1.   Officials are preparing new figures after accepting that estimates by their own consultants, Touche Ross, are inaccurate.

2.   Also in Washington, Federal Aviation Administration officials prepared to allow flights to resume sometime Wednesday but did not know when that would take place.

3.   An investigator from the National Transportation Safety Board flew into Boston Monday, as officials prepare to try to piece together why Gabrielle failed to stop the trolley.

4.   And in an interview on Wednesday, Johnson said he was entirely comfortable with the way state officials had prepared for the execution.

5.   As summer came, Birmingham officials prepared to allow five black children to enroll with whites in school.

6.   At the Boca Raton Museum of Art, officials were preparing to move more than a half-dozen large metal sculptures indoors if the storm neared the city.

7.   At the Guardian Funeral Home downtown, mortuary officials prepared to make good on their offer of free funerals for the children killed in the blast.

8.   Because of that prospect, state wildlife officials are preparing to establish a captive breeding program to preserve the population.

9.   Besides working to clear the beaches, officials also prepared to use floating booms to protect environmentally fragile areas.