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President Bush plays a guitar presented to him by Country Singer Mark Wills, right, backstage following his visit to Naval Base Coronado, Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2005. Bush visited the base to deliver remarks on V-J Commemoration Day. (AP Photo/ABC News, Martha Raddatz)


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We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)

GOVERNOR RILEY: He'll be glad to have you.

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Hurricane Center Director Tells Paper He Briefed Brown and Chertoff on
Danger of Severe Flooding

By E&P Staff

Published: September 04, 2005 6:55 PM ET

NEW YORK Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, told
the Times-Picayune Sunday afternoon that officials with the Federal
Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Homeland Security,
including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael
Chertoff, listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff in advance
of Hurricane Katrina slamming Louisiana and Mississippi--and were advised
of the storm?s potential deadly effects.

"Mayfield said the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it
could bring were made clear during both the briefings and in formal
advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in
New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise
buildings," the paper reported. "He said the briefings included information
on expected wind speed, storm surge, rainfall and the potential for
tornados to accompany the storm as it came ashore.

"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It?s not like
this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be
topped."

Chertoff told reporters Saturday that government officials had not expected
the damaging combination of a powerful hurricane levee breaches that
flooded New Orleans.

Brown, Mayfield said, is a dedicated public servant. ?The question is why
he couldn?t shake loose the resources that were needed,?? he said.

Brown and Chertoff could not be reached for comment on Sunday afternoon.

In the days before Katrina hit, Mayfield said, his staff also briefed FEMA,
which under the Department of Homeland Security, at FEMA?s headquarters in
Washington, D.C., its Region 6 office in Dallas and the Region 4 office in
Atlanta about the potential effects of the storm. He said all of those
briefings were logged in the hurricane center?s records.

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