UPDATE: Evacuation of people at the Convention Center has started. Conditions there are grim.
UPDATE: WWLTV says Charity Hospital has finally been evacuated. All hospitals have now been evacuated, they say.
UPDATE: Crooks and Liars has video of an extraordinary report from the convention center and from the highway last night on Fox News.
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I haven’t heard of any actual evacuations from the Convention Center. There are still several thousand people stuck in the Superdome without evacuation help at this time. There are a couple of swamped parishes with survivors who have had no help at all, and the people rescued from roofs and attics are being left on the roadside, with no help available there, no food or water (see last night’s Nightline program). The Red Cross has been forbidden to enter the city.
Federal officials are in full self-defense mode, claiming they had not idea how bad things were. Guess they weren’t bothering to watch the news, cause it was all there.
Tbogg has a round-up of what officials are saying and what people on the ground are seeing. The disconnect has been incredible.