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Five days after the 17th Street Canal levee broke, evacuation of the New Orleans Convention Center is finally underway. More than 25,000 people are waiting there to be evacuated.
Update: MSNBC:
...At the convention center, Jennifer Washington was among the frustrated evacuees who spent another morning waiting for buses to come.
“At first they said 6:30 this morning, then they said 9, but there are no buses. They promised us buses,” said Washington, 25, who has not been able to find her four children in the aftermath of the storm.
Just before noon, buses did arrive. Thousands of people began pushing and dragging their belongings up the street, the mood more numb than jubilant.
NBC's Michelle Hofland, reporting from the convention center, said she approached National Guardsmen about an elderly man who was trying to reach his daughter across a barrier because she had his diabetes medicine. But when Hofland returned to talk to the man he had passed away...
