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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/
Previous Threads:
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
Tropical Storm 12
Geraldo on. "hell on earth"........he's just getting warmed up!
It sounds like Oreilly has some kind of team that helped him get the patients out. Geraldo's report - pretty desperate.
yes but they think they were killed when Katrina came in - they were drowned and were in a low land area of NO. (no excuse I know - but most likely they died when the storm came through.)
Geraldo on now - LA police chief, still at this damn convention center. karl, it still sounds very bad at the convention center.
Did he just say 30,000 people still in the convention center?????
**I just put it on and watched Anderson Cooper interview a family in Mississippi, who bashed Bush because they had no help in their state....that "ALL the national guard were in Iraq."
I have to stop watching. My B/P is rising!**
God, I saw that, too. I did the same thing. I thought, "CNN must seek out Bush haters for their interviews... Not EVERYONE feels this way... do they?"
I'm on vacation this week, and have been watching this crap all day. It's so comforting to me to know that there are others like me!!
I love Free Republic!!
HOLY @#$%!!!!
30,000 PEOPLE in the CONVENTION CENTER???
He was pissed..... try and watch his re-run later tonight. He did not cut Nagie any slack at all.. said blaming Bush was N/G because this was a black city run by a black mayor and black council and they failed their constituents.... he said calling this a white vs black wasn't going to cut it because of the way the city has been run.
I heard most of the interview too, and I was actually cheering on Trent Lott!
For the FIRST time, Trent sounded more like a human than a politician.
He did good!
This time, he was talking like a REAL leader.
Thats their police chief? He doesn't know anything!
yes!
Well the commercial jets that are evacuating are landing in San Antonio. Husband just called on his way home.. at least 4 commercial aircraft on the ground at Lackland/Kelly. NUMEROUS military aircraft .. C-5s and C-130s. Also said lots and lots of uniforms on the ground.
They have the evacuees in one building while they are are finishing up the big wharehouse... he saw HUGE airconditioning units going in, as well the SBC putting in phone lines. They are really pulling together the facility FAST!!
He started working down there after the military pulled out so he said he's never seen so many people on the base.. laugh.
Sounds like Oreilly is trying to help orchestrate evacuations.
Do you believe this bs. Geraldo is off the wall.!!!!
What is this BOR and Geraldo to the rescue on Fox.
I was afraid that was what he said! I was hoping that I was wrong. OMG
MSM would do best, IMHO, to focus on the evacuees being "temp" settled into the arms of loving neighbors, on all scales: State, families, agencies, private orgs. IOW, time for them to pack up their cameras, and perhaps get onto one of those evacuee buses.
If the report is accurate, 30,000 people at the New Orleans Convention Center with no food or water, and a three days old promise of transportation with none in sight.
the police chief said 30K people - they need buses. what is going on there? is the convention center surrounded by water? those people can't walk to the superdome?
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