[sockmonkey]

Similarly when the first convoy of national guardsmen went into New Orleans approached the convention centre they were ordered to "lock and load". But when they arrived they were confronted not by armed mobs but a nurse wearing a T-shirt that read "I love New Orleans". "She ran down a broken escalator, then held her hands in the air when she saw the guns," wrote the LA Times. "We have sick kids up here!" she shouted. "We have dehydrated kids! One kid with sickle cell!"

I think this nurse is from San Antonio, and she was at the River something Mall in New Orleans where she and seventy five others had banded together for safety. She was on our local news, and said it was mayhem, looting, and women screaming down below. She wasn't at the convention center (unless the mall and convention center are one and the same).

Our Local station ksat in San Antonio had her on tonite.I'm sure they have it on video at www.ksat.com.

[The Red Zone]

She was on our local news, and said it was mayhem,

In the literal sense (people were physically wounding one another), or in the sense of a noisy disorder?

[Ditto]

think this nurse is from San Antonio, and she was at the River something Mall in New Orleans where she and seventy five others had banded together for safety. She was on our local news, and said it was mayhem, looting, and women screaming down below. She wasn't at the convention center (unless the mall and convention center are one and the same).

It's called the "River Walk" and while not directly connected to the Convention Center, is literally feet away from the main entrance.

[robowombat]

The Convention Center is, I think, attached to the down river end of the Riverfront Mall. All together the Riverfront complex would appear to be more than a mile long combining (or it did) a large mall dozens of restaurants, a large hotel, a casino, and the Convention Center. It was avery pleasant place before last week.