and it was there on a night i will never forget that i met albert bryant, sleeping on a cooler.any people did you bring with you? >> three grandchildren, three children, a sister and a wife. >> even though the hurricane weakened to a category 3 when it hit new orleans, the levees failed and 80% of the city flooded. approximately 100,000 people were trapped in their flooded homes and attics, some of them for days. the scenes of human depravity at the convention center and superdome became for many people the emblem of the storm. >> he's getting dehydrated. >> i had a baby die a year before this. i know how this goes. >> my grandmother is a diabetic. she's 76 years old. she's out of insulin. what's she going to do? >> why can't some of the chinook helicopters and blackhawks that we have heard flying over for days and days and days simply lower palettes of water, meals ready to eat, medical supplies right into downtown new orleans? where is the aid? >> brian, it's an absolutely fair question. the federal government just learned about those people today. >> the simple fact that we c