CNN crawler: Red Cross says 70,000 Katrina refugees now in shelters

[AlGore-08.com]

No details - - such as whether the thousands at the NOLA convention center is included in that number, or an estimate of how many more need to be brought to shelters.

[despairing optimist]

1. That leaves about 30,000 unaccounted for among those left in the city

I hope that figure is way beyond the official death toll, whenever it is finally tallied.

[TahitiNut]

2. That's Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana ... suburbanites.

I doubt they're even half way. I also doubt the Red Cross had much to do with those numbers.