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The Washington Times
Fonda will join Galloway's anti-Bush tour
By Paul Martin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 5, 2005
LONDON -- Jane Fonda will join George Galloway, the most radical member of the British parliament, on a tour of the United States to accuse the Bush administration of spending money on Iraq that should be spent to help the poor of New Orleans.
The argument, likely to offend many Americans, follows British newspaper and television coverage of Hurricane Katrina that focused on the bungled handling of the aftermath of the storm.
Mr. Galloway, a passionate supporter of anti-Western causes in the Arab world, has been sneered at in Parliament as the "member for Baghdad" because of his regular trips there before the U.S.-led invasion.
He also has been accused of receiving allocations to buy and sell 20 million barrels of Iraqi oil, a charge he has strongly denied.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050905-120440-7026r
Pump prices sideline drivers
By Chris Baker
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 5, 2005
Carl King once drove a truck delivering produce, but these days he's lucky if he can find day work landscaping, painting, cleaning or moving furniture.
Soaring gasoline prices are making it harder to get to those odd jobs, said Mr. King, 55, who lives in Northeast. Until recently, he borrowed his cousin's car to get to work, but now he said he can't afford to fill it up.
"I'm laying on E now, so I just get out there and catch that bus. ... I'm out of luck if the bus doesn't go where I need to," Mr. King said from the office of Goodwill of Greater Washington, which operates a job-training employment-matching service.
The situation was made worse Friday when rumors began to circulate about a potential gas shortage. Lines formed at a few area gas stations, but they were at stations with the lowest prices. AAA reported being flooded with calls about potential shortages.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050905-120438-5468r
Roberts' star rose as a lawyer under Reagan, Bush
By Guy Taylor
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Published September 5, 2005
President Reagan's intrepid young counsel Fred F. Fielding was well on his way to assembling an all-star cast of lawyers to work in the White House in 1982.
A year into the job, he decided to phone over to the Justice Department, where a bright young man named John G. Roberts Jr. had been hired after a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist.
As the phone rang, Mr. Fielding, who had a penchant for being coy, knew just what to say.
"Raiding party," he announced, as the phone was picked up by Kenneth W. Starr, another young conservative lawyer, who as chief of staff to U.S. Attorney General William French Smith was Mr. Roberts' immediate boss.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID=20050905-120743-4098r
Arab News
Egypt Identifies Sharm Bombers
CAIRO, 5 September 2005 — Egyptian police have identified three suicide bombers who had carried out Sharm El-Sheikh attacks. The bombers — Mahmoud Mohamed Hammad, Mohamed Oudeh Saeed and Moussa Ghoneim — were identified through DNA tests. The three had travelled from the northern Sinai town of Al-Arish to carry out the attacks, police sources said. “Two of the bombers, who rammed vehicles into a hotel and a market, used gas cylinders packed with explosives. The third bomber carried a bag with explosives,” they said. Police said the group that carried out Sharm attacks was also behind the October bombings on Taba and nearby resorts, as well as an attack in August on a vehicle used by a multinational observer force. The attack injured two Canadian women peacekeepers. “The group is led by an Egyptian of a Bedouin origin who believes that Muslims have to follow his orders without questioning,” said a security source. “He managed to form terrorist groups in Sinai that do not know or have contacts with each other to avoid being caught by police,” the source told Arab News. Another source said that the group has no link with any international terrorist organization including Al-Qaeda.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=69548&d=5&m=9&y=2005
Bodies Everywhere in New Orleans
WASHINGTON, 5 September 2005 — Thousands of refugees were bused and airlifted to safety over the weekend, leaving much of New Orleans and the surrounding area to the dead and dying — as the elderly and sick remained stranded after days without food, water or medical care.
Hurricane Katrina’s deadly assault exposed a fatal weakness in a federal disaster response system revamped to handle such catastrophes after the 9/11 terrorist attacks four years ago.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=69563&d=5&m=9&y=2005
Hejaz Railway Bridge Demolition a Mistake: Sultan
JEDDAH, 5 September 2005 — Saudi Arabia’s tourism chief yesterday blasted Madinah municipal authorities for demolishing part of the historic Hejaz railway and asked them to give a convincing explanation for the wrongdoing.
Prince Sultan ibn Salman, secretary-general of the Supreme Commission for Tourism (SCT), said that the demolition of the Hejaz railway bridge in Madinah was an unacceptable mistake.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=69562&d=5&m=9&y=2005
Explosives, Uniforms Snagged in Jeddah Dragnet
JEDDAH, 5 September 2005 — Two men residents called well-known “well-digging” contractors were arrested early yesterday with a cache of explosives during massive security raids in Jeddah that also netted more than 600 overstayers.
Arab News was there when two other men were arrested on charges of possession of police clothing and forged passports. The suspects denied ownership of the items when confronted by police. Investigations are ongoing. However, police confirmed that the explosives seized were meant for digging wells.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=69566&d=5&m=9&y=2005
Women Demand More Private Sector Jobs
DAMMAM, 5 September 2005 — Saudi businesswomen are calling on the private sector to shoulder its responsibility and respond to the calls made by Minister of Labor Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi to provide suitable working environments for Saudi women.
Several businesswomen and women employees told Arab News that 50 percent of the current jobs available in the private sector do not suit neither the nature of Saudi women nor their culture. They said the private sector should come up with ways and means to accommodate Saudi women, who represent half of the Kingdom’s population. They also called for the establishment of certain committees that should coordinate with concerned authorities to create jobs that were reserved for men in the past.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=69565&d=5&m=9&y=2005
BBC News
Thousands return to New Orleans
US evacuees' story
Lengthy traffic queues have formed on the approaches to suburban New Orleans as residents who fled Hurricane Katrina return to inspect their homes.
Thousands are going into the flooded city to collect personal items, before leaving once again.
Rescuers are still scouring streets and homes to find survivors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214504.stm
'Someone died in front of me'
The situation in New Orleans is increasingly desperate
The BBC News website has received thousands of emails after Hurricane Katrina cut a devastating swathe through Gulf Coast communities in the southern United States.
Bill Martin, a student assistant in the sports information office for Louisiana State University, sent us this email about his experiences helping those affected by the disaster after the sports centre at the university became makeshift shelter.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4208092.stm
Rescuers battle chaos and confusion
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By Matthew Davis
BBC News, Mississippi
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At an emergency relief air-lift centre at Lafayette Airport, Tony Cramer throws his hands in the air in exasperation.
Caring for the sick and injured is exhausting work
"We've just delivered three helicopters of water and equipment to those co-ordinates because we were told there were 5,000 people in desperate need.
"Now I have some major on the phone who says they've been evacuated in a boat - well that must be a helluva big boat."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4212674.stm
Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media?
By Matt Wells
BBC News, Los Angeles
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As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s.
Mr Bush's famed "folksy" style has failed to impress in this crisis
Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing.
But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4214516.stm
At-a-glance: Centres of devastation
Days after Hurricane Katrina struck the southern US coast, many towns and cities remain in ruins.
Use the map below to find out about some of the places affected by the storm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4197346.stm
Fans fear for jazz's birthplace
By Chris Leggett
BBC News Interactive entertainment reporter
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Jazz lovers are fearing the worst for the musical heritage of the city New Orleans, which has been devastated by Hurricane Katrina.
Aside from the huge human and economic loss to the Louisiana city, jazz fans are concerned that much of the music's history may have been lost forever.
Historic Bourbon Street has not escaped the flooding
Since the hurricane struck, music lovers have been trying to get information about the musicians and venues which have kept alive the city's tradition.
Eighty per cent of New Orleans was reported to have been underwater last week.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4209328.stm
Mapping the Destruction
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/americas/05/katrina/html/evacuation.stm
Michael Moore Today
http://www.michaelmoore.com/
Bring Them Home Now Tour (Report #1)
SOUTHERN ROUTE
Stop 1: Austin - Aug. 31
The VFP Bus, the White Rose and the Tour RV arrived just before 4:00 and proceeded to a meeting with Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s office where we met with his top aide. The meeting was overwhelmingly positive and Doggett’s support for our cause was affirmed.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/mustread/index.php?id=495
Mat James caries his dog Baby Pearl as he marches in the Southern Decadence parade in the French Quarter of New Orleans, La., Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005. The week long gay festival, which is second only to Mardi Gras, was to have begun Sunday. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) AP - Sep 04 2:39 PM
http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?p=%22Baby+Pearl%22&c=news_photos
Authorities regaining grip on city
New Orleans Times-Picayune
Federal troops and relief convoys continued to pour into New Orleans on Saturday, even as buses evacuated additional thousands of debilitated refugees who endured the most horrific five days in the 287-year history of this once-elegant city.
But if relief was in sight, it was not yet at hand.
Thousands of men, women and children who fled impoverished neighborhoods flooded by Hurricane Katrina waited listlessly for relief at the threshold of death and despair at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3977
Bush sends marines as flood fury grows
20,000 still trapped in burning city
By Julian Borger and Jamie Doward / Guardian
President George Bush ordered an extra 17,000 troops - including 7,000 elite airborne troops and marines - into New Orleans and the devastated Gulf Coast yesterday to try to bolster the stumbling flood relief effort and salvage the reputation of his presidency.
The order was announced after it became clear that National Guard troops sent into the city on Friday were no match for the scale of the disaster unleashed by Hurricane Katrina and the consequent collapse of the levees around the city. Within two days the number of military personnel in the area is hoped to reach some 54,000 people.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3976
Flags at Half-Mast for New Orleans Rehnquist
Analysis: US asks NATO, EU for relief aid
By Roland Flamini / UPI
WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- A week after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the American Gulf Coast the Bush administration formally requested emergency assistance from the European Union and NATO, both organizations announced separately Sunday. The E.U.Environment Commissioner, Savros Dimas, said, "We are, and have been, ready to contribute to the U.S. efforts aimed at alleviating the humanitarian crisis in New Orleans."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3972
'It's black people who are dying, so Bush doesn't care'
New York churches leader Dr Calvin Butts says if Katrina had hit middle-class white areas, the relief effort would have been quicker, better planned and more effective
Interview by David Smith / Guardian
'President Bush is not a strong leader. There's something wrong with him and it comes from two places. First, a lack of concern for poor people, and certainly poor black people. Second, like his father, he's probably not even aware that these people exist. Even if he knew they existed and even if he were concerned, I'm not sure [he would know] what to do, whom to call. If this hurricane had struck a white, middle-class neighbourhood in the north-east or the south-west, his response would have been a lot stronger and I think he would have had more of those people around him who are supposed to know what to do moving a lot more quickly.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3974
"They've got to open the base"
Louisiana black leaders, along with Maxine Waters and Jesse Jackson, want to take Katrina victims to a shuttered Air Force base instead of shelters. And I'm going with them.
By Stephen Elliott / Salon
Sept. 3, 2005 BATON ROUGE, La. -- I got on a bus with California Rep. Maxine Waters Saturday afternoon, not sure where we were going, just knowing we were headed to New Orleans to pick up Hurricane Katrina victims. Even as television news is showing pictures of people being rescued by military helicopters and chartered buses, local and national black leaders are seething at the mismanaged evacuation, as well as the haphazard way even the rescued people are being handled. So they've come up with their own plan: to load the remaining residents on buses they've chartered and bring them to England Air Force Base, a shuttered military installation in Alexandria, La.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/index.php?id=3975
Release Vacant Military Bases for Hurricane Katrina Victims
To: US Congress
This is a petition for the United States Government to release all closed military bases to provided temporary housing and hospital facilities for all Hurricane Katrina victims in need of shelter, food, water and health care.
http://www.petitiononline.com/10000008/petition.html
Jefferson Parish President: "Yesterday, FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines."
http://www.michaelmoore.com/_images/splash/aaron_broussard.mov
The Advocate
Bush nominates Roberts for chief justice
By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Monday nominated John Roberts to succeed William H. Rehnquist as chief justice and called on the Senate to confirm him before the Supreme Court opens its fall term on Oct. 3. Just 50 years old, Roberts could shape the court for decades to come.
The swift move would promote to the Supreme Court's top job a newcomer who currently is being considered as one of eight associate justices. It would also ensure a full 9-member court, because retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has said she will remain on the job until her replacement is confirmed.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCOTUS?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-09-04-23-24-50
Bush says he'll fill vacancies promptly
By JENNIFER LOVEN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Bush on Sunday called the late Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist a man of "character and dedication" and said he would work swiftly to fill the two openings at the Supreme Court.
"It will serve the best interest of the nation to fill those vacancies promptly," Bush said in brief remarks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Rehnquist died at home late Saturday after a long battle with cancer, an event that gives Bush the rare opportunity to name a second justice to the Supreme Court. In July, Bush nominated federal appellate judge John Roberts to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/R/REHNQUIST_SCOTUS?SITE=LABAT&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2005-09-04-11-29-50
Evaluation of city begins
Police kill 5 in clash on bridge
By MICHELLE MILLHOLLON
Advocate staff photo by Richard Alan Hannon
Hurricane Katrina evacuees board military helicopters as others wait to land Sunday along Interstate 10 at Elysian Fields in New Orleans.
Police reportedly killed five people Sunday in New Orleans, hours after planning to shift some soldiers to Baton Rouge in the belief that violence was under control.
State and federal officials, meanwhile, began counting the dead from Hurricane Katrina, and residents of Jefferson Parish began lining up to return to their homes this morning.
Rescue operations continued Sunday. Hundreds of thousands of people already have been evacuated since last Monday.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090505/new_evac001.shtml
7 storm-lost children reunited with parents in San Antonio
By EMILY KERN
Advocate staff photo by PATRICK DENNIS
Macey T. Raymond, 7, of New Orleans plays with a basketball as 4-year-old DeMarco Robinson, also of New Orleans, wears a play set of vampire teeth. The children were separated from their parents during Hurricane Katrina.
For seven children separated from their parents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Sunday brought a happy ending: Their parents had been located in a San Antonio shelter.
As the children were loaded into a state Department of Social Services van that would take them to the airport, LSU student Jodi McKenzie tapped on the van's windows toward Zaria Love, 3, and said, "I love you. It's OK.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090505/new_children001.shtml
List compiled to help save Jews in New Orleans
By PENNY BROWN ROBERTS
proberts@theadvocate.com
Advocate staff writer
NEW ORLEANS -- There were 50 of them -- some typed, some handwritten -- on a spreadsheet.
Henry and Navilla Johnson. Alvin and Theone Halpern. Andy Lazar. Rose Leopold. Dorlene Alaynick. Karl Mercker.
The names of those still missing or stranded since Hurricane Katrina barreled ashore a week ago.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/090505/new_jews001.shtml
WBRZ, WGNO partner to provide continuous news coverage until Sunday evening
WBRZ staff report
WBRZ-TV News 2 Louisiana of Baton Rouge has opened its doors to WGNO-TV/ABC 26 of New Orleans in order to provide continuous coverage of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. The move allows both stations to provide critical information to the thousands of Louisiana families displaced by the powerful Category 5 storm.
“WBRZ is committed to providing as much information as possible to our viewers and the evacuees from Orleans and surrounding parishes,” said WBRZ General Manager Rocky Daboval. “With WGNO’s assistance and staff expertise, WBRZ Channel 2 is able to provide more information faster to the thousands of people who desperately want to know the latest developments from that areas that were hit hardest.”
In addition to its normal on-air and cable outlets, WBRZ’s broadcast signal is now available on the cable outlets normally occupied by WGNO. The partnership between the two stations is scheduled to remain in effect until late Sunday, Sept. 4, at 7:00pm should coverage be warranted.
http://2theadvocate.com/stories/083005/new_wgno001.shtml
Sun Herald
Threats to public health increasing
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BY BETH MUSGRAVE, GREG LACOUR andHEATHER DUNCAN
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Sun Herald
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More aid and thousands of relief workers arrived by semitrailer and by air Sunday, but disaster relief officials were struggling to maintain public health and coordinate relief efforts.
President Bush changed his Labor Day plans and will revisit the Mississippi Gulf Coast this afternoon, according to a statement from the White House. He will be at Pearl River Community College in Poplarville to meet with state and local officials.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12562758.htm
Editorial: It's OK to be OK
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Sun Herald
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Like a thief in the night, Hurricane Katrina surged ashore a week ago in the early morning darkness, stealing so much from so many that the final toll of this catastrophe may never be tallied.
But not everyone suffered equally. And some of those who suffered the least feel the most guilty. About still having a home. About having something cold to drink and hot to eat. About still having a job. About still being alive.
Within the circle of Sun Herald employees we have seen everything - except, thank God, death. Our own prayer list includes nine employees who are still missing.
Among those employees we have heard from, we have many who have lost everything except their lives and their jobs. We have others who have little more than the headache of debris removal to contend with. Indeed, one of our employees surveyed his neighborhood after Katrina's winds had died down and thought that power would be restored later that day.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/special_packages/hurricane_katrina/12555320.htm
Find Loved Ones
http://forums.sunherald.com/n/mb/listsf.asp?webtag=kr-biloxkatrina&ctx=128&cacheTag=x0-34&sts=9%2F5%2F2005+11%3A18%3A33+AM
Journalists gather thoughts, share their experiences
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Monday marks a week since Hurricane Katrina changed the face of South Mississippi while bringing out the incredible spirit of our beloved community. With their own personal losses weighing heavily on us, our Sun Herald staff has been reporting continuously so that you and the rest of the world can learn more about what we have suffered.
We have asked our team here to gather their thoughts about their experiences riding out the storm. Readers may even see a few familiar names as we've also asked former reporters who have come back to help us to tell us of their experiences as well.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/12562732.htm
The Times-Picayune
New Orleans staggers to its feet for next step on long road
By Ron Thibodeaux and Gordon Russell
Staff writers
In a city in dire need of some divine intervention from the most catastrophic week in its history, the first post-Katrina Sunday in New Orleans was infused with the sounds of military helicopters and sporadic gunfire instead of lilting hymns and Gospel readings.
On the seventh day of this disaster of biblical proportions, the last evacuees from the fetid conditions of the Superdome and the Convention Center rested with New Orleans in the rearview mirror of the buses taking them to clean, safe havens far away.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html
Thibodaux church sheltering pets
By Millie Ball
Staff writer
THIBODAUX - The young woman from New Orleans, her 7-year-old daughter and their pet poodle were sleeping under the altar at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Center on the Nicholls State University campus.
The Rev. Jim Morris said he gazed down at the family that had been banned because of the dog from the regular shelter for victims of Hurricane Katrina. He told a colleague, "Our altar has never been adorned more beautifully than it is with these people seeking the sanctuary of God."
Morris has a dog named Blue. He understands.
"I went over to the school shelter Tuesday night and saw all these people outside, looking dejected and clinging to their animals," said the slender 44-year-old priest with friendly blue eyes and sandy hair he hasn't had time to comb lately. "They wouldn't let them inside. So I said, bring them on over to the church."
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html
Leak at Murphy Oil
Sunday, Sept. 5, 2005. 11:05 p.m.
Aerial photographs taken by the state Department of Environmental Quality on Sunday indicate that oil has begun to leak from a tank at the flooded-out Murphy Oil Refinery in Meraux and that the leak is spreading into a neighborhood directly west of the refinery.
Darin Mann, a DEQ spokesman, said the leak was spotted during a flyover by the department but that state officials do not know how much oil has leaked out or when cleanup efforts can begin. The tank that's leaking can hold 85,000 barrels of crude oil, the Associated Press reported.
A contractor that's been tapped for the clean-up effort has been unable to move its equipment into place because of flooding from Hurricane Katrina, Mann said.
Although floodwaters have receded throughout St. Bernard Parish, the refinery was still surrounded by water as of Sunday.
Murphy Oil Co. is aware of the leak, and will be responsible for clean-up, Mann said.
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Some Fish Die At Aquarium
Sunday, Sept. 5, 2005 10:50 p.m.
By Jim Varney
Staff writer
While there were plenty of fires still smoldering in New Orleans on Sunday, the black smoke belching from the roof of one of the city’s crown jewels has regrettably stopped. The generator at the Aquarium of the Americas is shot.
Its demise signaled the death of scores of gorgeous animals according to stricken workers who moved through the building with miner’s lights strapped to their heads.
“These were our buddies. We did the best job we could to keep them alive,’’ said John Hewitt IV, director of husbandry and a senior vice president at the Audubon Nature Institute.
Near tears Hewitt declined to describe the watery tombs inside the aquarium. Most of the fish in the giant shark tank and the Caribbean reef exhibit are feared dead, as well as the tropical sting rays and other Amazonian fish in the aquarium’s rainforest section.
A similar tragedy reportedly has not befallen the New Orleans Zoo, another prime tourist attraction and a source of tremendous civic pride.
And all is not lost at the zoo’s watery partner at the foot of Canal Street. Hewitt identified the aquarium’s thick green anaconda and white alligators as among the survivors.
“They’re fine and frankly we’re in no hurry to move those guys,’’ Hewitt said.
Also making it through Hurricane Katrina were the aquarium’s sea otters, its bald eagle and most of its penguins. Hewitt said in the coming days the aquarium’s staff will try to find alternative homes for the fish and birds.
No decision has been made on a timetable for that move or on whether to drain the tanks before the dead fish are removed.
“We’ve had offers of help from all over the world,’’ he said. “What we’ll do now is access the health of the living animals and get them relocated wherever we can.”
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html
Death toll numbers begin to trickle in
Forensic team faces challenge identifying victims of hurricane
By Laura Maggi
Staff Writer
BATON ROUGE - In the first announcement of what will undoubtedly be a growing tally of the people killed by Hurricane Katrina and its devastating aftermath, officials said Sunday that 59 bodies were in a state morgue and had been confirmed to have died from storm-related causes.
Health officials would not say how high they expected the death toll to go, but Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin have both said repeatedly that they expect it to be in the thousands.
Local officials have said there are about 100 bodies at a wharf in St. Bernard Parish, but the state has not confirmed those deaths, said Louis Cataldie, medical director for emergency operations for the state Department of Health and Hospitals.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html
Military presence isn’t martial law
Active military used in humanitarian role
By Susan Finch
Staff writer
Martial law isn’t a law at all.
But the term has been invoked over and over in the week since Hurricane Katrina struck to describe the enhanced authority assumed by public officials, restrictions on access to some public streets and the presence of armed federal soldiers roaming parts of the New Orleans area.
Some public officials do invoke extraordinary authority during emergencies, under a 12-year-old Louisiana law. But the presence of active-duty military personnel does not mean martial law has been declared.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html
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