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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
Many people still have no inkling about how true that is.
They might, in the months to come.
"Saw it...the President sounded/looked discouraged, to say the least...he's mad."
Of course he is -- this SHOULD have been the Media's finest hour, and instead, they've been carping, whining, and demanding the impossible.
I'm sorry to say that this has proved my "Law of the Media:" "There is no situation so bad that the Media won't do everything in their power to make it worse."
Did you just hear President Bush, or you just want to ignore the fact he agrees with me???
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The regular army is NOT National Guard. Completely different oath, different lines of command, organization, etc., etc...
You can't simply "declare" they are.
Law of the Media....that about says it all, doesn't it..
Heads up blam - Air Force One enroute to Mobile...
Yes we will. Look at the hurricane on the Texas Gulf Coast. Those people certainly did not have the resources that we have today and they survived.
I agree with you. Lots of "why didn'ts" are going to need to be answered. Watching this on TV, streaming video, and reading posts here is infecting my psyche.
On that note many of the questions in my mind have simply stayed there for now, but I've done and written a number of emergency plans for chemical plants, hazardous waste facilities, and even nuclear D & D projects. The main question to me is: What were the city's plan to deal with a levee break? That question, properly answered could have saved thousands of lives. A whole city living below sea level surrounded by dikes and levee's, with no plan (grossly inadequete) of what to do in the event of a levee failure is criminal.
They are showing people and city personnel on TV clearly stating they have/had no idea what to do. My schools actually teach and drill for the severe weather that could potentially strike our area. I just can't fathom NO had no such teaching for a city in a bowl. Something went terribly wrong and it is going to cost people, innocents, their very lives.
There was talk when the tsunami hit that stranded people only had a few days to live, we're going to start to see more people die. At this point why are they not using loud speakers from the helo's telling neighborhoods where to go for rescue? A parish by parish plan with troops securing the evac. routes. Food and water drops at the staging areas and snipers shot on sight.
I am sorry, but I am frustrated beyond comprehension.
did you see the story on abc i believe this am?man saying black people were lined up to be used as sand bags to stop flooding years ago is there creedence to this story abouthese black people being used this way?
is it just me or did that air shot near downtown show it dry
I posted a link last night on here about the Detroit mayor offering the the city to any NO who wants to come. Of course he won't share his beautiful "home" I'm sure.
Don't forget that it was an American and the Army Corps Of Engineers that designed and installed his country's current dike and pumping systems - the first truly effective ones that Holland ever had.
Not only was his voice angry his body language said it all. IMO Mr. Chertoff is in deep doo doo with GWB.
This morning's comment from the NICC report, which is supplying personel and help for the relief effort:
HURRICANE KATRINA SUPPORT, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Emergency Support Function #4 is staffed at the Regional Response Coordination Centers in Atlanta, GA and Denton, TX. Four Type 1 Incident Management Teams (Custer, Quesinberry, Pincha-Tulley and Gelobter) are assigned. Custer’s Team is working to establish a base camp in Port Allen, LA. Quesinberry’s Team is establishing and managing a mobilization center in Meridian, MS. Pincha-Tulley’s Team will establish and manage two camps and support the receiving and distribution of relief supplies at Stennis Space Center in MS. Gelobter’s Team is assigned at Moss Point, MS. Another Type 1 Incident Management Teams (Cable) has been ordered. A Type 2 Incident Management Team (Lineback) is providing support for the receiving and distribution of supplies and resources at a mobilization center in Pineville, LA. A Planning Team (Terry) is supporting relief efforts at the Long Term Recovery Center in Orlando, FL.
Five Logistics Management Teams have been mobilized; two at Meridian, MS, and one each at Maxwell Air Force Base, Montgomery, AL, Barksdale Air Force Base, LA and Beauregard, LA. A Florida State All Risk Incident Management Team (Hill) has been assigned to Biloxi, MS. The Team is providing logistical support to Florida Urban Search and Rescue teams. A Florida State Incident Management Team (Jones) has established a Logistics Staging Area at Stennis Space Center in MS. The Team is helping with distribution of relief supplies throughout southern Mississippi. A National Park Service All Risk Team has been ordered for Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in New Orleans
There is NO consistent communications ability there. There hasn't been for days. The hurricane took it all out.
Loud speakers and or bullhorns...I asked the question Tuesday...
The people of Memphis are opening their arms to the 10000 that are here already and anymore that might come. All without the Mayor's help. He cannot be bothered.
After this world-class display of governmental incompetence, irresponsibility, and unimaginativeness, why on God's green earth would anyone want more government involvement in the economy, or education, or anything else to do with human life?
Haven't they done enough damage to suit you yet?
It literally has to. It literally takes an act of Congress to do otherwise.
Read the Posse Commitatus law. It's inconvenient - but it has teeth.
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