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

[LA Woman3]

New Orleans has dodged the bullet so many times, that people didn't take this storm as seriously as they should-officials included. The common phrase you hear over and over is "It will turn". This time their luck ran out.
They are warning people how awful the city will look once the water has been drained. I don't think anyone knows what will become of New Orleans as this is such a unprecedented,tragic event. I never imagined when we moved here 4 years ago that we would be here for the "Big One".

[tbagot]

The SuperDome is pretty fixable. Though I don't imagine the Saints ever returning there.

Scrape the human goo out. Steamclean, and voila, a stadium that would cost over a billion dollars to build from scratch.

Why the need to keep building stadiums that are used for eight home games a year is beyond me. Oh, the boat shows, too.

[Types_with_Fist]

I heard him. He's trying to get it through to people that this is an on-going disaster. The MSM thinks that because downtown NO is mostly evacuated that this is over. It isn't even close. I like the general.

[LA Woman3]

The SuperDome is pretty fixable. Though I don't imagine the Saints ever returning there.



The Saints were wanting to leave New Orleans before Katrina....

[Types_with_Fist]

Though I don't imagine the Saints ever returning there.

No. That's over. I hope they don't let the door slam on their butts... especially owner Benson.

[WoodstockCat]

Glad to hear that. Our gutter-stuffer of a city paper, the AJC or Atlanta Urinal and Constipation had it's lead editorial pegging the rescue effort as "something out of a third world country not the world's only superpower".

I'm going to pen a response but not now because facts would get overwhelmed with venom for this pile of kudzo.

We only buy the paper on Sundays for the coupons, I pity the next time they call around for subscriptions.

[bwteim]

WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
12:08 PM CDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005
Tom Planchet
11:35 A.M. -- Officials said Jefferson Parish residents can return to their homes Monday for a brief time to get some belongings, but must bring identification, sealed food and safe water with them.
10:10 A.M. - MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- The Bush administration sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, its highest ranking black official, Sunday to visit the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast amid criticism it had responded slowly to the suffering of poor, minority victims. She returned to her native Alabama to attend services at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile.
10:06 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said the death toll from Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath is in the thousands, the first time a federal official has acknowledged what many had feared. "I think it's evident it's in the thousands," Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt said Sunday on CNN, echoing predictions by city and state officials last week about the death toll.
10:00 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP) -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said Sunday the federal government is in control of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans after days in which authorities failed to reach stranded refugees and evacuate the city. He said a house-to-house search will be conducted to find the living and the dead.
CUT CUT
9:10 A.M. -- The Jefferson Parish animal shelter said it has rescued over 100 animals from evacuees at Interstate 10 and Causeway Boulevard. The shelter issues an urgent appeal for national pet and veterinarian organizations to bring trucks to the animal shelter in Tylertown, Miss., and take animals away to places where they can be cared for.
8:45 A.M. - Washington (AP) -- Amid widespread criticism about a slow and ineffectual response to the crisis, the Bush administration dispatched several top officials to the region: Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Richard Myers and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President Bush planned to return to the region Monday.
8:28 A.M. - (AP) "A Marshall Plan for the Mississippi." That's what New Orleans native Andrew Young thinks is in order to get the hurricane ravage area back on its feet. The former U-N ambassador and Atlanta mayor says getting the region's economy back on track requires thinking similar to what was done for Europe after World War Two.
CUT CUT
8:26 A.M. - (AP) With each passing day, health concerns continue to grow for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Some are obvious, some less so.
CUT CUT .. gastrointestinal illnesses like dysentery are among the immediate concerns. So are staph infections CUT CUT West Nile Virus.
CUT CUT
8:24 A.M. - BRAGGS, Okla. (AP) -- Nearly 40 buses filled with evacuees from the storm-ravaged Gulf Coast have arrived at an Oklahoma National Guard barracks.
CUT CUT
8:10 A.M. - Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu - The images you've seen on TV was the lawless young men who did horrible things and have to be dealt with but what you didn't see, because the cameras weren't allowed in there, was that 99 percent were golden.
8:08 A.M. - Landrieu: This was the largest, most gargantuen [sic] storm in history. Ninety percent of the harm, tragedies and deaths were because of things beyond anyone's control. About 10 percent will be because of what someone didn't do.
8:05 A.M. - Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu - There's a lot of blame to go around, and a lot of credit. Heroes and demons. This is an American tragedy.
CUT CUT
8:00 A.M. - Landrieu: - We need to stop calling them refugees, they are American citizens. I've made that mistake myself.
CUT CUT

[spectre]

"Clean up at the Superdome has begun"?

She said WHAT? Dear Lord, why are even concerned about an empty, polluted pit from hell?

Faced with the thousands of homes and businesses along the Gulf Coast that need rebuilding and refurbishing, cleaning up the SuperDome should be the last thing on anyone's mind.

Set fire or Bulldoze it, FGS.

sw

[Types_with_Fist]

Yes. I know the Dome is fixable. But I think we're a very long way from even thinking about that. The anchorette on TV didn't seem to realize that.

[Types_with_Fist]

I heard her say it. I swear...:-)

[LA Woman3]

8:00 A.M. - Landrieu: - We need to stop calling them refugees, they are American citizens. I've made that mistake myself.


And in that same spirit....we need to stop threatening George W. Bush. He is the President of the United States of America.

[Sally'sConcerns]

I'm so sick and tired of these idiots harping on the Pres being on 'vacation' for a month or 4 or 5 weeks. First, he's never really on vacation, 2nd - if they'd bother to check out his August schedule (link below to WH Press site) they'd see that on Monday he was in AZ discussing Medicare and on Tues he was in CA commemorating the 60th Anniversary of VJ Day. The rest of the month he was working on a variety of items/issues.

You aren't the only one who is sick and tired of reporters and demwits referring to President Bush's time spent at the Western White House as his being on vacation. I dare any of those idiots who refer to this as a vacation to accomplish as much as the President does. He gets more done there than any 5 liberal idiots do who spend their time in D.C.

It's almost as if the idiots don't understand the technology available in today's world. Teleconferencing has been around for at least 10 years...I should know since I participated in teleconferencing back when we were finding solutions to the best way to handle a bank merger. One would hope teleconferencing has improved since I was involved and I have to say, it wasn't shabby back then.

Now we have cell phones, even cell phones that can take digital pictures.

The really hilarious part of all this is none of this is all that new as far as technological advances. When I was a youngster I can remember curling up next to my Dad at family gatherings. My Dad had the best lap in the world to snuggle up against to go to sleep. All the other adults in the room would ignore me so I got to hear things I probably shouldn't have heard.

Oh, I forgot to mention one of those adults was my cousin who served a partial term (Secret Service) under Eisenhower and full terms (Secret Service) under Kennedy and Johnson. It was always fascinating to listen to him and to learn some of the methods they used to protect the President. Granted, some of it I didn't understand since it went way over my head but I understood enough which helped to calm my fears during the cold war.

I'd love for those idiots to list why being in Crawford hampers President Bush from doing less than he can in D.C.

I for one am grateful I never had to take the kind of vacation President Bush does. Talk about needing a vacation to recover from a vacation!

/rant

[spectre]

I believe you, LOL.

sw

[Spktyr]

I should think that the recent use as a shelter and aid distribution point of the Astrodome (and to some degree the Superdome, despite the wretched mistakes of the local and state government there) should be sufficient justification.

[WoodstockCat]

I'd encourage those who want to make a donation that they can be assured will be used wisely and have minimal turnaround time to the ground to go to North American Mission Board

We've been on the ground since Thursday and are averageing 300,000 meals served per day. 100% of the funds go to disaster relief.

[hoosiermama]

If you start a ping list, please put me one it.

[Spktyr]

Same here - please put me on any ping list you construct.

[WoodstockCat]

anyone know where there is a transcript of Honore?

He was a great choice for this position by Bush.

[Laverne]

Tim Russert made a complete fool of himself today. I called MTP this morning, but the voice mail box was already full! I did get through to the office of the president of the news and their voice mail and left a scathing message about the unprofessionalism of Tim and his complete incompetence.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

If you just look for my name, I was asked to post to the Katrina Live threads.

I have not posted in so long, I don't know how to make a ping list, maybe one of you would do it? PLEASE