HOT Saturday night s**t!!!!!!!!!
PUBLIC ENEMY NEW SONG !!!!
Loon
Mariah Carey

Getting used to going without
Brian Williams

Driving back to Baton Rouge, with power outages all around us, lines of cars and packed parking lots at ANY retailer or restaurant that is open: you realize what a constant (happily not permanent) state of crisis this is. Expectations are so universally low. People are now getting used to having nothing. Everything else is gravy. They are so astoundingly resilient, and so kind despite it all. Everyone is a story. At every interaction you find yourself asking the person you meet, "How are you holding up?" Everyone knows someone who has it worse, so they politely answer, "We're hanging in there." And you know the details are excruciating.
This is our fourth tour down here. I have colleagues who have been here longer. Some (like our on-site manager Heather Allan) were here BEFORE I got here, and I beat Katrina. The work goes on each day, to bring the viewers the pictures and sound of the worst suffering I've seen in America since 9/11.
We should all be counting our blessings. Yes, rooftop rescues are taking place again here. But we saw no people living on the interstate, nor are Americans, to my knowledge, dying for lack of food and water after this latest storm. But homes are lost and people are again going without. Tonight and for a long time to come.