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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
And they will fail, yet again, to get a majority, because I think most of those who come here will end up voting Republican. Oooops.
The DNC NEEDS a major confrontation of some kind to hit Bush with, and Many DEMS now fear losing EVEN MORE SEATS in 2006...
The poor will likely settle where they are sent.
Audio report this page: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4831390
And according to an article which has now disappeared from a website (Santa Maria Times) regarding troop/National Guard work in NO; it appears that a lot of good has happened, and very quietly. The article, first off says that President Bush said "no active-duty" would be "enforcement" but rather, humanitarian effort.
Later in the article, A Mr. Blum (I can't recall title, but of Nat'l Guard) said that much rioting had been very silently dealt with -- and that they'd only found guns at the places where shooting had been coming from.
However, this is not a good time for rumors to be going around, and I'll be the first to squash 'em. :)
Re Hastert: It's not what you say, it's when you say it.
"Bob Livingston on Fox now."
Not watching Fox -- watching "Engineering Disasters" on History Channel, and thinking "Now, here's a series that suddenly got real outdated."
If not, they are certainly going to be sued in the civil system. I've heard of people getting lawsuits started already.....
BINGO! Timing is everything. He should know that.
At least Bob Livingston is saying what went wrong loud and clear.
Are you able to name your meds?
Amazing that "Our Gulf Coast Neighbors" are on life sustaining medication yet can't remember the name of the med or the amount they have to take in order to get a new prescription.
While assessing the needs of "Our Gulf Coast Neighbors" (and frisking them for weapons such as disposable shaving razors,) would it be terribly wrong to assess their literacy levels or adminster tests for illegal drugs?
LadyBuzz wrote:
"Not your imagination, & if they don't quit this crap soon it will backfire in the form of some folks refusing
to continue to give $ to the needed charities"
As little as a day ago, I agreed with and advocated this position, but new data has forced me to believe differently now.
On other sites I frequent, there have been a few, halfhearted attempts to politicize this natural disaster. The slightest hint of an intent to withhold donations stops these attempts cold.
That they lack conviction, that the attempts on the part of the general population have been so few, leads me to believe that NBC and CNN's attempts to make a political football from the stench of death will indeed backfire, but not in the way you suggest.
Instead, this will backfire directly on the news agencies themselves. The levels of anger over these blatant attempts to wrest political advantage from a tragedy exceed the anger present during and prior to the 2004 election. All this energy will not dissipate and it will not turn, just as Katrina did not turn.
It has to go somewhere, and it will.
From what I see on mixed forums, the great majority of the Left stands with us, that this disaster trancends political concern. The media's attempts to politicize this are failing.
The backlash will target the media exclusively.
The 72 hour delay between hurricane and relief is not a surprise, it is not new. This is not the first hurricane to strike the United States. Of all sects, the media must be and is just as aware of these facts as anyone.
In fact they are more aware. That the media attempts to politicize this disaster coincide with the eve of the larger relief effort's arrival is no accident.
The media discovered decades ago that there was an opportunity to advance their political agendas during this period of each storm.
What we are seeing is a deliberate effort, calculated long in advance, to wrest benefit from catastrophe. Perhaps the most cold-blooded calculation in the history of man is laid bare here, for all to see.
It will not be forgotten this time.
The rescue effort has been planned and is in the execution stages now. It will succeed or fail on its own merits.
The next question is whether or not New Orleans will be rebuilt.
If the Liberal media wishes to make this a political football, then America will divide on this question, right down the middle. There are excellent reasons not to rebuild New Orleans. There are also excellent reasons that support reconstruction. If politics is to be the deciding factor, I do not believe the Left can do the job alone.
I believe we all should be working together to help mitigate what nature has done to all of us.
I am waiting on the Liberal Left to reach the same conclusion.
When they do, it will be time to go to work.
Until they do, they are on their own.
I will continue to support rescue efforts, but when the last refugee is evacuated from New Orleans, there will be a reckoning, and the future of the city hangs in the balance.
pony up - I'm just keeping a running tab kinda like a barbill - is it Miller time yet?
I know many people who want to rebuild N.O. but not without seriously raising the elevation like they did in Galveston.
CA Gov Arnold had sent scores of different teams, IMMEDIATELY, to NO. Emergency, Paramedic, search & Rescue, etc. Saw this morning several units of Nat Guard going too.
I saw that and Steve Harrigan kept diagnosing that the guy was about to croak. I usually think Steve does a good job, but I think he finally has burned out, and may be with Geraldo,Shep, and those others in a rubber room soon.
Bush ordered in active duty military very early in the crisis...I am sure people will call it illegal.....but yes, they served a humanitarian purpose (Delta Force rescuing the hospital) but all those troops carry M16s for "self defense"
On a completely, totally unrelated subject, isn't the NSA just a great agency?
Also, I hear that certain "executive protection and recovery" outfits have suddenly had a great influx of business....
"Oh, yeah - LEADERSHIP WITH A CLUE."
EXACTLY!!!
I just looked it up. It's a separate item. I found the "Sidewinder Emergency Cell Phone Charger" for $20.
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