John Snell

John, Really enjoy the noon news streamimg. Here in Long Beach, that is the only way to see your news since "FOX" says that our local d- grade station is the only allowed "FOX" station we are allowed to view. However, The evening news seems to have a problem with streaming. Sometimes there and sometimes not. Please keep the streamig going during those broadcasts. And hope that "FOX" will reconsider its agreement w2ith Cable One, the only cable we have. Joe

Figured you do lots of causeway and twin span traveling, so you may have some interest in the letter I wrote the causeway commission this afternoon. to causeway commission: One hour and 10 minutes of traffic getting on the causeway on Saturday the 10th around 6pm. I understand that only 1 lane was open and this one lane had to be stopped while workers were very close to the road, but the way your staff handled this was DIPLORABLE!!! You had 1 lone officer at the very south end of the bridge stopping traffic and that was it. The problem with this situation is that is that you should have had officers at every intersection that fed into causeway blvd. The problem is that the traffic was moving so slow that the feeder roads would fill up the available space at each intersection and when the light turned green again for causeway blvd at each intersection, there was no room to move ahead. So this meant that most of us on causeway blvd had to wait several light cycles to move ahead. You should have had police at each intersection allowing several light cycles of the main causeway blvd to move without any traffic from the feeder roads/intersection crossroads to be allowed. I want to contact the many businesses that I visit on weekend and tell them that I won’t spending any money at their place until this construction is over or when you guys get with the plan and make this situation reasonable. Keith Erdman Mandeville, La

Just saw you cover the new diversion canal the corp plans to dig. Would you ask them why they need to build this canal when the violet canal is about a mile away and was used to build highway 46. This project will only make money for well placed people. This canal is to be dug through property owned by the Meraux Foundation which is run by the Sheriff. The property was supposed to be used to help bring buisness to StBernard not make money for the greedy few. Another doomed project being forced upon the citizens of StBernard. Just what S.E. Louisiana needs is another canal!

49 million gallons of oil in the gulf. Powerful technology being ignored to fix the problem today. A pump that could suction up 129,600,000 gallons of oil in 24 hours is known by management of BP, Wild Well and contractors involved. Companies suppresed by a "wall of silence" by BP if they want to avoid reprisal or loss of BP business. What will we do John Snell? Here's the website of pump www.rotech.co.uk Youtube site of it in use: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPiPgpHX6iY

I have been following the deepwater oil spill with keen interest. There must be about 1/2 million tons of oil now floating, sinking and dissolving in the gulf by now. Why don't I see more videos of oil being picked up and safely disposed of in large quantities.There should be decent sized ship with vaccum cleaner and storage tanks scooping it up from the surface and under the surface and getting is sent to oils refineries. There should be smaller boats with smaller equipment insure taking the load off those booms. If the leak is fixed in the next minute there will still be that stuff out there. We need to see people taking action to get rid of the problem There is a need for the feds to have equipment to deel with this and future spill. compared to the 10 super aircraft carriers we have each with 100 aircraft and a crew of 4000 or so the cost wouldbe peanuts

John, you & Nancy are my favorite newscasters. But I was mortified to see this evening's "news" story about Nungesser, Jindal, and the berm plan. Have you bothered reading the initial proposal, the agency comments, the state's replis, and the revised plan? If you have, then you know full well how irresponsible it is to present such a prejudiced and incorrect representation. Nungesser & Jindal's rantings and blaming do no more than rile people up--that's what they're after. They have turned the spill into political hay. They have not shared the plan with the public--nor have you. There is no intended "restoration" of the barrier islands in the plan. The berms are intended to be temporary, and to wash away. Now, is that a good use of our precious sand, or could we do better to use it for genuine restoration projects that can help our coast? Be the responsible reporter that I kow you are: read the plan: http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/news/view.asp?ID=341 Many coastal scientists--not consulted by Jindal--have grave concerns related to the oiled sand in the borrow sites, the disposal of the oiled berms, hydrology, tidal effects, and the damage of dredging itself. The marshes will recover from the spill, over time; the Gulf will not recover from the berm plan, and certainly not in light of this season's hurricane forecast. We're all raw about this spill; we need level-headed factual reporting on what Jindal and Nungesser are pretending is a silver bullet--and on all other spill-related matters. Encouraging the general public to mimic their prejudiced, one-sided, politically-motivated views leads me to wonder if perhaps WVUE has an interest in keeping the facts out of the public eye. I figured by hiring Zurik, y'all were increasing your reporting scope. But what I saw tonight--a showcase for Nungesser and Jindal--suggests otherwise. Deeply disappointed. Elaine Leyda NOLA

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Their is a company out of Tupelo Ms. manufacturing a unique hurricane protection screen.I think this would be a great story to present to the public.This is a screen on steroids.Please take a moment and visit their website. www.tapcoinc.net

Please ck on this Google story....according to their website the "contest" is closed....

dear john, my family watches the 9pm news to get the news at nine not 10pm. and ofcoarce your experience and reputation makes that awise choice then we can get to bed. but tonight the sports guy whose personality is to moch for me reports about a tmz report(and no follow up of his owm)then stats a report of his on reggie bush" bad news coming up on fox 8 at 10....mmm do i stay up another thirty mins or hope to find it in the newspaper or get mad because that what wdsu does...mm or do change the channel to hear some new news from wwl or wdsu for the first 12-13mins then switch back only to miss the story....no i write the gut who i trust in giving me the news the ancor guy whose invested his time giving us more news than those other guys thats why wse watch you at 9 and not them at ten...so please tell the other guy that sports guy who trys so hard to have character but we have to wait tll ten to see!! respectfully smck=