FEMA To Cut Hotel Funding For 54,000 Katrina Families

BBC News April 18, 2007 12:18 PM

Many US families forced to leave their homes by devastating storms have been told that funding for accommodation in hotels will be cut by 1 December.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema), in charge of the relief effort, has paid evacuees some $274m (£159m) since hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

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Wow, He's going to give the children books for the summer, maybe he should have done something to protect them before Katrina, and after. He is the big brave protector, isn't he, after all that is what he always claims, to the multitudes.

Bush To Visit New Orleans Thursday

WMCTV April 18, 2007 04:15 PM

First Lady Laura Bush has postponed her trip to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, according to a statement from the White House. Bush and Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings were supposed to visit the coast on today (Wednesday) and tomorrow (Thursday), handing out books to children under a program designed to keep children reading over the summer.

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