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CBS was given due credit for Armen Keteyian's two-part Investigation in May--here and here--into toxic formaldehyde. The fumes poison the air in the housing trailers provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to 76,000 families evacuated by the floods from Hurricane Katrina almost two years ago. A clip from Keteyian's report was played at the House hearings convened to quiz Director David Paulison about FEMA's failure to test the trailers' safety.
All three networks focused on the internal legal advice Paulison was given not to monitor air quality since to do so "would imply FEMA's ownership of this issue." ABC's David Kerley reported that "only one occupied trailer has even been tested by the government." NBC's Mark Potter relayed FEMA's assurances that "formaldehyde fumes dissipate with time" and in the meantime "they urge residents to air out their trailers by running fans and operating windows and doors." CBS' Keteyian repeated Director Paulison's statement that it is "a priority" to relocate the trailer dwellers. "He did not say how or when."
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