Brian Williams should also apologize to the victims of Katrina
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/02/09/rick-sanchez-brian-williams-should-also-apologize-to-victims-katrina/
Yeah, yeah, it's Faux dogpiling on Brian, but still...
It certainly appears that NBC anchorman Brian Williams is spinning a yarn when he claims to have seen a body “float by face down” in the French Quarter. The story is roundly refuted by almost everyone familiar with the area’s geography.
That is not to say there weren’t dead bodies in and around New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina. While on assignment there, CNN producer Michael Heard and I saw many bodies floating and otherwise, but none anywhere near the French Quarter. We also don’t remember talking to any colleagues who reported drowning deaths or bodies floating near the French Quarter.
Most New Orleans residents familiar with the geography around the Ritz Hotel where Williams and his staff were staying say that while there was some water in the area it never rose above, at most, two feet.
“There weren’t any bodies out there. The only water they had in the Quarter at all was probably at Iberville and Burgundy,” a low area around the backside of the hotel, “but nothing you couldn’t drive through. Nothing anybody would have drowned in, unless you physically tried to drown.”
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