A United Nations disaster assessment team was also on the way.

An assessment team, he added, found "significant deficiencies" in border control.

He stated, however, that his final decision would be based entirely on the recommendations of the assessment team.

The planetary assessment team had assured them there was nothing strange or dangerous about that.

And of course there is an assessment team in West Africa.

"Americans are just not used to being received this way," confessed one member of the assessment team.

We've immediately sent in an assessment team, and they report some serious problems.

"And I think we should send an assessment team in after the explosion, maybe before as well."

The spokeswoman said an assessment team would meet to decide whether to send additional supplies.

Over the next two months, eight assessment teams in Chicago will work with the troubled schools.