Louisiana official haunted by drowned woman

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Louisiana official haunted by drowned woman


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A New Orleans official was overcome by emotion on national television on Sunday when describing how a woman was abandoned and eventually drowned after repeated promises she would be rescued.

"The guy who runs this building I'm in, the emergency management, who's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said are you coming, son, is somebody coming," Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, said as he burst into heavy sobbing on NBC's Meet the Press program.

"And he said 'yeah mama, somebody's coming to get ya, somebody's coming to get ya on Tuesday, somebody's coming to get ya on Wednesday, somebody's coming to get ya on Thursday, somebody's coming to get you on Friday.'

"And she drowned Friday night, she drowned Friday night. Nobody's coming to get us."

"Nobody's coming to get us, nobody's coming to get us," Broussard said through tears.

Broussard, president of the parish just south of New Orleans, did not give the woman's name.

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina "will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history," he said.


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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050904/ts_nm/drowning_dc

[supernova]

1. It's excruciatingly painful to watch

:cry: That poor man and his mother. :cry:

They've replayed it on MSNBC twice today already.

[Autumn Colors]

2. Yeah, but they cut out

the earlier part of the interview where he says that FEMA/NG came in and CUT THE COMMUNICATIONS LINES THAT THEY HAD JUST RESTORED. He said they then posted armed guards and were told that no one was getting near those lines.

I agree, the emotional part of the clip should be played, but the earlier part is what people need to see and they edited that out entirely!

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. It is online, though

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[freeplessinseattle]

3. Whose mother? the head of emerg management?

if that way my mother I'd move heaven and earth.