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Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV
Various ^ | 2 September 2005 | Various

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi
KEYWORDS: aftermath; hurricane; katrina; neworleans
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

I'm sorry, I've been kicking in money all week. I'm just concerned about what happens when the novelty wears off and we're stuck with a quarter million unemployed Louisianians. I hope we can get some help ourselves to take care of them or we could be screwn.

I mean, what happens to all the events planned for the George R. Brown? And all the hotels downtown? And can they play basketball nextdoor? Football games? Where will people park?


6,281 posted on 09/04/2005 12:27:03 PM PDT by johnb838 (Pray for New Orleans.)
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To: Petronski; NautiNurse; steveegg
Live streams:

All information is subject to change. Many stations are relying on their corporate parents to configure and maintain Internet streaming. Because of the intense interest in the feeds, they may be unavailable at times because of network congestion or a problem feeding the video to the streaming servers.

WWL-TV New Orleans - 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. They have a secondary stream from Yahoo. WWL-TV is also offering a special low-bandwidth audio-only stream for dial-up users.

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).

WFAA-TV Dallas, TX - WFAA-TV is here because Dallas is one of the evacuation cities.

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM (Clear Channel & Entercom) who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.

Streaming Public Safety Communications Links

Baton Rouge Statewide Police + US Customs/US Coast Guard Operations (subject to congestion - try again later if it doesn't load) - Note: Two different radio services air concurrently - police on the right speaker channel and Customs/Coast Guard on the left.:

http://mirror1.ev1helps.net:8080/lspbtr.m3u - 2000 users max
http://stfunoob.com/nola/scanner.pls - 2500 users max
http://aurora.foghaven.net:8000/LSP.m3u - 1000 users max
http://radio2.wrpn.net:5000/nola_scanner.m3u - 32 users max
http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/LASP.m3u - 100 users max
http://69.18.113.212:8088/listen.pls - 50 users max
http://hostamazing.com/nola/scanner.pls

Houston AstroDome Operations:

http://radio.artplz.com:8000/NewOrleans.mp3.m3u
http://www.goodphuck.com:8088/listen.pls
http://egg.dishnuts.net:8000/NewOrleans.m3u

San Antonio Shelter Operations Feed Unreliable - More Relays Coming:

http://aurora.foghaven.net:8000/san_antonio.m3u

Gulf Coast ARES Emergency Net:

http://ve3nsv.no-ip.org:8000/canwarnlive.m3u

Hurricane Welfare Information:

http://207.44.198.6:8000/listen.pls

Hurricane Katrina Watch Net - Health and Welfare:

http://209.189.239.77:8048/listen.pls

(You may need to install Winamp to listen to these scanner broadcasts. Visit http://www.winamp.com to download the free player.)

6,282 posted on 09/04/2005 12:27:50 PM PDT by mhking (The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
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To: buickmackane

Yeah and I noticed when "Mayor" nagin said he wanted to get some medical and psychological help for his firefighters and police he suggested Las Vegas has plenty of hotel rooms...(how nice maybe Hawaii has some too?) Sounds like he's already spending FEMA money hand over fist...


6,283 posted on 09/04/2005 12:28:08 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: Spktyr

What's scary is the fact that many DFW school districts are admitting hurricane refugees into the public schools without immunizations to hurry them through the admission process. Their theory is to ask questions later because its best for the kids. Which kids is the question people ought to be a little upset about.


6,284 posted on 09/04/2005 12:28:10 PM PDT by getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL (Undocumented border patrol agent.)
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To: queenkathy

Perhaps. One place you can cry openly is in most churches, and people will come over to comfort you.

The article seemed to imply they were offended and walked out - or maybe I read it wrong.


6,285 posted on 09/04/2005 12:28:21 PM PDT by plushaye (President Bush: W-2-4-4!! God Bless him and his administration.)
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To: buickmackane

Oprah's having the bus repainted to read "Wildrest Screams".


6,286 posted on 09/04/2005 12:29:37 PM PDT by debg ((Miami))
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To: ARealMothersSonForever

What makes you think it's a good idea for us Texans to clean up the huge corrupt mess that is Louisiana government? I *really* do not want our local liberals to get any ideas, and I'm not all that fond of gators.

That said, the best thing that could happen to Louisiana is to become a Federal administrative district with the complete housecleaning that the Feds do best - backed up by Federal troops.


6,287 posted on 09/04/2005 12:30:06 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Route66

I've been listening all afternoon to an online relay of NOPD scanner. They speak to each other in "north" and "west" GPS coordinates only. They say things like "two male, one elderly" "two females/one male, one dog" because they're describing the rooftop occupants. Then, I guess there must be faster pluck'em choppers, and then medical rescue choppers, which clearly take longer. The scanner has also been discussing an oil leak somewhere that's been ongoing for hours.


6,288 posted on 09/04/2005 12:30:34 PM PDT by lainie
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To: johnb838

I'm sorry, I've been kicking in money all week. I'm just concerned about what happens when the novelty wears off and we're stuck with a quarter million unemployed Louisianians. I hope we can get some help ourselves to take care of them or we could be screwn.


Uh just change the location where many were picking up their checks from Uncle Sugar....how many were unemployed (and looking for work) before Katrina? I'm waiting for the MSM to put out those statistics...


6,289 posted on 09/04/2005 12:31:16 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: rolling_stone

All right, that's it. Enough bashing the mayor. He's worked almost one full week and clearly deserves a paid holiday along with all of the other city workers.


6,290 posted on 09/04/2005 12:31:19 PM PDT by buckandbuck1
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To: Abigail Adams

Im afraid the totals will end up being be very high.

Reporter asked the man what should we expect? 10k, 15k?

Of course he said he doesnt know, which he probably doesnt.





6,291 posted on 09/04/2005 12:31:26 PM PDT by No Blue States
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To: Spktyr
So much for "there are only 100,000 people left in New Orleans and the surrounding area." Damn the Louisiana government that let this happen.

Another lie by the Mayor.

6,292 posted on 09/04/2005 12:31:34 PM PDT by Hattie
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL

They're being enrolled, but they haven't entered classes yet. From what I've read, they're going to get a full set of vaccinations right before they are allowed into classes if they cannot produce records.


6,293 posted on 09/04/2005 12:32:04 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: rolling_stone

Where are the cruise ships?...I read yesterday that Carnival is sending three for housing..


6,294 posted on 09/04/2005 12:32:20 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Home of the free, because of the Brave.....do you understand that Cindy?)
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To: getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL
What's scary is the fact that many DFW school districts are admitting hurricane refugees into the public schools without immunizations to hurry them through the admission process. Their theory is to ask questions later because its best for the kids. Which kids is the question people ought to be a little upset about.

That is a very good point. Not only immunizations- they should probably quarantine them for awhile to make sure they don't have dysentery or worse. Will it really hurt kids to miss another week or so of school? I know as a kid, I would have liked the break...

6,295 posted on 09/04/2005 12:32:47 PM PDT by conservative cat
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To: Spktyr

There are already new zip codes for the Astrodome, Reunion, and the convention center.
I am certain that none of the liberals (both parties) will demand a re-districting overseen by a federal judge. No sir. Never happen.


6,296 posted on 09/04/2005 12:33:19 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Bless those in need this day)
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To: CedarDave

" They are treating them as if it is all the looters on the plane, which may not be a bad idea. "


I saw a clip on FOX this morning (sound off) which showed a small group of evacuees waiting to board a helicopter. The camera panned to the left to show a LEO walking away from the group, his arms loaded with handguns and rifles.

Probably a good idea to screen everybody on both ends of the journey.


6,297 posted on 09/04/2005 12:33:20 PM PDT by Uncle Ike (MSM reporters -- rope is cheap and there are a LOT of trees...)
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To: Spktyr

Next plane will be a military C-130 with a lot more people arriving at 3:40 CDT.


6,298 posted on 09/04/2005 12:34:00 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing, Jr: "I have a dream!", Howard Dean: "I have a scream!", Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme!")
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To: rolling_stone

It was reported on FR the other day that 67% are on welfare in NO.....


6,299 posted on 09/04/2005 12:34:32 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Home of the free, because of the Brave.....do you understand that Cindy?)
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To: CedarDave

Condi on FOX now.


6,300 posted on 09/04/2005 12:34:51 PM PDT by CedarDave (MLKing, Jr: "I have a dream!", Howard Dean: "I have a scream!", Jesse Jackson: "I have a scheme!")
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