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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/
Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
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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
You and me both. Some guy walked from new Orleans to Baton Rouge on the levee...I don't blame him.
--"What we gonna do with the street thugs who don't want to leave"---
Shoot them.
I think you'll find that NO is full of warehouses and railroad lines...but the reporters are geographically challenged.
Number one, sad to say, most Americans aren't paying attention.
Number two, polls show that he has overwhelming approval for his handling of the crisis.
Number three, those that figure the President is not doing all he can, don't understand state versus Federal law, unless he is willing to state that the local and state authorities are not willing to help their own citizens.
Beyond that Posse Comitatus and the Insurrection Act are very clear...the Governor must ask for the President to allow Federal troops to "enforce the law" of LA.
http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/Primer_ChallengestoPreventionandPreparedness.htm
One of the stations interview a woman who got out on Tuesday. She was older, she walked out, hitched a ride to Houston, called her daughter in Jacksonville, daughter arranged for a charity to give her a plane ticket, and she is in Jacksonville with her daughter.
Didn't the governor say yesterday there were only 2400 left at the SD?
Don't know if it's been reported on this thread, but the Mayor of NO gave an interview and says he ordered Martial Law days ago and doesn't know why Blanco didn't enforce it.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475424/posts
The people in MS may not be aware of conditions in NO. Even if they are, the people in MS have lost so much. Granted they have their lives and hopefully will be able to rebuild. They're walking over the rubble where their homes used to be. I can't fault the people in MS for crying. The history of their lives has been reduced to rubble and junk. I don't know about you but my home houses things such as hand painted china my Grandmother painted, pictures of people long dead, throw pillows crewel embroideried by my Mom and her sisters, my son's first teddy bear (so what if it has no stuffing and an eye missing), momentos that remind me of my Dad, etc.
I'm sure the people in MS are extremely grateful they aren't having to be in NO now. It still doesn't take away from what they're having to deal with.
CNN played it on tv, swearing and all.
Leave them. Let the gators get them.
Then the party needs to work hard for instant runoff voting. This would ensure that Hillary doesn't get the presidency if there is a split in the Republican Party. I think everyone agrees that the evil of the liberals getting power is greater than the evil that may exist in a party split.
I think the reporters are taking anyone's comments and not checking to see who is rigiht.
Oh, and who is this Ebbert guy quoted as FEMA isn't there? The whole thing is making me nuts.
And TV channels keep going on and on about how there is no communications, but are they doing anything to help? NO.
It is a job beyond imagination..and just east there is also massive destruction, homeless, jobless , without electricity ...I have so much sympathy for those suffering and those trying to help..
I think the area is just so large that you can't get to all areas of the city.
As the reporters were complaining about no water, everybody I saw behind them as they were complaining, had a bottle of water in their hands.
Could be...but I heard that walk-ups are continuing to arrive at the SD.
I am listening to the replay now (559 cst)
http://cf.nbc10.com/phi/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm
How did it play? I've only read freeper comments.
FROM WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
05:32 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
5:31 A.M. - HOUSTON (AP) -- After accepting more than 11,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees, officials said the Astrodome was full and began sending buses to other shelters in the Houston area Thursday night.
"We've actually reached capacity for the safety and comfort of the people inside there," American Red Cross spokeswoman Dana Allen said. She said people were "packed pretty tight" on the floor of the Astrodome.
Buses that continued to arrive were being sent on to other shelters in the area and as far away as Huntsville, about an hour north of Houston.
5:27 A.M. - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- After helping to triage and evacuate hospital patients in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina's wrath bore down on the city, Louisiana Health Secretary Fred Cerise could only choke back tears. "We have people there that we know we haven't been able to reach yet," he said, his voice breaking and his eyes rimmed red from lack of sleep.
5:24 A.M. - UNDATED (AP) -- Hurricane Katrina damaged or displaced an estimated 58 Gulf of Mexico oil platforms and drilling rigs. The American Petroleum Institute says among those, 30 rigs and platforms have been reported lost. Tim Sampson, an A-P-I spokesman says no company breakdown was available.
5:10 A.M. - CNN reports explosions believed to be railroad cars.
5:07 A.M. - CNN producer Jim Spellman, who has been stationed with police sharpshooters, says reports indicate that New Orleans officers are not showing up for work. In some districts as many as 60 percent of officers have not reported for duty.
4:55 A.M. - Refugee Alan Gould spoke to CNN from inside the New Orleans Convention Center. He said sick, eldery and children are dying and children have been beaten and raped. He pleaded for help.
4:41 A.M. - CNN reports fires, explosions erupting in southwest part of New Orleans. Thick smoke is billowing into the air. Police are working to get hazmat teams to the area, which is near Chartres Street. That is where railroad cars are housed.
Did anyone see Chertoff's presser yesterday? If I remember correctly, he quoted an area of 90,000 sq mi being affected. 90,000 sq miles.
Thanks for the offer but I prefer to agree to disagree. Not looking to fight this out or debate it. I'm sure someone on FR will though. :)
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