KRIV-TV (Ch. 26, Fox Houston), Jan. 7, 2009 Several television stations from Houston reported on a special Texas House committee hearing that is gathering information about damage caused by Hurricane Ike. UTMB's Dr. David Callender is featured in this report as well as those by other stations. The Galveston County Daily News also covered the hearing held on Galveston Island. In the Galveston report, Callender says that the trauma center will not be moving off the island. http://galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=0cab78649a62f02d. The Houston Chronicle report at http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6198989.html says that Callender told the committee that it will ask the Legislature for $336 million in emergency funds to offset the loss of business since Ike and to pay the state's share of rebuilding expenses. An additional $500 million will come from FEMA. The Associated Press article, published widely throughout the nation, says that the estimates of damage at UTMB have increased from $710 million to more than $1 billion. The article includes a quote from Callender, "We want to bring UTMB back to the level of excellence it had before Ike." This version of the AP article was posted by The New York Times at http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/07/us/AP-Ike-Recovery.html