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

[MarMema]

Noted a diabetic who is sweating profusely with no aid.

That really makes me ill. How is it that Lily donated a truckload of insulin supplies but people with diabetes are going into DKA on television?

[NautiNurse]

The uhhhh, Reverend, uhhh Jesse Jackson is preaching on CNN...

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I lost everything once in a fire. If you have never been in a situation where you only have the clothes on your back and no place to go, it is a good thing not to minimize the plight. There are towns on the gulf coast that were almost obliterated by the water. I have family members who now only own what goods they stuffed in their cars before they evacuated.

Everybody who lost is suffering hell. I feel for all of them, in NO and out.

[NormsRevenge]

Donation Update - FRom the AP newswire

Nicolas Cage gives $1 million to hurricane relief
http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5598671p-5575755c.html
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actor Nicolas Cage donated $1 million Thursday to hurricane relief efforts for ravaged New Orleans, a spokeswoman said.

The donation went to the American Red Cross, publicist Annett Wolf said in a press release.

The statement said Cage, who maintains a residence in New Orleans, "wishes to help his neighbors during this most devastating time."

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Hilary Duff to donate $250,000 to hurricane relief
http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5598680p-5575773c.html

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Hilary Duff pledged Thursday to donate $250,000 to help hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast.

The 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 by publicist Cece Yorke. The latter donation will amount to more than 300,000 cans of food being provided to victims.

Duff said that the devastation she has seen on TV has been heartbreaking.

"People are missing family members, and they have absolutely nothing left, not even food and water," she said in the statement.

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

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Toyota companies donate $5 million to Gulf Coast relief
http://www.bakersfield.com/state_wire/story/5598670p-5575753c.html

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TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) - Toyota companies have contributed $5 million to dollars to fund relief for victims of Hurricane Katrina.

"We're hopeful that aid may quickly reach those who fell victim to the torrential wind and rain," said Jim Press, president and chief operating officer of California-based Toyota Motor Sales USA.

Pledges came from Toyota Motor Corp. of Japan and American companies including manufacturing and distributorship entities. Assistance was also being arranged for finance and lease customers in the form of payment extensions and suspension of credit bureau reporting on accounts impacted by the hurricane.

Various Toyota companies will also match employee contributions to the American Red Cross and the newly created Friedkin Disaster Relief Fund. Texas-based Friedkin Companies owns Gulf States Toyota.

[conservative in nyc]

I hate to inject politics into this, but why is Mary Landrieu mugging for the TV cameras, anyway? She's not the governor or mayor. She doesn't control the Louisiana National Guard or the New Orleans. She doesn't control FEMA or any federal executive branch department. She'd better serve her constituents by quietly liaising with federal and state officials.

You don't see Senators Vitter, Lott or Cochran on TV as much. A Google News search of articles since the 29th comes up with:

75 Results for "David Vitter"
152 Results for "Thad Cochran"
564 Results for "Trent Lott" (And a lot of those about his Pascagoula house being destroyed); and
1,560 Results for "Mary Landrieu"

[GOP_Proud]

Make it the beginning of the landfill to raise it above sea level?

[BurbankKarl]

there are teams of private security, that served in Iraq, now moving in for companies and such (like NBC)

[jbstrick]

charity Hospital Nurse on Hannity.

She does not confirm any of the reports we were hearing earlier.

[sfimom]

Me too. Also (what was the mute's name?) and the 'summy' there were a lot of characters that people could/should emulate. As an aside.......they survived and lived on.

[WoofDog123]

i think it is subject to interpretation - I never read what he said as condescending, but rather as true. It has crossed my mind that given the choice of being homeless in biloxi or nola, there is NO WAY under almost any circumstances I would choose nola, especially if i had a family to protect.

[oceanview]

because without security, much of the aid cannot get to these people.

[madison10]

Shooting at Entergy workers restoring power...somewhere near Lake Charles

I'm beginning to wonder if the shooters are even Americans, they sound more like insurgent transplants from Latin America or the Middle East.

[Tuxedo]

How to dispose of the city? Rather easy, open the river levee, let it fill up until it reaches the lake. Bring in helicopters with tons and tons of sack-crete and dump it on the water. Once it solidifies, the ground is no longer below sea level.

No, I am not being serious.

[livius]

Actually, I think some of the rest of us (including many blacks who are not in the "career black grudge class") have had enough of them. This may actually be a watershed moment, but not in the way the MSM wants. People of all races may finally be disgusted enough to say ENOUGH!!!

BTW, my local New York Times paper (the Gainesville Sun) just started a special weekly for blacks. Typical liberal resegregation. I live in a predominantly black neighborhood, so I receive it (they can't even sell it and have to give it away). Its second issue, published today, had a front page feature article on the lynching of a black person somewhere around here - in 1916.

Almost a hundred years later, and the NYT is still using it to stir up race hatred and fear. That's liberals for you, liberals and their black victims.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

They ought to shoot half the anchors, maybe all the national anchors to a small island in the pacific somewhere. The ultimate game of survivor. Might be interesting to watch.

[steveegg]

I hate to inject politics into this, but why is Mary Landrieu mugging for the TV cameras, anyway? She's not the governor or mayor. She doesn't control the Louisiana National Guard or the New Orleans. She doesn't control FEMA or any federal executive branch department. She'd better serve her constituents by quietly liaising with federal and state officials.

Not to mention that the Senate is back in session tonight, and she's not there.

[mware]

Mar. This is going into the fourth day with dialysis.

They are going to start dying.

[MarMema]

Amd what was the excuse yesterday, do you know?

[rwfromkansas]

Well, that is true.

I have been limited in my coverage of what I have been able to see today, but I have not seen bodies at least on the evening news except one in the water from a decent distance so it was hard to tell.

There was one picture posted on here earlier where a dead man is sitting in his chair uncovered at the Convention Center.

I would NOT have run that picture.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

I don't think I'd trust any elected official in Louisiana that I didn't know personally before the election...and even then, I'd look twice...