East New Orleans - What's Up?

Again and again, I hear everywhere but in most mainstream media that NOTHING in East New Orleans, the most poverty stricken part of the area - is being touched. Anyone trying to fly or row in there is being met with huge numbers of loaded M16s. Food isn't being dropped there, nor is water. Rescue missions aren't being flown there. Nor are recovery missions.

If someone somewhere would like to avoid more conspiracy theories like the much repeated ones about levees being blown up arond poor areas to save rich areas, one would think they might explain what the fuck's going on in East New Orleans.