In Tuesday’s News:
- Coast Guard launching temporary base in Barrow until October;
- Drifting tug headed to Nome makes it to Cordova, USCG to inspect;
- As 1.5 million tons of debris from Japanese tsunami makes it to Alaskan shores, so far sparing the Norton Sound;
- Senator Mark Begich says $50,000 “woefully inadequate” for tsunami debris clean up.
