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The devastation of Hurricane Katrina all around us and then a new threat by Osama bin Laden. That's amazing. WHO IS KEEPING WHO HONEST?
Frankenstein : Heeeeerrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeee's Andy !
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"Osama is back in the game?" I didn't know deaths to Americans was a game.
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Jeeze, Nic, you sound excited that bin Laden showed up? Have you missed him?
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"The Osama bin Laden I know" This is the second time Cooper is promoting this book.
"Remains in the Game." What a bunch of sickos.
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I was waiting to hear it "Should the threat level be raised?"
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"Wanted Dead or Alive" George 'Lame Duck' Bush. He can't seem to 'get to Osama' either dead or alive.
These guys are desperate to drive the country back off of Bush's impeachment. Trying a little too hard Anderson.
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Nigeria in talks with kidnap gang: minister
WARRI, Nigeria -Nigerian officials have made contact with an armed group holding four foreign oil workers in order to negotiate their release, Information Minister Frank Nweke said on Thursday.Separatist militants seized the four men - an American, a Bulgarian, a Briton and a Honduran working for subcontractors to the energy giant Shell - on January 11 and have vowed not to release them until their demands are met.In an interview with the US news network CNN, Nweke said that Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo had ruled out a military response to the crisis and had ordered negotiators to seek a ”political solution”.
“We have no doubt in our minds that this is going to come to an end very very quickly. In a few days the team should revert to the president with a status report and we’ll hopefully see these people’s release,” he said.The minister could not, however, clarify the growing confusion over who exactly has taken the men.There is a consensus that the gang, which has also recently blown up oil pipelines and attacked government soldiers protecting a Shell oil plant, is made up of militant members of the Ijaw ethnic group.But several e-mail claims of responsibility have been sent to the media, and it is not clear who exactly the attackers represent.Nweke said that some prominent figures initially thought to have been behind the kidnap had come forward to deny involvement and that the government was not sure whom it was dealing with.Most of the e-mail statements, however, have demanded the release of jailed Ijaw guerrilla leader Mujahi Dokubo Asari and the former Bayelsa governor, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, who has been accused of large-scale embezzlement.
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Anderson is talking faster than any salesman I have witnessed. I am waiting for the 'elixir' to be put up as the answer for eternal youth. He is trying to sell Bush and Bin in between New Orleans. What a darn shame. The Propaganda rolls out on this station unlike any other.
Reports on college literacy levels sobering
WASHINGTON - Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10928755/
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"How seriously should we take Osama bin Laden? At least as serious as we take you, Anderson.
ALSO IN THE NEWS. On the same day Osama makes his appearance.
WASHINGTON - Nearing a diploma, most college students cannot handle many complex but common tasks, from understanding credit card offers to comparing the cost per ounce of food.
Those are the sobering findings of a study of literacy on college campuses, the first to target the skills of students as they approach the start of their careers.
More than 50 percent of students at four-year schools and more than 75 percent at two-year colleges lacked the skills to perform complex literacy tasks.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10928755/
Palestinian suicide bomber wounds 30 in Tel Aviv
By Rami Amichai
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - A Palestinian suicide bomber wounded 30 people in Tel Aviv on Thursday, raising tensions six days before a Palestinian election and confronting interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with a major test.
The bombing at a popular sandwich stand was the first in Israel since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a massive stroke on January 4 and could put pressure on Olmert for harsh reprisals in the Palestinian territories.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the attack was aimed at sabotaging the January 25 parliamentary election. Violence could complicate the poll, in which the militant group Hamas is expected to make a strong showing against his Fatah movement.
http://today.reuters.com/News/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-19T171237Z_01_L1911966_RTRUKOC_0_US-MIDEAST-EXPLOSION.xml
NOW THAT THEY SOLD 'OSAMA' THEY ARE BRINGING ON SYMPATHY FOR 'FEMA TRAILER' TRAVESTY.
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I Guess Bin Laden is all the LOSERS big chance. That says a lot.
Nascar as well. Why not. Something has to overcome the lousy priorities CNN has.
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Back to New Orleans.
Anderson. You have forgotten 'The Newsy Secretary.' Hurry, maybe she has been kidnapped by 'bin.'
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Also in the news on the day 'bin' appeared to 'scare off' his impending ghosts.
Syria Supports Iran in Nuclear Standoff
Friday January 20, 2006 1:32 AM
AP Photo DAM111
By ALBERT AJI
Associated Press Writer
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syria asserted Thursday that Iran had a right to atomic technology and said Western objections to Tehran's nuclear ambitions were not persuasive.
President Bashar Assad of Syria, a longtime Iranian ally facing its own international criticism, said he backed Tehran's moves toward nuclear power and wanted to strengthen ties.
``We support Iran regarding its right to peaceful nuclear technology,'' Assad said at a news conference with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at the start of two days of meetings. ``It is the right of Iran and any other state to own nuclear technology for peaceful purposes. Countries that object to that have not provided a convincing or logical reason.''
Russia's Foreign Minister Thursday called for a cautious approach to the mounting crisis over Iran's renewal of nuclear research, while a senior U.S. envoy accused Tehran of deceiving the world about its intentions.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5557944,00.html
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Indeed !
Confusion over identities of al-Qaeda leaders killed
By Farhan Bokhari in Islamabad
Published: January 19 2006 21:19 Last updated: January 19 2006 21:19
Confusion on Thursday surrounded the identity of three of the four al-Qaeda members named by Pakistan’s intelligence officials as the victims of a CIA-led air strike in a remote region on the Afghan border.
An al-Qaeda bomb expert, for whom the US had offered a $5m (€4bn, £3bn) bounty for information leading to his capture, and the son-in-law of Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda’s second-in-command, were said to be among the four killed.
However, analysts queried the information because it did not appear to be derived from physical identification or DNA testing of the bodies.
The CIA-led attack last Friday also killed at least 18 civilians, including women and children, provoking an angry reaction from the country’s Islamic and opposition parties.
Pakistan’s intelligence officials on Thursday said one of those killed was Midhat Mursi al-Sayid Umar, also known as Abu Khabab al-Masri. An official identified him as “al-Qaeda’s chief bomb maker, the guy who was the architect of its explosive-making machinery”.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84757338-8927-11da-94a6-0000779e2340.html
YOU MISSED THE STORY AGAIN ANDERSON !!!!!!!!!! FEMA is closing out in Florida ! All this while the 'cruise' is over in New Orleans.
Hurricane Wilma Disaster Aid Deadline Is Today
Midnight Is The Deadline
Register at WWW.FEMA.GOV
Register at 800-621-FEMA
(CBS4 News) MIAMI Time is quickly running out for Florida residents to apply for aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after Hurricane Wilma.
Midnight tonight is the deadline for residents who were affected by the storm to get their applications into FEMA.
Congressman Kendrick B. Meek is urging South Florida residents to apply. "It is imperative that residents of Broward and Miami-Dade Counties that suffered damages from Wilma apply for this crucial form of disaster assistance," Meek said. "Individual assistance grants can help pay for temporary housing, home repairs, and other disaster-related expenses not covered by insurance or other aid programs."
Following Hurricane Wilma, Meek called on FEMA to provide individual assistance to residents in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties, citing the "one-two punch" suffered from Hurricanes' Katrina and Wilma. FEMA grants Meek's request and to date, nearly $292.4 million individual assistance grants have been granted to some 205,766 residents.
There are two ways to register: log on to WWW.FEMA.GOV or call FEMA's toll-free number, 800-621-FEMA (3362), or TTY 1-800-462-7585 for those with speech or hearing impairment.
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_019102507.html
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Hi, Governor. Good to see you.
Don't yell at the Governor, Anderson. You might want to try to read the newspapers. Aaron did. He read the papers every evening otherwise he couldn't pick the ones he put on "Morning Papers." You might try that, Anderson. Aaron always read the newspapers. Even on vacation. He used to bring headlines back with him. It's a good habit, Anderson. Have you read the Times-Picayune today? I'll get it for you. Oh, it's no trouble.
FEMA to continue paying for public assistance in Katrina areas
Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. - The Federal Emergency Management Agency has announced that it will continue to offer public assistance grants to local governments for damage from Hurricane Katrina through Jan. 29.
The program, FEMA said Wednesday, covers all sorts of public assistance to government agencies and private nonprofit organizations involved in the cleanup from Katrina.
All Mississippi counties designated under the federal disaster declaration are eligible for the assistance.
"Public assistance is an important program designed to help ensure critical services are available in communities," said Nick Russo, federal coordinating officer for Mississippi disaster recovery.
Russo said the program will make money available for repairs to publicly owned facilities and emergency protective measures.
Russo said the deadline for public assistance does not affect the previous extension for 100 percent reimbursement of costs for debris removal through March 15.
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/state/13654481.htm
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The Newsy Secretary - Nope. Not kidnapped.
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Commercials.
Here ya go. The Times Picayune.
http://www.nola.com/
Let's see what it has to say.
Speaking of Insurance.
23% average increase statewide, higher in N.O.
Likely just the first of many to come
Insurance panel OKs rate increase
It's likely to be first of many after storm
Thursday, January 19, 2006
By Rebecca Mowbray
Business writer
BATON ROUGE -- The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission reluctantly approved its first post-Katrina increase in homeowners insurance rates Wednesday, beginning what is likely to be a painful stream of rate increase requests over the next few months.
"We do have a little indigestion," commission member Christine Berry said. "My concern is we are setting a precedent here."
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137654047115780.xml
Housing secretary targets discrimination against evacuees
1/19/2006, 5:38 p.m. CT
By KRISTIE RIEKEN
The Associated Press
HOUSTON (AP) — After all the hardships hurricane evacuees have encountered, U.S. Housing secretary Alphonso Jackson said Thursday he wants to protect them from being victimized further as they look for a place to live.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/113771425723960.xml&storylist=louisiana
City must tell owners before razing
Demolition issue is settled for now
Thursday, January 19, 2006
By Gwen Filosa and Gordon Russell
Staff writers
Before sending in any bulldozers, the city of New Orleans must provide fair notice -- by mail, newspaper ads and Web site announcements -- to any property owner whose storm-battered home is on its demolition list, a federal judge has said.
Instead of proceeding with a full-blown hearing over the demolition process scheduled for today in federal court, the city and a group of homeowners settled a lawsuit before U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman on Tuesday, agreeing to a five-page set of rules that prohibit any demolition without warning.
The lawsuit, named for Lower 9th Ward homeowner Mandy Kirk, was filed last month after a city official announced that inspectors had tallied a list of 5,500 buildings as potential targets for teardowns, a number that included more than 1,900 houses deemed in dire need of removal to ensure public safety.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1137656315115780.xml
You guys actually going to do this marsh thing right? You better. I won't let you get away with anything ! Birds and their flyways are counting on you !
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Anderson and a 911 Call. He's addicted. A mine fire
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Back to bin Laden.
HERE IS SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT OTHER THAN STUPID AL QAEDA.
Utah fire deaths highest since '92
Smoke detectors would have saved 8 of 20 killed last year
By Pat Reavy
Deseret Morning News
Utah had its highest number of fire-related deaths in 13 years during 2005, according to new statistics from the Department of Public Safety.
Twenty people were killed in fires last year in the Beehive State, the most since 1992 when there were 32 deaths, according to the Utah State Fire Marshal's Office.
"I knew we were busy, but I didn't realize it was that high," said South Salt Lake Fire Chief Steve Foote. "That's very upsetting."
In 16 of those fatal fires, the victims were found in a house, condominium or camper. Three of the fatal fires were in vehicles and one was in a garage.
The year got off to a bad start almost immediately and seemed to continue throughout the year.
• A 26-year-old pregnant mother, Christina Lee Ward, and two of her children, 4-year-old Dalton Ray James Ward and 2-year-old Mackenzie Brooke Ward, were killed in a fire in Logan Jan. 16.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,635175630,00.html
Inspiring violence around the Globe.
Ivorian Leader Urges Youths to End Anti-U.N. Protests
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Published: January 20, 2006
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Jan. 19 - Youth leaders urged their supporters on Thursday to abandon their deadly protests after thousands of young people defied a request from the president of Ivory Coast to end days of rioting and violence.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/international/africa/20ivory.html?hp&ex=1137733200&en=0258921aa30acd7b&ei=5094&partner=homepage
The Cities Around the World are always ready.
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More about terrorists.
Whatever.
Man, oh, man. Alaska is rocking.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsUS/Quakes/quakes_all.html
A few in ANWR.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/
Hm.
http://www.seismo.ethz.ch/GSHAP/global/
I have to wonder how much of the seizmic activity along with the excessive rain on the West Coast makes those circumstances worse than one estimates. See the USGS divides up those responsibilities and doesn't put the entire picture together necessarily.
http://landslides.usgs.gov/nlic/
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Rush has friends
Posted on Thu, Jan. 19, 2006
Five Miami residents arrested in BSO investigation of oxycodone ring
BY MATT PRICHARD
mprichard@MiamiHerald.com
Five Miami residents have been arrested in connection with a Broward Sheriff's Office undercover investigation of a ''street-level'' oxycodone ring, detectives announced on Thursday.
The arrests were made at Generic Depot Pharmacy, 1461 N. Palm Ave., Pembroke Pines, at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, police said.
Detectives said one of the suspects, Willie Moore, 33, 301 NW 23rd St., would provide the others with forged prescription slips and the group would then go to pharmacies in Broward County to get the prescriptions filled. Once the prescriptions were filled, the pills were sold on the streets, police said.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13665635.htm
Fire erupts in W.Va. mine; two missing
Associated Press
MELLVILLE, W.Va. - A fire erupted in an underground coal mine in southern West Virginia late Thursday and two workers were unaccounted for, authorities said.
The fire was reported at the Aracoma Coal Co. in Mellville, about 60 miles southwest of Charleston.
Lara Ramsburg, a spokeswoman for Gov. Joe Manchin, said the blaze apparently began on a conveyer belt that moves coal from the mine to the surface. She did not have any other information.
State police said they were responding to an incident at the mine but would not give any other details.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13666443.htm
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You shouldn't be such an alarmist, Anderson. It's unbecoming.
Bin Laden tape won't raise security level
LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The United States has no plans to raise the security threat level because of a new tape of Osama bin Laden saying al-Qaida is planning attacks, counterterrorism officials said Thursday.
The White House firmly rejected bin Laden's suggestion of a negotiated truce. "We don't negotiate with terrorists," Vice President Dick Cheney said in a television interview. "I think you have to destroy them."
Counterterror officials said they have seen no specific or credible intelligence to indicate an upcoming al-Qaida attack on the United States. Nor have they noticed an uptick in terrorist communications "chatter" - although that can dramatically increase or decrease immediately before an attack.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13665246.htm
HUMAN RIGHTS
Chávez wants to weaken judiciary, rights group says
A human rights group accused Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez of trying to undermine the country's judiciary and limit press freedom, partly due to a lack of economic growth.
BY RICHARD JACOBSEN
Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, who says he is leading a socialist revolution for the poor in his country, has teamed with allies in Congress to undermine the country's judiciary and limit press freedoms, Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.
In its annual report on the global rights situation, the organization said Latin America nations -- from Haiti to Argentina -- were still plagued by abuses ranging from overcrowded prisons to torture and widespread impunity.
There is growing discontent over the lack of economic growth and opportunities in the region, which has led some to turn away from democracy, Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kenneth Roth said.
''That's one way to understand the Chávez phenomenon,'' Roth said.
WASHINGTON'S ROLE
But Roth was also critical of Washington's role in Latin America, saying it was polarizing the region. He noted officials in President George W. Bush's administration were treating Bolivia's president-elect Evo Morales as if he were another Chávez, without waiting to see how Morales governs.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13658576.htm
SOUTH FLORIDA
Living costs jump 4.7%, biggest leap since 1998
Housing, energy and medical costs fueled the largest increase in South Florida's cost of living index since at least 1998.
BY NIALA BOODHOO
nboodhoo@MiamiHerald.com
The high cost of housing, energy and medical costs helped push consumer prices up 4.7 percent in South Florida last year, 38 percent higher than the national average increase of 3.4 percent.
Even without taking into account food and energy prices, the Miami-Fort Lauderdale consumer price index had its biggest calendar-year increase since such record-keeping began in 1998, the government said Wednesday.
The cost of housing is the main culprit in South Florida's rising cost of living, said Mark Vitner, senior economist with Wachovia Corp.
''Housing's a big chunk of it,'' he said, adding that those costs are partly measured in the consumer price index via rental prices, which have skyrocketed as more units convert to condominiums. Utilities and home furnishing costs have also gone up.
December's price levels actually reflected a decrease from the peak month of October, -- a result of gas prices easing since the hurricanes, when they topped $3 a gallon. At that time, the region's 6.4 percent inflation rate for the previous 12 months was 50 percent higher than the national rate.
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13658562.htm
Anderson, all your expletives sounds too desperate to give credence to. It's too over the top. That used to work, years ago. But not today. The corruption of DC is too pervasive to believe they are good for us and their campaigns of fear don't work anymore !
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/editorial/cartoons/13407026.htm
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Tourism team seeks to calm Nagin tempest
Remarks have set off 'ripples of anxiety'
Thursday, January 19, 2006
By Jeff Duncan
Staff writer
The impact of New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin's controversial comments on Martin Luther King Day landed squarely on the shoulders of local tourism officials Wednesday, one day after the mayor and his staff launched a major damage control effort to temper the firestorm.
As pundits and talk-show hosts parodied Nagin coast to coast, tourism officials tried to soothe angry, disillusioned clients while political observers weighed the potential impact in Washington.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137657568115780.xml
Blanco panel to tackle merger of levee boards
Governor seeks examination of management, procurement
Thursday, January 19, 2006
By Robert Travis Scott
Capital bureau
BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Kathleen Blanco launched her new commission to oversee coastal restoration and flood control Wednesday by asking the panel to investigate management practices at New Orleans area levee boards and to back legislation to consolidate some boards in the region.
An intense debate is already under way over the scope of the proposed consolidation, both in size and function.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1137654846115780.xml
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John King and expected elections.
What is wrong with this picture?
http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_enh_hem_loop-12.html
All the heat is in the Arctic Circle. The Arctic is hotter than the tropics.
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Mike wants to know where all the flowers went?
Posted on Tue, Jan. 17, 2006
2 Northern right whales swim into Corpus Christi Bay
By BILL HANNA
Star-Telegram Staff Writer
It’s a whale of a tale that happens to be true.
Two Northern right whales, one of the rarest of all marine mammals, were seen Monday swimming across Corpus Christi Bay.
The mother and her calf were spotted twice: near the Corpus Christi ship channel a couple of miles from downtown and later near the Ingleside Naval Air Station in another part of the bay.
“It’s absolutely unprecedented for them to be in Corpus Christi Bay or even to be in Texas waters,” said Anthony Amos, a research fellow with the University of Texas Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas.
It’s only the third time Northern right whales have been seen alive in the Gulf of Mexico since 1963, said Keith Mullen, a research biologist with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Marine Fisheries Service in Pascagoula, Miss. The others were spotted off the Florida Panhandle in 2004 and in Tampa Bay in 1963, Mullin said.
A Northern right whale was found dead in 1972 on Surfside Beach near Freeport.
There are believed to be only about 300 Northern right whales left in the world. Normally, they’re found off the coast of the northeast United States, but the females migrate south and give birth off Florida, Georgia and South Carolina in the winter.
They were named “right whales” by whalers because they were easy to hunt and then haul to shore.
“They were hunted close to shore, and when they were killed they floated, so from a whaler’s perspective that was very advantageous and economically viable,” said Barbara Zoodsma, NOAA fisheries right whale recovery coordinator in Fernandina Beach, Fla.
Since whaling was outlawed, right whales have not recovered. Population models suggest that they could be headed for extinction, Zoodsma said. Their main enemies are strikes by ships and fishing nets, but that doesn’t completely explain their minuscule numbers.
Officials say the two whales spotted in Texas waters came from Florida.
The mother gave birth on Dec. 11 off the coast of Daytona Beach, Fla., said Blair Mase, NOAA’s southeast coordinator for strandings. Officials with the New England Aquarium keep a photographic database of all Northern right whales. Each right whale has unique growths called callosities that allow them to be tracked.
There are at least 20 species of whales and dolphins in the Gulf of Mexico, including at least 1,000 sperm whales, the type found in the classic novel Moby Dick, said Mullin, the NOAA research biologist. Most are found in deep water.
In Port Aransas, Amos spent the day fielding phone calls and waiting in vain for more whale sightings.
“It’s pretty rough out there, so there aren’t going to be a whole lot of people out there looking for them except the professionals,” Amos said. “I’m still a little worried about them, but I’m hoping the lack of sightings is good news.”
