Journalists Ordered Out of New Orleans

Martial Law declared

Gov. Kathleen Blanco says the devastation being seen this morning “is greater than our worst fears.” She describes it as “totally overwhelming.” Blanco says there are no casualty figures yet, but that “many lives have been lost.”

Here is a large map of the New Orleans levee system defunded by Bush, which is now failing and filling New Orleans, including the French Quarter, with water.