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Nothing personal taken.It wasn't meant to be a thread about rumors and speculation. Quite the opposite. What I was trying to convey was the real on the ground story from the area.

When you see firemen on Fox News deputizing people to pick bodies out of homes and rubble...to me..that puts the true face on just how bad and dire it is down there.

My intention was only to pass along the news and the great need for help there and what these medics and rescuers were going through.

The stories he told me last night (he is going back on Friday by the way for a week to Mississippi to help set up a triage unit and recover more dead) he was telling me about how nursing homes that were not evacuated inland had people who were dead but those that did survive were brought to high school gym's and that a lot of the inner city poor and drug addicts were in the shelters with no air no working bathrooms,people urinating in corners of the gym and all over the building,defecating wherever they felt like, and that the elderly were forced to sleep on hard wood stages in these schools.

People were not giving up their foam mattresses or ice or anything.

Total chaos and the stories only got worse.

Nothing personal taken.It wasn't meant to be a thread about rumors and speculation. Quite the opposite. What I was trying to convey was the real on the ground story from the area.

Keep posting the updates. We'll know more in a few days about the Mississippi death toll.

I wondered if the reason your newer thread was first pulled was because it was an Orlando Salinas report. As you may recall, he has been a little quick off the line on a few stories before in Floriduh. I like him and Shep but it's not the same thing as seeing Brit Hume report something.

I checked all the Fox News pages up right now and only found mention of various FEMA trucks, no mention of morgue trucks. The lack of mention of morgue trucks is a bit telling though since we know they have to have them. Still, that means little as FNC's website is really complete crapola. And FNC is using a count of 110 for MS now which doesn't even jibe with CNN's 185.

It seems to me that the complete lack of reporting on the temporary morgues and facilities is kind of suspicious. How do survivors know, for instance, where to go check for relatives and such? I think there's going to be a real story there.

The media's reporting on this tragedy really does open a lot of questions for everyone.

Emergency management officials not only wouldn't speculate on how many died when a 30-foot wall of water swept into the Gulfport-Biloxi area, they repeatedly refused to say how many bodies had been recovered.

"Our preparation area is just overwhelmed," said Tommy Franklin, manager of the Riemann Funeral Home, where the remains are being stored. Refrigerated trucks were on the way, he said.

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WHY?