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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
Did you hear that guy go crazy over the FEMA folks? lol
St. Tammany Parish Leader hollering about FEMA regulations.
"If they commandeer any more of my equipment, they better bring GUNS!"
Generators taken away because an inspector didn't arrive first and approve the installlation...
THIS is going to be the achille's heal...
No matter what Anderson tried to pin Lott down with, whether it was why did it take so long to get the aid here, who do you think is at fault......whatever he said.......Lott just kept talking right over him, telling him chapter and VERSE about what it's like in a hurricane -- "Son, I've been living with this all my life," "I know what they're feeling, I lost my house, too," "heck my own family can't even get dwon there" -- that kind of stuff: "on about the fourth day, people hit the wall and start blaming people".......I mean he CREAMED him.
And when Cooper interrupted him with the burning question on everybody's lips, "Is the Iraqi War keeping the NG out of this," Lott just laid back and said, "Cooper, Cooper, the only people that are asking that is the media." Anderson started spitting then, boy!
What are those guys doing there? I thought they were all in Iraq. I can't help wondering just how dumb the left is willing to look to try and conjure up something bad to say about the President, whether it's true or not even close to true.
Thank you..its deeply appreciated
No. I am not
Believe it or not, Trent Lott is KICING ANDERSON COOPER'S ASS!!!!
I'm sorry I missed it.
That St. Tammany "President" was on a WWL video cussing out Washington DC because he cant get that diesel fuel put in "personal vehicles"
All the residents interviewed couldnt say enough for the relief efforts. Red Cross has 8000 in their care.
CNN showing the follow up story on that baby located and flown to Houston, that the parents finally located.
Yep, still chuckling over it.
That was One Totally Mad dude.
Trent is kicking pretentious egos over at CNN? Tell all, what did he say!
Was he or was he not GREAT????
I've been waiting for SOMEBODY, ANYBODY to say that stuff.........and I'm in a quandry now, because I really do not like Trent Lott!
Nobody needs an @$$ kickin' more than that Cooper rat.
OMG! That was even better than I imagined!! Thanks for the synopsis.
Between FOX's innacuracy and tabolidishism on the one hand, and CNN's communist tendencies and political correctness on the other, who do we watch!??
He was funny!
that kind of stuff is a legitimate criticism of FEMA. its the nature of any beauracracy, they are all control freaks.
I think President will rue the day he hired the FEMA director. He is incompetent. His misteps are adding up quickly.
"The part about the Superdome being used for shelter.....I read that the owners said no way....the mayor had attorneys working on it.....and they had no shelters set up? None? This is the Presidents fault, how?"
I read today that it's trashed beyond belief. That's probably an understatement!
Heard that, thanks for picture....Yankees comin'
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