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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
Scanner: Memorial evac completed, then I lost more detail.
Also, another unit reporting that they were ready to pick up people, including woman with bad back, but then said they [people] instead first wanted food and water.
This whole terrible event is absolutely awful enough without these insane finger-pointing liberals out to bury G.W. at this time. No wonder the good man seems weary!
And I will repeat it again.
And now Lisa will be demoted to the mail room. How dare she put facts out there!!!
Thanks for the catch and your courage in listening to abc
That is gonna cause some real screaming in the CBC..but on;y the state van redraw a line..
And no "Little Dutch Boy" jokes, please.... ;-)
Yes, warehouse district....close to convention center and W Hotel
Bush showing courage and being positive as well as sensitive. What a man!
Pres: Spirit in Miss. is uplifting..
"what kind of fallout will come from pictures "
like an atom bomb - fall out willl be hot and long lasting.
Whoa! Bush says "we're taking it (chopper) to New orleans."
Shoot...There's going to be a thousand of'em in Utah at an old miltary base. And I suspect room might be found for more. I thought Detroit had all those empty spaces any more where people had moved out.
THat has been part of the plan all along. The question is whether he will actually land and visit with people.
I thought that came through loud and clear.
Healthy evacuated before the sick, says Cerise who described the scene as heartbreaking
By the Capitol news bureau
The state’s top health officer said Friday he witnessed healthy people being evacuated from a New Orleans hospital, while patients using ventilators to breathe were left on the roof.
A teary-eyed Fred Cerise, a physician and the secretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals, shook his head as told the story during an interview Friday.
Cerise had worked three days tending patients in New Orleans and said the scene is heart-breaking.
Cerise said he returned to Baton Rouge to try and better coordinate the evacuation effort of the Medical Center of Louisiana at New Orleans, consisting of Charity Hospital and University Hospital.
The medical facility is surrounded by deep water. It is without electricity and water. The toilets don’t work and the remaining generators are failing. Meanwhile, snipers have been shooting at departing helicopters and evacuees.
“The need is just overwhelming," Cerise said, and even with medical staff working around the clock, the demand far outweighs the people and supplies available.
Hospital staffers found a previously unused passageway between University Hospital and Big Charity. They ferry patients to a staging area in Big Charity, where the sick and injured are loaded onto trucks to cross the street. Patients then are wheeled through a Tulane University Hospital unit to a helicopter landing pad on the roof.
The evacuees then are moved to the nearby New Orleans arena, then to a helicopter pad for an arduous journey to other medical facilities, Cerise said.
Charity Hospital had about 230 patients and nearby University Hospital had about 120 patients at the time of the storm. In addition, to the sick and injured, several thousand others sought refuge in the hospitals during the storm.
Don Smithburg, who is charge of LSU’s public hospitals, said Friday the he has been unable to get accurate, up-to-date numbers of evacuees. But he said, the state was able to move 18 newborns from the neonatal intensive care unit and 10 well babies.
The evacuation is still under way, he said.
Smithburg said the evacuation effort is facing logistic and security concerns because the helicopters and hospital personnel were subjected to sniper fire Thursday. The situation stabilized when police units and armed soldiers were able to provide cover for the evacuation process.
Smithburg complained that efforts to deliver medical supplies, basic food and water to hospital staffers and patients have been turned back by armed personnel at the New Orleans city limits.
“There seems to be a lack of centralized command,” Smithburg said.
Once the evacuation is complete, Smithburg said the state might never use the huge, aging hospital again.
http://www.2theadvocate.com
How sad. Hope the Fireman on the scene will be safe and understand how hot that fire is gonna get.
Some jerk reporter just asked Bush if we have enough security down there, making references to Iraq..
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