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Is America ready for the next disaster?

Hello again, I'm Orin Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International,

a daily look at the issues Americans care about most.

After Katrina,

the Bush administration promised to ask the states for help in revising disaster planning.

Last week, Oklahoma's disaster planner told Congress, he's never seen a more polarized environment

between the states and the federal government. A new blueprint for disaster response was

rewritten in Washington behind closed doors.

State leaders say it's not a plan and they don't understand it. A high-level veteran of FEMA

during the Clinton years says federal agencies no longer know what they're supposed to do either.

On to the point, when it comes to floods, fires, earthquakes, or pandemic disease, what's the status of

homeland security? First, here's the news. Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW,

Santa Monica, and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, whose contributors include the Ford Foundation

and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

Hello again, Mormon-Aulney, back with To the Point.

State and federal coordination is crucial to prepare for disasters,

but state leaders say the Bush administration's latest national plan is not a plan, and it's not national.

On To the Point, could we see Katrina all over again?

What about Homeland Security?

First, this news update.

At a news conference today, President Bush took a dim view of raising gasoline taxes $0.5

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