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Originally Posted by strandinthewind
Lt. Gen. Russel Honore
apparently is da bomb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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This person is the kind of results person that should have been in charge from the get go
Desperate residents starting to get medical attention
Troops help an injured woman at the convention center in New Orleans.
I am seeing moments of utter heartbreak and desperation here. There is no other word for it than unbelievable.
We were walking with U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore and his military team from the convention center and there are still hundreds of people on the street. They are just sitting there in terrible circumstances.
We came across one young African American mother. She had twin young infants in her arms. She was trying to walk in this terrible heat and she apparently was so exhausted that the babies were half falling out of her arms.
It was at that point that Gen. Honore just stopped cold in the middle of the street. He went up to this woman and said, "We're going to get you help." He took both of those babies and handed them to his soldiers. They also evacuated another mother and her baby. (See the convoy slog through floodwaters 3:33)
Then we all got on a Coast Guard ship. These three infants and two mothers, who are terribly dehydrated and exhausted, are now getting instant medical care on this ship. And the mothers tell us that there simply has been no help. They tell us they escaped their homes by swimming to safety during the flood. They have been waiting ever since with their babies on the street for someone to pick them up.
It's a story we are seeing again and again in all of these places.
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