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...hundred reporters, including this one, went on to Texas anyway. Bush spoke to reporters a few moments ago after he came out of the Northern Command saying ?the first order of business? is to dispatch search-and-rescue teams to the Rita-ravaged areas of Texas and Louisiana and urging evacuees to heed warnings about returning home to soon...
...business community, say the reconstruction project offers Nagin, 49, a chance to dramatically change not only New Orleans' skyline but also the more larcenous and dysfunctional side of its free wheeling culture. "I'm still high on him," says Mark Lewis, president of the New Orleans-based Louisiana Technology Council. "He's the right leader to bring the city back-especially when you consider that the corrupt old guard could try to exploit this disaster and come back into power...
...city's Reliant Center, refuge to thousands of Louisiana hurricane victims but built out of glass to withstand only a Category 3 storm, orange neon Do Not Enter signs are now posted on the doors. Across town at the Astrodome, also unsafe because of its glass room, families sit on piles of suitcases, waiting for yet-another transfer to yet-another safe zone. Houston city officials, mindful of the chaotic scenes from the Superdome and the New Orleans convention center, are offering evacuees a get-out-of-town pass on buses, with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some...
...expected to hit. Wednesday, it became mandatory. Mindful of the problems in New Orleans, the city had buses available Wednesday morning to carry people out of the city. Early in the week, Governor Rick Perry recalled the Texas National Guard as well as Texas Task Force 1 from Louisiana for possible search and rescue duty. The Salvation Army, already hard pressed by Katrina, gathered mobile kitchens and equipment from the west...
...volunteers stayed at the capital city’s Sheraton, while others in the Harvard Foundation-led group slept at the home of Louisiana Governor Kathleen B. Blanco and the Louisiana State University’s faculty club...