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==Chain of Events==
===Weather Warnings===Days earlier, on Thursday, August 25, 2005, Katrina had passed over South Florida as a Category 1 hurricane. The following evening, August 26th, weather forecasters at [[CNN]] predicted that Katrina was aiming for Mississippi and Louisiana, which CNN [http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/08/26/tropical.weather/ posted] online, along with the weather warning that a "Deadly hurricane could hit again Monday as a Category 4." Hurricane specialists at the [[National Hurricane Center]], including Max Mayfield, the Center's Director, [http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/30/State/For_forecasting_chief.shtml predicted] at 11:00 PM, Friday, August 26th, "more than two days before Katrina reached land," that the "hurricane would make landfall in the bayous of Louisiana, east of New Orleans." They were only "off by 18 miles". Mayfield, <i>St. Petersburg Times</i>' staff writer Tamara Lush [http://www.sptimes.com/2005/08/30/State/For_forecasting_chief.shtml reportedWeather Warnings] Monday, August 30th, "was so worried about Hurricane Katrina that he called the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi and the mayor of New Orleans" on Saturday night, August 27, 2005. [[FEMA]]'s National Situation [http://www.fema.gov/emanagers/2005/nat082705.shtm Update] for Saturday, August 27, 2005, reported that Katrina had already become a Category 3 hurricane and that in "anticipation of a possible landfall, Mississippi Governor [[Haley Barbour]] and Louisiana Governor [[Kathleen Babineaux Blanco]] declared States of Emergency Friday [August 26th]. In Louisiana, New Orleans is of particular concern because much of that city lies below sea level. According to Gov. Blanco, Lake Pontchartrain is a very large lake that sits next to the city of New Orleans and if the hurricane winds blow from a certain direction, there are dire predictions of what may happen in the city." :*[http://gov.louisiana.gov/2005%20%20proclamations/48pro2005-Emergency-HurricaneKatrina.pdf State of Louisiana, Executive Department, Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005]: "State of Emergency Hurricane Katrina," August 26, 2005. On Sunday, August 28, 2005, Katrina was being [http://www.acadiananow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS05/50828026 called] a "monster storm" and "[f]orecasters feared Sunday afternoon that storm driven waters [would] lap over the New Orleans levees ... rain bands and gusty winds were flowing across coastal Louisiana near the mouth of the Mississippi River, almost due south of New Orleans and conditions were expected to continue to deteriorate as the powerful storm neared land."==
===Louisiana and Mississippi Requested DoD Assistance===
#The ''Washington Post'', ''Newsweek'', Newt Gingrich "falsely claimed that Blanco did not declare a state of emergency."
#Newt Gingrich "falsely claimed that Nagin could 'have kept water pumped out' of city had he ensured that pumps worked."
===Opportunism Alert===
President Bush will be traveling to the Gulf Coast on the fourth anniversary of the [[September 11, 2001]], [[terrorist]] attacks. "Bush hopes to rekindle the sense of broad national purpose that rallied the public behind him then," Peter Baker, [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090900795.html?nav=hcmodule wrote] in the ''Washington Post'', September 10, 2005.
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