It really is.
Just like Andrew elaborated earlier.

The TV news really doesn't have a lot of information to report. They make it seem like they do by repeating the same things over and over with different reporters at different sections of "cosmetically altered" wreckage (Fox news is particularly bad about this sometimes)
CNN has done a terrible job of conveying the enormity of 80% of a major US city becoming uninhabitable. At least, until this morning. Yesterday they sort-of forgot the minor detail that those busses carrying people out of the city were specifically intended to carry people from the hotels to other locations. Which still leaves thousands of people stuck. Aside from that, they just recently started covering the whole riot/looting thing.

Only as of this morning did CNN even start to explain the dismal situation for the lower-income residents, who are said to make up the vast majority of casualities. And as things progress, are predicted to make up the remainder of casualities as a result of the squallorous condition of the city.

Anyway, I think I probably have some disconnected family down there, but my mother only knows of people in Texas. She doesn't know of any direct relatives that live in Louisianna