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

[madison10]

A 20 year old kid jumped in a deserted school bus and picked up a whole load of ppeople that paid for the gas - hey were THE FIRST ONES TO THE ASTRO DOME!!

That's going to make one AWESOME movie scene! (as long as Hollywood doesn't screw it up) Great kid.

[oceanview]

many of the people attempting to do boat rescues, are private citizens. they don't expect to be shot at, even if they aren't hit, in the course of that action. so even if it happens once, they all back off.

[Spktyr]

Well, you'll have more - everyone in the US is going to have to conserve (the President went on TV and asked us to) for a while until the refineries come back on line and we can build new ones (which I suspect will be part of the EO, since I suspect one or more of the refineries will end up battered into uselessness.

[bonfire]

Thanks, dawn. Sucks to know that many people put their lives and their CHILDREN in harm's way.

[roses of sharon]

And the networks promoted is comments on the nightly news, they praised him! Next he will be a Senator.

Disgusting bastards.

This is truly a war for our country.

[Krodg]

It is an emotional time, so I think I understand why you would post this to me. There is a time and a place to argue with you the meaning of history and what constitutes a historical record, but I won't argue that with you academically at this time.

I have no intention of ever arguing with you. I believe that hope in buildings is wrong.

[Steve_Seattle]

A sure sign of media bias: no one in the media has asked why New Orleans could afford to build the Superdome but refused to pay anything to shore up the levees. That little fact would detract from the Bush-bashing.

[DrewsMum]

I'm not so sure Shep is interested in girls


That is so rude and I hope the moderator is catching this. How dare you ruin my fantasy! Blasphemy!

[Rennes Templar]

This is a basically a large war zone with impassable thoroughfares; it takes a long time to prepare troops and supplies to go into action. I think that getting massive relief after four days is amazing. The political carping is mere frustration and...politics.

[pollyg107]

I'm in Ridgeland, Mississippi, a couple hundred miles north of New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It is a suburb of Jackson.

[Ramius]

But, I was hoping that our mighty federal government could have at least gotten water to thousands of naked, dying people stranded in the street in 95-degree heat within four days.

They did. And they got shot at.

[Howlin]

Exactly. As if nobody "sees" what they see.

[spanalot]

"Span, just off the top of my head, there was the Soldier shot the first night by the dome (documented by all authorities/press), two officers shot and medivac-ed "

I am almost certain that there has been only one law officer killed at point blank range - same with the superdome.

Theres a bunch of junkies taking pot shots but I'm not sure this qualifies as snipers - they must be shaken more than a dog with fleas.

[supercat]

She really needs a smaller gun (that packs a punch though) that can fit better into a small hand. Any ideas?

The Kel-Tec P3AT is reasonably priced, and is probably the smallest .380 around. Kel-Tec also makes a .32 that's about the same size, and a 9mm pistol that's a bit bigger.

[A Citizen Reporter]

Well thank you very much for that K!

And obviously that doesn't apply for O'Reilly's show either. O'Reilly's show goes on anyway with the wall to wall Katrina coverage, but Brit Hume does not?

O'Reilly had a taped show when the President announced his Supreme Court nominee, and all the other cables were on with LIVE coverage. Something doesn't add up here.

[dawn53]

Cavuto's been on. Today he had an interesting segment with the guy who wrote "The Purpose Driven Life" , I think his name is Warren.

[LadyBuzz]

SO sorry I had to be the one to tell you - don't shoot the messenger - I'm in a ducking position

[hoosiermama]

Had a thought this evening:

The bad news is there are ten of thousands of folks Doing without food /water/medical attention/ basic needs....waiting to be or already evacuated from NOLA.

THE GOOD NEWS.....they ARE alive and we're not putting their bodies in bags....Every time we find a pocket of 20, 50, 100, alive and in need. We should be praising God!

[GOPrincess]

"If he was able to leave the ramp, why couldn't the people leave the ramp as well?"

For the reason that Fox had a single chopper for him (that's my *assumption*) and/or a boat to ferry him across from the ramp to the Dome, but there wasn't helicopter or boat transport in place for hundreds or thousands of others...and there was 5 feet of water between them and the Dome.

[Born in a Rage]

It may be that some people were given help right away, such as the lady in the wheelchair and other infirmed people, while others were told there wasn't enough for them yet. I don't see why this is so unbelieveable, there are thousands of people we are talking about. Supplies should have been dropped on the streets days ago - they should have at least tried.