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I have been watching live streams of Channel 2 and WWLTV but I have never seen the Governor today. What is going on? Did someone just tell her to step aside? Just a couple questions since I am out of state.

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she and the mayor were meeting with GWB at the New Orleans airport

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Thanks.

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LSUDAN said:

Thanks.
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gwb about to address NO and the situation.

unless his speech started already?

tirk, Sep 2, 2005

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tirk said:

gwb about to address NO and the situation.

unless his speech started already?
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No, they are going for a tour first.

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Saw her on CNN early this morning. She didn't exactly like the questions that she was being asked by Miles O'Brien.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0509/02/ltm.03.html

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The governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, is with us now.

Governor, thank you for being with us.

GOV. KATHLEEN BLANCO, LOUISIANA: Thank you, Miles. M. O'BRIEN: There's a report in the "Times-Picayune" a New Orleans paper, this morning that of approximately 1,500 people waiting for rescue in a place called a Chalmette Slip area of New Orleans, 199 of them have perished while waiting to be rescued. What can you tell us that?

BLANCO: Miles, we have people going out there. We've been in touch with them. We've been working hard. We just did not have enough resource in a timely fashion.

I asked the president to send me 40,000 troops to help with all manner of activity, including transporting people and getting our rescue efforts reinforced. We still have a lot of people who are in need of rescuing.

M. O'BRIEN: Well, first of all, could you confirm that story for us before we move on here and talk about that larger issue? Did this, in fact, happen?

BLANCO: Well...

M. O'BRIEN: Did 100 people die there waiting to be picked up?

BLANCO: Miles, I cannot confirm that for you. There is nothing that would surprise me at this point in time, because of the depth of the tragedy and the seriousness and the vastness of the situation. When your whole civilization, your whole network of civilization falls apart, when you have no communications capacity, when you don't have power, you don't have -- and water incapacitates you, anything can happen. And it is, and it has happened.

M. O'BRIEN: Let's talk about that request for federal troops, 40,000 federal troops. When did you make that request? Was it on your first phone call to President Bush?

BLANCO: OK. My first phone call -- or my first conversation with President Bush was asking for all federal firepower. I mean, I meant everything. Just send it. Give me planes, give me boats...

M. O'BRIEN: But did you specifically ask -- governor, did you specifically ask for troops? Did you ask that the Pentagon deploy troops? Because that is a very specific request that a governor...

BLANCO: We had...

M. O'BRIEN: ... needs to make of the federal government.

BLANCO: We had troops -- we had troops being deployed. We had the first wave of troops being deployed at the level of 12,000. But before we even got to 12,000, I asked for 40,000. So, you know, I saw that we needed to raise capacity...

M. O'BRIEN: When did you make that request, though?

BLANCO: Miles, I'm lost in the days.

M. O'BRIEN: When did you make that request? OK.

BLANCO: I don't even know what today is.

M. O'BRIEN: On Wednesday morning...

BLANCO: I made that request perhaps Wednesday.

M. O'BRIEN: When you spoke...

BLANCO: I announced it...

M. O'BRIEN: All right.

BLANCO: ... whatever day I announced it. But on Tuesday...

M. O'BRIEN: All right. Well, it clearly...

BLANCO: ... we didn't have the 12,000 that I had asked for. On Tuesday, the day after the hurricane, you know, the ramp-up was not as rapid as we needed.

M. O'BRIEN: Do you fault yourself for not asking for troops sooner?

BLANCO: Miles, I asked for everything the federal government could possibly deliver. You know, I'm a governor. You know, I think that people in the field were analyzing the situation. It was -- it was deteriorating. In the first instance, we didn't have all of the water in the streets. Then the dike broke.

You know, everything has changed so dramatically. You know, I'm not going to stand here and play the blame game. We have a problem. You know, I say let's get to the problems. We'll talk about all of the circumstances later. But, you know, everybody here...

M. O'BRIEN: All right. Then let's...

BLANCO: ... looks at it, looks in the mirror and says...

M. O'BRIEN: Let's talk about the problem then.

BLANCO: ... I wish I would have known this an hour earlier. I could of done this an hour earlier or a day earlier.

But, you know, we're asking for ramp-up. It has finally arrived or is in the process of arriving. It just takes a while.

And I'll tell you something, we are all frustrated. The biggest thing that we needed was buses. You know, If we'd been able to get buses in a day earlier, we wouldn't have had the kind of chaos, the kind of deteriorating situation that was there. We were told 500 buses were on the way.

M. O'BRIEN: Before you get away, let's...

BLANCO: We needed 5,000. We didn't even know that at the time. M. O'BRIEN: Before you get away, how many boots are on the ground now in New Orleans? And how soon will we begin to see that show of federal support that you have asked for from the Pentagon upwards of 40,000 troops? How soon?

BLANCO: Well, I think you're going to see a show of force today and in the days to come. Now, we don't need it just there. We need it in communities all across the state. We need help, because we've doubled the size of many communities.

M. O'BRIEN: So, can you give us specifics? What has the Pentagon told you about when these troops will be here?

BLANCO: They said -- well, I think, you know, you're going to see them arriving. I believe at the airport you're seeing arrivals. You'll see them all day today. We've seen them last night, yesterday afternoon. You know, finally we see some progress. The response time...

M. O'BRIEN: Is it too little, too late, though?

BLANCO: ... never is adequate. It's never too late. We've still got thousands and thousands of people that we have to solve problems for. We have huge numbers of survivors, of displaced people. You know, we've got to create some order out of a chaotic situation.

M. O'BRIEN: Governor Kathleen Blanco, thanks for your time.

Let's check some other headlines. Carol Costello in New York with that.
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I thought everyone should be able to read this. Boy, it just makes me proud. :dis: It's not so much her actions, or lack there of, I'm referring to, it's her way of dealing with this.

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What I dont understand watching the wwl webcast the past few days is.

WHY DID THEY FEEL IT WAS THE THING TO DO TO HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE EVERY SINGLE ****ING HOUR?

All they did was have different people say the same god damn crap.

Thats what I dont understand.

Crip*TEAM KATT, Sep 2, 2005

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Crip*TEAM KATT said:

What I dont understand watching the wwl webcast the past few days is.

WHY DID THEY FEEL IT WAS THE THING TO DO TO HAVE A PRESS CONFERENCE EVERY SINGLE ****ING HOUR?

All they did was have different people say the same god damn crap.

Thats what I dont understand.
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Which probably has something to do with Nagin saying there needs to be a moritorium on G**d*** press conference.

OkieTigerTK, Sep 2, 2005

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OkieTiger said:

Which probably has something to do with Nagin saying there needs to be a moritorium on G**d*** press conference.
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Yep. Do you know that the national press is bashing Nagin saying that those comments where meant to bash Bush. Along with all the other Democraps.

They pulled it apart and played it to make it seem what it was not. I tried calling in but could not get through to the radio show.

Crip*TEAM KATT, Sep 2, 2005

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