Newsletter -- 9/14/05: Going Home

[Patsy Stone]

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Tonight on Countdown
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Three Louisiana towns were set to allow residents to come home Wednesday for the first time since Hurricane Katrina struck, while the mayor of New Orleans said he hoped some of the thousands driven from his city could be resettled there as early as next week. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9156612/

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What Went Right: Lt. John Scott, one of the rescue pilots, shares the success stories of the Coast Guard's mission.

The government should not bar the media from recording events to which the public has access, such as the government's response and recovery effort from the effects of Hurricane Katrina, chief justice nominee John Roberts told the Senate Judiciary Committee. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9175162/

A dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding 542 in a series of attacks that began with a suicide car bombing that targeted laborers assembled to find work for the day. Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility. A senior American military official told The Associated Press he believed the bombings were retaliation for the sweep through Tal Afar in recent days to evict insurgents from their stronghold near the Syrian border. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9332851/

Hurricane Ophelia picked up strength as it closed in on North Carolina on Wednesday, soaking the region with a half-foot of rain, washing away a barrier island street and causing power outages. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9317642/

That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
A truck carrying tons of quarters caught fire Tuesday and spilled most of them on a highway, where workers used heavy equipment, shovels and buckets to scoop up the singed coins. The driver said the truck carried 39,000 pounds of new Kansas quarters, part of the U.S. Mint's state coin series, that were worth some $800,000, said Police Chief Michael Putnam. Police called in a front-end loader to scoop up the coins and deposit them in buckets. The road was partly closed for 12 hours.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/Q/QUARTERS_FIRE?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
Traffic was required to change.

-- Carey Fox

Countdown Home: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/

More:
The Federal Emergency Management Agency will receive most of the $62 billion Congress has approved for Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, setting up a major test of the agency's ability to distribute the cash and monitor the private contractors who will do much of the work. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9317210/

As rising floodwaters swamped New Orleans, Louisiana's chief epidemiologist enlisted state police on a mission to break into a high-security government lab and destroy any dangerous germs before they could escape or fall into the wrong hands. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9339191/

Retail sales plunged in August by the largest amount in nearly four years, evidence that the economy was weakening even before Hurricane Katrina struck. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9338227/

Before skeptical and silent world leaders, President Bush on Wednesday urged compassion for the needy and pressed the global community to "put the terrorists on notice" by cracking down on any activities that could incite deadly attacks." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9335338/

The boards of Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. are expected to meet Wednesday as the third- and fourth-largest U.S. air carriers teeter on the edge of bankruptcy. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9337671/

A German inventor said he has developed a method to produce crude oil products from waste that he believes can be an answer to the soaring costs of fuel, but denied a German newspaper story implying he also used dead cats. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9339530/

[RevCheesehead]

1. I guess political capital doesn't transfer to the rest of the world.

Before skeptical and silent world leaders, President Bush on Wednesday urged compassion for the needy and pressed the global community to "put the terrorists on notice" by cracking down on any activities that could incite deadly attacks."

[gkhouston]

2. would these activities include

invading other countries on false pretenses to look for nonexistent WMDS? :freak:

[Patsy Stone]

3. It doesn't even register here, how can it transfer?

Is it true * was announced at the UN as "His Excellency"? I may vomit, regardless if it's a conventional introduction or not.