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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
Heard recently there are approximately 600 patients still needing evac from Tulane, Charity, and the surrounding hospitals. Patients at surrounding facilities must be carried by boat to the parking garage heliport. Good news - they have the big choppers that can carry 20-60 patients each trip.
Now that the good guys have arrived, the firemen have a better chance. Snipers were shooting at them. But last I heard, there was no water pressure to put out the fire. Sad.
1, either trying to prove he can't handle 2 things at once, or 2, trying to prove if we weren't in Iraq, we could have responded better to this crisis.
Warehouse district. Awful place. Made a wrong turn in NO at dusk one time.
He looks like an ink blot test. "What does this look like to YOU??"
Pretty soon even the media will have to admit what the real problem is.
4th question - Complaining why the response is so slow - Satisfied with the response, not satisfied with all the results. Pointing out that NO got hit by 2 different things; storm, then flood.
A fool in a tux?
sounded like Gregory...
A dr. last night talked about some of the critical patients on ventilators dying because both backup generators were under water.
Prez: Thousands of people have been saved...good news. One of the worst storms in the nation's history.
Maybe the media has more sense than I have. I won't report anything else I hear....
when Bush goes to New Orleans, I hope He is seen standing near the thousands of local school busses that were left empty and standing in a parking lot...
that would make a great visual to demonstrate just how certain folks failed their neighbors and are now trying to blame him....
but that would be to mean and Rovian
ahhhh....ya gotta love Gerry!
Jessie Jackson did not take one bottle of water to the starving people.
Someone in the MSM needs to point that out.
Jackson got his photo opt for the left wing radicals.
The plantation workers got the shaft.
Check out the New Orleans evacuation procedures...There are NO plans for people without cars or resources. A third grader could have written this.BQ...see what Peach has unearthed....lettuce turnup and pea.http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475714/posts
I heard her get that dig in about "richest country in the world"........I hate the press. Don't you know he wants to slap her; of course, he's a better person than we are.
Did you hear that question? "A lot of peole didn't have flood insurance because they didn't expect a storm like this."
The ongoing press conference with President Bush now being conducted shows the level of absurdity and idiocy that the MSM reporters are willing to deal in and stoop to.
"The NO voters lists are gonna need some major revisions.."
The NO congressional Districts will effectively be null and void for the 2006 election."
They'll still get the same "turnout" and the results will be the same. So what if they all left or are dead? Those details never bothered the dims before.
Prez: Will call upon experts to decide how to rebuild NO, if in a diff location or higher.
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