Clinton: U.S. Unprepared for Disaster
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Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton says the federal government needs to do more to prepare for disasters and favors the creation of a national insurance backup fund
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U.S. presidents past and present  appealed to Americans on Monday to help victims of the Asian  tsunami as one of the biggest aid efforts in history struggled  to bring food and water to millions of desperate survivors.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush has made a mess of Iraq and it is his responsibility to "extricate" the United States from the situation before he leaves office.
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The U.S. weather chief called Wednesday for a global surveillance system to detect and forecast disasters like tsunamis, hoping the tragedy in Asia will build the political resolve to buy and deploy equipment.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell said  on Sunday he did not expect large U.S. casualties from the  Indian Ocean tsunami although "there are a lot of Americans we  haven't heard from."
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The United States, which has emerged  from this year's hurricane season largely unscathed, should  brace itself for a potentially devastating hurricane season in  2007, a leading windstorm forecaster warned.
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Hillary Clinton said on Thursday she believes the country is ready for a new effort to cover the 47 million uninsured and promised a bipartisan, consensus-building effort, unlike her failed 1990s initiative.
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The federal disaster exercises taking place this week are supposed to prepare us for a real dirty bomb attack. So something is missing
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Grounded by bad weather Sunday, Hillary Rodham Clinton's advisers argued that Barack Obama had abandoned a commitment to accept public funding if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination
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The United States is better prepared  to deal with a major disaster like Hurricane Katrina, which  devastated the Gulf region in 2005, but still lacks a formal  structure for coordinating a national response, the head of the  U.S. Coast Guard said on Tuesday.
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Most people along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts still lack a hurricane survival plan and don't feel vulnerable to storms, despite Katrina's dramatic damage and pleas from emergency officials for residents to prepare before the season starts, according to a poll released Thursday.
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The United States' top diplomat says he needs to take a careful firsthand look at the immediate humanitarian relief needs in countries ravaged by an undersea earthquake and tsunami wave, and defended the U.S. response so far as generous and appropriate.
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The US government and the military in Japan stand ready to help earthquake victims in Niigata following Saturdayâs deadly quake and aftershocks that killed at least 25 people and injured more than 2,700, US officials said Monday.
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The United States remains woefully unprepared to protect the public against terrorists wielding biological agents, according to government officials and specialists in bioterrorism and public health.
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New York City's health care system is not prepared for a major disaster such as a large-scale attack, hurricane or pandemic, health care and disaster planning experts said.
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The head of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conceded Saturday that despite aggressive efforts to repair the levee system in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, it was unclear whether the it could hold up to a sizable hurricane this year.
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The United States is unprepared not just for flu season, but for a worldwide pandemic or bioterrorism attack, say researchers outside the government.