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

[Sender]

Just on FOX, not much picture but verbal info.

[pamlet]

I stopped watching him regularly a while ago ... he is WAY too arrogant for me.. laugh... I've only had him on occasionaly this week... my husband and son watch him regularly.. I usually leave the room.

[Hoodlum91]

Any idea when the prez is supposed to be there? has he left the WH? (I'm office bound, and trying to figure out what's going on)

[No Blue States]

A ticket out of NOLA at any price is a bargain.

One man paid a cab $1000 before the storm hit.

I am glad those people got out by whatever means.

[cgk]

Speaking of celebrities:

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Updates as they come in on Katrina

10:01 AM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005

Tom Planchet

9:59 A.M. - DENVER (AP) -- The Dave Matthews Band will perform a Sept. 12 concert at Red Rocks Amphitheatre, with all profits to go to charities supporting victims of Hurricane Katrina. "The amount of generosity from around the country I'm sure is staggering right now from people just giving what they can," Matthews told The Associated Press in a phone interview Thursday.

"We're just getting in line behind those people, getting in line a long way behind the Red Cross or National Guard, but we all have to do a little bit."

9:53 A.M. - LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Hilary Duff has pledged to donate $250,000 to help Hurricane Katrina victims on the Gulf Coast. The 17-year-old singer-actress will give $200,000 to the American Red Cross and $50,000 to USA Harvest, which is supplying food to shelters, according to a statement released Thursday by publicist Cece Yorke. The latter donation will amount to more than 300,000 cans of food being provided to victims.

Duff encouraged fans to bring canned food donations to her concerts and to give money to charities.

9:47 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pumping the water out of New Orleans could take a month or more, according to a former head of the Army Corps of Engineers.

Removing the water depends on how much of the pumping capacity engineers can get working, former Lt. Gen. Robert B. Flowers said Friday.

Optimistically, the capacity could lower the water as much as a foot a day, but it is likely to start more slowly and could take a month or more, he told The Associated Press.

9:43 A.M. - WWL-TV Reporter Stephanie Riegel: It was too late Tuesday to figure out that you couldn't evacuate a poor population, many with no way out.

[LikeLight]

Yep, the grown ups are on the scene.

[bwteim]

I think he/they report said he was going along with a crew on a chopper who had done the Saddam rescue.

[beltfed308]

A fire just broke out down the street from Interdictors web cam.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

[Pyro7480]

This is one of those times I hate being office-bound. It's probably better though, my productivity would be suffering more!

[Jrabbit]

Nurse or doctor on Fox said that thugs had taken over the roof of the hosp. They were demanding that the helos rescue their families instead of the patients. Most had rifles....so, the helos refused to land and nobody got evacuated.

[AmericanInTokyo]

When it comes to major-sized disasters and such, while Japanese official emergency and bureaucracy can be horrendous and slow and even inept, on the other hand, the people hit by disasters themselves are as cool as a cucumber...you couldn't ask for a better crowd to be stuck in, a grassroots crowd of say 20,000 other poor souls, shuffling together to safety. You'd have literally little to no worry about crime, looting, rapes. PS I don't live in Japan, but I know the country and its responsible citizens and mindset as well. A lot more following instructions by authorities fo their own good, and a lot less entitlement and pissing and moaning. It might be out of a sense of 'fatalism' and resilience in the face of disasters (shoganai) more than anything else.

[GOPrincess]

It sounds like today is the tipping point as far as things turning around -- when I heard about the 8-mile-long convoy when I turned on the TV this morning I teared up. What great news.

[dfwgator]

Will the DMB be using their tour bus?

[dfwgator]

Cue up "Convoy" by CW McCall.

[tomkat]

Maybe that's why some of us are stuck up north - someone's gotta be available to toss the rhetorical molotovs    ;-)

[hummingbird]

When I heard the story, I thought it was Freeper Rescue,,

LOL...okay, which Freeper chapters come to mind?!

All of them! And, some of them would be in costume...

[Pyro7480]

Disagree with their past opinions or actions, be thankful they are doing so.

[SeaBiscuit]

FOX reporting AF1 just touched down in Mobile..

[dinasour]

ho my - what did she say?

I told Uncle Ike: "FYI, You stop being a newbie the first time a troll calls you a racist nazi."

And she replied: "Must mean I'm still a newbie. Nobody on FR every called me a racist nazi."

[dinoparty]

You're right, O'Reilly is obnoxious lately. I had him on for two minutes last night, and he was pretty much telling a NOLA victim to get to the point because she was rambling on about how bad things are. Look, if O'Reilly is going to use victims to increase his ratings, the least he could do is listen to them without flippant dismissing comments and interruption.