We got into the crew car, emptied out the car we had to abandon and left for the hotel. We kept hearing that the water was still rising. We had had a difficult enough time getting to where we were, how could we possibly make it back to the hotel? We drove straight on I-10
The rides to the Superdome stopped coming. Frustrated people — almost all poor african-americans — were walking by. Some asked for water, some asked for food, or about transportation to the dome. I felt conflicted. I gave a few bottles of water away quickly so others wouldn’t see. I didn’t have enough to give everyone,
I was deployed to New Orleans to work with Adaora Udoji, a reporter out of New York by CNN’s National Desk. Our task was to find a hospital and report from there starting at 10pm until 10am. Adaora got a hold of a woman at Tulane Hospital name Karen Troyer-Caraway. She was wonderful and went
So I started my first morning in Crawford by jumping on AF1 to Salt Lake City. Nothing out of the ordinary occured and it was a fairly uneventful flight — that includes the movie which was The Interpreter (I had higher hopes tho in it’s defense it was interrupted by the gaggle to which I