Agreed on Geraldo...I've never been able to listen to his hysterics. But Shep seems to be trying to do everything he can to help. As for the people following him to his hotel....that's ridiculous. First of all, if they're charging $200 per night, they are gouging...illegal. Secondly, I can't imagine that the hotel will have food, water and shelter for an additional couple of THOUSAND people.
Some people here seem so shortsighted. I guess they think that solutions are so simple....just follow the news people! For all we know Shep and his crew are sleeping in their vans. Has anyone bothered to VERIFY? Doubt it.
They said there's 30 thousand at the Convention Center so if each reporter is going to take two thousand back to their room...they're going to need more reporters, not less. /sarcasm
If I were there I would be organizing a breakout. Geraldo is tame. He's just projecting the emotions of the people around him instead of interviewing 30,000 people one at a time. I guess some people just don't want to know that this is a horrible tragedy and it's happening now and the authorities (whoever you want to name) aren't getting it done. A lot of camps could have been built and a lot of buses could have run in six days time. They don't have to be nice just get them out of the disaster area.