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NBC's decision to lead with the start of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was inspired more by the date on the calendar than the news of the day. Granted Tropical Storm Barry was forming in the Gulf of Mexico northwest of Cuba but that was hardly cause for alarm. Bill Karins of NBC Weather Plus said Barry "is actually going to bring some good news"--partial drought relief for Florida and help for firefighters in Georgia. So NBC's Martin Savidge used the start-of-season news hook to update us on the reconstruction of the flood control levee system around New Orleans as Hari Sreenivasan did for CBS last week. Declared Savidge: "The Army Corps of Engineers has fixed what broke but has barely begun the job of making the system better, as ordered by Congress." The flooding after Hurricane Katrina, Savidge reminded us, is considered by many citizens of New Orleans to be "not a natural disaster but a manmade one"--caused by the breach of substandard structures not the overtopping of sound ones by a storm surge.
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