The Queen of FoxNews is on the air.
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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
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Heh! It's not full-auto.
Hi, when & where did Mary say this? We need to send her & the gov somewhere while they get a grip with both hands
That's very sweet of you to say. Thanks. :)
In short, hell no.
Folks may be jumping on the "anti-Bush bandwagon" from here to kingdom come on the MSM.
However... in their private thoughts, how many viewers to the MSM are thinking.. Oh Gee.. Get Those Hysterics in charge? They'd never solve anything; they'd revert to an ad nauseum list of ad hominems. I don't feel so safe now... And I'm not sure I wanna know them. If I'm not on their "buddy" list, they are going to do the same thing to me. Eek."
So yes, I do commisserate with you in re President Bush. However, I don't think President Bush is paying a damned whit's worth of attention to the ad hominems -- he's focused on the Katrina disaster areas, Iraq, Afghanistan, domestic economy and policy, working out arrangements with other countries.
Besides, one of the great things about constantly being the subject of ridiculous ad hominems from liberals? You don't even hear those verbal assault anymore. You know why? You just get real focused upon what they are hiding in the fist behind their backs. The words mean nothing.
Oh yeah, but the worst part was being stuck with only NPR for news. :)
If Bush shows up, he's maligned. If he doesn't show up, he's maligned. Despite some of his choices during a difficult presidency, I think he's almost a living martyr, giving his all. How many others can say that? Their all is just slinging mud, insults, and blame. Fie on 'em.
I'll remember who said all those nasty things the next election that's for sure. So will a lot of other people.
When it all comes out in the wash, the people who are making so much trouble for him are not going to end up looking good. They aren't acting like rational human beings. Their hysterical ranting is whipping up people to hate even more.
If we have a civil war or regional chaos over this, the blame will be laid squarely on their shoulders ultimately, and those of all the hatemongers, including conservative hatemongers. You can make a point without taking the country down with you.
This race baiting has got to stop!!! It's been part of the problem for a long time now.
I have not read all six thousand messages on this thread but I do hope someone has pointed out that Mr. Aaron Brown of CNN is among the biggest jack***es among the sorry crowd of MSM commentators. Last night (hopefully I will avoid him tonight), he sat there in smug disbelief over the supposedly inadequate federal response, this from a news reader who is not responsible for organizing a lemonade stand let alone mobilizing the massive federal response under conditions including gross incompetence of state and local officials. Sadly, I have to say that Joe Scarborough is not far behind.
http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050903/APE/509031091
guest lineup for Sunday TV news shows
They don't care about credit
They want their percentage off the top. That is the way it is done in La. For decades.
Allow me to give you an unsolicited OP-ED
There is no sane person who would have wished this event. Hurricanes are a fact of life. The Dems will pin it on Bush but this event was eons in the making.
And one can predict with 99% confidence that [insert your favorite Gulf or SE Atlantic coast city] will be blown off the map - at some point in time.
About the only good that will come of this event is to ask - how will be prepared for the next big event (earthquake, flood, nuclear attack)?
Right now - we need to focus on news. Recriminations will occur.
Final op ed - the country is already divided. This storm will acerbate that divide. But that divide will not be eternal.
We are a strong nation. This storm will cause - hopefully - a strong recall of our core values and reset our direction as a nation.
If you are suggesting I should sell my clothes on eBay, I am donating them to the hurricane survivors.
You said you had too many. That's all.
The image copyright is Marc Serota/Reuters.
I have a MUCH earlier photo of the 17th street levee breach, and I can't seem to find the barge in that one. So, I wonder if the photos are of two different breeches.
Well well well. Something positive from geraldo. said the President is rallying everyone to help. And the church groups are allowed in! LOL
The Queen of FoxNews is on the air.
see post 5331. Go to Day Three, Floods/Rescue, Photo 5.
Its a shockwave set of photos, I don't think the image can be embedded on a thread.
You are correct...That's why I love our President..I wish I was more like him.
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