NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN SA
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2005
CNN, NBC to open New Orleans bases
DAVID BAUDER
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Expecting that the Hurricane Katrina recovery will be a big story for months to come, both NBC and CNN said Thursday they are opening full-time news bureaus in New Orleans.
NBC News said its bureau will operate out of space at WDSU-TV, its local affiliate, and will help the network and MSNBC originate shows in the city. Brian Williams anchored the "NBC Nightly News" from there on Thursday in advance of President Bush's speech.
"This is not a flash in the pan," acting NBC News President Steve Capus said. "This is going to go into the next year."
Frieda Morris, current chief of NBC's Atlanta bureau who has been living out of a trailer in Biloxi, Miss., since the storm, will be in charge of the New Orleans bureau. NBC had no immediate details on how many people will staff the operation.
going to go there. CNN said it had obtained office space ir downtown New Orleans and was moving equipment, journalists and a
production crew there soon. It moved up its announcement by a day after NBC made its news.
its news.
"The story of the devastating wrath of Hurricane Katrina will unfold for years to come as the coast recovers and rebuilds," said CNN/US president Jonathan Klein. "CNN will be there to cover that story, and New Orleans will be a critical base of operations for us for a long time."
The irony is television news divisions have spent much of the past decades shutting domestic and international bureaus to save money.
The announcements also bothered their rivals, who said they also had large numbers of people working in New Orleans. ABC News, for example, said it was moving into a more permanent work space in New Orleans. CBS News said it had 200 people in the region at the height of the story.
height of the authority.
"We have an enormous presence in Louisiana and will for a very long time to come," ABC News spokeswoman Cathie Levine said.
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they are going 15 miles per hour and everyone else is going two," Ornce said.
Office staff
Bailey said traffic enforcement was conducted when officers had the time to do it, unless they received a complaint about traffic violations in a specific area.
He said the KU Police Department had responded to those complaints before and increased
Mangimelli said that he coexisted peacefully with pedestrians and cars and that he rarely heard a complaint or a honk.
enforcement in those areas.
He also said it was the responsibility of drivers and cyclists to look out for each other and for both to obey the traffic laws.
"I think I should hear that stuff more than I have, because I probably get in people's way a lot," he said.
-Edited by Patrick Ross
HURRICANE KATRINA
Bush addresses disaster
President Bush speaks to the nation from Jackson Square in the French Quarter section of New Orleans. In his address last night, Bush acknowledged that his administration had failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina Across five Gulf Coast states,the death toll climbed yesterday to 794.
TERENCE HUNT
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW ORLEANS — President Bush promised last night that the government will pay most of the costs of rebuilding the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast in one of the largest reconstruction projects the world has ever seen. "There is no way to imagine America without New Orleans, and this great city will rise again," the president said.
He also said a disaster on the scale of Katrina requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces.
Standing in Jackson Square in the heart of the French Quarter, Bush acknowledged his administration had failed to respond adequately to Hurricane Katrina, which killed hundreds of people across five states. The government's costs for rebuilding could reach $200 billion or beyond.
The president said he had ordered the Department of Homeland Security to undertake an immediate review of emergency plans in every major city in America.
beyond.
Bush described the hurricane's aftermath as "days of sorrow and outrage," and he said the nation had "witnessed the kind of desperation no citizen of this great and generous nation should ever have to know." He deplored scenes of victims calling out for food and water, criminals who had no mercy, and bodies of the dead lying uncovered in the street.
Bush said the suffering of victims was tempered by acts of courage and kindness by the Coast Guard and other rescue workers. To the hundreds of thousands of
And here in new Orleans, the street cars will once again rumble down St. Charles,and the passionate sour of a great city will return."
are not alone."
President Bush
people forced from their homes, Bush said, "You need to know that our whole nation cares about you
and in the journey ahead you
are not alone. Promising better days ahead, Bush said, "The streets of Biloxi and Gulfport will again be filled with lovely homes and the sound of children playing. The churches of Alabama will have their broken steeples mended and their congregations whole.
"And here in New Orleans, the street cars will once again rumble down St. Charles, and the passionate soul of a great city will return."
Bush faced the nation at a vulnerable point in his presidency. Most Americans disapprove of his handling of Katrina, and his job-approval rating has been dragged down
to the lowest point of his presidency also because of dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and rising gas prices. He has struggled to demonstrate the same take-charge leadership he displayed after the Sept. 11 terror attacks four years ago.
attacks four years later.
Across five Gulf Coast states,
the death toll from Katrina climbed
yesterday to 794, led by 558 in
Louisiana.
Faulting the government's response, Bush said that Katrina "was not a normal hurricane — and the normal disaster relief system was not equal to it." State officials have blamed the federal government for failing to respond more quickly, and federal officials have pointed fingers at state and local officials.
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