CNN - The Situation Room and Lou Dobbs Tonight - 2005-09-09
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[0:06] end. The threat still out there at 3
[0:09] p.m. Central in New Orleans, where
[0:11] police say forced evacuations are an
[0:14] option, but not one they're using, at
[0:16] least not yet. And stinging words about
[0:19] race and class and Katrina. This hour,
[0:22] the always outspoken Democratic Party
[0:24] chairman Howard Dean defends comments
[0:26] that the first lady is calling
[0:29] disgusting.
[0:31] I'm Will Blitzer. You're in the
[0:32] situation room.
[0:49] The mission is critical and now a US
[0:51] Coast Guard commander is taking charge.
[0:54] Homeland Security Secretary Michael
[0:56] Chertoff announced it about 2 hours ago.
[0:58] Vice Admiral Fat Allen is replacing and
[1:01] battle FEMA director Mike Brown as the
[1:03] on-site head of relief operations along
[1:05] the Gulf Coast. Brown is being sent back
[1:08] to Washington to oversee FEMA's national
[1:11] headquarters. In New Orleans, police say
[1:13] they still are not using force to
[1:16] evacuate holdouts from the city, but
[1:18] they say they will as a last resort. For
[1:21] now, they say they're using what they
[1:23] call persuasive negotiation. About 100
[1:27] Louisiana National Guardsmen are now
[1:29] back home after serving for almost a
[1:31] year in Iraq. They lost 35 of their own
[1:35] during the mission overseas. Now they'll
[1:37] see firsthand what Hurricane Katrina
[1:40] took from them. The official Katrina
[1:42] death toll stands right now at 204 in
[1:46] Mississippi, 118 in Louisiana. Those
[1:49] numbers still expected to rise
[1:51] significantly. But a top official in New
[1:53] Orleans is saying right now that initial
[1:56] sweeps suggest fewer may have died than
[1:59] some of the most dire predictions of
[2:01] 10,000.
[2:03] Some progress toward