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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
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
I found an alternate source for scanner.
Army COE has breakdown in communications. Requests LSP to go over to their location to relay comms.
I was wondering about the Plan...millions of dollars have been spent across the country developing plans - master plans, emergency plans, planning plans...did the Mayor and Governor leave their copies at home?
Also, wont quote all but a descriptive piece on Hattiesburg
Katrina creates a Hattiesburg I never knew
By Rick Cleveland
rcleveland@clarionledger.com
HATTIESBURG — My assignment: Paint a word picture of my old hometown — or what's left of it after Hurricane Katrina. This will not be a happy piece.
includes:
"Campus in tatters
The Southern Miss campus, where students began classes two weeks ago, is ghostly quiet. Classes are out indefinitely. Some of the oldest oaks on campus are down, ripped from their roots and leaving huge craters in ground. Those wonderful, old trees would have provided shade for tailgaters this Sunday when USM was supposed to open the football season against Tulane. That game has been postponed, and the Golden Eagles have escaped to Memphis. I passed their buses on the way down.
"Zoo survives
Not far from there are Kamper Park and the Hattiesburg Zoo, where Miss Hattie, the elephant once lived.
If you grew up in Hattiesburg in the '50s and '60s, you knew Miss Hattie, whose best friend was a goat. The zoo flooded one time and the goat died. Not long after, Miss Hattie died, the story goes, of heartache. Yes, animals are affected by calamities, too.
Good news here: All 120 animals have survived Katrina, curator John Wright says. "It sounds strange when you look around, but it could have been so much worse," he says. "We've got some animals who are stressed. We've got fences and cages that must be repaired, but the animals are all alive.""
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS0110/509020351/1260
That's nice. His job is PR, huh? I'll contrast his behavior with that of Haley Barbour, who we haven't seen in days because he is likely actually doing something. Blanco is on every other channel just like Brown, postruing, spinning and denying. I would imagine Barbour has "people under him to do the actual work" as well. If that's the case, what the hell do we need a FEMA director for? To talk to reporters on television?
I am sick and tired of all of this bashing. You have been doing it for days. Can't anyone do anything to suit. This is the worst natural distaster in U.S. history and the locals are not doing their job.
I saw that and I thought he was speaking as a real man..God bless him.
Shep Smith was one of the worst. Shep Smith made sure, yesterday morning, he showed footage of an elderly dead man's body on the road. God Rest that man's soul. He has to become a part of Shep Smith's show and presentation. I thought that despicable.
You all probably know this but FNC periodically that says some NO police officers are walking off the job.
NN--I get up here in NM and check this thread first thing and see you are on the job, as you have been all week and before. Without you we would not have a centralized thread for information and sorting out rumors we hear elsewhere.
mhking--How you have gotten info and kept tract of the live links is beyond me. Just heartfelt thanks for giving us a way to listen to on-the-scene live reports.
God bless both of you.
LA Congressman Rodney Alexander on FNC says that 90,000 square miles of the Gulf were affected by the hurricane.
I'm not sure if you were the one asking how many miles were affected.
Well Mayor just what are doing and why didn't you have an evacuation plan for all of those poor people in place long ago?????????
Good morning all.
What was this I just read about a "shoot to kill" being ordered for New Orleans?
Where did Blanco learn that term? What took so long? Where was the STK two days ago, when a few such direct actions would have deterred almost ALL of this?
Also, where does Nagin get his junk? (Because that is obviously some primo $h!t he's getting there...)
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Scanner Update
- Report of 18 year old male stabbed in water. He was helping others and now needs assistance.
- Nursing home needs evacaution.
- G13 to Command Post - Request for medic and detective.
- 70 to Commmand Post - Request of escort for 18 wheelers into city.
- HWY 190 - Broken down Fire vehicle 1 mile past check point.
It's pure politics, trying to defend the inexcusable. It's all about defending Bush?
The fact is, they are botching this badly, and if you can live with that, then pleasant dreams.
You disgust me as well. So get off my back.
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Wow, looking at NBC and ABC today. The President and the Fed response are really taking a hit today. They are starting to use the race card already. The lib press really sees blood in the water.
It is like a coach for a bad football team, if you are the coach you are always going to take the blame. It is sickening to see how disatrous this response has been.
I hope good things start to happen today.
Then maybe someone needs to get the word out to the people that are not getting supplies. Tell them to hoof it up the road a couple of miles and get help and bring it back.
It's a very good friend. She's in her 70's, and has two sons in NO as well.
I haven't heard anything from, or about her. I'm going to make some calls today to find out anyone I know has heard from her....
(I have a sense that she would have evacuated, and is just unable to communicate yet).
There are two friends from church who moved to Gulfport who also haven't been heard from. They lived off the beach, but in the area hit hard.
The women was about to bash Bush when he directed her in another direction.
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