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

[SunnyUsa]

You see vermin on those Hwys waiting for help, I see people.

that's the difference

[mabelkitty]

I like Texas - never been there, but it sure seems like a place I'd fit right in.
I like to think of Texas as America's Tough-Love Military School.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Thanks for the link! I printed the information out for my bf's pastor. He was raised Jewish, and I think his sister(orthodox) will be interested in this as well. She can pass it on to her Hadassah. My heart breaks for these people. They are our brothers and sisters.

I'd like to send diapers and whatnot, directly to the Astrodome, thereby cutting out the red tape. Is this possible?

[RDTF]

Grealdo was the one reporting on the convention center..

[GOPrincess]

"the strangely self-involved tone"

That's a great way to describe the Governor's letter.

As my husband just pointed out, this sure drives home that elections really do have consequences...who we elect *matters* more than many people would like to admit.

[Diddle E. Squat]

You tell a lie and I'll call you a liar. I've watched him come up on dead bodies, come up on the dying, it was a major point he was making in his report. Had the dignity not to show them (other than the 1 body on the overpass on I-10 east of where he normally is) but would point in their direction when describing what was going on. You think he made that up? There are plenty of the weak and elderly that have died on the streets, it was unavoidable given the scale. But it is still unnerving, and facts that should be reported. I've also heard him and others talk about people they saw who were laying collapsed, and who later died. Several reporters noted the case that happened today at the convention center. Heard those reports with my own ears, saw those reports with my own eyes. So are you calling me a liar?

[TexKat]

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.

I believe that was the driver of the renegade bus that a reporter of CNN was having a kiniption fit about Wednesday night. It was the very first bus that arrived at the Astro dome on Wednesday night. It arrived several hours earlier than the buses were expected to arrive. It was really funny how the reporter on CNN was highly upset and suspicious of the bus, the driver and thef passengers. Once the passengers were unboarded the bus, some of them responded to the reporters that yes that they came from the Superdome, because the rule/plan was that only people that had been in the Superdome were to be bussed to the Astrodome. So some of the passengers lied and some told the truth which made the reporter suspicious as well as the time of arrival. On Greta tonight the driver stated that he got the bus from one of the school yards in NO.

[madison10]

What you guys are seeing is Orleans Parish on display, not the rest of the Greater New Orleans area.

So we are just seeing a tiny portion of the 900,000 acres that was damaged & the MSM is making it out to be the only city on the planet? One parish? If you ask me that's not even real reporting, it's just inciting people to riot.

Well excuse me while I go break something...the media frustrates me no end.

[steveegg]

OMG!
She wants people to send cash to the LA Governor's trust?
Is she insane?
What the hell is she doing?
Trying to cover up the theft of funds?

Or perhaps trying to pad her pocket some more. After all, it's Louisiana.

[Torie]

The guy probably thinks it has too many bars, and not enough churches. I prefer bars myself.

[toldyou]

"Absolutely and i'm sure he really cares,,,,do we really think she voted for him the last time???"

I'll bet she voted for Kerry at least twice.

[RDTF]

LOL!

[JediForce]

My apologies..I thought it was obvious that NO was what I was speaking of.

[dawn53]

I post on another forum (it's a health forum, people aren't really allowed to get too political), but they are discussing the hurricane and hurricane response.

These folks are mostly liberal and don't really like Bush, but there is not any Bush bashing going on on that board (nothing like what's happening on FR anyway.)

They (the people on the health board) are all pretty fatalistic about the situation and agree that it takes days to bring in supplies.

They have empathy for the people, in fact one member of the forum lived in Houma and another member lived in Waveland and lost everything.

Their main concern at the moment seems to be a discussion of why people are allowed to rebuild on property that is below sea level or coastal property, then have the taxpayer bail them out over and over when disasters hit.

They think the response is what would be expected and aren't faulting anybody for dropping the ball.

I think people on FR listen to the media more than the average Joe and therefore we're more inclined to believe the MSM is having an effect on the average American.

Didn't the last election, and the election of 2002 prove that the MSM can rant, and rant, and rant, and it doesn't influence things politically.

[DaisyCutter]

Shep said he was on a road above the convention center, I believe. And he also agreed that those people were being ignored.

[bwteim]

LOL. and, you can have both.... wow, imagine that, too!

[glock rocks]

There shouldn't be one able bodied male on any bus out of there untill all of the kids, women and elderly are out.

I met an old cancer patient from N.O. in a Utah hospital today. His root cause statement: "This is a result of people no longer learning a sense of self reliance and personal responsibility."

He nailed it.

[Txsleuth]

Dubya could run for Governor of Texas again and I would vote twice for him....LOL

BTW, I have been babysitting...haven't heard if the hostage situation with the firefighters is still ongoing...

Do you know?

[Iowa Granny]

Is this guy a well known civil rights leader?

I'd never heard of him, so I googled him: Randall Robinson is the founder and president of TransAfrica, the organization that spearheaded the movement to influence U.S. policies toward international black leadership. Frequently featured in major print media, he has appeared on Charlie Rose, Today, Good Morning America, and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, among others. There are several other items in the 'results', but nothing to indicate he's leading anything except those who want to stir up trouble. (and the link you provided is verbatum with the article posted here today which was pulled. I copied and saved it because I had my doubts, and figured it would come up for discussion tonite.)

[MarMema]

Isn't she something else? I listened to one of her press conferences and she sure emphasized the need for federal money. Most of the pain and suffering is on her conscience, imo.
I thought at first that she was incredibly incompetent, but now I am beginning to think she is just evil.