A soldier wheels an elderly woman from the New Orleans Convention Center, September 2. After five days of surviving Hurricane Katrina, the searing heat, shootings and other unrest, thousands at the Convention Center were given food and water by the National Guard.
A Katrina survivor receives medical treatment from military personnel after he cut his arm trying to break into a building through a window in New Orleans September 2.
Survivors [at the Convention Center] taunt a National Guardsman for arriving too late to help some who have died waiting for food and water.
Survivors collect food and water during food distribution at the New Orleans Convention Center, September 2. [The Convention Center was emptied in one day.]
