• For those looking for alternative coverage, the BBC is keeping a blog. Horrible first-hand reports of people left to die in rest homes and a man outside the Superdome screaming, “This is America, why are we in this situation?”
• A lot of them are gone now, but new ones continue to crop up. People are posting sex-for-shelter ads (“Women with large breasts only,” “Must be self-starter,” “Send photos first.”) on the New Orleans Craig’s List site. MeFi thread. Interestingly, there seems to be a double standard for women posting similar messages.
• Storm chasers catch video of Katrina.
• Craig Giesecke isn’t too impressed by FEMA.
• Daily Kos: “This is not politics. This is not partisanship. This is unforgivable.”
• Images from Plaquemines Parish.
• Hastert: “It looks like that place could be bulldozed.” Electric Mist ain’t happy.
• Fats Domino found.
• Bush cuts delayed flood control work. (Source: Reuters)
• Oliver Willis has video inside the Convention Center: Dead babies, people without food or support for four days, all doing what they were asked.

• FEMA directed donations to Pat Robertson’s faith-based charity; then tried to hide this after being exposed by Ken Layne.
• Police Chief Eddie Cross: “We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten. Tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon.”
• WWL blog: Astrodome is now full. 23,000 people estimated to arrive in Houston. Numerous reports of New Orleans police turning in their badges.
• Another report from the Superdome: Reports of lawlesness, disorganization, unbearable stench, long lines, enough to make a new Mel Gibson movie: Mad Max: Beyond Superdome.
• Blanco gets into pissing fight with Dennis Hastert. Hastert’s comments can be found here.
• Local officials incensed: “Some people there have not eaten or drunk water for three or four days, which is inexcusable.”
• More from CNN: No word on where the people not let into the Astrdome will go. One resident pleading for someone with a bullhorn to talk with these people to come in before the National Guard.
• It’s a questionable source, given that weapons were checked upon entry, but British students are saying that inside the Superdome, there were guns, knives, crack cocaine use, threats of violence, racial abuse, and the rape of a seven year old girl in the bathroom.
• First-hand reports from Mongo: “Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint….There was no police response to the auto thefts until the mob reached the rich area — Saulet Condos — once they tried to get cars from there… well then the whole swat teams began showing up with rifles pointed.” These folks are reporting news until the generators go down. Incredible.
• Pictures being posted from the streets of New Orleans: including the first water dropoff in days.
• Salon: “On cable news, our normally buttoned-down blow-dried correspondents, almost all of them white, are cracking under the strain of bearing witness to the suffering and even death of the people who weren’t looting, who did the right thing and headed to the Superdome, only to find a worse hell awaited them. “
• More reports from inside the Superdome from a more legit source: It’s being run like a concentration camp and two children have been raped. Confirmation of seven year old girl being raped as well as eight year old boy. Indeterminate others raped.
• Tourists fleeced of money, told to wait for buses that never arrived. “The tourists here are an afterthought.”
• Anderson Cooper tears Landrieu a new one: “Senator, I’m sorry… for the last four days, I have been seeing dead bodies here in the streets of Mississippi and to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other.” (Transcript ) (Video link)
• Bush says, “I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the levees.” He was wrong. Mr. Bill did back in 2004.

Troubling news from Caitlin Kiernan: It seems she’s been unable to get in touch with Ms. Brite in Mississippi. Jesus, I hope she’s okay.

[UPDATE: Poppy’s okay and has has just posted at her blog.]