August 27, 2008
Posted: August 27th, 2008 09:00 PM ET
Sen. Landrieu addressed the convention Tuesday night but will not be in Denver when Sen. Obama accepts the nomination Thursday.
DENVER (CNN) - Senator Mary Landrieu (D-Louisiana) won't attend Thursday night's presidential nomination acceptance speech by Senator Barack Obama, reports CNN National Correspondent John King. With a possible hurricane headed towards her home state, Landrieu is taking the first flight to New Orleans Thursday morning. Watch: Levees a big question, says Nagin Computer models show Tropical Storm Gustav heading straight for the U.S. Gulf Coast, arriving as an unwelcome visitor anywhere from western Florida - which is already waterlogged from last week's Tropical Storm Fay - to Louisiana, where cleanup and repair efforts are still under way three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the state. Gustav is expected to strengthen into a hurricane upon entering the Gulf of Filed under: Democratic National Convention |
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