Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[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/

Previous Threads:
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

[livius]

Katrina was a category 5 headed for an area that KNEW that it couldn't withstand a 3...what's alarmist about that?

Exactly. Granted, a lot of times, hurricanes miss and veer off course at the last minute. This makes people overconfident. All it needs is one bad strike and you're gone.

In the case of NO, a city below sea level, there's no margin of error. But the city and state government just sort of shrugged and carried on as if it were all just a bad dream, probably provoked by GWB.

[tortoise]

She couldn't eat the army meals........our TROOPS do.

Now there is disgraceful welfare queen who needs to STFU. If MREs are good enough for the soldiers on the ground, they sure as hell are good enough for her whining ass. I've lived on MREs out in the field, and they are not that bad.

What the hell did she want? The President personally catering her a lobster dinner? These people are pathetic.

[milagro]

That's what I've been saying--just heard Aaron Brown saying that "even if they could have known the devastation there weren't enough buses to get them out". BS--there were enough--they should have had a plan to mobilze them IMMEDIATELY. Now--they are blaming Bush for not finishing repairs on the levee. John Breaux just disputed that claim. CNN is so biased--but I can't handle H&C and Greta--and can't stop watching this whole drama unfold!

[steveegg]

did they sneak any pork into that bill?

Not yet. That's the House's job.

[BurbankKarl]

Is this the woman who said an MRE was uneatable?

[mystery-ak]

Thanks....

[jwalsh07]

"Everyone expects, and has a right to expect, basic order to be restored, goods distributed, thugs dead or secured and martial law in place."

Your evil twin write this one?

[bwteim]

thanks for staying on topic

[radiohead]

Complains that LA State police LNO disappeared in the afternoon and has not returned.

Pardon my French, but WTF??

[oceanview]

this is the real story we have to get out there - how the local and state police, and the political apparatus of the state and city, simply threw in the towel.

[BurbankKarl]

they lit a flame under the LSP's ass.....soldier state he hasnt seen the LSP move that quick all week.

[PhiKapMom]

The idiot LA Governor took forever to even ask our sleeps in until noon RAT Governor for National Guard troops from Oklahoma.

Oklahoma doesn't have places like the Astrodome. After hearing that doctor on WWL speaking about the hoodlums being on buses bound for the Astrodome, I am in no mood to want them here in OKC. More than willing to help people from MS who are getting little to no publicity.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

No rudeness or callousness intended. Events such as this strain all of the people that are suffering, and all of the people helping. Absent the horrible circumstances, it would be callous. When human life versus animal life; in such extraordinary circumstance, gets measured, my belief is unwavering. Sorry.

[lightman]

And in this or any other similar extremity: By whatever means necessary.

[RummyChick]

I hope the Mayor of Houston is getting some kind of contingency plan in place for who knows what could happen next. The one good thing is most people know that TX has a certain reputation when it comes to guns..and to the Death Penalty.

[ican'tbelieveit]

I know people like that. They exist to complain.

[MarMema]

State EOC just asked Pelican base if food or water had been delivered to the Convention Center today. Pelican Base (don't know who this is) states they don't know and need to confirm.

Thanks for making my point without meaning to. At this point, effective communication and supply delivery should have been well-established. It is just incredible to me to read things like this.

[livius]

I think not frightening the tourists probably was one of the reasons. Several people, more knowledgable about NO than I (that is, they live there and I don't), have made this comment.

[BlackRain]

Live LA Police Scanner --

Pelican Three Alpha just told Tiger 5 at Pelican Base that the command of the LA State police was notified that LA State Police liason officer walked off the job at the 'dome' and something will be done to help.

[andie74]

DH heard on radio that GWB had increased the funding upon arrival in office for the Army Corps of Engineers to work on the safety of the levees. Am working to verify.