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I will answer them to the best of my ability.

1. As I understand it, this is total BS.

2. This appears to be without corroboration. I have only seen this same story circulated about a thousand times throughout the media, but with no additional names or agencies attached to it. I would put it in the category of rumor at this juncture.

3. I have not read anything on this.

4. This answer is pure speculation on my part, but based on the DOD briefing this morning. If the infrastructure of the city breaks down and there is no command and control on the ground, the first responders are victims of the disaster themselves and there are no communications methods available...you're going to run out of a lot of things. It is pretty much every man, woman and child for himself for a bit as those in immediate danger are addressed. Response procedure is: Rescue those in immediate danger, food and water, medical help and then further evacuation. At least that's how I understood it.

As I stand back and look at this now, without the purely emotional response we've tended to filter this through, the response has been pretty good.