Now, we turn out attention to the Gulf Coast where nearly two million people have fled Hurricane Gustav.
This convention badly needed a charge after Hurricane Gustav robbed it of momentum earlier this week.
In September, Hurricane Gustav postponed the process, causing the election to be delayed until Saturday.
Gralen Banks who's with his family in Baton Rouge waiting out Hurricane Gustav.
Whether Gulf Coast residents flee or stay, Hurricane Gustav will almost certainly affect the New Orleans area.
The aide, though, noted that McCain doesn't "have a really busy day" as he keeps a close eye on Hurricane Gustav.
If Hurricane Gustav maintains its projected path, it will make landfall as a Category 4 or 5, more powerful than Katrina.
Another 79 people were killed in Haiti by Hurricane Gustav last week, said Louis Pinchinat, deputy director of Haiti's Civil Protection Directorate.
Two years ago, during Hurricane Gustav, water was splashing over the levee protecting the 9th Ward, the neighborhood most devastated by Katrina.
The president ordered federal aid to supplement state and local efforts in the areas in the forecast path of Hurricane Gustav.
In that vein, Bush's decision to skip the convention and instead travel to Texas to monitor Hurricane Gustav was a plus for McCain.
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As you know, my duties have me here in Washington tonight to oversee the federal government's efforts to help citizens recover from Hurricane Gustav.
Hurricane Gustav robbed the political circus of its initial momentum, forcing party organizers to scale back on all but the necessities earlier in the week.
Hurricane Gustav may be lurching toward New Orleans, causing the Republican National Convention in the Twin Cities to cease all but necessary business on Monday.
In the run-up to Hurricane Ike and Hurricane Gustav, Chertoff made it clear officials had learned many lessons in the three years since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Jindal gets high marks for his ethics reforms, his take-charge response to Hurricane Gustav last fall, and his ability to connect with everyone from Cajun oystermen to north Louisiana peach growers.
The President: I'm here at the FEMA Headquarters where I just received a briefing, and I've also come to thank the people behind me for working the long hours that they're doing to make sure that we've got the preparations in place for Hurricane Gustav.
Johnson, the deputy director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said Monday that Hurricane Gustav was expected to be a catastrophic storm when it reached land late Monday morning, but there was enough food, water, ice and other supplies stockpiled for 1 million victims over the next three days.
Johnson, the deputy director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), said Monday that Hurricane Gustav was expected to be a catastrophic storm when it slammed into the Gulf Coast late Monday morning, but there was enough food, water, ice and other supplies stockpiled for 1 million victims over the next three days.
After a solemn first day out of deference to Gulf Coast states taking a battering from Hurricane Gustav, the Republican National Convention reverted to its traditional form as a gathering of partisan speakers and party activists, serving large helpings of rhetorical red meat from a litany of well-known Republicans and former presidential candidates.
As a Category 3 hurricane, Gustav is one of the most threatening storms to have hit the United States since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which turned out to be the costliest and most deadly storm in American history.
Gustav lost strength in the Hispaniola strike, falling back to tropical-storm status, but the hurricane center predicted that Gustav would regain strength, cross Jamaica and become a hurricane again Friday.
"Observations from an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft indicate that Gustav is not strengthening, " the National Hurricane Center said.
"Observations from an Air Force hurricane hunter aircraft indicate that Gustav is not strengthening, " the National Hurricane Center had said earlier Monday morning.
More than one million people had been evacuated in different parts of Cuba and this is a major hurricane now, been downgraded but still dangerous, that comes only eight days after we had Gustav, a category four hurricane devastating the Western part of Cuba.
Gustav is the second major hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season.
Forecasters said it was too soon to know the storm's path, but the National Hurricane Center's projection models show Gustav heading toward Louisiana.
As a Category 4 storm, Gustav is already stronger than Hurricane Katrina was when it hit New Orleans in 2005, killing some 1, 800 people and causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage.
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