Bush insists help is on the way

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Bush insists help is on the way:

"US President George Bush has admitted there is 'frustration' at the speed of the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina's hit on the Gulf Coast.

'I fully understand people wanting things to have happened yesterday. I mean I understand the anxiety of people on the ground... So there is frustration but I want people to know there's a lot of help coming,' he said in an interview with ABC television.

He said the operation being mounted was one of the biggest in US history, and inevitably took time to get under way.

'I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."