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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by NautiNurse
28,000 National Guard troops are deployed to the disaster areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and to Louisiana, where SWAT teams are working to combat the looters and shooters in New Orleans. Additional 1400 National Guard troops are being deployed daily.
Shootings reported at a New Orleans hospital, rescue boats, and a military helicopter, while conditions continue to deteriorate at the SuperDome amid refugee deaths and chaos. Evacuation of New Orleans continues.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert has voiced serious doubts about rebuilding New Orleans with federal funds, while assuring the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, "We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.
The Port of New Orleans is now open to shallow draft vessels. Congress is reconvening in an emergency session. International offers to assist the U.S. have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States.
Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...
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:
WWL-TV (via CBS): WWLTV via CBS
WWL-TV Now via WFAA Dallas **NEW LINK**: http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV Temporarily Not Live Streaming (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Louisiana Statewide Katrina Network (WJBO-AM Baton Rouge): http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wjbo_am.asf
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Louisiana Scanner
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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
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Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
Katrina Live Thread, Part II
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Thanks, will be praying for more and more folks to check in once they get the means to do so.
I'm not at all offended. However, I think you misunderstood my point. No one expects all to be well after five days. Everyone expects, and has a right to expect, basic order to be restored, goods distributed, thugs dead or secured and martial law in place. It took less time to secure Faluja.
>>What happened in NO is beyond belief to some of us, who know what we have been taught about how to handle a disaster.<<
Didn't Biloxi get hit too?
They are not in as bad of shape, are they?
" Re: #866.......Michael Chertoff said this morning that relief help was on the way BEFORE the hurricane came on land. That fact pretty much destroys the mantra that Bush et al did nothing until it was too late.
It was Bush, you recall, who made the phone call to the NO mayor and LA governor to get THEM (per the law) to order evacuation of NO. Before the President's phone call to them, they were dithering around and the mayor was talking to lawyers to see if he had the authority. Meanwhile, Katrina was bearing down on NO, and we now see the result of THEIR procrastination and non-plainning for a major disaster."
The mayor and the governor have been absolved by the media for any responsibilty.
No questions as to why the city was caught flat footed and why the governor did not use her authority to mobilize and preposition the Louisiana National Guard before impact.
The full burden now rests on President Bush's shoulder.
But, that's a good thing as the leadership at the city and state level has collapsed.
Can you imagine Mayor Giuliani helplessly telling the people of NYC to fend for yourselves-you're on your own ?
I spent my off day watching television and the media is doing their absolute best to turn the disaster in Louisiana into President Bush's Rwanda.
Yes, I agree with you. It would be wonderful if the news people could help these people. I think they are trying to when they can, but I don't know how they are getting resupplied. I'm in Madison County, 200 miles north, and we are having trouble getting gas and food here. Not trouble like they are having there, but I have to admit that I was worried earlier today that I might not have anything to eat next week. Of course, I was overreacting due to a lack of sleep and fear for my friends who still haven't been heard from. I feel so helpless sitting here at my house with power, my computer, and money, but not enough gas to even go down to the Red Cross shelter tonight and help out.
Yep, get the picture and go. Get the story and move on.
Heard Matt Lauer talking about how difficult it was to keep his composure at times. That's funny...I heard him segway this morning into something...end the sad, mournful tone and on to something brighter and happier. The guy's tone changed in like three seconds...it was creepy.
News people are really starting to creep me out with all of this. One reporter (I forgot the network) I heard actually said, "You know, you get used to people in Third World countries begging you for food and water...but not here in the United States." Camera panned to children jumping up and down. It bugged me.
My theory is that Blanco is so bad, the Landrieus have decided that Mary Landrieu should do all the interviews.
Jackie was a wonderful young woman who was interviewed while standing in line to get into the SD on Sunday. She had a great attitude in the middle of chaos. She was just thankful to be alive and with her family.
I think Clarence Thomas was never trapped in NO to begin with. He has family there, though, I think.
This response has been a complete joke.
The folks that make the MREs have made strenuous efforts to improve them; troops get questionnaires, the ones that are disliked are dropped from production and new meals introduced.
They'll never be Mom's cooking but by all reports, for what they are, they're decent, and some of the meals and items are really quite good.
After he almost got shot late last night they moved him to the Astrodome to report. I have to say he looked really, really relieved. I think last night had un-nerved his last nerve.
OMG...Dr. on Greta....3 murders in SD last night!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/01/katrina.fats.domino/
Fats Domino found OK in New Orleans
Thursday, September 1, 2005; Posted: 8:51 p.m. EDT (00:51 GMT)
Rescuers help Fats Domino off a boat after he was rescued Monday from his New Orleans home.
(CNN) -- Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino was among the thousands of New Orleans residents plucked from rising floodwaters, his daughter said Thursday.
Karen Domino White, who lives in New Jersey, identified her father in a picture taken Monday night by a New Orleans Times-Picayune photographer.
The photograph shows Domino -- the singer behind the 1950s hits "Ain't That a Shame" and "Blueberry Hill" -- being helped off a boat near his home in the city's Lower 9th Ward.
His whereabouts since the rescue were not immediately known. Nor was there any information about his wife, Rosemary, friends said.
The neighborhood was heavily flooded when a levee failed as Katrina slammed into southeastern Louisiana and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Thousands are feared dead in the storm, Louisiana's governor and the mayor of New Orleans have said, though no official tally has been compiled.
White said she last heard from her father August 23, four days before the storm hit, and was unable to contact him Sunday.
"I didn't have any information. I was just praying," she said.
Writer Charles Amann said he last spoke to Domino on Sunday, and the singer refused to join the evacuation that was then under way.
"He said to me, in that wonderful Southern accent of his, that no, he was staying on -- that he had gone through the last one and he could go through this one," said Amann, who is working on a book on the early days of the "American Bandstand" television program.
Many of those evacuated from the Lower 9th Ward were taken to the Louisiana Superdome and are being transferred to the Astrodome sports stadium in Houston, Texas.
Alan Warner, an EMI Music executive, also saw the photograph of Domino's rescue. But he said he did not know where the 77-year-old singer, born Antoine Domino, was taken afterward.
"But the fact that he actually was rescued is just so gratifying," Warner said.
My secret is out...I am android...humans need sleep...me not need sleep...
6 rapes 3 murders yesterday
more murders more rapes before then
suicide
etc
dr from superdome with Greta.
Says he wont go back until better security.
Citywide? Citywide?? Have you ever had a disaster drill encompassing Washington, Oregon and Northern California? Because that's pretty much what they're up against down there.
Blanco is incompetent, but is looking for political cover - we shouldn't faciliate this by having our republican politicos saying New Orleans should be bulldozed. Instead, our guys should be pointing out that Blanco is incompetent.
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