Word: ebbert
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Dates: during 2005-2005
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...rescuers believe the death toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will take longer. Minyard says...
...state of emergency immediately after the hurricane hit, instead becoming embroiled in an administrative turf war with the federal government? Furthermore, why did she have to be compelled by President Bush to make the evacuation of New Orleans compulsory? What exactly has New Orleans homeland security director Colonel Terry Ebbert done since his appointment in February, and what, besides infantile whining, has he accomplished since the storm...