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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
they are bathing with bottled water
http://search.foxnews.com/_1_27GIT2Y04D3IYF4__info.foxnws/search/web/brit%2Bhume
Brit Hume will be on Fox News Sunday on September 4.
I believe that his story is that he went and got the bus on his own and picked up survivors on the way out of NO.
http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?base/news-18/1125239940201382.xml&storylist=louisiana
Excerpted 8-28-05: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.
Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.
The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
President Bush declares A State of Emergency on 8-26,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html
Calls the Mayor and Governor persoanlly on 8-28-05 pleads with the incompetant idiots to evacuate the residents, then has to personally see to it that Federal reliefe is provided because neither the Mayor or Governor is capable of taking care of the people. Just the facts.
I tell you one thing. He would nip the looting in the bud.
Where are you located? Our church is sending a bunch of supplies there this weekend and are asking for people to bring donations to the church.
Can I help?;)
Personally I was thinking of mixing up a pitcher of long island iced teas. Maybe if we have a few of those the MSM won't be such an endangered species in our vicinity.
I think the person means Laura Ingraham?
That's Laura Ingraham - not Ingalls
"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.
and that's the honest to God's truth!
"""Whoa, Shep now claiming people are LOCKED in the convention center. Police set up roadblocks to keep people from leaving NO. That can't be true."""
What Shep doesn't realize is that Gretna is in Jefferson parish, not Orleans Parish, and Sheriff Harry Lee has issued a state of emergency and no one who doesn't belong there will be allowed in. He knows the thugs would make matters worse there and his responsibility is to the people of his parish and to keep them safe. Harry Lee was on in the beginning stating he would just as soon shoot looters than to arrest them and he will, he doesn't mess around. Needless to say he has maintained order and control there.
you can shave with a bottle of water, shaving cream, and a Gillette. you don't need electricity to shave. Shep isn't living on that ramp, I imagine he's still in that hotel on Bourbon street? what I want to know is, what is he using for a toilet?
EXACTLY my question too. How come Geraldo and Shep can get in and out? No one answers these questions.....where does Shep get the changes of clothing? All he can say is that those people were abandoned. That is not responsible IMHO, when we saw Harrigan at the same place earlier, where food and water were being handed out.
Bump to all that!
Laura Ingle is a reporter for KFI Los Angeles, right?
Finally! Someone else noticed Shep does not have a beard and his face is clean shaven!
The gimmiecrats have long wanted to turn America into a third world cesspit, and so now we see the fruits of their scheming. Why do they now complain? They should slap themselves on the back and send out for champaign. If I sound cynical, I have nothing but compassion for the good folks of the Gulf coast. It's the looters -those in the streets and those in the corridors of power that I detest.
Thanks for posting that. I was wondering what happened to Brit.
Yahoo! News Photo
I wonder how many of these buses in water could have taken out people stranded from the hurricane. Sure Jessie Jackson blame Bush before thinking.
No Ingle... google it and you'll see her picture. She is on Fox all the time.
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