Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00127)

What Government Officials at Federal, State & City 
Levels SHOULD HAVE KNOWN on Monday Evening, August
29, 2005 about the terrible damage done by Hurricane 
Katrina

Click on link BELOW to see transcript of CNN's
special edition of ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES.

I remember seeing live on television this CNN program and
feeling awed and overwhelmed by what was already known
that evening.

Notice what Jeanne Meserve, a CNN correspondent, was
already reporting to the world during this program:

"Anderson, we are west of downtown [New Orleans] . I'm perched on 
what used to be an entrance ramp on to I-10. I am looking over a 
scene of utter devastation. In an entire neighborhood, water has 
come up to the eaves of the houses and am told this is not the worst 
of it. That beyond this, part of the upper Ninth Ward, I'm told the 
main part of the ward further down is even worse. The water is over 
the houses. This is a life and death situation. I think by the end 
of the night we're going to find a lot more death than we ever 
imagined...."

"I am overlooking one cluster of people, there look to be three or 
four of them. Some of them appear to be children...They are standing 
out there in the middle of water that looks to be up to their knees. 
There are other people who have gone up to their attics and busted 
through and are trying to wave for help. We've talked to a couple of 
people who have been rescued. They say the water came up very 
suddenly after the worst of the storm had gone by. It was a surge. 
They said it was so quick they barely had time too get to their 
attic...."

Now here is the link to the transcript of the whole program:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/29/acd.01.html

Government officials, for example, the President of the US, 
Governors of Louisiana and Mississippi, Secretary of Homeland 
Security, the Director of FEMA and the Mayor of New 
Orleans.....SHOULD HAVE KNOWN by late Monday evening about the 
terrible destruction caused and still being caused by Hurricane 
Katrina.

IF any of these officials were unaware of all of this late Monday 
or early Tuesday, we do know that millions of other people in the US 
and around the world knew about what had happened because of what 
was reported on television and through other media during this time 
period.

COMPARE and CONTRAST the accounts given in this CNN program 
with what some of the above officials CLAIMED they knew or didn't 
know on Aug 29, Aug 30, etc. about the extensive damage 
caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Later Monday night and in the nighttime of early Tuesday morning 
into the daylight hours of Tuesday ... the reports on television of 
destruction and disaster only got WORSE..................

Daniel