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Supplies begin to reach earthquake-battered Pakistan. Eight U.S. helicopters are due Monday. More than 20,000 people are dead. U.N. official Vivian Tan and Ron Moreau of Newsweek tell Debbie Elliott what they're seeing.

The federal judge issued a preliminary injunction while a court challenge goes forward. The judge left in place other parts of the law that banned gender-affirming surgeries.

Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is leading a task force on poverty for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. He tells Michele Norris about his plan to fight poverty, homelessness and other issues facing his city and others around the nation.

During the opening day of the Enron fraud and conspiracy trial, federal prosecutors present their case against former executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling. Defense lawyers also give their opening statements. The energy giant collapsed in 2001 -- the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history at the time.

Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown, barraged by criticism for the government's response to Hurricane Katrina, will no longer lead the relief effort on Gulf Coast and instead will work on "big picture" issues in Washington, D.C.

The Supreme Court agrees to consider a challenge to the military tribunals the Bush administration has used to try suspected terrorists. One of the detainees includes a man captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and accused of being the driver for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.

After being closed for two weeks, the Port of New Orleans reopens for limited operations. The port did not suffer heavy damage, but there hasn't been any electricity and many port workers no longer have homes.

Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff announces that Mike Brown, the embattled director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, is being relieved from daily direction of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.

Flood waters are receding in New Orleans, allowing rescue workers and police better access to many neighborhoods. They're finding death, destruction and potential for disease, but some people who weathered the storm and the flood are refusing to leave.

Wynton Marsalis, Norah Jones, Elvis Costello, Dianne Reeves and dozens more perform in a concert to benefit survivors of Hurricane Katrina, recorded Sept. 17 at New York's Rose Theater.