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September 09, 2005

California's pending disaster

Staff writer John Krist tomorrow takes a look at California's version of a New Orleans catastrophe. The Sacramento-San Joaquin river delta is built on a system of ancient levees that could break and flood the "islands" of agricultural and residential land, which is sinking further below sea level. That could impact us here, because such a flood would prevent water from the delta being pumped to Southern California ... and us.

Also tomorrow, we will continue our reporting from the Gulf Coast. Staff writer Marjorie Hernandez reports on the scene in Gulfport, Mississippi, and staff photographer Joseph Sanchez shows what it looks like. They are onboard a convoy in mid-day headed to New Orleans and may report from there in time for tomorrow's editions.

We will also have stories related to the anniversary of 9-11.

Staff writer Tom Kisken talks to local family members who lost a loved one in 9-11 and whether or not they are pursuing more information on how they died. Some say they want to know as much as possible; others say they know too much.

Columnist Colleen Cason writes a related story about the fire tapes that were recently made available from the twin towers. She gets local firefighters to interpret the lingo so we better understand what they were doing and what happened.

And we will take a look at the adjournment of the state legislature and what they did ... and didn't do ... in the last day.


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