AP says dome evacuations stopped in order to start convention center evacuations. There are 5000 in the dome and 25000 in the convention center. Good choice to go to the most desperate place but just wondering why they can't do both.
Anyway, any evacuations is great news, but I still can't believe that CNN is not carrying the pictures. I can't bear to watch them anymore.
If there are, per your post, 5,000 at the dome, 25,000 at the convention center, and according to other reports, 35,000 that have already been evac'ed from the dome and other areas, we have pulled a total of 65,000 people out of New Orleans.
Louisiana officials admitted that 100,000 were left in the city when the storm went through. At the other end of the probability window, the most pessimistic report I have seen was that 430,000 out of 1.2 million obeyed the mandatory evac order, which would mean that 770,000 stayed behind.
If my math is still any good, that means that currently, we have somewhere between 35,000 and 705,000 souls unaccounted for.