Residents ready to return
Issue date: 9/5/08 Section: News
Despite power outages, New Orleans residents stream back into city after Hurricane Gustav
1NEW ORLEANS (AP) - City and state officials tried to hold them off, but New Orleans residents would have none of it. After Hurricane Gustav brushed by the city, they wanted back in, and now.
So Mayor Ray Nagin relented and allowed the first of them to begin streaming in from evacuation Wednesday.
But more than a million homes and businesses across three states were still without electricity and officials said it could take as long as a month to fully restore power.
As residents came home to New Orleans, President Bush returned to the site of one of the biggest failures of his presidency to show that the government had turned a corner since its bungled response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Faced with traffic backups on paths into the city, Nagin gave up checking ID badges and automobile placards designed to keep residents out until early Thursday. Those who returned said if the city was safe enough for repair crews and health care workers, it was safe enough for them, too.
Pakistan presidential front-runner says global terrorism still country's biggest challenge
2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan stands with the U.S. against international terrorism, the Muslim nation's presidential front-runner wrote in a column appearing Thursday amid furor over a U.S.-led cross-border attack in Pakistani territory.
The Tribal region was the first known foreign ground assault in Pakistan against a Taliban haven. The Pakistani government summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest the incursion, which officials said killed at least 15 people, including civilians.
An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of cross-border operations, confirmed to The Associated Press that U.S. troops conducted the raid Wednesday about 1 mile beyond the Afghan frontier.
Tropical Storm Hanna takes aim at Bahamas; Hurricane Ike following behind as Category 4 storm
3NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - While officials from Nassau to South Carolina were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hanna,
Hanna was just east of the Bahamas and heading northwest early Thursday, a day after knocking out power to the southern Bahamas.
In the United States, a hurricane watch was issued for the area from Edisto Beach, S.C., north to Surf City, N.C. And a tropical storm watch was issued for Edisto Beach and south to Altamaha Sound, Ga. A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours. A watch means tropical storm conditions tropical storm conditions are possible within 36 hours.
The northwest Wednesday after lingering for days near Haiti, where it caused flooding that killed 26 people.
1NEW ORLEANS (AP) - City and state officials tried to hold them off, but New Orleans residents would have none of it. After Hurricane Gustav brushed by the city, they wanted back in, and now.
So Mayor Ray Nagin relented and allowed the first of them to begin streaming in from evacuation Wednesday.
But more than a million homes and businesses across three states were still without electricity and officials said it could take as long as a month to fully restore power.
As residents came home to New Orleans, President Bush returned to the site of one of the biggest failures of his presidency to show that the government had turned a corner since its bungled response to Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Faced with traffic backups on paths into the city, Nagin gave up checking ID badges and automobile placards designed to keep residents out until early Thursday. Those who returned said if the city was safe enough for repair crews and health care workers, it was safe enough for them, too.
Pakistan presidential front-runner says global terrorism still country's biggest challenge
2ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan stands with the U.S. against international terrorism, the Muslim nation's presidential front-runner wrote in a column appearing Thursday amid furor over a U.S.-led cross-border attack in Pakistani territory.
The Tribal region was the first known foreign ground assault in Pakistan against a Taliban haven. The Pakistani government summoned the U.S. ambassador to protest the incursion, which officials said killed at least 15 people, including civilians.
An American official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of cross-border operations, confirmed to The Associated Press that U.S. troops conducted the raid Wednesday about 1 mile beyond the Afghan frontier.
Tropical Storm Hanna takes aim at Bahamas; Hurricane Ike following behind as Category 4 storm
3NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - While officials from Nassau to South Carolina were keeping an eye on Tropical Storm Hanna,
Hanna was just east of the Bahamas and heading northwest early Thursday, a day after knocking out power to the southern Bahamas.
In the United States, a hurricane watch was issued for the area from Edisto Beach, S.C., north to Surf City, N.C. And a tropical storm watch was issued for Edisto Beach and south to Altamaha Sound, Ga. A hurricane watch means hurricane conditions are possible within 36 hours. A watch means tropical storm conditions tropical storm conditions are possible within 36 hours.
The northwest Wednesday after lingering for days near Haiti, where it caused flooding that killed 26 people.
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