I heard the news today oh boy...

(CNN)

-- New Orleans mayor says Katrina killed hundreds -- maybe thousands -- of people in city, Associated Press reports.

-- 10,000 more National Guard troops are being called up for duties on the Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast, CNN confirms.

(FNC)

FEDERAL OFFICIALS DECLARED A PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY FOR THE ENTIRE GULF COAST

THOUSANDS MAY BE DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS, MAYOR SAYS

(BBC)

"Hundreds, maybe thousands" of people are likely to have been killed by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, says city Mayor Ray Nagin.

(Times-Picayune)

BATON ROUGE - Some 1,600 patients at nine New Orleans-area hospitals hit hard by Hurricane Katrina are awaiting evacuation, health care officials said Wednesday.

Another 8,600 hospital staffers and their families, along with healthy people who sought refuge in the hospitals during Katrina, also are awaiting help, said spokeswoman Coletta Barrett of the Louisiana Hospital Association.

Oh...and the yellow line below? That's the breech in the levee. (highlighted by farker Chakalakasp)

I asked last night when $3 gas was coming.

It came at 2am.

On our morning show today Craig and I talked about the gas station up the road (a McClure station), which had a gallon of Regular Unleaded 87 Octane posted at $3.49 point 9. That was the highest we had reported from any callers. Several still had it as low as yesterday's popular price of $2.79, all of those have since jumped to $3.19...which seems to be the new average price in South Bend, Indiana.

Far more important than what I pay at the pump is the fact that Lake Ponchartrain is filling the basin New Orleans was built on, and is unlikely to stop until they are the same level. The President flew over the city today to survey the damage first-hand.

This is so great and terrible an event I can't really wrap my head around it.