Giok - from watching the news I would guess that looters are pretty far down the list of police priorities. They are probably more preoccupied with finding and saving as many people as possible right now.

News crews, on the other hand have only one thing to do, find anything that can be considered 'appetising' to the watching public. Since they are probably not allowed too close to the areas where the danger is still great thay will look for whatever else they can.

Let's hope that, once the initial crisis is over, the authorities have a chance to watch the film footage and maybe catch one or two of the looters. probably a bit of a naive hope but you never know.

Best of luck to all the Mudcatters in the area, I hope they all got out in time.