Man, it is looking worse by the hour. According to NO Mayor Nagin a 'couple hundred thousand people' were left behind and will now have to be evacuated. The whole city must be emptied a.s.a.p. and it may be months before inhabitants can return. There is no official Louisiana estimate of deaths. According to Nagin rescue workers are ordered to push any bodies aside and concentrate on saving the survivors. Together with the continuing rise of flood waters, the looting, the toxic gumbo, the picture is bleak indeed.