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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
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Katrina Live Thread, Part X
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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
We rented Hitch and watched it last night. It was just the right kind of movie. It was a nice romantic comedy. Basically, it was a feel good movie. It was a total great break from the news.
Gee FreeRepublic!
Who would have thought I could go on a 1000+ thread about the Katrina crisis and run across a solution to my meat thermometer problem?
Ain't life weird sometimes?
Not wanting to sound political but I know this statement will. Did you ever think of the makeup of the entire country changing now? What about this: N.O. prob Dems overwhelmingly taken to Texas, mostly repub, taken to other republican states and blaming Bush/Repubs for their plight. We'll have redistricting done in all of this.
Exactly.......
Unfortunately, my post was not intended for you specifically. I forgot to change the address to ALL. Apologies for that.
"Thus James Lee Clinton Clinton Witt rides in to the rescue today and claims credit for "turning things around"."
And getting talking points from the Klintoons and/or the DNC to put. That said, I belive the Sect'y of HS said they now had control, Sect'y of Labor said jobs would be availble, etc. With all the laws and things happening so quickly, tt's getting a bit confusing and blurred right now. So, just to get it straight in my mind, am I right in thinking that the Fed HS has control over the situation and area except for the state guard and other state and local law officers. What else does the state (e.g., Witt) have control of?
About the only thing I really got from Economics classes is how interwoven all modern economies are and how much they are based on public perception. If something fails, or is perceived to fail, things happen. Even we we get things up to full throttle, it will take time for these things to get everywhere.
I agree - things will probably change - but hopefully for the better as well...
the gov? LOL
That's just eerie...
Scanner - Col. Smith and Jeff Witt need a helicopter ASAP by governor's direction.
(sigh).
Carnival Cruise out of Galveston for September has just been cancelled. Ship will be used for "other" purposes.
I have NEVER had a question (about ANY subject) that I couldn't get answered at FR. The power of distributed expertise is amazing. We really should become a think-tank.
I even had people tell me how to make a flag in my front yard out of flowers! (blue is the hardest)
Who is Col. Smith?
The upstaging has begun
Methinks you're right. I was going to post something about the shift in political districts a day or two ago; but thought it'd be best to hold off.
There could be a real shift in the political landscape if the evacuees relocate permanently.
Did you have a ressie on that ship?
WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
01:58 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:00 P.M. - U.S. Attorney Jim Letten: I bring a message from the President of the U.S., the Attorney General of the U.S. "The city of New Orleans belongs to its citizens and not the thugs who have attempted to terrorize the citizens."
1:58 P.M. - Letten: Federal prosecutors are coming to Louisiana and working around the clock in the field to process and screen people who are arrested to find federal offenders and then imprison them.
1:50 P.M. - NEW YORK (AP) -- A convoy of 70 city buses, accompanied by an assortment of support vehicles and volunteers, departed lower Manhattan on Saturday morning for a 24-hour trip south to help evacuate victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The caravan, including another 47 vehicles from the city police and mass transit, was expected to arrive in New Orleans on Sunday to start ferrying victims of the hurricane out of the crippled Crescent City. They left from Police Headquarters, just a few blocks east of ground zero.
1:47 P.M. - BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency wants to order 75,000 meals a day from the city's two Jason's Deli restaurants, but the chain's overwhelmed employees haven't been able to keep up, a restaurant manager said Saturday.
"We would have to close both of our restaurants down to the public to come close to it," manager Brad McElwee said. "Every day we're feeding as many as we can."
McElwee said 25 employees at his restaurant put together 4,000 to 5,000 meals for FEMA on Saturday, while trying to serve walk-in customers as well. Forty workers at the other location have been making 5,000 to 12,000 meals a day.
Some type of parachute, perhaps? Nothing fancy, just something to slow down the speed of the dropping objects?
I will now don flame retardant undies ;-)
Unknown. Probably the poor LA NG guy assigned to be Witt's aide.
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