When evacuees arrived at the Superdome, there were no stores of food, water, or supplies. People in the dome cried for help, yet the supplies never came. But when Fox News' Major Garrett called the Red Cross to find out why, what he found out may surprise you.

The Louisiana Department of Homeland Security blocked a vanguard of Red Cross trucks filled with water, food, blankets and hygiene items from bringing relief to the thousands of hungry and thirsty evacuees stranded in the New Orleans Superdome after Hurricane Katrina struck, according to a Fox News Channel report.

The state agency responsible for Louisiana's security "told the Red Cross explicitly, you cannot come," said Fox News reporter Major Garrett in a radio interview.

Garrett told nationally syndicated talk host Hugh Hewitt that according to the Red Cross, the delivery was blocked immediately after the storm passed Monday.

The Louisiana governor's office of Homeland Security explained to the Red Cross that they didn't want the relief supplies, because they wanted the evacuees to leave, according to Garrett.

Apparently the Louisiana government was worried that the stores of supplies would attract more people to the Superdome instead of encouraging them to leave the city. So people trapped inside the dome were made to suffer so that people would evacuate the city rather than hang around. The Red Cross web site reiterates their claim.

So far, the mainstream media has ignored this story. Ask yourself if this would be ignored if it came from the Bush Administration.