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WASHINGTON, Aug. 21, 2008 – The United Warrior Survivors Foundation will host its fifth annual West Coast Survivors Conference Aug. 22-25 in San Diego. “These conferences were established with the unique needs of Special Forces widows in mind, affording them a healing experience and sense of camaraderie and support,” Kelly Chott, foundation administrator, said. The conference brings together Special Forces widows at various stages of bereavement and includes an array of speakers and experts in the fields of military widowhood, bereavement, financial planning, benefits and entitlements, as well as practical classes in self-defense and coping with their children’s grieving...

In what Sacramento police describe as a "miracle,'' a 2-year-old boy survived on cat food for up to six days on his own and was found Thursday after his mother died in their North Sacramento home. The child - whom Sacramento County Child Protective Services identified as Noah - and his mother were discovered at 10:39 a.m. after police forced their way into the home in the city's Hagginwood neighborhood, police Officer Konrad Von Schoech said. A CPS worker had gone to check on the family that morning because the mother suffered from chronic illness, Von Schoech said. No one...

Stricken ferry 'survivors found' The ferry was en route to Cebu from Manila when it capsized on Saturday Twenty-eight survivors have been found from a Philippine ferry carrying more than 700 people that capsized in a typhoon, a local radio station says. Four other people were found alive earlier, but hundreds remain missing after a rescue ship that reached the upturned vessel found no signs of life. The 28 had been drifting in a life-raft for 24 hours after the ferry tipped over off Sibuyan island, reports said. The Red Cross estimates the storm has left 155 people dead...

Man alive nearly 179 hours after quake YINGCHUAN, Sichuan, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Ma Yuan Jiang, a power plant executive, was rescued at around 00:50 a.m. Tuesday from the rubble in Wenchuan County of southwest China's Sichuan Province, nearly 179 hours after the May 12 earthquake. The 31-year-old survivor was pulled by a Shanghai rescue team from the debris of a flattened power plant, after more than 30 hours' efforts. Rescuers found Ma at afternoon on May 18 at the debris of a flattened office building, when they were digging hole trying to reach Yu Jinhua, a colleague of Ma....

YANGON, Myanmar - Myanmar's military government is forcing cyclone victims out of refugee camps and "dumping" them near their devastated villages with virtually no aid supplies, U.N. and church officials said Friday. Eight camps set up by the junta for homeless victims in the Irrawaddy delta town of Bogalay were "totally empty" as the clear-out continued, said Teh Tai Ring of UNICEF, speaking at a meeting of U.N. and private aid agency workers discussing water and sanitation issues. "The government is moving people unannounced," he said, adding that authorities were "dumping people in the approximate location of the villages, basically...

Cyclone survivors may have to grow their own food 18:15 09 May 2008 Debora MacKenzie The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation is calling for $10 million in emergency farming equipment and seeds for parts of southern Burma devastated by Cyclone Nargis, to help plant the next rice crop. Meanwhile the UN's World Food Programme has stopped emergency food shipments to the disaster zone after the country's military dictators impounded the first shipment on arrival. Cyclone Nargis, which hit southern Burma last Saturday, devastated the delta of the Irawaddy River, the country's main rice growing region. Up to 100,000 may have...

It is one of the enduring mysteries of the second world war. More than 800 Jews based in this hospital in the middle of Nazi Berlin survived the war, seemingly — and bizarrely — protected by Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the Final Solution. So who were they and why were they saved? Russian soldiers fighting their way through the rubble of Berlin in the last days of the war turned the corner of Iranische Strasse, in the district of Wedding, and came across an elegant building almost intact. Fanning out to search the structure, the Russians ransacked the place,...

BLITAR, Indonesia - Hiding out in the dense, humid jungle, Markus Talam watched Indonesian soldiers herd manacled prisoners from trucks, line them up and mow them down with round after round of automatic weapons fire. It was 1968, and the killings were part of a final offensive by forces under Gen. Suharto to wipe out the communist party and secure his position as leader of Indonesia, now the world's most populous Muslim nation. "They gunned them down and dumped their bodies in a mass grave dug by other prisoners. I remember the sound of the guns clearly: tat-tat, tat-tat, tat-tat...

NEW ORLEANS - Once a frozen embryo threatened by Hurricane Katrina, little Noah Markham - named for the survivor of the biblical flood-of-all-floods - celebrated his first birthday Wednesday. His birth - which attracted cameras and reporters within an hour - is still a story his parents find themselves telling frequently. "My neighbor proclaims it every time we go somewhere: 'Did you see this little baby on the news?'" his mother, Rebekah Markham said. She and her husband, Glen, a New Orleans police officer, planned a small family gathering Wednesday evening to mark the anniversary of Noah's arrival, which made...

GOVERNMENT CAMP -- A chance encounter with a plastic bottle early Tuesday helped two lost climbers find their way off the lower flanks of Mount Hood after a night spent huddled in a hastily built snow cave. The bottle, apparently left by someone playing an adventure game, held map coordinates giving their precise location. And the two Portland men spotted it just as searchers called their cell phones -- which they mistakenly believed had stopped working for good the night before. "That was something," said 27-year-old Justin Votos, still marveling at the turn of events an hour after he and...

Tiger Victim's Mom Talks to Survivor 5 hours ago SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The mother of the teen killed by a tiger at the San Francisco Zoo says one of two friends injured in the attack told her that none of them had done anything to taunt the animal. Marilza Sousa spoke with Paul Dhaliwal by phone on Monday — their first conversation since the Christmas Day attack, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday. Sousa said Dhaliwal, 19, told her the tiger jumped over the fence while the trio was talking and tore a long gash in his...

NEW YORK - Doctors say they have never seen anything like it: A window washer who fell 47 stories from the roof of a Manhattan skyscraper is now awake, talking to his family and expected to walk again. Alcides Moreno, 37, plummeted almost 500 feet in a Dec. 7 scaffolding collapse that killed his brother. Somehow, Moreno lived, and doctors at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center announced Thursday that his recovery has been astonishing. He has movement in all his limbs. He is breathing on his own. And on Christmas Day, he opened his mouth and spoke for the...

BOSTON -- A 2-year-old Farmington, Minn., girl is expected to make a full recovery after a screwdriver went into her head, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Teagan Gislason was playing with some other children in a supervised area during a church service in Cannon Falls, Minn., on Dec. 19 when she found the screwdriver and started running with it and fell. It pierced her skull just above her left eye. Neither her eye nor her brain was damaged, and doctors did not need to perform surgery to remove it, although it did take four hours to extract the tool...

Bob Woodruff Talks to an Army Sergeant With an Amazing Story of Survival Of all the injuries in the war in Iraq, the one Sgt. Dan Powers sustained was among the most unusual. Powers, a member of the Army's 118th MP Company Airborne, was in eastern Baghdad investigating an explosion when suddenly an Iraqi walked up to him and stabbed him in the right side of his head. He didn't know what hit him. "It felt like someone kind of clothesline tackled me and a thump on the side of the head, like a bang," he said. An Iraqi teenager...

GOLDEN, B.C. – Rescuers who helped find a 3-year-old girl alive in the crumpled wreckage of an airplane in the rugged British Columbia mountains say they knew she was OK when she cried for her teddy bear. The girl, Kate Williams, miraculously survived the crash on Sunday because she was strapped into a child's car seat, said Mike Plonka, a member of Golden's search-and-rescue team. Her pilot grandfather, Allen D. Williams, 65, and Steven T. Sutton, died in the accident. The plane was found nose down and flipped over in the icy water on the edge of a riverbank. "What...

Dr. Roger Bielasz stood in the remains of his hilltop home near the swimming pool that saved him and his wife as a firestorm raged over their heads. “We survived in our pool,” Bielasz said between coughs. “We have a guardian angel.” Roger and Dena Bielasz live on a ridge overlooking San Pasqual Valley and the Wild Animal Park. SCOTT LINNETT / Union-Tribune After flames raced up a ridge above the San Pasqual Valley early Monday morning, Dena and Dr. Roger Bielasz jumped in their pool and watched the inferno engulf their home in an unincorporated area north of Poway....

MINNEAPOLIS - As the estimated cost of recovering from an interstate bridge collapse surges past $400 million, survivors of the deadly disaster just wish they could get a few thousand dollars here and there to make ends meet. About 30 of the more than 100 people injured in the Aug. 1 collapse, which killed 13 people, meet weekly to talk about the troubles it's caused them. This past week, one man spoke of his struggles with a $41,000 medical bill. Others mentioned missed paychecks. That they've all had such problems getting aid irritated fellow survivor Kimberly J. Brown enough that...

EDMONTON (CP) - The first warning is a phone call. It is never good. It alerts an unlucky spouse, partner or parent that within the next few minutes they can expect a visit from a team of sombre military officers. Even before the dreaded knock on the door, the family knows something bad has happened. Practice makes perfect in tragedy as in everything else, and military officials acknowledge that 18 months of fighting in southern Afghanistan has made them much better at delivering word of death or injury - and supporting those affected by it. "Unfortunately, we've gotten very good...

Source: University of Chicago Date: July 20, 2007 Ice Age Survivors Found In Iceland Science Daily — Many scientists believe that the ice ages exterminated all life on land and in freshwater in large parts of the Northern Hemisphere, especially on ocean islands such as Iceland. Crymostygius thingvallensis, the only species in a recently described family of groundwater amphipods Crymostygidae. (Credit: photograph by Thorkell Heidarsson) Scientists at Holar University College and the University of Iceland have challenged that belief, at least when looking at groundwater animals. They have discovered two species of groundwater amphipods in Iceland that are the only...

WASHINGTON, May 3, 2007 – The Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors paused May 1 to recognize those who help make their program possible during the TAPS 10th Annual Honor Guard Appreciation Luncheon here. Actor Ben Stein speaks at the 10th Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Annual Honor Guard Appreciation Luncheon in Washington on May 1. Stein, who said he’s “humbly grateful” for servicemembers, has spoken extensively on behalf of TAPS and said he plans to continue to do so. Photo by Samantha L. Quigley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “The Honor Guard Luncheon is our opportunity once a...

They survived the Titanic disaster only to have their lives blighted by questions over their integrity on the night the White Star liner slipped beneath the waves. Old Etonian Sir Cosmo Duff-Gordon and his socialite wife, Lady Lucy "Lucile" Duff-Gordon, escaped into the darkness in an emergency lifeboat less than half full. Sir Cosmo never lived down the stigma of accusations that he bribed crewmen to secure the escape in a boat which could have held 28 more people and and did not return to try to pick up survivors crying out in the icy sea. Now, after 95 years,...

YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia - Survivors of the fiery crash-landing of a Boeing 737-400 Wednesday said the plane appeared to be going too fast and shook violently before it touched down, lurched off the runway and exploded in flames, killing at least 21 people. About 115 dazed and bloodied survivors staggered from the Indonesian jetliner after it broke through a fence and came to rest in a rice paddy. Most escaped without major injuries, although several suffered burns and broken bones. Those killed were trapped in the wreckage of the Garuda Airlines plane after it suddenly caught fire, sending billowing clouds of...

RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany, Feb. 20, 2007 – Only hours after a helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, airmen from an aeromedical evacuation control team in Southwest Asia got 11 of 14 injured survivors onboard a C-17 Globemaster III bound for Germany. Airmen from the 435th Aeromedical Staging Flight at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, unload 11 critically injured patients from an arriving C-17 Globemaster III. The injured troops had survived a helicopter crash in southeastern Afghanistan only hours earlier. Once loaded on the buses, they were taken to nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center. U.S. Air Force photo  '(Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 2006 -- How to pay for a child’s college education shouldn’t be a consideration for those who lose a loved one in battle, and one troop-support group is working to ensure it isn’t. “We provide financial assistance and college grants to the children and spouses of the fallen … and severely injured servicemembers,” Rebecca Campbell, founder of The Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund, said. “It’s all for different needs, but (applicants) have to have a financial need.” The Children of Fallen Soldiers Relief Fund is a member of America Supports You, a Defense Department program...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC and its networks will provide a full-court press of coverage on the fifth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, calling on current NBC News journalists as well as former anchor Tom Brokaw and former "Today" co-host Jane Pauley. "Today" co-anchor Matt Lauer will broadcast live from the site of the World Trade Center and will be joined by Brokaw, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, survivors of the attacks and emergency personnel who were at the scene. At 8 p.m. September 11, Pauley will update her "Dateline" report broadcast in 2001 on United Flight...

Those Born 1930-1979! TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's !! First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking As...

Bird flu risk to Indonesian quake survivors: aid groups JAKARTA (AFP) - Some quake survivors on Indonesia's Java island have taken shelter in chicken sheds, exposing themselves to the risk of contracting bird flu and other diseases, a British aid group has warned. More than 100 people left homeless by the quake were sheltering in six large poultry sheds built from bamboo in Pundong in hard-hit Bantul district, said Yolanda Bayugo, health director of the London-based Merlin group in Indonesia. "We are concerned that people using poultry sheds as shelter are at risk from avian flu and possibly salmonella infection,"...

Miners planned to cut off legs From: AAP By Doug Conway May 21, 2006 Walk tall ... the miners with Tracey Grimshaw Pic: Channel 9 FREED miners Brant Webb and Todd Russell made contingency plans to amputate their legs with Stanley knives while trapped underground in Tasmania's Beaconsfield gold mine. Amputation ultimately proved unnecessary, but both men seriously considered the option after their legs were pinned by the Anzac Day cave-in that killed their workmate Larry Knight and trapped them "like rats" in a steel cage for 14 days. "Brant and I we were prepared to take our leg off...

Relatives of people killed in Russia's Beslan siege pleaded with President Vladimir Putin on Thursday to honor his promise for thorough investigation. Grieving relatives say they are kept going by the hope they will find the truth about the 2004 siege, when 330 people -- half of them children -- died after pro-Chechen gunmen seized a school and took hundreds of people hostage. Relatives' pressure groups say official investigations have whitewashed officials who were too corrupt or incompetent to stop the militants seizing the school. Putin promised at a meeting last year he would uncover the truth. But an open...

WASHINGTON, April 6, 2006 – Servicemembers seriously injured by improvised explosive devices during duty in the global war on terror are getting a unique opportunity to use their experience to combat and prevent future IED attacks. The Joint IED Defeat Organization here has entered into full partnership with the Operation Warfighter program at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in an initiative to target, recruit and hire servicemembers, including many who have suffered serious injuries from IED attacks. Operation Warfighter is a nationwide program that places wounded servicemembers in positions within the federal government. Thanks to this partnership, these servicemembers can...

4/4/2006 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- A veteran C-5 Galaxy pilot said all 17 people survived the April 3 plane crash at Dover Air Force Base, Del., mainly because the pilot did his job. Col. Udo McGregor said the “100 percent reason” everyone aboard survived the crash was because the pilot did a wings-level landing. “The survivors are survivors because he put it on the ground wings level,” said the colonel, commander of the 439th Operations Group at Westover Air Reserve Base, Mass. The transport took off from Dover at about 6:20 a.m. bound for Spain and Southwest Asia. On...

4/4/2006 - DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del. -- Air Force officials released the names of the 17 survivors of the C-5 Galaxy crash here April 3. Survivor names, base and medical conditions are as follows: Capt. Brian Lafreda, Dover, fair Lt. Col. Robert Moorman, Dover, fair Lt. Col. Harland Nelson, Dover, fair Master Sgt. Timothy Feiring, Dover, released Master Sgt. Michael Benford, Dover, fair Master Sgt. Brenda Kremer, Dover, released Chief Master Sgt. David Burke, Dover, released Chief Master Sgt. George Mosley, Dover, released Tech. Sgt. Henry Fortney, Dover, released Senior Airman Scott Schaffner, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, released Tammy Lucas,...

WASHINGTON, April 3, 2006 – All 17 people aboard survived the crash of an Air Force C-5 Galaxy transport jet at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Air Force officials reported. No official information was available on the condition of the survivors, who are members of Air Force Mobility Command's 436th Airlift Wing and the Air Force Reserve's 512th Airlift Wing. Both units are based at Dover. The jet crashed short of the runway at 6:30 a.m. while attempting to return to the base shortly after takeoff, reportedly because of mechanical problems. The huge aircraft broke into three pieces -- the...

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags. Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm...

"Notes left by some of the miners suggested they may have succumbed to carbon-monoxide poisoning - and died peacefully in their sleep. The father of sole survivor Randal McCloy, 26, told the Associated Press that though he has no evidence, he believes his son survived because the other miners shared the last of their oxygen with him. He believes they did so because McCloy was the youngest and has two small children."

Alive - after 63 days under rubble December 16, 2005 MOST of her muscles are withered, she cannot speak and she is mentally damaged but doctors believe a Kashmiri women who survived 63 days under freezing rubble after Pakistan's deadly earthquake will live. Naqsha Bibi, reduced to a skeleton, lies on a hospital bed in the intensive care unit set up by the Pakistan Islamic Medical Association in Muzaffarabad, the capital of quake-ravaged Pakistani Kashmir. Her two brothers and father, injured in the October 8 earthquake, were flown to a hospital in Rawalpindi near the capital Islamabad where they are...

U.S. MARINE CORPS FORCES, PACIFIC, CAMP H. M. SMITH, Hawaii (Dec. 7, 2005) -- Shots fired by Marines from the 3rd Marine Regiment firing detail echoed through the waters of Pearl Harbor in remembrance of a day that echoes throughout history at the 64th Pearl Harbor Day Commemoration Dec. 7. Along with the firing detail, wreath laying ceremonies and an F-15 missing man formation flew over the heads of the attendees. Each was a fitting mark of respect for the 2,390 Americans who lost their lives during the assault on Pearl Harbor. “I remember seeing them come up over the...

To All the Kids Who Survived the 1930s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes. Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.Riding...

June 6, 2005 Angels come to you in mysterious ways! I was having some problems and God knows my life has been filled with misery and sorrow from the murder of my father, and I had spoken with a Police Officer there about my situation, we sat and talked for at least an hour, I can't even remember the time, I lost track because he was so interesting to talk to, I told him how I felt about myself, my self worth and how my self esteem was gone and gone forever, we then started discussing my website and how...

BALAKOT, Pakistan - Villagers desperate to find survivors dug with bare hands Sunday through the debris of a collapsed school where children had been heard crying beneath the rubble after a massive earthquake. Pakistani officials said the death toll ranged between nearly 20,000 and 30,000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [end] Pakistan's president called Saturday's magnitude-7.7 earthquake the country's worst on record and appealed for urgent help, particularly cargo helicopters to reach remote areas. Rival India, which reported more than 465 dead, offered assistance. "I have been informed by my department that more than 30,000 people have died in Kashmir," Tariq Mahmmod, communications minister...

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (NNS) -- Hurricane Kartrina victims at one Navy command here have a place to shop without cost thanks to an outpouring of donations across the naval service. Davy Jones Locker is a volunteer-run store serving Navy and civilian personnel and their family members at Stennis Space Center near the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Now a makeshift store inside the Matthew Fontaine Maury Oceanographic Library, it has a bevy of items, from soup to soap, and from clothing to cat food. The Stennis-based Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command and the Naval Oceanographic Office have 441 employees who lost...

WASHINGTON -- In recent weeks, Air Force chapels raised thousands of dollars to provide comfort for those affected by Hurricane Katrina. Chapel communities contributed more than $376,000 for Hurricane Katrina survivors since the storm hit three weeks ago, according to the Air Force Chief of Chaplains Office here. “The Air Force chapel communities are being very generous and making sure our fellow Airmen and families are being taken care of,” said Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Brett Oxman, who works budgeting issues for the chaplains office at the Pentagon. The donations came from around the world, ranging from Edwards Air Force Base,...

They're out there. The shooters, the choppers, the looters, the lines, the foul water and the bodies. Especially the bodies. "But we're in here," says Victor Fruge. Others — hundreds of thousands of them — had also escaped from New Orleans. But few could match the extraordinary, even miraculous odyssey of Fruge and his comrades — 16 mentally ill men and recovering addicts, cast out of their group home, Abstract House, by the storm. For a week the men stuck together through Hurricane Katrina and its rising waters, following a survival instinct like a candle in the dark and gamely...

RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, many Americans want to do whatever they can to help those directly affected, and now government civilians have some opportunities to help in the effort. The emergency leave transfer and the federal employee volunteer programs are two avenues civilian employees can take to do their part in helping hurricane victims. Through the emergency leave transfer program, Air Force civilian employees may donate unused annual leave for transfer to fellow employees adversely affected by the hurricane. Leave transfer recipients who need additional time off from work can then...

NEW YORK (AP) - Pregnant and with three small children in tow, Grace Mukagabiro ran for her life after her husband was beheaded and their house burned down. On Tuesday, the Rwandan survivor of the attack on her Tutsi village joined activists in urging the United Nations summit to endorse a measure that would protect civilians from mass killings. "I survived the Rwandan genocide. Almost a million others did not," the 42-year-old mother of four said, a decade after the massacres led by the extremist Hutu government. She still lives in Kigali, Rwanda, working as program coordinator for the global...

NEW ORLEANS (Sept. 11, 2005) -- The empty silence of a decimated New Orleans street is broken by the call of an infantryman, "United States Marines. Is anyone in there?" For the past six days, Marines from B Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, have been conducting search-and-rescue patrols with the help of Assault Amphibian Vehicles from 4th Assault Amphibian Battalion. Since their arrival here Sept. 5 as part of Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force St. Bernard, the Marines of 1/8 and 4th Tracks have rescued 78 residents of New Orleans' hardest-hit areas. "We provide a unique capability to...

WASHINGTON -- The legalities of disaster recovery can seem murkier than floodwater, but for some Air Force families, making claims for belongings destroyed by Hurricane Katrina will be easier, thanks to Air Force paralegals. Two teams of Airmen from various Air Education and Training Command bases arrived at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., recently to help survivors navigate the legal claims system to recover or get reimbursement for their personal property on base. "The purpose of the teams is to go into the affected areas, evaluate the extent of the damages, document that information and assist the military member filing...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8, 2005 – Vice President Dick Cheney said today that he is impressed with the can-do attitude of the people in Mississippi. Cheney, traveling through the region Hurricane Katrina devastated, said everyone he has met "is positive and upbeat." "We're going to get it done. We're going to rebuild. We're going to get our schools open again. We're going to get our businesses back," the vice president said people told him throughout the region. President Bush sent Cheney, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to the region to ensure all that needs to be...

I caught a news story about the flood waters of New Orleans while getting ready for work this morning. Amazing... and disgusting. To think that there are people still choosing to live there. One man was interviewed on camera and said if they want him out, they are going to have to kill his dogs first and then him, cause he's not leaving. The local police are claiming they have orders to remove people by force, if necessary. The National Guard troops are saying that they cannot enter a private residence with no warrant to force people out. I think...

RALEIGH -- Nearly 400 New Orleans evacuees are fed, clean and safe in a vacant office building in West Raleigh, but their future remains as uncertain as it was when the devastation of Hurricane Katrina forced them from their homes. Three planeloads of storm victims, ages 2 to 97, arrived at a cargo terminal at Raleigh-Durham International Airport late Monday and early Tuesday. Local officials were ready with hot meals, showers, medical and mental health care and clean, dry sleeping quarters. But there is much more to do. Local, state and federal agencies must help Katrina's victims find temporary homes,...