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Posted on 08/31/2005 4:00:15 PM PDT by NautiNurse
Dunno - but I was just thinkin- how is the media eating and sleeping? Planning to get out? Are they stuck? Just curious. They have to be getting help - so how is the help getting in? Coolers full of food, water and fresh changes of clothes allowed with a press badge?
Guess we need to reactivate some of these old Vietnam Vets, they could fly into anything anywhere.
03:09 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
3:09 P.M. - (AP): The Bush administration intends to seek more than $10 billion to cover immediate relief needs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Thursday, and lawmakers made plans to approve the request by the weekend.
Several officials said $10 billion would cover immediate costs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the government's front-line responder in cases of natural disasters. Several hundred million dollars would also be provided to fund the Pentagon's disaster relief efforts, congressional aides said.
3:06 P.M. - (AP): Fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.
Anger mounted across the ruined city, with thousands of storm victims increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take them out.
"We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and the and other evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing -- no food, no water, no medicine.
2:48 P.M. - Gov. Blanco: "Thousands" are believed to be dead. And between 200 and 300,000 people still need to be evacuated from the city. 2,400 people are still waiting to be evacuated from the Superdome.
One official said the Army Corps of Engineers are currently driving pilings, dumping sand, into the breaches in the levee. Concrete barriers will go up after the sand is laid down. They will assess the pumps, and it could take as long as one month before the water is completely drained from the city. The Army Corps is being escorted to the levees by State Police.
Blanco said 12,000 National Guard troops from various regions in the nation are being deployed to the area, bringing the total number of troops to 40,000. The Governor added that looters will be dealt with. Blanco said Baton Rouge has its own concerns with refugees, who have reportedly been causing similar trouble in the state capital.
Hospital evacuations are going well. Chalmette and Tulane Hospitals are emptied.
No casualty list reported yet.
2:40 P.M. - AP Analysis: When is looting okay?
2:37 P.M. - CNN Reports that snipers have fired shots on Charity Hospital in New Orleans.
2:31 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- With images of looting and reports of gunfire frightening evacuees and rescuers alike in New Orleans, the government says it is sending enough National Guardsmen to keep the peace.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says there have been only "isolated incidents of criminality" in New Orleans.
2:25 P.M. - Email to WWL producer today from a friend: Talked to Donny (news photographer Donny Pearce of WVUE) today for a while, he's in Shreveport with his folks, sounds very shaken up, had a horrifying escape from the city apparently, people hanging on his truck begging for help/food/money....saw all the looting,, taped the storm shredding JP Sheriffs headquarters.
2:20 P.M. - Airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc: There have been hundreds of helicopter operations over the past 3 days as the helicopter are bringing in people that are being rescued from throughout the region to transfer to civilian and military aircraft to take them to points of safety.
2:14 P.M. - Airport spokeswoman Michelle Duffourc: Armstrong International Airport did become operational on Tuesday, August 30 for humanitarian relief flights and civilian and military rescue efforts. Since opening the airfield, several of our commercial air carriers, including American, Southwest, Northwest, Continental, United, and Delta have all sent in aircraft with relief supplies and have taken out the stranded travelers as well as all others who wanted to depart the Airport. In total over 100 employees, 200 stranded passengers and 400 others were flown out of Armstrong International.
2:13 P.M. - Duffourc: The Airport has been on generator power since Monday, August 29 with the bare power necessities. CA One Services, our Food & Beverage Concessionaire has been providing meals to those stranded in the terminal.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has set up a triage center in the Airport's West Terminal near the Delta and Continental Ticket Counters and has been treating people that have been evacuated from the Superdome in Downtown New Orleans and other locations.
2:11 P.M. - Blanco: Please stop broadcasting that there is "shooting in the Superdome." She said everyone brought inside was checked for weapons before entering. "There is no shooting inside the Superdome." She says the incorrect reports are upsetting the people inside of the dome who have been very calm.
2:06 P.M. - Corps of Engineers: Lake water continues to go down. Dropped two to two and a half feet in the past two days. Work progressing on plugging break in levee. Sandbags dropped and pilings being driven. Engineer says progress is "looking good."
2:04 P.M. - (AP) Fights and trash fires broke out, rescue helicopters were shot at and anger mounted across New Orleans on Thursday, as National Guardsmen poured in to help restore order across this increasingly desperate and lawless city.
"We are out here like pure animals. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and he and other evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing -- no food, no water, no medicine.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said the government is sending in 1,400 National Guardsmen to help stop looting and other lawlessnes in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
1:54 P.M. - Emergency Operations spokesman: Hospitals overwhelmed.
1:53 P.M. - Emergency Operations spokeswoman: 49,800 people in shelters in this state right now. Room for 70,000 more.
1:48 P.M. - Blanco: troopers from Arkansas, Texas and Kentucky coming in to help restore order. Sheriff's deputies from as far away as Michigan.
1:47 P.M. - Blanco: I've requested 40,000 troops.
1:47 P.M. - Governor Blanco: Superdome now under control, evacuations resume.
Shep is saying that but if you looked at the people in the photos while he was talking during his 3 o'clock FoxNews show, they all had bottles of water.
He was also talking about all the people stuck on the overpass, but it appeared most of the people had been moved out.
He's gone into some sort of sensationalism, outrage mode now.
You've got freepmail..need more info on this ASAP especially the hijacked convoy.
Convention Center video coming up on WDSU. What a nightmare.
People hungry, thirsty, baby's crying.. it's friggin awful.
Awful..
CNN... they think he made a huge blunder and needs to explain things.... I think Hastert is right-on...
Thank you for posting that local summary. Very interesting.
I am not suggesting in any way that people should not arm themselves. I am stating Karl, that I was all over Gonzales and it is safe right now. I would rather people know this for a fact, rather than hole up with a shotgun behind the couch for the next few days, not buying milk, when it's available at the regular price.
We need to be vigilant, but not vigilantes. The truth is the truth. I am just trying to get the truth out there. If Gonzales turns into a war zone, I will state that to let people know.
I went to the Jack in the Box, and there was only one car in line, went to the gas station, there was only one car in front of me, went to the doctor's office and it was safe and comfortable. That is reality as of today. That is what I am reporting.
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![]() Evacuees dwindling at SuperdomeIn a press conference Thursday, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that the number of evacuees in the Superdome was down to 2,400 after busloads left for Houston's Astrodome. Evacuations were ongoing Thursday afternoon. ![]() |
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![]() No increase in B.R. crimeReports of increased crime in Baton Rouge as a result |
Yikes! NAMB is one of the organizations we've given to, as well as the Sally Army and others. I think it was FOX's Jeff Goldblatt who said the Baptist men were the first on the ground to help immediately after Katrina blew through, as early as Monday afternoon. God bless and protect them as they try to help. Wow.
Yep, with guns blazing. Shocked the heck out of me and the reporter was speechless.
She responded to someone who said some horrible things about the President's fly-by on AF1 creating a TFR in the area.
The situation is just horrible. No one expected ANYTHING like this.
I'll keep you posted if I hear anything else.
We have quarterly fundraisers...why not one for this?
Thanks from that perspective from somewhere there.
What do you mean? Why aren't they there AFTER the storm?
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