DCist has learned that President Bush, who has been delivering a commencement speech in friendly GOP territory at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., was not informed by emergency response authorities that a large chunk of his capital was without water during the morning and afternoon today.

OK, we’re only kidding here, forgive us, it’s Saturday … Anyway, we don’t think the president cares to know where Ward 1 is, despite that it is the location of where one of his daughters has wanted to teach charter school. With the water out, what will Jenna drink? Wait, don’t answer that.

But there is some important emergency response news to relay.

First, the Post reports today that in the wake of our little air raid two Wednesdays back, D.C. authorities will be better tied into any sort of response to a national security crisis affecting the capital. Representatives from the District, who have been without high security clearances, were not allowed in the room at the Homeland Security Operations Center where other authorities had been tracking the plane that violated the city’s airspace. The Homeland Security Department vows to correct that gap and also give D.C. a seat at the Herndon-based Transportation Security Administration operations center that tracks air traffic in the region.

And watch out errant planes! The capital is now fully protected by lasers. The BBC has a quick report about the newly deployed flashing lasers that are supposed to “shine a combination of different-coloured, low-level laser beams into the cockpit.” Just to be clear, these super lasers won’t blast a plane out of the sky, just act as a lighthouse of sorts to alert bad pilots that they’re off course and are threatening the possible evacuation of the three branches of government.