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Soledad O’Brien, host of CNN: “Hello and welcome to a special edition of USA morning. I’m Soledad O’Brien.
Miles O’Brien, CNN Moderator: “And I’m Miles O’Brien. We are following an extremely dangerous hurricane for you, Dennis is now Class IV, headiong the coast of the Gulf countries there are far too long.

S. O’Brien: Yeah. Indeed, we here this morning, Pensacola, Florida, Mobile, Alabama. We reputation of journalists in two locations this morning.

Mr. O’Brien: And of course, we control in central weather often. Rob Marciano is a time for the Centre of the last storm and its possible target coordinates.

S. O’Brien: But first of all, no later than Hurricane Dennis. It is a monstrous storm, monstrous grand, very threatening in its intensity. The storm is currently a collision with an airplane was ramponierte by Hurricane Ivan nearly 10 months.

Dennis considered a light strike against the Florida Keys before it is in the Gulf of Mexico. Once upon a time in the warm waters of golf, to strengthen into a storm extremely dangerous category 4 hurricane’s maximum winds had increased to 145 mph. Dennis is responsible for at least 32 dead in the Caribbean, 10 in Cuba, 22 in Haiti.

We Rob Marciano. He is with us all morning. Let’s get right to him.

Hey, Rob, hello to you.

ROB Marciano, CNN meteorologist … Night. My microphone. What is my mike now? Do you hear my microphone? Ok.

This eye, you can directly behind me. It is an impressive storm now. It is now north-northwest at about 15 mph, a sharp eye. What was surprising, last night, if this thing - in a matter of how the two hours it was not an eye for an eye very different, and is maximal when the winds rise.

And now we are in category 4 strength. It goes a little farther in the waters west of Pensacola, where we have had for the first forecast last night. So the runway was something. Let’s talk a little know exactly where he is and where we believe it is.

Now, finally, the eye is always within reach of radar. We can always see above the eye on satellites, but they are available on the basis of radars on the country, so that only a certain amount of the sector. You will see the swath of Pensacola radar, or at least mobile radars, sliding and right by the wall of the eye, which moves in this direction.

How far or near, as is? Now it is about 170 km from Panama City, a little more than Biloxi. While the date is around 10 hours and change in Mobile, Alabama. So this is a serious situation.

Here’s the deal, as far as this, it compares. Of course, we have this last year, Ivan was a category 3, if the country in a similar case. Very similar to Hurricane Frederick runway for these people, in the year 1979, it was also a category 3

If it comes to a country as a category 4, which is forecasting, Miles, it is even worse injury obvious. So I hope we have some weaknesses, but at the moment, we do not see that happen.

Mr. O’Brien: All right. Thank you, Rob Marciano. To appreciate.

Rob told us how the storm is expected that the country somewhere between cases Pensacola, Florida, and Mobile, Alabama. We journalists in both places, of course. Dan east Lothian Mobile. We start with Randy Kaye in Pensacola - Randy?

RANDY Kaye, a correspondent for CNN: Hello, Miles. I am here to Pensacola, where a light rain began this morning and the winds are certainly kicked. Indeed, the weather said, I suppose that if serious here this morning, they do not deliver papers early in the morning.

But I wanted to share with you yesterday, paper, because I think that history is exactly the same thing today on this Sunday morning. “Hurricane Dennis on the Edge,” which tells the story very well for people in Pensacola.

Many people have evacuated the beach yesterday, and the beach closed yesterday at around 11:00 hours, and then we had to descend on the beach at 6:00 am yesterday. We had some videos to show you people evacuated.

More than 1 million people have evacuated the area and they closed the bridge I-10, the bridge connecting the mainland to the beach. And it is very, that the bridge was damaged by Hurricane Ivan in September. And just repairs that, in January. And these are only temporary repairs.

The shelters are the beginning of a little more human. They have a capacity of about 8,400 people. In late night, during the last census, there were about 2100 people living in shelters in Escambia County. There are about nine shelters. And it seems that people are really noting the caution around this period. Many people we talked to this area, they sit by Ivan, but now they have seen what can be done by Ivan, Category 3 does come here, so that the country as a category 3 Thus, you can not imagine how the sensation of the possibility of Hurricane Dennis as a category 4, 140 miles-Hour wind. This has a lot of people, which is intended to cover.

The body of a frozen World War II-insect eingehüllte found at the bottom of a glacier in California in October, that 22 years Army Air Corps cadet, died in 1942 in a plane crash, family members told CNN, after consultation with messages in this week.

Leo Mustonen joined the army during his years in senior secondary school in Brainerd, Minn., and was in the formation of a browser when it was reported as disappeared on November 18, 1942.

The son of Finnish immigrants, Mustonen (prono: MOO more) was one of four cadets aboard a training flight, which collapsed in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno. A Defense Department official designation of the family on Wednesday and confirmed that the body was found in October Mustonen, relatives said.

The National Park Service said, it is necessary to determine whether a new search in the spring for the remains of three other men aboard the flight Mustonen.

Injuries to the gay bar: “I knew I would die”

New Bedford, Mass. (CNN) - Two days after the attack with an axe and once shot in the back, Bob Perry, the Friday before the Gay Bar, where he thought he was going to die - a powerful symbol pride on the face of the Haine.

Staring a black eye, the right side of his face traces of a 4-inch wound, Perry said, he is still alive and strong.

“I’m not the best type of relationship in the world, so what’s Twisted a little smile,” Perry told reporters. “I’ll do just fine.”

Perry was in the bar called authorities Wednesday Puzzles end say that if 18 years, Jacob Robida, all dressed in black, in the establishment, an axe attacked and Perry, a pistol before shooting and opened fire on the other.

Two others were wounded in the attack and a hospital. Robida on the rest loose. (Eingeschickt 9:38 pm)

Car road race in LA broke down the health clinic, 6 criticism

LOS ANGELES (CNN) - A sports car racing was another vehicle jumped into a clinic south of downtown Los Angeles on Friday morning, 13 people injured - six of them critically, including two elderly women He took a part of their legs amputated, authorities said.

The incident occurred shortly before 10 am (1 pm ET) with the authorities, said a man driving a black Nissan 300 ZX plowed in El Salvador El Mundo of clinical medicine.

From search and rescue forces combed the building, while other teams checked the building structure, to ensure it does not collapse. Of the 13 injured, 10 remained in the hospital of various hospitals.

“Most of them were seriously wounded, two elderly women, each party lost a leg below the knee,” a police statement said. (Eingeschickt 9:36 pm)

Manila Stadium panic kills at least 60, local media reports

(CNN) - A quantity waiting to enter a stadium where a popular game show was filmed in Manila, Philippines, stampeded Saturday morning and killed over 60 people, according to local media reported.

For more details were not immediately available. (Eingeschickt 9:31 pm)

War on Terror, China’s growth U.S. military to define the military strategy

WASHINGTON (CNN) - increasing threat of a Chinese military and the continuing war against terrorism, defining the U.S. military, strategic perspectives, after a review of future threats Pentagon released Friday.

The report underlines India, Russia and China as a country emerging major powers and considers them key to international security environment. ”

The Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review, a congressionally report in order, with the potential risks and needs military mitigate it. The last report was revealed during the year 2001, before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the USA.

“China has the greatest potential to compete militarily with the USA and impairing the field of military technology during the period of balancing the traditional U.S. military advantages absent U.S. counter strategies,” says the report.

ATLANTA - Even if consumer prices manage groups say, the maintenance of horror stories have the wind in their sails at the national level, the rapid expansion of Georgia HMOs unabated, with an increase of 41 per cent of the registration during the last year.

Until the end of 1997, more than 1 million Georgians probably get their health care sector a little observed in the state it a decade ago, but now over $ 1.25 billion per annum.

Huge gains, there was also a strong competition, Georgia and the Organization of Health maintenance have been considerably profits in 1996.

The result, say industry observers, is that prices will go up to enrollees, if not already.

“ Last year, registrations are clearly not only in Atlanta, but throughout Georgia,’’said the adviser manages the care of Brent Layton, writing about the industry in Georgia, Florida and ‘Alabama Newsletter. “ It was probably one of the largest HMO year of growth in history.

“ As you see, this year is 3 to 5 percent (rate) but which is still lower than that of standard health insurance.”

The Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine planned in the near future, Georgians not to worry about the choice between a Managed Care and the standard health insurance damages, most Americans are used because they do are not available.

“ The old fashioned indemnity insurance and that I grew up, it is rapidly disappearing,’’said Oxendine.

Registration in Georgia HMOs zoom 673000 in 1995 to about 950000 last year, according to the companies reported.

While most, it is employees of private companies, HMOs last year began the conquest of a new potentially lucrative market, More Family Atlanta began registration signing of Medicaid beneficiaries 16000 1996.

The state, health care for more than 1 million poor and disabled Georgians on Medicaid, hopes Registered beneficiaries HMOs save money.

More recently, a second HMO, American Medical Plans of Georgia, began the search for Medicaid clients as well.

The industry has also been expanding outside Atlanta, where most HMOs have their headquarters.

Only three state HMOs are Out-of-Atlanta major addresses: Recently, two companies under license, Athens Area Health Plan select and Augusta’s John Deere Health Plan of Georgia, health and Master Plan Augusta.

However, most well-established companies, which have already conquered the towns of Savannah, Augusta and Macon. And other HMOs newly registered as Anthem Health Plan of Georgia, are following suit.

All this takes place growth in a volatile political climate for the industry.

Lines of battle, the State Capitol have legislation in past sessions: business and the Managed Care business, on the one hand and doctors and consumer activists on the other side.

Last year, has drawn an opponent by the HMO breakthrough victory a permit greater extent on consumer protection and a law on companies earning mothers at the hospital shortly after birth and ends called Drive-through deliveries.

Last month, U.S. Rep. Charlie Norwood Augusta, a retired dentist, legislation and regulation of the beef Confederation Care-managed plans.

HMOs lower insurance premiums as a traditional negotiation of rates to select a group of doctors and hospitals. But critics say that organizations achieve savings through their medical coincements penny.

Doctors have also Managed Care, because they do not know how assignor - and, in some cases, after taxes - insurance companies, HMOs own.

Lori Glide Well Citizen Action of Georgia, a monitoring group of consumers, “said the inscription in HMOs is growing, because workers are forced into plans by their employers.

“ It is not necessarily because individuals, a decision that as HMO plans,’’said Glide Well. “ Regarding the companies are seeking is the bottom line.

“ When they are confronted with an HMO or no coverage, they choose the HMO.”

Ms. Glide Well said, there seems to be rising indices to ensure that consumers HMOs are problems in access to doctors and medicine, and that is what politicians respond.

However, the lack of data on the hard part is what you invited the President of the Senate Insurance Steve Langford, D-Lagrange, a halt to anti-HMO legislation this year, until the lawmakers can not know what changes would be in order to do managed care consultation.

TUPELO, Miss PRNewswire-FirstCall - BancorpSouth Insurance Services Inc., a subsidiary of BancorpSouth Bank which is headquartered in Tupelo, Mississippi, announced today that it had reached an agreement to acquire Insurance Network of Jonesboro, Arkansas, 1 st September 2007. On the insurance network is part of BancorpSouth’s Little Rock, Arkansas Division of Insurance, Ramsey, Krug, Farrell and Lensing (RCF & L) and serve more customers in North America, central and northern Arkansas to his staff present.

On the insurance network, initially taken into account, given that the insurance agency Jonesboro in 1971, serves customers in aerospace, banking, construction, manufacturing and vocational training and retail markets, including providing products for the market prosperous families.

Mike Medlock, president of the Insurance Network, said: “For years we have just observed, as RCF & L has operated and how well it serves its customers. RCF & L has several lines of expertise

Over the past ten years, the marine insurance market has been struggling for its head above water. And for something even worse, premiums declined by 4.1 per cent between 1998 and 1999, marking the third year of decline. Some industry experts, these are the bad debts, the price is fuelling strategies overcapacity, but these experts are optimistic for the future.

With the decline in premiums and benefits, it is essential that the USA Ocean Marine insurers to take measures to ensure the outperformance of damage, after President James Zrebiec near New York-based American Institute of Marine Underwriters. Zrebiec told participants at the annual meeting of the AIMU November last year, said he was confident that companies can survive positive results soon.

A look at the P / C business as a whole, a sign of a turnaround are recognized, such as the commercial market is to observe a rise in interest rates.

“The marine market has somewhat delayed damage market at a turning point and we may be nine months behind as regards prices and general market conditions,” said Richard DeSimone, President of the Global Marine for Saint-Paul. “What we are witnessing is 1 January, a definitive change in the reinsurance market; rates go quite clearly, and what only works on a very important impact on the main [Marine]. ”

So what’s the problem?
“I think the problem we have at this time as the total market is profitability,” said DeSimone. “And this is a big problem, because if we do not have money for our companies must then they are not good reasons to have around us, so it is a very important that each company has read it. ”

Gary Gilbride, Assistant Vice President of the Marine Office of America Corporation, part of the CNA-Maritime, said that the market has no problems per se, but rather that he is in a state of movement. “The prices are too low, but they appear again a few,” Gilbride said. “We are trying for overall prices, and we are achieving some success in this direction.”

After Gilbride, whose specialty is Bluewater hull and machinery, producers and buyers to understand that prices across the board, as a general rule, do not know where they should be. “The fundamental difference is the fact that this understanding is categorical. I believe that things are heading in a better direction, as they were before, “he explained.

Paul Greenaway, brokers Birmingham, Ala.-based wholesale brokers Rikard Cooney & Curtin, described the market as the sea in “revolt.” “Twelve months ago, the whole market was soft, prices have been spiralling down about 15 to 20 per cent per annum on the line,” said Green Away. “But we saw that some changes during the last year.

Smoking ousted by higher costs and ban cigarette smoking in the workplace are increasingly concerned by another cost increase - this time for health insurance.

A growing number of public and private sector employers, workers must use tobacco to pay higher premiums, hoping to motivate more of them to stop smoking and reducing costs for care Medical companies and their employees.

Meijer Inc., Gannett Co., American Financial Group Inc., PepsiCo Inc. and Northwest Airlines are among companies that already have fees or planning to delivery higher premiums smokers. The amounts range from about $ 20 to $ 50 per month.

“With costs for medical care provided by increasing the subject in the last two years, employers are desperate to action costs trains themselves and their collaborators,” said Linda Cushman, senior strategist health care with Hewitt Associates, a human resources consulting and services.

She said, the practice of smoker surcharges is also a significant trend that this year it is part of Hewitt’s annual survey on the current status and future plans for health care.

Cushman said a benefits survey of 950 employers in the USA during the last year has shown that 41% at least some form of use of financial incentives or penalties in their health care systems plans .

It is estimated that at least 8% to 10% of businesses probably aimed some incentives or penalties at smokers and says that the percentage increases.

“With smokers costing companies more than 25 per cent more than non-smokers in the field of health care, it only makes sense that good business,” she said.

Bankruptcy Solutia Inc. Maker chemicals and their cousin Corporate, Monsanto Co. have agreed on the distribution of costs and Cooperation in environmental cleanup and litigation in Anniston, Ala., and Sauget.

Companies that have already sparred their responsibilities, won the approval of a series of new rules by Judge Prudence Carter Beatty. Several requests for a hearing in late afternoon, Thursday bankruptcy court in Manhattan.

“Both companies know that in our best interest, as well as in the municipalities” to ensure that the work stays on track and will be done, “said spokesman Glynn Young Monsanto.

Congress signed a law to strike down revolutionary that the rules in California, the man the power to stop banks, insurance and brokerage firms in possession of the same company in exchange for their financial secrets.

The effort, inspired by lobbyists for banks, is part of a broad thrust of the financial industry for legislation to abolish local laws and state, consumers greater control over their private financial information . Act already contains provisions extended anticipation of local public finances and market rules privacy, but the law is in force at the end of this year unless Congress passes new legislation.

The California law, with broad support was bipartie in Sacramento two months ago from corporate lobbyists, has derailed similar legislation before cowed was public support for a proposed referendum that would have a harder right of the state. Privacy is favourable, Concerned by the growing number of financial institutions, many branches under one roof, had hoped that other countries would follow California’s lead by limiting how these companies can use personal financial information.

But the legislation, it is expected that the stick once the Senate next week that would precede large part of California law and prevent other countries to take similar steps. The bill was unanimously in the Senate, the Banking Committee in the last month, but Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer, both California Democrats, have proposed an amendment that would accept the national rules in California. You also propose extending the current federal law only a year to give Congress more time to verify the issue.

In the house last month, legislators voted 392 to 30 for a bill would also precede the right of the State.

Banks and others, against the California law, which takes effect in July next year, say that it is not practicable to a confusing patchwork of state and local rules, it would be more difficult and costly for people with a credit.

According to its proponents, the California legislation on protection against one of the greatest fears expressed in favour of privacy after the passage in the year 1999 by a federal depression of the end of the period rules, the obscene, banks, insurance companies and brokerage entry of another company.

The concern was that large groups of financial services, again free to grow much larger and expansion into new businesses, huge databases of customer loans and financial information, banking and income that could be used for such a situation, such as the establishment and mortgage rates decision on whether to offer insurance coverage. The problem, privacy advocates say is that everything that happens from the viewpoint of consumers - would be powerless to correct or challenge inaccurate data - and out of reach of laws governing credit institutions that reports from agencies.

In an interview, Senator Feinstein said that the banking sector, we tried to stop running the new rule dawns in California and that, despite strong in California, to support the law, it would be a “climb combat “to win approval for his proposal of the Senate.

TRUSSVILLE, Ala. (AP) - Twice All-America Quarterback Travis Tidwell, Auburn, led to one of its biggest shocks on archrival Alabama, died Thursday evening by the disease, said his family. He was 79

Tidwell, one of only two newcomers always lead to that nation as a whole Offense envisaged that the year 1946 feat. He also led the nation as a whole offensive in 1949 and was Auburn Offense overall leader Pat Sullivan broke the record of the year 1971.

A strategist of the T-Formation, Tidwell is perhaps best remembered as a strategist Auburn in 1949, changed the Tigers to their first victory over Alabama in more than 40 years. The two teams have not had to play continued in 1907 and not to resume the series in 1948. Auburn Alabama hammered 55-0 in the year 1948 as the series resumes and went in Auburn in 1949 a Trois-Touch Down Unterlegene.

With Tidwell on Quarterback, Auburn knocked tide 14-13.

Tidwell was MVP of the SEC for the year 1949. He was a charter member of Mobile Senior Bowl Hall of Fame and inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 1975.

Tidwell played at Auburn in the Pacific after World War II. It was a project of the first round of elections New York Giants in 1950. In his rookie season backup Quarterback was a match with his team trailing Baltimore 20-0 and led the Giants to a 55-20 victory.

After two seasons with the Giants, Tidwell has played several seasons with the Tiger-Cats Edmonton of the Canadian Football League. Kehrte it gecoacht Auburn and shortly under Ralph “Shug” Jordan. It would be later in the insurance business, then stocks and securities.

Tidwell leaves his wife, Juanita, and two son, and William Vaughn Tidwell Tidwell.

Recent natural disasters have undertaken the planning and preparation at the forefront of my mind. Do you think about the effects of natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina, but the good health of their businesses and business owners in a day.

Even if companies could also quickly in a new situation, some could not find their collaborators. Computers were destroyed, without backup data disks elders have disappeared forever and instruments have been ruined (with insurance settlements removed months). But this is not only large natural disasters, which lead to these disasters and for businesses. Small disasters can also wegzaubern a business, including something as simple as a fire or flood of water broken.

I’ve never heard of the concept of “prevention of natural disasters in our profession, but I think it is time to start using it. Let me start with you on this plan a complete disaster. Firstly, a company requires a Business Continuity Plan.