Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

President Bush continues to assess the catastrophic damage by air and on the ground in Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Bush spent the day meeting with search and rescue personnel, relief commanders, and displaced residents in Mobile, Biloxi, and the New Orleans area. U.S. Congress passed a $10.5 billion relief package for the hurricane ravaged areas. First Lady Laura Bush issued a press statement from an evacuation shelter in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Patient and staff evacuations continue from numerous New Orleans Hospitals. Thousands of patients are being airlifted to a field hospital at Louis Armstrong New Orleans Airport for triage, staging, and transport to hospitals throughout the United States.

The U.S. Coast Guard and civilian volunteers continue to evacuate thousands of survivors from their flooded homes in New Orleans. The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to repair the damaged levees.

The nation's airlines today began an operation intended to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans. The airlines are volunteering their aircraft and crews for the program. Long convoys loaded with relief supplies arrived throughout the day into New Orleans, while convoys of buses are moving survivors out of the city.

Several large fires are burning in the city and greater New Orleans area. Reports indicate snipers are holding down firefighters. Reports of shots fired with LEO down in the St. Bernard Parish area. Rescue operations are underway. A bus carrying NOLA evauees rolled over in Opelousa, LA.

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:

New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002

WWL-TV New Orleans (via WFAA Dallas) - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. Yahoo has also provided a relay.

WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.

WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.

WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.

WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.

WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

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/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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

[sola_fide]

Red Cross, who everyone says donate too are not in NO, as it is not safe and they have not been asked.

Where did you hear this? I'm not trying to give you a hard time. It's just that I sent some money to them yesterday, and I want to know.

[cajungirl]

This just started and BR is tired already. Gonna be a long few months.

And white people are starting to grumble. I am afraid racial relations are going to be set back decades by this.

[RDTF]

Geraldo has a newborn at home - this has a lot to do with his behavior. They need to send him home.

[JerseyHighlander]

The road blocks in the Gretna bridge were put up last night by the parish President and Police chief. There were/are untold numbers of desperate people roaming within the parish, where most residents had evacuated before the storm, and most residences were empty. Untold amount of home break-ins and looting, arson, firefights. Parish President made a statement that he would stop them at the bridge last night, over his dead body, on a local newscast interview.

[stlnative]

The Tourists paid 25,000 for 10 buses days ago and those buses were comandeered by FEMA for evac. After notifying BBC press the tourist got the buses back and that's why they were sent to the front of the line. They PAID for these buses.


I don't know if you saw this - but this is true - These people were stuck in the French Quarters - one of the hotel owners hired the buses (charged each person $75.00+ for a seat on one of the buses, $75 x 400 = $30,000) - when they got to the French Quarters, FEMA took them over but gave the French Quarter tourist people a ride to the Super Dome or the people walked to the Super Dome - then the people moved to the Hyatt due to the violence at the Super Dome.

This is what I have heard. The people were tourists (brits - aussies - american from other states - etc) there was 400 of them. Most of them tried to fly out but the airport was shut down on Sunday Morning.

[Spktyr]

Amen to that. They are some of the toughest people in the world - I'm glad they're fellow Americans now.

[ken5050]

FEarless prediction: This weekend, Rita Cosby will report that Natalie Holloway's body has been discovered inside the Superdome..

[roses of sharon]

There are no real journalists left anymore, none. Just Oprah, pure Oprah.

[McGruff]

Get Whoreraldo out of here. he's stealing my spotlight!

[Dolphy]

Thanks for calling. I felt bad for the guy I got on the line, he seemed genuinely upset but I was as kind as I could be in letting him know what I thought of the comments.

[MikefromOhio]

no problem :)

[queenkathy]

is that what the Red Cross lady actuall said to JJ

[toldyou]

"Drudge has up a blurb about a claim that black people are eating the dead.'

OMG!

[BurbankKarl]

Not in the City of New Orleans...they are on the North Shore and anywhere else there isnt Martial Law.

275 shelters last time I checked.

[RushCrush]

fyi:

To Call FOX News Channel: 1-888-369-4762

Or

Comments@foxnews.com

[Mo1]

I'm up in the burbs and you'd be more then welcome to come up here if that ever happened

[nuclady]

I'm for it! However, do you mind if I take chablis? pino grigio wouldn't be bad either :-))

[hipaatwo]

If I'm mad enough I'm sure I can blow someone away. I'll just keep shooting till I hit em.

[steveegg]

ROFLOL!

[Blogger]

Have just a teensy weensy little bit of heart. You aren't there. He is.