Mayor: Katrina Death Toll May Hit 10,000

Yahoo News ^ | 9/5/5 | Associated Press (AP)

[ReverendJesseJackster]

A week after the storm, a definitive death toll remained elusive. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin warned on NBC's "Today" that "it wouldn't be unreasonable to have 10,000" dead.

Despite the grim estimate, he was more upbeat than in previous days, when he railed against the federal government and broke down sobbing during a radio interview.

"We're making great progress now, the momentum has picked up. I'm starting to see some critical tasks being completed," he told NBC.

"The 17th Street canal is about or was about 84 percent closed in yesterday afternoon. We have more troops arriving, so we're starting to make the kind of progress that I kind of expected earlier."

[Travis McGee]

I forgot who I stole that picture from.

But Gideon7 made this one himself, from sat photos!

[WideGlide]

Nagin is an arrogant zero. He is a gasbag. He is all talk and no action. It's to NO's shame that he was ever elected mayor.

Isn't it interesting that the Democrats and Sugar Ray Nagin were able to mobolize all those now famous buses to haul every transportation challenged registered Democrat to the polls from the projects, the nursing homes, and the halfway houses.