This news team has absolutely no intention and/or ability to defuse panic !

The usual melodramatic opening and "Thheeeeeeeeeeerrreeeeeeeeeeee's Andy."

But the report of the 'bomb' incident in San Francisco was left 'open ended' to create an atmosophere of fear.

THERE IS A HISTORY of violence against "Starbucks" in San Francisco. I kindly refer to the last paragraph. I am not ready to stop going to Starbucks just yet in my neighborhood.


Police defuse bomb at Starbucks on Van Ness
Cicero A. Estrella, Chronicle Staff Writer
Monday, January 9, 2006

(01-09) 16:55 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- About 100 people were evacuated today and traffic on two busy San Francisco thoroughfares was rerouted after a Starbucks employee found a homemade bomb in a restroom.
The employee found what appeared to be a "suspicious device" inside the unisex bathroom at the Starbucks at Van Ness Avenue and Bush Street around 1:15 p.m. and called police, Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
Gittens would not describe the device or its size other than to say it "would have caused damage if it exploded.''
Don Henschke, sales manager at Ellis Brooks Auto Center across the street from the coffee house, said a police officer had described the bomb to him as "a portion of a flashlight and a fuse."
The bomb squad disabled the device in about 20 minutes, and witnesses said they heard a popping sound at the time.
Traffic on Van Ness and Bush was rerouted for about an hour and people were evacuated from the Starbucks, a neighboring sushi restaurant and a seven-story apartment building above the coffee house.


In 2003, police said the windows of 17 Starbucks were clouded with glue and some of the door locks were jammed. The vandals also posted phony notices purporting to be from Starbucks management announcing the company's intention to abandon some of their San Francisco stores to make room for more locally owned coffee houses.


E-mail Cicero A. Estrella at cestrella@sfchronicle.com. / The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The team then moved to Alito stuff.

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The progress of Randy McCloy is still tenuous. The infuence of family with the comatose is well known.

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A review of coma states and the therapeutic nature of them if managed well.

It's easy to make this claim now but as soon as I heard of the major stroke of the Prime Minister and the fact he was on 'blood thinners;' I knew they were related.

This was in Haaretz today.

Early diagnosis could have prevented brain hemorrhage

By Ran Reznick and Tamara Traubman

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon received anticoagulant drugs despite suffering from a disease of the blood vessels in the brain which, if diagnosed, would almost certainly have prevented doctors from prescribing these drugs - which are known to increase the risk of strokes and brain hemorrhage. One doctor close to the situation told Haaretz Monday that the disease was diagnosed by doctors treating Sharon at Hadassah University Hospital during his current hospitalization. The disease, cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA) could have greatly increased the risk of a brain hemorrhage, following the administration of the medication that he received after his first stroke Dec. 19, Haaretz has learned.

His condition currently:


Doctors: Days before damage from PM's stroke can be assessed
By Tamara Traubman, Ran Reznick and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents, Haaretz Service and Agencies
Physicians at Hadassah University Hospital in Jerusalem treating Ariel Sharon said Monday evening that the prime minister had responded to stimulus and shown slight movement in his right arm and right leg, but warned it could be days before they could assess the full extent of the damage from the massive stroke he suffered last week.

HOPE REMAINS ALIVE.

I think I'll suspend comments there tonight.

Some of us really do object to the 'emotionalizing' of the news.

This article points to 'The Sago Mine Disaster' but it goes beyond that. When people of conscience seek to make a difference it is to pragmatically find the reason for the event. We don't need to be emotionally involved to collapse as a population. Quite the contrary. On behalf of those whom are involved emotionally involved in the tragedy; it is vitally important those of us on the 'outside' of it remain resolved and not 'involved.'

The 'Emo-Anchor' of New Orleans resulted in people getting personally involved while spending personal assets. I don't approve. Taking perfect strangers under one's wing is not safe. Also entering a disaster area with plans to feed the masses with "Little League Food Sale Stocks" fresh out of the hometown freezer is not the American Way. That is not the place for the local Little League Mom regardless the generosity or desire to rescue.

The Sago Mine Disaster was completely preventable and that is where we as a nation need to be. We will leave the grieving to the familes in humble regret this occured. The company has to be held responsible for it's complete mishandling of the safety of it's employees. Paying fines is supposed to compel a company into compliance. An enterprise such as this sees it as a cost of doing business. The 'weight' of the government has been grossly diminished in it's capacity to protect the public. That is the morale to this story. It's a scarey one.

Anderson Cooper, CNN’s man of the moment, rushed to the scene to take the lead with periodic updates, rumors and expressions of anguish. Cooper was the man who pushed the stoic Aaron Brown off the air, replacing whatever was left of objective journalism on “The Most Trusted Name in News” with a new, action oriented, in your face brand of news reporting. He had made his reputation playing hardball with freshman US Senator Mary Landrieu, Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. At the time, it seemed a refreshing resurgence of backbone in a media that was losing credibility with the viewing public. Later, we learned he was only serving the White House strategy of blame shifting. He never took on FEMA or Michael Brown until the White House made it clear that Brownie was the designated fall guy.

An Assignment for Anderson and Drew

Answer this question. What is the reaction of people of the coal mining operations throughout the country? Do they feel they are safe on their jobs? If so, why? What does their company do that the NEW owners of the Sago Mine didn't and doesn't do for miner safety?


The People Who Mine Coal

The contemporary coal industry workforce is a continually evolving reflection of our society as a whole. According to a Bureau of Mines survey, the average coal miner is 39 years old and has 11 years of experience, eight years with the same company. Three-fourths of all coal miners have a high school or better education. There are about 3,300 women among the industry's workforce of 130,000.

Anderson Cooper the Absurd

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Anderson Cooper the exploitive.

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Drew Griffin. Along a telephone line of misunderstanding. My goodness this is enlightening isn't it?

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Dennis O'Dell - There were two separate sets of words.

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Drew Griffin believes someone from the commander center got carried away. You don't knkow that though. There is a lot you don't know, by the way. You, regardless of what you know and what you don't know, with a vigilante media company on your side, is willing to inflame the situation for your own purpose. Tabloid Journalism. Eventually, it might even be true, right Drew? Not Journalism, but, skepticism. This is of course a government investigation with interviews with everyone.

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Dr. Blake - McCloy - "Who Examined them." - The Witch Doctor Sanjay Gupta strikes again. He is a good corporate view of evading responsibility. No different than Cooper who evades responsible journalism.

"Serious" - I take it that Dr. Blake was the triage MD on the scene. He had control of assessing the people that were rescued. He was not a part of the rescue but standing by to administer treatment.

What CNN - AGAIN - has intentionally ignored is the authorities in charge of a potential crime scene INCLUDING manslaughter by the company. Those still alive at the scene will be transported while the dead are photographed, etc.

The company representative that night stated they didn't tell the families sooner because they wanted to be sure that all except Mr. McCloy were dead. He stated clearly that the rescuers were taking vital signs and checking out those found to determine that. I am assuming there were EMTs with defibrillators to ascertain that TRUTH !

Fascinating interview? I don’t find it interesting or informative or responsible. This is tabloid journalism to inflame the audience into following 'the lie of choice.'

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The Note AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

AND AGAIN.

This is not journalism.

This is however exploitation of human suffering to satisfy GAWKERS.

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Nothing mentioned about violations. An official investigation. ONLY how Anderson Cooper 360 can get the job done ahead of anyone else with his own journalists and lots of fancy graphics.

This couldn't be more engineered or exploitive. Anderson is misleading the public through his need for control for his paycheck and what a paycheck it is.

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There isn't any new information here. It's very sad this is occurring.

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Media Blitz: Anderson Cooper is such an emo

Arianna Huffington tells Anderson Cooper to suck it up and stop acting like a little bitch. [HuffPo]

America Mourns With Anderson Cooper

Twelve of the thirteen miners in Sago, West Virginia have now been found dead. The original mine explosion that led to their deaths was so loud that it was heard five miles away.

The grieving by the families will be much more muted and quiet. But not so the strangers: the cable newsmen and out-of-town “journalists” will now share their own grief not only with the family members, but also their demographically correct audiences:

America will mourn with Anderson Cooper.

Last night, after learning that he had been incorrectly reporting for three hours the "miracle" of the miners being alive, Cooper became pale, before declaring himself "at a complete loss for words."That was last night. Cooper may have been at a loss for words last night, but if his past on-air behavior is a guide, he will not be at a loss for tears tonight.

America will once again mourn with Anderson Cooper.

The Hyperbaric Anderson 360. Turning it around for Bush.

Anderson Cooper 360

Frankenstein gives the words of a dead miner so much meaning. And heeeerrrreeee’s Andy.

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Before he breathed his last breath. You don’t know what breath he was taking either.

… he just went to sleep. It wasn’t bad. HE witnessed what was going to happen to him otherwise he couldn’t tell the family he was passing away.

HE WITNESSED THE DEATHS OF OTHERS TO MAKE THAT OBSERVATION. THAT OBSERVATION WAS A COMFORT TO HIM.

Dear God.

No one should die like that.

Cruelty. This entire circumstance is laced with extreme cruelty. From the violations to the discovery of the bodies and now this realization.

Destroy that company the way they destroyed those men and their families futures together.

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“They did the best they could.” No, I am sorry. The miners could be alive and have not gone into a mine so badly penalized without resolving the issues of safety. Bush could have cited this mine as an example to human rights abuses by shutting it down rather than taking it’s cut.

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Gupta is part of this morbid broadcast? Unbelievable.

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Now this is the news. The morbidity set aside to the families to own while we pay them respect as a nation seeking JUSTICE FOR THE DEATHS. Not brushing it aside as a bothersome event. Miscommunications. It’s unfortunate a mine so badly managed existed. I am confident as the danger of the mine grew greater they discussed shutting it down. Or, perhaps, Don Evans, the Former Secretary of Commerce while he was Bush’s right hand man.

Oh, wait that is Rove’s place. So that would place Don Evans in the Left Hand of God. Oh, I mean Bush.

But to get back to Don Evans. What a work of genius. Or better put, slight of hand, to put the mine in NEW management that could take the fall for the deaths as the mine was reaching it’s ‘end of life.’ Now. Now under new management the Sago Mine could have a second life in the face of the deaths of the miners. The Sago Mine they loved so dearly could live on to provide a way of life to their families. A full investigation would reveal the need for new technology. New capital expanse to extract the coal, THE DEEPEST UNDER THE EARTH. Right, George? That is what he said. “Under the Earth.” Why would he say that UNLESS there was a plan beyond the investigation?

This is an acceptable loss for a nation with a president that sees only PROGRESS in Technology in the face of death. Every Neocon lives for that. Defying Death. What a moral thing that is.

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Here we go. TECHNOLOGY. It will improve the lives of miners including the one still alive. Anderson, you are as much a slimeball as Bush and Rove.

Here we go. New Technology IMMEDIATELY available to prove we can prevail. An honor to the dead. Isn’t that the call Bush has to justify his war in Iraq? You betcha.

Commercials.

The Sago Mine needs to be shut down.

Oh. My. “The International Coal Group” has only existed since 2004. I’ll be darn. About the time Don Evans was looking to Germany for a new job. A trade up from six figures from seven in salary. Who are the investors in “The International Coal Group?”

The penalty for Sago Mine's owner?

'Kudlow & Company' wants to know the appropriate response to safety violations at the coal mine.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/CNBCTV/Promos/P140388.asp

Buyout king Wilbur Ross created International Coal Group (ICO, news, msgs) in 2004 by buying the assets of Horizon Natural Resources at a bankruptcy auction. One of those, West Virginia's Sago Mine, was the site of an underground explosion early Monday that claimed the lives of 12 miners.Sago Mine was cited for repeated safety violations over the past two years, including multiple citations for inadequate ventilation and failure to fully secure the mine against a roof collapse. The Mine Safety and Health Administration issued more than 200 citations for alleged violations at the site last year, up from 68 in 2004. Most of the citations were issued before the current owners took over the mine in November, Knight Ridder reported, but International Coal Group was cited by the federal government three times in five days in December for allegedly allowing flammable coal dust to collect in a work area. Those citations were among 17 issued last year at the mine for "accumulation of combustible materials." What is the appropriate response against the mine's owner? Vote in our online ballot, and watch "Kudlow & Company" weekdays at 5 p.m. ET on CNBC.


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A discussion of Israel.

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I hope the treatment works for ONLY SURVIVOR. Please don’t take this wrong. I want to stop a Runaway Train before it gets started AGAIN. Possibly causing the same people in this incident more pain. Sorry. Very sorry. This may very well improve his chances and I hope it does. I don’t want this to allow Bush to snowball hope for $ monies $ both by investors and employees by spinning more falsehoods as he chronically does.

Very sorry..

Hyperbaric treatments are used for DIVERS. The Bends. There isn’t anything new about this technology.

The Healing Powers of Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatment
Oxygen is essential to proper healing of bodily tissues, whether it's skin, muscle or bone. In most cases, the act of breathing combined with a healthy network of veins and arteries provide enough oxygen for body tissues to heal. However, in certain circumstances, hyperbaric oxygen treatment is used to substantially increase oxygen flow within tissues to improve healing.
Patients undergoing hyperbaric treatment are placed in a chamber where 100% oxygen is circulated. The oxygen is pressurized so that air pressure may be 2-3 times greater than normal. This allows the lungs and skin to absorb more concentrated oxygen in a shorter period of time.
Hyperbaric oxygen treatment was originally used to relieve scuba and deep-sea divers of a dangerous condition called decompression sickness or "the bends." While ascending from underwater, nitrogen gas bubbles may form in the lungs, tissues and bloodstream. Blood flow may be blocked, with disastrous results, and blood vessels may be damaged. Hyperbaric treatment neutralizes the effects of nitrogen.
Today, the Undersea and Hyperbaric Medical Society has approved use of hyperbaric oxygen for several other conditions besides the bends. The length and number of treatments depends on the condition and its severity.
Air or Gas Embolism: This is similar to the bends, when air or gas bubbles enter arteries or veins, reducing blood flow and affecting oxygen circulation.
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning: Carbon monoxide (CO), a colorless, odorless gas, is a byproduct of combustion. It binds to red blood cells, blocking delivery of oxygen to the body. Hyperbaric oxygen accelerates the clearance of CO from the body, restoring oxygen delivery and preventing toxic effects on the central nervous system and blood vessels.
Gas Gangrene: This bacterial infection eats away soft tissues, releases toxins into the blood stream and inhibits the body's defense mechanisms. These bacteria prefer low-oxygen concentrations. High doses of oxygen via hyperbaric therapy inhibit bacteria and toxin production.
Crush Injuries: Complications of crush injuries, such as from motor vehicle accidents, falls and gun shots, are very frequent. By increasing oxygen delivery to injured tissues, hyperbaric treatments reduce swelling, improve healing and help fight infection.
Problem Wounds: Wounds may fail to respond to standard care because of low oxygen levels and impaired circulation. Foot ulcers in diabetics are one such problem. By increasing oxygen levels within the wound tissues, hyperbaric therapy promotes healing.
Anemia/Blood Loss: In cases where a patient can't accept a blood transfusion for medical or religious reasons, sufficient oxygen delivery (via red blood cells) might be compromised. Hyperbaric treatment increases the oxygen content of existing red blood cells.
Intracranial Abscess: A sinus infection or bone infection of the skull may form an abscess within the skull or brain. Antibiotics may be ineffective and white blood cells require a minimum oxygen level to kill bacteria. Hyperbaric treatment provides oxygen for white blood cells and inhibits bacteria that need low oxygen levels to grow.
Soft Tissue Infections: These are serious infections -- in which tissue is dying -- that may be complicated by conditions such as diabetes or vascular disease. While primary treatments are removing the infected tissue and administering antibiotics, hyperbaric oxygen may inhibit bacteria from growing and enhance the ability of white blood cells to kill bacteria.
Bone Infections: Osteomyelitis, infection of the bone, that does not respond to standard treatment may benefit from hyperbaric oxygen. It inhibits bacterial growth, increases the killing power of white blood cells and enhances the effects of some antibiotics.
Radiation Therapy Complications: Chronic complications of radiation therapy used to treat cancer may result from scarring and narrowing of the blood vessels. Hyperbaric treatment allows more oxygen to reach these damaged areas and helps prevent tissue from dying for lack of blood and oxygen flow. It is most often used in the head and neck areas.
Skin Grafts: The success of transferred skin grafts or flaps (which might include skin, deeper tissue, muscle and bone) is largely dependent on sufficient oxygen supply to the affected area. Hyperbaric treatment can be used to saturate the area with oxygen before and after grafting.
Burns: Hyperbaric therapy is sometimes used to treat burns to the hands, face or groin area, or for deep second-degree and third-degree burns that cover more than 20% of the patient's body. Hyperbaric oxygen reduces swelling, limits progression of the burn injury (which continues 3-4 days after the initial injury) and may diminish lung damage from inhalation of heat and smoke.
At the Medical College of Wisconsin, researchers are studying hyperbaric therapy for additional uses, alone and in combination with other treatments. Medical College researchers have pioneered the use of hyperbaric oxygen in conjunction with NASA's near-infrared light-emitting diode technology for treatment of hard-to-heal wounds.

May be just a clinic would do the trick.

http://drcranton.com/hbo.htm

If only every affected miner had a state of the art Hyperbaric Unit.

http://www.hyperchamber.com/
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Don’t wait. Bring the dead mummy back to life.

http://www.hyperbaric.com/pages/1/index.htm

Certainly a miracle of MODERN Bush Medical Technology.

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Here is a Katrina Math Scenario for you Bubba.

New Orleans homeowners worry about city bulldozing homes
1/5/2006, 5:24 p.m. CT
By CAIN BURDEAU
The Associated Press
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1136503758251240.xml&storylist=louisiana
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Bulldozers will be part of the rebuilding of this city but many black homeowners are worried that their flood- and wind-damaged homes will be demolished without their consent under the sweeping powers of the mayor.
What do you suppose all this costs, Bubba? Huh? Grief because there are still people decaying in the ruins that will be bulldozed under and built over top of. Besides, I thought Bush had VAST respect for private land ownership. Go, figure, huh?

The Times Picayune needs to be required reading for the nation.

http://www.nola.com/

Funny, but, Bubba didn’t portray any of this on the news tonight.

Hm?

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Oh, I agree. Judge Alito has nothing to do with the current decisions about wiretapping. Current wiretapping is a crime. I would think a Supreme Court Nominee would not participate in crime. He didn’t. Did he? I mean. Maybe over dinner. Hm?

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You learning more about the Sago Mine?

I would think any EMOTING Anchor would have done his homework long before now as an activist in PREVENTING this tragedy.

Hm?

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The voice of a relative doesn't change my mind about any of the above issues. I respect his right to make the love for his family member known. "God gave him peace at the end."

I suppose it was just 'time' for all these men.

Mr. Toler is a great American , as is his family. As Amerocns they deserve to be with his family and not without. All those people still living love Mr. Toler and have needs for him alive. That man should not be dead. Martin never deserved to die. Martin wasn't called. He was taken away from his family and his community by GREED. Not that his soul has a burden. He doesn't.

HERE WE GO.

Go ahead Anderson justify the death of these men in the 'dangers' of mining. That might true IF the deaths were justified. They are not in this case. There were to many issues with this mine to justify anything EXCEPT manslaughter.

You losing bastard, Anderson. You used the empathy of this nation to propagate a program; drawing a grieving family member into an interview. You have no respect for anyone. Your is ego is everything.

You pathetic bastard. You had no right to do this !!!

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enough

Cooper could never have done it alone. The fact of the matter is the Brown/Meserve exchange was more grabbing than any aspect of the CNN coverage

The 6th.

CNN Gains on Fox During Katrina

CNN made significant ratings gains on Fox News during the networks’ coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.From a rating of 0.5 before the hurricane, CNN rose to a 2.0 – although it still lagged behind Fox’s 2.3 rating.

A particularly poignant moment in CNN’s coverage came on the Monday night following landfall, when veteran reporter Jeanne Meserve was interviewed by Aaron Brown after she had gone out into the flooded streets of New Orleans with rescuers.

Meserve broke down in tears as she described hearing "people yelling for help and no one can get to them.”

Said Brown: "Jeanne Meserve has been on the team for almost 15 years, I think. She is a very tough, capable, strong reporter, and she met her match on a story tonight.”

CNN’s Anderson Cooper also left an impression on viewers when, during an interview with Sen. Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, he seemingly lost his temper and told her, "I’ve been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi. And to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry and very frustrated.”

The New York Times reported: "Mr. Cooper’s well-shaded outrage – he stopped just short of editorializing – elicited the kind of anger that has been mostly missing from a toothless press.”

You are welcome.

I wrote the issue on the net. Lightning strikes probably caused the explosion because of the methane gas industry. See. It is probably the truth. There is still no excuse for the deaths of these men. It only goes to prove that the stockholders and operators of these mines and gas extraction have no regard for people or the knowledge of the SCIENTISTS that could help STOP these problems. It takes captial, you see. Capital spent on employees is a waste of money.

SHUT THEM DOWN. They don't deserve the loyalty of anyone.

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The DNA is more advanced for the body identification in New Orleans. No clue. Has the monies set aside for the testing gone back to the government already? I think they had 90 days for the use it.

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A mushroom cloud of fire. Texas. I don't believe this mess.

Anderson you are pouting. The boy wonder takes over Larry King Live to prove a point.

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WOW. Tonight we get more assaults against the American Sanity from CNN's witch doctor Sanjay Gupta. Nothing like discussing the obvious. The carbon monoxide of fireplaces. You know I have a meter in the house that measures any CO2 levels. I purchased it years ago when I used natural gas and hot water to heat the house in New Jersey. It was encouraged to be purchased by the utility company. It was nominal and it was budgeted on my bill monthly. I think I know something about this already.

Most fireplaces are equipped with 'flues.' (CLICK ON. It's amazing what one can find on line.)

Do you know what happens when the chimney flue is closed? Do you, Anderson? The house fills with smoke far quicker than it fills with carbon monoxide. Hello? You know a person catches on quick when smoke is building out of the fireplace. No high IQ needed there. Dogs bark and everything. Do you believe the level of insult this audience sustains?

AARON WHERE ARE YOU !!!!!!!!!!!

"Taped below the Earth" - Bush. His soul is trapped below the Earth.

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Sanjay Gupta

CO - carbon monoxide - colorless, poisonous. 500 people per year die of this. Generator heaters run by propane. There are other reasons like cars left running in the garage for reasons not necessarily understood. I don't find this TERROR Capital Network helpful.

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Bush is great at mindspeak. It's only when Rove has prepared him that he actually finds something other than spiritual well wishes. LIKE, an investigation will have to ensue considering the poor track record of this particular mine.

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commercials

Here is an appropriate commercial for you:

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Boring.

Ah, let's see it is 1020 and the News Secretary is hard at work.

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More commercials? Not bad thinking by CNN actually. At least there is some information there.

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Took a break.

So, now we have a camera in a mine. Notice the men being interviewed are senior members of any team who know not just their jobs but their product. It is safe to say that like most Americans they take pride in their product and their work.

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Commercials. Time for another break.

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The News Review

THE PATRIOT IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL !!!!!!!

The invasion of privacy is lopsided and even the pundits of the Patriot Act ADMIT there is a bias that will develop in the USA due to the incumbent ADVANTAGE over political information. We don't want a dictatorship. We want our country back. George Tenet did the right thing before 911 with his report "Bin Laden determined to Attack Within the USA." It was Bush that didn't pay attention nor did he care to. We need competency returned to the USA and we won't need an overbearing government.

This country can't afford A Patriot Act. It's demoralizing this country. Spying on Americans is a deplorable act. Americans had NO HAND in 9/11. NONE. Iraq was parlayed from the Culture of Fear of Bush. No way. We don't need it. We don't want it. Bush is destroying the American Culture.

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The mine experienced an explosion. Sure there are short shifts. These people are 2 miles into the Earth. What do you think they are up against no matter how dedicated they are to find their piers? Incredibly brave people. This mine needs to be closed down. I don't care if there was a new company that took it over. It's there bad luck. Shut it down ! They didn't immediately make improvements to prevent this. They were interested in the coal at any cost. We don't need companies like this.

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A Family Profile. Most of these families traditionally have a deep abiding faith. They are great people, too. They are the 'personage' of this country. They are real. They are important. They aren't a commodity. Terry is a man. A Dad. A Spouse. A Community Member. A Co-worker. A person who worked a job that supplied an energy source to the country. A PERSON is what this country is about. Not companies. Not corruption in government. The ONLY thing a company is CAPITAL. It is never a person. There is no allegiance to companies. There is allegiances to the people of this country. The persons. Nothing else.

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Governor Manchin doesn't want to speculate to the causes of the explosion. It needs to be investigated. He is finding order in the way the dead miner was found. He feels some hope might exist in that the other workers walked away from the 'car' they travel into the mine. The workers were appropriate in their demeanor if the dead man was doing his job in the proper place within this mine. This is tragic. Sometimes carbon dust can cause a flash explosion that robs the people in the area of the very oxygen in their lungs. "Believe in Miracles and Give Us a Good Prayer." Fine. We'll all keep good thoughts.

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Greg Phillips, Former Miner and Rescuer. I never lost a family member. It is difficult work. No one in two generations of this family has worked in any mines either.

There you go. Mr. Phillips knows what a carbon powder explosion can do. "A Pop Shot." He's very good.

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commercials

I think I'll say 'enough.'

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This speculation was on August 10, 2005. I thought it was insightful and a compliment.

Q: gene of chicago - Thanks for taking my question. Who do you think will eventually be the principal anchor for ABC's World News Tonight. We are all saddened by Peter Jennings' loss...

A: Tim Cuprisin - I don't have a guess on this one, although I heard an intriguing suggestion that Aaron Brown could return to ABC. I like him, and he seems to be falling out of favor at CNN.

This is empty reporting. This issue is far deeper than a matter of minutes. This story is on going. When does it stop !

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Frankenstein is detrimental to the serious content of the news. Frankenstein is a Non-entity. It's dehumanizing.

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Yeah, everyone has hope.

The real story is that these people are entrenched in this profession. This is a deeply felt issue throughout this region. I don't really care about the 'techniques' I am confident the engineering is as good as it comes. I am interested in knowing how much these people suffer and they continue to suffer year after year after year…

Coal Miners' Memorials

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/memorial.html

One might note the names on this West Virginia monument are family members.

It's in front of the Courthouse of Madison - capital of Boone County, West Virginia


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The REAL story is the high amount of static electricity that ignited the Methane ! No one pays attention. They just send them in. Do your job. Nothing can go wrong. The gas leaks out of these VASTLY mined fields is abundant. The companies are negligent !

http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvcoal/red3t.htm

I have to say this? Dah !

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Texas Drought

http://www.texaswaterinfo.net/Monitoring/Meteorological/Drought/pdsi.htm

YOU WANT to know how immoral this program is. At the firt 'whiff' of a lawasuit, AC 360 sponsors a PR Campaign for the company. Amazing.

Oklahoma fire alert map. Updated every TWO hours.

http://agweather.mesonet.ou.edu/data/public/mesonet/models/realtime/firedanger/latest.bi.fire.gif

The Oklahoma Drought Index Updated Daily

http://climate.ocs.ou.edu/data/public/mesonet/maps/daily/drought/latest.kbdi.png

Oklahoma Rainfall Index

http://climate.ocs.ou.edu/data/public/mesonet/summaries/daily/recentrain.html

Departure from Normal

Departure from Normal: The amount, in inches, above or below the climate division's established normal precipitation for the period. This value is often referred to as the precipitation surplus (when above normal) or deficit (when below normal). Normals are based on 30-year averages and are updated every ten years for each climate division. The current normals are based on 1971-2000 values.

http://climate.ocs.ou.edu/rainfall_update.html

You can 'surf' from here. Click on "Home" It's some pretty interesting stuff.

GOES West Enhanced Infrared Satellite. These states will not see rain anytime soon. The Arctic Ocean Vortex isn't reaching those latitudes.

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_ir_enh_west_loop-12.html

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I DARE ANYONE. Anyone this is not a national emergency and top priority on any DC agenda! Anyone !

I have had enough of the Corporate Sympathetic Dribble of this program. This is not even close to being a HARD HITTING PROGRAM. You all like fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes and spontaneous methane explosions. DO YOU? Stop being fools. This is bigger than any government. Demand relief this.

Maybe a mid-winter hurricane but be more satisfying of the American Pacifists. Let's see, Zeta is still a tropical storm with a central pressure of 997 millibars. "Irene" had a central pressure of 975 millibars at a Cat 2.

http://weather.unisys.com/satellite/sat_wv_east_loop-12.html

Hm?

Enough.

Just one last point. Why do I find it so easy to hold Bush in ridicule? He was once governor of Texas. His reputation of air quality is to look the OTHER WAY. Which might give some insight into MINE air quality standards.

Texas Non-Attainment of ALL it's major cities. Without exception. The rest of the state is ranching.

I defy anyone to find MORALITY in this ! (Click On)

I understand it was a hell of a New Year's Eve on AC360. It's called misplaced priorities.

December 21, 2005.

The Savage River at Grant's Pass, Oregon; had receded 4 feet when this picture was taken. Otherwise a picture wouldn't have been possible.

TV 2005: A look back at some of the events, fads and flops

November

CNN issues a press release announcing its new schedule and some of us can't help noticing there's a certain Aaron Brown missing from it. Classy way to go, CNN.

It was too much to hope for...

... the program started out with purpose. It was speaking to 'the truth' I have stated existed in New Orleans since the day the disaster struck. The reality that no one in this administration cared about those in The Ninth Ward except to bulldoze their lives into oblivion. Reclaiming the 'real estate' while ridding the country of it's own worst 'truth,' the poverty of they bayous of Louisiana.

What Anderson Cooper 360 doesn't state is the courts are 'onto' the fact the work to reclaim the dead citizens of New Orleans isn't done !

Judge puts hold on home razing
Activists' concerns to get a hearing
Thursday, December 29, 2005
By Frank DonzeStaff writer

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-12/1135840787161300.xml

The planned demolition of hundreds of hurricane-ravaged homes in New Orleans has been put on hold until Jan. 6, when a judge has scheduled a hearing on a legal challenge to the controversial proposal announced last week by Mayor Ray Nagin's administration.
City Hall officials agreed to the delay Wednesday following a brief appearance before Civil Court Judge Herbert Cade, who had been asked by a coalition of activists to ban the bulldozing of up to 2,500 homes over the next several weeks.

New Orleans lawyer Bill Quigley, a longtime advocate for the poor and working-class, is seeking an injunction to stop the demolitions on behalf of the People's Hurricane Relief Fund, an umbrella group consisting of about 60 local organizations dedicated to Hurricane Katrina recovery.

THE TIMES PICAYUNE should be required reading for the nation !

After that segment this program AGAIN sunk into Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, seeking it's notoriety by presenting EVERY odd and unsolved medical condition on the face of Earth. They should devote the same energy into solving problems such as Global Warming. That will not happen here because the 'weird' and any type of subject of sensationalism is their speciality. This isn't a news program. It's a program for people with empty lives to feel and think of themselves as noble for the 'knowledge' they have regarding 'trendy' morality rather than lives of purpose and true values.

Anyone can 'perform' to moral standards in front of a camera interlaced with 'People Magazine' at it's heart, but, it takes a 'real journalist' to bring the news to the American Public in a way that matters. Anderson touts himself as CNN's Nicholas Kristoff. Not hardly.

Good night and good luck. Dear God, this is going to go on for another hour exploiting the president of the Ukraine's skin erosion as a stimulus.

S.O.S.

NewsNight with Aaron Brown ranked SECOND at CNN only behind Larry King and 13th (Unlucky number I guess.) overall in Cable News.

For this he is replaced? Talk about Anti-American. Now, we get the profound pleasure of being yelled at by a news anchor with misplaced loyalty and values. Smile 'purdy' for the camera, Anderson.

2005: The Program Ranker

Bill O'Reilly is the king of cable news again this year. He's #1 on the 2005 weekday program ranker, followed by H&C, Greta, Shep and Hume. The "Competitive Program Analysis" shows CNN's Larry King at #6 (and #5 in the 25-54 demo).

The defunct NewsNight with Aaron Brown comes in as CNN's #2 program of the year, ranking #13 overall. Wolf Blitzer's Situation Room is CNN's #3 and Paula Zahn now is #4. Headline News star Nancy Grace ranks 25th on the chart, averaging 510,000 viewers for the year. Prime News was the second most-popular HLN show, averaging 335,000.On MSNBC, Rita Cosby was #1. Chris Matthews (#2), Keith Olbermann (#3) and Joe Scarborough (#4) were all within 20,000 viewers of eachother. See it all for yourself:

McCarthy still manages to divide us

Comment: I don't have to watch PBS, but I do, regularly, for "Frontline," "Great Performances," "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer," "American Experience" and specials. Widely beloved by seniors, Welk isn't the problem. It's stations like Channels 10/36, which rerun dog-eared entertainment shows endlessly.

A column on CNN replacing newscaster Aaron Brown with the younger, buffer Anderson Cooper stirred angry comment.

Their competitor, Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, thanked me for calling her "the pride of Appleton."

"I'm very proud to be from there," she e-mailed. "I brag about Appleton and Wisconsin all the time and for good reason. Also, I miss living in Wisconsin."

The entire world has issues, you know what I mean?

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Andy is a fast talker, isn't he?

Blah, blah, blah….

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Red Tape at the Gulf Coast.

You know I am tired of hearing about the 'frustration' of 'dealing with' this dysfunctional society created by Bush. When are you going to bring news about facts that facilitate issues rather than promoting frustration.

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E. Coli. Now that is a subject that is burgeoning on the horizon of medical science as the daunting issue of the century. You actually got Sanjay Gupta to discuss BOWEL bacteria. I wonder if the poor child was infected by his own feces, Anderson? Imagine discussing 'bowel bacteria' on an international news program with a segment about children that got ill because that bacteria found it's way into their blood.

You are a sick SOB, Anderson. You ever play in your own feces, Bubba. I looked high and low on CNN e-page and nowhere appears an article on e.coli.

Nope. No e.coli anywhere except AC360.

http://search.cnn.com/pages/search.jsp?query=e.coli

There was this article on the net:

Shareholder dairy’s milk tests positive for E. coli

Cookson BeecherCapital Press Staff WriterSamples of raw milk from Dee Creek Farm in Woodland, Wash., have tested positive for E. coli, according to information from the Washington State Department of Agriculture.The investigation of the dairy was triggered by an outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 that has sickened several people, most of them children, in southwest Washington and Clatsop County, Ore.Marni Storey, public health manager for the Clark County Health Department, said this latest finding of E. coli in the farm’s milk adds further support to the likelihood that the outbreak is linked to the consumption of milk from the farm.The county’s Public Health Department is investigating illness in 18 people for E. coli infection. Fifteen of those people are children between the ages of 1 and 13. All of them reported consuming unpasteurized milk products from the farm.Five children were hospitalized. Two are still in the hospital and improving.“We are pleased the hospitalized children have improved,” said Storey. “Our focus continues to be to do all that we can to prevent any more illness or hospitalizations.”Anyone who has consumed unpasteurized milk products from Dee Creek Farm or its shareholders within the past four weeks and who has had bloody or crampy diarrhea is urged to contact a local health-care provider or the local health department as soon as possible.The milk samples, which were provided by the shareholders of the dairy, will be sent to the Washington State Public Health laboratory to verify that the strain of E. coli found in the milk is the same that has sickened the people who drank unpasteurized milk from the farm.On Dec. 20, laboratory testing had confirmed that seven of the sick individuals have E. coli 0157:H7, a virulent form of E. coli, a bacteria that lives in the guts of people and animals. E. coli DNA “fingerprinting” results have been received on four of the seven samples taken from the sick people, and all have the same matching DNA fingerprints.Dee Creek Farm operates a shareholder dairy. Under this type of arrangement, consumers buy a “share” of a dairy animal in return for a portion of its milk. The farm is not licensed by the state to sell raw milk, authorities said.In August, the farm ignored a demand by the state’s Agriculture Department that it stop selling milk until it obtained a state license. Under state law, a shareholder dairy is legal but must be licensed by the state before it can distribute raw milk. State licensing includes monthly testing of milk samples and requires raw-milk producers to meet higher standards than those producing pasteurized milk.Many shareholder dairies say they don’t need a license because the dairy animals are owned by the shareholders and therefore the animals’ milk is also owned by the shareholders.Dee Creek operators Michael and Anita Puckett have five cows and arranged to distribute raw milk to about 45 families.Claudia Coles, food safety manager for the state’s Agriculture Department, said Dee Creek has been shut down. Reporters have not been able to reach anyone at the farm.In response to the E. coli outbreak in Washington state, the federal Food and Drug Administration is warning the public not to drink raw milk because it may contain harmful bacteria that can cause life-threatening illnesses.According to the FDA’s website, although the majority of foodborne illness outbreaks associated with E. coli 0157:H7 have involved ground beef, such outbreaks have also involved unpasteurized apple and orange juice, unpasteurized milk, alfalfa sprouts and water. Fresh vegetables have also caused outbreaks.Seattle lawyer Bill Marler, who has won hefty settlements for E. coli victims in other cases, said parents of two sick children have asked him to look into their case.“Its a tragedy all around,” said Marler. “Even though the parents purchased the milk their kids consumed, they certainly didn’t anticipate that the product would have a deadly pathogen in it that could make their kids sick.”Marler said a colleague is analyzing the seven- or eight-page contract that the shareholders signed with Dee Creek.Marler also said the state’s liability will also be investigated.

MAYBE there are more? Do you think there are more articles about e.coli, Anderson?

Let's find out.

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Why Anderson the planet is full of e. coli !

Escherichia Coli

O157:H7

Outbreaks Associated With Petting Zoos, N Carolina, Florida And Arizona, 2004-2005Category: Veterinary NewsArticle Date: 29 Dec 2005

During 2004-2005, three outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 infections occurred among agricultural fair, festival, and petting zoo visitors in North Carolina, Florida, and Arizona. One hundred eight cases, including 15 cases of hemolytic uremic syndrome* (HUS), were reported in the North Carolina outbreak; 63 cases, including seven HUS cases, were reported in the Florida outbreak; and two cases were reported in Arizona. No fatalities occurred. Illnesses primarily affected children who visited petting zoos at these events. This report summarizes findings from these outbreak investigations, which indicated the need for adequate control measures to reduce zoonotic transmission of E. coli O157:H7.

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Why Anderson, it could be a global emergency bigger than the bird flu. I'll keep looking, Anderson.

E coli warning for imported luxury cheese

RUSSELL JACKSON
FOOD standards officers are warning shoppers not to buy certain luxury brands of imported French cheese and butter which may be contaminated with a potentially lethal strain of E coli food poisoning.
The Food Standards Agency last night issued an urgent Food Alert about Camembert and Coulommiers cheese and Le Gaslonde unpasteurised butter because of possible contamination with the deadly E coli 026 strain.

Why look Anderson, people are sueing e. coli. There should a law !

Two families hurt by E. coli hire lawyers

Wednesday, December 21, 2005By DON HAMILTON, Columbian staff writer
A Seattle law firm specializing in food liability lawsuits will represent two families victimized by the recent E. coli outbreak with an eye toward suing the farm that provided the raw milk that sickened their children.
The law firm Marler Clark won recognition for winning more than $20 million in settlements following the Jack-in-the-Box E. coli outbreak in 1993 and a $12 million settlement in 1998 in the Odwalla apple juice outbreak.
Eighteen people, 15 of them children ages 1 to 13, have been sickened in the outbreak, and all 18 consumed raw milk from Dee Creek Farm near Woodland. Two children remain hospitalized but their conditions are improving.
Clark County and state health officials have been testing and cross-testing milk samples and E. coli victims to determine the scientific link between the milk and the bacteria.

Anderson look at this. Do you think it could be GERM WARFARE? Oh, no. Georgie was right about Iraq.

How E. Coli Bacterium Generates Simplicity From Complexity

The ubiquitous and usually harmless E. coli bacterium, which has one-seventh the number of genes as a human, has more than 1,000 of them involved in metabolism and metabolic regulation. Activation of random combinations of these genes would theoretically be capable of generating a huge variety of internal states; however, researchers at UCSD will report in the Dec. 27 issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) that Escherichia coli doesn’t gamble with its metabolism. In a surprise about E. coli that may offer clues about how human cells operate, the PNAS paper reports that only a handful of dominant metabolic states are found in E. coli when it is “grown” in 15,580 different environments in computer simulations.

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Boy, it's a good thing you brought this up tonight. Glad I tuned in. Saved my life. Where would I be without Anderson Cooper. That was a close one !

Six E. coli cases linked to milk produced at unlicensed dairy
Wednesday, December 14, 2005By TOM VOGT, Columbian staff writer
Six confirmed cases of E. coli have been linked to drinking unpasteurized milk from an unlicensed Cowlitz County dairy.
All the victims are children between the ages of 5 and 14. Three are in area hospitals, including two in critical condition, said Dr. Justin Denny, Clark County health officer. The other hospitalized child is improving.
None of the children has been identified. The bacteria can cause life-threatening illnesses, but no information has been released about the children's medical problems.
Clark County health investigators have identified one common link, Denny said: All six drank unpasteurized milk that was produced by Dee Creek Farm, a family-run dairy in Cowlitz County.
Four cases were confirmed Monday and the other two cases had been categorized as probable.

Everything old is 2005

Retreads, remakes and revisions marked the culture this year.


...CNN channeled the spirit of Geraldo in its prime-time news program by replacing Aaron Brown with Anderson Cooper, who Rolling Stone magazine recently dubbed the first emo-anchor....

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Introduction. That kills three minutes with nothing to say.

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A knife welding man that won't cooperate with police. About a dozen officers. They couldn't shoot his knees out from under him? Give me a break !

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Police and the 'scary' mental cases. Doesn't that include most of the people at CNN?

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Eleanor Bumpers.

Eleanor Bumpers: shot by cop during eviction
by Mario Merola
On October 29, 1984, Eleanor Bumpurs, a black woman who weighed 275 pounds and walked with difficulty, was shot dead by police officer Stephen Sullivan as she was being evicted from her apartment at 1551 University Avenue.
After months of public debate about the killing, a grand jury had heard the entire story: how Bumpurs had owed a grand total of $417.10 on the 1-bedroom apartment she rented in a city housing project in the Bronx; how the city had stumbled and bumbled in its attempts to get the rent paid and avert the eviction; how the eviction process had continued to steamroller along; how the cops - the city service of last resort - had been called in to resolve the stand-off; how the situation had grown ugly; how Sullivan had then pulled the trigger not once but twice, ending the confrontation with Bumpurs's death.

http://bronxblotter.home.mindspring.com/merola/p009.html

"A Show of Force" doesn't require DEADLY FORCE. They over played their hand.

Oh, I love that. The officers need to be sure they had a clean shot where there are no other OFFICERS in the line of fire.

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So, Chad. No recreational focus today, huh? Jerks.

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"Keeping them honest." If you say so.

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Organized crime? Shoplifting. This has been a way of making money for a long time. It has been organized for a long time as well. I suppose if you want to showcase it this time a year it's a good idea. But, it's not easy to police an entire store. Why take OTC drugs? Because they can sell individual pills when others cannot afford to buy the entire bottle. They might give it away depending who you are to the shoplifter. Poverty is the 'enemy' not the shoplifter.

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Pakistan earthquake. Assistance by MASH unit.

The Pakistani Doctor is exceptional. 212th MASH unit. Why do they have to leave?

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"No thanks."
Gary Tuchman.
Shopping with Steven Hawks.
Brigham Young University.
"The Intuitive Diet"

No, thank you. If one is on a diet then you need to be ON A DIET. Not pretending to be on one.

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I'm saying '...until tomorrow.'

AC 360 is a program of Sensationalized Hypocracy.

This is the Water Vapor Satellite of North America Today.

While Carbon Dioxide Density as furnished by the consumer habits of the USA enabled by the oil administration in DC continues to cause huge problems with Global Warming, CNN's AC360; who promoted themselves over the tragedy of Katrina; now treats the impending West Coast storms as a commercial opportunity.

The 'Climate Diversion' is furnished by Chad Myers. The AC360 team would have you believe they are honorable, moral people of the highest standards and truth. Wouldn't seem to be the case.

This is 360.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COLLINS: For the next few days, the weather out West promises to be -- well, challenging. While some areas got a white Christmas, for others, the week after Christmas looks to be mostly wet and very, very windy. In Modesto, California, rains may have already caused a mudslide that caused a multi-car accident that left one person dead. And there's more rain on the way -- a lot more. (AUDIO GAP) for you as you try to make it home this holiday week, let's go in and check in with CNN meteorologist and severe weather expert Chad Myers. Hey, Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hi, Heidi. The good news is, this is a warm system. So, if you get to the passes around Truckee, you get to the passes over the Cascades, it's going to be rain.But above 8,000 feet, there's literally a potential, with this connection to the tropics out in the Pacific, for four to eight feet of snow above 8,000 feet. And that's great, because you can drive to the resort. You can go skiing. You get tons of snow. You have to be careful, of course, with the avalanches at eight feet. But, anyway, you can at least get there. And then the snow levels kind of come up and down, maybe one to three inches of snow around Truckee possible, but that literally will be it. The forecast, though, this is the next 48 hours. And I want you to pay attention to these dark purple areas. Everywhere that you see a dark purple area is a foot of snow or more. Now, talking the 14ers. We are talking Telluride, right up into Summit County, back all the way across, even to the Tetons, the Wasatch, and then right through the Sierra and up into the Cascades. Get above that snow threshold, and it's really going to be coming down -- some light snow in the East, but nothing in the purple range. We will see that rain change over to snow as you get higher in the elevations. We are looking for flooding in the North Bay area, I mean, from San Francisco up to Eureka, looking at the Russian River, could see six inches of rain by Friday, and then these higher elevations, as the air is pushed up the mountains. That's where the snow will be, right where it should be.

(LAUGHTER)

MYERS: Back to you, Heidi.

COLLINS: Sometimes, I wish if I should have -- wonder if I should have moved from Colorado. I don't know.

(LAUGHTER)

COLLINS: All right, Chad Myers, thank you.

MYERS: You're welcome.

I didn't know they were taking a poll.

NYDN Readers Say: Keep Schieffer

Nearly 75 percent of Richard Huff's readers say CBS should keep Bob Schieffer in the anchor chair.In a "highly unscientific poll," readers chose between Schieffer, Lara Logan, Katie Couric or Shepard Smith. Logan came in a distant second with 13 percent of the vote. Couric and Smith were "no-shows," and John Roberts received a few write-ins. (Aaron Brown got one, too.)"

As a longtime NBC/Tom Brokaw man, I have recently switched to watching Bob Schieffer and the CBS news," one reader said. "He gives the news in an easy, matter-of-fact manner and seems to be very comfortable and sincere, like he's in my living room talking to me."

Aaron spent days covering the tsunami from the toughest and most dangerous front, Banda Aceh Province

While the 'Thought Engineers' of AC360 would have a selective memory; those of us that appreciate excellance in journalism recall very clearly, it was Aaron Brown that lead the teams into The Asian Tsunami. While 'the team' put together a comprehensive view of the devastation both physical and human; Aaron took the toughtest assignment in Banda Aceh where a militia was still alive and well post tsunami.

Aaron Brown also lead 'the team' to Rome for the Pope's passing and funeral onto the anchoring of the choice of a new Pope. Aaron anchored the entire months of presentations of Katrina and Rita. It was only when the news became 'routine' again would he be leaving us to an inferior news anchor still today.



Aaron Brown: (on camera): And what strikes you coming here is this. In Thailand, it was the tourist resorts, the fishing villages right by the sea that were destroyed. Here, we're talking about a capital city of a province. We are four kilometers inland and just look at it. As far as the eye can see, it is destroyed.

(voice-over): Television deals in the human senses of sight and sound, but it is an inadequate medium when it comes to conveying what it's really like here. This is a city pervaded by death, the sight of it, yes, but also the smell of it. Death is everywhere. Today in Banda Aceh, you cannot escape it.

(on camera): Everywhere you drive in Banda Aceh, you come across scenes like this here, teams of workers pulling out bodies from the river that flows through the center of Banda Aceh. We've been here 15 minutes or so and we've seen them pull out five bodies. And this, of course, is 10 days after the waves struck.

(voice-over): Help is here, of course, but seldom can anywhere have needed it as much as this place, this city, or, rather, what remains of it.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ZAHN: And, once again, that was Mike Austin of Britain's ITV reporting. Back to Aaron now, looking at some of that same devastation in Banda Aceh. I guess, Aaron, one of the things you were talking about earlier this evening that really struck me -- and it's really hard to understand this -- that you're staying at a point that is a mile and a half inland from the ocean.

BROWN: Yes. It's -- I mean, again, I think, I would just echo everything that Mark Austin said. The difference between what happened here and what happened in Thailand and Sri Lanka is that it isn't just the coast, that we're a mile and a half from the coast here and look what's in front of us. And believe me when I tell you that, if you were to look the other way, it doesn't look any prettier. When Mark was reporting that, I knew exactly where in town he was talking about, four miles in, about 3 1/2 miles from the ocean . And it's just devastated. And the aftershocks continue. We were standing here, what, 2 1/2 hours ago, I guess, and another one rolled through. There was one earlier this morning. How that must traumatize the people who lived through it, the peril they must feel. In any case, we'll take a break. When we come back, this disaster as seen through the lens, as we often do, of some of the world's great still photographers. CNN's special coverage continues.

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ZAHN: That wraps it up from New York for me this evening. And, Aaron, you'll get to close out the hour here.

BROWN: Thank you very much. There is this kind of dead look that takes over the faces of people when they've grieved at this scale, as if there is nothing else inside.This hour tomorrow looks at the special plight of children in this disaster. We hope you'll join us for that.Until then, good night for all of us.


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Nowhere is the situation worse than it is in Banda Aceh. And that's where we find Aaron Brown tonight -- Aaron.

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: We are outside a refugee camp, very much a makeshift refugee camp that is being run by university students and their professors. Jeliteng Pribadi was an economics professor two weeks ago and he's a refugee camp director today. And he's with us. My Indonesian isn't very good, so we'll do this in English, as best we can.

JELITENG PRIBADI, REFUGEE CAMP DIRECTOR: OK.

BROWN: They found you, in a sense. People flooded here, because we're on relatively high ground, and you decided you had to do something, basically, right?

PRIBADI: Yes, you're right.When the tsunami came here, in the very beginning of the day, like, first until the fourth day, we just helped people inside the city, take the dead body, other some people still alive to the doctors, to the hospitals. And after the fourth day, start from the fifth day, we still to be focused, who we need to help? Do we still in there in the city to collect the dead body or we just help the people who still alive?

BROWN: Just a couple -- how much better are things now than they were a week ago here?

PRIBADI: Here. It's just around 1,500, but now it's well into 2,000 people here.

BROWN: You have medicine enough here?

PRIBADI: Right now, we have so many donation from other countries, from other organizations, like from Mercy, from International Red Cross. But, in the very beginning of the day, until -- the first week here, we still have no -- even for like Betadine, alcohol, we have not enough medical.

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BROWN: Just a final question. Can you imagine a time when things will be normal again?

PRIBADI: No. I don't think we will have normal condition in one or two months after the tsunami. And even for six months, I don't think we will have normal condition again like before.

BROWN: Thank you.

PRIBADI: OK. You're welcome.

BROWN: Thank you. One of the tasks here is to figure out, literally figure out who is here, who survived it, who did not. Foremost among that task is reuniting children and parents. UNICEF has set up an office here. Atika Shubert -- it's literally across the street. Atika Shubert has been over there to report on their efforts pretty much.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Aaron. UNICEF feels it is very important that children are able to stay, if not with their immediate family, with their extended family, or at least with the community they feel comfortable with. So one of the things we're doing is trying to identify and register all the tens of thousands of displaced children. We followed them around yesterday.And here's what we found.

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SHUBERT (voice-over): Children play amid the wreckage while a government teams picks its way through. Their mission, to identify children whose parents have gone missing in the disaster. Together with United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, the government is trying to register tens of thousands of displaced children in the hope they can be reunited with family.

ANANDA MELVILLE, UNICEF: It's to try to prevent not only the issue of trafficking of children, but also to prevent very well- meaning people taking the children and putting them in institutions in other countries or in other parts of Indonesia where -- and without -- and later it could be very hard to find them. S

HUBERT: In each camp, the faces of the missing are plastered everywhere, most of them, children. Parents line up at UNICEF, clutching pictures of their sons and daughters.

(on camera): In this camp, there are makeshift shelters and there are makeshift families. In these two tents, a hobbled together community of neighbors who have lost their homes, mothers who have lost their children, and children who have lost their parents.

(voice-over): Twelve-year-old Igbal was registered with UNICEF by Khaidir Stamsul. They seem like father and son. But it was only by chance that Igbal was away from his family, playing near Khaidir's home when the tsunami struck. It saved Igbal's life, but his family is gone. Khaidir has taken him in. "We're his parents as long as he's in this camp," he tells us. "We don't allow him to be left alone in silence, and my kids like him. Honestly, I couldn't give him away now even if someone wanted to adopt him."While other children play, Igbal seems pensive. He says he wants to be a soldier when he grows up, not a doctor, as Khaidir suggests. The reason is understandable. "I don't want to do that. I'm afraid of the ghosts from all of those dead bodies," he says. Despite their smiling faces, the ghosts that will surely haunt these children for years to come.

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SHUBERT: Now, it's hope against hope to try and reunite these families, Aaron. There are so many orphans and so many parents looking for missing children. But the good news is, a lot of these Acehnese communities are taking in these orphans, so at least they're not completely on their own.

BROWN: Do the aid workers feel that -- here, we'll raise that up just a little bit.

SHUBERT: Sorry.

BROWN: Do the aid workers feel that the world's attention will stay here long enough to get the work done?

SHUBERT: Well, that's certainly what they're hoping. There's a very desperate need here. And one of the things that UNICEF has pointed out is that the reason why it's so important to register and identify these children is because one of the problems down the line could be something like child trafficking. This is a situation where traffickers exploit the situation, exploit those children. And it's important to identify, register and get those children into communities that are safe for them before the traffickers get to them.

BROWN: It's actually -- it's one of the difficult parts of the story, is to know how much of that is actually happening and how much that is just fear of it happening -- Paula.

ZAHN: Aaron, I wanted to ask you what else you could share with us about the conditions at these camps. You spent the better part of the day at the one you are reporting from now.

BROWN: Were you able to hear? The condition of the camps generally?

SHUBERT: The conditions are a lot better now than they were. Just when I first got here, actually, a week ago, it was quite chaotic. Now there is certainly order. Sanitation is a lot better. But it still needs to be improved. The risk of disease is still there. And so a lot of help still needs to come in.

BROWN: Just to give you an idea, they -- we're, what, 10, 11 days since the tsunami hit. They just got sanitation facilities at this camp yesterday. So, it's -- it's pretty rugged living here, but they are living. And they are being fed. And that's encouraging for them -- Paula.

ZAHN: Aaron and Atika, thanks.Coming up, the world responds with an outpouring of aid. How marine muscle is playing a big part in relief operations. Then, born of the tsunami, a tiny child brings happiness and hope where there was none.


January 7

ZAHN: A little boy with a giant hole in his heart. In Banda Aceh, as in many other areas, the cleanup after the tsunami is beginning to show some signs of progress. But even with a massive effort, getting lives and livelihood back on track is not easy. That story when we come back.

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ZAHN: And welcome back to our special report, "Turning the Tide."My colleague Aaron Brown joins us from Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Aaron, you have been telling us over the last couple of days how complicated it is to distribute this aid. Have you seen any progress from where you stand?

AARON BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: Well, you know, look, I mean, you measure progress in funny ways. And every helicopter that goes out with water and medicine and food is progress. If you're looking for some big sea change, no. But another village gets fed or another refugee camp gets set up and food gets delivered, another wound gets healed, and that -- you measure progress in a kind of simple or small way. But it's -- in fact, nobody knows that better than Dr. Cesar Campo, who is a surgeon, a Spanish surgeon. He's with the Spanish medical team that works here.When you walk up and down the line here, the Aussies, the Americans, everybody says, talk to the Spaniards, because they are the ones who have really done the work. And the doc here has been doing the work. What kind of wounds principally and injuries are you seeing?

DR. CESAR CAMPO, SURGEON: Well, we are seeing very dirty wounds, because they are people that was affected by the tsunami. And then we are the first attendant that are looking for them, you know? Then those wounds are very, very dirty, very infected. And we have to do a work for cleaning, for debriding. It's (UNINTELLIGIBLE)

BROWN: All you can -- is it right that all you can really try to do is try and stabilize the patient and hope for the best?

CAMPO: Yes. Our first work is to stabilize the person and give the first aid here in Banda Aceh. Afterwards, the persons can go to hospitals in Medan, in Banda Aceh, or can go to the refugee camps after our work.

BROWN: Just a quick final question, Doc. What are their chances, generally? Do you think most of them will make it, some of them will make it? What do you think? Will they live?

CAMPO: Well, no, I think all of them will -- won't do, won't live, because there are many people very, very ill. We try to do our best with them with our work, cleaning, debriding, fixing fractures, using antibiotics and so, then -- but we don't know when another doctor or us will review them.

BROWN: I know you've got a lot of work to do. You have got a patient in there now, Doc. Muchos gracias, senor.

CAMPO: Thank you very much.

BROWN: Thank you.

CAMPO: Thank you.

BROWN: We appreciate it. We were talking a moment ago about how you measure progress here. A helicopter goes out, that's progress. You see a heavy piece of machinery come into the city to start clearing the rubble, it's a -- the rubble, the mess here is so vast, it doesn't seem like much to start clearing a block. But it is a small measure of progress. Atika Shubert was out on the bridge that we were broadcasting from the other day, and she, too, found small measures of progress, small measures of normalcy.

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Aaron. What we find is that people are starting to get back to normal life, but it's going to take a long time. There just isn't the kind of equipment needed to clear the area quickly. So, we did is, we went to some of the areas that were hardest hit in Banda Aceh to see how they were dealing with the clear-up. And this is what we found.

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SHUBERT (voice-over): Friday prayer in the great mosque of Banda Aceh, the first area to be cleared of debris and bodies. The faithful come to pray. Soldiers stand on guard. Signs of life returning to normal. In the market, shops still in ruins, but order has been restored. Residents line up patiently for food and for water dispensed by Australian soldiers.

(on camera): Residents still live amid the wreckage. Heavy moving equipment is hard to come by and it may take months for any of this to even begin to be cleared.

(voice-over): Boats are still marooned in the center of town more than a kilometer inland. The most spectacular wrecks have become something of a tourist attraction for visiting aid workers. Here we found Mohammad Amwar Illas (ph), a fisherman watching over his family's boat jammed atop a bridge. He was fishing four kilometers offshore in another boat when the tsunami struck, feeling nothing but the rise and fall of a large wave. He came back to this. His home and his parents gone, he focuses on salvaging what he has left. "If I can, I'll build another boat. The engine still works," he says. "We will have destroy the rest of this to get the engine. I just don't think anything else is usable." Mohammad figures it will take six months for his life to return to normal. He waits every day for a cleanup crew to arrive, but they're not stopping here today.

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SHUBERT: Now, there are still some more encouraging signs this morning, Aaron. Actually, supermarkets are starting to open and that's a good thing, but it is going to think many months yet.

BROWN: Thank you. Every day, another piece of heavy machinery moves in. Every day, the area inches towards recovery. But you're talking about three months before, four months maybe, before bodies are all cleared out of the city and really years before anything approaching what was -- and what was wasn't all that great -- but what was is recreated again -- Paula.

ZAHN: Aaron, we're reading here that in the province where you're spending most of your time, they're beginning to see outbreaks of cholera and malaria. What can you tell us about what you've seen in the refugee camps you have visited?

BROWN: Well, Atika may weigh in here, too. You know, the conditions are ripe. I mean, you have all of the ingredients for a horrible outbreak of disease. You've got a lot of standing water. The water table, without getting too technical here, is so high that it's just -- standing water is all over the place, mosquitoes all over the place. And so, all of the things that create a health disaster are in place. And while there are actually a lot of doctors here, there's not necessarily -- I'm trying to think of the best way to say this -- there's not necessarily a system set up to get patient to doctor. And so cholera spreads very quickly. And if that were to happen, then -- you've got the worst disaster that anyone can imagine and that would only make it worse.

ZAHN: Well, we hope things improve there, given the speeding up of the distribution, as you've talked about.Atika, Aaron, thank you so much.