New Orleans Begins to Deal With Its Dead

New Orleans Begins to Deal With Its Dead

Sunday September 4, 2005 2:16 PM

By ALLEN G. BREED

Associated Press Writer

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - As the last weary refugees from the Superdome and convention center headed to shelters, New Orleans drew closer to dealing with its dead, a gruesome landscape of corpses expected to number in the thousands.

No one knows how many people were killed by Hurricane Katrina and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating in the ruined city, crumpled in wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

Echoing the mayor's prediction, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday she expected the death toll to reach the thousands. And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service, said one morgue alone, at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.

Touring an airport triage center, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., a physician, said ``a lot more than eight to 10 people are dying a day.''

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5255141,00.html

and see all that suffering, and then come back to congress and push the estate tax repeal, I have to question whether he has any spark of humanity at all.

same story with a different headline

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/04/katrina/main814703.shtml

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20050904/ap_on_re_us/hurricane_katrina_6

By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writer 12 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.

As authorities struggled to keep order, police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.

Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.

Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers. They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breach in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said. None of the contractors was killed, Hall said.

There's a big difference!

One dead ,
Two dead,
Three dead,
Four ....
Condi Rice is a bitch ass whore ...

Four dead,
Three dead,
Two dead,
One ...
You want compassion ?
These freaks have none ...