Katrina Coverage

I'll try to research this later:
Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta Thursday blamed the Federal Emergency Management Agency for holding up his department's efforts to move individuals out of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast.
Mineta said his department had rounded up hundreds of privately operated buses at FEMA's request and brought them to a designated highway stop near New Orleans. There they sat, because FEMA did not give them orders to move, Mineta told a House Appropriations subcommittee.
Mineta also said his department had secured a train with enough cars to transport 600 passengers and brought it as close as possible to New Orleans after the storm, but that FEMA delivered only 90 passengers.
"They must not have known there were people at the [New Orleans] convention center," Mineta said.
House Transportation-Treasury Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Joseph Knollenberg, R- Mich., asked Mineta to assess how well FEMA performed during the disaster. "Not well," said Mineta, after a long a pause...
Previously: "TSA screeners clogged New Orleans airport?"