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Katrina report
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Katrina report: 125 ways to fix disaster response White House study to be released Thursday
Wednesday, February 22, 2006; Posted: 2:28 p.m. EST (19:28 GMT)
A House report issued last week called the reponse to Hurricane Katrina a "failure of leadership."
(AP) -- The White House will make 125 recommendations for how the government could have reacted better to Hurricane Katrina in a report to be released Thursday on the catastrophe and the Bush administration's response to it.
The findings are expected to be critical of the government's response, but not as harsh as a separate House report issued last week, according to a senior administration official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The House study faulted the White House for not getting involved earlier in the planning for and aftermath of the late August storm. (Full story)
President Bush will host a Cabinet meeting Thursday morning to assess the report. The review was led by White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend.
Days after Katrina struck, Bush said he accepted responsibility for the government's widely criticized response to the storm, which killed more than 1,300 people and forced hundreds of thousands of Gulf Coast residents to abandon their damaged or destroyed homes.
"It is a very comprehensive review -- every Cabinet department and agency was involved in this review," White House spokesman Scott McClellan said Wednesday.
"What we want to do is take a close look at what worked and what didn't work and apply those lessons to the future," he said.
In all, the 125 recommendations will focus on improving the government's ability to respond to catastrophic natural disasters or terrorist attacks, McClellan said.
He said great work was done in the aftermath of the hurricane, including Coast Guard rescue efforts that saved an estimated 33,000 people.
"But there are other areas where all levels of government fell short -- the federal, the state and the local," McClellan said.
Last week, the House issued 90 of its own findings about failures at all levels of government responding to Katrina. The Republican-led House report also found that earlier involvement by President Bush could have spurred a faster response.
The Senate is finishing its own investigation of the failed response, due next month.
"We'll take a look at the Congress' review as well, and their recommendations," McClellan said. "But it's important that we move forward and apply these lessons learned."
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Shanti
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Re: Katrina report
IMO, the federal response to Hurricane Katrina could not have been worse! Even more horrifying, in the months since Katrina, very little has improved. Instead of issuing reports, I would like to see some ACTION!
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Posted 2/22/06 4:08 PM |
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Jessica
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Re: Katrina report
Exactly what I was going to write!!
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Posted 2/22/06 4:10 PM |
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heidla
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Does anyone else get tired of our elected officials writing reports that state what is blatantly obvious, but never seem to rectify any of it?
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Posted 2/22/06 4:13 PM |
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Jessica
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I don't know if I'm going to get flamed for this, but if that happened in let's say Long Island, the government response would have been a lot quicker.
There would have been busses escorting us out of the island before the Hurrican even hit.
Just my opinion.
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Posted 2/22/06 4:13 PM |
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CookiePuss
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Posted by Jessica
I don't know if I'm going to get flamed for this, but if that happened in let's say Long Island, the government response would have been a lot quicker.
There would have been busses escorting us out of the island before the Hurrican even hit.
Just my opinion.
I'm not debating whether this is true or not...Have you ever seen the evacuation plan for Long Island? It's scary and impossible to pull off...if anything were to happen here, it would be impossible to leave.
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Posted 2/22/06 4:16 PM |
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Jessica
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Yes, it would be impossible to leave, scary, but i think it would have been attempted.
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Posted 2/22/06 4:18 PM |
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Shanti
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Posted by Jessica
I don't know if I'm going to get flamed for this, but if that happened in let's say Long Island, the government response would have been a lot quicker.
There would have been busses escorting us out of the island before the Hurrican even hit.
Just my opinion.
I don't think you will get flamed. Mississippi is one of the poorest states in our nation, and New Orleans had a major problem with poverty. I think that, along with the federal response, raises a lot of frightening questions. I do think race and money played a role, unfortunately.
Overall though, I am left feeling horrified and deeply saddened that our gov't -- the world's richest and most powerful -- cannot get themselves together to respond to a human tragedy ON OUR OWN SOIL! I just do not get it.
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Posted 2/22/06 4:18 PM |
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Posted by heidla
Does anyone else get tired of our elected officials writing reports that state what is blatantly obvious, but never seem to rectify any of it?
OMG I was just thinking- how much time and money was wasted on this report- and how will it help those poor people!
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Posted 2/22/06 4:30 PM |
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