Nursing home didn't evacuate,video

[dave502d]

CBS News correspondent Lee Cowan's report


CHALMETTE, La. – When St. Bernard Parish officials realized last week that St. Rita's Nursing Home had not evacuated as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the parish, they called to ask why. Their offer to send buses to help was turned down, they said Wednesday.


CBS

Residents of St. Rita's Nursing Home in St. Bernard Parish were not evacuated.
No one knows for sure why officials of St. Rita's, a privately owned nursing home, chose not to evacuate. On Wednesday, officials were still unsure of the number of people who died there, but previous estimates put the toll at 30 or more

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[laureloak]

1. Do other states evacuate nursing homes when threatened

with a hurricane? NC doesn't.

[dave502d]

2. This is the one that Aaron Broussard talk about.