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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
yep, I'm listening & may have to throw a very cute size 5 shoe at the set
She took a one year maternity leave. Her baby boy is due the end of October,
even at the convention center, people have water. the photos are right here on this thread. helicopter deliveries of water are everywhere.
the evacuation issues, the medical issues, the sanitation issues - those are legitimate. but the security situation is hampering alot of that.
Was it the conclusion of the Super Bowl, wasn't it, that FEMA was supposed to test the movement of a lot of people to safety (as a simulation)after the game in the stadium, to clean out a major city in the event of a WMD attack or pandemic? Where are their notes? This is a disgrace. The terrorists have not, most assuredly, planned their next major attack in such a way as to make the city of their choice "implode" socially from above, by an incorrigble domestic criminal element, after they have set off the 'initial charges'. We should not be surprised when it happens.
After all of the people who have said they have no water, you don't believe them? Maybe you ought to drive out there and find out for yourself.
And Askel's apartment looks dry. Wonderful, unlooked-for news.
Doesn't look like to me they helped much either -- why didn't they bring back supplies? Am sure Fox could have found a way to at least get water to those folks but then that would have ruined the story.
Been around journalism for years and you can take it the bank that a true journalist would have found a way to help those folks without keep shouting no one is helping them. Shep is not a journalist but a reader of the news and way over emotional.
Shep has become the story of his own making. If he is shuttled back and forth from Baton Rouge that makes it even worse IMHO!
Linda Vester must be kicking herslef because she took an extra long maternity leave right when the biggest story in her lifetime was breaking!
It may be Chalmette. Where is that in relation to the Central Business District?
Re: people needing help/gas in mississippi
It's really bad there for those small towns. No power, no gas, can't get food cause can't get gas, or money cause the atm machines aren't working. Not to mention water/ice shortage,,,,please pray for these people. My brother stood in line for 3 hours to only be allowed to get $10 in gas,,,,and by the way,,,help hasn't come yet and some of them are dying,,,,and MOST of them are white. But since so many resources are spent trying to rescue NO, Miss has to wait,,,,someone please tell me how that is racist,,,WHITE PEOPLE literally dying in miss and not screaming and blaming, just prayin and everyone of them saying, well, we are blessed, it could be worse,,,,
I can see keeping families with very young children together, but any single or detached able-bodied male should go last. If those same men had any sense of decency they would volunteer on the spot to help rescue and get vunerable women, children and the elderly out of harms way.
Than why did O'Reilly pointedly ask him who he is blaming after his rant?
The young man who commandeered the school bus and drove those people to Houston is a hero. He should get a Presidential Medal of Freedom. I wish there were more like him in NO and fewer of the idiots shooting at the rescuers.
"There were reports of snipers all over though. At police, at firemen, and at rescue vehicles."
One cop was shot point blank by a junkie and the snipers at the hospital were after oxycotin.
This is not a major issue in a city where you have thousands that drowned in their own home or died of heat exhastion intheir attacks after the water came up 9'
A little off topic, but am I alone in despising Sheppard Smith?
They can only fit so many pounds of food and water in a helo. And you don't dare deliver just "some" because you'll have a riot on your hands as 30,000 people fight for it. Plus the helos are busy plucking people off roofs. Makes more sense to make a huge delivery with trucks.
And speaking of trucks, there is limited access to the area. Big trucks with heavy loads can't travel on many secondary roads because of their weight.
I think the initial help should have and could have been local and state help. IMHO.
I heard FEMA ran a study last year of what would happen if New Orleans flooded. Obviously they didn't do very good planning as a result of what they learned.
Yeah. After over four days and apparently not on the overpasses.
Good point--they did have their acts together.
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