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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

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



TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Florida; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; katrina; tropical
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

I like some of the local anchors. Maybe I'm prejudiced...


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In the heavily liberally occupied
Bay Area, we call them Loco Anchors ;-)


821 posted on 09/01/2005 6:24:37 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... "To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men." -- THOMAS JEFFERSON)
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To: maggief

18 babies? Oh my.


822 posted on 09/01/2005 6:24:55 PM PDT by cajungirl (no)
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To: spectre

because thugs would shoot at the helicopters. and there is nobody to shoot back.


823 posted on 09/01/2005 6:24:56 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: spectre
So tell me, good people..why couldn't WE airdrop some food and water on the roof of the hospital? Huh? This is the greatest country in the world, and we couldn't do that?

Is that the hospital where the thugs came out with guns & chased off the rescuers? Maybe the staff fears for their lives & does not want to go outside.

824 posted on 09/01/2005 6:25:08 PM PDT by madison10
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To: GAB-1955

I've been listening online...it's better, even being spotty, than listening to Katie Couric any day...


825 posted on 09/01/2005 6:25:31 PM PDT by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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To: metmom

No problem, there are still things on FR that I don't know about. I didn't sign up for months because I was afraid I'd do something wrong.


826 posted on 09/01/2005 6:25:33 PM PDT by tiki
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

Local anchors are the best IMHO!


827 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:00 PM PDT by PhiKapMom (AOII Mom -- Allen in 2008)
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To: bwteim

"Great news, but you're killing dialup users"

Goto browser options and uncheck the load images box. You will no longer be slowed down by pictures. And you can still load them by clicking on them individualy.


828 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:15 PM PDT by Revel
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To: MarineMom613

Jesse Jackson on LK just stated he believes people are exagerating about the snipers shooting at rescuers.

I believe JJ is full of it...


829 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:22 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

no the story they are going with is that FEMA blew the levees early in order to kill blacks.....

they mistimed it.

plus, BUsh used all the money for national emergencies to support his evil warmongering, so more blacks and poor will die...

and the busses are taking really people to "the camps", not to the Astrodome....a few refugees will be sent, but thats just for tv. most of the poor and minorities are being "eliminated" out in the desert somewhere...

and this comes from Ph.D students who will be teaching your kids American History in a few years.....

thank God I have beer to decompress after this cr@p


830 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:29 PM PDT by Will_Zurmacht
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To: RummyChick

RummyChick...step back from the computer...for either you or it is about to explode...


831 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:46 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)
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To: RummyChick

I was asking the same thing, where is Clarence?


832 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:47 PM PDT by samantha (Cheer up, the adults are in charge.)
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To: All

I thought I saw somewhere on this thread, although I can't find it now, that tourists were being attacked. Is this true? If it is, what kind of moron would be a tourist down there at this time?!?!?!?!


833 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:51 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Knitting A Conundrum

It was a half realistic and half sciFi/fantasy novel about the aftermath of a massive nuclear war.


834 posted on 09/01/2005 6:26:52 PM PDT by sfimom (NW PA thank God.)
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To: don-o
But, he has other fish to fry.

I think he'll be boiling crawfish, instead.

835 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:00 PM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: GAB-1955
The scanners report that an Air Traffic Control flight from Texas is coming in ...

I believe that what was ordered was ATC equipment, to be set up to facilitate operations. There were questions about where to deliver the equipment.

836 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:01 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: WestCoastGal
It's criminal at this point that the police just pass by without any word of when help will come.

Maybe they don't know what to say, because there's no communication, and they're just doing the best they can under the circumstances.

838 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:17 PM PDT by easonc52
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To: cajungirl

omg


839 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:47 PM PDT by sfimom (NW PA thank God.)
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To: NCC-1701

maybe reduce/compact and use the debris to raise the level of the city?


840 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:49 PM PDT by WoofDog123
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