people waiting to get in. >> up to 30,000 people did make it in to the super dome. when the storm hit, a sense of panic began to spread. >> that's what it is like, loud inside the super dome. >> when the levees breached, the floodwaters rose, the downtown super dome stayed dry. eventually it was overwhelmed with people, so others began to go to the convention center. >> we saw an older woman, someone's mother, someone's grandmother in a wheelchair. her dead body pushed up against the side of the convention center with a blanket over it, on the ground next to her,