The President, Gov. Blanco, Mayor Ray Nagin, U.S. Senators Mary Landrieu and David Vitter along with Congressmen Bill Jefferson and Bobby Jindal and with Mississippi elected officials huddled on Air Force One for an hour making plans for the area.






Mark Smith, left, of the French Quarter Jackson Square Band, carries his tuba as he walks near downtown New Orleans as the National Guard brings in equipment into downtown New Orleans on Friday


Dana Clark, 41, is helped to a shaded area after she fainted on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005, in front of the convention center in New Orleans

Members of the National Guard hand out water and food to some of the hundreds of flood victims who have been waiting for days to be evacuated from the convention center in New Orleans, La

A man waits to be rescued from the roof of a house as flood waters continue to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, September 2, 2005. Hundreds of people were rescued from their homes in the flood-ravaged city

In this photo supplied by Phil and Darcy Chapman, the couple stand in the streets of New Orleans three hours after the eye of Hurricane Katrina had passed Monday, Aug. 29, 2005. It was just a weekend getaway to celebrate their 19th anniversary

Members of Task Force 515 of the U.S. Army National Guard based out of Las Cruces, N.M., deploy from Biggs Army Air Field bound for New Orleans on Friday