Federal agencies are gearing up to release a manmade flood aimed at refreshing the ecosystem of the Grand Canyon.

A three-day torrent of water will be released from Glen Canyon Dam on the Arizona-Utah state line beginning Wednesday morning.

The Colorado River in the Grand Canyon downstream from the dam used to be warm and muddy. But the dam now traps silt and the river runs cold and clear through the canyon. The shift has helped speed the extinction of four fish species.

The agencies including the Interior Department and Park Service hope the flooding will redistribute sediment in the canyon.

Video and audio recordings clearly show Iranian boats confronting U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf, and a voice speaking in heavily-accented English can be heard threatening that the American vessels were going to explode, military officials said Tuesday.

The incident, which President Bush denounced Tuesday as a “provocative act,” was videotaped by a crew member on the bridge of the destroyer USS Hopper, one of the three ships that faced down five Iranian boats in a flare-up early Sunday.

The recordings were described by several military officials who viewed them. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because the recordings were still being reviewed and had not been released to the public.

“It is a dangerous situation,” Bush said during a White House news conference. “They should not have done it, pure and simple. … I don’t know what their thinking was, but I’m telling you what my thinking was. I think it was a provocative act.”

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“There were hundreds of people on foot climbing in the most rugged terrain looking for her, looking for them.”

Cinema patron Kate Gorman, 35, was waiting to see the movie “Enchanted” with her two children when the group arrived.

Her children, Gabriella, 6, and Jackson, 7, had been confused by the incident.

“They asked me, ‘Are they Santa’s helpers gone crazy?’ and I said ‘No, they are just idiots,’” she was reported saying.

Idolator:

Rooting around the I Love Music message board for something else entirely, I got completely sidetracked by the new clip for Snoop’s “Sensual Seduction”. Frankly I don’t even want to say too much about it. Except: Flying beds! Don Cornelius duds! “When Doves Cry” quotations! And what is that watery synth hook (best heard at the very beginning) sampled from anyway? It sounds right off a Derrick May record.