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...With that, Nagin declared a mandatory evacuation that began at 8 a.m. Sunday for residents living on the west bank of the Mississippi River, and at noon for all other residents. And for the first time in history, Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard has called for a mandatory evacuation for the east bank of Jefferson Parish just outside of the New Orleans city limits...
...Gustav crossed western Cuba on Saturday and has already killed more than 80 people in the Caribbean. Forecasters said Gustav was likely to grow stronger as it marched toward the coast with top sustained winds of around 115 mph. At 8 p.m. EDT Sunday, the National Hurricane Center said Gustav was a Category 3 storm centered about 175 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and moving northwest near 17 mph. It had weakened slightly, but forecasters expected it to grow more intense by Monday. The storm could bring a surge of up to 14 feet...
...National Convention, which was supposed to begin Monday in St. Paul, Minn. The White House announced that Bush was heading to Texas Monday to monitor emergency response efforts, and Republican officials have already postponed most of Monday's convention activities. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff headed to the region Sunday and planned to stay for the duration of the storm...
...with Palin is limited, which only fueled accusations on the left that the choice was little more than a token move. He first met her in February of this year, at a National Governor's Association meeting. McCain's campaign says the two leaders had a phone conversation last Sunday, and then met again in secret on Thursday at McCain's family home in Sedona, Ariz., when the candidate offered her the job. Palin's children were not told that their mother was the nominee until later in the day Thursday. They had been told previously that they were going...
...tobacco, steroids, corporate criminals, ultimate fighting, a sweetheart deal for Boeing and all kinds of pork. He crusaded for a patients' bill of rights and even a boxers' bill of rights. He got great press, and colleagues have often rolled their eyes at his ubiquitous television presence, but the Sunday shows wouldn't have invited him so often if he hadn't become so interesting - and so candid. "He's fascinating: basically a doctrinaire Reagan conservative, but when something offends him, he breaks from the orthodoxy," says Ivan Schlager, the top Democratic counsel to McCain's Commerce Committee during...