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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
email the White House and let your thoughts be known.
whitehouse.gov
I just did.
LOL.
WWL- Interviewed a New Orleans Cop last night that threw down his badge and quit...
Said officers were dying, and they had no orders or support..
Trucking company claimed they lost 2 drivers that were trucking FOOD into New orleans...
Coast Guard choppers took fire...Etc,etc,etc...
Ambulances hijacked and drivers beaten...
And those are just the ones
I agree and some attempts were made, they just didnt know where to drop everything. The FEMA or NG guy didnt even know about the convention center till yesterday..the locals dropped the ball..apparently it was not a designated shelter but broken into and used by the displaced persons..There was no command and control in NO there should have been a checklist from the NOPD as to where people were at to make sure they were supplied. No leadership no initiative..I know if I was a cop my superiors would have known about it and I would have kept checking till they were supplied...supposedly 100 cops did try to get in there last night but were rebuffed by thugs and only made it in this morning with help from the NG...
The chief of police did say they had no food and water and if you scroll down 10 posts from the pic I showed you you can see the food and water..it was an outright lie...
I just saw a hit piece on Nightline. Played the race card heavily. What a joke that show has been for so very long.
Some do. Foxnews interviewed a refugee earlier who couldn't say enough about the kind people of Texas and kept thanking God he was alive and being so well cared for. Doubt we'll see him on any other station anytime soon.
In the end .. the will lose just like they always do
I'm telling you right now these idiots are sure lucky I am not President. I would have placed the NO mayor and LA Governor in an undisclosed location and declared full martial law in NO. Bush has tried to stay withing the constitution and has been savaged for doing so and I am fed up with it. I'm telling you right now that this may be the end for Bush since the GOP is about to run for cover. The American people have no idea what is about to happen to our economy and the war in Iraq. The American people are about to be tested like never before and from what I can see we are not up to the task.
FEMA never gives press conferences like that while rescue is in progress. THEY'RE TOO BUSY RESCUING PEOPLE.
The only people giving press conferences every four hours is the useless LA state officials. You don't see the MS or AL people doing that.
I think all the media's have choppers down there, to film & also transport their employees around.
During some of the Coast Guard rescues were taking place I remember a reporter telling the cameraman "zoom in" & then explained air space was restricted during the rescues.
Also this I 10 overpass connects to 90 west to Houma (40 miles).
And no room to bring food or water with them? And no way for them to find the authorities and tell them where they were? Instead they get on TV and shout like hysterical children when the authorities were obviously NOT watching TV, they were too busy trying to save lives.
I saw that too - worse than shameful. I thought Koppel was going to retire soon.
You mean all the tanker trucks that are currently being used to shuttle fuel to some of the affected areas for the search and rescue crews to use?
Helicopters and trucks run on fuel, not water.
55,000 people exit the stadium ans take either public transit or personal vehicles to their homes or other destinations. Now, except for the public transportation, personal vehicles and homes to go to, your analogy works.
Re the helo, there was a later report of actual gunfire damage to a helo - quoted to a crewman or pilot (I can't recall which)
Lots of people are willing to help out. You may want to get on the phone tommorrow and see if there are any gas station owners who know a company who would be willing to do this. I'm sure local churches and charities would be able to get the money together or maybe the gas company would give it away. Sometimes people/companies aren't aware of these situations until they are told about it. It is people such as yourself who take these challenges and help people who are going to be the unsung heroes of this tragedy. FEMA, the Red Cross, all of them, have their hands full. Good luck to you :-)
The people who need to hear the info have NO WAY OF HEARING THE PRESS CONFERENCES. They have no electricity, the local radio stations aren't operating or transmitting.
I pray you are wrong but I'm afraid you are right.
We just aren't the "greatest generation". We are whiners and crybabies. God help us.
If you'll recall, there WAS a FEMA exercise last year that included looting and unrest by the inner-city population...
Media went nuts over it, and someone lost his job for "Racial Insensitivity"
"That would be fine if that was where the trucks were coming from. I guess they should have asked you where to stage the supplies, then they could have avoided all the traffic."
Sorry - I ain't biting - if a 20 year old that never drove a bus can take one full of victims and be the first one to the Superdome, something is F'ed up.
The govt screwed up on this one
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