<rss><channel><item><title>New Orleans recovery director: 'I'll leave next year'</title><link>http://139.191.254.108/Wires/ap-en/070406/ap-en-ef76123caa63e4b308d423658bf54515.html</link><description>By BECKY BOHRER= ^Associated Press Writer= 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ New Orleans' recovery director said he intends to leave the city next year. 

Ed Blakely, who started work in January, also suggested that Mayor Ray Nagin was conflicted over how best to handle the recovery from 2005's Hurricane Katrina before Blakely took the job.</description><pubDate>2007-04-06T23:36+0200</pubDate><source>ap-en</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>ap-en-ef76123caa63e4b308d423658bf54515</guid></item><item><title>Panelists question will of feds, Louisiana to help New Orleans recover</title><link>http://139.191.254.108/Wires/ap-en/070404/ap-en-9b3558395df4bae670fd36ad22084929.html</link><description>By BECKY BOHRER= ^Associated Press Writer= 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) _ The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he intends to lead a march into the hurricane-ravaged Lower 9th Ward later this month to draw attention to the federal government's «unfinished business» in helping New Orleans recover from Katrina.</description><pubDate>2007-04-04T04:45+0200</pubDate><source>ap-en</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>ap-en-9b3558395df4bae670fd36ad22084929</guid></item><item><title>Heavy rain currently moving into Tauranga, Bay of Plenty</title><link>http://www.cdwestbay.govt.nz/news/20070330-1546-CDWB</link><description>PRESS RELEASE (3) FOR Friday, MARCH 30, 2007 A band of heavy rain with embedded thunderstorms is currently moving along the eastern Coromandel Peninsula and into the Bay of Plenty. The latest radar images show Tauranga will receive some heavy rain this morning, then spread eastwards towards East Cape.</description><pubDate>2007-03-30T15:44+0200</pubDate><source>govt</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>govt-ac6108139693f972af767f97a783c4cb</guid><category>Flooding</category></item><item><title>Vanuatu on high cyclone alert</title><link>http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_latest/~3/104840059/index.html</link><description>SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) -- The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was on high alert on Wednesday as tropical Cyclone Becky, a category 2 storm with winds up to 170 kph (105 mph), brushed the island chain. "We have issued a red alert as the cyclone passes," said Donald Manses, acting director of Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office.</description><pubDate>2007-03-28T05:50+0200</pubDate><source>cnn</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>cnn-8b8741fc14b02f0f1a798c5aea4ea568</guid><category>EUTerritories</category></item><item><title>Vanuatu on high alert for cyclone</title><link>http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21461580-1702,00.html</link><description>THE South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was on high alert today as tropical Cyclone Becky, a category 2 storm with winds up to 170km/h, brushed the island chain. 11:17am (AEST)</description><pubDate>2007-03-28T04:07+0200</pubDate><source>NEWScomAU</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>NEWScomAU-0d301a1ba3d1ad5e2ef364e5d316e9f1</guid><category>EUTerritories</category></item><item><title>Cyclone Becky puts Vanuatu on high alert</title><link>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SYD155410.htm</link><description>SYDNEY, March 28 (Reuters) - The South Pacific island nation of Vanuatu was on high alert on Wednesday as tropical Cyclone Becky, a category 2 storm with winds up to 170 kph (105 mph), brushed the island chain. "We have issued a red alert as the cyclone passes," said Donald Manses, acting director of Vanuatu's National Disaster Management Office.</description><pubDate>2007-03-28T03:09+0200</pubDate><source>alertnet</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid>alertnet-a980024efc331fd541683d35fd15dd64</guid><category>EUTerritories</category></item></channel></rss>
