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• 3800 passengers were evacuated from the Superdome via 95 buses.

• 438 passengers were evacuated by air via six flights from the International Airport in New Orleans. As of 2:30 on Sept 2., six additional flights were cueing to receive passengers.

• Schoolbuses are being used to take residents to staging areas for transportation out of New Orleans.

• Engineering teams are working to reopen the airfield at Naval Air Station Belle Chase to provide a second runway for passenger and cargo operations.

• In addition to Coast Guard aviation, the total number of helicopters participating in humanitarian operations along the Gulf Coast rose to 139 (78 DoD, 61 National Guard) with 17 additional aircraft en route.

• The Dept. of Health and Human Services is coordinating to locate 10 mobile Federal Medical Shelter facilities on military installations along the Gulf Coast. Each facility can accommodate 250 patients. Four facilities will be positioned at Ft. Polk, Louisiana; two at Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss.; two at Air National Guard Station Meridian, Miss.; and two at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.

• In addition to Coast Guard and National Guard personnel, over 3,600 members of the Department of Defense are involved with relief operations as of mid-afternoon on Sept. 2. This number is expected to increase as more requests for support from FEMA are processed and assigned to units.