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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: Hillary - "Clearly, she's the wiser choice..."


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Nick Kelly's picture

Hillary calls Trib visit "counter-intuitive" but makes it clear she is happy to do it.

Hillary talks about Gulf Coast with Pittsburgh Trib revealing her many concerns with how the Bush administration mishandled the Katrina disaster.

Even her long-standing critics at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review say that Hillary

NOLA and the 2007 Hurricane Season


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mad4clark's picture

Hurricane season starts in a few weeks, and according to the Colorado State University forecast team......

"We are calling for a very active hurricane season this year, but not as active as the 2004 and 2005 seasons," said Phil Klotzbach of the Colorado State hurricane forecast team. "Based on our latest forecast, the probability of a major hurricane making landfall along the U.S. coastline is 74 percent compared with the last-century average of 52 percent.

Max Mayfield: "Tragedy worse than Katrina is not a question of if, but when"


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The head of the National Hurricane Center says it's only a matter of time until the U.S. is hit by a storm worse than Katrina. But what is being done to prepare for an event which many consider to be inevitable. Mayfield was one of the few people in our government who did their job leading up to Katrina and his warnings should be taken very seriously. However hurricane preparedness is not on the national agenda, cities from Houston to New York remain vulnerable to an event that Mayfield described as a "Mega-disaster".

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