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> NBC's Brian Williams and Campbell Brown will travel to New Orleans later today, according to a tipster...

> Brown co-hosted Today this morning. New Orleans "is a bowl-like city that sits under sea level...which could equal disaster," she said.

> CNN has started pre-empting weekend programming for continuous coverage of Katrina.

> CNN's Tony Harris sounds genuinely stunned by the size of the storm. "How often do you get a chance to see something like this?," he asked the met...

> FNC's Juliette Huddy: "This could be the storm that buries the big easy under 20+ feet of water."

> FNC met Chris Knowles says Katrina is "a very historic storm in our nation's history." His description of the warm water feeding the hurricane was great: "It's like throwing gas on a fire."

> CBS's Brian Norcross on Sunday morning: "By all accounts, this is going to be a catastrophic hurricane event."