NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 1 (UPI) -- New Orleans remained in chaos Thursday, three days after Hurricane Katrina swept the Gulf Coast breaching levees and flooding the Crescent City.
CNN reporters described thousands of people huddled on the streets around the Convention Center without food, water, sanitary facilities or medical care. Bodies covered with sheets were simply pushed to one side and piles of feces littered the area.
In nearby Metairie, La., a National Guard unit searching for people stranded by the flood said there was no time to worry about floating bodies.
"We have to deal with the living," he said.
In the Metairie area, a reporter found an elderly woman who said her neighbors should be rescued first, because they have small children. Emergency workers found 15 people stranded in one small house.
Both the hurricane survivors and emergency workers in New Orleans appear confused. One family interviewed on National Public Radio said that they were told to go to the Superdome, then they were told to cross the Superdome to get a bus to take them to Texas and then they were told they could not enter the Superdome and told to go home.
