Clearly the local officials are incompetent. Bush needs to appoint a kick ass leader like Rudi, Kerack or Gen. Powell to take charge. What is so hard about sending in an air mobile military unit to secure the major gathering places like the Convention Center and the Superdome and bring in massive amounts of water, food and medicine to those spots and then send small teams to patrols all over the city to search for survivors and shoot on sight armed gangs.
I agree. I wondered why an armed helicopter escort of evac buses wasn't the first response to snipers.
Kerick is a crook. We need General Abizaid down there.