Where Is The Help?

Anderson Cooper, reporting from the ground in Mississippi, had this moving plea:

Person after person came up to me today and they were angry. Where is the federal government?... Where is the army? Where is the National Guard? It is a desperate situation down here. There is no food, no water, no electricity, no ice and it is deteriorating rapidly. There is looting, not only in New Orleans but even in a small town like Bay St. Louis. Where is the help?