Powell looks to tsunami long haul
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America's outgoing secretary of state says he will call for long-term US aid to the Indian Ocean region.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - Fresh dangers stalked  efforts to help millions of tsunami victims on Wednesday as  Secretary of State Colin Powell voiced his shock at the  devastation he saw touring the worst-hit areas in Indonesia.
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While the deadly tsunami in the Indian Ocean has focused attention on that part of the world, great waves also pose a threat to the United States.
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US Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted today that the US has not been &quot;stingy&quot; in its response to the Asian tsunami disaster but admitted that much more international aid would have to be given.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell turned from the tragedy of the killer tsunami in Asia to the hope of peace in Africa on Friday, ending a damage-inspection tour that left him saddened but impressed with recovery efforts.
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The United States will extend its  tsunami warning system to new areas in the Pacific Ocean, and  for the first time, to the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea  and the Gulf of Mexico.
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BANDA ACEH, Indonesia  - The United States stepped  up its diplomatic and relief effort in tsunami countries,  sending Secretary of State Colin Powell to the hardest-hit  region and promising more helicopters and field hospitals would  follow.
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The United States may eventually  spend billions of dollars to help Asia recover from last week's  devastating tsunami, a leading Republican U.S. senator said on  Sunday as the Bush administration battled criticism it had been  slow to respond.
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TALLAHASSEE -- Gov. Jeb Bush will travel to southeast Asia with Secretary of State Colin Powell and visit the areas devastated by tsunamis, his office said 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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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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Thai and US officials have dispatched a ship carrying a tsunami warning device designed to protect millions of people around the Indian Ocean from a repeat of the catastrophe two years ago.
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Fourth in the lineup of nations bankrolling tsunami relief efforts, the United States will probably increase its pledge once "the true dimension of this tragedy" is clear, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell faced the unimaginable destruction of Asia's tsunami horror on Wednesday as his helicopter swooped low over a razed coast now a graveyard for thousands.
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Secretary of State Colin L. Powell tried Wednesday to allay fears that thousands of Americans may have died in the South Asian tsunami, saying he did not believe "the numbers will be anything like what some of our fellow nations have suffered over the last week."
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Ahead of his firsthand look at the tsunami's devastation, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday the United States has responded appropriately to what he called one of the world's greatest catastrophes.
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The four-day trip through the region is designed to assure nations devastated by the tsunami of the United States' support.