At 5am Friday these are the only lights in the sky of the city. Everything else is pitch black. NPR reports that Bush will “helicopter tour” the disaster area; phone caller to CNN from the Convention Center reports deaths every hour from dehydration, elderly people and children dying. “This is genocide” he angrily told the talking head. Vigilante squads have been formed, he reports, that have largely driven those who were committing crimes out of the building; not one single bus, truck, or authority figure with information has been seen by anyone. This situation at the Convention Center has now been going on for so long, without food, water, or help, that the staff of the New York Times was able to fly reporters in there, drive them out, file the reports and the photos, and put this in a print edition of the newspaper and distribute it across the entire country. By the time you read this, you’ll be able to walk into a convenience story and buy it off the shelf, complete with photos of the victims that the Homeland Security Chief says do not exist, 25,000 of them.
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