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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by NautiNurse
President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.
The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.
The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.
Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.
Links to various news, local and state government websites:
WLOX TV Biloxi, Gulfport, Pascagula has link to locate family and friends
2theAdvocate - Baton Rouge Includes Slidell, St. John Parish, St. Bernard Parish updates, and other locations.
NOLA.com
Inside Houma Today includes shelter and volunteer updates
WLBT.com Jackson MS
WALA Channel 4 Mobile, AL Includes links to distribution centers, Emergency Ops, etc.
Sun-Herald Gulfport MS Includes link to town by town reports
Gulfport News via Topix.net
WAFB Baton Rouge
Mobile Register via al.com
Mississippi updates via Jackson Ledger
Lafayette LA Daily Advertiser
Pensacola News Journal
St Bernard Local Government
Alabama Homeland Security Volunteers can sign up online
Alabama DOT
Alabama.gov
Louisiana Homeland Security
Louisiana State Police road closure info
State of Mississippi Website has traffic alerts, emergency contact numbers
Streaming Video:
New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002
WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.
WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.
WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.
WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.
WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.
WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).
United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.
Related FR Threads:
FYI: Hurricane Katrina Freeper SIGN IN Thread FReeper Check In thread
Discussion Thread - Hurricane Katrina - What Went Wrong?!?
Post Hurricane Katrina IMAGES Here
Looting Begins In New Orleans
Hurricane Katrina HOUSING Thread
Martial Law Declared in New Orleans
Due to the number of requests to assist, the following list of some charities is provided.
This is not intended as an endorsement for any of the charities.
www.redcross.org or 1-800 HELP NOW - note: website is slow, and lines are busy
Salvation Army - 1-800-SAL-ARMY or Salvation Army currently looking for in-state volunteers - (888)363-2769
Operation Blessing: (800) 436-6348.
America's Second Harvest: (800) 344-8070.
Catholic Charities USA: (800) 919-9338, or www.catholiccharitiesusa.org.
Christian Reformed World Relief Committee: (800) 848-5818.
Church World Service: (800) 297-1516 or online at www.churchworldservice. org.
Lutheran Disaster Response: (800) 638-3522.
Nazarene Disaster Response: (888) 256-5886.
Presbyterian Disaster Assistance: (800) 872-3283.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is accepting donations at its 3,800 stores and Web site, www.walmart.com.
National Black Home Educators Resource Association http://www.nbhera.org/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
Katrina Live Thread, Part IX
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
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Well said - but we are not hearing criticism of the mayor & gove BUT only pure hatred for President & Laura Bush and I for one am completely fed up
That sounds about right. I imagine some of them managed to get out. In fact, most of the ones still in the city are those who did not own cars and could not get out. Even the stubborn ones who owned cars and stayed anyway, I'm sure, got out when the pumps failed and the lake poured in. It's really frustrating to hear people insinuate that these people deserve what is happening because they did not evacuate.
Getting one camera crew into an area is much simpler than getting large-scale rescue equipment and personnel in.
One thing being completely ignored during all the blathering is that the most dire needs and areas are OFF-CAMERA.
Should relief efforts be concentrated where the camera are just for PR value? Of course not. Has it occurred to you that the location where Geraldo is yelling, although in dire straits, may actually be in better shape than other places in the city?
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it isn't happening.
Thanks. That's interesting. It's a good compromise, I guess, given that it'd be unseemly to go on the air tomorrow night asking for MDA donations. Is the lack of a BoD a good thing or a bad thing?
where were you that this happened? even "Bush country" has alot of Dems in it. sure, people may have been "listeneing", but thinking "what a jerk this woman is".
you should have taken your money back. I was going to give to charity, until the left took this thing went political. now, I will only give to an agency that focuses on MS and AL.
Thanks for the update on your family...they're getting prayers from many of us.
Mike - thanks so much for sharing this wonderful news this morning! Another ray of sunshine peeks through the clouds. Prayers for the safety of your wife's family members still missing, and for stamina through your wife's long hours and big responsibilities.
If he's committing such a fraud, he'll be exposed.
The truth is what always matters to me.
May the last of your unaccounted be all right.
The CC was not an official evacuation point, so that is apparently the reason no one knew they were there for days.
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Completely untrue.
Press reports show that police were directing refugees to the Convention Center because the Superdome was full.
I personally heard NG and police discussing if any food or water was brought to the convention center two days ago.
Agreed...the enormity of this tragedy far exceeded any preparations to deal with it that were in place....those who think otherwise are just fooling themselves
I think the talk was perfect. He said that the active duty search and rescue people will not tolerate thugs preying on innocents. That says all that needs to be said. The rest will be action.
It's one less layer of bureaucracy to pay, have meetings with, and answer to. Makes his operation much more efficient.
we are starting to hear criticism of the mayor and governor - our counter-attack is just atarting. the Dems have gone out on a limb, calling Bush a racist - let's see if they can sustain that charge amongst the public at large.
As I mentioned yesterday...there were friends of my step daughter who chose to ignor the warnings stay and have "hurrican parties". They were called "party poopers" for leaving early Saturday.
Right -- that makes sense enough.
If all of what you say is true, the Nagin and Blanco should have admitted that days ago. Instead they tried to keep control.
FEMA briefing now - the evacuation of the convention center has begun.
Reality hurts sometimes, I've seen both things covered.
The tragedy is overwhelming, the rescue and recovery has a long way to go.
The media is coordinating with the left to blame this on the President, because they know if they can't it will be blamed on a corrupt city Democratic establishment.
This can not happen, so Bush must be blamed.
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