Re: the convention center.

Last night on NPR, I was listening to Michael Chertoff being interviewed. He was very dismissive of the reporters comments that 2,000 people were at the convention center without anything. I was appalled. He kept claiming that he was not aware of large numbers of people at the convention center, basically implying that they were making it up.

After he hung up, the reporter came back on, anger clearly in his voice, and "clarified, for the benefit of Sec Chertoff and others..." that they had 2,000 people at the convention center with dead bodies in the midst, no food, no facilities, no water, etc.

With all the major news organizations showing the convention center on TV, how on earth could the Sec of Homeland Security be unaware of this as of 6PM ET last night?

And Pam, you are absolutely right. I heard this morning driving in that the hotels banded together to get busses to evacuate their people. They paid for them!!! Then, the Feds confiscated the busses when they arrived and told the people to go to the convention center. Yep, that's right, the same convention center that, according to Chertoff, doesn't have many people there.

Unbelievable.

Kathy