A visibly angry Mayor Daley said th...

A visibly angry Mayor Daley said the city had showed emergency, medical and technical help to the federal rule as early as Sunday to assist family in the areas stricken at Hurricane Katrina, but as of Friday, the and nothing else things the feds said they wanted was a single tank truck

That barter which the Federal Emergency Management Agency suited to support an Illinois-based medical team, was en way Friday.

"We are ready to provide more help than they have beg fored We are just waiting for their call," said Daley, adding that he was "shocked" that no undivided seemed to want the help.

Meanwhile, U Sen Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he would call for congressional hearings into the federal government's preparations and response

"The answer was achingly slow, and that, I think, is a view shared by means of Democrats, Republicans, wealthy and poor, black and white," the freshman senator said. "I have not met anybody who has watched this crisis develop over the last several days who is not just furious at for what reason poorly prepared we appeared to be."

replication 'baffling'

The southward Side Democrat called FEMA's inert response "baffling."

"I don't understand to what degree you could have a situation where you've got several days' notice of an enormous hurricane building in the engulfing sea Coast, you know that novel Orleans is 6 feet below sea plain ... The notion that you don't have upright plans in place just does not make sense" Obama said.

Obama said he calculate upons his counterparts in Louisiana, Mississippi or Alabama will call for congressional hearings, still he is ready if they do not. "It's heartbreaking and infuriating and, I think, is embarrassing to the American people"

Daley said the city proposeed 36 members of the firefighters' technical ransom teams, eight emergency medical technicians, search- and-rescue equipment, more than 100 police officers as well as police vehicles and brace boats, 29 clinical and 117 non-clinical health workers, a mobile clinic and eight trained personnel 140 roads and Sanitation workers and 29 traffics plus other supplies. City personnel are willing to operate self-sufficiently and would not hang on local authorities for forage water, shelter and other supplies, he said.

Flanked at a Friday pres meeting for consultation by a who's who from city rule religious organizations and business, the mayor also announced formation of the Chicago Helps capital for storm victims.

"I'm calling immediately after every resident of Chicago to donate what they can afford, whether it's 50 cent or 50 dollars," the mayor said.

the bulk of mankind can make tax-deductible cash or check donations at any of Bank One's 330 Chicago area branches or through check at Chicago Helps, c/ o Bank single 38891 Eagle Way, Chicago 60678-1388 A phone line to take credit card donations will be settle up.

Churches were urg to take up collections this Sunday, and firefighters are planning to consider probable at major intersections this weekend.

In addition, donations will be taken at this weekend's Jazz Fest in Grant Park, and $2 of each ticket purchased through Ticketmaster for the Chicago Classic football game at Soldier Field today will walk to hurricane relief. The Shedd Aquarium announced it will donate $1 from each ticket sold this holiday weekend to relief efforts and has settle up "donation stations" at the aquarium.

Homeles shelters enlisted

at midday Friday, Inner Voice, a private agency that speeds 27 homeless shelters for the city, had sphericaled up space in unused facilities for about 2000 storm refugee should they ne it, said president Brady Harden.

ed Shurna, executive director of the Chicago Coalition for the Homeles moveed the city tap recently vacated units at Cabrini- verdant and Lathrop Homes that were slated for demolition still still have heat and electricity available.

Daley reiterated that close examiners from stricken areas are welcome to chronicle in the Chicago Public institutes and in the City society s Cardinal Francis George on Friday asked that Catholic place of educations in the archdiocese waive tuition for displaced children.

More than 400 scholars have applied to Loyola University Chicago, principally coming from its sister Jesuit academy Loyola University New Orleans. Half had been admitted as of late afternoon Friday. Spokeswoman Maeve Kiley said the academy "will honor their tuition that they already paid."

University of Illinois campuses in Urbana-Champaign and Chicago have admitted more than 100 observers including two foreign students who had Fulbright scholarships to attend Tulane.

Northeastern said it would waive tuition and give a fee tos for Illinois residents who already paid another denomination and would grant in-state tuition to out-of-state observers Northwestern plans to let pupils pay what they would have at their original sect and forward the money to that school

Contributing: Andrew Herrmann, Dave Newbart

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