Oil spilling into Mississippi below New Orleans - Hurricane Katrina - MSNBC.com

NEW ORLEANS - A huge oil spill was spotted near two storage tanks on the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, state officials said Friday. The oil was seen in a flyover to the Venice area by the Department of Environmental Quality. %u201CTwo tanks with the capacity...

CNN.com - Mayor to feds: 'Get off your asses' - Sep 2, 2005

(CNN Video) -- New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM. The following is a transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette's interview with Nagin on Thursday...

Rice buys shoes, disregards tragedy, civil liberties

"A fellow shopper shouted, "How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!" - presumably referring to Louisiana and Mississippi. The woman expressing her First Amendment rights was promptly removed from the store. A Ferragamo store manager...

Wired News: Sonic 'Lasers' Head to Flood Zone

Air-raid sirens, Frank Sinatra songs and Muhammad Ali trash talk blared over the Southern California desert in a demonstration of new acoustic technology for crowd control and disaster communications.In mid-90's morning heat at Edwards Air Force Base, HPV Technologies and...

limbaugh thinks katrina is funny

Rush Limbaugh, is calling the storm Hurricane Katrina vanden Heuvel and warning that the left is going to use this tragedy against the right. Jonah Goldberg, who has never seen a bad joke bandwagon he could resist jumping on with both feet, blogged, and I quote, "It...

Hurricane cleanup could take months, years | CNET News.com

New Orleans could be underwater for quite a while, according to at least one expert, and the oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico might be under repairs for years. The scope of the flooding following Hurricane Katrina, combined with the fact that New Orleans is below sea level,...

Pentagon Rescue Teams Are Sent to Region - New York Times

The Pentagon late Tuesday ordered five Navy ships and eight maritime rescue teams to the Gulf Coast to bolster relief operations as worsening conditions overwhelmed the initial response.One Navy amphibious assault ship, the Bataan, with six Sea Stallion and Sea Hawk...

AppleInsider | Motorola to hold iTunes phone after-party at Webster Hall

Exclusive -- Motorola has sent invitations to analysts and members of the media, inviting them to an "evening of fun" in New York City on Sept 7th, the same day the company is expected to unveil its ROKR iTunes phones alongside Apple Computer. "The device...