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To: Bearcatbob who wrote (137591)	9/6/2005 7:57:18 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

I thought this was "neato".. cnn.com

To: Bearcatbob who wrote (137591)	9/6/2005 8:43:32 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793958

Lisa Meyers on MSNBC just covered Nagin not evacuating anyone where he said the levees would fail. He had "no comment".. Here's a similar article by her... msnbc.msn.com By Lisa Myers & the NBC Investigative Unit Updated: 6:56 p.m. ET Sept. 6, 2005 Lisa Myers Senior investigative correspondent WASHINGTON - Some 200 New Orleans school buses sit underwater in a parking lot, unused. That's enough to have evacuated at least 13,000 people. Why weren’t those buses sent street by street to pick up people before the storm? A draft emergency plan, prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and obtained by NBC News, calls for "400 buses to... evacuate victims." Yet those 200 buses were left in Katrina's path. "That's a real tragedy that these resources weren't employed," said Greg Shaw, a disaster management expert at George Washington University," because it would have been good to get those people out of the city." Story continues below ? advertisement Tuesday, the mayor of New Orleans would not comment.