First levee is breached and Laura Bush comes out to speak....

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According to CNN it is a private levee which locals attempted to improve after Katrina by increasing the height and adding grass. They also asked the feds for help, but you can guess how successful that was.

Laura Bush addesses Convention "crowd", followed by a shot of empty seats.

State: Some outside media feed false rumor mill

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2008/09/state_some_outside_media_feed.html

by David Hammer, The Times-Picayune
Monday September 01, 2008, 1:06 PM

The state communications center in Baton Rouge was thrust into rumor-control mode this afternoon when a Baton Rouge station showed stock footage of Hurricane Katrina flooding and national networks erroneously reported levee breaches, a spokeswoman said.

Christina Stephens, spokeswoman at the state's Joint Information Center in Baton Rouge, said communications staffers scrambled when they saw footage on a Baton Rouge television station of flooding in the 9th Ward, only to find out that it was an old file from Hurricane Katrina.

That, along with confirmed images of Gustav forcing waves over the top of floodwalls along the Industrial Canal, helped feed rumors among some national media outlets that levees had been "breached." Stephens said she had to explain to several outlets that water going over the top of walls is not a "breach," in which a section of the flood protection is actually broken.

She also explained that the water going over the top of the Industrial Canal barriers is from waves and the base water level is still below the top of the walls. Either way, water is coming out of the canal and into the adjacent streets. But Stephens said at least she could confirm that water is not flowing steadily over any of the walls or levees in New Orleans.

the poor man's flipping out, and wolf cuts away to listen to laura bush "speak"

Today is clearly showing us the priorities of both the MSM and the rethugs!