THE TENSION: October 23, 2005

NYT (via Drudge) -- Brooks: Why Are Dems So Overheated?

BROOKS: WHY ARE DEMS SO OVERHEATED?

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald did not find evidence to prove that there was a "broad conspiracy to out a covert agent for political gain. He did not find evidence of wide-ranging criminal behavior. He did not even indict the media's ordained villain, Karl Rove," writes David Brooks in Sunday's NY TIMES.

"Leading Democratic politicians filled the air with grand conspiracy theories that would be at home in the John Birch Society."

"Why are these people so compulsively overheated?.. Why do they have to slather on wild, unsupported charges that do little more than make them look unhinged?

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Tension: Status Quo
Gravity: 200

Topics: current events, politics, Bush, Rove, News, Republican, White House, Computers and Internet, Blogs, Blogging, Journalism, Media, online, Libby, Fitzgerald

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Hurricane Beta Update, Oct., 29 Late PM

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...HURRICANE BETA HEADING FOR THE COAST OF NICARAGUA WITH 105 MPH WINDS...COULD BECOME STRONGER...

HURRICANE BETA ADVISORY NUMBER 13
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 PM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

HURRICANE BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 13
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 PM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

Tension: Hurricane Force
Gravity: 100

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Wilma Steers Cruises Off Usual Ports of Call

Wilma steers cruises off usual ports of call

Oh Wilma, what a mess you've made. Caribbean cruise itineraries are being shuffled once again in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.

A number of cruises that were scheduled to stop in Key West, Belize and Cozumel are shifting instead to Nassau, St. Thomas and San Juan for the next few weeks. Cruise lines have already cancelled all stops in New Orleans until next spring because of the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, and are avoiding Mobile, Ala., whose port was damaged by Hurricane Rita.

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Economic Tension: 100
Gravity: 50

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Hurricane Beta Update, Oct., 29 PM

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...BETA MOVING SLOWLY WESTWARD TOWARD THE NORTHEASTERN COAST OF NICARAGUA...EXPECTED TO STRENGTHEN...

HURRICANE BETA ADVISORY NUMBER 12
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

HURRICANE BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 12
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

Hurricane Beta Heads for Caribbean Coast
SAN ANDRES ISLAND, Colombia (AP) - A strengthening Hurricane Beta headed for Central America's Caribbean coast Saturday after lashing the small Colombian island of Providencia with harsh winds, heavy rains and high surf. Nicaraguan troops evacuated thousands of people from low-lying areas as...

Tension: Hurricane Force
Gravity: 100

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Katrina Evacuees Leave Mobile On 'Holiday'

Carnival Ship Holiday: Mobile, Al BayCam -- Refresh browser for latest view -- click for larger image

What you don't see in the Web cam above is the Carnival Cruise Ship 'Holiday'

The "Holiday" Sails Off, Along with a Major Source of Local Revenue
(MOBILE, Ala.) Oct. 28 - The "Holiday" is sailing away, and taking a major source of city revenue with it.

The cruise ship Holiday has housed 1300 evacuees in the Port of mobile since Hurricane Katrina. It will be pulling up anchor and heading to Mississippi this weekend, allowing evacuees to be closer to their homes.

Carnival ship housing Katrina evacuees leaves Mobile
MOBILE, Ala.-AP) October 28 -- A Carnival cruise ship housing about 1,300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees will leave Mobile Saturday, setting sail for a port in Mississippi.

The Carnival Holiday will dock in Pascagoula, a city 35 miles southwest of Mobile. The Holiday first boarded hurricane victims six weeks ago.

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Local Tension: Economic
Gravity: 100

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Mobile Alabama, Hurricane, Katrina

Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #8

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Hurricane Beta Update, Oct., 29 Early AM

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...SLOW-MOVING HURRICANE BETA CONTINUES TO BATTER PROVIDENCIA ISLAND WITH DAMAGING WINDS... TORRENTIAL RAINFALL... AND HIGH SURF...

HURRICANE BETA ADVISORY NUMBER 10
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

HURRICANE BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 10
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM EDT SAT OCT 29 2005

Tension: Hurricane Force
Gravity: 100

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Libby Lawyer Plans Clinton-Style Defense

Libby Lawyer Plans Lack-of-Memory Defense

WASHINGTON - The lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide is outlining a possible criminal defense that is a time-honored tradition in Washington scandals: A busy official immersed in important duties cannot reasonably be expected to remember details of long-ago conversations.

Friday's indictment of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby involves allegations that as Cheney's chief of staff he lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury.

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Tension: Forget-me-not
Gravity: Whitewater

Topics: current events, politics, Bush, Rove, News, Republican, White House, Computers and Internet, Blogs, Blogging, Journalism, Media, online, Libby, Fitzgerald

Fed Memos Put Katrina Body Blame on Blanco

A sign of the times

Fed Memos Put Katrina Body Blame on Blanco
Bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina went uncollected for more than a week in the New Orleans area as the federal government waited for Louisiana's governor to decide what to do with them, according to memos released Thursday by a Republican-led House committee.

The 38 pages of e-mail between FEMA representatives and Pentagon officials contradict the contention by Louisiana's Democratic Gov. Kathleen Blanco, two weeks after Katrina hit on Aug. 29, that the federal government was moving too slowly to recover the bodies.

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Tension: 100
Gravity: -6'

Topics: News, Current Events, Gulf Coast, hurricane, Katrina, politics, Bush, FEMA, Blanco, Louisiana, New Orleans

Tropical Storm Beta Update, Oct., 28 PM

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...BETA NEARING HURRICANE STRENGTH...LASHING THE ISLAND OF PROVIDENCIA...

TROPICAL STORM BETA ADVISORY NUMBER 9
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005

TROPICAL STORM BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 9
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
11 PM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005

Nicaraguans flee villages to escape storm Beta
PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua (Reuters) - Hundreds of Miskito Indians streamed into makeshift shelters in a sleepy Caribbean port on Friday as Nicaragua prepared for Tropical Storm Beta, the latest cyclone in a record breaking season.

Beta Spares One Island, but Slams Another
SAN ANDRES, Colombia (AP) - Hundreds of villagers on a tiny Caribbean island hiked into the mountains Friday, fleeing a powerful tropical storm that engulfed Providencia in heavy winds and rain. Tropical Storm Beta, packing winds of 65 mph, made a direct hit on the Manhattan-sized island. The...

Beta Spares Colombian Island
Tropical Storm Beta sideswiped the Colombian island of San Andres on, sparing hundreds of residents and tourists who had hunkered down in shelters overnight. The storm still threatened a neighboring island and the Nicaraguan mainland.

Tension: Rising
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Hurricane Wilma News Photos / Pictures Digest

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HURRICANE WILMA NEWS PICTURE -- Aereal view of Cancun, Mexico, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005. Hurricane Wilma battered the area for the better part of two days, causing widespread destruction. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

US President George W. Bush (C) speaks to the press as his brother, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (L) looks on while visiting a relief center in Pompano Beach, Florida. Bush visited areas battered by Hurricane Wilma in Florida, seeking to defuse criticisms of government relief efforts as four million people remained without electricity.(AFP/Jim Watson)

An aireal view of a coral reef park that was affected by Hurricane Wilma off of Isla Mujeres, Mexico, on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005. The storm battered Cancun and surrounding islands, including Isla Mujeres, for the better part of two days, causing widespread destruction. (AP Photo/Israel Leal)

A Miami Beach Police officer watches motorists as they line up for gas, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005 in Miami Beach, Fla., as gas shortages continue after Hurricane Wilma passed through the area earlier this week. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

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Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, tropical storm

Tropical Storm Beta Update, Oct., 28 AM

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NOAA satellite image shows Tropical Storm Beta. Beta formed off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane and drench Central America with potentially flooding rain, the US National Hurricane Center said.(AFP/NOAA-HO)

TROPICAL STORM BETA GETTING CLOSER TO SAN ANDRES AND PROVIDENCIA AS IT CONTINUES TO MOVE SLOWLY NORTHWARD

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 AM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005

TROPICAL STORM BETA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 6A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
8 AM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005

TROPICAL STORM BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 6
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM EDT FRI OCT 28 2005

Tension: Rising
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Pumping Up Part Two: Oil Companies Post Record Profits

Pumping Up Part Two

Exxon Mobil Profit, Sales Soar to Records
DALLAS (AP) - Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) rewrote the corporate record books Thursday as the oil company's third-quarter earnings soared to almost $10 billion and it became the first public company ever with quarterly sales topping $100 billion. Anglo-Dutch competitor Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA) wasn't far behind, posting a profit of $9 billion for the quarter.

Big Rise in Profit Places Oil Giants on the Defensive
A sudden interruption in oil supplies sent prices and profits skyrocketing, prompting Exxon's chief executive to call a news conference right after his company announced that it had chalked up record earnings.

Energy windfall called both "absurd," logical
Record profits reported Thursday by Exxon Mobil and Royal Dutch Shell are:
a) expected
b) obscene
c) good for America
d) a function of free markets
e) all of the above

Oil profits off the charts
Yesterday oil companies released their third quarter profits, and they were large. ExxonMobil earned a net income of $9.92 billion, which is the most any U.S. company has earned in a three-month period… ever. Royal Dutch Shell raked in a little over $9 billion itself, while BP earned $6.5 billion, ConocoPhillips $3.8 billion and ChevronTexaco $3.9 billion. Any hardships caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita were offset by the record high price of crude oil, hitting $70/barrel at one point in the third quarter. USA Today reports that while consumer backlash is expected for such high profits during a time when most motorists are being pinched at the pump, the oil companies are stressing that their industry is cyclical and it wasn’t that long ago in 2001 when the combined quarterly profits of these companies totaled less than $10 billion. Aww… poor babies.

Bush Administration Rules Out Special Oil Company Tax
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The Bush administration, facing mounting pressure from Congress to address record energy costs, today ruled out a tax on soaring oil company profits.

Related: Pumping Up: Oil Companies Post Record Profits

Tension: 150
Gravity: 150

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Mobile Alabama, Hurricane, Katrina Wilma, tropical storm, Rita, Bush, economy

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Report: Cuba Accepts US Aid; Castro Denies Report

Briefs: Cuba accepts U.S. aid after Wilma's flooding
WASHINGTON Cuba, whose offer of help was snubbed by Washington after Hurricane Katrina, has for the first time "in memory" accepted U.S. disaster aid, the State Department said on Thursday.

Castro denies accepting U.S. aid
HAVANA, Oct 27 (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro denied on Thursday that his Communist government had accepted U.S. aid for the first time in the wake of Hurricane Wilma.

Tension: Confused
Gravity: Bogged down

Topics: News, Hurricane, Wilma, current events, politics, News, Katrina, Cuba, Castro

Breaking News: NYT -- Rove Not To Be Charged

Aide to Cheney Appears Likely to Be Indicted; Rove Under Scrutiny

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 - Lawyers in the C.I.A. leak case said Thursday that they expected I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, to be indicted on Friday, charged with making false statements to the grand jury.

Karl Rove, President Bush's senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, will not be charged on Friday, but will remain under investigation, people briefed officially about the case said. As a result, they said, the special counsel in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, was likely to extend the term of the federal grand jury beyond its scheduled expiration on Friday.

White House Tension: Relaxing a bit
Gravity: 100

Topics: current events, politics, Bush, Rove, News, Republican, White House

Pumping Up: Oil Companies Post Record Profits

Pumping Up: Oil Companies Post Record Profits

MOBILE, Ala., October 27 --Where is your money going at the pump? In Mobile, Triple "A" reports you are paying about $2.62 for a gallon of regular right now, $2-80 for mid-grade and $2-89 for premium. With gas prices this year higher than ever, why are oil companies reporting record profits?

Oil companies are boasting record profits. Third quarter profits at Exxon-Mobil jumped 75 percent to an industry record of more than 9 billion dollars. Shell Oil's numbers run a close second. Now, angry motorists want answers. Why aren't they seeing the prices drop at the pump?

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Tension: 150
Gravity: 150

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Mobile Alabama, Hurricane, Katrina Wilma, tropical storm, Rita, Bush, economy

Tropical Storm Beta To Become Hurricane

Hurricane Warnings Issued

TROPICAL STORM BETA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 4A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
8 PM EDT THU OCT 27 2005

TROPICAL STORM BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 4
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 PM EDT THU OCT 27 2005

Tension: Rising
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #6

Residents wait in a long line to receive water and ice at the Amelia Earhart Park in Opa Locka, Fla., Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005, two days after Hurricane Wilma past over South Florida. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

People wait for supplies after Hurricane Wilma hit Boca Raton, Florida, October 27, 2005. Floridians took cold showers and lined up for gas, water, ice and money as power crews worked to restore electricity to four million people three days after Hurricane Wilma hit Florida's most populous region, killing 10 people. REUTERS/Marc Serota

Wilma hit South Florida, many gas stations remained shut down Thursday. Most closed stations have full storage tanks, but the widespread power outages have silenced their pumps. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

Michael Nagle, a recruiter with the U.S. Army, left, packages boxes of food at a distribution center at the Orange Bowl giving out water, ice and food in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma in Miami, Fla, Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

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Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #5

HURRICANE WILMA NEWS PICTURE -- A car sits at a gas station without power or gas, with a sign saying, 'Stuck Without Gas', Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005, in Plantation, Fla. People are still waiting in line for gas as few stations have electricity or gas after Hurricane Wilma passed through the area. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

A man reads the papers as he waits in a long gas line after Hurricane Wilma hit Ft. Lauderdale, Florida October 27, 2005. Floridians took cold showers and lined up for gas, water, ice and money as power crews worked to restore electricity to four million people three days after Hurricane Wilma hit Florida's most populous region, killing 10 people. REUTERS/Marc Serota

Sheldon Soyer, left, of New York sits outside of his vehicle outside of a gasoline station where he has been waiting for six hours to buy fuel in the aftermath of Hurricane Wilma in Miami, Fla., Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005. Although this station has run out of fuel, there is still a long line of vehicles hoping the station will re-open.( AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

U.S. President George W. Bush holds out his arms as he speaks to reporters during a visit to a food distribution center in Pompano, Florida, October 27, 2005. With many Floridians still struggling to find basics such as food, water, ice and gas in the wake of Hurricane Wilma, Gov. Jeb Bush (front L) yesterday took responsibility for relief delays. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, tropical storm

Tropical Storm Beta Photo And News Oct. 27 AM

This image provided by NOAA Thursday Oct. 27, 2005 shows tropical storm Beta. At 5 a.m. EDT the center of tropical storm Beta was located about 75 miles south of San Andreas Island and about 140 miles east-southeast of Bluefields Nicaragua. Beta is moving toward the northwest near 5 mph with maximum sustained winds near 40 mph. Beta formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season. Beta is the season's 23rd tropical storm, the most since record keeping began in 1851. (AP Photo/NOAA)

TROPICAL STORM BETA INTERMEDIATE ADVISORY NUMBER 2A
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
8 AM EDT THU OCT 27 2005

TROPICAL STORM BETA DISCUSSION NUMBER 2
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
5 AM EDT THU OCT 27 2005

Tropical Storm Beta becomes 23rd named storm of Atlantic hurricane season
MIAMI – Tropical Storm Beta formed Thursday in the southwestern Caribbean Sea, extending this year's record of named storms in the Atlantic hurricane season.

Tropical Storm Beta gathering force off Nicaragua
Oct 27, 2005 — MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Beta formed off the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua on Thursday and was forecast to strengthen into a hurricane and drench Central America with potentially flooding rain, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Tension: Rising
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Katrina, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Beta

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Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #4

The Colonial Bank building, that was damaged by Hurricane Wilma, in Miami, Florida. Victims of Hurricane Wilma's wrath in Florida pressured officials for relief as they suffered a third day without electricity and scant basic supplies, while Governor Jeb Bush admitted the emergency relief effort 'didn't work as it should.'(AFP/Getty Images/Carlo Allegri)

Tourists walk next to a ship that ran aground last weekend during hurricane Wilma in Puerto Juarez, near Cancun, Mexico on Wednesday Oct. 26, 2005. As Cancun's half-million people struggled to clean up their flooded and wind-smashed homes and workplaces, crowds of frustrated tourists surrounded airline offices trying to get back home.(AP Photo)

Jordan Milton loads some of a friends belongings into a canoe from this flooded home in Cocoa, Fla. Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005. Two days after Hurricane Wilma turned neighborhood streets into canals, residents were still canoeing to flooded houses and relying on deputies to bring water and supplies. (AP Photo/Peter Cosgrove)

Airplanes are seen destroyed at Fort Lauderdale International Airport Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005. Regional and International airport in South Florida are slowly returning to normal after damage caused by Hurricane Wilma. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

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Recovery From Wilma Begins Slowly, Still No Widespread Civil Unrest

HURRICANE WILMA NEWS PHOTO -- Motorists who had waited in line for gas for hours, yell at a driver who cut in line at a Pembroke Pines, Fla. gas station early Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2005. Many gas stations and grocery stores are open for the first time since Hurricane Wilma. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

Recovery From Wilma Begins, Slowly
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Floridians already were waiting in long lines for gasoline at sunrise Wednesday as they voiced frustration at the slow arrival of relief following the destruction of Hurricane Wilma.

Police watched over the few gas stations that were open as a precaution in case motorists' tempers flared while they waited for hours to buy fuel.

Tension: 100
Gravity: 100

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm

Tropical Storms Beta and Perhaps Gamma Now Forming?

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TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
1130 AM EDT WED OCT 26 2005

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

SATELLITE IMAGERY INDICATES THAT THE AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEA JUST NORTH OF WESTERN PANAMA HAS BECOME BETTER ORGANIZED THIS MORNING. A TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD FORM IN THIS AREA DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO AS THE SYSTEM DRIFTS NORTHWESTWARD. INTERESTS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SHOULD MONITOR THE PROGRESS OF THIS SYSTEM.

SQUALLY WEATHER ASSOCIATED WITH A TROPICAL WAVE WILL LIKELY SPREAD OVER THE LESSER ANTILLES DURING LATER TODAY AND TONIGHT. THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF TROPICAL CYCLONE FORMATION AT THIS TIME.

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Tension: Rising
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm

Tropical Storm Beta Forming?

TROPICAL WEATHER OUTLOOK
NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL
530 AM EDT WED OCT 26 2005

FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC...CARIBBEAN SEA AND THE GULF OF MEXICO...

THE AREA OF DISTURBED WEATHER OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN CARIBBEAN SEAHAS CHANGED LITTLE DURING THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS. HOWEVER...CONDITIONS APPEAR TO BE FAVORABLE FOR VERY SLOW DEVELOPMENT DURINGTHE NEXT DAY OR TWO.

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Tension: Still more
Gravity: Wait and see

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm

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Selected Hurricane Wilma News Photos #2

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A general view of the beach at the resort town of Cancun in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo as Hurricane Wilma approaches October 19, 2005. Described by meteorologists as potentially catastrophic, Wilma dumped rain on the Honduran coast and whipped up winds that briefly reached nearly 175 mph (280 km). Authorities began evacuating 10,000 people in the Mexican coastal state of Quintana Roo and tourists lined up at the airport to escape the beach resort of Cancun, where the storm was due to hit on Thursday. REUTERS/Daniel Aguilar

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Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Alpha

No Reports Of Looting, Govt. Failures, As Fla. Recovers From Hurricane

HURRICANE WILMA PHOTO -- A limousine overturned by Hurricane Wilma sits on its roof in Pompano Beach, Florida October 25, 2005. (Brian Snyder/Reuters)

Florida Recovering From Another Hurricane
WESTON, Fla. - Floridians in search of water, cleaning supplies and generators lined up Tuesday morning outside the few stores that were open after Hurricane Wilma cut a costly, deadly swath across the peninsula.

An Orderly Storm Response This Time
WASHINGTON — As Hurricane Wilma lashed Florida, federal authorities rushed water, communications equipment and emergency personnel into stricken areas with few signs of the tragic disorder that plagued the government response to Hurricane Katrina.

Tension: Still cleaning up the mess
Gravity: It's just a difference in local self-respect

Topics: News, Gulf Coast, Hurricane, Wilma, Florida, Katrina, tropical storm, Alpha, photo

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Hurricane Wilma Aftermath, Tues., Oct. 25

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Ashlee Simpson At No. 1: Evidence of World Ending

Ashlee Simpson: Evidence of World Ending

Tuesday, October 25, 2005
By Roger Friedman

FOX News -- Nostradamus is guesting on “TRL” this week.

Ashlee Simpson, the terminally untalented and annoying sister of pop star Jessica Simpson, has the No. 1 album this week with the aptly titled, “I Am Me.”

Tension: -50
Gravity: Weightless

Topics: Current Events, News, Entertainment, Music

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