After reading others comments, I may very well have. I should not tune in over there....but what I heard him say was that the NAACP and the Black Caucus made these statements and he implied (at least for the portion I watched) that he agreed it was truthful. If I'm wrong, so be it. None-the-less, CNN is nothing but a bunch of Bush-bashers and they are low-lifes.
Updated link from the Alexandria Town Talk:
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS05/50902008
The front page has a breaking news link stating that the fatal bus accident happened in Opelousas. This would indicate that the bus was heading north up I-49 toward Alexandria.
Rapides Parish schools were closed today not only because the governor "commandeered" the school buses, but also because school employees needed a day to process paperwork to enroll over 1,000 refugee children in our school system. Since the buses were originally planned to take New Orleans refugees to Houston (this destination probably changed after the Astrodome was closed), the schools will reopen on Tuesday but parents are responsible for getting children to school themselves.
Not everyone here is so charitable about bringing the refugee children here. Several school bus drivers delivered their buses as ordered, but refused to drive them to New Orleans stating "they don't pay me enough." (Considering how low wages are in Louisiana, this didn't surprise me, by the way, and may account for the reason so many New Orleans police officers threw down their badges.) And I've personally encountered people in Alexandria who have a NIMBY attitude ("not in my back yard"), not wanting the refugee children at our schools. In case you think it's a racist sentiment, though, the person who seemed most resistant to the idea was a black woman. After that conversation, I really did a double-take.
KALB now trying to find out what's really going on. Alexandria officials originally made an announcement that no more refugees would be accepted, yet there are more buses heading for the I-49 Welcome Center. Red Cross rep being interviewed right now.
More to come...