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Ike, the undercovered hurricane, got short shrift in Galveston and Houston until NBC anchor Brian Williams traveled there Wednesday. Now NBC goes even further in filling in the gaps, sending Maria Schiavocampo to Gonvaies in northern Haiti where mudslides rendered tens of thousands homeless. The supply of food aid--rice, beans and oil--"is not enough to meet demand," World Food Program workers told her, and she found a dead dog floating in the drinking water supply.
Less devastating was the fallout of Ike in major southeastern cities such as Atlanta, where ABC's Steve Osunsami (embargoed link) filed from, and Charlotte, base for NBC's Michelle Kosinski. The storm closed three refineries in Texas that supply gasoline pipelines to the region. Supplies are running low and lines are growing long. Kosinski told us that at one time only one filling station out of seven was open in Charlotte.
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