Apparently, Lt. General Honore has been trying to direct things with a dead battery in his cell phone, since late yesterday. No one thought to bring more batteries to a city without electricity.

From CNN this morning, in an interview with the Louisiana governor:

"The stench of the dead on the streets is significant...The General in charge has a cell phone with a dead battery for communication. This is not the kind of communications the US military is used to. This is why this is taking so long. There is no infrastructure." --Louisiana Gov, Saturday morning, CNN.