New York City Police Officers walk toward Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) buses, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005, in New York, before departing to help out in relief efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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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/
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I just heard a correspondent on CNN Headline News say wrt the relief "would help have come sooner if they (N.O. residents) had voted more often or differently".
Unbe-fn-lievable!
New York City Police Officers walk toward Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) buses, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2005, in New York, before departing to help out in relief efforts in New Orleans, Louisiana.
HERE WE GO...
WWL- A group is going to start busing people to the Former England Air Base, because they don't think they should continue bussing blacks out of the state...
Demanding FEMA make arraingements for them BEFORE they get there...
I see a few scared DEM legislators worried that thier base is disappearing!!!
She cannot handle anything and she is spinning the hiring of Witt as a great idea of hers, but I am sure after The feds came in and saw all the bad stuff and either she realized finally that he would need someone smart on her side, or she was told to hire him.
Exactly so, since we're going to be supplying their fuel and oil this winter....
"Act NOW, ask stupid questions later."
All those buses will be going back to NY full ..... right?
WWL Black Caucus: Doesnt like calling them "refugees".
Its an insult he says.
Wants LA to house people in military bases in state.
Driving buses soon that way with or without permission.
You are so funny. I think RDTF is a little bit emotional today.
Congressional Black Caucus finally figure out they have lost their political base in New Orleans....scrambling to get people relocated in LA at closed military facilities.
Sucks to be Nagin. He will be mayor of an evacuated (no taxpayers) mudpuddle, under FEMA/federal control until rebuilt. Betcha the city charter does not have a continuation clause. You might check with cajungirl or someone from Louisana.
This has also occured to me. Maybe because Louisiana is so small, they'd stick out like sore thumbs? I'm sure they're here in the US, just waiting, watching, and taking notes : (
Don't start any more crap. Some people just don't know when to stop.
Was anyone watching Joseph Lowry on CNN just a minute ago?
Yeah right.
Just heard one say that the military should not carry arms, but tents.
Now another bitching about semantics.
Why cant any of these people come up with anything constructive??
Black Caucus claiming more people starved that from the storm and flood.
This guy on WWL says we are NOT to refer to the people of New Orleans,(black) as refugees,,,,
We CAN refer to them as survivors or HEROS!!!!!!
BwaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhAAAAA
Who the heck do these people think they ARE....?
BTW, who are they?
I'm counting on the fuel coming back shortly. I plan to sit it out for the next two days. The lines today are worse than they've been all week and the violence in the gas lines is escalating here (central Miss.).
Hand cranked cell-rechargers are available also.
Ever seen the Dallas passenger terminal? It's pathetically small. They typically get about 100 people in or out per day on Amtrak. The commuters are a different matter, but they're not going into the terminal building.
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