- Ida brought flooding toparts of Mississippi as well

and joining us now from Tupelo

is Anthony Lloyd ofCBN's Operation Blessing.

Anthony, tell us about theweather situation in Mississippi

and what Operation Blessing will be doing

to help people who have been hit by Ida.

- Yes, good morning Mark,

we're here in Tupelo, Mississippi

where the weather is calm thankfully,

there's rain that's spittingthroughout the morning,

also slight gusts of wind so thankfully

things are calm here inNortheast, Mississippi.

Down South, of course, youknow, it was hit quite hard,

areas were flooded from the storm surge

and of course the torrential downpour.

So the weather here is it'llpick up through the day

based on the predictions,

and then as we prepare forwhat we're gonna do today.

Right now OperationBlessing has been sending

disaster relief loads.

We sent some to Texas andsome to a church in Louisiana,

we also have a teamdeployed with equipment

and pre-staged up in Bristol, Tennessee,

they will move down into centralMississippi later on today.

We will stay here in Tupelo

and likely move closer in to start doing

an on the ground assessment.

- All right, that's AnthonyLloyd of Operation Blessing.

Thank you, Anthony.

And you can find out more about

what Operation Blessing is doing

to help people affected byhurricane Ida by visiting ob.org.