Topics: September 15
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Join host Brit Hume and FOX's Team Washington weekdays at 6 p.m. ET for "Special Report" — Find out what's happening inside the Beltway and on the world stage.
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Thursday, September 15:
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Team FOX goes around the world giving you the people, places and politics you need to know — only on “Special Report.”
President Bush heads to New Orleans where he will address the nation on the Hurricane Katrina (search) recovery tonight. Correspondent Carl Cameron has a preview.
And early and dramatic forecasts of thousands of deaths resulting from Hurricane Katrina have proven to be greatly exaggerated. And now it appears that the first predictions — that it would take months or even a year to make the New Orleans habitable — were equally off-track. Phil Keating has the details as portions of the city begin to reopen.
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Plus, the port of New Orleans is open again, on a limited basis, more than two weeks after Hurricane Katrina knocked it out of commission. It is the fifth largest port in the country and as Fox News Correspondent Molly Henneberg reports, its importance to the national economy cannot be underestimated.
Then, the chief justice nominee John Roberts (search) has faced his last day of public questioning in the Senate. Jim Angle explains how it went and Major Garrett looks at some of the witnesses today in the confirmation hearings.
Insurgents keep up their deadly campaign in Iraq, while the U.S. vows to hunt down the most wanted terrorist leader. Bret Baier has details.
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And California's Republican governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger (search), is considering whether to sign legislation that could end up costing the state millions of dollars or to veto it and possibly cost himself a lot of votes. As correspondent Claudia Cowan explains it has to do with reparations for deported Mexicans.
Plus, we'll talk with our all-star panel of FOX News contributors about the day's headlines:
—Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard
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—Mort Kondracke, executive editor of Roll Call
—Mara Liasson, national political correspondent of NPR
Don’t miss tonight’s “Special Report with Brit Hume.”
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Hume wraps up each program with a lively roundtable discussion featuring Mara Liasson of National Public Radio, Fred Barnes of The Weekly Standard and Mort Kondracke of Roll Call.
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