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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
I thought 5th Avenue was completely under water.
many times. I live there.
Am I seeing things .. or did FNC finally get new/fresh reporters in there to actualy report the news
are you wondering if some of it is arson? don't give it a second thought - it is.
Histrionics amid Human Suffering ?
Them there electrons from that comment are gonna haunt you:)
Not everyone realizes you are a fellow Texan. Those that use dial-up will be flamin' ya for days! Me, I just could not help myself by pilin' on early.
It's not just you; downtown in NO, they looted places and then set them on fire.
Somebody ought to be on the lookout for a big truck carrying luxury items.
It would be interesting to see them plotted on a map, though, wouldn't it?
The media can freely move in and out of the city. The Fox liar must have said something likely to be taken as the reporter hadn't left the city at all in the past week. They leave every night, and come back every morning.
ROFL!! That was GREAT!
What available shelters? The illegal immigration problem is so vast, so widespread -- coupled with shrinking budgets?
BUT MAYBE... the San Francisco Big Mucka Mucks who took over the SF Presidio, years ago, would give up their location in order to house the evacuees. I really wish some MSM would call Barbara Boxer up and ask her. ;>
I want to hear more about the people at the food court at the mall..I hope I can hear their story someday.
Interesting -- then during a hurricane one recourse could be to emplace baffles of some sort in the canal.
How, exactly, is that disturbing? It's *exactly* what you're supposed to do when civilization fails. Fall back, band together, create a set of rules, help each other, rebuild/escape/whatever.
Oh, wait, it's disturbing because these people actually did for themselves, and the idiot LibDems don't want anyone doing that, right?
Are Jesse Jacksson & Al Sharpton afraid they'll switch back after this mess "caused" by the Dems? I probably shouldn't say caused. The city, built in 1719, shouldn't have been built on a swamp in the first place...blame the French.
At least the current reporters are calmer than some other notables we've seen the last few days...welcome change.
Are Y'all really from Texas? DPS HATES it when they get called hwy patrol.
Finally some video on WLL of the efforts to fix the breach in the levee. I'm wondering why we haven't seen much of this effort on TV?
Heard on WWL that the police were asked about one of the fires...they said they chased people out of the building as firefighters arrived and "they didn't look like sales clerks."
isn't it about time we looked a just WHO the "media" is: a bunch of over-educated, under-experienced, locked-in-their-ivory-tower JERKS.
Most wouldn't know HOW to investigate, or even where to start, other than with their conclusion that meets their own agenda. The rest of the story would lead, inevitably, to that pre-set conclusion.
For instance .. let's look at Helen THomas's buttboy at the White House, the little wuss Terry Moran. Or David Gregory. Any of them. What qualifies THEM to question so arrogantly what President Bush has done? Where did they go to school? Where have they lived? What are their life experiences outside the White House and/or pressrooms? Who do they socialize with? are they married, and to whom? Have any of them ever started and/or run a company? Met a payroll? To what charities do they contribute, and how much? Same for politicians .. to whom do they contribute and how much ... or do they contribute through their wives, lovers, friends and/or child(ren) ? What private clubs do they belong to? And what private schools do they send their children to? I really want to know WHO these people are who pontificate and act as if we are supposed to believe them.
The problem is that the winds and waves have to be at just the right angle for that to happen. (shrug) Just really bad luck. Of course, if they'd put lock doors on both ends and shut them, that *might* have helped.
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