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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
60 minutes saying Nagin ordered evac 2 days before hurricane! Wasnt it sunday..one day before?
( 225)-765-4566 www.Shareyourhome.org
www.hurricanehousing.org (800) 838-4559
www.nola.com or www.katrinahousing.org
relief.welcomewagon.com OR open yourhome.com
It's the best I can do :(
For those that are wondering, that is an LCAC.
I hadn't heard those two ignorant people speak out previously. I guess they didn't hear that the Red Cross was barred from entering NO because it was too dangerous. This was as of Friday and their spokesman was on CNN that night explaining that little matter.
"CNN frontpage article says:"
Somebody's gonna get fired over this -- This is CNN and they're not supposed to retract and correct a juicy article with potential use to attack Bush or somebody..
They are lying....Nagin didn't order evac until Sunday....hurricane came in early Monday a.m.
60 minutes saying Nagin ordered evac 2 days before hurricane! Wasnt it sunday..one day before?
The first day the evac orders weren't mandatory. Sunday they were.
I'm curious if anyone knows how many presidents have declared several areas disaster areas before a storm hits?
Voluntary evac Fridayish...Sunday morning mandatory evac...AFTER the president called the governor.
He is lying nonstop..why do I torment myself this way? Now he is talking about the Police Chief being outgunned and lamost kidnapped!
thanks for the heads up.
WHAT AN ASS!
The Mayor is a jerk and a looney.
If he really "loved" New Orleans he would step down.
60 Minutes IS HELPING COVER UP NAGIN'S INCOMPETENCE.
60 Minutes lies and people die.
Nagin was given a baby? Where? Is this an "algore inveted the internet" story?
When Nagin was bypassed results happened.
60 Minutes personifies the incompetence of the MSM.
LOL. They didn't have a choice because AP retracted the story.
I had such a sick feeling when I heard it was contractors that had been shot. I am so relieved it wasn't them but the evil thugs.
Priceless! Best laugh most of us have had since this darned thing began.
Good God...
Sean Penn Sinks his boat...
This LIB comedy just keeps getting funnier and funnier!
He is also blaming the hospital deaths on the Feds..its his job to evac the hospitals!!!!!!!!!!!
O.K. doc why wasn't she moved BEFORE the hurricane. Was this the hospital that was shot at by gunmen?
Yes Charity..the city hospital that they decided NOT to evac! Gen Honore up now
Yep. Funny how Mayor Nagin managed to find the time to escort Soctt Pelley of 60 Minutes around New Orleans to film his helicopter tour of New Orleans but couldn't find the time to release the buses to rescue people who were stranded.
60 Minutes...
How to expose them again? It is really urgent that we get ahold of this story- it's spinning into the danger zone.
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