Today in Katrina News*

Tell me that I didn't just hear Geraldo Rivera say that the Berlin Airlift occured during "the Kennedy administration, in the early sixties."

UPDATE: FoxNews spotted former Vice President Al Gore helping out and lifting morale at NO's Louis Armstrong Airport. Good on him.

UPDATE: Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco hires Clinton administration FEMA director James Lee Witt to head up state level recovery efforts.

Blanco said that when she told Mike Brown, FEMA's current head, that she hoped to hire him, "he said, `That is absolutely the right thing to do. He will make a huge difference.'"

KATRINA RELIEF: Carnival Cruise Lines

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. government has chartered three luxury cruise liners -- Ecstasy, Sensation and Holiday -- for the next six months to provide temporary housing for victims of Hurricane Katrina, Carnival Cruise Lines said on Saturday.

Two of the ships, the Ecstasy and Sensation, have a maximum capacity of 2,606 each and will be based in Galveston, Texas, while the third boat, the Holiday, has a maximum capacity of 1,800 and will likely be docked in Mobile, Alabama, the Miami-based company said.

Carnival's site is here.

*Yes, I changed the title.