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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
UGH! Richard Simmons. Well, for all his strange behavior, he is a good person I think.
I don't care what anyone says...MSM, politicians and even Freepers ...the fault lays on the Governor and Mayor of NO...you don't see these same kind of stories coming out of Ms or Al..and they, especially Ms was hit harder...
My (granted somewhat limited) knowledge of emergency command and control centers for emergencies is that they are usually equipped with emergency power as well as access to media coverage (i.e., TVs). If a TV screen somewhere in the room has a picture of people on an overpass, that could be easily recognized. Not to mention the fact that there was at least one policeman aimlessly wandering on the bridge who could have alerted his superiors. If the command and control centers weren't properly equipped and staffed, I'd lay that at the feet of the governor and mayor, not the media, and I offer the same opinion for the lack of emergency planning before the hurricane.
FEMA should have sent Simmons to the superdome to lead an aerobics class, that would have calmed the people there.
I want to know how the guy at the convention center, rolling around that big screen TV, is going to get on the helicopter.
And why is Shep talking about the busses going to the conv. center? We just saw that they are evacuating by helicopters.
Since the city has to be evacuated, probably for the remainder of the year, they are making up for their yearly numbers in advance...
Not to mention all of the misery he has witnessed over the last few days.
Thanks for that info.
This FReeper has it right, I think:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476383/posts?page=31#31 -----
I saw this last Sunday and have been noting it since then. And I can even tell you the reason why SHE did this. After last year's failed evacuation of New Orelans when Hurricane Ivan "didn't hit," the city planners took a lot of heat for inconveniencing people. She waited for someone else to take the responsibilty so she could blame them if Katrina didn't hit. She noted that Bush not only ordered the evacs, but he also declared a state of emergency before she did.
From the start this crisis has been handled, politically. She failed to use the national guard in its proper "law enforecment" role because she didn't want to be held responsible for Guardsmen shooting "poor, black people." How could she even order this when her own AG and Mayor were helping to justify this looting under a "need to survive."
The President cannot do that. Lobby your Congresscritters and your state govt.
You hit the nail on the head there.
My father was head of a quartermaster corp in WWII...."an Army moves on it's belly"....Preparations must be made ahead of time....Sounds to me they didn't call them up until all the supplies were in place. Remember each person going into the area must be fed and watered too.
they are first evacuating medical needs people, women and children, the elderly, by chopper. the buses are going to move in soon to take out able bodied en masse.
Coast Guard called back for Q&A. Asking about where they're doing the rescues. Missed the answers.
Red Cross asked about insta-volunteers. No numbers, but they're working with other agencies to plug them in.
End of briefing.
Though the flipside of it is that these folks were actually in greater danger from violence, if not from deprivation.
It was a bad decision. But I have heard that they were actually clearing some of those people out to make room for response personnel, not to evac gov't personnel.
But, from the standpoint of the message it sent to those who had been waiting for days, it was a horrible decision.
Considering the president declared LA a state of emergency before the storm even hit, had to call to practically order the mayor to order an evacuation of NO, and put the full resources of the federal government behind the relief effort, it is evident that he did everything he could do and the Mayor did very little pre-planning.
New Orlean's ads before the storm were telling people if they evacuated and left their pets behind, they would be prosecuted for animal abandonment if appropriate arrangements were not made. Talk about discouraging people from leaving!
LOL Sounds like she has been Cindy-rized. IF she has ever voted, it went to the gov and mayor that has her in this sad predicament and she is too ignorant to realize it.
Sometimes it's very good to be a woman.
HEADS UP! MSNBC has military press conf on NOW- this guy is taking no @#$% from anyone.
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