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Time was when NBC used to boast that it owned the Hurricane Katrina story. Of the 50 stories in Tyndall Report's database since November 2006--14 months after the storm--more than half have been filed by NBC (29 v ABC 7, CBS 14). So far this year, though, that mantle has passed to CBS. Now Armen Keteyian previews a federal trial in Louisiana. A half dozen New Orleans plaintiffs are suing the Army Corps of Engineers for negligently causing the city to flood. The suit points to Mr GO, the nickname for the Corps' 76-mile waterway built in the 1960s, despite warnings of disaster, as a shortcut for shipping. The Mississippi River Gulf Outlet destroyed wetlands and forests that were New Orleans' natural flood protection, creating "in effect a hurricane highway" to channel storm waters, like a funnel, towards the city. Keteyian predicted that if these six plaintiffs prevail, the Corps will face 200,000 similar lawsuits.
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