While Isaac is likely to become a hurricane today, Fugate and Knabb urged those in the path of the storm to focus less on its particular classification and more on the storm's size and the potential for a storm surge that could reach 6 to 12 feet -- as well as record levels of rain fall.

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So the more you can do to be prepared now -- making a plan, make a supply kit, know your evacuation route, follow instructions of your local officials -- the quicker we can focus our resources after the storm on those who need help the most.

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Six months later, the region is still recovering and the scope of the storm has come into sharper focus.

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That storm will now switch its focus to the prime minister who will face one question again and again from his own MPs and activists - what on earth do we do about UKIP?

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The storm's reverberations were in focus even for traders not directly in its path.

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As the Republican Convention starts in Tampa and Hurricane Isaac hurtles toward New Orleans, NASA is aiming to shift our focus, for a few minutes, beyond the storm-filled sky.

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Focus of the market place is turning from the major storm that pummeled the U.S. east coast, to critical economic data that is scheduled to come out of China and the U.S. yet this week.

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