Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV

Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

[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

[theophilusscribe]

Guy from the environmental department of St. Bernard's Parish. Said that people are dying on their roofs. They are playing the race card, but the people in the suburbs, which are predominantly white, are dying in St. Bernard's Parrish, Saint Tammany Parish, etc.

[samantha]

Have you seen the new DnC/msm talking points from the Jimbo Witt (former FEMA PUKE)that Fema should not have been made part of Homeland Security? Horse Hockey, he knows better than to stick his nose in, but he is sticking his fat ugly toe under the tent with the Commie media's help, including Fox.

[Molly Pitcher]

I saw that too. Predicted to my husband he wouldn't be on the air very long, and sure enough, he wasn't...mentioned Plaquemines Parish, St. Tammany, besides, St. B.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I'm not Howlin, but I'm beginning to think public hearings that lay out how the President's hands were tied until today when he basically said screw the law and send in the calvary is a GREAT idea... and Frist is looking better to me today down there working as a doctor he is in his element.

[Dog]

This is Al Gores shining moment leave him alone....he is worth a 1/2 million new Republican votes in '06!

Wait until John Q. Public see's the ALMOST PRESIDENT!

We just entered Monty Python land//

ROFL!

[Crawdad]

If there are hearings, the Dems and some RINO's will blast Bush. The others will blast the inept LA politicians. Which will get reported?

[gpapa]

Here is some of what California is doing to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the University Sytem is opening it's doors to students in the affected area for placement. There are hurricane relief drives in virtually every city in the State. While described as the left coast of the USA, Californians are well aware of disastrous events, like wild fires and earthquakes, and their consequences, and are responding like communities all over the USA to events on the Gulf Coast.

I hear we are getting $$ from other countries. Saudi Arabia is giving about $20 million and are pumping more oil. Frankly, we do not need their help. We have spent billions of $$ to protect the playboy princes of the Kingdom, and what do we get, nothing but exported terrorists killing innocent civilians in the USA and elsewhere.

[John Jamieson]

Don't know one kind of coal from another, but it all burns.

[LadyBuzz]

we need to do some rough math - FNC said 95,000 have been evacuated & didn't we think 100,000 to 125,000 stayed behind? are we looking at a 5,000 -30,000 death toll?

[bwteim]

I am watching Fox, forget what I said last nite.

Fox 6:18 cst

Just interviewing an LA official who was asking that the word get out for whites stuck on roof tops in other parrishes. They were dying on rooftops, he said. The LA official wanted the reporter to get the word out. LA official was quite emphatic.

The reporter spent all of 10 seconds on him, even literally taking the mike back from the man.

The reporter had to cut to some inane story of what was going on in Texas.

Then, cut to commerical.

---Blood pressure going up again....

[Arizona Carolyn]

Is this guy on drugs????

[jhny7]

Where is Al Gore?
why is he not jumping in the ring on Pres. Bush. Saw the FEMA guy on last segment when he defended PRES reporter kinda cut him off.

[samantha]

Key words are "ex girlfriend".

[conservative cat]

Well, that's not quite fair. I am not a big Rush fan... I agree with him 100% some of the time and other times I think he is completely full of crap.

[Types_with_Fist]

You know that guy? Saw him too. He's right. There's even more dreadful news downriver.

[RDTF]

Thanks for that info - I hadn't heard yet that Saudi Arabia ponied up some cash.

[DocRock]

Bookmarking for future reference

[eternity]

This just adds another layer of doom.

[tiredoflaundry]

[Arizona Carolyn]

Why did they let him in? Press credentials???