NEW ORLEANS: A distraught Angela Perkins screams “Help us, please!” outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center on Thursday. A cloud of desperation settled over the hundreds of hungry, homeless people at the Convention Center, creating an atmosphere of fear and hopelessness.

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