With the levees broke, the water will keep rising in the city of New Orleans until it is at same level as the lake and Mississippi River. President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two days and return to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego. "Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in the midst of search and rescue operations," Bush said. During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to briefly play guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark Wills. Bush is expected to fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour parishes ravaged by the hurricane. On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared. There have been reports of looting including many people breaking into stores in search of food and drinkable water. Others took electronics, alcohol and guns. The Times Picayune reported the looting was so widespread that even police officers took part. One uniform officer was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart. Another was seen carrying a 27-inch TV. Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more than Hurricane Andrew which cost $21 billion. The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of the oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut off since Monday and many sustained damage. The area normally accounts for a third of domestic oil production and a fifth of its natural gas output. The cost of gasoline is expected to soon rise to about three dollars a gallon in many parts of the country. Areas including Atlanta may also face severe gas shortages. The two main pipelines that bring gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now only has a two-day supply of gasoline. Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995 Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations. But another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts, the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the project. He proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as much money was needed. Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who is volunteering at Memorial Hospital.--RUSH TRANSCRIPT This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution. Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I reached Bill Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I spoke to him on his cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is volunteering, helping out his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology nurse. He said there are 1,200 people in the hospital. I asked him to describe the situation in the city. BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that everybody who had their health, had money and had a car, they left. Okay, so we have probably 100,000 people trapped in the city right now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Superdome who are there without electricity, without flushing toilets, without food, without water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a bus, because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in nursing homes, there’s people in these little hospitals all over the place. And then there's still -- we can see when you’re looking out the window at night, you can see flashlights in the water where people are walking around out in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a flashlight where somebody's walking down the water. As you said, tomorrow night, you are not going to see those flashlights because tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have nine to 15 feet of water. So those people that are walking out there with flashlights, they're not going to be there. And the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people away, because they don't have enough food and water to be able to take care of the people who are in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people that came apparently to the hospital this morning or this afternoon, a father, a mother and two little kids came in a boat, and the people at the hospital turned them away, sent them away, because they didn't have room for them. Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage. They had been in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost electricity, lost everything. So those people just left, and they have been wandering around the city looking for a place to stay, and the security guards had to turn them away. They sent them back into the flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or that to even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here. So who’s left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking about tens of thousands of people who are left behind, and those are the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with disabilities and the like, and the plan was that everybody should leave. Well, you can’t leave if you’re in a hospital. You can’t leave if you’re a nurse. You can’t leave if you are a patient. You can’t leave if you’re in a nursing home. You can't leave if you don't have a car. All of these things. They didn’t have – there wass no plan for that. And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I think, of 100,000 people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area that are still here. And the suggestions from local officials are, you know, in the suburban parish next to us, they announced on the radio -- we have one radio station, have no TV, have no cell phones. Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls that come in. And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward the interstate, and then they would pick them up there. But, you know, these people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with their mother, you know, people who are sick. That's why they couldn't leave. They don't have cars. They certainly don't have boats. And so, there's a huge humanitarian crisis going on here right now. AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an odd question. You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about the crisis that's going on in Haiti, where you have been a number of times and represent, among others, Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison there. How does what you are seeing in New Orleans right now, how does it compare to Haiti? BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would become more like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans has become more like Haiti here recently. You know, we don't have power. We don't have transportation. At this point, I think, at least the people in the hospital have some fresh water, but they're telling people you can’t drink the water out of the taps. So there's people wandering around the city without water, without transportation, without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million people in the New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what Haiti it like. AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard? BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on the roof, who are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or two here or there. There's been reports that there's thousands of them that are coming in, but again, I don't know how they would get in. People are not able to – you know, the communication system is so bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the chief of police, the governor and those people couldn't call the one working radio station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able to talk to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's going on. So it is really a disaster, and the people who aren’t in New Orleans, I know, are dying to get back to their houses. But the people who are in New Orleans are, in all honesty, dying, and there could be a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help real fast. AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University. He was speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an oncology nurse. After we spoke to him early this morning, the electricity, backup electricity, went out at the hospital. a blinding flash hotter than the sun dead bodies lie across the path the radiation colors the airfinishing one by oneJonnie

 

 

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Lynda, what did you have to do to be able to use the oil from the restaurants for ur vehicle?fraggle <EBbrewpunx wrote:

 

like i said..gas is over $3 through out most of the bay area....

it'll prolly hit $3.50 in another week...

i mean..some oil platforms are just gone!

(thats gotta be great fer the environment)

 

and..china starts their strategic oil reserve project

today

glug glug glug

 

in the homesteading groups i belong to, everyone has gone squirrel..they are all out buying up gas Jonnie Hellens Sep 1, 2005 10:15 AM Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new orleans drowns i mean

Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

 

FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane "the most significant natural disaster to hit the United States." And yet this article mentions that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished, if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have helped.

This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

a blinding flash hotter than the sun dead bodies lie across the path the radiation colors the air

finishing one by one Jonnie

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[Guest guest]

on a personal note,

I shan't be driving anymore.

I paid for a proffesional lesson and it went very well.

 

then after that, my husband took me out for another lesson.

Let me just say it was a disaster.

He yelled at me and got real nervous and started screaming

saying that I was gonna kill somebody.

I guess I was too confident (falsely so)

 

I felt so disappointed that I won't be trying that again

for a long time.

The negative feeling of MESSING UP, has got to leave my system.

 

I did ran over a bush of flowers. I was a public place, so no one can

sue me, however, the car did go on the sidewalk.

 

I shall ride my bike as I always do to get around.

I much more prefer walking anyways, unfortunately not always plausible.

 

 

, " Anna Blaine " <anna333@e...> wrote:

> When I passed by the Getty station on the way to school yesterday,

regular was 2.67 a gallon. When I passed by on my way home (maybe

three hours later) it was 2.89. That blew my mind!

>

> Love,

> Anna

>

>

> -

> Jonnie Hellens

>

> 9/1/2005 1:17:58 PM

> Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new

orleans drowns i mean

>

>

> Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was

no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

>

> FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane " the most significant natural

disaster to hit the United States. " And yet this article mentions

that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it

in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished,

if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have

helped.

> This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from

yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically

called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't

affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices

because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf

and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area

accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

>

> fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

> he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...

>

> Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

> Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: " Who is Left Behind?...The

Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest "

>

> Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3

> Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript

> Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend

Purchase Video/CD

>

>

--

> As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues

to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill

Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial

Hospital, said, " The people who are in New Orleans are - in all

honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless

there's a lot of help, real fast. " [includes rush transcript]

>

--

> New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe

following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of

New Orleans is underwater. The city has no electricity and little

drinkable water. Officials say New Orleans will be uninhabitable for

weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that

had appeared to survive the storm.

> The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

remains unknown but officials fear it will be several hundred.

Officials in Harrison County in Mississippi say at least 100 people

died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. At least 30

people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi known as the Quiet

Water Beach apartments. Thousands of homes in the region were

destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator Trent

Lott.

>

> The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire

city of New Orleans to be evacuated.

>

> On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from City

Hall due to the rising waters. Officials are now planning to evacuate

everyone inside the SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought

refuge. The emergency generators at the sports complex are now

failing, there is no air conditioning and the building is surrounded

by water.

>

> Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the city's

newspaper the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due to

the rising waters. The paper has been forced to publish only

electronic versions of its newspaper. The city's main public hospital

is no longer functioning and being evacuated. The U.S. military is

reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from Tulane

University Hospital.

>

> Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of

disease spread through sewage contamination of drinking water, spoiled

food, insects, and bites from snakes and other animals.

>

> The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented

preparations to house at least 1 million people in the region whose

houses were damaged or destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the

hurricane " the most significant natural disaster to hit the United

States. "

>

> The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime

rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift

boat rescue teams are being flown in from California.

>

> While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue operations

and law enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and

Mississippi Guard have been forced to watch the catastrophe from 7,000

miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of Mississippi's National Guard force

and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in Iraq. Over the past eight months

23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died in Iraq - only

New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths.

>

> The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is expected to

worsen over the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane flows

into Lake Pontchartain from upstream rivers and streams. With the

levees broke, the water will keep rising in the city of New Orleans

until it is at same level as the lake and Mississippi River.

>

> President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two days

and return to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego.

>

> " Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in the

midst of search and rescue operations, " Bush said.

>

> During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to

briefly play guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark

Wills. Bush is expected to fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour parishes

ravaged by the hurricane.

>

> On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared. There

have been reports of looting including many people breaking into

stores in search of food and drinkable water. Others took electronics,

alcohol and guns. The Times Picayune reported the looting was so

widespread that even police officers took part. One uniform officer

was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart. Another was

seen carrying a 27-inch TV.

>

> Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more

than Hurricane Andrew which cost $21 billion.

>

> The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of the

oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut

off since Monday and many sustained damage. The area normally accounts

for a third of domestic oil production and a fifth of its natural gas

output. The cost of gasoline is expected to soon rise to about three

dollars a gallon in many parts of the country. Areas including Atlanta

may also face severe gas shortages. The two main pipelines that bring

gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now only has a

two-day supply of gasoline.

>

> Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have

done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995

Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control

Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent

$430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations. But

another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts,

the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years

the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the

cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and

flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed

significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the project. He

proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as much

money was needed.

>

>

> Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who

is volunteering at Memorial Hospital.

>

>

--

> RUSH TRANSCRIPT

> This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help

us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our

TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.

> Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

>

> AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I reached

Bill Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I spoke

to him on his cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is

volunteering, helping out his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology nurse.

He said there are 1,200 people in the hospital. I asked him to

describe the situation in the city.

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody

was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that

everybody who had their health, had money and had a car, they left.

Okay, so we have probably 100,000 people trapped in the city right

now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Superdome who are there

without electricity, without flushing toilets, without food, without

water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a bus,

because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in nursing

homes, there’s people in these little hospitals all over the place.

>

> And then there's still -- we can see when you’re looking out the

window at night, you can see flashlights in the water where people are

walking around out in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a

flashlight where somebody's walking down the water. As you said,

tomorrow night, you are not going to see those flashlights because

tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have nine to 15 feet

of water. So those people that are walking out there with flashlights,

they're not going to be there.

>

> And the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people away,

because they don't have enough food and water to be able to take care

of the people who are in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people

that came apparently to the hospital this morning or this afternoon, a

father, a mother and two little kids came in a boat, and the people at

the hospital turned them away, sent them away, because they didn't

have room for them.

>

> Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage.

They had been in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost

electricity, lost everything. So those people just left, and they have

been wandering around the city looking for a place to stay, and the

security guards had to turn them away. They sent them back into the

flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or that to

even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here.

>

> So who’s left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking

about tens of thousands of people who are left behind, and those are

the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with

disabilities and the like, and the plan was that everybody should

leave. Well, you can’t leave if you’re in a hospital. You can’t

leave if you’re a nurse. You can’t leave if you are a patient. You

can’t leave if you’re in a nursing home. You can't leave if you

don't have a car. All of these things. They didn’t have †" there

wass no plan for that.

>

> And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I think,

of 100,000 people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area that

are still here. And the suggestions from local officials are, you

know, in the suburban parish next to us, they announced on the radio

-- we have one radio station, have no TV, have no cell phones.

Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls that come in.

And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward the

interstate, and then they would pick them up there. But, you know,

these people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with

their mother, you know, people who are sick. That's why they couldn't

leave. They don't have cars. They certainly don't have boats. And so,

there's a huge humanitarian crisis going on here right now.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an

odd question. You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about the

crisis that's going on in Haiti, where you have been a number of times

and represent, among others, Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison

there. How does what you are seeing in New Orleans right now, how does

it compare to Haiti?

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would

become more like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans has

become more like Haiti here recently. You know, we don't have power.

We don't have transportation. At this point, I think, at least the

people in the hospital have some fresh water, but they're telling

people you can’t drink the water out of the taps. So there's people

wandering around the city without water, without transportation,

without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million

people in the New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what

Haiti it like.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard?

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on

the roof, who are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or

two here or there. There's been reports that there's thousands of them

that are coming in, but again, I don't know how they would get in.

People are not able to †" you know, the communication system is so

bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the chief of police,

the governor and those people couldn't call the one working radio

station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able to

talk to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's going

on. So it is really a disaster, and the people who aren’t in New

Orleans, I know, are dying to get back to their houses. But the people

who are in New Orleans are, in all honesty, dying, and there could be

a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help real fast.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University.

He was speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant

Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an oncology

nurse. After we spoke to him early this morning, the electricity,

backup electricity, went out at the hospital.

>

>

> a blinding flash

> hotter than the sun

> dead bodies lie across the path

> the radiation colors the air

> finishing one by one

>

>

>

> Jonnie

>

>

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My father taught me to drive when I was a teenager and it was

HORRIFIC!!! All the yelling and everything you described. But

after maybe two months I got the hang of it. In the 13 years since

I got my license I have been in only one accident (no one was hurt)

and have received only two tickets. One was for doing 71 in a 65

zone. That cop must have had a quota to fill.

 

Love,

Anna

 

 

, " Anouk Sickler " <zurumato@e...>

wrote:

> on a personal note,

> I shan't be driving anymore.

> I paid for a proffesional lesson and it went very well.

>

> then after that, my husband took me out for another lesson.

> Let me just say it was a disaster.

> He yelled at me and got real nervous and started screaming

> saying that I was gonna kill somebody.

> I guess I was too confident (falsely so)

>

> I felt so disappointed that I won't be trying that again

> for a long time.

> The negative feeling of MESSING UP, has got to leave my system.

>

> I did ran over a bush of flowers. I was a public place, so no one

can

> sue me, however, the car did go on the sidewalk.

>

> I shall ride my bike as I always do to get around.

> I much more prefer walking anyways, unfortunately not always

plausible.

>

>

> , " Anna Blaine " <anna333@e...>

wrote:

> > When I passed by the Getty station on the way to school

yesterday,

> regular was 2.67 a gallon. When I passed by on my way home (maybe

> three hours later) it was 2.89. That blew my mind!

> >

> > Love,

> > Anna

> >

> >

> > -

> > Jonnie Hellens

> >

> > 9/1/2005 1:17:58 PM

> > Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new

> orleans drowns i mean

> >

> >

> > Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there

was

> no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the

funding.

> >

> > FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane " the most significant

natural

> disaster to hit the United States. " And yet this article mentions

> that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did

it

> in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been

finished,

> if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have

> helped.

> > This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly

from

> yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically

> called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation

didn't

> affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices

> because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf

> and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area

> accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

> >

> > fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

> > he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...

> >

> > Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

> > Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: " Who is Left

Behind?...The

> Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest "

> >

> > Listen to Segment || Download Show mp3

> > Watch 128k stream Watch 256k stream Read Transcript

> > Help Printer-friendly version Email to a friend

> Purchase Video/CD

> >

> >

> -

-------------

> > As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina

continues

> to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill

> Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at

Memorial

> Hospital, said, " The people who are in New Orleans are - in all

> honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless

> there's a lot of help, real fast. " [includes rush transcript]

> >

> -

-------------

> > New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe

> following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of

> New Orleans is underwater. The city has no electricity and little

> drinkable water. Officials say New Orleans will be uninhabitable

for

> weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that

> had appeared to survive the storm.

> > The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

> remains unknown but officials fear it will be several hundred.

> Officials in Harrison County in Mississippi say at least 100 people

> died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. At least 30

> people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi known as the

Quiet

> Water Beach apartments. Thousands of homes in the region were

> destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator

Trent

> Lott.

> >

> > The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire

> city of New Orleans to be evacuated.

> >

> > On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from

City

> Hall due to the rising waters. Officials are now planning to

evacuate

> everyone inside the SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought

> refuge. The emergency generators at the sports complex are now

> failing, there is no air conditioning and the building is

surrounded

> by water.

> >

> > Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the

city's

> newspaper the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due

to

> the rising waters. The paper has been forced to publish only

> electronic versions of its newspaper. The city's main public

hospital

> is no longer functioning and being evacuated. The U.S. military is

> reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from Tulane

> University Hospital.

> >

> > Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of

> disease spread through sewage contamination of drinking water,

spoiled

> food, insects, and bites from snakes and other animals.

> >

> > The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented

> preparations to house at least 1 million people in the region whose

> houses were damaged or destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the

> hurricane " the most significant natural disaster to hit the United

> States. "

> >

> > The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime

> rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift

> boat rescue teams are being flown in from California.

> >

> > While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue

operations

> and law enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and

> Mississippi Guard have been forced to watch the catastrophe from

7,000

> miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of Mississippi's National Guard

force

> and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in Iraq. Over the past eight

months

> 23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died in Iraq - only

> New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths.

> >

> > The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is

expected to

> worsen over the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane

flows

> into Lake Pontchartain from upstream rivers and streams. With the

> levees broke, the water will keep rising in the city of New Orleans

> until it is at same level as the lake and Mississippi River.

> >

> > President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two

days

> and return to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego.

> >

> > " Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in

the

> midst of search and rescue operations, " Bush said.

> >

> > During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to

> briefly play guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark

> Wills. Bush is expected to fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour

parishes

> ravaged by the hurricane.

> >

> > On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared.

There

> have been reports of looting including many people breaking into

> stores in search of food and drinkable water. Others took

electronics,

> alcohol and guns. The Times Picayune reported the looting was so

> widespread that even police officers took part. One uniform officer

> was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart. Another was

> seen carrying a 27-inch TV.

> >

> > Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more

> than Hurricane Andrew which cost $21 billion.

> >

> > The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of

the

> oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been

shut

> off since Monday and many sustained damage. The area normally

accounts

> for a third of domestic oil production and a fifth of its natural

gas

> output. The cost of gasoline is expected to soon rise to about

three

> dollars a gallon in many parts of the country. Areas including

Atlanta

> may also face severe gas shortages. The two main pipelines that

bring

> gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now only has a

> two-day supply of gasoline.

> >

> > Questions are also being raised if the federal government could

have

> done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995

> Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control

> Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent

> $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations.

But

> another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts,

> the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two

years

> the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite

the

> cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and

> flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed

> significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the

project. He

> proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as

much

> money was needed.

> >

> >

> > Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans

who

> is volunteering at Memorial Hospital.

> >

> >

> -

-------------

> > RUSH TRANSCRIPT

> > This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations

help

> us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on

our

> TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.

> > Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

> >

> > AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I

reached

> Bill Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I

spoke

> to him on his cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is

> volunteering, helping out his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology

nurse.

> He said there are 1,200 people in the hospital. I asked him to

> describe the situation in the city.

> >

> > BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that

everybody

> was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that

> everybody who had their health, had money and had a car, they left.

> Okay, so we have probably 100,000 people trapped in the city right

> now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Superdome who are there

> without electricity, without flushing toilets, without food,

without

> water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a

bus,

> because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in

nursing

> homes, there’s people in these little hospitals all over the

place.

> >

> > And then there's still -- we can see when you’re looking out

the

> window at night, you can see flashlights in the water where people

are

> walking around out in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a

> flashlight where somebody's walking down the water. As you said,

> tomorrow night, you are not going to see those flashlights because

> tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have nine to 15

feet

> of water. So those people that are walking out there with

flashlights,

> they're not going to be there.

> >

> > And the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people

away,

> because they don't have enough food and water to be able to take

care

> of the people who are in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people

> that came apparently to the hospital this morning or this

afternoon, a

> father, a mother and two little kids came in a boat, and the

people at

> the hospital turned them away, sent them away, because they didn't

> have room for them.

> >

> > Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage.

> They had been in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost

> electricity, lost everything. So those people just left, and they

have

> been wandering around the city looking for a place to stay, and the

> security guards had to turn them away. They sent them back into the

> flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or that

to

> even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here.

> >

> > So who’s left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking

> about tens of thousands of people who are left behind, and those

are

> the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with

> disabilities and the like, and the plan was that everybody should

> leave. Well, you can’t leave if you’re in a hospital. You

can’t

> leave if you’re a nurse. You can’t leave if you are a patient.

You

> can’t leave if you’re in a nursing home. You can't leave if you

> don't have a car. All of these things. They didn’t have †" there

> wass no plan for that.

> >

> > And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I

think,

> of 100,000 people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area

that

> are still here. And the suggestions from local officials are, you

> know, in the suburban parish next to us, they announced on the

radio

> -- we have one radio station, have no TV, have no cell phones.

> Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls that come

in.

> And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward

the

> interstate, and then they would pick them up there. But, you know,

> these people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with

> their mother, you know, people who are sick. That's why they

couldn't

> leave. They don't have cars. They certainly don't have boats. And

so,

> there's a huge humanitarian crisis going on here right now.

> >

> > AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an

> odd question. You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about

the

> crisis that's going on in Haiti, where you have been a number of

times

> and represent, among others, Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison

> there. How does what you are seeing in New Orleans right now, how

does

> it compare to Haiti?

> >

> > BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would

> become more like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans

has

> become more like Haiti here recently. You know, we don't have

power.

> We don't have transportation. At this point, I think, at least the

> people in the hospital have some fresh water, but they're telling

> people you can’t drink the water out of the taps. So there's

people

> wandering around the city without water, without transportation,

> without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million

> people in the New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what

> Haiti it like.

> >

> > AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard?

> >

> > BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on

> the roof, who are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or

> two here or there. There's been reports that there's thousands of

them

> that are coming in, but again, I don't know how they would get in.

> People are not able to †" you know, the communication system is so

> bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the chief of

police,

> the governor and those people couldn't call the one working radio

> station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able

to

> talk to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's

going

> on. So it is really a disaster, and the people who aren’t in New

> Orleans, I know, are dying to get back to their houses. But the

people

> who are in New Orleans are, in all honesty, dying, and there could

be

> a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help real fast.

> >

> > AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola

University.

> He was speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant

> Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an

oncology

> nurse. After we spoke to him early this morning, the electricity,

> backup electricity, went out at the hospital.

> >

> >

> > a blinding flash

> > hotter than the sun

> > dead bodies lie across the path

> > the radiation colors the air

> > finishing one by one

> >

> >

> >

> > Jonnie

> >

> >

> > Mail

> > Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour

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> >

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Maybe you should not give up yet Anouk. It is not always good to have a

family member helping you with lessons, particularly if they are not calm.

Sometimes their agitation causes more problems than anything else. When I

was younger I had some lessons and then my brother offered to take me out

for practice. I honestly thought he would be bad-tempered, but he was

actually very encouraging, and when I did things wrong he was very calm and

supportive. You never can tell what people will be like when they are

helping you learn to drive.

 

Why don't you try the professional lessons again.

 

Jo

-

" Anouk Sickler " <zurumato

 

Saturday, September 03, 2005 6:56 PM

Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new orleans

drowns i mean

 

 

on a personal note,

I shan't be driving anymore.

I paid for a proffesional lesson and it went very well.

 

then after that, my husband took me out for another lesson.

Let me just say it was a disaster.

He yelled at me and got real nervous and started screaming

saying that I was gonna kill somebody.

I guess I was too confident (falsely so)

 

I felt so disappointed that I won't be trying that again

for a long time.

The negative feeling of MESSING UP, has got to leave my system.

 

I did ran over a bush of flowers. I was a public place, so no one can

sue me, however, the car did go on the sidewalk.

 

I shall ride my bike as I always do to get around.

I much more prefer walking anyways, unfortunately not always plausible.

 

 

, " Anna Blaine " <anna333@e...> wrote:

> When I passed by the Getty station on the way to school yesterday,

regular was 2.67 a gallon. When I passed by on my way home (maybe

three hours later) it was 2.89. That blew my mind!

>

> Love,

> Anna

>

>

> -

> Jonnie Hellens

>

> 9/1/2005 1:17:58 PM

> Re: bush fiddles while rome burns? er, new

orleans drowns i mean

>

>

> Bush bites us in the *ss again, huh? Because of the war, there was

no funding to finish the flood control and he wanted to cut the funding.

>

> FEMA's Bill Lokey called the hurricane " the most significant natural

disaster to hit the United States. " And yet this article mentions

that the city survived the huricane, but the flooding is what did it

in. It's hard to say if the flood project would have been finished,

if it would have still flooded the city, but I'm sure it would have

helped.

> This morning gas was at $2.99 here in Phoenix, up signifigantly from

yesterdays $2.64. Our Attorney General, Terry Goddard, basically

called for boycotting. Fox news stated that LA's gas situation didn't

affect us and the AG said that Gas Stations are raising the prices

because they can. He said they won't lower it until we've had enuf

and respond by not buying it. Yet below, it's stated that LA area

accounts for 1/3 of domestic oil production.

>

> fraggle <EBbrewpunx@e...> wrote:

> he goes t o san diego to play guitar....sweet...

>

> Wednesday, August 31st, 2005

> Report from Inside New Orleans Hospital: " Who is Left Behind?...The

Sickest, The Oldest, The Poorest, The Youngest "

>

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> As the devastation left in the wake of hurricane Katrina continues

to unfold, we go to New Orleans to speak with law professor Bill

Quigley of Loyola University. Quigley, who is volunteering at Memorial

Hospital, said, " The people who are in New Orleans are - in all

honesty - dying and there could be a lot more casualties unless

there's a lot of help, real fast. " [includes rush transcript]

>

----------

----

> New Orleans and the Gulf region remain in a state of catastrophe

following the devastating Hurricane Katrina. At least 80 percent of

New Orleans is underwater. The city has no electricity and little

drinkable water. Officials say New Orleans will be uninhabitable for

weeks. On Tuesday two levees broke, flooding areas of the city that

had appeared to survive the storm.

> The total number killed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama

remains unknown but officials fear it will be several hundred.

Officials in Harrison County in Mississippi say at least 100 people

died there mostly in the cities of Biloxi and Gulfport. At least 30

people died at a single housing complex in Biloxi known as the Quiet

Water Beach apartments. Thousands of homes in the region were

destroyed including the oceanfront home of Mississippi Senator Trent

Lott.

>

> The governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco has ordered the entire

city of New Orleans to be evacuated.

>

> On Tuesday the city's mayor Ray Nagin had to be airlifted from City

Hall due to the rising waters. Officials are now planning to evacuate

everyone inside the SuperDome where at least 20,000 have sought

refuge. The emergency generators at the sports complex are now

failing, there is no air conditioning and the building is surrounded

by water.

>

> Meanwhile both city airports are underwater. The staff of the city's

newspaper the Times-Picayune had to flee its newsroom Tuesday due to

the rising waters. The paper has been forced to publish only

electronic versions of its newspaper. The city's main public hospital

is no longer functioning and being evacuated. The U.S. military is

reportedly helping to evacuate more than 1,000 people from Tulane

University Hospital.

>

> Doctors are also concerned about the possibility of outbreaks of

disease spread through sewage contamination of drinking water, spoiled

food, insects, and bites from snakes and other animals.

>

> The Federal Emergency Management Agency is making unprecedented

preparations to house at least 1 million people in the region whose

houses were damaged or destroyed. FEMA's Bill Lokey called the

hurricane " the most significant natural disaster to hit the United

States. "

>

> The Pentagon has ordered five Navy ships and eight Navy maritime

rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations. Swift

boat rescue teams are being flown in from California.

>

> While the National Guard has been taking part in rescue operations

and law enforcement, some 6,000 members of the Louisiana and

Mississippi Guard have been forced to watch the catastrophe from 7,000

miles away in Iraq. 40 percent of Mississippi's National Guard force

and 35 percent of Louisiana's is in Iraq. Over the past eight months

23 members of the Louisiana National Guard have died in Iraq - only

New York's Guard unit has suffered as many deaths.

>

> The Times-Picayune reported the catastrophic flooding is expected to

worsen over the next few days after rainfall from the hurricane flows

into Lake Pontchartain from upstream rivers and streams. With the

levees broke, the water will keep rising in the city of New Orleans

until it is at same level as the lake and Mississippi River.

>

> President Bush announced he would cut short his vacation by two days

and return to Washington today. He spoke on Tuesday in San Diego.

>

> " Right now our priority is on saving lives and we are still in the

midst of search and rescue operations, " Bush said.

>

> During Bush's appearance in San Diego he also took the time to

briefly play guitar while with country singer Country Singer Mark

Wills. Bush is expected to fly to Louisiana on Friday to tour parishes

ravaged by the hurricane.

>

> On the streets of New Orleans martial law has been declared. There

have been reports of looting including many people breaking into

stores in search of food and drinkable water. Others took electronics,

alcohol and guns. The Times Picayune reported the looting was so

widespread that even police officers took part. One uniform officer

was photographed carrying six DVDs outside a Wal-Mart. Another was

seen carrying a 27-inch TV.

>

> Katrina is expected to become the costliest hurricane ever - more

than Hurricane Andrew which cost $21 billion.

>

> The hurricane is already affecting the nation's economy. Most of the

oil and gas production facilities in the Gulf of Mexico have been shut

off since Monday and many sustained damage. The area normally accounts

for a third of domestic oil production and a fifth of its natural gas

output. The cost of gasoline is expected to soon rise to about three

dollars a gallon in many parts of the country. Areas including Atlanta

may also face severe gas shortages. The two main pipelines that bring

gas and jet fuel to Atlanta are down. The region now only has a

two-day supply of gasoline.

>

> Questions are also being raised if the federal government could have

done more to protect the region from the deadly flooding. In 1995

Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control

Project. Over the past decade the Army Corps of Engineers has spent

$430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations. But

another $250 million in work remained. According to press accounts,

the federal funding largely froze up in 2003. Over the past two years

the Times-Picayune paper has run at least nine articles that cite the

cost of the Iraq invasion as a reason for the lack of hurricane and

flood control funding. Earlier this year President Bush proposed

significantly reducing the amount of federal money for the project. He

proposed spending $10 million. Local officials said six times as much

money was needed.

>

>

> Bill Quigley, law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who

is volunteering at Memorial Hospital.

>

>

----------

----

> RUSH TRANSCRIPT

> This transcript is available free of charge. However, donations help

us provide closed captioning for the deaf and hard of hearing on our

TV broadcast. Thank you for your generous contribution.

> Donate - $25, $50, $100, more...

>

> AMY GOODMAN: We go now to New Orleans. Early this morning, I reached

Bill Quigley there. He is law professor at Loyola University. I spoke

to him on his cell phone from Tenant Memorial Hospital, where he is

volunteering, helping out his wife, Debbie, who is an oncology nurse.

He said there are 1,200 people in the hospital. I asked him to

describe the situation in the city.

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: This is sort of the nightmare scenario that everybody

was really worried about, but the problem for New Orleans is that

everybody who had their health, had money and had a car, they left.

Okay, so we have probably 100,000 people trapped in the city right

now, maybe 50,000 or 60,000 people in the Superdome who are there

without electricity, without flushing toilets, without food, without

water. And they are people who had to walk over there or take a bus,

because they didn't have a car to get out. There are people in nursing

homes, thereâ?Ts people in these little hospitals all over the place.

>

> And then there's still -- we can see when youâ?Tre looking out the

window at night, you can see flashlights in the water where people are

walking around out in the neighborhoods completely dark. You see a

flashlight where somebody's walking down the water. As you said,

tomorrow night, you are not going to see those flashlights because

tomorrow night, they expect that we're going to have nine to 15 feet

of water. So those people that are walking out there with flashlights,

they're not going to be there.

>

> And the hospitals are full. The hospitals are turning people away,

because they don't have enough food and water to be able to take care

of the people who are in the hospitals. So, the boatload of people

that came apparently to the hospital this morning or this afternoon, a

father, a mother and two little kids came in a boat, and the people at

the hospital turned them away, sent them away, because they didn't

have room for them.

>

> Another 20 people walked up to the parking lot -- parking garage.

They had been in the Holiday Inn downtown. That Holiday Inn lost

electricity, lost everything. So those people just left, and they have

been wandering around the city looking for a place to stay, and the

security guards had to turn them away. They sent them back into the

flood waters because they didn't have enough food or water or that to

even be able to take care of necessarily the people that are here.

>

> So whoâ?Ts left behind in New Orleans right now, you are talking

about tens of thousands of people who are left behind, and those are

the sickest, the oldest, poorest, the youngest, the people with

disabilities and the like, and the plan was that everybody should

leave. Well, you canâ?Tt leave if youâ?Tre in a hospital. You canâ?Tt

leave if youâ?Tre a nurse. You canâ?Tt leave if you are a patient. You

canâ?Tt leave if youâ?Tre in a nursing home. You can't leave if you

don't have a car. All of these things. They didnâ?Tt have â? " there

wass no plan for that.

>

> And so, we are talking about somewhere in the neighborhood, I think,

of 100,000 people probably in the metropolitan New Orleans area that

are still here. And the suggestions from local officials are, you

know, in the suburban parish next to us, they announced on the radio

-- we have one radio station, have no TV, have no cell phones.

Nothing. The only calls we are able to get are the calls that come in.

And the suggestion was that people should take a boat over toward the

interstate, and then they would pick them up there. But, you know,

these people don't have a car, people who live in an apartment with

their mother, you know, people who are sick. That's why they couldn't

leave. They don't have cars. They certainly don't have boats. And so,

there's a huge humanitarian crisis going on here right now.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley, I wanted to ask -- this is a bit of an

odd question. You're a law professor. We usually talk to you about the

crisis that's going on in Haiti, where you have been a number of times

and represent, among others, Father Jean-Juste, who is in prison

there. How does what you are seeing in New Orleans right now, how does

it compare to Haiti?

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: Well, you know, I had always hoped that Haiti would

become more like New Orleans, but what's happened is New Orleans has

become more like Haiti here recently. You know, we don't have power.

We don't have transportation. At this point, I think, at least the

people in the hospital have some fresh water, but they're telling

people you canâ?Tt drink the water out of the taps. So there's people

wandering around the city without water, without transportation,

without medical care. So in many senses, we have about a million

people in the New Orleans area who are experiencing, you know, what

Haiti it like.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Have you seen any National Guard?

>

> BILL QUIGLEY: There are apparently some National Guard who are on

the roof, who are helping with the helicopters. We have seen one or

two here or there. There's been reports that there's thousands of them

that are coming in, but again, I don't know how they would get in.

People are not able to â? " you know, the communication system is so

bad that for a large part of the day, the mayor, the chief of police,

the governor and those people couldn't call the one working radio

station. And so they had to walk into the radio station to be able to

talk to the people who are out here trying to figure out what's going

on. So it is really a disaster, and the people who arenâ?Tt in New

Orleans, I know, are dying to get back to their houses. But the people

who are in New Orleans are, in all honesty, dying, and there could be

a lot more casualties unless there's a lot of help real fast.

>

> AMY GOODMAN: Bill Quigley is a law professor at Loyola University.

He was speaking to us from the hospital he is staying at, Tenant

Memorial Hospital in New Orleans, where his wife Debbie is an oncology

nurse. After we spoke to him early this morning, the electricity,

backup electricity, went out at the hospital.

>

>

> a blinding flash

> hotter than the sun

> dead bodies lie across the path

> the radiation colors the air

> finishing one by one

>

>

>

> Jonnie

>

>

> Mail

> Stay connected, organized, and protected. Take the tour

>

> To send an email to -

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>

>

>