Convoy brings relief supplies to New Orleans
Friday, September 2, 2005; Posted: 12:53 p.m. EDT (16:53 GMT)
Programming Note: CNN correspondents throughout the region gauge the impact from the heart of disaster. (Program Schedule)
-- A convoy of military vehicles plowed through the flooded streets of New Orleans on Friday bringing food, water and medicine to the thousands of people trapped at a downtown convention center.
The relief effort came as President Bush toured the Gulf Coast to survey damage from Hurricane Katrina and shortly after the mayor of New Orleans said the city was "holding on by a thread."
Mayor Ray Nagin said in a statement that more than 10,000 people were evacuated from the city Thursday but that more than 50,000 survivors were still on rooftops and in shelters, in urgent need of help. (See video of the desperate conditions -- 1:56)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/kat...act/index.html
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