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Bush Declares Emergency for Inauguration
Associated Press
Move allows D.C. to claim more federal funding amid fears over crowd size
 WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush on Tuesday declared an emergency in the District of Columbia that will let the nation's capital tap deeper into federal coffers for Barack Obama's inauguration.
Bush said that an emergency exists and ordered federal aid to supplement the $15 million in federal funds already appropriated for the event.
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said District of Columbia Mayor Adrian M. Fenty requested the emergency declaration on Jan. 7 because he decided that the crowds expected for the nation's 56th presidential inauguration would exceed the city's ability to protect the public.
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Air Security Could Involve Private Jets
By Christine Negroni
 One of the biggest conveniences of private aviation is the speed with which passengers can get on the plane and off the ground.
But that may be about to change. The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to extend to private aviation many of the security rules imposed on commercial airlines. Those include requiring fingerprint-based background checks on pilots, checking passenger names against a government watch list and restricting what items may be carried onto the airplane.
The proposal could affect 10,000 previously exempt air operators, including not only wealthy businessmen like Microsoft's co-founder, Paul Allen, who owns a Boeing 757, but also fractional jet ownership companies and even some recreational fliers.
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FBI to Target IT Workers during Historic Hiring Blitz
By Brittany R. Ballenstedt
 The FBI has launched a major hiring initiative aimed at filling more than 3,000 professional and special agent jobs left vacant due to retirements and attrition, the bureau announced this week.
The FBI said on Monday that it expects to fill more than 2,100 professional staff positions throughout its field offices and headquarters divisions. The vacancies include fields such as engineering, finance, human resources, information technology, nursing and records management. The bureau also plans to hire 850 new special agents.
"The FBI has posted these new positions to meet current and expected vacancies primarily due to retirements and attrition," spokeswoman Denise Ballew said Wednesday. The hiring blitz is one of the largest in the FBI's 101-year history.
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Airplane Crash-lands into Hudson River; all aboard reported safe
By Mike Brooks, Jeanne Meserve and Mike Ahlers
NEW YORK (CNN) -- A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport, according to officials and passengers.
Passenger Alberto Panero said that within a few minutes after takeoff, he heard a loud bang and smelled smoke.
"That's when we knew we were going down and into the water. We just hit, and somehow the plane stayed afloat and we were able to get on the raft. It's just incredible right now that everybody's still alive."
Passenger Jeff Kolodjay of Norwalk, Connecticut, said he was sitting in seat 22A, near one of the engines. "The captain came on and said, 'Look, we're going down. Brace for impact.' Everyone looked at each other and we said our prayers. I said about five Hail Marys," said Kolodjay, who was headed to Charlotte to play golf.
"The plane started filling with water pretty quick," he said. "It was scary. There was a lady with her baby on my left-hand shoulder, and she was crawling over the seats.
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The Obamamobile: New Presidential Limo is Unveiled - and it Can Withstand Rocket and Chemical Attacks
By Paul Thompson and Liz Hazelton
 It's official call sign is Cadillac One, but it will always be known as the Obamobile.
This is the top - security armoured limousine which has been custom built to be Barack Obama's presidential car.
It will travel with him wherever in the world he goes.
The President- elect, pictured inset, will have his first ride in the stretch limo when he parades along Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington after his inauguration on January 20.
But his Secret Service agents have already been familiarising themselves with the machine they call 'The Beast', built by General Motors in Detroit and based on a Cadillac chassis.
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Social Networks Link Terrorists (PC World)
 A new breed of terrorists are using online forums to recruit people who align themselves with the mission of Al Qaeda, creating global networks of would-be terrorists who pose a growing threat, a senior cyberterrorist researcher warned this week.
Cyberterrorists are using a series of online forums and at least one social-networking site, PalTalk, to recruit people to their cause, Evan Kohlmann, a senior investigator and private consultant for Global Terror Alert, said at the International Conference on Cyber Security 2009 in New York. Many of these people never actually meet in person, but conspire online to launch both cyberterrorist and physical terrorist attacks such as suicide bombings, he said.
Global Terror Alert is an online clearinghouse of information for counter-terrorist researchers, analysts and policymakers. Kohlmann also acts as a consultant to law-enforcement agencies on terrorist cases.
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FEMA Starts Channel on YouTube
By Alice Lipowicz
 Joining a handful of other federal agencies with an official presence on YouTube, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has established a channel on the popular Web site to publicize its disaster-recovery efforts in video format.
"Beginning in earnest in 2008, FEMA started efforts to integrate social media and new media into its communications and outreach efforts," a news release from Jan. 6 stated. Those efforts included creating the FEMA Channel on YouTube along with a Twitter site, the release said.
So far, the FEMA Channel on YouTube. is not getting a lot of traffic for its 44 videos showing disaster-recovery efforts. Sixty-seven subscribers have signed up, generating 6,276 page views to date.
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Coast Guard Puts More Emphasis on Homeland
Security Goals
by Mickey McCarter
DHS IG concludes non-homeland security missions decline
 The US Coast Guard has been putting more time and money into its homeland security missions, contributing to a decline in its performance for missions outside of homeland security, according to an audit of its fiscal 2007 activities.
The inspector general (IG) at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in a report released Jan. 8, found that the Coast Guard met its performance targets for most of its homeland security missions but did not do so for its non-homeland security missions. For the second year in a row since the IG began its audits, the service met four out of five of its homeland security targets but only two out of six of its targets for other mission areas.
"Further, Coast Guard data show that in fiscal year 2007 compared to fiscal year 2006, non-homeland security missions resource hours decreased while homeland security missions resource hours increased," the report said. "Similarly, Coast Guard budget projections in dollars and personnel from fiscal year 2007 to fiscal year 2009 illustrate decreases for the non-homeland security missions and increases for the homeland security missions."
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District of Columbia Will Convert Interstate Highways to Bus Parking Lots for Inauguration
By Jacob Goodwin
 Because it expects 10,000 buses carrying spectators to the inauguration of Barack Obama on Jan. 20, the District of Columbia is planning to close portions of three different interstate highways that run through the District, and convert those roadways into parking areas for many of those buses.
District and federal planners, who are anticipating that between two and four million people will attend the inauguration, are concerned with traffic congestion, parking and the possible necessity of evacuating large crowds in case of an emergency.
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Analyst: Obama May Spend a Billion on Biometrics
 The Obama administration is likely to spend $750 million to $1 billion on biometric applications this year, primarily in defense, intelligence and homeland security, according to a new report from Jeremy Grant, an analyst for the Stanford Group Co. research firm.
Key programs at the Defense Department could result in $500 million to $600 million in biometrics contracts, and intelligence programs could add another $250 million to $350 million, Grant said.
Other major programs contributing to the growth include the Homeland Security Department's U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology and Real ID Act of 2005, the FBI's Next Generation Identification and Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12, he said.
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No credible terror threats seen for Super Bowl
By Eileen Sullivan and Mitch Stacy
TAMPA, Fla. - A U.S. intelligence report says there is no credible threat of terrorist attacks at the Feb. 1 Super Bowl, but police said Wednesday that visitors should still expect the type of heavy security typical of every Super Bowl since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
While no specific threat was identified, a joint FBI and Homeland Security intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press cautions that Raymond James Stadium, the Super Bowl site, does not have the typical security features of permanently secure buildings, such as jails or military bases.
Tampa police spokeswoman Laura McElroy said Raymond James Stadium is as secure as any other NFL venue and noted that local law enforcement is accustomed to securing the stadium and keeping large crowds safe.
"On Super Bowl Sunday, the safest place in the country will be inside Raymond James Stadium or inside the security footprint of the Super Bowl," McElroy said.
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