SENATOR COLLINS
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SENATOR COLLINS COLLINS
Among the speakers were Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, Michael D. Brown and Senator Norm Coleman. Senator Collins said that D.H.S. officials told them that they did not know of the severity of the situation in New Orleans until Tuesday morning. That's almost 24 hours after they've received the information that she referred to about the severe flooding in New Orleans. She asks if they can help them understand this enormous disconnect between what was happening on the ground, a city 80 percent flooded, uncontrolled levees, people dying, people waiting to be rescued, and the official reaction among many of the key leaders in Washington and in Northern Command that somehow New Orleans had dodged the bullet?