[bwteim]

FROM WWL FEED

Updates as they come in on Katrina

06:28 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005

Tom Planchet

6:28 P.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Six truckloads of medical materials from the Strategic National Stockpile are headed to hurricane-stricken Louisiana and Mississippi, and 10 temporary hospitals should open at area military bases by Friday night.

The government said emergency medical shelters are being established at Fort Polk, La., the Mississippi Air National Guard Station in Jackson, Eglin Air Force Base near Pensacola, Fla., and the Naval Air Station in Meridian, Miss.

The shelters are in addition to one at Louisiana State.

[berkeleybeej]

Six truckloads of medical materials from the Strategic National Stockpile are headed to hurricane-stricken Louisiana and Mississippi

Hope to God they have an armed escort.