President Bush and Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff are briefed on Hurricane Rita at Peterson Air Force Base, in Colorado Springs, Colo., Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005. Peterson is the headquarters for NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command's operation center. Bush is monitoring Hurricane Rita from an Air Force base in the Rocky Mountain foothills, seeing how the military is working with state and local officials battling the storm more than 1,000 miles away. Susan Walsh ASSOCIATED PRESS
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