Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state, toured her home state, Alabama. She had been criticised for watching the Broadway musical Spamalot as New Orleans became swamped. On returning to Washington, she denied that the...

“The guy who runs this building I’m in, emergency management, he’s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming,...

Defending the U.S. government’s response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur. But in fact, government officials, scientists and...

It isnt the failure to act in New Orleans that is the story here, its the sheer, uninsured, uncared for, self-disenfranchised scale of the poverty that lies revealed. It looks like a scene from...

By Friday, these exhausted doctors, nurses and administrators were running one of just three fully functioning medical centers in the city … We are very disappointed, to be quite honest, in the federal and...

“When the President’s travel details stop us from putting the helicopters in the air that will deliver help, we’ve got problems. When, after an hour and a half of waiting at the instructed location...

Dutch engineering has focused on not just controlling the flow of water but also keeping it clean. The drinking-water chain in the Netherlands is a fully closed system: sewage water is treated so that...

Erect huge seagates across the pair of narrow straits that connect the eastern edge of Lake Pontchartrain, which lies north of the city, to the gulf. Now, any hurricane that blows in from the...

Disgraced ex-Horse Lawyer, Bush donor, and now FEMA Chief Michael Brown’s pearls of wisdom… [Convention Center] We learned about that today [Thursday]. [Uncollected corpses] That’s not been reported to me, so I’m not going...

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