Something's bad. They're not showing the Convention Center.

[Pallas180]

something's very wrong. Are those people who were outside laying dead on the street???

anybody see the Convention Center this morning?

[Extend a Hand]

1. I'm really worried

I don't understand why they don't take those folks to closeby cities and then go directly back for more

[bushisanidiot]

2. They are more concerned about looters than saving lives

people are looting to survive and the government doesn't want them to survive.

[tyedyeto]

3. There were thousands there yesterday

I fear something horrible may have happened overnight.

[markus]

4. MSNBC is still showing their footage

If you didn't watch Countdown last night, watch it.

I suspect they're all over trying to find out what blew up. You know how that goes.

[leftchick]

5. jeff spellman is across the street

I have not seen any video yet either :(

[woodsprite]

6. OK, I'm at work - so it's not the convention center that blew up?

I was thinking it maybe was. What a way for them to lessen the number of people they have to evacuate. Lack of sleep last night and must have woken up with my tinfoil hat on my head.

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Something blew up?!

[Jersey Devil]

18. Some kind of chemical explosion

I am not sure of the details, just that there was an explosion at either a chemical plant or a refinery that FEMA says is "not toxic". Probably "not toxic" just like the air in NY after 9/11

[iconoclastic cat]

7. This guy is blogging from NO. Somehow he's got internet.

I'm not sure, but he sounds like he's holed up with a generator and a few more people:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Cannot Confirm
One of the first things I do in the morning after my intitial security sweep of the building is check my messenger programs, email, and the comments section of this blog for the latest situation reports.

I cannot confirm the Superdome "chemical plant" explosion you guys are reporting. When Bravo Team becomes functional this morning, we're going to do a Medium Range Recon Patrol around our section of the CBD. We need to access the area for potential human threats, situational threats (burning buildings, etc.), flooding, potential evac routes, military and civilian authority presence, etc.

We bring the camera with us everywhere we go, whether it's to empty fuel into the tank or perform personal hygiene.

Everyone has secondary responsibilities. Crystal, for instance, has the secondary responsibility of organizing physical assets. Sigmund's secondary responsibility is photography. Donny's secondary responsibility is inter-team communication. My secondary responsibility is first aid. And so on.

Just because we're doing a security sweep, for instance, doesn't mean we can't also be doing something else.

Sig's got a ton more pictures to post today.

This just in: Team Bravo reports no fire visibility from the Dome, but there is smoke -- and where there's smoke...

We're headed to the roof to investigate.

[fishwax]

21. WOW!

Thank you so much for posting that link. My god!

[nonconformist]

8. How long can people live without potable water?

Do the math.

:scared:

[BrklynLiberal]

9. Why does this chilling story come to mind???????

Weren't they herded into stadiums too?

VICTIMS OF THE DICTATORSHIP
http://www.chipsites.com/derechos/dictadura_victimas_eng.html

[mshasta]

10. it is the news stations....keep rolling the

same tape over in over the same video from yesterday....what the hell is going on???? Where is the new images where is the people?

[peekaloo]

11. NBC just showed a video. The reporter was basically dragged

there by a desperate man. Don't know how old the footage was but it showed the "living" conditions.....squalor would be an upgrade. The reporter stated 3 people died while they were filming. He did say some food and water had been dropped there but it's still a horrid, miserable sight.

p.s. Reprtedly filmed this a.m.

[WhollyHeretic]

12. cnn.com has a video on it called "Modern Day Genocide"

which is about the convention center.

[nonconformist]

14. CNN deserves a Pulitzer for their coverage of this.

Who would have thunk. But they're doing a phenomenal job.

[shadowknows69]

15. here here on that pulitzer

talk about a news organization making a 180 degree turn around. I guess seeing the misery first hand reminded these people what their jobs were. I'm sure the embed reporters in Iraq wish they could tell more truth but they have a gun to thier head (probably literally)

[xultar]

16. I was just going to ask about the CC in NOLA. I haven't seen pix

and I was concerned too.

[wli]

17. I wonder if the explosion took it out.

I also wonder if it was bombed by the military.

[Pallas180]

19. No , the explosion is over by the railroad, Center is on Canal St in

the French Quarter.

But it's bad that they're not showing anything.

let's e mail CNN.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Here's a picture - Chemical Plant explosion

This is down in the Industrial zone along the river not far from the Superdome and Convention Center.