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-- Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal has called for residents in coastal parishes prone to flooding to voluntarily leave.
-- Jindal confirmed he will skip this week's Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, because of the storm. Jindal also had to cancel his 2008 appearance at the RNC because of another storm, Hurricane Gustav.
-- There will be no flights out of Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on Tuesday, a city spokesman said.
-- A spokesman for Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport said there will be no flights Wednesday.
-- Bus and street car service in New Orleans have been shut down.
-- Amtrak service to and from New Orleans has been suspended.
-- Cargo terminals within the Port of New Orleans have ceased operations.
-- President Obama declared a state of emergency and ordered federal agencies to send aid and made federal funding available to the state. He put FEMA in charge of recovery operations.
-- Isaac is expected to hit the city as a Category 1 hurricane late Tuesday or early Wednesday, the National Hurricane Center said.
-- New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu did not issue an evacuation order for the city but urged people outside the city's protective levees to leave and told others, "If your plan is to go, now's the time to go."
-- He acknowledged "a higher level of anxiety" because of Wednesday's anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which killed nearly 1,800 people on the Gulf Coast in 2005. But he added that "We are prepared for what this storm is going to bring us at this point in time."
-- More than 4,100 National Guard troops were activated Monday.
-- A total of 23 parishes have declared states of emergency ahead of the storm, Jindal said Monday.
-- Mandatory evacuations have been ordered for St. Charles Parish and parts of Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish.
-- In Jefferson Parish, authorities ordered about 9,000 people to evacuate the towns of Jean Lafitte, Crown Point and Barataria.
-- The east bank of Plaquemines Parish, as well as the lower end of the west bank from Ironton to Venice, are also under mandatory evacuation orders.
-- In St. Charles Parish, buses are being used to move residents. Evacuees may bring one personal item, one carry-on and pets.
-- Widespread power outages are expected (a "100% certainty"), said Scott Whelchel, director of the St. Charles Parish Emergency Operations Center.
-- Louisiana State University, which has its first home football game of the season against North Texas on Saturday, says it plans to play as scheduled but will monitor the effects of the storm.
--The New Orleans Saints have evacuated to Cincinnati, where they will practice ahead of Thursday's final preseason game, than travel to Nashville Thursday.
-- Crews have been evacuated from 346 production platforms and 41 drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as of Monday, meaning an estimated 78% of oil production in the region has been halted.
