Colorado National Guard members Sgt. Rachael Lone, foreground, and Pvt. Macellus Oliver load up their vehichle for deployment to the New Orleans area at the unit's headquarters in Denver on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005.
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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
Colorado National Guard members Sgt. Rachael Lone, foreground, and Pvt. Macellus Oliver load up their vehichle for deployment to the New Orleans area at the unit's headquarters in Denver on Friday, Sept. 2, 2005.
See #s 211 & 232, this page
He wants that diesel for his Mercedes
I cannot understand what is going on at the convention center, Harrigan is still reporting that while security has arrived there, there is no evacuation.
Shep just said a SWAT team is being put together to go in to get the people out
He did not mention Blanko or Nagin. He mentioned all that was being done from the federal level though.
FNC said they confirmed it, so at least I assume they did some basic journalism to do so, but who knows, I could be wrong.
The scanner does say lots of folks are responding.
If the student's records are lost, the best thing to do is placement testing. There is nothing sinister in that. Or, let them place themselves in the grade they think they belong in, and see their performance. Good school districts have no problem shiften students to the classes they are best suited for.
"Many shots fired at helos, media silence/downplay notwithstanding. CG & NG fly in pairs, one rescues/fights fires, other provides cover. Helo parts shot off. Stopped evac at superdome as gangbangas firing at helos. Pilots operate 120 sec max in LZ: less time in sights, lower shootdown risk. Miraculous if flying only one week, as predicted. More like month++. Airlines aside, mil av fuel scarce. 90's chickens home to roost compounding leadership failures in LA & elsewhere. MS recovery sooner than LA, despite total destruction of 50 miles of coast to 5+ blocks inland. "
Someone on WDSU is saying that if we can get troops into Iraq in 24 hours, how come we can't get them into NO as fast.
I just don't know what to think.
That is with 2 miles of where the 2 families with us live. Looks like most healthy big pines did OK vs. Katrina. Matches reports of the 2 families who went back already.
Speaking of that....
Anyone beside me notice that the Superdome Food convoy footage shows an UP-Armoured Hummvee leading?
The LA Lt General Honore seems to be a really good guy. This is also something that President Bush would do.
"As she was walking in the street with Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, the person in charge of the military operation, CNN's Barbara Starr reported seeing one young woman with twin babies in her arms.
"She was trying to walk in this terrible heat, and she apparently was so exhausted the babies were half falling out of her arms," Starr said.
Gen. Honore, she said, "went up to this woman, and he said, 'We're going to get you help.' And he took both of those babies, handed them off to his soldiers, said, 'Take these babies,' and we got on a Coast Guard ship."
The mother and the babies are now getting medical care, Starr said."
good post.
you can see the liberal media outlets now downplaying the looting and the thugs shooting up the town, because they know that plays against the political agenda they seek. americans have zero tolerance for that. they now want to portray NO as a town full of nice people waiting for aid that can't get there because the federal government is incompetent, and doesn't care about them because of their race.
Amazing what happens when the adults come to town.
because these guard forces are under control of the governor, not Dod. and the governor is an idiot, or worse yet, a DNC pawn.
they must have 300 or more blackhawk type helos there by now...they emptied California....
every C5, C17, C141, and C130 in the country is on duty for this relief effort.....the air controllers report 300 planes arriving or leaving the N.O. area at any one time.
After reading others comments, I may very well have. I should not tune in over there....but what I heard him say was that the NAACP and the Black Caucus made these statements and he implied (at least for the portion I watched) that he agreed it was truthful. If I'm wrong, so be it. None-the-less, CNN is nothing but a bunch of Bush-bashers and they are low-lifes.
Good ideas- and a carbon monoxide detector in living spaces is a must- they are readily available nowadays.
Updated link from the Alexandria Town Talk:
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS05/50902008
The front page has a breaking news link stating that the fatal bus accident happened in Opelousas. This would indicate that the bus was heading north up I-49 toward Alexandria.
Rapides Parish schools were closed today not only because the governor "commandeered" the school buses, but also because school employees needed a day to process paperwork to enroll over 1,000 refugee children in our school system. Since the buses were originally planned to take New Orleans refugees to Houston (this destination probably changed after the Astrodome was closed), the schools will reopen on Tuesday but parents are responsible for getting children to school themselves.
Not everyone here is so charitable about bringing the refugee children here. Several school bus drivers delivered their buses as ordered, but refused to drive them to New Orleans stating "they don't pay me enough." (Considering how low wages are in Louisiana, this didn't surprise me, by the way, and may account for the reason so many New Orleans police officers threw down their badges.) And I've personally encountered people in Alexandria who have a NIMBY attitude ("not in my back yard"), not wanting the refugee children at our schools. In case you think it's a racist sentiment, though, the person who seemed most resistant to the idea was a black woman. After that conversation, I really did a double-take.
KALB now trying to find out what's really going on. Alexandria officials originally made an announcement that no more refugees would be accepted, yet there are more buses heading for the I-49 Welcome Center. Red Cross rep being interviewed right now.
More to come...
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