Link: Bush Is Briefed on Recovery Effort at Start of Second Visit - New York Times.
"The airport formally reopened for cargo traffic on Sunday. By Tuesday, the airport hopes to have 30 daily departures and arrivals of passenger flights - down from 174 before the storm - and 60 each day by the end of October.
"The Port of New Orleans planned to reopen its container terminal on Wednesday. The port has 12 damaged wharfs and one wharf that is inaccessible because of flooding.
Floodwaters have slowly receded, speeding recovery but also exposing the breadth of the devastation.
"At the 17th Street Canal, where the eastern levee wall partly collapsed after the storm, flooding most of the city, heavy equipment rolled across the concrete and stone that sealed the sandbags temporarily plugging the 300-foot breach. Six of the 15 pumps at Pumping Station No. 6, which is at the canal and is one of the city's largest pumps, were working on Sunday."