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Posted on 09/02/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT by 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
Excellent points. The worst of them don't want to "report" they want to tell us lesser mortals the "meaning" of what happened/is happening. It's especially irresponsible when they try to do it by "emoting." If they can't conrol their emotions when confronted with distressing reality, they shouldn't be on-the- scene reporters.
Oh baloney. Look I have never seen officials and weather experts so damn scared in my life and I have lived in the gulf coast for many years. There is ABSOLUTLY no argument to be made that people did not have timely and forceful warnings.
They need to tell more of those stories. I am sure there are many.
I know here in Southwestern Louisiana, several folks have already found jobs and are getting on with their lives. Also, on the AM station out of Beaumont, TX they were all excited about getting several blue chip football players for their local teams.
Reading between the lines as to why the delay in relief entering the city, etc., I wonder who had authority on the checkpoints, and so forth.
I wonder if her ego and desire to control things kept help from entering; or if she knew the thugs were in charge and just wanted that to burn out before letting the help enter. I wonder if we'll ever know.
You are sooo right. The men in those pictures sicken me.
I sure don't know. Can't bring myself to look in there these days.
who do you think would even bring the charges?
How can he get credit? The dad-blamed media isn't paying attention to Mississippi & Alabama...no chance of starting wars or ruining the President's credibility in those places.
They are aware of good things happening. Shep said things are better. They aren't good though. Where is the bad reporting here?
Who are Scar's epublican friends? Chafee? Whitman?
Scarborugh has gone totally off the deep end. he can forget about any Florida senate bid.
In another good news story, my brother, his wife and two kids were found ALIVE in Pascagoula yesterday!
That kid was Moses! He drove people to the promised land (the Astrodome). Notice too that he didn't just take black people or white people -- he rescued ALL kinds of people! If a few more had his initiative, New Orleans would be a lot better off!!
From the way he spoke, he seems like he might be an inner city poor person with not much education or perhaps didn't pay attention in school. He saved lives instead of picking up an gun and shooting at the rescuers.I hope they tell his story more often.
I wish more people would have thought of this solution. I didn't catch where he went to get the bus. It might have been a different place than the picture of all the flooded buses.
On another note, very angry woman just saying GWB won't get her vote. I guess she doesn't know he won't be running next time.
It's worse than that. Anybody who has been to Louisiana in August knows that the hunidity and heat is awful. People showed up there soaking wet and are in the same clothes. No diapers, water, food for the majority of the time they have been there, outside in the elements with naked babies and old people in wheelchairs, many with injuries. We don't have to pay attention to the "hysterical" reporters. For God's sake... we can see them ourselves. In any event, I don't see how anyone can be around that and "exaggerate."
I was wondering about the security geraldo had there. Maybe they need to be securing other areas instead of protecting him..Just my opinion...
He is a professional. He is paid the big bucks to do this in a professional manner.
The ones who have done the best job IMHO, are the ones who have been there & done that....Steve Harrigan comes to mind, Rick Leventhal. Both were embedded in Iraq. I have to add Orlando to the A list because right now, he is my favorite. See my tag line.
I am wondering if this is the first time Shep has been as close to this type story as he is now. It is one thing to report death and destruction after the event. But it is baptism by fire if he has not been this close before and has lived with the stench of death for 5 days.
The biggest clue is when he told Sean "This is all the perspective you need." His tone of voice had that something which signaled he may very well be close to losing control.
But once again, he is a professional and paid to be a professional. If the time has come to pull him before he cracks, FOX needs to pull him. They are doing him no favors letting him stay if this is the case.
As for Geraldo, he has been there done that so many times I have lost count. He gets emotional (it must be in the contract, LOL! " Geraldo emotes 3x a week"), but I have never seen him this intense. It may be because he has an infant at home. Personalization. But if Geraldo needs to decompress, he should be pulled.
Like I said, I tried putting tin-foil on to see if I could put that past them, and I couldn't. The timing of the presstitute/DemonRAT 180, and the fact that it happened, isn't coincidence.
What a grandstanding Sandra Dee.
The Superdome had power, and when it went out, the generator kicked on.
I'm reporting from the thread.
You'll have to go back and read it.
I can't remember all this, as I have been here since last Saturday night.
I actually have family in Gulfport, so I make it a point to jump on when these threads start.
And yes, they are safe.
They even went back (through backroads).
Two houses are okay, one is damaged, they got gas out of their garage and headed back out of town.
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