Waugh saw the blasts and said throngs of Carnival employees and others were clustered on streets leading toward the river as authorities evacuated the shipyard.
Searchers recovered two bodies Thursday from the wreckage of the collapsed Mississippi River bridge, authorities said, bringing the known death toll from the Aug. 1 disaster to seven.
"We deal with the port authorities, the police, immigration authorities and Iraqi River Police, " he explained.
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The authorities searched the river below the bridge but we knew there would be no body found.
In Thailand alone more than 370 people have died so far with the rains swelling Bangkok's Chao Phraya River, which the Thai authorities fear could burst its banks at any moment.
One of them worked part-time at New River Community College, while authorities were still working Friday night to ascertain what relationship the other victim had, if any, to the school, the police chief said.
Before work can be done, authorities must inspect the river's piers to ensure that they can hold the temporary bridge and must remove the remainder of the collapsed structure out of the water.
This is so serious that the authorities have twice considered rediverting a river into the lagoon.
Louisiana state and local officials braced for the possibility of major flooding in the Atchafalaya River Basin if, or when, federal authorities open the spillway north of Baton Rouge.
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City residents were urged to evacuate after the authorities warned them that Bangkok's Chao Phraya River could burst its banks over the weekend due to high tides, which are expected to last until Monday.
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The project is intended to give the authorities the ability to draw water from the Colorado River for the Las Vegas area and guard against water quality issues that are associated with continually dropping lake levels.
One of them works part-time at New River Community College, while the other is a student there, authorities said.
After authorities discovered Tyler Clementi's body in the Hudson River on Thursday, students gathered at a vigil for him this weekend.
Authorities said one test detected a pig-borne disease in the river called porcine circovirus, but that doesn't normally affect humans, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In a statement, Shanghai authorities said that 5, 916 dead pigs had been removed from the river by Tuesday.
In fact, U.S. authorities believe a pneumatic cannon fired each canister 500 feet over the Colorado River from Mexico.
Authorities had little immediate explanation on how so many dead pigs ended up the river or what killed them.
Turning back to China, authorities say that nearly 6, 000 dead pigs found floating down the Huangpu River towards Shanghai were not killed by an epidemic and tap water in Shanghai is not contaminated, 21st Century Business Herald reports.
In Pasco County, north of Tampa, authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order Tuesday for 2, 000 homes along the Cotee River.
Underwater debris swirls the river's already powerful currents into whirlpools of fast-moving water that can endanger divers, authorities said.
The Huangpu River is fed by numerous waterways that begin in the industrial agricultural provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, where Shanghai authorities suspect the animals originated.
Authorities also said that no damage was observed at the massive Three Gorges Dam, located on the Yangtze River, several hundred kilometres east of the epicentre.
The authorities decided that the lush banks further up the Hawkesbury would be perfect for farming, and thus the river became known as "the granary of the colony".
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