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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 think Shep has showered. He's in different clothing.
Thank you for giving me this information. I will add them to the list. I wish I had the technical skills to combine all of these lists into one, but it's wonderful to have these resources.
regarding the "blame game" - the dye is already cast on that, the MSM is moving in lock step with a predicatable attack. if tommorrow, every evacuee from NO was put up at a Marriott, it wouldn't make a difference. Once the media gets on a track like that, they simply craft and manipulate the news to fit the agenda. Notice how today, the reports about looters, and snipers shooting buses, choppers, boat rescue teams - are absent. When the Red Cross representative mentioned it to Jesse Jackson on Larry King, they all fell silent and moved on. It doesn't fit the agenda to show people that some component of NOs own residents are responsible for the problems.
Its best just to examine facts on the ground and take it as it comes; some good, some bad.
the political counter attack is going to have to be led by talk radio - it started today.
I heard they didn't have baths either until today. Now the water is there. Don't know what is fact.
I already have the .357. It is not just the .357 cartrdige (although that is an issue for a small woman also), it is the size of her hand and the weight of the gun. She actually has a hard time holding the barrel up.
She can't even squeeze the trigger. I have taught her to cock the gun and shoot that way (double action), but she can not shoot from the trigger straight out.
She really needs a smaller gun (that packs a punch though) that can fit better into a small hand. Any ideas?
I'm a Sally Army girl, myself.
But we do things one-on-one mostly.
When I was a little girl, we needed social services and charity. Only problem was, folks thought we were stupid because we were poor.
If I hadn't met my husband, I don't know if I would have ever thought otherwise.
Maybe the Police Chief has not been in communication with the Convention Center & doesn't have a clue what the conditions are there.
Have you noticed how we don't get answers to our questions too? Some people are not observant and will believe anything a Fox reporter tells them. I will believe Harrigan but I refuse to believe everything Shep and Geraldo have to say.
They change clothes, bathe with bottled water, and yet the people around them have no water? Give me a break!
Shep never said *he* was abandoned...he was trying to get help for the people on the overpass (before it arrived). I don't get the problem there?
Confused in California (grin).
I find him extremely unimpressive (the Fema Head Guy) - don't even know his name. He can't even answer a question without looking shifty.
You stole the words floating in my head earlier today!
It’s very strange and maybe just coincidental. But have you noticed that it's the "Republican" Red states taking all the refugees from Louisiana?
Red6
Thank you SC!
I'm having celebratory beers now!
Well what can I say. Geraldo is just interviewing. He got beside himself with the babies. He has a newborn at home. Professional? Maybe not. Geraldo? Yep. I still like him, but he is a drama queen.
Just curious, when did Amtrak stop running? The Crescent train leaves NewO daily.
FEMA is supposed to have plans to evacuate an entire american city, in which a native insurgency is taking place because of a collapse of the local authorities? in 4 days? are you serious?
SCANNER- Did I hear that right?
Reporter causing MAJOR problem at Superdome, 23 buses enroute...
How in the hell do you know that this isn't the plan. Look, this is unprecedented. This is a nuclear explosion without the radiation. This is 92,000 square miles of total destruction. This is a hell of a lot bigger that what is happening in New Orleans. There are 2 million people out there that have lost everything and, once again, those that are adults are taking care of themselves until help arrives and those that are emotional infants are sitting on their hands waiting for help to get to them.
Let me ask you this. The super dome was at least shelter. There were literally 1000's of able bodied men in that shelter that could have at least organized themselves to keep the criminals from preying on the weak and protecting those that couldn't protect themselves. What did they do, the trashed the only shelter they had to the point of it being uninhabitable. Now we see able bodied MEN scrambling on to buses while women children and elderly are left behind. At this point there shouldn't be one damn male under the over the age of 18 in any of the shelters in Texas. They should all be in NO helping to get their wives kids and parents the hell out of NO.
I was being somewhat sarcastic. You would think he would share his water before shaving. Good question about where he goes to the bathroom -- what do they have set up for the crew to video, etc.?
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