Nightline has hurricane special. A lot of the damage in MS done

[FloridaPat]

by barges that were shoved into homes. The devastation is unbelievable. The trees don't even have leaves. Unreal.

[RobertSeattle]

1. I think there is going to be a lot more than 100 dead in Miss

Those helicopter shots of Gulfport show total devastation - I don't see how anyone who stayed behind lived.

[Demonaut]

8. the intial counts are usually very low, I'm sure this will change

unfortunately

[NYC]

2. Nightline did not mention that the New Orleans pump failed

because the sandbagging was not done when it was supposed to be done today. They did not mention that the full soup bowl effect will occur, and the drainage of New Orleans will be delayed by an additional 4 weeks.

That was what Mayor Nagin said in a telephone interview with WDSU. None of this was mentioned on Nightline.

[intheflow]

7. But the lead reporter referred to the water in the streets as "toxic stew"

due to animals, sewers/sewage, dead bodies and oil. That was pretty explicit for the corporate media.

[NYC]

9. Yes, it was.

But it missed the point that the National Guard was diverted from their goal of sandbagging the levee. Because of that, New Orleans is condemned to filling with water. This was avoidable. The pump flooded because the levee wasn't sandbagged.

Who can afford a 24 hour delay in this situation? I'm assuming they will sandbag tomorrow.

[FloridaPat]

3. Whole apartment building just disappeared.

[bullwinkle428]

4. I live practically on the Miss. River in Iowa and know how

big those barges are...just one of those moved inland by the storm surge would wipe out scores of houses. God help anyone that was actually still in them at the time...

[murielm99]

6. I know your area pretty well.

Remember when all the barges were backed up because the river was low?

Imagine what it is going to be like further downstream. No one will get their goods.

The loss of life is horrific. The living will suffer, too.

[chalky]

5. Oh, God.

The predictions on the immediate future of NO.

Wild animals, mosquitos breeding in a soup of backed up sewage and toxic waste...collecting not just the newly dead, but the bodies that have floated up from the graveyards....

:cry: