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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
yep, when it's all over they can just light a match to the ships, the astrodome & the convention center
Is this official martial law or is this what President Bush meant by not getting bogged down in bureaucracy? I've been wondering about this since I heard his weekly address earlier. (In any case, it's the right thing to do, IMO.)
You all listening to this guy on FOX? He's explaining the logistical, practical nightmare on the ground in response to the outrageous critisism...he's awesome.
Another way that Jesse Jackson needs to be embarrassed, is on Larry King the other night, he was ragging on Bush, yet again, complaining about not having any black people in charge...
His point being, I guess, that if there were black people in charge, they would care more, or something...
Anyway...come to find out, that the MAIN MAN in charge, Gen. Honore, IS black.
Has Jesse apologized yet to President Bush??? uh, no
Youre welcome.;)
Closest evacuation center is now in Shreveport.
12:37 P.M. - (AP): A list of famous spots in the city, and how they are faring, though the full extent of the damage won't be known for some time. Cick here:
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl090305locales.2034f5cc.html
Locate relatives: www.redcross.org or call their number.
yep & I love the way he says OVER after he completes his reply - makes me want to salute the tv & spit shine my shoes
Are you listening to FOX right now??
Katherine Herridge asked the Lt. General (I'm not even gonna try to guess at spelling his name) a question, and then actually let him talk for at least 3 minutes without interrupting.
This might be a FIRST for cable news!
Hope Katherine doesn't lose her union card over this.
Are we still going with the reports that 80% of NOLA was evac'd before the hurricane? Does this make sense with the numbers doming out now? Trying to do the math..
Stories that I've heard concerning the Astrodome are very disheartening. Complaints because the clothing donations are "used". Complaints about the wait for shower facilities. Complaints about the lack of apts. available. There are some nice stories, also. But volunteers are getting discouraged and may stop showing up.
General Honore...telling it like it is. Making the media look like the incompentent amateurs they are.
Lafayette out of Resources??
Moving Refugees on to Houston?
Caught it out of the corner of my ear...
Not at all, and they have plenty more experience than arm chair captains.
For goodness sakes, people in the best of situations yesterday were hoarding gasoline and fighting in Charlotte because they were told to conserve. Add desperation and heat to the situation, and chaos results without an infrastructure for distribution.
Has the Gov of LA spoken at her presser yet?
" the primary disaster here would be an earthquake and there are not advance warnings for those, so our family could and may be in need of help after one."
You live in the same state I do, and I, like you, have also been thinking that I need to get a survival kit all in one place. Not only do we have to worry about earthquakes, we also need to worry about volanoes errupting. I think many of us look at Mt. Rainier, especially if the sun is shining on it, and admire the beauty (doesn't the mountain look beautiful today). However, was reminded on the radio yesterday that it is one of the biggest volcanoes around and if it ever errupts, we're all in big trouble.
That was Lt. General Honore, the commander of the Joint Task Force in New Orleans. His no-nonsense description of the amout of time it takes to mount an operation this size in the wake of such a powerful storm exposes the MSM's lie that there was unnecessary delay. The left is going down the "Bush waited" path and they look like idiots.
General Honore: "The storm gets a vote... We're not stuck on stupid."
Im not sure where all these people will stay.
An area that holds 5k seating, may hold 1k cots and enough space for people and supplies.
Fox has been improving significantly.....actually doing real news coverage with hard news journalism.
They must have gotten the message and probably literally sent a memo out about how to get their ducks in a row here.
They even broke a story yesterday.
Down to 530k power still off, 230k power restored. (NOLA)
I've been watching the fire at the dock. I had heard the river was low. But, doesn't it look a tad on the high side right there?
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