The Superdome, where upward of 25,000 people had sweltered in conditions described as unfit for animals, was mostly emptied, though 1,500 were still there late Friday. They had renamed the place, rife with overflowing toilets and reports of murder and rape, the Sewerdome.Profile of New Orleans' mayor Ray Nagin.
Flying around the internet is an mp3 of a phone interview Nagin had on Thursday evening with New Orlean's broadcaster WWL-TV. I can't currently give you a link for that. Worth hunting down. That said: I have the mp3. If you want it, leave a comment in the comment box or contact me by email (you know who you are). WWL-TV has been awesome to watch these past six days. Worth checking out, too.
UPDATE: Gumbopages (scroll down) has a transcript of the Nagin interview, plus link to text and audio on CNN.com: "Mayor lashes out at Feds." I've noticed it takes forever and a day to connect to CNN, so please exercise some patience. Thank you.
Maureen Dowd: United States of Shame.
Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he trained for by running something called the International Arabian Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.
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