“[A]n angry Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans’ emergency operations, watching the slow procession from the Superdome, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency response was inadequate,” reports AP via NW Indiana News.
“This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control,” Ebbert said. “We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can’t bail out the city of New Orleans. We have got a mayor who has been pushing and asking but we’re not getting supplies.”
He said the evacuation was almost entirely a Louisiana operation. “This is not a FEMA operation. I haven’t seen a single FEMA guy.” …
Randi Rhodes is on a tear. She just said that the White House should call CNN and MSNBC’s producers because clearly they’re able to get there, so maybe Bush should ask them how to do it.
Update [2005-9-1 15:53:58 by susanhu]: Physicians at hospital in New Orleans couldn’t get any help from the mayor, the governor, or the White House. They called the Associated Press to beg for help to evacuate them. The doctors said they have no food left, only liquid is fruit punch. (Randi, reading from story just off the AP wire.)