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

[GOP_Proud]

< Just saw on one of the News channels Detroit offer to take basically everbody. >

Good. They can put them in all the abandoned buildings.

[samantha]

I hope he brings firepower with him landing on that levee.

[PhiKapMom]

Why Freepers would discredit scanner reports and trust Gov. Blancobrain and the MSM is beyond me

That makes two of us! Unbelieveable is all I can say. Some of the same people believe CNN over anything FEMA or President Bush has to say as well!

[Michael Goldsberry]

One Christian to another, let's take the Church talk over to the religion forum.

[bwteim]

ROTFLMAO

[mware]

Read Stephan Kings, The Stand.

All will be answered.

[PhiKapMom]

First time I heard about the Convention Center was late last night.

[RummyChick]

Arthel neville coming up on FOX. Shen went into NO.


She used to talk about how her Uncle was so and so in just about every show when she was on Good Day live.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

And we have our first candidate for the preview and editing of the live shots.
I posit that you have never seen or handled a corpse.

[Born in a Rage]

I'm not sure what your point is, but CNN and others have their cameras there...what has Bush said? I'm believeing what I'm seeing.

[Strategerist]

Yep, I remember it being suggested, but like I said I'm sure Detroit would exploit the whole thing for Federal largess.

[radiohead]

I cried over a 500.00 brake job at Christmas.

LOL. Thanks for the pick me up. : ) I have been tearing up off and on all day. I don't mean to laugh at your situation, but I know what you mean. I've been there (usually my issue is dentist's bills).

[NautiNurse]

Decency and compassion have been tossed under the bus for ratings.

Oh, but there was a window (albeit broken) for compassion...the group of those-who-need-to-see-dead-bodies rationalized as a group that blurring out the faces of the dead on camera would provide decency. I am not exaggerating...

[oceanview]

I agree with you. people have been telling me I'm nuts for saying Blanco is operating under DNC orders - she can't be this deatched from reality.

[bwteim]

I meant no disrepect. My Bible is at my bedside and open for reading. Just found don-o's remark really hysterical in this trying time.

[CedarDave]

OK, even if I try to understand the looters' motivation... how do they think they are going to get this stuff out of the city? There will be no water or food left once they evacuate the citizenry. Doubt they let anyone on a bus carrying a plasma TV.

Stash it on the second floor or attic of a "safe house" and come back and get it after the city is reopened for retrieval of belongings in 6-8 weeks.

[MarMema]

wish I could recall the FReeper who posted it.

I was thinking the same thing....it was at least yesterday, perhaps the day before.

[mware]

It was a literary comment actually, read Stephan Kings The Stand.

[metmom]

Maybe this has been asked but the threads are almost humanly impossible to scan for this info: Does anyone know what has happened to cajungirl? Last I remember was the storm was starting to hit and she was being advised to get into an inner room to avoid flying glass. I can't recall seeing her post anything since then.

[SE Mom]

Precisely my point- they need to get them out- now.. These are not men who are equipped with what it takes to report this. I have a rule of thumb- if I find my attention is on the reporter of the story- rather than the STORY- I switch channels.

Real reporters- (don't ask me to name one offhand!) are in the background..they are a shadow..they present the facts in ways that are never self-promoting. I guess an example might be something on the Discovery Channel ..we become so engrossed in what we're learning FROM the reporter..but couldn't tell you anything about who THEY are at the end..