Under Secretary Brown To Continue Daily Operational Briefings On Hurricane Katrina
Release Date: September 3, 2005
Release Number: HQ-05-194
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BATON ROUGE, La. - Michael D. Brown, Department of Homeland Security's Principal Federal Official for Hurricane Katrina response and head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, will continue to host field briefings, Saturday, September 3 at 9:00am CDT/10:00am EDT and 3:00pm CDT/4:00pm EDT. These twice-daily federal coordination briefings will continue each day.
Under Secretary Brown will be joined by operational representatives from state and federal government partners and voluntary agencies to provide updates on the overall coordinated federal response efforts in the field for all affected states.
WHO: Michael D. Brown, Under Secretary of Homeland Security
WHERE: Unified Area Command Center
Louisiana State EOC Media Room
7667 Independence Boulevard
Baton Rouge, LA 70806
WHEN: Saturday, September 3
9:00 a.m. CDT/10:00 a.m. EDT
The media briefings will be fed live via satellite uplink, with the feed window opening at 8:45 am CDT/9:45 am EDT for the AM briefing, and at 2:45 pm CDT/3:45 am EDT for the PM briefing. AMC 3 (at 87 deg. W), Transponder 22 - Slot 1, Digital Ku, Downlink: 12153.5 Vertical, Symbol Rate: 3.9787, FEC: 3/4.
Those who cannot attend the news conference may listen in by telephone. To connect to the audio feed, call 1-800-320-4330 and enter pin 051397#. Please note that this is a listen-only line, and callers will not be able to submit questions to participants.
Last Modified: Wednesday, 07-Sep-2005 10:15:14