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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
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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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Tropical Storm 12
What Douglas said...I've not seen any elderly folks complaining!
BTTT
This story isn't going to go away by the time Roberts is confirmed.
Nobody will care about a fight, and Chuckie knows it.
They just got blown off the national stage.
Turn on Tucker Carlson....he's on site and has knee-hi boots on....
That's nice of Brett, but I hope the gangstas don't commandeer the trucks with the chain saws and take them to the Astrodome, or we will have another....
TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE!
> Do you drink a gallon of water a day?
Easily... though often it is constituted with fermented grains and hops.
You can drink 16 glasses of 8 oz water in a day?
I guess they'll have the Xerox machines at the ready next time. No plan, no water, no nuttin - but it will look better.
Banks just love to loan money without security and guarantees.
"You want us to loan you money to build on a toxic waste site? One subject to massive flooding? We're supposed to trust you that bad things won't happen because you personally assure us that you will pay us back even if the everyone in your building dies within a week and the building is washed away a year later."
DING, DING, DING! We have a winner! Willie Green will be the next Governor of Louisiana!
Actually I shed light on the murkiness you've been selling. Tough job but somebody has to do it.
LOL!! That's WAY different than a gallon of plain old tasteless water! :)
Already sent them an email., thanks ;)
His and Steve McNair's chainsaws are headed to Mississippi.
"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."
I think they're making themselves look like fools. Bush can't stop hurricanes, he can't make the levees hold, and he can't make up for the incompetence of State and local officials.
On our major local news station, the two afternoon announcers were actually griping that people are trying to blame Bush, and that it was ridiculous.
And how is it that every other State is able to handle hurricane disasters, but Louisiana is making a complete botch out of it?
And the great state of Texas welcomes our neighbors!
LA State Police liason officer walked off the job at the 'dome'
"Walked off the job" as in end of shift or "walked off the job" as in dereliction of duty?
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Not certain, but it appears that the NG was begging for law enforcement assistance at the Dome in loading people on buses.
Whenever the LSP LNO left -- no one took his place. You think the LSP command would have noticed as the Dome has a high media profile.
despicable - but not surprising.
Yeah, Hastert's comment was pretty stupid.
If you look at this picture of the New Orleans Skyline you can see that there's an awful lot of modern, commercial high-rises and skyscrapers, just like in any other American city. Granted, the windows were probably blown out and they sustained quite a bit of damage. But chances are, they're all probably still structurally sound and will NOT be simply abandoned.
Maybe I am mean about poor snowball.
I take it back, what I said. Snowball belonged on the copter.
"To: jeffers
That's true. A huge amount of supplies were needed, and it seems that the city itself (despite supposedly having done a "disaster management plan" not long before) underestimated the needs and really had no
plan in the first place."
I'm not talking about any of that...yet.
There are people in there needing aid first. Maybe 150,000 of them. We got 3000 out two days ago but they slowed down today because the boats got shot at and went home.
We will not save them all. It is a case of trying to get as many out as we can before the worsening conditions make it unnecessary.
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