Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area

Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area

Updates as they come in on Katrina

11:00 AM CDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Tom Planchet

11:00 A.M. - (AP): Even as Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters recede from New Orleans, frustration among area officials continues to spill over.

The president of Jefferson Parish says people who were too poor to evacuate are now on the brink of starvation.

Aaron Broussard tells CBS' "The Early Show" these residents had the spirit to endure the forces of Mother Nature, but now their biggest obstacle may be "human nature."

In his words, "Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area." He's demanding a congressional probe into what happened there -- headed by the right person.

As he put it, "Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency and give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot."

Meantime, Broussard is calling for any kind of help. Even a week after Katrina hit, he says locals still "need everything."