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

[Will_Zurmacht]

don't worry, next it's back to Halliburton and KBR...they have been hired to do some cleanup....

liberals heads are exploding as we speak...

[Arizona Carolyn]

Just listened to Jessie Jackson on Larry King blaming everyone for this but nature. Red Cross said they were told by the State NOT to go in because everyone has to come out and if they go in the people will try to stay there and they cannot stay.

Jackson then said that was bull and the Red cross lady patiently repeated exactly what the job of the Red Cross is and what the STATE told them to do.

[oceanview]

still, I think it would help to have one official Ari Fleischer type guy who would go to a mic and talk about what efforts are ongoing.

[DrewsMum]

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.


So all the trucks that could possibly carry gas are over there???? Doubt it! and darn, i really thought helicopters run on water,,,since i obviously have no sense

[DCPatriot]

re: Frist's call for investigation....

You make some good points in an earlier live thread since locked.

But the advantage of showcasing their failures with a mid-term election next year is, well...Roveish.

President Bush will come out just fine on this. He's Superman.

[hummingbird]

I've just got home after being gone for 36 hrs. When did Geraldo show up? He seems rather dramtic and it's all about him. I could be wrong but I've been away.

You are not wrong. Big time Geraldo dramatics. He & NOLA police chief were a hysterical tag team...trying to make it sound like the crowd was about to blow any minute. Very theatrical, very dramatic, very irresponsible, very Geraldo. It would be funny if it wasn't so contrived. Well, it was funny...but that's because no one was buying it on FreeRepublic and hopefully, no one else who saw it was buying it either. Actually, even Bill O'R seemed disdainful and Geraldo just kind of simmered down after it was obvious even he couldn't pull it off!

Situation must be getting under control...it seems like "reportage" has moved from disaster coverage to political posturing, race baiting and invoking the Almighty in the most cynical and profane ways.

I guess if the MSM and the politicos have the luxury of debating one another rather than attending to public service and emergency management, maybe we aren't getting such a crystal clear picture of what's really going on after all. I think what we are seeing on TV now is ratings race for the media and political positioning for the "politicos" (and I do use that word disdainfully). Neither wants to find themselves being blamed for years of irresponsible and stupid liberal ideas that culminated in the after storm disaster of Katrina....IMHO.

Now, why do people keep moving my drink and telling me to get off the computer for a while....?! (hic) ?;^)

[Arizona Carolyn]

~LOL~

[bonfire]

Someone posted earlier that the kid who commandeered the bus should be Mayor of NO.

[kingu]

Thank you for bringing back into the debate the basic, overwhelming fact that this is a MASSIVE crisis and it is impossible to get to all the victims in the first or three days.

92,000 square miles is 238,279 square kilometers, or according to the CIA world fact book, just six thousand square kilometers short of being the size of the United Kingdom including Northern Ireland and the Shetland Islands.

Thank God that the population is no where near the same.

[smug]

"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. "

FEMA should hire that young man.

[John Jamieson]

Tried, but didn't work.

gbush@whitehouse.gov came back not delivered.

[Born in a Rage]

It may have been a lie, maybe an attempt to get more water. These are desperate times for those people - utter mass hysteria, confusion, panic, and chaos. Nobody knows what is going on. I think that once this tragic situation is looked at and examined, they should make it mandatory that there are shortwave radios located at specific places in cities. Communication is vital.

[Txsleuth]

Your post reminded me---

I wonder what ever happened to Jackie...who was in line at the Superdome and Jeff Goldblatt interviewed her a couple of times...

She had such an optomistic outlook....I hope she is okay..

[ShorelineMike]

I watched much of that day. If anything Shep is understating how many streamed across the bridge, far more than 5000.

I wasn't discounting the information, as I would certainly agree with you that more than 5000 people streamed across that bridge.

What I was commenting on was Shepard Smith's inability to get that point across without sounding as if he were coming completely unglued on national television.

[spanalot]

"Shooting warning shots AT HELICOPTERS? FROM A HOSPITAL ROOF???"

I heard that here were no shotws fired - that the pilot merely swa long arms and aborted

[DaiHuy]

There was one good thing that came from Hurricane Katrina, it got Cindy Shi*head off the front pages.

[Will_Zurmacht]

jesse just got in some Bush bashing and then pointed to the crowd of stranded people and said "This, this is a modern slave ship"

[Cboldt]

The NG guy shot in the leg, at the SUperdome, was shot in an altercation over his own weapon.

Anyway, FWIW, I believe the reports of hostile fire coming from more distant sources, and am content to let others disbelieve it.

[Spktyr]

You mean like the FEMA director has been doing (and getting so much flak here on FR for)? That's part of *his* job - plan before time, set it in motion, and keep the press *away* from the people who are actually doing the work.

[DrewsMum]

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 :-)


you are so sweet, and i will try that,,but considering every gas station around is owned by um, arabs,,,,not so sure they will be very compassionate,,,but thanks for the idea and I will definately try,,,,