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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
Cooper now on offense against Jesse Jackson, talking about the race of the mayor of NO and how they bear responsibility. Jesse saying "all the helicopters were in iraq". wow, they sure got back fast!
c'mon, even President Bush said it was "not acceptable".
Jesse Jackson talking about the OZONE LAYER!
The mayor of NO was spewing profanity during the news break here on KFYI.. (BLEEP (BLEEP) (BLEEP)
He's reaching.
Let me restate: I think we need a national curriculum with national testing standards that will be impervious to local conditions.
Right on. Brown had never had any disaster experience prior to getting this job.
Brown did so well when four hurricanes hit Florida last year. Why in hell did he just seem to fall apart in the most critical situation of his life?
That said, the local and state governments in Louisiana are clearly incompetent. A hurricane of biblical proportions is heading toward your state, and both Blanco and Nagin were talking to lawyers, worried about the fallout from evacuating New Orleans if the storm took a turn.
Bush is taking all the heat because the media and the liberal commentators they bring on are afraid of blaming a woman and a black.
I want somebody to ask Ray Nagin how come he got his family out of town, but he didn't care enough to get all those poor people out of town.
I think it's to keep track of how many hours President Bush has left in office....they expect him to be impeached next week. I think that is what I read earlier today...or is it to keep track of how many hours were pissed away til Bush acted on the relief effort?
Yes, it is; and every once in a while they'll say "It's been 4 days, 12 hours, and 10 minutes since this people had relief."
So now it's 4 and a half days.........when did they set that clock?
I can't explain how ecstatic it made me feel to see it.
Sheesh . . . a real momma's boy.
LOL!
Now Matthews is asking the governor of Alabama if they got a better "deal" with FEMA than MS and LA did.
Bush praised him today - said he was doing a great job, and was working 24/7
Wasn't it Mike Reagan who said that the liberals go out of their way to make a person hate them.
I would like to add that is mostly common sense persons.
It's gotten so bad................ well I can't say that on this forum of civilized common sense posters.
Trent sounds like he was on the warpath, and the MSM can't say he's out of touch because he lost his house. It must be killing them!
because that's the politically correct answer. in his gut, he would like to tell it like it is, that its hard to mount a relief effort when thugs are shooting at the choppers and the boats. but, I don't expect the president to say that. but we need politicos lower down the totem pole to say those things.
Today, Bush praised Haley Barbour for his leadership; he did not do the same with Whats-her-Face from LA. He thanked her for her hard work, but never once said the word leadership -- about either her or the mayor of NO.
About midday today. I've given up on it for awhile. I've fired up the Tivo and am watching last night's Wonderfalls.
Gloria Vanderbilt.
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