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(CNN) -- The nomination of Elena Kagan to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has caused quite a stir on the political left and right, as operatives on both sides try to ascertain exactly where she stands.

But it has also opened another fissure in the complex relationship that exists between black organizational leaders and President Obama, the nation's first African-American president.

Over the past year we have seen criticisms leveled by grass-roots activists, civil rights groups and the Congressional Black Caucus.

But instead of taking on the president, the beefs are largely aimed at "those around the president." In previous administrations, these same individuals wouldn't have hesitated to call out Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan.

Why the hesitance? Because they also understand that a direct attack on President Obama could hurt them in two ways: They could find themselves cut off from the administration or they could anger their base by making the president's job more difficult when he is facing daily attacks from Republicans.

Even among African-American commentators, columnists and radio and TV show hosts, if you are too harsh on President Obama, the backlash has been swift and vicious.

The organizations know this, and trust me, the White House knows this, and has used it to its advantage.

That's why I call it the Obama-Black-Two-Step.

I've been told countless times by folks on both sides that Obama can't be seen as favoring African-Americans over others, and his White House has been especially scared of touching anything dealing with race.

As a result, black civil rights leaders and prominent Democrats have largely bitten their tongues, unwilling to publicly take on the president and some of his decisions. Instead, they quietly fume, mumbling under their breath and offering their critiques in measured tones.

Yet I have gotten the sense that black civil rights and political leaders may stop the racial solidarity and stand up on the principles they have long fought for. I've been expressly told that some have no interest in working hard or raising money in the fall on behalf of Democrats to hold on to the House and Senate.

The nomination of Kagan has become a flash point in this uneasy relationship, because this is the second time in a year that President Obama has made a Supreme Court appointment and his administration didn't seriously consider an African-American woman for the job.

The nomination of Sonia Sotomayor certainly was historic in that she became the first Hispanic to sit on the high court, and it was embraced by civil rights groups. Yet this time, for highly qualified African-American female judges, such as Leah Ward Sears, the retired chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court, to never make the cut for a face-to-face interview with the president has ticked off a number of leaders I've talked with over the last several days.

What's the big deal about including a black woman? A Democratic pollster told me that black women have a higher voter turnout than any other ethnic-gender demographic -- 65 percent -- and it's vital for Obama to appeal to them. When Obama was behind Sen. Hillary Clinton in the polls, it was because black women hadn't embraced him yet. When they did, the race changed.

The uneasiness with Kagan's appointment among civil rights groups has focused on the hiring record of minorities during her tenure at Harvard Law School, which was followed by the White House pushing back to insulate her from criticism by saying the Harvard faculty makes the recommendations about hiring for tenured positions.

They were quick to blast out blogs, columns and articles written by African-Americans at Harvard to make clear Kagan is a major advocate of diversity.

When a meeting with civil rights leaders and administration officials was held at the White House on Tuesday with senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, I was told "more listening than talking" was done by the administration.

Civil rights leaders made clear that they felt they were being taken for granted in the process, and were expected to rubber stamp the choice.

When Kagan's nomination was unveiled Monday, the only prominent African-Americans in attendance were Charles Ogletree, a Harvard professor who taught both Obamas, and Wade Henderson, president of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights. That's a stark contrast to Sotomayor's unveiling, when a number of civil rights leaders were there to back her bid.

That's why if you look at the public statements released this week by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the National Urban League and others, they are more neutral on Kagan's appointment, saying they look forward to hearing more about her views on a variety of issues as the nomination plays out.

Folks, that's lukewarm at best.

I've heard the previous complaints that congressional and civil rights leaders have been ignored by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, with one saying he has never attended a meeting with them ("Even Bush sent Andy Card to meet with us," one leader told me). And that extends to others surrounding the president in various parts of the White House.

"These problems are valid and BIG, and we cannot let them off the hook," I was told by one frustrated organizational head.

Yet this time is different.

White House officials would quickly suggest that they are on excellent terms with the Rev. Al Sharpton, but this goes beyond him. The Rev. Jesse Jackson is clearly on the outs with this administration, as seen in his banishment from the West Wing. But this contentious relationship is with civil rights, religious, economic and social justice officials. And it's getting worse.

One civil rights leader opined that President Obama is "losing his emotional connection with black leadership and black voters."

This has huge ramifications for the president and his agenda, because Democrats are facing a major battle to hold on to the House and Senate in November.

A Wall Street Journal/NBC poll released Thursday shows that voters are split over who should control Congress -- Democrats and the GOP both got 44 percent. But of those most interested in the midterm elections, Republicans garnered 56 percent to 36 percent for Democrats.

Yet according to a study released in April by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on African-Americans, upwards of 80 percent of black voters say they are very likely to vote in November. The group surveyed 500 African-Americans in Missouri, Indiana, Arkansas and South Carolina.

What helped catapult President Obama into the White House was a high black turnout, especially in the South, and he garnered 95 percent of the black vote. A drop of 10 to 15 percent by black voters for Democrats in November would be catastrophic.

As the Kagan nomination goes forward, White House officials have told me they expect no problems from civil rights groups.

That may be the case. But the distance is growing between this president and what many figured are his natural allies. In a year when you have energized your enemies, the last thing you need is to push away your friends.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Roland S. Martin.

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question: who is not  considered an African-American woman for high court?

answer: Elena Kagan

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question: What is growing between Obama and many of his presumed natural allies?

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question: what are they ticked off ab out

answer: nomination of Elena Kagan to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul

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question: What has ticked off a number of leaders?

answer: nomination of Elena Kagan to fill the seat of retiring Supreme Court Justice John Paul

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(CNN)  -- A new standoff was brewing in Honduras as the country's recently deposed president vowed to return, while the new provisional government said it would arrest him if he set foot back in the country.

Ousted Honduran President Jose Manuel Zelaya appears Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly.

Political turmoil has swept this Central American nation of 8 million people following a military-led coup Sunday that ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya. Troops entered the president's residence and sent him out of the country in exile. A veteran legislator, Roberto Micheletti, was sworn in that same day as provisional president with the support of congress.

Roberto Micheletti, the veteran legislator who was sworn in that same day as provisional president with the support of congress, was adamant that Zelaya would not return to power.

"He already committed crimes against the constitution and the laws; he can't return to be president of the republic," Micheletti told reporters Tuesday. "He can no longer return to the presidency unless a president from another Latin American country comes and imposes him with arms."

Micheletti added, "If there is an invasion against our country, we have seven-and-a-half million Hondurans ready to defend our territory and our laws and our homeland and our government."

However, Zelaya still vows to defy the provisional government.

"I am going to return on Thursday because they expelled me by force, and I am going to return as always: as a citizen and as president," Zelaya said at a U.N. news conference shortly after the world body unanimously adopted a resolution that he should be restored to power.

Zelaya, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, called the resolution historic.

"Your servant has several accusations against him in Honduras," Zelaya said. "But nobody has given me a trial. Nobody has convened a tribunal."

Meanwhile, Micheletti's provisional government said Zelaya would be arrested if he returned.

"As soon as he arrives he will be captured, as we already have the arrest warrants ready," new Foreign Minister Enrique Ortez Colindres told CNN en EspaÃ±ol.

Zelaya would face charges of violating the constitution, corruption and drug trafficking, among others, Ortez said.

The deposed president said he would travel to Washington to attend a meeting of the Organization of American States. He also is expected to meet Tuesday evening with Tom Shannon, the top U.S. official on Latin America.

Even as Zelaya spoke at the United Nations, his opponents held a large and noisy rally in Tegucigalpa, the capital of Honduras. Crowd members waved blue and white Honduran flags and signs denouncing Zelaya.

Roberto Micheletti, the new provisional president, briefly addressed the crowd Tuesday afternoon. He vowed that the next national elections, slated for November, will be held as planned, and that a new president will be sworn in as usual in January.

Gen. Romeo Vasquez Velasquez, the top Honduran military commander who had butted heads with Zelaya, also spoke at the rally. By removing Zelaya, the armed forces were only complying with their constitutional duties, he said.

Before he spoke, the crowd chanted in support, "Armed forces! Armed forces!"

Zelaya supporters also were active Tuesday, with three major public-sector labor unions launching a general strike, a union official told CNN. About 100,000 workers joined the strike, said Oscar Garcia, vice president of the Honduran water workers union SANAA. That number could not be independently verified.

"It will be an indefinite strike," Garcia said. "We don't recognize this new government imposed by the oligarchy, and we will mount our campaign of resistance until President Manuel Zelaya is restored to power."

Also on Tuesday, the U.S. State Department said it was reviewing its aid to Honduras as it works with regional partners on a deal to restore Zelaya to power and quell political unrest in the country.

State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the U.S. was reviewing whether Zelaya's ouster met the legal definition of a "coup" before any decision was made.

"Because of the situation and the very dramatic nature of the events there and our profound concern about what's going on there, I think we're looking at a number of aspects of our cooperation," Kelly said.

The State Department has also issued a travel alert due "to the current unstable political and security situation in Honduras." The alert "recommends that American citizens defer all nonessential travel to Honduras until further notice."

In another development, two U.S. military officials in Washington confirmed to CNN that U.S. helicopters will fly over southern Honduras on a humanitarian relief mission Tuesday. The officials said there is great sensitivity to any public appearance by the U.S. military in the country.

The U.S. military also postponed some planned exercises with the Honduran military until the situation in the country settles down, according to the U.S. Southern Command.

"We have postponed certain activities," Maj. D.L. Wright, Southern Command spokesman, told CNN.

Wright said this decision would be in effect for at least two to three weeks, or "until the political situation settles."

Zelaya was overthrown early Sunday when the Honduran military arrested him and flew him to Costa Rica. Micheletti, president of the Congress, was sworn in as provisional president later Sunday.

The United Nations, OAS and most nations in the Western Hemisphere, including the United States, have condemned the ouster and demanded that Zelaya be restored to power.

The World Bank said Tuesday it would freeze funds to Honduras until the crisis is resolved, and the United States said it is reviewing its aid to the Central American nation. The U.S. joined many other nations in co-sponsoring Tuesday's U.N. resolution.

Zelaya had been at odds with the other branches of government over a referendum he wanted to hold Sunday. The Honduran Supreme Court had ruled that the referendum was illegal, and Congress had voted not to hold it.

The high court also had overturned Zelaya's dismissal of Honduras' top general, who said the military would not participate in the referendum. The court ordered that the general be reinstated immediately.

Zelaya disregarded those actions and vowed to hold the vote anyway.  Watch part one of interview with Zelaya (in Spanish) Â» |  Part two (in Spanish) Â»

Honduran authorities on Monday clashed with Zelaya supporters, who took to the streets and threw rocks at authorities, burned tires and set up roadblocks. iReport.com: Are you there? Share your photos, videos

In a radio address Tuesday, Micheletti said Zelaya would be arrested if he came back.  Watch interview with Micheletti (in Spanish) Â»

Micheletti also told Honduras' representatives at the United Nations and OAS to quit speaking against the new government or they immediately will be removed from their posts. They are not authorized, he said, to speak for the Honduran government.

In another development, two U.S. military officials in Washington confirmed to CNN that American helicopters will fly over southern Honduras on a humanitarian relief mission Tuesday.

The officials said there is great sensitivity to any public appearance by the U.S. military in the country.

Three Black Hawk helicopters are scheduled to leave an air base at Soto Cano in Honduras and fly south to Nicaragua. They will be used to support the USNS Comfort, which is conducting a medical relief mission.

CNN en EspaÃ±ol's Krupskaia Alis in Honduras, and CNN's Karl Penhaul, Barbara Starr and Elise Labott contributed to this report.

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(CNN) -- The Oka boys are a true band of brothers. All seven served in the military, yet they fought on opposing sides.

"We were seven brothers -- seven soldiers," says 91-year old Chikara "Don" Oka, a World War II veteran now living in a retirement home in Los Angeles. "Five of us for the United States and two against us because they were stranded in Japan" when the war came. They're all American citizens born here in the United States.

In the 1920s, Oka's parents operated a migrant labor hotel in Castroville, a farm town in central California. But their dreams of riches never materialized, and the entire family returned to Japan.

In 1937, three of the older brothers -- Isao, Masao and Don -- returned to the United States in search of a better life. They worked in the wholesale produce business, and Don enrolled at Otis Parsons Art Institute in Los Angeles, hoping to be a fine artist.

Then on December 7, 1941 the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the brothers' dreams were put on hold. They received draft notices, and while many of their fellow Nisei -- second-generation Japanese-Americans -- were being booted out of the Army, classified as enemy aliens, the brothers found their niches.

"All of us served -- three of us at first for MIS (the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service, as Japanese language specialists), and two younger ones (Teiji and Takeo) for the Japanese navy and army. The youngest ones were stuck in Japan but too young to serve. After the war, Terumasa (Ted) and Hidekazu (Dan) came back as United States citizens, and when the Korean War started, they volunteered also with the MIS."

"Don" Oka's memories of war are still vivid. Clutching a crumbling photo album, he peels back pages filled with fading photographs and hand-drawn cartoons of his Army life. The stories spill out like the loose pages in his album.

Perhaps Oka's most vivid memory is also his most poignant.

On Christmas Eve, 1944, he remembers running for cover while his younger brother Takeo -- a pilot -- dive-bombed an American camp on Tinian Island in the Marianas.

"I remember the attack", Oka says, "because I was on Tinian, and here comes a plane. I look up in the sky, it was at night, and I saw those planes in a searchlight and they were shooting. I could hear the bullets coming down, and we rushed out."

As Takeo Oka returned to his base in Japan, he was shot down. The wreckage and his body were found on an island near Iwo Jima

"I knew he must have been serving because he was at the age, but I didn't know until it was all over and I came back and found out he died" Don Oka says. "I was just hit so hard that I didn't feel right."

Oka picks up two photos from his tattered album. In one photo, Takeo is seated, wearing his Japanese Imperial Navy uniform and gripping a samurai sword. The other is a photo of Takeo's grave marker in the family's village, Okayama near Hiroshima.

"What a waste," Oka says. "I wish he [Takeo] were alive."

By 1945, Japan was losing its grip in the Pacific. Takeo's younger brother, Teiji, was conscripted into the Japanese army. He was on a troop ship sailing with hundreds of recruits toward Okinawa as reinforcements. The ship was attacked and sunk by American planes. Teiji Oka was wounded and died several years later.

Isao Oka, the oldest brother, was to ship out with the celebrated 442nd Japanese American Regimental Combat Team to Europe. Two days before, he heard the question, "Who speaks Japanese?"

He answered simply, "I do!" and was also transferred into the MIS.

Isao Oka served in the Philippines and became known as the "voice of American propaganda." Using shortwave radio, he broadcast Japanese music and read news and commentaries whose goal was to demoralize Japanese soldiers throughout the Pacific islands and urge the citizens of Japan to surrender.

On July 27, 1945, a day after it was released, he broadcast the Potsdam Declaration -- the terms of Japan's World War II surrender.

"I don't know how the reception was, but I was really happy the war was over" he says.

Masao, the second-oldest brother and last of them drafted, saw occupation duty in two of Japan's major cities, Kobe and Osaka.

For Don Oka, the third-oldest brother, service wasn't always so metropolitan. On Tinian Island, he said, "I saw bodies everywhere" after a nine-day Marine battle there in 1944. Eight thousand Japanese were killed. By comparison, the 2nd and 4th Marine divisions lost 328 men. Hundreds of Japanese troops held out in the jungles for months.

Around the camp's perimeter, he saw starving Japanese soldiers scavenging for food. He'd yell, in Japanese: "War is over around here! Many Japanese have surrendered and are in camps under our care. Please come out and surrender!"

"Maybe my Japanese was bad ... they didn't come out, " Oka says.

The following summer, the B-29 bomber Enola Gay flew from Tinian airfield to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

As part of his duties on Tinian, Oka was asked to start a school for hundreds of Japanese and Korean children.

With the war in the Pacific over, Oka helped Marines in occupied Japan. They scoured the countryside for the wreckage of downed American bombers and their missing servicemen.

They never found survivors.

Oka was with the first U.S. Marine unit to meet Japanese civilians in the Shimonoseki region on the Japanese island of Kyushu.

"I was a little frightened," he says of his initial contact with the Japanese civilians -- worried about perceptions that he, a Japanese-American, was consorting with the enemy. To his relief, he discovered that his shared heritage and translation skills, coupled with a respectful Marine presence, calmed everyone's fears.

The war in the Pacific ripped apart nations and families, and it divided loyalties. But Don Oka is pleased with all of his brothers' achievements.

"I'm kind of proud," he says of their military service. "But at the same time, I really hate war from the beginning."

He adds: "Those brothers of mine didn't hate me. I didn't hate them. We were brothers. We were just called to do the job, and we did it."

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GALVESTON, Texas (CNN)  -- Rescuers in Galveston, Texas, were going door-to-door Saturday to check on the estimated 20,000 people who failed to flee Hurricane Ike, which has slowed to tropical storm status.

Park benches are strewn about in downtown Houston Saturday during Hurricane Ike.

As of Saturday afternoon, the Galveston Fire Department had taken 27 people to a shelter in a high school on the coastal island, which was without electricity or water pressure.

No casualties had been discovered so far in the search and rescue efforts, which have been hampered by heavy flooding and scattered debris.

Galveston had ordered evacuation of the island, but Galveston City Manager Steve LeBlanc said about 40 percent of the city's 57,523 residents chose to stay.

LeBlanc said the island would be closed while authorities assess damages, including to the causeway, which was in "bad shape" because of debris and road damage.

"The road buckled in a number of places," LeBlanc said. "Even if we opened it up you couldn't get through."

LeBlanc said 17 buildings on the island had been destroyed by fires, potent winds and a strong storm surge.

"We are in a recovery mode," Galveston Mayor Lyda Ann Thomas said in a press conference Saturday afternoon. "This eye came right over us, stayed a while and went on, but it brought a lot of damage to our city."

Ike was downgraded Saturday to a tropical storm 11 hours after it crashed ashore as a Texas-sized hurricane that walloped southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

In its wake, Ike -- which smashed into the coast as a Category 2 hurricane -- left four people dead, millions without power and destroyed homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast with powerful winds, rain and floodwaters.

President Bush declared 29 Texas counties and parts of Louisianans major disaster areas, making federal funds available for recovery from the storm.  View images of places hit by Ike Â»

Many people, like D.J. Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride out the storm at home, despite voluntary and mandatory orders issued across the region.

"The windows looked like they would explode," said Knight, a mother of two. "It just wouldn't stop."

Now, without electricity and surrounded by flooded roads and wreckage, Knight wonders whether it was worth enduring a sleepless night as the storm shook her home, located about halfway between Galveston and Houston.

"I didn't think it would be as bad as it was," she said. "It was horrible."

Knight is one of thousands waiting for assistance as the state rolls out the largest search and rescue operation in Texas history.  See pictures of the storm's destruction Â»

Gov. Rick Perry dispatched a 1,000-strong search and rescue team, including state troopers, pilots and members of the National Guard. Lines of National Guard trucks and ambulances were deployed from San Antonio even as officials are trying to grasp the extent of damage and the number of Texans stranded by the storm.

However, flooding and debris have impeded rescue efforts in some areas, adding to the uncertainty about how many Texans actually survived the storm.

"We're obviously concerned that there may be people we find who didn't get out and who are going to be in the rubble of what we uncover," said Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff. "We hope for the best, but I do want to prepare people for the fact they we may have some fatalities."

Chertoff said 40,000 Texans were in 250 shelters, and that food and water would be distributed in about 20 coastal locations as rescue efforts continue.

In Galveston, which bore the brunt of the storm, floods filled the historic district with 7 feet of water at the storm's peak, said Galveston County official Margaret Bunch.  Watch how a spunky little girl braved the storm Â»

A foot of water flooded the city's main courthouse, where many people rode out the storm, she said.

Wanda Collins' garage filled with 5 feet of water, ruining everything inside, including a 2002 pickup truck, two Harley-Davidson motorcycles, a freezer and a washer and dryer.

"I have never in my life seen water like this," the 30-year Galveston resident said.

Burle and Jamie Holmes also refused to leave their Galveston home despite a grim warning from the National Weather Service. Ike forced the couple and their dog, Trouble, into the attic, tossing their furniture like toys across the house.

"We lost everything," Jamie Holmes.

Curfews are in place in Galveston until dawn Monday and in Houston's Harris County until 6 a.m. Sunday.

Houston Mayor Bill White said his city appears to have avoided loss of life, but streets blocked by floodwaters, downed trees and power lines hampered efforts to determine the full extent of the damage.

Authorities shut down downtown Houston, where the streets were littered with traffic lights and glass, for cleanup and damage assessment. The city's tallest skyscraper, the 75-story JP Morgan Chase Tower, was missing many of its windows.  See iReporter's images of destruction Â»

White advised residents to drink bottled or boiled tap water as a precaution after a power outage reduced water pressure, but he said nothing indicated that the water supply was contaminated.

Brennan's, a popular restaurant in downtown Houston for almost four decades, burned down Friday night as Ike battered the city.

North of Houston, a 10 -year-old boy died when a falling tree limb hit him in the head, the Montgomery County Sheriff's Office said. The boy's father was cutting down a dead tree in the family's yard in preparation for Ike's heavy winds early Saturday.

Nearly 2.6 million customers in Texas and Louisiana lack power because of Ike, the U.S. Energy Department said on Saturday.

In Brazoria County, emergency management officials said the main power line for the Texas/New Mexico grid was down. CenterPoint Energy said 90 percent of its customers were without electricity and it could take a month or more to get power restored to all of them.

iReporter Jackie Hensler of Houston said her apartment building's power was restored quickly on Saturday morning after a stormy night.

"There are lots of trees down; they've been uprooted or snapped," she said after venturing outside. "There's lots of debris in the streets, like boards and plywood from homes."  Watch how the roof peeled off a building Â»

Hurricane Ike proved to be a huge storm system, 900 miles across at its largest. It remained a hurricane hours after crashing ashore over Galveston at 2:10 a.m.

Its maximum sustained winds were near 80 mph, with higher gusts. It was expected to continue to weaken and move into western Arkansas by Saturday night.  Track the storm Â»

The storm surge, however, was smaller than forecast. The greatest surge, of 15 feet, happened at Sabine Pass, near the Texas-Louisiana line. Authorities had predicted surges of 20 to 25 feet.

Authorities in Orange County, Texas, on the Louisiana line, were using large dump trucks Saturday to rescue residents trapped on their roofs by massive flooding, a county judge told CNN.

The city of Orange and the town of Bridge City were flooded, Beaumont emergency official Brad Peneffon said.  Watch the storm surge in Beaumont Â»

Rescuers fanned out in boats Saturday in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, after the storm surge flooded 1,800 homes.

Gas prices soared across the country amid fears the storm would disrupt fuel supplies. Ike hit a region that is home to about 25 percent of the United States' oil refining capacity, and the storm's progress across the Gulf of Mexico shut down crude oil collection from Gulf oil fields.

The U.S. Department of Energy said 14 refineries were closed by the storm, along with two Texas strategic petroleum reserve sites.

In Knoxville, Tennessee, Sean Kennedy expressed dismay at the difference a day made to gas prices. iReport.com: Evacuees, San Antonio mayor talk about Ike

"I filled up my tank yesterday morning on the way to work for $3.59 a gallon," he said. "This morning, gas prices at the same station were $5 a gallon for regular and $5.25 for premium."

The Coast Guard said early Saturday that 22 people aboard a freighter that was adrift in the Gulf of Mexico were safe after the storm.

Some good news came out of the region Saturday. About 175 miles west of Houston, a storm evacuee delivered a baby in the ladies' bathroom at a shelter in New Braunfels.

"The credit goes to the mother," said Dr. Mark Burns, who helped deliver the baby. "She did a beautiful job with her delivery."

CNN's Jeanne Meserve, Rusty Dornin, Sean Callebs, Rob Marciano, Gary Tuchman, Arthur Brice, Deb Krajnak and Elise Miller contributed to this report.

text: GALVESTON

text: Texas

text: CNN

text: Rescuers

text: in

text: Galveston

text: Texas

text: were

text: going

text: door

text: to

text: door

text: Saturday

text: to

text: check

text: on

text: the

text: estimated

text: people

text: who

text: failed

text: to

text: flee

text: Hurricane

text: Ike

text: which

text: has

text: slowed

text: to

text: tropical

text: storm

text: status

text: Park

text: benches

text: are

text: strewn

text: about

text: in

text: downtown

text: Houston

text: Saturday

text: during

text: Hurricane

text: Ike

text: As

text: of

text: Saturday

text: afternoon

text: the

text: Galveston

text: Fire

text: Department

text: had

text: taken

text: people

text: to

text: a

text: shelter

text: in

text: a

text: high

text: school

text: on

text: the

text: coastal

text: island

text: which

text: was

text: without

text: electricity

text: or

text: water

text: pressure

text: No

text: casualties

text: had

text: been

text: discovered

text: so

text: far

text: in

text: the

text: search

text: and

text: rescue

text: efforts

text: which

text: have

text: been

text: hampered

text: by

text: heavy

text: flooding

text: and

text: scattered

text: debris

text: Galveston

text: had

text: ordered

text: evacuation

text: of

text: the

text: island

text: but

text: Galveston

text: City

text: Manager

text: Steve

text: LeBlanc

text: said

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: city

text: 's

text: residents

text: chose

text: to

text: stay

text: LeBlanc

text: said

text: the

text: island

text: would

text: be

text: closed

text: while

text: authorities

text: assess

text: damages

text: including

text: to

text: the

text: causeway

text: which

text: was

text: in

text: bad

text: shape

text: because

text: of

text: debris

text: and

text: road

text: damage

text: The

text: road

text: buckled

text: in

text: a

text: number

text: of

text: places

text: LeBlanc

text: said

text: Even

text: if

text: we

text: opened

text: it

text: up

text: you

text: could

text: n't

text: get

text: through

text: LeBlanc

text: said

text: buildings

text: on

text: the

text: island

text: had

text: been

text: destroyed

text: by

text: fires

text: potent

text: winds

text: and

text: a

text: strong

text: storm

text: surge

text: We

text: are

text: in

text: a

text: recovery

text: mode

text: Galveston

text: Mayor

text: Lyda

text: Ann

text: Thomas

text: said

text: in

text: a

text: press

text: conference

text: Saturday

text: afternoon

text: This

text: eye

text: came

text: right

text: over

text: us

text: stayed

text: a

text: while

text: and

text: went

text: on

text: but

text: it

text: brought

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: damage

text: to

text: our

text: city

text: Ike

text: was

text: downgraded

text: Saturday

text: to

text: a

text: tropical

text: storm

text: hours

text: after

text: it

text: crashed

text: ashore

text: as

text: a

text: Texas

text: sized

text: hurricane

text: that

text: walloped

text: southeast

text: Texas

text: and

text: southwest

text: Louisiana

text: In

text: its

text: wake

text: Ike

text: which

text: smashed

text: into

text: the

text: coast

text: as

text: a

text: Category

text: hurricane

text: left

text: four

text: people

text: dead

text: millions

text: without

text: power

text: and

text: destroyed

text: homes

text: and

text: businesses

text: along

text: the

text: Gulf

text: Coast

text: with

text: powerful

text: winds

text: rain

text: and

text: floodwaters

text: President

text: Bush

text: declared

text: Texas

text: counties

text: and

text: parts

text: of

text: Louisianans

text: major

text: disaster

text: areas

text: making

text: federal

text: funds

text: available

text: for

text: recovery

text: from

text: the

text: storm

text: View

text: images

text: of

text: places

text: hit

text: by

text: Ike

text: Â

text: Many

text: people

text: like

text: D.J.

text: Knight

text: of

text: Pearlman

text: Texas

text: decided

text: to

text: ride

text: out

text: the

text: storm

text: at

text: home

text: despite

text: voluntary

text: and

text: mandatory

text: orders

text: issued

text: across

text: the

text: region

text: The

text: windows

text: looked

text: like

text: they

text: would

text: explode

text: said

text: Knight

text: a

text: mother

text: of

text: two

text: It

text: just

text: would

text: n't

text: stop

text: Now

text: without

text: electricity

text: and

text: surrounded

text: by

text: flooded

text: roads

text: and

text: wreckage

text: Knight

text: wonders

text: whether

text: it

text: was

text: worth

text: enduring

text: a

text: sleepless

text: night

text: as

text: the

text: storm

text: shook

text: her

text: home

text: located

text: about

text: halfway

text: between

text: Galveston

text: and

text: Houston

text: I

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: as

text: bad

text: as

text: it

text: was

text: she

text: said

text: It

text: was

text: horrible

text: Knight

text: is

text: one

text: of

text: thousands

text: waiting

text: for

text: assistance

text: as

text: the

text: state

text: rolls

text: out

text: the

text: largest

text: search

text: and

text: rescue

text: operation

text: in

text: Texas

text: history

text: See

text: pictures

text: of

text: the

text: storm

text: 's

text: destruction

text: Â

text: Gov.

text: Rick

text: Perry

text: dispatched

text: a

text: search

text: and

text: rescue

text: team

text: including

text: state

text: troopers

text: pilots

text: and

text: members

text: of

text: the

text: National

text: Guard

text: Lines

text: of

text: National

text: Guard

text: trucks

text: and

text: ambulances

text: were

text: deployed

text: from

text: San

text: Antonio

text: even

text: as

text: officials

text: are

text: trying

text: to

text: grasp

text: the

text: extent

text: of

text: damage

text: and

text: the

text: number

text: of

text: Texans

text: stranded

text: by

text: the

text: storm

text: However

text: flooding

text: and

text: debris

text: have

text: impeded

text: rescue

text: efforts

text: in

text: some

text: areas

text: adding

text: to

text: the

text: uncertainty

text: about

text: how

text: many

text: Texans

text: actually

text: survived

text: the

text: storm

text: We

text: 're

text: obviously

text: concerned

text: that

text: there

text: may

text: be

text: people

text: we

text: find

text: who

text: did

text: n't

text: get

text: out

text: and

text: who

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: in

text: the

text: rubble

text: of

text: what

text: we

text: uncover

text: said

text: Secretary

text: of

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: Michael

text: Chertoff

text: We

text: hope

text: for

text: the

text: best

text: but

text: I

text: do

text: want

text: to

text: prepare

text: people

text: for

text: the

text: fact

text: they

text: we

text: may

text: have

text: some

text: fatalities

text: Chertoff

text: said

text: Texans

text: were

text: in

text: shelters

text: and

text: that

text: food

text: and

text: water

text: would

text: be

text: distributed

text: in

text: about

text: coastal

text: locations

text: as

text: rescue

text: efforts

text: continue

text: In

text: Galveston

text: which

text: bore

text: the

text: brunt

text: of

text: the

text: storm

text: floods

text: filled

text: the

text: historic

text: district

text: with

text: feet

text: of

text: water

text: at

text: the

text: storm

text: 's

text: peak

text: said

text: Galveston

text: County

text: official

text: Margaret

text: Bunch

text: Watch

text: how

text: a

text: spunky

text: little

text: girl

text: braved

text: the

text: storm

text: Â

text: A

text: foot

text: of

text: water

text: flooded

text: the

text: city

text: 's

text: main

text: courthouse

text: where

text: many

text: people

text: rode

text: out

text: the

text: storm

text: she

text: said

text: Wanda

text: Collins

text: garage

text: filled

text: with

text: feet

text: of

text: water

text: ruining

text: everything

text: inside

text: including

text: a

text: pickup

text: truck

text: two

text: Harley

text: Davidson

text: motorcycles

text: a

text: freezer

text: and

text: a

text: washer

text: and

text: dryer

text: I

text: have

text: never

text: in

text: my

text: life

text: seen

text: water

text: like

text: this

text: the

text: Galveston

text: resident

text: said

text: Burle

text: and

text: Jamie

text: Holmes

text: also

text: refused

text: to

text: leave

text: their

text: Galveston

text: home

text: despite

text: a

text: grim

text: warning

text: from

text: the

text: National

text: Weather

text: Service

text: Ike

text: forced

text: the

text: couple

text: and

text: their

text: dog

text: Trouble

text: into

text: the

text: attic

text: tossing

text: their

text: furniture

text: like

text: toys

text: across

text: the

text: house

text: We

text: lost

text: everything

text: Jamie

text: Holmes

text: Curfews

text: are

text: in

text: place

text: in

text: Galveston

text: until

text: dawn

text: Monday

text: and

text: in

text: Houston

text: 's

text: Harris

text: County

text: until

text: a.m.

text: Sunday

text: Houston

text: Mayor

text: Bill

text: White

text: said

text: his

text: city

text: appears

text: to

text: have

text: avoided

text: loss

text: of

text: life

text: but

text: streets

text: blocked

text: by

text: floodwaters

text: downed

text: trees

text: and

text: power

text: lines

text: hampered

text: efforts

text: to

text: determine

text: the

text: full

text: extent

text: of

text: the

text: damage

text: Authorities

text: shut

text: down

text: downtown

text: Houston

text: where

text: the

text: streets

text: were

text: littered

text: with

text: traffic

text: lights

text: and

text: glass

text: for

text: cleanup

text: and

text: damage

text: assessment

text: The

text: city

text: 's

text: tallest

text: skyscraper

text: the

text: JP

text: Morgan

text: Chase

text: Tower

text: was

text: missing

text: many

text: of

text: its

text: windows

text: See

text: iReporter

text: 's

text: images

text: of

text: destruction

text: Â

text: White

text: advised

text: residents

text: to

text: drink

text: bottled

text: or

text: boiled

text: tap

text: water

text: as

text: a

text: precaution

text: after

text: a

text: power

text: outage

text: reduced

text: water

text: pressure

text: but

text: he

text: said

text: nothing

text: indicated

text: that

text: the

text: water

text: supply

text: was

text: contaminated

text: Brennan

text: 's

text: a

text: popular

text: restaurant

text: in

text: downtown

text: Houston

text: for

text: almost

text: four

text: decades

text: burned

text: down

text: Friday

text: night

text: as

text: Ike

text: battered

text: the

text: city

text: North

text: of

text: Houston

text: a

text: -year

text: old

text: boy

text: died

text: when

text: a

text: falling

text: tree

text: limb

text: hit

text: him

text: in

text: the

text: head

text: the

text: Montgomery

text: County

text: Sheriff

text: 's

text: Office

text: said

text: The

text: boy

text: 's

text: father

text: was

text: cutting

text: down

text: a

text: dead

text: tree

text: in

text: the

text: family

text: 's

text: yard

text: in

text: preparation

text: for

text: Ike

text: 's

text: heavy

text: winds

text: early

text: Saturday

text: Nearly

text: million

text: customers

text: in

text: Texas

text: and

text: Louisiana

text: lack

text: power

text: because

text: of

text: Ike

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Energy

text: Department

text: said

text: on

text: Saturday

text: In

text: Brazoria

text: County

text: emergency

text: management

text: officials

text: said

text: the

text: main

text: power

text: line

text: for

text: the

text: Texas

text: New

text: Mexico

text: grid

text: was

text: down

text: CenterPoint

text: Energy

text: said

text: percent

text: of

text: its

text: customers

text: were

text: without

text: electricity

text: and

text: it

text: could

text: take

text: a

text: month

text: or

text: more

text: to

text: get

text: power

text: restored

text: to

text: all

text: of

text: them

text: iReporter

text: Jackie

text: Hensler

text: of

text: Houston

text: said

text: her

text: apartment

text: building

text: 's

text: power

text: was

text: restored

text: quickly

text: on

text: Saturday

text: morning

text: after

text: a

text: stormy

text: night

text: There

text: are

text: lots

text: of

text: trees

text: down

text: they

text: 've

text: been

text: uprooted

text: or

text: snapped

text: she

text: said

text: after

text: venturing

text: outside

text: There

text: 's

text: lots

text: of

text: debris

text: in

text: the

text: streets

text: like

text: boards

text: and

text: plywood

text: from

text: homes

text: Watch

text: how

text: the

text: roof

text: peeled

text: off

text: a

text: building

text: Â

text: Hurricane

text: Ike

text: proved

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: huge

text: storm

text: system

text: miles

text: across

text: at

text: its

text: largest

text: It

text: remained

text: a

text: hurricane

text: hours

text: after

text: crashing

text: ashore

text: over

text: Galveston

text: at

text: a.m.

text: Its

text: maximum

text: sustained

text: winds

text: were

text: near

text: mph

text: with

text: higher

text: gusts

text: It

text: was

text: expected

text: to

text: continue

text: to

text: weaken

text: and

text: move

text: into

text: western

text: Arkansas

text: by

text: Saturday

text: night

text: Track

text: the

text: storm

text: Â

text: The

text: storm

text: surge

text: however

text: was

text: smaller

text: than

text: forecast

text: The

text: greatest

text: surge

text: of

text: feet

text: happened

text: at

text: Sabine

text: Pass

text: near

text: the

text: Texas

text: Louisiana

text: line

text: Authorities

text: had

text: predicted

text: surges

text: of

text: to

text: feet

text: Authorities

text: in

text: Orange

text: County

text: Texas

text: on

text: the

text: Louisiana

text: line

text: were

text: using

text: large

text: dump

text: trucks

text: Saturday

text: to

text: rescue

text: residents

text: trapped

text: on

text: their

text: roofs

text: by

text: massive

text: flooding

text: a

text: county

text: judge

text: told

text: CNN

text: The

text: city

text: of

text: Orange

text: and

text: the

text: town

text: of

text: Bridge

text: City

text: were

text: flooded

text: Beaumont

text: emergency

text: official

text: Brad

text: Peneffon

text: said

text: Watch

text: the

text: storm

text: surge

text: in

text: Beaumont

text: Â

text: Rescuers

text: fanned

text: out

text: in

text: boats

text: Saturday

text: in

text: Cameron

text: Parish

text: Louisiana

text: after

text: the

text: storm

text: surge

text: flooded

text: homes

text: Gas

text: prices

text: soared

text: across

text: the

text: country

text: amid

text: fears

text: the

text: storm

text: would

text: disrupt

text: fuel

text: supplies

text: Ike

text: hit

text: a

text: region

text: that

text: is

text: home

text: to

text: about

text: percent

text: of

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: oil

text: refining

text: capacity

text: and

text: the

text: storm

text: 's

text: progress

text: across

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Mexico

text: shut

text: down

text: crude

text: oil

text: collection

text: from

text: Gulf

text: oil

text: fields

text: The

text: U.S.

text: Department

text: of

text: Energy

text: said

text: refineries

text: were

text: closed

text: by

text: the

text: storm

text: along

text: with

text: two

text: Texas

text: strategic

text: petroleum

text: reserve

text: sites

text: In

text: Knoxville

text: Tennessee

text: Sean

text: Kennedy

text: expressed

text: dismay

text: at

text: the

text: difference

text: a

text: day

text: made

text: to

text: gas

text: prices

text: iReport.com

text: Evacuees

text: San

text: Antonio

text: mayor

text: talk

text: about

text: Ike

text: I

text: filled

text: up

text: my

text: tank

text: yesterday

text: morning

text: on

text: the

text: way

text: to

text: work

text: for

text: a

text: gallon

text: he

text: said

text: This

text: morning

text: gas

text: prices

text: at

text: the

text: same

text: station

text: were

text: a

text: gallon

text: for

text: regular

text: and

text: for

text: premium

text: The

text: Coast

text: Guard

text: said

text: early

text: Saturday

text: that

text: people

text: aboard

text: a

text: freighter

text: that

text: was

text: adrift

text: in

text: the

text: Gulf

text: of

text: Mexico

text: were

text: safe

text: after

text: the

text: storm

text: Some

text: good

text: news

text: came

text: out

text: of

text: the

text: region

text: Saturday

text: About

text: miles

text: west

text: of

text: Houston

text: a

text: storm

text: evacuee

text: delivered

text: a

text: baby

text: in

text: the

text: ladies

text: bathroom

text: at

text: a

text: shelter

text: in

text: New

text: Braunfels

text: The

text: credit

text: goes

text: to

text: the

text: mother

text: said

text: Dr.

text: Mark

text: Burns

text: who

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question: How many were affected by outages?

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question: What impeded rescue efforts?

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question: What did the US Energy department say about power outages?

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question: What was impeding rescue efforts?

answer: heavy flooding and scattered debris.

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question: What's the name of the tropical storm?

answer: Hurricane Ike,

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question: Who rode out the storm at home?

answer: D.J. Knight of Pearlman, Texas, decided to ride

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question: How many were affected by the power outages?

answer: 20,000 people

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question: How many deaths were attributed to Ike?

answer: four

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question: Where was the wereckage?

answer: Galveston, Texas,

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question: What strength were with winds of tropical storm Ike.

answer: were near 80

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question: What storm caused four deaths in Texas?

answer: Ike

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