Breaking News for New Orleans [UPDATED]

Thanks to Don for pointing us to the New Orleans Times-Picayune breaking news blog. The most recent entries as of this writing report that water is still rising in the city. As reported in this 8:00 AM post, parish officials were pushing engineers to come up with the cause of the flooding in three or four hours. If they do, I'm sure we'll here about it at that blog first.

Today's Times-Picayune is an Internet-only edition. Its headline, unsurprisingly, is "CATASTROPHIC."

UPDATE: Wow, things seem to be getting worse. As of 9:40 AM (CDT, I think), rising flood waters are forcing The Times-Picayune to evacuate its building in New Orleans. They plan to relocate and resume offering news updates as soon as they can.

UPDATE II: AMERICAblog links to another New Orleans news blog, this one from CBS affiliate WWL. They've also evacuated their studios in the Quarter, and they quote Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco: "Worse than our worst fears."