are there any reporters at the morgue site? counting the trucks,

[donsu]

trying to get interviews, etc.?

are troops keeping everybody miles away from the site?

[Julius Civitatus]

1. Media needs to keep eyes on FEMA

FEMA, as ran by this inept administration and the imbecile Michael Brown, have demonstrated they are not ot be trusted.

Media need to keep laser-like focus on what FEMA may be doing in NOLA.

[justiceischeap]

2. Or not doing in NOLA (eom)

[marbuc]

3. I did hear that FEMA ordered 25,000 body bags

and area mortuaries were told to expect 40,000 corpses.

[AllegroRondo]

4. BBC news this morning

interviewed a lady who lived near the morgue site outside Baton Rouge. She said the trucks kept coming, night and day. Semi trucks full of bodies, 50-60 per day.

[freemen2005]

5. link? video?

[AllegroRondo]

7. Sorry, saw it on BBC World this morning, on cable.

[jhawk_tim]

8. The reason why this is an exaggeration

50 - 60 bodies a day would fit in a single semi truck, at the most two. So the statement "trucks coming night and day...full of bodies" holds no credibility. If we are going to make claims, we have to make sure they are legitimate or they will be ripped apart.

[StayOutTheBushes]

6. I don't think those people are talking.

[spuddonna]

9. I saw Christiane Amanpour do a piece on cnn.com...

Have no idea if she's staying...

Her piece should be up on cnn.com - she covered a town that is acting as the morgue. FEMA basically told the mayor they were going to use his town, and he really had no say in it. He wasn't complaining, but was very factual about it.

They showed a warehouse being setup to house the bodies, where supposedly pictures, dna samples were to be taken. She said that FEMA will be releasing the bodies after they were done with identification processes back to the state of LA, so they were urging people not to go to this little town...

I'll see if I can find the link...

ETA: Here's the page http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/
Under the section Locations, there's a link to a video called 'Town's makeshift morgue'. The name of the town is St. Gabriel.