We have been abandoned by our own country

NBC program "Meet the Press" by Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish near New Orleans told of an emergency management official receiving phone calls from his mother, who, trapped in a nursing home, pleaded day after day for rescue. Assured by federal officials, the man promised her repeatedly that help was on the way.

"Every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?' " Mr. Broussard said. "And he said,
'Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you.'
Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday.
Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday.
Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday.
Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.
And she drowned Friday night.
She drowned Friday night."

Mr. Broussard angrily denounced the country's leadership.
"We have been abandoned by our own country,"
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