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The Walt Disney Company Commits $2.5 Million for Hurricane Katrina Relief
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WDWScottieBoy
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I just thought I would share major contributions that have been given so far....of course this is just the tip of the iceberg, and many more have given, but this gives you an idea of how open companies/individuals are:
The lovely state of New York just donated $1+M
UPS has donated $1.25M
New York Yankees $1M
Nicholas Cage $1M
Japan $500,000 (private funds giving over $5.5M)
Australia $10M
Canon (camera) $1M
Schneider North America $1M
Lilly Endowment $20M
NBA & MLB $2M
Intel $1M
Toyota $5M
GSK (drug manufacturer) $1M
DuPont $1M
ASPCA $1M
WalMart $1M
The lovely state of New York just donated $1+M
UPS has donated $1.25M
New York Yankees $1M
Nicholas Cage $1M
Japan $500,000 (private funds giving over $5.5M)
Australia $10M
Canon (camera) $1M
Schneider North America $1M
Lilly Endowment $20M
NBA & MLB $2M
Intel $1M
Toyota $5M
GSK (drug manufacturer) $1M
DuPont $1M
ASPCA $1M
WalMart $1M
SpongeScott
Well-Known Member
I read somewhere that Walmart had given 15 million.
Target has given 1.5 million.
Target has given 1.5 million.
WDWScottieBoy
Well-Known Member
SpongeScott said:
I was just using the first numbers I found, and obviously a lot more have upped their donations.
This is an amazing effort that everyone is helping with. Last I saw (over 2 hours ago) was that the Red Cross had JUST under $200M.
I'd love to see this get to $1B in the next couple of days. It's sad knowing that this storm will be over $100B to rebuild.
Not to bring politics in, but Bush signed a "down payment" of $10.5B tonight, with much more to come! :sohappy:
prberk
Well-Known Member
mrtoad said:
I think that Disney could house these people just as easily as any other community is having to.
Many of the refugees from New Orleans may never even come back. They may be interested in getting a job in the new local area where they are staying.
And as for Disney, they could have a time-frame to work with from the beginning, as well as perhaps help for Disney from FEMA or Social Services in actually working out the long-term plans for the refugees.
I would like to see Disney use some of the hotels and infratructure that they already have in place, to do well by some of the refugees for a month or so (even with some alllowance for lengthening the stay for a limited time).
Paul
prberk
Well-Known Member
mrtoad said:
I think that Disney could house these people just as easily as any other community is having to.
Many of the refugees from New Orleans may never even come back. They may be interested in getting a job in the new local area where they are staying.
And as for Disney, they could have a time-frame to work with from the beginning, as well as perhaps help for Disney from FEMA or Social Services in actually working out the long-term plans for the refugees.
I would like to see Disney use some of the hotels and infratructure that they already have in place, to do well by some of the refugees for a month or so (even with some alllowance for lengthening the stay for a limited time).
Paul
P.S.: See my post (#116) above for the idea that we are discussing -- how Disney ought to be able to house some of the displaced from the Gulf, in one hotel..
mrtoad
Well-Known Member
speck76 said:
It is true, you can't be selective. It is also not the same as a regular hotel. If a Holiday Inn somewhere is used to house some people the money will get paid to them by the government. If Disney is to do it they would only get paid for the resort stay and then with the rooms booked they might lose guests that would also by tickets to park (which is something the government will not pay for).
I am not trying to be mean, I am just trying to be realistic about what someone or company can do.
cherrynegra
Well-Known Member
Wdwmagic Hurricane Katrina Fundraiser Daily Total
Thank you again to all of you who donated whatever you could to our fundraising drive. I hope other magic members will be inspired to donate by your action. Thank you!! :wave: Don't forget, the amount donated will be updated each day at 7:00 p.m. (PST)
Amount Donated As of 7:00 p.m. (PST) September 3rd, 2005
$2465
Thank you again to all of you who donated whatever you could to our fundraising drive. I hope other magic members will be inspired to donate by your action. Thank you!! :wave: Don't forget, the amount donated will be updated each day at 7:00 p.m. (PST)
Amount Donated As of 7:00 p.m. (PST) September 3rd, 2005
$2465
prberk
Well-Known Member
mrtoad said:
Disney is giving money already to the support, and in the past they have housed victims of hurricanes (from Florida). I am just saying that in this catastrophic event, Disney actually has all of the resources necessary to house and tranport and feed 1000 families for a designated time, in one place, already in place. The difference with other hotels is that Disney already has all of the support in place, especially with the military's Shades of Green. And each resort is isolated enough to keep keep from actually having too much impact on the other resorts (as would be reasonable).
The looting, etc., is happening because people are desperate. Those that are being taken care of, as they would be in Disney, are not looting. And, of course, FEMA would be there.
We cannot all give money and hope someone else will take care of the housing and food. I just know that Disney has ALL of the resources needed, at one place, and could pull it off within about two days, which is much easier for the helping agencies than coordinating hotels, transportation, and food separately, while they also try to get job counseling, etc., going...
Paul
Paul
Connor002
Active Member
prberk said:
unfortunatly, i would beg to differ. even if a person is desperate, would that make them steal non-esentials, would it make them fire weapons at helicopters that would have otherwise been able to help, would they commit the heinous crimes they have?
It sadens me to think it, but perhaps some people really are evil.
Woody13
New Member
[font=Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif]White House shifts blame for Katrina response [/font]
Administration, embattled FEMA chief point to state, local officials
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Spencer Hsu[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Washington Post[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Updated: 9:48 a.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NEW ORLEANS - Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a failure of the country's emergency management.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The White House dispatched 7,200 more troops to the area, bringing the total in the stricken region to more than 40,000 National Guard and active-duty soldiers. Authorities reported progress in restoring order and electricity and repairing levees, as a hospital ship arrived and cruise ships were sent to provide temporary housing for victims. As Louisiana officials expressed confidence that they had begun to get a handle on the crisis, a dozen National Guard troops broke into applause late Saturday as Isaac Kelly, 81, the last person to be evacuated from the Superdome, boarded a school bus.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But there remained an overwhelming display of human misery on the streets of New Orleans, where the last 1,500 people were being evacuated from the Convention Center amid an overpowering odor of human waste and rotting garbage. The evacuees, most of them black and poor, spoke of violence, anarchy and family members who died for lack of food, water and medical care.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]About 42,000 people had been evacuated from the city by Saturday afternoon, with roughly the same number remaining, city officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts continued in flooded areas of the city, where an unknown number of people wait in makeshift shelters. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding -- 250,000 have been absorbed by Texas alone, and local radio reported that Baton Rouge will have doubled in population by Monday. Federal officials said they have begun to collect corpses but could not guess the total toll.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]An emerging power struggle
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who is an adviser and does not have the authority to speak publicly.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bush, who has been criticized, even by supporters, for the delayed response to the disaster, used his weekly radio address to put responsibility for the failure on lower levels of government. The magnitude of the crisis "has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," he said. "The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans. And that is unacceptable."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In a Washington briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said one reason federal assets were not used more quickly was "because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, a frequent target of New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin's wrath, said Saturday that "the mayor can order an evacuation and try to evacuate the city, but if the mayor does not have the resources to get the poor, elderly, the disabled, those who cannot, out, or if he does not even have police capacity to enforce the mandatory evacuation, to make people leave, then you end up with the kind of situation we have right now in New Orleans."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bush canceled a visit with Chinese President Hu Jintao that had been scheduled for Wednesday and made plans to return to the Gulf Coast on Monday. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scheduled visits to the region, as troops continue to pour in.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In New Orleans Saturday, smoke from several fires that have burned for days swirled over the French Quarter. Outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the stench and heat worsened the long wait of the thousands of evacuees lining up for buses. Many of them said they had no idea where they would go.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Columbus Lawrence, 43, a landscaper, shambled down St. Joseph Avenue searching for the end of the line. He pushed a cart piled with packets of dry, chicken-flavored noodles. "It's like a chip," he said hopefully, putting another handful into his mouth.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Others have been here since the day of the storm, the early part of week made increasingly awful because there were no toilets, no water, no food.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Herbert J. Freeman arrived in a neighbor's boat with his mother, Ethel M. Freeman, 91, frail and sick, but with an active mind. She kept asking him for a doctor, for a nurse, for anyone who could help her. Police told Freeman there was nothing they could do. She died in her wheelchair, next to her son, on Thursday morning.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It was half a day before he could find someone to take away her body, he said. "She wasn't senile or nothing," he said. "She knew what was going on. . . . I kept saying, 'Mom, I can't help you."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Next to Freeman, Kenny Lason, 45, a dishwasher at Pat O'Brien's, a French Quarter restaurant famous for its signature "Hurricane" cocktail, took a long slurp out of a bottle of Korbel extra dry champagne. He broke a store window to get it, and he is not ashamed. "They wasn't giving us nothing," he said. "You got to live off the land."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Outside New Orleans, frustration boiled over among the boatmen who spontaneously left their homes in central Louisiana to rescue stranded residents in the first hours after reports of flooding hit the airwaves. For the past two days, many have been turned away because of security concerns in a city that had turned violent and chaotic.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"It's a tragedy that's unfolding now," said Moose Billeaud, a former New Orleans prosecutor who is now in private practice in Lafayette, La. "It is not organized at all."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The boatmen who made it in came back with harrowing memories. Kenny, who did not want to disclose his last name, said friends were shot at by stranded people who wanted to steal their boats. "It's total chaos," he said.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Isaac Kelly, the last to depart from the Superdome, said "it feels good" as he boarded the bus. A young guardsman put an arm around the stooped Kelly and said, "Good luck and God bless."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The dome, which once housed more than 20,000 evacuees, became a symbol of the chaos that gripped New Orleans, with television network cameras capturing scenes of filth and misery.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]'I never thought it would be this bad'
Just before Kelly stepped aboard, Isaiah Bennett, leaning heavily on a wooden cane, was helped onto the bus. "It was hell," said Bennett. "I don't like this kind of mess," he said. "I never thought it would be this bad."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has said that it will take as long as 80 days to remove the water from New Orleans and surrounding areas.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) sent a letter to Bush Saturday urging him to provide cash benefits and transportation assistance to stranded people and to use federal facilities for housing. They wrote that they "are concerned that rescue and recovery efforts appear to remain chaotic and that many victims remain hungry and without adequate shelter nearly a week after the hurricane struck. Clearly, strong personal leadership from you is essential if we are to get this effort on track."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The administration said that 100,000 have received some form of humanitarian aid and that 9,500 have been rescued by the Coast Guard. The administration said it is providing funds to employ displaced workers and has arranged for Amtrak trains to help in the evacuation. The rail service expects to remove 1,500 people daily. In addition, the Energy Department reported that 1.3 million customers were without electricity, down from 1.5 million Friday.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The 7,200 additional troops announced by Bush Saturday are scheduled to arrive within three days, joining 4,000 troops already there and about 30,000 National Guard soldiers. The Air Force is repatriating 300 airmen from Iraq and Afghanistan so they can assist their families back in their home base in Biloxi, Miss.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Law enforcement officials said order is beginning to be restored in the city. A temporary detention center has been set up in the city to house those arrested for looting and other crimes after the hurricane, and the city's court personnel have been relocated to neighboring jurisdictions unaffected by Katrina, said New Orleans U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Trials are expected to begin within two weeks, he said. "We're going to bring these guys to justice," he said.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Members of federal law enforcement agencies are in the city, he said. More than 200 Border Patrol agents have been sworn in to reinforce New Orleans police, and state police officials said hundreds of law enforcement agents from other states are expected in the coming days.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hsu reported from Washington. Staff writers Justin Blum, Dana Milbank, Jacqueline L. Salmon and Josh White contributed to this report.[/font]
Administration, embattled FEMA chief point to state, local officials
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Manuel Roig-Franzia and Spencer Hsu[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The Washington Post[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Updated: 9:48 a.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NEW ORLEANS - Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a failure of the country's emergency management.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The White House dispatched 7,200 more troops to the area, bringing the total in the stricken region to more than 40,000 National Guard and active-duty soldiers. Authorities reported progress in restoring order and electricity and repairing levees, as a hospital ship arrived and cruise ships were sent to provide temporary housing for victims. As Louisiana officials expressed confidence that they had begun to get a handle on the crisis, a dozen National Guard troops broke into applause late Saturday as Isaac Kelly, 81, the last person to be evacuated from the Superdome, boarded a school bus.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But there remained an overwhelming display of human misery on the streets of New Orleans, where the last 1,500 people were being evacuated from the Convention Center amid an overpowering odor of human waste and rotting garbage. The evacuees, most of them black and poor, spoke of violence, anarchy and family members who died for lack of food, water and medical care.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]About 42,000 people had been evacuated from the city by Saturday afternoon, with roughly the same number remaining, city officials said. Search-and-rescue efforts continued in flooded areas of the city, where an unknown number of people wait in makeshift shelters. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced by the flooding -- 250,000 have been absorbed by Texas alone, and local radio reported that Baton Rouge will have doubled in population by Monday. Federal officials said they have begun to collect corpses but could not guess the total toll.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]An emerging power struggle
Behind the scenes, a power struggle emerged, as federal officials tried to wrest authority from Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D). Shortly before midnight Friday, the Bush administration sent her a proposed legal memorandum asking her to request a federal takeover of the evacuation of New Orleans, a source within the state's emergency operations center said Saturday.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The administration had sought control over National Guard units, normally under control of the governor. Louisiana officials rejected the request, noting that such a move would be comparable to a federal declaration of martial law. State authorities suspected a political motive behind the request. "Quite frankly, if they'd been able to pull off taking it away from the locals, they then could have blamed everything on the locals," said the source, who is an adviser and does not have the authority to speak publicly.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Blanco made two moves Saturday that protected her independence from the federal government: She created a philanthropic fund for the state's victims and hired James Lee Witt, Federal Emergency Management Agency director in the Clinton administration, to advise her on the relief effort.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bush, who has been criticized, even by supporters, for the delayed response to the disaster, used his weekly radio address to put responsibility for the failure on lower levels of government. The magnitude of the crisis "has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities," he said. "The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans. And that is unacceptable."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In a Washington briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said one reason federal assets were not used more quickly was "because our constitutional system really places the primary authority in each state with the governor."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And FEMA Director Michael D. Brown, a frequent target of New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin's wrath, said Saturday that "the mayor can order an evacuation and try to evacuate the city, but if the mayor does not have the resources to get the poor, elderly, the disabled, those who cannot, out, or if he does not even have police capacity to enforce the mandatory evacuation, to make people leave, then you end up with the kind of situation we have right now in New Orleans."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Bush canceled a visit with Chinese President Hu Jintao that had been scheduled for Wednesday and made plans to return to the Gulf Coast on Monday. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice scheduled visits to the region, as troops continue to pour in.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In New Orleans Saturday, smoke from several fires that have burned for days swirled over the French Quarter. Outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, the stench and heat worsened the long wait of the thousands of evacuees lining up for buses. Many of them said they had no idea where they would go.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Columbus Lawrence, 43, a landscaper, shambled down St. Joseph Avenue searching for the end of the line. He pushed a cart piled with packets of dry, chicken-flavored noodles. "It's like a chip," he said hopefully, putting another handful into his mouth.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Others have been here since the day of the storm, the early part of week made increasingly awful because there were no toilets, no water, no food.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Herbert J. Freeman arrived in a neighbor's boat with his mother, Ethel M. Freeman, 91, frail and sick, but with an active mind. She kept asking him for a doctor, for a nurse, for anyone who could help her. Police told Freeman there was nothing they could do. She died in her wheelchair, next to her son, on Thursday morning.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It was half a day before he could find someone to take away her body, he said. "She wasn't senile or nothing," he said. "She knew what was going on. . . . I kept saying, 'Mom, I can't help you."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Next to Freeman, Kenny Lason, 45, a dishwasher at Pat O'Brien's, a French Quarter restaurant famous for its signature "Hurricane" cocktail, took a long slurp out of a bottle of Korbel extra dry champagne. He broke a store window to get it, and he is not ashamed. "They wasn't giving us nothing," he said. "You got to live off the land."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Outside New Orleans, frustration boiled over among the boatmen who spontaneously left their homes in central Louisiana to rescue stranded residents in the first hours after reports of flooding hit the airwaves. For the past two days, many have been turned away because of security concerns in a city that had turned violent and chaotic.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"It's a tragedy that's unfolding now," said Moose Billeaud, a former New Orleans prosecutor who is now in private practice in Lafayette, La. "It is not organized at all."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The boatmen who made it in came back with harrowing memories. Kenny, who did not want to disclose his last name, said friends were shot at by stranded people who wanted to steal their boats. "It's total chaos," he said.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Isaac Kelly, the last to depart from the Superdome, said "it feels good" as he boarded the bus. A young guardsman put an arm around the stooped Kelly and said, "Good luck and God bless."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The dome, which once housed more than 20,000 evacuees, became a symbol of the chaos that gripped New Orleans, with television network cameras capturing scenes of filth and misery.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]'I never thought it would be this bad'
Just before Kelly stepped aboard, Isaiah Bennett, leaning heavily on a wooden cane, was helped onto the bus. "It was hell," said Bennett. "I don't like this kind of mess," he said. "I never thought it would be this bad."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has said that it will take as long as 80 days to remove the water from New Orleans and surrounding areas.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) and Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) sent a letter to Bush Saturday urging him to provide cash benefits and transportation assistance to stranded people and to use federal facilities for housing. They wrote that they "are concerned that rescue and recovery efforts appear to remain chaotic and that many victims remain hungry and without adequate shelter nearly a week after the hurricane struck. Clearly, strong personal leadership from you is essential if we are to get this effort on track."[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The administration said that 100,000 have received some form of humanitarian aid and that 9,500 have been rescued by the Coast Guard. The administration said it is providing funds to employ displaced workers and has arranged for Amtrak trains to help in the evacuation. The rail service expects to remove 1,500 people daily. In addition, the Energy Department reported that 1.3 million customers were without electricity, down from 1.5 million Friday.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The 7,200 additional troops announced by Bush Saturday are scheduled to arrive within three days, joining 4,000 troops already there and about 30,000 National Guard soldiers. The Air Force is repatriating 300 airmen from Iraq and Afghanistan so they can assist their families back in their home base in Biloxi, Miss.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Law enforcement officials said order is beginning to be restored in the city. A temporary detention center has been set up in the city to house those arrested for looting and other crimes after the hurricane, and the city's court personnel have been relocated to neighboring jurisdictions unaffected by Katrina, said New Orleans U.S. Attorney Jim Letten. Trials are expected to begin within two weeks, he said. "We're going to bring these guys to justice," he said.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Members of federal law enforcement agencies are in the city, he said. More than 200 Border Patrol agents have been sworn in to reinforce New Orleans police, and state police officials said hundreds of law enforcement agents from other states are expected in the coming days.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hsu reported from Washington. Staff writers Justin Blum, Dana Milbank, Jacqueline L. Salmon and Josh White contributed to this report.[/font]