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PRESIDENT BUSH VISITS MIAMI

U. S. President George W. Bush is briefed by Max Mayfield, director of the NOAA National Hurricane Center, during his tour of the facility in Miami on July 31, 2006. (UPI Photo/John VanBeekum/POOL)

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