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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
I saw it, you said it never happened. I know what you said was false, and spelled out in more detail that I had indeed seen those reports. Once again, you say it never happened. So in effect you've called me a liar. One of us is lying. I'm not. If you want to get all huffy and self-righteous, that's your choice.
The people are still there. THey haven't been evacuated. Those people on the bridge have been there for days. There are just "hundreds" of them. They are being ignored.
The cop and the man on the scene was talking to Geraldo about no food or water. Maybe they got it maybe they didn't. The folks on the bridge, to my knowledge, didn't.
Shep isn't lying. You aren't there. You don't know that all that stuff even got to the people. Some people did get food and water. But they are all still there and the situation is dire. We need to get them out.
I say send them to the closed military bases. Don't rebuild N.O. It is foolhardy. Get them food, clothing, shelter, and help them to get on their feet again.
Bellyaching about Shep is helping nothing. NOTHING.
I'm thinking of when they go to open the books for all the funds earmarked for this tragedy.
Does anybody know if there are plans online pre-Katrina?
Would be interesting to compare the plans/reinforecemts to what is in fact reality.
Laura Ingle, the girl who reported every day on the Michael Jackson trial?
Don't try to absorb it - filter it.
Well, given this and his dithering about the hotels leading up to the evacuation order, we can make a fair guess as to who was lining his pockets for the last few years.
"WWL just had Je$$e Jack$son on calling New Orleans "the hull of a slave ship"."
Jesse Jackson just went into that "slave ship" yesterday, and didn't do a @#*% thing. So I guess he's too big to help the slaves. Leave that to the rest of us proles.
I disagree. Strongly.
Greta didn't said Laura INGALS...I think
get real, I am disappointed in him, I expect so much more. I'm hoping tomorrow things start moving because he saw it first hand.
race baiting?
Never me - back that one up, dear or take it back
Yes. I think so.
Yep... she covered the Peterson trial and has been on KFI for as long as I can remember,
I heard from a friend in Michigan, not yet confirmed, that they may be putting them up in Red Cross & Salvation Army shelters.
I live in San Jose, and my husband and I were both saying the same thing today.
This also shows just how prepared that each individuals need to be.
I thought that we didn't need a gun because we don't hunt, and I think I'm wrong.
I'm also thinking that it would be a good idea for our neighborhood assocation to have a satellite phone.
I've been primitive camping since overnight Monday and just got back to civilization. This is one weird story.
Laura Ingle? A Conservative Talk show host? Never heard of her.
I believe Shep and the other reporter at that location are platooning back and forth to Baton Rouge each shift, if I'm not mistaken. That's been one of his complaints, actually... that other officials' cars are passing by without helping these stranded people in both directions.
That black area isn't a lock on Dems any more.
I'm from the area - Kerry actually did a stump in East Cleveland.
Media reported more and more young blacks taking another look at the Republican party.
It was a great time for me to be unemployed.
Man I miss that election season ; )
I think the remarks were about the upcoming vote. IIRC, he thought there was no way it would take place. Other than that he passed, LOL!
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