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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
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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
Yes … sigh … proving my point about grandstanding …
People who are congregated around hysterical people like Geraldo and Shep? Yeah, that will help.
"wtf is wrong with you. reports have been coming in over wscanners for 4 nights. It's been televised on Brown's "program tonight when a NOPD station was under fire last night, FNC had video of video of a firefight on this morning. The Coast Guard had a presser regarding pulling out private boats for SAR today.
You prove your point with some facts."
My proof is that no one has been sniped
Boy - I'd hate to take these rescuers to opening day of doe season in Pennsy- you wanna hear some shots zipping overhead.
what exactly is going on ?!?!
I just saw fox news and they are screaming to let the people out! they said hundreds are still on the bridge without food or water and they wont even let them walk out of the city !?!
I saw geraldo at the convention center claiming thousands of people are still there waiting for help! what the heck!!! I thought the entire convention center was evacuated earlier today !
I don't understand what's going on!
I think I could have lived the rest of my life without knowing that info! It's reality, though...
don't work
They will ... the MSM no longer controls the flow of news
Times have changed
This is true. I hope someone in FEMA reads and heeds.
They not only whine and complain, they shout and scream and stomp their feet. sissies.
I'm embarrassed to watch them.
Are ya watching Gretta's show now??
I missed it. I'm glad there was something positive that finally came out.
"He aborted with two rounds in his winch."
The winch is inboard - thats some pretty fancy shootin
You are right. They need to request the help. Nightline had a Dem on tonight who said "The locals don't have the resources to do what needs done. It takes the Federal govt." (Sounds logical to the listeners and makes President Bush look like he could have moved and did not.)
he was pointing to them and trying to draw a parrellel between blacks huddled on the overpass and blacks huddled on slave ships...America hates black people, yada, yada, yada....
he was trying to rile up the crowd, but the funny part is a black woman told him to turn off the cameras, shut the hell up and get out of the way....hehe
You're right. Our media is a bunch of idiots. They need to learn how to be reporters. Like someone said earlier. Yes, its sad these people are on the overpasses, etc, but a lot of people are still on roof tops and they are the first priority.
sorry if this is a stupid question but what is MSM???
Whoa - I did not hear about the cause of the bus crash - I had been worried about that when I heard that a sheriff's car was escorting buses - I was thinking, that means there's not an actual security presence on the bus, other than the poor driver - with a busload of people with unknown dispositions who've just been through hell and have no clue what's next - they need to make sure somebody's riding shotgun on every one one of these buses.
LOL LOL great cartoon. I'm going to e-mail it out.
It's just the theme that is going through all of the media. They are all baiting the race card, and I think it is going to get old...very quickly. When you see little Tucker C. hollering at Sharpton, about to blow a gasket, you can just feel it.
Sharpton calling the President of the US a rascist? That is absurd, and just makes me ill to think of. I haven't seen JJ tonight, but I'm sure he's spouting the same filth. (wrong of me to assume, I know)
I dunno....maybe I'm worrying too much. But it sure seems like it's getting ugly to me.
Estimates have 75% of the US interstate tanker truck fleet involved in this.
Remember, the whole East Coast now has to be supplied by truck until more pipelines can be certified - everone east of the Mississippi is now without an oil supply - and that has to be filled by the 25% that are uninvolved.
Oh, and until Wednesday, they couldn't do that anyway. It is illegal (or was) to sell the specially formulated gas for one market or city in another market or city. Go look up "boutique blends". Since Bush got the EPA to suspend the law, we now can just produce plain gasoline at refineries and send it around the country.
The media is on the ground in NOLA. They can get word spread in the crowds - instead of fueling their disappointment and anger.
No, it won't reach all of the people - but it'll reach more than doing nothing. Media forgets that it can be the conduit for a two-way flow of information, if it wants to. Instead, it chooses to play to its on-air audience.
I think FEMA pressers would also settle some nerve elsewhere - LOTS of nerves (and not just mine). Honest pressers would be a valuable service. And, FWIW, I think some of the FEMA guys (Brown?) were quite visible early on, but had no useful information to share (in fact, came off as embarrassing), so the provision of information stopped. Now the public is stuck with media hype and it's own imagination.
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