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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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part V
Hurricane Katrina, Live Thread, Part IV
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part III
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part I
Tropical Storm 12
Did they say where they are taking them?
Thanks LadyBuzz for giving me a laugh this morning. It is sorely needed. :) I'm still steaming over last night.
Is that right? Yes. I suppose we have stupid people everywhere.
The media must now allow the welfare society members to be blamed either. The consequences of the democrats' socially-engineered dependency on government for blacks must not be questioned.
Of course, this discussion is a bit premature, while the city is still being evacuated.
Looks like Fox will have Geraldo next. Mark my words, he'll take credit for the evacs at the CC that are now taking place.
I'm angry at him because he had to KNOW that those people had food and water, and her hysterically reported a falsehood.
I am sticking to my tin-foil claim (as alleged by other freepers) - that Blanco was under orders from the DNC to "go easy" on maintaining civil order, to hameper the FEMA efforts, so they could turn the "failure" around on Bush politically. the way the media and the Dems have moved in lock step to politicize this, tells me it was centrally planned. Blanco can't possibly be this stupid.
If this was a staged event for media or local consumption, that fact will be buried. Something else will become more important. The media is not an honest self-critic.
The Watch Dogs were barking up the wrong tree. <- A broader look at the media
In the main, I agree with you. I will add that the total area affected is only slightly smaller than the state of Minnesota.
"FEMA briefing now - the evacuation of the convention center has begun."
Excellent news!! There are 20,000 of them there.
FNC cut the FEMA briefing coverage.
Well, I like your post except the part about burying the dead. Don't bury them in NO. Put them on trucks and get them out.
no surprise there, that's the DNC playbook on this.
If a human being of any nationality whatsoever is shooting at firemen, policemen, other SAR personnel or innocent citizens, he has made himself an enemy.
Taliban John is an American.
I can't understand your position.
I abide by the maxim to not ascribe malice to what can be explained by stupidity. In her case, ego as well.
The DNC will cover her butt, but I don't think they directed her action. Landrieu, OTOH, I would believe that woman would orchestrate mayhem for political gain.
Local consumption? You mean the people on the bridge around him?
I would think they would've all had to be in on the fraud "hiding their food and water" for the cameras to catch.
I don't think the misery is staged in New Orleans, if you do then you may win some sort of cynic award.
What about sending buses from every major city in the country, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Seattle, Philly, etc, to Houston. Those cities pick up the tab for gas, provide the buses, and we help get some of the evacuees spread out across the country. Most of the the people are likely to have relatives in those other cities and we help lighten the future load of Houston, and Texas.
Last night BOR did half of his segment on the failure of the Governor of LA in this whole debacle. She didn't ask for more forces in time; not real planned evacuation; she hasn't been "engaged."
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