We wound our way through downtown along the way dropping off evacuees from the hotel at a shelter a few blocks away. We then made our way to 90 west which took us across the Mississippi River. It turned out to be a pretty easy ride, but that was hard to tell when standing downtown
The next morning I got up an hour early by accident. Adaora and I thought about going down to visit Karen to see how they were holding up. We were never able to confirm if they had evacuated the 1,000 people — 200 patients the rest staff — staying there. I’m so exhausted I decied
We got into the crew car, emptied out the car we had to abandon and left for the hotel. We kept hearing that the water was still rising. We had had a difficult enough time getting to where we were, how could we possibly make it back to the hotel? We drove straight on I-10
The rides to the Superdome stopped coming. Frustrated people — almost all poor african-americans — were walking by. Some asked for water, some asked for food, or about transportation to the dome. I felt conflicted. I gave a few bottles of water away quickly so others wouldn’t see. I didn’t have enough to give everyone,
I was deployed to New Orleans to work with Adaora Udoji, a reporter out of New York by CNN’s National Desk. Our task was to find a hospital and report from there starting at 10pm until 10am. Adaora got a hold of a woman at Tulane Hospital name Karen Troyer-Caraway. She was wonderful and went