80,000 dead ?

* from KevinDrums site: "This afternoon Blitzer had the guy from LSU on whose team has been computer modeling this disaster. So far, the guy said that their modeling has been right on. He said that the model predicts that one third of the some 250,000 people who stayed in New Orleans were killed."
lets hope that isnt true. i sure as hell dont know where 250,000 people are tho, let alone 160,000. good grief.