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Ahvh The Odd Truth, April 21, 2004
From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina s victims.Louisiana s Jefferson Parish is desperate for relief, but parish President Aaron Broussard says officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned back three trailer trucks of water, ordered the Coast Guard not to provide emergency diesel fuel and cut emergency power lines.Why FEMA has not explained. But the outraged Broussard said Sunday on NBC s Meet the Press stanley quencher that the agency needs to bring in all its force immediately, without red tape, without bureaucracy, act immediately with common sense and leadership, and save lives. The government says it is doing the best it can in th stanley thermoskannen e face of a massive and complicated disaster. Even as progress is being made, we know that victims are still out there and we are working tirelessly to bring them the help they need, said Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some of the delays can be explained by the need to control a volatile situation. Long lines of volunteers are being stopped on freeways on their way into New Orleans. Anyone who self-responded was not being put to work. The military was wor stanley cup ried about having more people in the city. They want to limit it to the professionals, said Kevin Southerland, a captain with Orange Fire De Kbwa Women Thwart Barroom Rampage
LOS ANGELES AP 鈥?Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to bring gun charges against rapper Dr. Dre.A spokesman for the Los Angeles district attorney said Wednesday there was a la salomon winterschuhe ck of evidence that the record producer and entrepreneur had brandished a gun in public.Sheriff s deputies had cited Dre for a misdem adidas campus homme eanor after a man reported tha hoka t Dre pointed a handgun at him and threatened him outside his Malibu home Monday.Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, told sheriff s deputies he didn t have a gun and had only asked the man to move the car blocking his driveway.Dre was briefly handcuffed, but no weapon was found. Prosecutors say there were no other witnesses, and there were discrepancies in the man s account.The man then filed a citizen s arrest complaint.
From all corners of this country, hundreds of would-be rescuers are wending their way to the beleaguered Gulf Coast in buses, vans and trailers. But government red tape has hampered many who ache to help Katrina s victims.Louisiana s Jefferson Parish is desperate for relief, but parish President Aaron Broussard says officials of the Federal Emergency Management Agency turned back three trailer trucks of water, ordered the Coast Guard not to provide emergency diesel fuel and cut emergency power lines.Why FEMA has not explained. But the outraged Broussard said Sunday on NBC s Meet the Press stanley quencher that the agency needs to bring in all its force immediately, without red tape, without bureaucracy, act immediately with common sense and leadership, and save lives. The government says it is doing the best it can in th stanley thermoskannen e face of a massive and complicated disaster. Even as progress is being made, we know that victims are still out there and we are working tirelessly to bring them the help they need, said Michael Brown, head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Some of the delays can be explained by the need to control a volatile situation. Long lines of volunteers are being stopped on freeways on their way into New Orleans. Anyone who self-responded was not being put to work. The military was wor stanley cup ried about having more people in the city. They want to limit it to the professionals, said Kevin Southerland, a captain with Orange Fire De Kbwa Women Thwart Barroom Rampage
LOS ANGELES AP 鈥?Los Angeles prosecutors have declined to bring gun charges against rapper Dr. Dre.A spokesman for the Los Angeles district attorney said Wednesday there was a la salomon winterschuhe ck of evidence that the record producer and entrepreneur had brandished a gun in public.Sheriff s deputies had cited Dre for a misdem adidas campus homme eanor after a man reported tha hoka t Dre pointed a handgun at him and threatened him outside his Malibu home Monday.Dre, whose real name is Andre Young, told sheriff s deputies he didn t have a gun and had only asked the man to move the car blocking his driveway.Dre was briefly handcuffed, but no weapon was found. Prosecutors say there were no other witnesses, and there were discrepancies in the man s account.The man then filed a citizen s arrest complaint.