NEW ORLEANS SEALED; SUPERDOME SURVIVORS LOCKED IN ---Why????

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Subj: [Activist_List] [NYTr] NEW ORLEANS SEALED; SUPERDOME SURVIVORS LOCKED IN 9/3/05 3:07:42 PM Mountain Daylight Time nytr Sender Activist_List Reply-to:Activist_List nytr (NYTr List) Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't FitNew Orleans is Sealed; No One Permitted to Walk OutGeraldo Rivera Reports the Superdome Surivors have been LOCKED IN[FOX News has Geraldo Rivera inside the now-locked Superdome, on camera,showing the victims of the USA's criminal negligence for the world to see.He holds up a 10-month-old baby and asks "WHY are these people LOCKED IN,six days after the hurricane? Why are they sealed in with dead bodieswithout medicine, without food? Why not let them go? What the HELL isgoing on? It's been SIX DAYS." Rivera is in tears. The director switches toanother reporter outside on a highway above the Superdome, who says theyhave now set up a checkpoint, and nyone attempting to leave the city forJefferson County across the river -- whre there is electricity, food, andclean water -- is being TURNED BACK. No one is being permitted to LEAVE."WHY? Why are these hundreds and hundreds of people still stuck sitting onan overpass not being permitted to leave?" he asks. "Where is the food thatthey are brining in? We saw the convoys coe in with food and medicine.Where is it? These people have been here for 6 days, they have not been toldwhere to go. They have only triked to get to evacuation points, and weretold to leave the area of the Superdome. But no one told them where theyshould go."The reporters run out of words to express their anger, bewilderment, andfrustration. The Bush-league anchor tries to calm them, saying "let's putthis in perspective..." -- he is cut off by Rivera: "You want perspective?Look into the face of this baby with no food for 6 days. The bodies arfepiled up on the 2nd level of this locked superdome." That's perspective.That's reality."AP via MSNBC - Sep 3, 2005http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9175611/ Putrid conditions worsen for up to 5,000 remaining refugeesThe Associated PressNEW ORLEANS - Several thousand people still trapped in squalor at theSuperdome climbed aboard buses Saturday morning as evacuations resumed afteran overnight disruption.Evacuations were halted before dawn Saturday as authorities diverted busesto help some 25,000 refugees at the New Orleans Convention Center, whereofficials said people had been waiting longer.The Texas Air National Guard estimated that between 2,000 and 5,000 peopleremained at the Superdome, a frightening scene of filth, violence anddespair. Lt. Kevin Cowan of the state Office of Emergency Preparedness putthe figure at 2,000, and said they had recently begun flocking there not forshelter, but to escape New Orleans after they heard buses were arriving.Those left behind were orderly early Saturday, sitting down after being toldthat evacuations were temporarily stalled. Cleanup crews raked away thepiles of abandoned goods to discourage rats, and the scene was calm as theexhausted refugees patiently waited in five lines for their place on a bus.Tina Miller, 47, had no shoes and cried with relief and exhaustion as sheleft the Superdome and walked toward a bus. “I never thought I’d make it.Oh, God, I thought I’d die in there. I’ve never been through anything thisawful.â€The arena’s second-story concourse looked like a dump, with more than a footof trash except in the occasional area where people were working to keepthings as tidy as possible.Bathrooms had no lights, making people afraid to enter, and the stench frombacked-up toilets inside killed any inclination toward bravery.“When we have to go to the bathroom we just get a box. That’s all you can donow,†said Sandra Jones.Her newborn baby was running a fever, and all the small children in her areahad rashes, she said.“This was the worst night of my life. We were really scared. We’re gettingno help. I know the military police are trying. But they’re outnumbered,â€Jones said.Superdome swelled Guard members reported that the massive evacuationoperation for the most part had gone smoothly Friday. About 20,000 peoplewere in the dome when efforts began, and that number swelled as peoplepoured in to get a ride out of town, Capt. John Pollard said.After most of those people were on their way to safety, buses startedarriving at the convention center about 9:30 a.m.Shortly after that, five buses pulled up the dome. Officials are pressingfor complete evacuation of the dome so they can set up a staging area, whichis near City Hall and the emergency command center.At one point Friday, the evacuation was interrupted briefly when schoolbuses pulled up so some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel couldmove to the head of the evacuation line — much to the amazement of those whohad been crammed in the Superdome since last Sunday.“How does this work? They (are) clean, they are dry, they get out ahead ofus?†exclaimed Howard Blue, 22, who tried to get in their line. The NationalGuard blocked him as other guardsmen helped the well-dressed guests withtheir luggage.The 700 had been trapped in the hotel, near the Superdome, but conditionswere considerably cleaner, even without running water, than the unsanitarycrush inside the dome. The Hyatt was severely damaged by the storm. Everypane of glass on the riverside wall was blown out.Mayor Ray Nagin has used the hotel as a base since it sits across the streetfrom city hall, and there were reports the hotel was cleared with priorityto make room for police, firefighters and other officials.Conditions in the Superdome remained unbearable even as the crowd shrankafter buses ferried thousands to Houston a day earlier. Much of the medicalstaff that had been working in the “special needs†arena had been evacuated.Dr. Kenneth Stephens Sr., head of the medical operations, said he was toldthey would be moved to help in other medical areas.Those who wanted food were waiting in line for hours to get it, said BeckyLarue, of Des Moines, Iowa.Larue and her husband arrived in the area last week for a vacation but theirhotel soon told them they had to leave and directed them to the Superdome.No directions were provided, she said.“I’m really scared. I think people are going into a survival mode. I lookfor people to start injuring themselves just to get out of here,†she said.Larue said she was down to her last blood pressure pill and had no idea ofwhen they’ll get out or where to get help.James LeFlere, 56, was trying to remain optimistic.“They’re going to get us out of here. It’s just hard to hang on at thispoint,†he said.Janice Singleton, a worker at the Superdome, said she got stuck in thestadium when the storm hit. She said she was robbed of everything she hadwith her, including her shoes.“They tore that dome apart,†she said sadly. “They tore it down. They'retaking everything out of there they can take.â€Then she said, “I don’t want to go to no Astrodome. I’ve been domed almostto death.†© 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This materialmay not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.© 2005 MSNBC.com «¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»§«¤»¥«¤»Paranormal_Research - Scientific Data & Health Conspiracies Paranormal_ResearchSubscribe:... 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