Bill Quigley in New Orleans Hospital: “No Water, Sick, No Heat, Call Somebody for Help”

We go now to New Orleans and the second part of our conversation with Bill Quigley. He is law professor at Loyola University and is currently trapped with hundreds of other people in Memorial Medical Center on Napoleon Avenue without food, water or electricity. I spoke to him on his cell phone on Tuesday night from the hospital. He has been volunteering there since the hurricane hit, helping his wife, Debbie, an oncology nurse.

We tried through out the day Wednesday to reach Bill Quigley and could not get through to him. A colleague who exchanged text messages with him told us that his last message, sent Wednesday evening, read: "no water, sick, no heat, call somebody for help." When his colleague called the Red Cross, they told her they could not help and that she should call the Coast Guard. She tried for several hours reach the Coast Guard without success.

* Bill Quigley, speaking Tuesday night. He begins by describing the situation in the hospital.

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