The Film Of Dead People in The Convention Center on CNN

[leftchick]

This is dreadful.

'Many Many Bodies inside and outside the convention center"!

[Kenroy]

1. it's unbelievable...

it's criminal.

HOW can we not even get water to people?

[seemslikeadream]

2. My God leftchick what are we going to do?

:hug:

[leftchick]

5. I have not cry this much for people since Sept. 11

there is no fucking excuse for this to be happening!!!

:hug:

:cry:

[seemslikeadream]

8. This is 50x worse than 9/11

They are going to let all those people die

[leftchick]

13. I Know they will

and all of the thousands still trapped in their homes dying.

Have I said how much I hate these assholes in the WH today?

:argh:

[pauldavid]

42. 9/11 was a couple of buildings

NO is a whole city, and there is tons of destruction outside of NO. This is, indeed, a tragedy far greater then 9/11.

[nsd]

56. 3000 people died on 9/11

While it's true that 9/11 was confined to a smaller area, it may be that more people lost their lives in that tragedy. We won't know for sure until a reliable estimate is available for this one. In any case, trying to rank tragedies is kind of dubious. They're both terrible.

[pauldavid]

65. True, They're both terrible.

But I think body counts is a bad way to estimate too. I mean, after 9/11, we didn't have 500,000-1,000,000 refuges either. A whole city is GONE for at least a month or two, maybe three or more. These people have no homes to go back to; no jobs, no food, shelter, clothing, money, or even water. 9/11 was bad but much of the human tole happened on 9/11. The damage here is still happening and may get worse before it gets better.

[SlipperySlope]

72. Death toll will be 4x to 12x 9/11

9/11 was a hiccup compared to this.

[leftchick]

3. oh god the babies and Grand Mothers

it is horrifying

[Neecy]

4. and Phillips LIED

Inferred this was a 'temporary morgue' without saying that the dead bodies aren't being brought in, they're the bodies of people who are dying where they stand!

The reporter corrected THAT misimpression in a hurry.

[leftchick]

7. God, they showed the dead woman in the wheelchair

what an asshole she is

[Blue_Roses]

6. OH, God, my heart is aching for these people

:cry::cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

There is a person dead in a wheelchair with a blanket over them. Oh this is horrible-HORRIBLE!!!

[Not_Giving_Up]

9. This is awful!!!

I've been watching the coverage since before the storm hit, and I keep breaking out into tears (not something that I do easily). This is awful. Where is the AID?????

[leftchick]

10. WHY THE FUCK IS NO ONE HELPING THEM????

This is insanity. Where the fuck is the Governor she shoud be screaming for the feds to get the fuck in there!

[G_j]

15. how can we be watching this

and yet there is NOBODY helping these people?

[leftchick]

25. I can't figure it out either G j

this is murder plain and simple. I have been crying all day today.

:cry:

[G_j]

41. yes it is leftchick

murder

I am in tears...

[seemslikeadream]

18. My son saw military just doing nothing

on his way to Mississippi. He got 200 miles from the coast. They were out of generators in 2 hrs. He just got home and is going back soon with more stuff. Look here this is what his friends set up cause of what he did.

He is RCT*Carnage
http://www.lococlan.com/

[tnlefty]

27. I just saw a reporter on MSNBC, Tony Sambrata (unsure of last

name) and he is distressed to say the least. He repeatedly said that the excuse being given for buses not going to the convention center (that it is unsafe) is NOT true. He stated more than once that 'these are law abiding citizens who did what they were told to do and now they have been abandoned'.

[leftchick]

38. any moran can see that

they are just poor starving thirsty people who want hel. I can not believe they are dying right in fron of me on my tv.

:cry:

[leftchick]

39. any moran can see that

they are just poor starving thirsty people who want hel. I can not believe they are dying right in fron of me on my tv.

:cry:

[KoKo]

49. There has to be something someone can do...All of us trying to figure

this out...feel so helpless. My God why can't food and water be gotten in there....No one answers why? No one... Airlifted food and water..

Is there no food and water anywhere? What about the Walmarts and Food Stores...can't they somehow get boats in there...I just can't understand how this can be reported and folks new that Convention Center was in trouble but we just hear about it today????? Where is the convoy of troops and supplies that was supposed to be on the road yesterday to help these people. Why doesn't anyone with any authority speak about this....

:cry:

[geomon666]

11. WARNING PICS

This is horrible.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

46. Thanks for posting these. Everyone has to know what's really going on.

[gauguin57]

12. Dead bodies lying around, feces on the ground, people screaming, gunshots

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/scene.blog/index.html

[HamdenRice]

14. houston chronical -- dead at Con Ctr in lawn chair

This is now murder, pure and simple

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/3334829

Despair grips New Orleans
From staff and wire reports
HURRICANE KATRINA


As a tired, hungry and frustrated crowd chanted ``Help us! Help us! Help us!'' in front of the New Orleans Convention Center this morning, someone pulled back a filthy blanket to reveal a gray-haired man slumped dead in a lawn chair.


All around, the 8,000 or so refugees in this uninhabitable city stretched in a long line across down Convention Center Boulelvard, demanding help from police and military who kept moving past.

"They treat us like animals,'' said Angela Perkins, who had fallen to her knees, clasped her hands and screamed out a prayer. "They can send me anywhere. They can send me to Africa.''

...

"I'm scared,'' he said. "I slept on the ground last night. I don't have anything to eat. The last time I ate was Monday.''

[Judi Lynn]

16. Why aren't we hearing from the new visitors to DU on this?

Surely they'd want to say the people should have eaten so much food knowing the storm was coming, that they could live off their own body fat for a few days.

[comsymp]

28. Now, be fair

It isn't coming from just the newbies x(

[Judi Lynn]

37. You're right. They do have allies who have become encysted here over time.

The sentiments are identical.

[comsymp]

53. Encysted...

Love it.

[leftchick]

44. indeed

come out come out where ever you are!

[GaDemo]

54. We're here

You guys are saying it all for us.:-(

[newyawker99]

69. Hi GaDemo!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[mshasta]

57. I will never said that, read my post...

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

17. This is beyond criminal

FUCK FUCK FUCK. I am sitting here in Texas fighting the urge to go to NO and just get people out. This is criminal! I hope to fuck the American people never forget.

I just watched an MSNBC correspondent near the convention center. He was outraged. Last night, he witnessed 82 buses sitting idle outside NO and the drivers were saying they wouldn't go in because they were scared. FUCK THEM... those are the real fucking traitors of this country!

[leftchick]

19. We Want Help!!!

over and over. The saddness is unbearable.

[leftchick]

20. kiera asks another dumb fucking question

isn't this like 9/11? why don't they walk away?

:grr:

[indie_voter]

21. I just saw that. MORAN! n/t

[Neecy]

23. amazing...

People who have been weakened by three days of no food and water should just hoof it out of town...

Phillips is such a rockhead. Blaming those people for not just getting up and walking - to what? Floodwater?

[Neecy]

34. and now Phillips claims that a "medic" was helping the elderly man

That wasn't a fucking MEDIC, it was someone in the crowd begging the man to live!

What planet is she on to think they have medics there but no food or water?

[gauguin57]

36. And an expert made the point that, once the 9/11 people walked away

from Ground Zero, much of New York could still function within a couple of days. New Orleans is totally effed up -- the whole city. And there's no way to walk away -- and they have nowhere to go -- they can't just jump on the Staten Island Ferry!

[cbear70]

26. I cannot even believe this

I just can't stop crying... what can we do? We call and call but nothing is happening. I am sitting here drinking water and feeling guilty. I hate this.

[Just Me]

22. WHERE THE FUCK IS HOMELAND SECURITY!!!

WHERE THE FUCK IS FEMA!!!

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE NG!!!

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE RED CROSS!!!

WHERE THE FUCK IS THE HELP FOR THESE PEOPLE!!!!


DAMNIT!!! :argh:

[LSK]

24. There is absolutely nobody in control. There is no National Guard....

"The Convention Center is next to the Mississippi River. Many people who are sleeping there feel that a boat is going to come and get them. Or they think a bus is going to come. But no buses have come. No boats have come. They think water is going come. No water has come. And they have no food."

[leftchick]

29. Reporter: Something Needs to Change TODAY!

or more dead bodies will be piling up

[underpants]

30. Ugh! Little chance of rain in NO after today

http://www.weather.com/activities/homeandgarden/home/weather/tenday.html?locid=70119&from=36hr_fcst10DayLink_home

The zip codes in the area are 7011# if that link doesn't work.

I certainly don't mean this as a sick joke. If it were to rain at least some water would be available. They could use buckets, shoes, their hands SOMETHING.

This is sad and amazingly sad to watch and I am just reading about it.

Pray hope dance whatever you can for rain.

[xiamiam]

31. in my life i have never witnessed such callous disregard for humanity

i dont know if i can bear much more of this...we are watching an atrocity in front of our eyes...and stupid reporters are asking why there is unrest and violence...these people have been abandoned and are starving and dehydrating..and given no hope...wtf...im outraged...

[librechik]

32. did you see that woman giving double birds and yellin "Fuck Reagan???"

yeah!

[leftchick]

33. fuck, keira called the dying man's friends "Medics"

is she really that fucking stupid?

[geomon666]

35. I see a lot of 'medics' running around

in t-shirts and shorts too.

[leftchick]

43. is she really that fucking stupid

I can only imagine that is what the Great reporter Chris Laurence was thinking as he spoke with her.

[justabob]

40. I can't believe this is what my country has been reduced to

I am physically ill seeing what these people are going through while the head of FEMA et al issue platitudes and pablum.... be patient....we're on the way.... tons of aid will be there in a few days..... THESE PEOPLE NEED WATER NOW!!!! THESE PEOPLE NEED FOOD!!! THESE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT THEY HAVE NOT BEEN LEFT TO DIE!!!

I am sorry but I am so angry I can barely control myself. HAS THE GOV NEVER HEARD OF AIRLIFT..... DROP SOME FUCKING WATER, FIRST AID PACKS, FOOD.

edit angry typos

[leftchick]

47. I don't know if I can watch anymore

The Governor needs to scream that SHE NEEDS THE MILITARY NOW!!!

[justabob]

52. Yes

The governor has been working so hard and I feel for her. (just to clarify - gov in my post meant federal government) I don't think I'll be able to watch much longer either, but either way I will not be able to get thoose folks out of my mind. ARRRGGGGHHHH!!!!! Its so frustrating.

[NiteOwll]

45. It's the pictures of the grandmothers and the grandfathers

that gets me. To be so much as abandoned and left to die by your gov't. I blame every person who voted for the Idiot Son for this. I used to be forgiving person -- but no more.

[leftchick]

48. chertoff the jerkoff to hold a press conference

WILL ANYONE ask him why the hell people are dying???

[Just Me]

51. I DEMAND MY TAX DOLLARS & DONATIONS BE USED TO SAVE,...

,...THESE PEOPLE, RIGHT NOW!!!! HELO WATER & FOOD TO THESE PEOPLE, THIS MINUTE!!!

[leftchick]

50. if the military is on the ground in NO

why the hell have I not seen them? None of the reporters have seen them. The two most dire conditions at the convention center and the superdome and there are no troops! This general is a fucking liar

[geomon666]

55. I think things are about to get a whole lot worse

That's fire from a broken gas main. What happens when the fire hits a section of that toxic soup floating around?

[leftchick]

60. NO Is GONE

and all of the people that managed to survive right until now.

:cry:

[sattahipdeep]

62. They haven't turned off the gas mains?

[geomon666]

63. Apparently not n/t

:shrug:

[sattahipdeep]

64. Same question as why didn't they open the

gates on the lake?

[sattahipdeep]

66. I guess I just don't understand

those were simple cures for a couple things :shrug:

[sattahipdeep]

67. I mean if the gas co has a leak

in a line......they shut it down......so......what happened here?

or do they not have shut down valves there?

[madeline_con]

70. They have to get to the meters.

which are under water....

[FreedomAngel82]

58. All of this is so horrible

:cry:

[HamdenRice]

59. Guardian of London: Bodies piling up at Convention Center

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5248531,00.html

At least seven bodies were scattered outside, and hungry, desperate people who were tired of waiting broke through the steel doors to a food service entrance and began pushing out pallets of water and juice and whatever else they could find.

An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.

``I don't treat my dog like that,'' 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair. ``I buried my dog.'' He added: ``You can do everything for other countries but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military but you can't get them down here.''

Just above the convention center on Interstate 10, commercial buses were lined up, going nowhere. The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.

...

People chanted, ``Help, help'' as reporters and photographers walked through.

John Murray, 52, said: ``It's like they're punishing us.''

[cascadiance]

61. Damn! That brings back memories of SIGGRAPH many years ago

which was the last time I was in New Orleans and contains most of my memories of that area then. I remember the Convention Center pretty well. It's hard to picture that building as a death trap now. It makes me cry a few more tears! I'm actually wearing a polo shirt now from that conference as I write this note...

[phusion]

68. I am shaking with RAGE

this is so fucking horrible and NOTHING is being done about it!!

[Hissyspit]

71. Why have I not seen it??