The Damage to New Orleans

We're currently in the city proper, taking pictures of the flooding and broken buildings. The city is open to members of the press, but the police (in all their various forms) are not very amenable to our presence or questions. The SAR teams seem to be going block by block, clearing out the homes and marking each street as checked.

We met a man in the Marigny district who has chosen to stay. He had nothing good to say about FEMA at all, which isn't a unique sentiment, but had perhaps a bit of extra merit coming from him, as he was a 30-year veteran of fire and rescue services—including large-scale diaster planning.

All of the journalists we're with have been conducting interviews, filming video, and taking pictures. We'll have a lot more information to ccommunicate once we get back and can start putting it all together. I took some video with my iSight, but I doubt it will hold a candle to the stuff that Athony is getting.