COE is checking on the levee breech. Flooding is severe along major roadways in N.O. - many homes flooded up to chest level and some up to the roof tops. Mayor says that many businesses are destroyed and leveled. Witnessing looting in a number of buildings that were destroyed. Anyone else hearing this...
The looters are out.
I'd be slow to label people "looters" if they're taking things from totally flooded buildings. Some may well just be trying to get immediate survival supplies, from empty flooded buildings where no one else urgently needs the items, which are likely to have floated away before the rightful owners return. This isn't the sort of situation where people would be looting computers and stereos from stores, since few of those items would still be in useable condition after being soaked. Flooded grocery stores certainly won't be selling any of the items that have been floating around, so if someone wants to grab some bottles of safe drinking water, jars of peanut butter, etc., they wouldn't be hurting anyone.