Anderson Cooper joined Bill Maher on Real Time and explained in detail what he experience in reporting from on the ground in Louisiana and Mississippi. Cooper stressed he wants to know when it is the right time to ask the hard questions that need to be answered of the George Bush and the Federal government. The most telling response he gave was, "I can't believe I'm in America."
CBS 60 Minutes interviews New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and hits him pretty hard, asking if lives could have been saved by a quicker response from State and Federal agencies.
Jack Cafferty on CNN's Situation Room loses it and says, "I have never, ever seen anything as badly bungled and poorly handled as this situation in New Orleans."
Anderson Cooper, reporting from the Gulf Coast almost losses it as person after person comes up to him asking him where the help is from the Federal government.
Tim appears on The Imus Show and leveled scathing criticism all around to the "powers that be" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He went on to blast Bush for saying he didn't know the levees could be breached. Tim said, "The roll of the government is to protect its people."
On Countdown Keith Olbermann put together a detailed video timeline that show the White House has no grasp on the facts involved in Katrina and New Orleans. No surprise there.
The tear-filled eyes of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard are visable for all to see on Meet the Press. His most powerful quote, "We have been abandoned by our own country."
At least 50,000 families are still living in FEMA trailers more than two years after Katrina. According to CBS (from emails they obtained through actual reporting) the levels of formaldehyde is such that FEMA has prohibited its employees from even briefly entering them.