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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
12:27 P.M. - GALVESTON, TX (AP): Federal officials are chartering three Carnival Cruise Lines ships for six months to provide shelter for Hurricane Katrina evacuees.
The "Ecstasy," "Sensation" and "Holiday" are being pulled from regular use.
Ecstasy and Sensation will both be pulled Monday. They're scheduled to dock and house Katrina refugees in Galveston, Texas. The Holiday likely will be pulled Thursday and docked in Mobile, Alabama.
The Ecstasy and Sensation can each take about 2,600 passengers. The Holiday has capacity for about 1,800 people. Guests with canceled bookings will get refunds and the opportunity to re-book on any Carnival ship -- with a $100-per-person shipboard credit.
The "Elation," which operates from Galveston, will take over some of Ecstasy's schedule.
12:21 P.M. - HOUMA (AP): A teenager died and eight other people have been treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after two Houma families ran generators inside their homes to power appliances until power was returned after Hurricane Katrina. Click here.
Is the adulteror Jesse J claiming it was racist to allow the white folk from the Hyatt to get in front of the line at the Super Dome?????
He would if the Mayor was white.
there will be tens of thousands of gov't checks arriving into the NO Post Office either today 9/3 or Tues 9/6 - is this what the looters are waiting for?
Actually, I saw the folks on the causeway sharing what they had with others.
Thanks for the link showing NOPD looting the store. A picture is worth a thousand words.
We had a lot of apologists yesterday making every excuse in the book for these crooked New Orleans cops.
Excellent Katrina photo slideshow with 55 images:
http://www.poynterextra.org/Katrina/gallery/index.htm
LOL!
We can add Rafferty (I think that's his name) and Chrissy to the list (though, I think both of them were bonkers before the storm).
That's great about the cruise ships being pressed into service. Thanks for posting that update.
Undoubtedly -- the situation, once the flood started, turned out to be worse than anyone really expected. But I doubt that the locals directed them to problem areas or could give specific information on the situation. They can't fly blind.
Just a thought.
Sage
The headline from yesterday's Aftenposten (Norwegian newspaper) was, "They died because they are black." The Europeans are picking up the racial component.
My Norwegian friend showed me the paper and pointed out with surprise that the the word used for black was 'svarte,' which for them is like using the N-word. The PC word for blacks was African-American. So the paper was indicating that these people died because they were seen as n.....s.
They'll have to burn them afterwards.
Following is the text of e-mails sent to NBC and CNN within the last quarter hour:
"Just want you to know that as long as your news reports continue to politicize the Katrina disaster, I will be working my tail off on the internet to make sure that you are allowed to shoulder the financial burden of reclaiming and rebuilding New Orleans by yourselves.
Short and sweet, our checkbooks stay in our pockets until you start acting like you want us ***all*** to work together on this.
It is a predominantly Liberal city, and I do not believe that the Left alone has the resources to rebuild it.
If you want New Orleans to rise again, act accordingly.
If you want New Orleans to rot in its own filth until the Gulf of Mexico reclaims it, continue down the path you are on now.
No discussion, no argument, choose and choose now.
I am working just as hard as you are to make this happen and will continue to politicize this disaster just as long as you do."
Here is contact information for both of these networks:
http://www.cnn.com/feedback/
nightly@NBC.com
I suggest you make your feelings known to them.
If they want to play hardball, let's give them a good game.
Did you see on Fox and Friends this morning when they showed the replay of Kanye West giving his speech at the fundraiser on NBC last night...?
West had gone off script and was talking about how President Bush doesn't care about black people,...
and they went back to the F & F...and Julian started to say that he agree with him and something more about the way the black people are being treated...and the girl, and Steve Doocy cut him off abruptly...
They said they would discuss that after a commercial...but when the commercial was over..they never again mentioned anything about the racial aspects of this...whoa!!!!
Yep, these threads having been a collective streaming flow of consciousness.
Sounds a bit like YOU are complaining about our complaints.
Administrative offices for these industries can be located pretty much elsewhere (Baton Rouge etc.) but the workers will have to be back at work ASAP.
Just heard that 300 babies were airlifted to Birmingham hospitals, and buses are taking people as far as Tuscaloosa. Hotel guests who were there for other purposes (business, football games) have voluntarily given up their rooms to evacuees.
International airport (NO) where they have triage set up says they're not getting medical supplies and people are in bad shape after their ordeal this week.
Chertoff briefing coming up soon on FNC
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