Fw: FactCheck Correction: It was Vitter, not Lokey

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Sent: Friday, September 16, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: FactCheck Correction: It was Vitter, not Lokey

FEMA has contacted us with video showing that their official William Lokey
was NOT the person who mistakenly denied on Aug. 30 that New Oreleans was
"filling up like a bowl." We relied on a CNN transcript identifying the
speaker as Lokey, but the words were in fact uttered by Sen. David Vitter,
who was standing next to Lokey at the news conference.

We are updating our website to read as follows:

US Sen. David Vitter said of the still-rising water:

Sen. Vitter: In the metropolitan area in general, in the huge majority
of areas, it's not rising at all. It's the same or it may be lowering
slightly. In some parts of New Orleans, because of the 17th Street breach,
it may be rising and that seemed to be the case in parts of downtown.

I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling
up like a bowl. That's just not happening.

None of the officials present at the press conference correct the mistaken
remark.

--Brooks Jackson

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