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

[bwteim]

Bump to your "And as such, right now we cannot afford the petty partisan bickering. All we can do is roll up our sleeves and do the best we can."

[lightman]

Then again, if the situation is destablizing (as though it were ever stable) a PIO Trooper knows he is a Trooper first and a PIO second.

[dawn53]

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.

And that is the reality in any disaster situation. You can't save everybody.

[tomkat]

From scanner: SWAT1 and SWAT2 patrolling lower 9th Ward.

(wonder if they're 'weapons free' ?)

[madison10]

Some of these guys are genuine criminals and won't stop unless they know they will get shot.

Doubt if that will stop them.

[steveegg]

You can drink 16 glasses of 8 oz water in a day?

In hot weather? Very easily. I've even done it in upper-70s/lower 80s weather while canoeing. You have to replace the sweat somehow.

[Lessismore]

I think the SD was a last-minute choice when they realized that the storm was actually going to hit.

Not true, the Superdome was always the planned place of refuge. It worked during the hurricane.

[samantha]

Amen to that, i have stopped watching this they are all trying to Outfox fox.

[STARWISE]

How many millions will Jesse hand over? He's found money in his organization to use to pay his child support.

That's a joke .. he'll probably be taking a cut .. along with Al .. of the millions that will end up in Nagin's pocket .. for spiritual and political counsel, ya know.

[sfimom]

Thank you. I have bitten my tongue more than I ever have before about this subject. There ARE people that really need the aid. I happen to be one of them and I'm still doing all I can to help these people.

[livius]

It is a case of trying to get as many out as we can before the worsening conditions make it unnecessary.

This is a terrible thing. I saw a woman today on TV who was being carried out of the SD. She was so severely dehydrated that she was seizing and I didn't think she was going to make it. She may have had other medical problems, I don't know. But overall it's clear that many people are in very fragile condition now.

God bless you, I will pray for you and everybody who works with you.

[BurbankKarl]

The first busload of New Orleans refugees to reach the Reliant Astrodome overnight was a group of people who commandeered a school bus in the city ravaged by Hurricane Katrina and drove to Houston looking for shelter.

Jabbar Gibson, 20, said police in New Orleans told him and others to take the school bus and try to get out of the flooded city.

Gibson drove the bus from the flooded Crescent City, picking up stranded people, some of them infants, along the way. Some of those on board had been in the Superdome, among those who were supposed to be evacuated to Houston on more than 400 buses Wednesday and today. They couldn't wait.

The group of mostly teenagers and young adults pooled what little money they had to buy diapers for the babies and fuel for the bus.

After arriving at the Astrodome at about 10:30 p.m., however, they initially were refused entry by Reliant officials who said the aging landmark was reserved for the 23,000 people being evacuated from the Louisiana Superdome.

"Now, we don't have nowhere to go," Gibson said. "We heard the Astrodome was open for people from New Orleans. We ain't ate right, we ain't slept right. They don't want to give us no help. They don't want to let us in."

Milling about the Reliant entrance, Sheila Nathan, 38, told her teary-eyed toddler that she was too tired to hold him.

"I'm trying to make it a fairy tale so they won't panic," said Nathan, who had four grandchildren in tow. "I have to be strong for them."

After about 20 minutes of confusion and consternation, Red Cross officials announced that the group of about 50 to 70 evacuees would be allowed into the Astrodome.

[BlackRain]

1) Squad 1 and Squad 2 to patrol in lower 9th ward.

2) The finally have a helo above the 4 state troopers and 6 medical personnel at Cabrini HS. However, they don't think the helo is large enough to carry all ten of them.

[Will_Zurmacht]

and yet they had no water or food set up there.

buffoons

[Palladin]

Oh...good plan! The folks in Mississippi have my respect. They are behaving the way all good citizens should...helping each other to clean up, praying, and consoling one another.

What a difference in the aftermath I am seeing in footage of towns in MI versus what is happening in NO.

[Born in a Rage]

Thirty? The lady I saw looked like a little old lady. Nonetheless, I think you are reading way too much into it. They probably haven't had any meals or were asked what they had been eating and she said "no hot meals" or something. Give people the benefit of the doubt.

[tomkat]

Chopper now above the ten stranded at Cabrini HS - soldier on ground asking for confirmation if it's big enough for ten souls...

[Txsleuth]

You can dream on about everyone working together...

Tonight there was a short session of the Senate on c-span 2, about the emergency funding for the Katrina disaster...

Only Sen. Frist and Corcoran from Miss. were there for Reps, and Sen. Reid and Schumer for dems....

All was fine until Sen. Schumer got up and gave a speech talking about how horrible it is and how "we" need to get food to the people, and water, and get them out of there...blah, blah, blah,

and then said that he has had a ton of e-mails complaining about the treatment of the people and the lack of leadership and getting things done..and he goes on and on about the sick and babies.

Then he goes on and on about 9/11 and how he KNOWS what they are going through...

THEN, he says that the time for examining what went wrong, and why things didn't get done will be left for later..(read: congressional hearings into Bush's incompetence, yet again)...

So, I would say there will NOT be people pulling together to "get er done"....because the politicians won't let it.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Mayor of San Antonio on Aaron Brown show right now. What a wonderful man. Said San Antonio is going to welcome the people with open arms and open their checkbooks and when and if they get paid back from FEMA, great, but for now they are not going to wait they want to help these people get on their feet and right away.

Note: I think the evacuees haven't a clue how long this rebuild will take and suspect many will be ensconced in new lives by the time that even happens.

[conservativebabe]

I don't want to be a pain, but I was out for about 3 hours and tried to read through this thread. Made it to about 750 but couldn't keep up anymore.

Any new major developments?