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

[Warren_Piece]

Sweet Lord Jesus...

Evil is a terrible thing to behold.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Truly our sanity touchpoint during disaster and elections.

[steveegg]

I'd use stronger language, but I don't want a time-out.

We need some Marine snipers to respond to that with .50-cal weaponry. Those "snipers" need a harsh, extreme-preducial lesson taught to them.

[cgk]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475927/posts

[AnAmericanMother]

Whoa!

What's your source?

[misharu]

Hey! I saw some Blackhawk helicopters on Fox earlier!! Think we can redirect them to the site and just kinda, sorta open fire?

[ncpatriot]

I thought she was touched by the outpouring of help offered by other countries.

I guess she has met a lot of the Heads of State of these countries. It choked her up. Just my opinion.

[Jrabbit]

Gonzales....gangs from NO have them pinned down. I'm going to scream.

[Miss Behave]

You're great, sfi. Hope all is well with you and your sweet son.

[neutrality]

source?

[AmericanInTokyo]

ANOTHER INTERNATIONAL EMBARRASSMENT

Read and ponder:

(From UK Telegraph, London):

""A young Briton trapped in New Orleans with his American girlfriend has issued an impassioned plea for help. Louisiana Superdome, where thousands are trapped Mark Graydon, 26, who is in the city's Superdome where thousands of refugees have gathered, told his father John that he feared for his life in the face of constant abuse from violent gangs. Mark borrowed a US military phone to call his father at home in Essex. "He told me he was very concerned about his life and his girlfriend'ssaid John Graydon, 56. "He said, 'Dad you have to get us out of here.' "That is the first time he has said that. He has been pretty brave until now. He is desperate. They are being abused and threatened. His girlfriend [Gretchen Heiserman] has been threatened with rape. "It's like a scene from Mad Max in there." Mr Graydon senior added that there were reports of bodies inside. Speaking to the Evening Standard, he said: "People are dying because of the lack of water, the intense heat and the lack of aid. "It's 100 degrees inside and he has not had any water since Wednesday night and no food for three days." Britons trapped in the New Orleans Superdome could be out within the next 24 hours. Marisa Haigh, a student from Guildford also trapped inside the Superdome, told her parents that US forces plan to bus them out of the city. Mrs Haigh, Marisa's stepmother, said Marisa had reported similar stories of mobs and violence.

[Howlin]

Did you hear that guy with Gibson talking about why it took so long to get in there?

The closest place they could get was Alexandria, LA and then they had to be trucked 150 miles!

[Coldwater Creek]

You forgot the toilet paper.

[stlnative]

Fox News

[Twinkie]

Uh. . but you see, you just don't understand. The hurricane didn't REALLY happen, you see. It is only a figment of the negative imagination. People are only imagining thirst and hunger. Those things are just fantasies of the cerebrum cerebellum cortex, which is, in itself, not really real. In fact, we are all figments ourselves. . nah, nah, nah, nah . . . just another day in the Twilight Zone.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Is the President still flying over this war zone?

[steveegg]

I can't limit myself to 2 presstitutes.

[Peach]

It was nearly 15,000 people died in France from the HEAT.

[steveegg]

My thoughts exactly.

[sfimom]

Ty Miss. He's doing better. We still have a rocky road ahead but I have been given a map........................