Rescue Operations

WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News: "The governor said that at midnight, all of the boat operators trying to rescue people from rooftops were told to take a break.
'They refused. They couldn't do it,' Blanco said.
Blanco said rescuers were unable to get to people stranded in one tall building because so many other people were 'calling to them and jumping from rooftops' into the water to be rescued first.
Things are so bad, Nagin said, that rescue boats are bypassing the dead. "