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00:11Communities, homes, and lives all along the Gulf Coast have been shattered and destroyed.
00:17The mayor of New Orleans said that hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people in the city are dead.
00:22Bodies are being left floating in the floodwaters. The emphasis is all on rescuing the stranded.
00:30We're told that about 100,000 people are still in this city with no way to get out.
00:34Leaving residents to hold up desperate messages for whoever might be watching from above.
00:48After all the panic in the attic, we found an old cell phone that still had some power.
00:58I was like, oh my God.
01:01I called 911.
01:04They said, we're going to send someone over to rescue you guys.
01:08And maybe about five hours after that, a boat came.
01:15To the interstate, offload, I'll come right back.
01:17It won't take me long.
01:18So, he drove us toward interstate 10.
01:24And on the way to the bridge, there was a baby, hair freshly combed, that was in the water.
01:39And she was deceased, but I so wanted to get this baby out the water.
01:44And I told the guy that was driving the boat, I said, there's a baby right there.
01:50So, let me get the baby.
01:54And I'll take her to someone on the bridge, and maybe we can find out who her parents is.
01:59You know, he said, that baby's gone.
02:02She's deceased.
02:03And I was like, anyway, just let me get her, you know, out the water.
02:07And I'll take her to the bridge.
02:09And maybe, you know, the ambulance or something up there is waiting.
02:12And they can take her, and they can identify her.
02:18And he took a stick or some kind of board he had in the boat, and he pushed the baby
02:29away.
02:31He was like, ma'am, we're worried about the living, not the dead right now.
02:36We have to, we have to get the living.
02:45We have to get the living.
03:15We have to get the rest of our needs.
03:17But there was still no cavalry, no help.
03:21And so we felt as if FEMA was maybe not the right organization for what we were dealing with throughout
03:30the city of New Orleans.
03:32Because we knew that the deterioration was quickly getting worse, and people needed to get out today.
03:48The Superdome, which was the shelter of last resort, has become the last place anyone wants to be.
03:54Inside, the toilets and air conditioning are broken.
03:57She just passed out, guys.
04:00They got disease in there.
04:02They got dead bodies.
04:04The bathrooms, we haven't used it since, like, Tuesday.
04:08And then when you have to really use it, you have to use it almost anywhere.
04:19It was unbearable.
04:24So a lot of us started going around gate to gate and talking to the different National Guard members and,
04:30you know, trying to see if they'll let us out.
04:32And they would say, we'll go down to that gate, and he wouldn't let us out.
04:35We'll go down to the next gate, and they wouldn't let us out.
04:37We'll go to another gate, and they wouldn't let us out.
04:41But then all of a sudden, somebody that was with my group just started checking the gate, like, yeah, man,
04:47let us out here.
04:47We're getting, you know, such and such and this.
04:49And he just started saying a whole bunch of stuff, and that's when the National Guard pulled the M-16
04:53out.
04:55And he said, y'all better go down that way.
04:58Go, go, go!
05:04It's kind of like they didn't really work with us.
05:08They was rotating different groups of National Guard members, but nobody still would say who was in charge.
05:17In a disaster, the First Army collaborates with the National Guard.
05:23But Louisiana was not my assigned area when Katrina hit.
05:28The general that was actually in charge of Louisiana, he was still at his headquarters in San Antonio.
05:34So when he told the Pentagon I was in Mississippi, he said, get that general of New Orleans.
05:42And that's how I ended up designated by the president to be the commander of Joint Task Force Katrina,
05:48which put me in charge of coordinating the response with FEMA.
05:54When I arrived at the Superdome, it was like thousands of eyes who were looking at me.
06:01And my first thought, we got to get these people out of here.
06:05All right, good luck.
06:07See you, man.
06:07So General Honore comes in, where the mayor and I were.
06:11Good morning, General.
06:13How are you doing?
06:14I'm hanging in there.
06:15How are you?
06:16We had FEMA, the city, and emergency personnel represented.
06:21And everyone is sharing with him what we need.
06:25But the FEMA representative interjects to say, we can't do this.
06:31We will do that.
06:33This we have to do by the book.
06:35We're going to do that, but it takes time.
06:38General Honore at this point had had enough.
06:41And he says, excuse me, FEMA.
06:44Before you speak, you need some fucking success.
06:50So I said, all right, what is the priority?
06:54The mayor said, we need to get food and water.
06:56We need to save these people.
06:58Okay?
07:00And we've got to evacuate the city.
07:02Same thought I had.
07:05By this point, we had already asked federal and state officials for buses to transport people out of the city.
07:14They knew buses were one of our top priorities.
07:19So we expected that the buses would be arriving later that day.
07:29So after that meeting with the mayor, I said, well, I need to go check in with the governor in
07:33Baton Rouge because they had trouble talking to each other.
07:37Not only politically, but the lines were down.
07:43There is no comms.
07:45And since the loudspeaker system didn't work, I walked around the 30,000 people in the Superdome to let them
07:53know we're working on it.
07:54I think it's going to be buses and we're going to bring it.
07:56I don't know how it's all going to work, but buses are coming.
08:01It did uplift our spirits.
08:04And so I was watching people settle beefs and shaking hands, you know what I mean?
08:10The place started getting real trashy.
08:12So a lot of the teenagers, they started coming together and they started cleaning up.
08:21There was a young man pushing around one of those hotel luggage carts with a person laying on it.
08:28And he said, hey, this lady just passed out.
08:31What do you want me to do with her?
08:32And she was okay, and she was conscious, but she was clearly overheated.
08:37And I said, can you roll her to the medical center?
08:41It's right down there.
08:42And so he took it, and he came back about 10 minutes later.
08:45He's like, you want me to keep doing this if I see stuff or I need people?
08:48And I was like, please do.
08:50He loved that he had a role.
08:53The risk of allowing that young man to help push people to the medical arena was this much.
09:01The impact of other people seeing how he was helping was colossal.
09:20The National Guard chaplain would talk to us, and he'll say, what are your concerns right now?
09:27What are you thinking?
09:28And people just, you know, would say, my loved ones.
09:32I know, my loved ones.
09:34Look, one of the things we want to focus in on is, as bad as it is, we can rebuild
09:40the house.
09:41I have no home to go to either.
09:43Everything I have has been destroyed.
09:45I'm wearing what I have.
09:47So we're all on the same boat.
09:49But you know what?
09:51All of my family is okay.
09:53And that is important.
09:58New Orleans is a city that pray.
10:01And I thought he did a great job.
10:03And he, as a man of God, stood up there and he spoke to us and he made us feel
10:07better.
10:07Even though we are uncomfortable, we give faith that God sent this angel down to puff it up.
10:18A lot of people started feeling like, you know, now we're chosen at this point in time.
10:25Amen.
10:26Amen.
10:26We're in this thing together.
10:29And before we get it even worse, we're going to get out of here.
10:41I've called for the president.
10:44I'm expecting him to call me back anytime soon.
10:46But I've asked the president to give us all the resource possible today.
10:52We need his help today.
10:56Time is of the essence.
10:58It's critical that we move quickly and begin to stabilize our situation.
11:07We are live on top of the Causeway Bridge over Interstate 10, where the scene behind me here is just
11:13unbelievable.
11:15It is a massive refugee camp filled with thousands and thousands of people waiting for a ride out of the
11:22city.
11:23They have been rescued from...
11:24We went up onto the Interstate Bridge on Wednesday.
11:27My sister and the people we were with decided we were going to go as far down as we could
11:31go.
11:32So we walked miles away from my house, hoping to cross into Algiers because it wasn't wet over on the
11:40West Bank.
11:43We got to where we could look at the Superdome and the National Guard was driving past us.
11:49And it became very apparent that they weren't going to worry about us until the last minute.
11:57It was really stressful because there were a lot of seniors and kids.
12:01And we were almost in 100 degree temperatures on concrete.
12:06But there was no access to water.
12:09That's the thing that really gets me because you can survive without food for a couple of days, but you
12:14have to have the water.
12:17You got a government.
12:18What the fuck is they doing?
12:22Look at the people right here, bro.
12:25This ain't no game.
12:26This is serious, bro.
12:28People's life is on stage.
12:33So, it was unbearable.
12:35But then we noticed that some guys went down under the bridge to the Kentwood Water Company.
12:42And they took trucks and they came up on the bridge with water.
12:46And this is the part that I was amazed at.
12:49When they started distributing, the only thing they said was,
12:54Drink it.
12:55Don't waste it.
12:57Because we don't know how long this will last or how long it will be before we get out.
13:03So, that's when I started noticing that you have to be very careful about media and what you read and
13:12what you see.
13:13I've watched all day long the stories of the people who are causing trouble,
13:17who are, you know, screaming and yelling about things and just being thugs.
13:24These are supposed to be the thugs that they talk about.
13:29They were the ones who went to the Circle Food Store,
13:32which is about a half a mile from where we were to get us dry food,
13:38dry clothing, because they had a clothing store inside of there, too.
13:41You're not supposed to do that.
13:43I know we don't, but if we're badfooted and we're walking in the water,
13:46our feces are going to get cut.
13:48Most of the networks, live setups, weren't in those areas that were heavily flooded.
13:55They were generally in downtown, tethered on Canal Street, broadcasting live from satellite trucks.
14:00So, if there's a shooting on Canal Street and there's looting, you just got to turn the camera there.
14:05That's easy sleazy.
14:06Hey, come back from over there.
14:08And you're done, you know, and that can lead your broadcast.
14:11The unrest is so bad that his boss ordered him to leave the city.
14:15He said the looting was starting to get so out of control, our general manager is fearing for our lives.
14:22As if emptying the store shelves wasn't enough,
14:25some decided to go one step further and take the shelves themselves.
14:29They're so busy with hauling out big racks full of food, they're not concerned about anybody else.
14:35They're just, I mean, they're...
14:36Everybody for themselves.
14:37Everybody for themselves.
14:40I was dismayed watching the news, the way they depicted black folks who were living in New Orleans during Hurricane
14:49Katrina.
14:50It's like they didn't see us as regular people, law-abiding, church-going, hard-working people.
15:02It's just hard to believe this is reality.
15:05And yet people living in these conditions turn to, you know, in some cases turn to animals.
15:14It's much more difficult to get the full story and not just the headline.
15:23My news director always said, people come first, property comes second.
15:28And that's what we kept the focus on.
15:30We're starving now, too.
15:31Look, we ain't got nothing over.
15:32We can't get no food cooked, you hear me?
15:34So we had to go break in one dish and do what we had to do.
15:38Look, you had some stupid stuff that was going on.
15:41But the majority of this community was not people in chaos wanting to go out and just loot everything.
15:51There was people trying to survive as things got worse all over the city.
16:12So I flew to Baton Rouge, saw Governor Blanco, and she said, we've asked FEMA for buses.
16:18We don't know when they're going to come, General.
16:21But I'd appreciate it if you do what you can to help New Orleans get evacuated.
16:25I said, I got it, ma'am.
16:30Shortly after that, I got a note that the FEMA director, Michael Brown, wanted to see me.
16:36General Honoré has been working incredibly closely with FEMA and doing all the civil support stuff that we've asked him
16:43to do.
16:45So I went to his office.
16:46He was in a big, fancy mobile command headquarters in Baton Rouge.
16:51And he said, that's your desk right there.
16:53I want you right next to me.
16:56I said, I don't think so.
16:58I said, I'll put somebody in that desk, but the problem's in New Orleans.
17:02I can't solve it here.
17:05And he insisted.
17:07He said, we have to have unity of command.
17:10I said, well, we can have that, but it won't be me.
17:14I've seen the eyes of those people in New Orleans.
17:17That's where I need to be.
17:19So I left.
17:23The situation in the Superdome was getting worse and worse and worse.
17:28So I sent a lot more emails to FEMA headquarters to alert them just how bad it was.
17:36Wednesday, August 31st, an email to Mike Brown.
17:40Sir, I know that you know the situation is past critical.
17:45Here are some things you might not know.
17:47Hotels are kicking people out.
17:50Thousands gathering in the streets.
17:52Hundreds still being rescued from homes.
17:54The dying patients at the disaster medical assistance team tent are being medevaced.
18:00Estimates are that many will die within hours.
18:04Plans developing for dome evacuation, but hotel situation is adding to the problem.
18:10Phone connectivity is impossible.
18:12More later.
18:15The tone of the entire building changed dramatically.
18:20And I found myself wondering how many unanswered questions is this group of people who are here, how much longer
18:28can they take this environment?
18:30That we're asking them just to hang in there with us.
18:32Hang in there, hang in there, hang in there.
18:33And I felt that, boy, if we make one false promise, we would lose their trust.
18:40Like, if I say to them, buses are going to be there today, and then the buses don't come, I
18:47think it'll all tip over.
18:47I felt that.
18:50So, it was very, very important to me that I didn't overcommit or overpromise anything, because, again, it was a
18:57razor-thin level of trust between me and, probably, thousands of people who I talk to every day.
19:12From where we was at on the bridge, all the people that were looking for somewhere to go, they were
19:17saying, don't go by the Superdome, because, you know, the Superdome trashed out, there's nowhere to go in there.
19:23You know, so they were like, well, go to the convention center, because that's where, you know, that's where the
19:28shelter's supposed to be, and that's where the bus is supposed to pick people up.
19:34My main focus was to get the kids to safety, and the little bitty babies, they can't really walk.
19:40So, I had one baby, and my brother had the other baby, and we got the other two little children,
19:44and we walked for miles.
19:48Because of the conditions in the Superdome and the Interstate 10 bridge, we started hearing that people were now spilling
19:55over into the convention center.
19:57So, we just worked straight through.
20:00I don't remember sleeping much at all.
20:02For days now, people have been rationing what little food and water they have, waiting for help.
20:07They say they feel like they've been abandoned by humanity.
20:10What's it been like here?
20:12It's been like hell.
20:13It's been like hell.
20:15We have people here, sick people, haven't had medicine in four days.
20:19We're just worried about medication for my mom, because she's almost out of the incident.
20:22My sister's got through a sick cell attack right now.
20:24We're trying to see what we can do to get some IV fluids to her.
20:28We're trying to keep the babies hydrated.
20:30And my little baby getting sick, he just keep crying and diarrhea, and he don't have no more milk or
20:35nothing.
20:36I've been crying for two days, and I try not to let him see me cry.
20:43What do you do as a reporter?
20:45Like, people are asking you for water, and like, I had a few bottles, and I gave it away, but
20:48like, I can't help them.
20:51And that was a sobering time for me, because I realized that all the stuff that I wanted to do
20:57as a reporter, like, let's get the story, let's get great pictures, like, at that point, none of that mattered.
21:02When you're dealing with people's lives, like, they want to let their family know that they're alive.
21:07Ma, uh-uh, pa, uh, my grandma, uh, one of y'all, if y'all out there, you heard me,
21:13and y'all hear you, son, just let me know y'all living, you heard me?
21:16Because I ain't seen y'all since Katrina hit, and I really miss him, y'all, you feel me?
21:21And I'm hurting, I'm hurting.
21:23See this body right here?
21:25That woman been dead since Tuesday.
21:28There are six bodies upstairs on the third floor, and another lady laying on the floor by the lady's bathroom
21:34dead.
21:35It's just terrible, it's an awful situation to have to live in.
21:41We went inside the convention center, and the only way that I can describe it, and I don't want to
21:46get into detail, is that it is the smell of human suffering.
21:52I couldn't stand the smell that's on myself.
21:54You know what I'm saying?
21:55I'm nasty, my shoes wet, everything wet.
21:58I don't have nothing.
22:01I felt embarrassed, you know, like I couldn't talk to nobody.
22:06And even though, you know, all the people out there, they was in the same predicament.
22:09So, you know, we all was like, you know, people who used to having stuff and having things and taking
22:15care of themselves, and they couldn't, you know, they felt the same way.
22:22I was totally, like, out of myself already.
22:24I just felt like I was just going to pass out and die at any time.
22:29But also, the kids didn't have no more food, and they was dehydrated, you know, their lips was turning white.
22:38So, through the shame and embarrassment and the guilt, the only thing I could do is just use the little
22:45strength I got to try to get these children some help.
22:48So, when the media came out there with their cameras and all that, you know, I had my two little
22:52babies in my hand, and I just went to hollering on the camera.
22:55We didn't have no water, we didn't have no food, we don't have nothing here.
22:59If the police taken it out the store, you didn't expect these people.
23:02If you care, our children have been out here for days, they don't have nothing to eat, we don't have
23:05no cold water.
23:06Come back in the door, all right?
23:08We got babies that's hungry.
23:10Send people to get the bus out of here, folks.
23:12We hungry, we starving, we need help.
23:15We need medical attention, they got old people that's sick.
23:19I felt neglected, I felt like the city that we masked in all these years and paraded in with the
23:27second nines and, you know, worked in and built these regular houses and, you know, that they just let us
23:33down.
23:34Like, at this time, to them, it was like we wasn't even human no more.
23:40People still in New Orleans, if they look to the sky, saw Air Force One.
23:44The president flying over for a personal look at the devastation, his plane was low, just over the city's skyline.
23:52I basically told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does
23:59not do it justice.
24:00And I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshal resources.
24:06A lot of people suffered, and a lot of people suffered needlessly.
24:12If we had had the leader of the free world show up in New Orleans on Monday, instead of just
24:18flying over the city two days after the storm, we would have had a much different situation after Katrina.
24:28Powerful country as we are, and we can't take care of these people, they're out here all this time, doesn't
24:34make sense.
24:34And I'm pissed.
25:04Powerful country as we are.
25:05be tolerated that stuck in my mind i think i overthought it i didn't want to hide anything
25:13from the people and i was so dead set on not covering anything up that things that were reported
25:21to me i reported them quickly without getting verification the way it would have been under
25:25normal circumstances so when my tactical guys said that a sniper was shooting at our officers
25:35i reported that sniper was shooting at police officers and my my captain and i was was fighting
25:43for the snipers we went from rescue to tactical almost instantaneous they were shooting us in a
25:48helicopter they were shooting at my swat team i mean it was crazy well that whole thing of people
25:55shooting at helicopters is a reflection people watch too much tv they thought if they shot up the
26:02helicopter would hear them or see them and come get them i spoke to the police chief and i said
26:08chief where'd you get this notion that there's snipers in the city he said i was in the helicopter
26:14general and they shot at us did they hit the helicopter chief no i said why did you use the
26:20word sniper maybe from the military the jargon and parts for a sniper is different than the jargon and
26:27the parlance that we use but when an unidentified person that we can't spot randomly shoots a police
26:33officers in my opinion i was a sniper maybe i shouldn't use those words in hindsight i guess
26:39i shouldn't use those words it was getting reported over and over again and it took a life of its
26:45own
26:46about the sniper fire they're actually taking a sniper fire as they're trying to evacuate
26:51patients i was there just about an hour and a half two hours after that uh looking at that same
26:56area
26:56in fact i didn't see any snipers myself big search lights looking all around to make sure
27:02that there were no snipers that were going to attack us things became so much more difficult for
27:08us to do because of this fear as simple as where's the where's the truck that's bringing all the
27:16new food and the national guard would go out and we'd find the truck that had been abandoned by the
27:21delivery driver who was told there were snipers all around the superdome that were shooting and
27:26killing all the delivery drivers and all that completely made up but just made our jobs infinitely worse
27:31and more difficult i over reported things i should have verified and i'm sorry i did that
27:40sir a lot of respect to you tonight for what you have been going through seeing your men and women
27:46go
27:46through so much when katrina came there was no school you could go to to deal with the worldwide
27:54media on a 24-7 basis i was working off of one and a half to two hours sleep a
28:00day
28:01i wasn't eating well i had migraine headaches almost the entire time and i had gotten to the
28:07point where i was around the media so much it had so many cameras pointed on me i actually forgot
28:13the
28:13cameras were around me with communications being fragmented some people will get reports that a young
28:21lady was raped and it was in proximity to me where my daughter was at so by the time it
28:28got to me it
28:30went from a young lady being raped to my daughter was raped and when i thought my daughter was raped
28:37it just it tore me up i need somebody to get me a cruise boat or some type of boat
28:43a cruise ship
28:44so some kind of ship so i can put my people in some comfort so i can help the people
28:49we have people
28:50in disbelief but we have lost their families and they have not gotten out of this fight i didn't know
28:54where my dogs left for two days and we endured i'm so tired of this but it's finally almost over
29:00that's it i don't talk no more
29:02it during katrina the first responders were also victims their homes are gone their families were
29:09moving from place to place to try to survive so when your first responders are also victims
29:17it changed the character of the response i made tremendous sacrifices during katrina
29:24my family wanted me to stop being a chief and go get my elderly aunt and uncle unfortunately my aunt
29:30uncle died and i it haunts me every day that i could have saved them and i didn't so people
29:39that was not
29:39privy to the circumstances at ground zero where i was at for the entire time they had no idea of
29:46the
29:46challenges that we faced all they saw was a microcosm of what the media wanted them to see
30:00we are live in front of the convention center which has not been empty to people at all uh chief
30:06what do you figure how many people here we have at least 30 000 people here around 30 000 at
30:11least 30
30:11000 and none have been taken out none have been taken out the buses were promised the buses are not
30:16here
30:16they built these people spirits up we need to get these people out of here now
30:25so unfortunately we discovered that while fema put in requests for buses
30:30whatever reason that didn't get moving as fast as it should have so people are going to have to stay
30:37there another day we knew that these people were getting to a desperate place in terms of
30:45their ability to withstand the environments that they were in and we were really worried whether
30:52we could survive another day like this wednesday
30:59good afternoon everyone i first want to express my thanks to president bush for the confidence that he has
31:06shown in me i also want to speak to the civil unrest and some of the disturbances that we have
31:12seen
31:12it's just not acceptable and i understand that the national guard troops local law enforcement all of those
31:22will do everything in their power to minimize that
31:28we had national guard elements from every state come here in louisiana and some people who deployed
31:34to louisiana had already been to iraq and now sprinkle on that you know all those rumors of lawlessness and
31:41snipers and shootings and all of that was like oh we're going to need weapons so as the deputy public
31:48affairs
31:48officer i was really just trying to stomp out a lot of the myths that were becoming so problematic because
31:55they're just creating fear
32:04after i came back from baton rouge i had to see to marry him they said let's walk through the
32:09crowd at the superdome
32:11our national guard buddies told me said well we need more guards for protection i said no we don't
32:17need any more guards we're all right so i had two up with me i said put your guns on
32:21your back
32:22don't be pointing guns at nobody that's when people notice me and they notice my name and they would
32:29said hey brah you gonna get us out of here i said yeah we'll get you out of here
32:34so how do you recommend we handle this i think we try to get a public message out on the
32:39radio
32:40okay and you tell the governor the buses need to be there early in the morning we need her to
32:45get
32:46on the television and so people i saw the mayor and discussed the evacuation plan for the next thing
32:52that was being coordinated with staff down in baton rouge and with fema director brown
32:57in all sincerity my heart goes out to those people and i am determined absolutely determined
33:05uh to speed this thing up make this thing work uh and get the aid to those people
33:12bullshit
33:17later that day i called administrator brown and they said he's not available so where is he
33:24so cindy taylor who worked in the office of external affairs received an email from sharon worthy who was
33:32the handler for under secretary brown it is very important that time is allowed for mr brown to eat
33:39dinner given that baton rouge is back to normal restaurants are getting busy he needs much more
33:46than 20 or 30 minutes we now have traffic to encounter to get to and from a location of his
33:52choice
33:52followed by weight service from the restaurant staff eating etc thank you
33:58and so cindy taylor then forwarded that email from sharon worthy to me and she said let me preface by
34:05saying i know he needs downtime but um how much time do each of you need for dinner including travel
34:13time
34:14to the restaurants of your choice question mark
34:19i'm trying to coordinate where the buses are so i can answer the mayor's questions and deal with the
34:25press but 72 miles away in baton rouge this son of a bitch is waiting in lines to go in
34:32the restaurant
34:33i mean there was some stupid shit happening just plain stupid so after i got that email i immediately
34:41responded to cindy oh my god with eight exclamation points i just ate an mre and crapped in the hallway
34:52of the superdome along with 30 000 other close friends so i understand her concern about busy restaurants
35:00maybe tonight i will have time to move the pebbles on the parking garage floor
35:05so they don't stab me in the back while i try to sleep but instead i will hope her wait
35:10at ruth's crisp is
35:12short this email exchange was really starting to show the disconnect the tone deafness i just don't think
35:28they understood my urgency at the superdome almost everything they needed any kind of satellite or a
35:42tower still didn't work but what did work and we became aware was that a lot of people had brought
35:50radios
35:51to the superdome that was how they were getting their news which was problematic because there was
35:59a lot of mistreats and a lot of the exaggerated stories were being perpetuated by the radio
36:06situation is getting really chaotic uh there's fights uh breaking out there's a lot of murders has
36:12occurred occurred rapes look you name it all of a sudden walking around we heard that some little
36:24girls was raped and killed in the bathroom now the the chick said a woman there was a little girl
36:33there's a little girl there's a little girl there's a little girl they said i don't know i don't know
36:38where
36:38it happened yeah they said it was a little girl in the bathroom they killed him i just heard the
36:45same thing
36:49i really was looking for somebody to be screaming at the top of their lungs murder somebody did this
37:01but i never seen anybody come forward and it's fascinating because some people asking me did i have
37:07video on that i was like are you serious like i would have video on somebody getting raped and killed
37:14for
37:14real we had already heard from the security team inside the superdome about what was actually transpiring
37:24so we knew that that wasn't actually the case but still the rumor took a hole then it started spreading
37:34like wildfire you see how people do raping you you're killing you i mean a lot of people yeah rape
37:42all
37:42type of violence you don't know who's here you got people that's druggies you got people that's uh
37:48that's raping and doing everything they can do and breaking in and looting and everything you
37:53understand the media was irritating you're not allowed they just wanted to be in everybody's
38:00face and getting all these interviews and they wanted people to be scared i would get people who
38:05would call me and they would ask me to confirm facts and then i would say well that's not the
38:08facts
38:09at all and they would write their story anyway and it could not have spun more out of control
38:15at the superdome there have been rapes a murder and various shootings there was a lot of misinformation
38:23all over the place and it wasn't just the media it was within our organization
38:30what one of the police officers told me was it is a war zone out there people are fighting he
38:37said in
38:37his words people are losing their minds some things were completely exaggerated some things were
38:44completely made up some things were said that just literally did not happen and you had all of this
38:51going on in the middle of a disaster there was chaos there was no communication but i saw cops on
38:58the
38:58street firing back at thugs that were on rooftops etc i've never seen the breakdown of american
39:04society like this but there's certainly the media wanted to leave the american people to focus on
39:09chaos yeah that's what happened in a disaster if you don't have chaos then it's not a fucking disaster
39:16it's an inconvenience but there are people who wanted to exacerbate it as a crime problem
39:21in the city of new orleans it wasn't a crime problem it was an evacuation problem
39:39it is now shortly before dawn about 5 30 in the morning for the last four hours we have seen
39:46no buses
39:47here meanwhile the size of the crowd has been growing and so has its level of frustration
39:54we've been out here since nine o'clock yesterday morning just like this
40:04it's about six in the morning now listening to the news a lot of people lost everything
40:12and getting to the last sleep and to find out if they could go home by this time we were
40:20supposed
40:20to be out of here but they never had anybody to say that they was about to evacuate the super
40:27dome
40:28so i was like oh man i just don't believe some of this i don't know what's gonna happen
40:34eventually it's getting worse so we have to move these families out of here but from you
40:38i would like to know are there buses coming for these people to get out they keep saying that but
40:45who can believe them anymore exactly i tell these people believe what you see not what you hear
40:57if you're going to superdome what is the plan for them they are going to start to be moved right
41:03after we get all the medical patients out we're going to move them they're our first priority then after
41:08that we will have 350 buses that are staged and they're going to start to move people out of the
41:13superdome the buses started to show up and we came up with a route that would bring them in
41:21and a way to walk the people out to the buses and at the air medevac site of the superdome
41:29i had him knock down the power poles so we could bring large helicopters in and take out the elderly
41:37everything everything seemed to be going well but then a call came over the radio that a pilot reported
41:44being shot at when that went out all the helicopters in round diverted and that just turned this situation
41:53on his head
41:58desperate situation in the city of new orleans as we speak the effort to move those evacuees from the superdome
42:04to the astrodome now halted after shots were fired rescue helicopters came under fire and violence
42:10spilled out into the streets right outside the largest ambulance service says it will have to severely
42:16cut back its rescue efforts if security doesn't improve we were told that the buses were stopped
42:23because things inside the city of new orleans were so dangerous the drivers of those buses and ambulances
42:29they've said i'm not going in there i've i've told my wife i'm not going in there there's still a
42:34sense
42:34this is a riot zone and it's not it was just a story that got out of hand and eventually
42:42people
42:42tried to draw us into be more focused on security than we are on the mission of saving lives some
42:49of
42:49the things like security you look at and you think the time has come to empower our law enforcement
42:53officials or military officials to say let's adopt a zero tolerance attitude let's take these people
42:59off the street so they can't be causing this danger when we realized that the looting was uh getting out
43:05of control we redirected all of our police officers back to patrolling the streets they were dead tired
43:10from saving people but we redirected all of our resources all of a sudden i just got inundated with
43:18people coming to me they were confused they say chief are they going to evacuate us or we got to
43:25go who
43:26going to feed us we were asking the louisiana authorities to hunt down those looters they must
43:31make sure those rapists looters and assailants get what they deserve with the exposure to the national
43:37media all of a sudden now at police headquarters the message was to stop the looting that was the message
43:48and what came next was a complete mess
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