The city manger is trying to turn Town Lake into the Houston ship channel.

Hurricane Rita is dangerous, and Houston is well-prepared,

But that number is fluid. We'll also be serving patients in Humphreys and Houston counties. We're looking at more than 3,600 people we'll be serving once we finish with renovations and adding additional staff,

Houston, we have a sequencing problem.

[But the worst of Rita missed Houston and Galveston, and officials there were cautiously optimistic early Saturday.] At least, right now, we're okay, ... The assessment so far is that Houston is weathering the storm.

This was about an identical performance to the one we had against (Houston County). To come out and have a good pitcher on the mound, yet have (three) errors in one inning behind him ... you just can't do that against good teams. Right now, we're not very good defensively.