Theos-Talk Archives (September 2005 Message tt00128)

These CNN reports below summarize what was known by
the early evening hours of the following two days. 

On Tuesday, August 30, starting at 7 p.m ET 
CNN viewers learned the following:

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Special Edition: Katrina's Aftermath

See:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/30/acd.01.html

On Wednesday, August 31, 7 p.m ET CNN started reporting
the following:

ANDERSON COOPER 360 DEGREES
Katrina Aftermath: Live From Bay St. Louis

See:

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/31/acd.01.html

SUMMARY:

By 9 o'clock ET Monday, August 29th officials should have known
there was a MAJOR DISASTER probably going to be of BIBLICAL
PROPORTIONS.

By 9 o'clock ET Tuesday, August 30th, the highest government
officials both elected and appointed (federal & state) should have 
known that a DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS had indeed engulfed 
the Gulfport states....

Yet aid and help were so slow in coming to the victims of this 
hurricane that even the former Republican Speaker of the U.S. House 
of Representatives Newt Gringrich stated:

"I think it puts into question ALL of the Homeland Security and 
Northern Command planning for the last four years, because if we 
can't respond FASTER THAN THIS to an event WE SAW COMING ACROSS THE 
GULF FOR DAYS, then why do we think we're prepared to respond to a 
nuclear or biological attack [for which we have no advanced warning 
whatsoever]?" CAPS added and words in brackets also added.

Daniel