Electric power Peak outages in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi: 2.7 million meters Remaining outages as of September 5: 1 million meters Alabama: 2% customer meters without power Louisiana: 56% customer meters without power Mississippi: 30% customer meters without power New Orleans: restoration to emergency, governmental and special needs customers including portions of the west bank of Jefferson Parish, including West Jefferson Hospital, Entergy's Gretna Control Center, Jefferson Parish EOC, Gretna Police Department, Gretna Fire Station, Gretna Water Works and Jefferson Parish Sewer Plant. On the east bank of Jefferson Parish, power has been restored to East Jefferson General Hospital, Ochsner Clinic Foundation and the Louis Armstrong International Airport. Natural gas (Entergy): Extensive damage to gas distribution system in New Orleans. Will need to shut off natural gas service in many areas of New Orleans to make repairs. Cellular (Verizon, Cingular): Alabama: majority of service restored with a few areas of limited service Mississippi: Gulf coast outages and spotty service. Cell on Wheels (COWs) deployed to support relief operations in several areas. Biloxi service partially restored. Louisiana: Central New Orleans wide spread outages with limited service. Outside of New Orleans, have good service with only a few areas of limited coverage. Rooftop COWs being deployed to locations in New Oreleans. Roaming service: Evacuees with cell phones with numbers from the affected areas found their service did not work elsewhere in the country because the cell phone could not register on the network. Cellular carriers have worked to re-deploy new databases and re-route registration messages to provide service to evacuees. Note: Mobile VOIP services could have the same problem in the future. Wireline (Bellsouth): Lousiana: Approximately 54% of the access lines out of service. Mississippi: Approximately 39% of the access lines out of service. Alabama: Approximately 5% of the access lines out of service. Long Distance and Internet: Sprint Nextel has rerouted long-distance traffic around New Orleans enabling customers to make long-distance calls in the Tallahassee area and in the Florida Panhandle, including Ft. Walton Beach. Sprint Nextel teams continue to work to restore dedicated Internet access to corporate customers in northern Florida. Qwest fiber optic line along the gulf coast was damaged. Services for shelters and evacuees in other states Essentially every service provider is providing emergency and free services to shelters and evacuees as new shelters are being opened througout the country.