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Posted on 02/08/2007 12:39:03 PM PST by kcvl
Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene.
Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene.
Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."
Is Thompson a lawyer?
He is the older guy from SC right?
(hard keeping up with these names)
That works!
20 dead as tornadoes hit Ga., Ala., Mo. - Yahoo! News
Posted: Friday March 2,2007 - 06:34:50 am
By STEPHEN MAJORS, Associated Press Writer 22 minutes ago
ENTERPRISE, Ala. - A violent storm system ripped apart an Alabama high school as students hunkered inside and later tore through Georgia, hitting a hospital and raising the death toll to at least 20 across the Midwest and Southeast.
Eight students died when a tornado struck Enterprise High School, Mayor Kenneth Boswell said Friday. The teenage victims were all in one wing of the school that took a direct hit, with the tornado blowing out the walls and roof.
"It was in a split second that we sat down and started to cover ourselves before the storm hit," said 17-year-old Kira Simpson, who lost four friends to the storm. "Glass was breaking. It was loud."
"It's like a bad dream. I have to keep reminding myself that it actually happened," she said.
As the massive storm system swept into Georgia, another tornado apparently touched down near the Sumter Regional Hospital in Americus, 117 miles south of Atlanta, blowing out the windows, tossing cars into trees and killing at least two people, said Buzz Weiss of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
Doctors, nurses and volunteers had worked into the night to evacuate dozens of patients.
"It was controlled chaos," said Dr. Tim Powell, an anesthesiologist.
Six more people were killed in the town of Newton, Ga., and several homes were destroyed, Fire Chief Andy Belinc said early Friday.
The burst of tornadoes was part of a larger line of thunderstorms and snowstorms that stretched from Minnesota to the Gulf Coast. Authorities blamed tornadoes for the deaths of a 7-year-old girl in Missouri, 10 people in Alabama and nine in Georgia, and twisters also damaged homes in Kansas.
Early Friday, the storm was drenching the Carolinas. A tornado warning was posted through late morning for the North Carolina coast. In South Carolina, the Coast Guard prepared to search for six people on a small boat who sent a distress call during the storm saying they were taking on water off the coast. The strong wind made it difficult to get a helicopter up Friday to search, Petty Officer 1st Class Donnie Brzuska.
At Enterprise High School, officials had been watching the storm Thursday as it swept through southern Missouri and headed into Alabama. The students were preparing to leave for the day when the sirens started up and the lights went out.
Teacher Grannison Wagstaff was with them.
"I said 'Here it comes. Hit the deck," he told CBS's "The Early Show" Friday. "I turned around and I could actually see the tornado coming toward me."
As the students scrambled for shelter, a section of roof and a wall near 17-year-old senior Erin Garcia collapsed on her classmates.
"I was just sitting there praying the whole time," Erin said. "It sounded like a bunch of people trying to beat the wall down. People didn't know where to go. They were trying to lead us out of the building.
"I kept seeing people with blood on their faces."
Outside, debris from the school was strewn around the neighborhood, where cars were flipped or tossed atop each other.
The mayor said officials had yet to determine where students in the school of about 2,000 would attend classes for the rest of the year. He appeared drained as his staff and National Guard crews tried to assess the damage at dawn and search the torn-up neighborhoods for more victims.
"You take it methodically," Boswell said. "You prioritize, and you move on."
At least one other person was killed in Enterprise, a city of about 23,000 some 75 miles south of Montgomery. Another died across the state in rural Millers Ferry, where trailer homes were flipped and trees toppled, officials said.
In Sumter County, home of former President Jimmy Carter, the main hospital was in shambles. Officials weren't sure whether the people injured and the two reported dead in town were inside the hospital when it struck, Weiss said.
At least 42 patients from Sumter Regional Hospital were taken to Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital in Albany, Putney spokeswoman Jackie Ryan said.
Farther north, a tornado killed a man in a mobile home in Taylor County, county Emergency Management Agency Director Gary Lowe said. Weiss said between 40 and 60 homes were damaged in Clay County, south of Muscogee on the Alabama line. The storm also knocked out power to 15,000 homes in Columbus, damaged buildings and toppled trees.
Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue was flying by helicopter Friday morning to Americus and Baker County to survey the damage there, Perdue spokesman Dan McLagan said.
Around Americus, the storm uprooted trees and knocked down power lines. Several homes and businesses were destroyed in downtown Americus. Among the worst hit was Cheek Memorial Church. Its wooden steeple was knocked off the roof and smashed in front of the church.
Marcia Wilson, who lives across the street from the Church, said she heard a huge roar as the storm went through.
"It felt like the whole house was fixing to fall in," she said. "We could just hear it coming over us. All I could do was pray that God take care of us and he did. We're all right."
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Associated Press Writers Greg Bluestein in Americus, Ga., and Elliot Minor in Newton, Ga., contributed to this report.
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RED carpet? Red! Red is for Daniel!
"Amazing grace..How Sweet Thou Ar't..Who saved a WRETCH like me.." ...amen
*DING!*
Ahh, popcorn!
Web tv here. No streaming vid.
If it is on tv some one ping me.
He is asleep but I can run to the other side of the home here and turn it on a lil tv fuzzy but will work if he is asleep.
My next shift of care is coming up soon so he will have me busy for a few hours but ping me and I can sneak away after shift.
Sound cruddy but I really want to be there and say good bye...I know her soul is already gone 3 weeks ago.
Thank goodness she does not have a clue she is where the good Lord granted her soul to be and she is now clueless to all us.
The casket is expected to arrive at the church within the next half hour.
Nah - long before.
Did you hear the boo's for HKS when he arrived.
That's too bad... Did somebody die?
Thanks for the play by play toldyou so
I thought about that - will try later to get one! It *is* cute. Anna would've liked it.
You wrote we have a lot of tornado's in our area though...
Well heck that doesn't make it any more comforting though..stay safe...
Do ya'll still have those underground safe areas?
I looked for a little "Cracker" logo on the coffin, like a little boat name - but alas and alack, I am only allowed to see the "shipping coffin".
He lost exclusive control of her body?
How so?
Posted Mar 2nd 2007 9:45AM by TMZ Staff
Howard K. Stern just arrived at the church in the Bahamas where the funeral service for Anna Nicole Smith will take place, and MSNBC's Rita Cosby reports that the lawyer/companion alighted to "big jeers" by the assembled crowd.
Larry Birkhead entered the service shortly before Stern, though Anna's mom Virgie Arthur -- as was the case throughout the legal proceedings -- is running late and has not yet arrived.
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