Wednesday,  August 29, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 045 • 26 of 34 •  Other Editions

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• The government issues its much-scrutinized estimate of economic growth for the April-June quarter at 8:30 a.m.
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• 9. FLIGHT ATTENDANT RETIRES AFTER RECORD-SETTING 63 YEARS ALOFT
• What's he got planned? Yet more travel.
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• 10. WILL.I.AM PREMIERES HIS NEW SINGLE -- FROM MARS
• NASA's rover beams to Earth the musician's new song. It's the first music broadcast from another planet.
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AP News in Brief
Isaac heads for New Orleans on Katrina anniversary after landfall in southeast Louisiana

• NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Hurricane Isaac was beginning to move inland in southeast Louisiana before dawn Wednesday on a slow, drenching slog toward New Orleans seven years to the day after the much stronger Katrina hit the city.
• The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Isaac remained a Category 1 storm with top sustained winds of 80 miles per hour but was expected to weaken

over the next 48 hours as it heads north over land. Isaac's center was forecast to pass over Louisiana for two days and head into southern Arkansas early Friday.
• Isaac's winds and sheets of rain were whipping through nearly empty streets in New Orleans while in neighboring Mississippi the storm pushed Gulf water over sections of the main beachfront highway that runs the length of the state's shore.
• Ryan Bernie, a spokesman for the city of New Orleans, said the storm had caused only some minor street flooding before dawn and felled trees but had left roughly 125,000 customers in the city without power.
• In Mississippi, the main beachfront highway, U.S. 90, was closed in sections by storm surge flooding. At one spot in Biloxi, a foot of water covered the in-town highway for a couple of blocks and it looked like more was coming in. High tide around 9:30 a.m. was likely to bring up more water.
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