Aaron Brown will shortly be doing a story about 3 Duke students who drove

[Lex]

straight into New Orleans and delivered food and water to the Convention Center--all on their own.

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http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-643298.html

DURHAM -- A trio of Duke University sophomores say they drove to New Orleans late last week, posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities.

The group, led by South Carolina native Sonny Byrd, say they also managed to drive all the way to the New Orleans Convention Center, where they encountered scenes early Saturday evening that they say were disgraceful.

"We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate Byrd and another student, David Hankla.

Buder's account -- told by cell phone Sunday evening as the trio neared Montgomery, Ala., on their way home -- chronicled a three-day odyssey that began when the students, angered by the news reports they were seeing on CNN, loaded up their car with bottled water and headed for the Gulf coast to see if they could lend a hand.

[doublethink]

1. The Feds are lying out their ass .... these students and a lot of media

made it down there no problem. We saw it with our own eyes. I'll just add that the US had troops and food into Bande Ache, Sumatra within two days of the Tsunami last December ..... peace.

[Lex]

4. Yep--those kids had to figure out how to get IN to help

but they did.

[Lex]

2. On right now!

[Kagemusha]

3. I pray they aren't arrested for what they did.

The way things are going, I would automatically expect that to happen...

[targetpractice]

5. Amazing...

"How did we get in there in 20 minutes in a Hyundai Elantra? And, why couldn't the get out 4 days before that?"

I love these guys!

[SW FL Dem]

6. They were great

kept saying how easy it was to get in to NO and that it was red tape that kept the people from getting out.

[SeattleGirl]

7. I didn't know they would be on, but luckily flipped over just in time.

What wonderful, caring young men. And that picture of them with the people they rescued, and their story about how excited the women in the back seat were at seeing lights just put a huge grin on my face. Here's to the "renegades"!!!

[targetpractice]

8. They taped 150 EMPTY buses heading in the opposite direction.

"Bus after bus after bus on I-10 leaving the city.. No people."

"The people at the Convention Center were not trapped by hurricane damage. They were trapped by red tape."

[Lex]

9. Why in the hell were buses leaving WITHOUT people?

That is intentional malfeasance by someone.

[targetpractice]

10. These guys have the videotape evidence. n/t

[Lex]

11. They should hold on to that evidence.

Hopefully it will be needed.