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This is an approximately 5 minute video taken by a bystander at the Trump rally showing rescue efforts in the bleachers, in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

The famed Louisiana Cajun Navy is “standing down” in Houston after looters tried to steal their boats and fired gunshots at them. The Cajun Navy made the announcement in a Facebook post Monday afternoon. “Looters decided to pose as people needing rescue and they attempted to overtake the boats and there were shots fired at the boats,” the post said. “I repeat they are all safe. Looters must have not wanted our boats in the water for rescues.” The Facebook post has since been removed... “They’re making it difficult for us to rescue them,” he said. “You have people rushing...

Airlift rescues thousands from hurricane-stricken areas All Financial Times NewsAn emergency airlift rescued thousands from hurricane-ravaged New Orleans following President George W. Bush's pledge to send in more troops to help the relief effort. Mr Bush, facing criticism for the response to the catastrophe, announced on Saturday that 7,000 active troops would be despatched over the next three days. A further 10,000 National Guard were also being sent to Louisiana and Mississippi, bringing the total of US troops deployed to 40,000.

BATON ROUGE, La., Sept. 1 -- It seemed a desperate echo of a bygone era, a mass of desperate-looking black folk on the run in the Deep South. Some without shoes. It was high noon Thursday at a rest stop on the edge of Baton Rouge when several buses pulled in, fresh from the calamity of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. Hundreds piled out, dragging themselves as if floating through some kind of thick liquid. They were exhausted, some crying. "It was like going to hell and back," said Bernadette Washington, 38, a black homemaker from Orleans Parish who had...