WASHINGTON (AP) — El presidente Barack Obama declaró estado de emergencia federal en áreas de Louisiana y Misisipí azotadas por Isaac, en una medida que acelera la entrega de ayuda federal y los esfuerzos de recuperación en la vapuleada costa del Golfo de México.

Obama firmó las órdenes el miércoles por la noche para 35 distritos de Louisiana y 34 condados en Misisipí.

La Casa Blanca dijo en una declaración que las declaraciones de desastre le ordenaron a las autoridades acelerar la entrega de ayuda federal en áreas afectadas por la tormenta.

La medida pone fondos federales a disposición de gobiernos estatales y locales y ciertas organizaciones sin fines de lucro para trabajos de emergencia.

LEE LOS COMENTARIOS A ESTA NOTA Y AGREGA EL TUYO


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  • Vecindarios bajo agua y muchas viviendas sin electricidad, aire acondicionado, ni agua potable son algunos de los estragos del paso de Isaac.

  • Una imagen aérea muestra la Interestatal 10, parcialmente sumergida bajo el aguas, en LaPlace, Louisiana.

  • En la región de Plaquemines Parish, Luisiana el agua inunda varias viviendas.

  • Un vehículo se encuentra sumergido luego del paso de Isaac por la región de Plaquemines Parish, Luisiana.

  • Isaac dejó caer hasta 40 centímetros (16 pulgadas) de lluvia, y unas 500 personas tuvieron que ser rescatadas en lanchas o vehículos especiales para inundaciones.

  • Timbers smolder after a fire gutted a house on stilts in a Bay St. Louis, Miss., neighborhood after rising storm waters from Isaac prevented firemen from responding quickly with their trucks Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. First responders used an airboat to reach the house in order to make sure the flames did not affect any neighboring homes. (AP Photo/Holbrook Mohr)

  • Corey Moore

    In this Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 image taken from video, Corey Moore, Dauphin Island public works superintendent, gestures toward a portion of a 3.5-mile-long berm made of sand built with money from BP PLC to protect Dauphin Island, Ala. from oil during the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Officials are hoping it will help protect the coastal barrier from storm surge during Hurricane Isaac. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

  • Waves crash into the public fishing pier at Gulf State Park in Gulf Shores, Ala., shortly before Hurricane Isaac made landfall in Louisiana on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Crews removed flooring panels from the pier to prevent damage. (AP Photo/Jay Reeves)

  • Isaac's rainfall floods a street in a Bay St. Louis, Miss., neighborhood Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Isaac, a massive storm spanning nearly 200 miles from its center, made landfall at Tuesday evening near the mouth of the Mississippi River. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

  • People walk in the storm surge from Isaac, on Lakeshore Drive along Lake Pontchartrain, as the storm approaches landfall, in New Orleans, Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. The storm was arriving at the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated Louisiana and Mississippi when it struck on Aug. 29, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

  • Dillard University students stay at the shelter in the gym of Centenary Colleges as they evacuated from New Orleans because of Hurricane Isaac Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 28, 2012 in Shreveport, La. (AP Photo/The Times, Henrietta Wildsmith)

  • John Taylor

    John Taylor carries a piece of plywood to board up store windows Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012, in Chalemette, La. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Isaac became a Category 1 hurricane Tuesday with winds of 75 mph. It could get stronger by the time it's expected to reach the swampy coast of southeast Louisiana. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

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