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...Within the next five to ten minutes, several Miami-Dade police officers converged on the plane. When the flight attendants told them she was the victim's wife, they escorted her off the aircraft, he says...
...Once they passed the dogs, the passengers went through a pat-down search. Then the passengers boarded a bus that took them to another concourse, where an FBI agent and a Miami-Dade homicide detective questioned them individually, he says. The final step in the process involved giving a sworn statement, which was taken down by stenographer...
...Bauer says that "no information would indicate" Alpizar had any terrorist connections. But authorities plan to explore that possibility as the post-shooting investigation goes forward. "There will be two parallel investigations," he says. "First, the shooting will be investigated by Miami-Dade homicide investigators. Second, the FBI and federal air marshals are investigating whether this has any national security concern. Right now there's nothing to indicate any national security concern...
...scrutiny put on the Federal Emergency Management Agency, for which Wilma was a chance to redeem itself after the debacle of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA did perform more ably this time; but it fell short of redemption thanks to a Rube Goldberg bureaucracy that left local officials like Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Alvarez flummoxed by the "intricacies" of getting simple items like ice to "PODs" (points of distribution). Governor Jeb Bush tried to shield his brother George W. Bush's Administration by insisting that people "blame me" for supply shortfalls; but Gloria Williams, 45, whose apartment building was shattered...
...Florida on Monday, in the chaos before the storm, long lines of cars snaked northward on U.S. 1 into Miami-Dade County, motorists lined up at gas stations, some of which had run out of regular gas, and shoppers at Costco in North Miami Beach waited on line for bottled water. Some residents of Key Biscayne, south of Miami, bagged beach sand to protect their homes from flooding. Others expressed no desire to evacuate. "We've been through so many of these things," says Jim Brewster, a longtime Key Biscayne resident. "I'm not going anywhere unless...