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

[oceanview]

I emailed Laura Ingraham's show, I hope she picks up on this Celine nonsense.

[spectre]

Dr. Phil is going on LKL? Unreal.

Welcome to psycobabble Nation. Geeze.

sw

[Mo1]

"How come it's so easy to send planes in another country, to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives," at a time when Americans need to serve their own country, she said. "We need to serve our country, and be there right now to rescue the rest of the people. We need the cash, we need the blood, we need the support, right now we need the prayers."

Does this nit wit realize that a Category 5 Hurricane hit several States and that the airports were down and majority of the roads where out??

How does she expect the planes to land???

Oh and better yet ... if she bothered to shut her fat mouth and turned on a TV ... then she might noticed all those helicopters in the sky are there to rescue people

[kcvl]

Stars slam rescue
From: Agence France-Presse
From correspondents in Los Angeles

September 05, 2005

AN emotional Celine Dion rounded on US authorities over their slow rescue effort in hurricane-crippled New Orleans, while actor Sean Penn's personal crusade to save victims took on water today.

Movie star and political activist Penn, 45, was in the collapsing city to aid stranded victims of flooding sparked by Hurricane Katrina, but the small boat he was piloting to launch a rescue attempt sprang a leak.

The outspoken actor had planned to rescue children waylaid by the deadly waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch.

When the boat's motor failed to start, those aboard were forced to use paddles to propel themselves down the flooded New Orleans street.

Asked what he had hoped to achieve in the waterlogged city, the actor replied: "Whatever I can do to help."

But with the boat loaded with members of the Oscar-winner's entourage, including his personal photographer, one bystander taunted: "How are you going to get any people in that thing?"

Penn's ill-fated mercy mission came after Canadian diva Dion, famed for her theme song from the watery epic Titanic, became extremely upset as she spoke of the plight of the survivors who had to wait for up to five days to be rescued.

"I open the television, there's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable," she said on CNN television's Larry King Live yesterday.

"I know there's reasons for it. I'm sorry to say I'm being rude, but I don't want to hear those reasons," she said of the delayed relief effort that has prompted virulent criticism of the US government.

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Dion also slammed authorities for arresting looters in the city that became a hellish haven of crime and violence after the storm laid waste to its infrastructure and services, saying rescue should be the only priority.

"How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives?" Dion said in an angry reference to the US-led war in Iraq.

Crooner and actor Harry Connick Jnr, who hails from New Orleans and visited the stricken city last week, said he was horrified by the sight of the scores of bodies, including that of an old woman in a chair at the city's convention centre.

Connick criticised the fact that troops and the aid columns only made it into the city on Friday, four days after the storm, saying a friend had commandeered an abandoned city bus to help evacuate refugees, he told King.

"And I'm thinking, if (she) can get on a bus and drive a bus out with sick people, you know, well, we can't get a barge to park back up on the Mississippi behind the convention centre and get these people out?"

[SE Mom]

You ARE joking, right?

[Txsleuth]

You know....Las Vegas was on the list of cities that al-queda is interested in destroying....

Just a thought Celine, when you blather about how "Americans need to serve their own country"...that is what they are doing, LA DION!!!!

And, unfortunately, your butt may be one of the ones they save in the process....(that wasn't nice, but I am sick of people "emoting" all over the place, spewing about things they don't know about.)....

[lifacs]

Coverage on WWL is much better than any of the three cable news networks.

Not as professional but good.

They just don't have non stop race baiter's and crying newsmen working to get an enema for reporting.

You missed it. There is a different crew tonight. They have been showing their bias for days now. You just got lucky.

Posted by lifacs to DouglasKC On News/Activism ^ 09/02/2005 12:03:37 PM EDT

According to WWL it was the Mayor who made things better by whining about it last night. Somehow he made Bush take it seriously. Right.

Pretty obvious how the corruption runs rampant in New Orleans politics. The local reporters have covered their butts all along and are now just continuing with business as usual.

[kcvl]

if she bothered to shut her fat mouth and turned on a TV

roflol!

I have heard ONE TOO MANY know-it-alls tell the people who ARE RESCUING PEOPLE how to do it!

[ncpatriot]

I remember when you posted this earlier. Oh, I do hope you are wrong.

[mystery-ak]

That's nothing...I read earlier that Oprah is headed to NO..Nagin is going to give her a helicopter tour....I guess he doesn't have anything to do..

[Howlin]

Connick criticised the fact that troops and the aid columns only made it into the city on Friday,

Liar. Just a damn liar.

I'm sick of them all.

BTW, Harry, there were 4000 National Guardsmen at the dispoal of YOUR governor, but the people in your "city" broke feral and they couldn't contain them.

[eternity]

All I know about Dr. Phil is the skit they do on him on Imus in the morning.

[nhoward14]

"The outspoken actor had planned to rescue children waylaid by the deadly waters, but apparently forgot to plug a hole in the bottom of the vessel, which began taking water within seconds of its launch."

ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!

Spicoli sank!

[Howlin]

Turn it on.

OH, LOOK.........Honore is going to KICK GEraldo's butt on live TV!

[queenkathy]

Isn't Celine from Canada? France?

[oceanview]

I have been using that analogy to the many freepers who have jumped on the FEMA bashing bandwagon. just like in iraq, when a few hitches were encountered in the first 72 hours, the media was already proclaiming the iraq invasion a "quagmire". its the same model with this story. the mainstream media, and unfortunately alot of americans, think that an entire major US city flooded on Tuesday, the problem should have been wrapped up by Friday.

[Howlin]

You're going to love this: guess who was with him: DOUGLAS BRINKLEY!!!

[Mo1]

"I open the television, there's people still there, waiting to be rescued, and for me it's not acceptable," she said on CNN television's Larry King Live yesterday.

Gosh Golly Gee, Celine ... Thank you so much for trashing the military, the Coast Guard and all the other volunteers ... while you are sitting on your fatt butt

Hey Celine .. do everyone a favor and SHUT UP!

[grey_whiskers]

"How come it's so easy to send planes in another country, to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives,"

Anti-pampered liberal SARCASM TORPEDO ARMED...FIRE!!

Ask Mohammed Atta about that, you worthless twit.

Full Disclosure: Ever hear of "Able Danger" and why the Clintons buried it?

[oceanview]

electricity now available at the convention center. this General Honore is a great guy.