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

[eyespysomething]

Karl Karl Karl, I really wish you'd quit photoshopping these pics. Obviously they were actually beating him before taking him out back and putting him into slavery. ( /sarcasm)

The MSM is so lame.

[MarMema]

I admire hugely those who have responded positively

Texans and FReepers, too.

[RDTF]

This civil rights idiot on BO - I am about to scream! Only the blacks are being called refugees? That's what he said! What about the 90 year old white lady and her daughter they just interviewed?! There ARE white people in these crowds. And really - now refugees isn't politically correct? Sheesh!

[bwteim]

Understand.

[BlackRain]

Did he just say 30,000 people still in the convention center?????

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I have been reporting this for the past two days.

[queenkathy]

Thanks for that link. But some won't see the truth if it bites them in the rear

[twin2]

Are the entertainers bashing Bush yet?

They haven't given the hollyweird type anything to do but read their scripted notes about how much help is needed.

Thank God.

Harry Connick Jr. talking about his visit to NO, he looks very broken up.

[Jrabbit]

Thank you....this was shown this morning when the good guys arrived. I know I shouldn't be suprised by Geraldo, but just dang.....

[unojook]

Luck Fawrence

[CedarDave]

I think I'll watch one of the movie channels tonight, this is two much.

(But I'll bet Fox wins the ratings war. BTW, who is reporting from Aruba tonight?)

[Crawdad]

He's got the buses in his pocket. They sent Jerry out to look for a place to send them.

[cajungirl]

I watched Geraldo. That Police Chief kept talking about crowd on the brink of riot.

Did you see the crowd? Perfectly peaceful, sickly and exhausted looking. I didn't see any potential riot unless of course it is whipped up.

[Spktyr]

They convert/manufacture/rebuild those in the O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt facility in Ohio. My guess is that they pulled off whatever they could get their hands on and sent it down there as quickly as possible.

That said, the Army is also in the process of Up-Armoring many of the Reserve, Guard, and stateside HMMVWs.

[Mo1]

It was Lawrence Guyot .. now he was saying something about arresting the doctors

I'm not sure what the heck that had anything to do with the conversation

[MIsunshine]

Thanks again seamole. I think my confusion lies mostly with just WHAT is considered military (bless you every one).

The national guard had already been in NO/LA when Miss Mary gave her speech today threatening the looters.

I've always considered the guard military until I heard her speech & was left w/ the impression that the guard isn't considered military & the army was moving in.

The individual state's national guard IS federal military isn't it?

[oceanview]

let's not belittle what happened in manhattan on 9-11. no one knew if other planes were coming, manhattan has millions of people on it, people had to be evacuated, order maintained.

I'm not comparing NO to NYC, all I am saying is that imagine if Rudy and Pataki and the entire government apparatus bugged out.

[nuclady]

Yeah, but they never told anyone WHY they were underfunded:

Sierra Club environazis blocked further work.
NO refusal to pay 50% of the grant money (required by law). They wanted the feds to pay 100%.

Funny, every other state understood the terms, as laid out by Congress.

[Alia]

Is that a crazy idea?

Not at all. It's what I would have done WITH caveat: Those entering the dome were not allowed in with any kinds of weapons (Zero Tolerance); ergo, I'd have found some stick with long nails, and made my way out of NO. Broken glass, some toxic soup in a jug to toss into faces. Oh yeah... I'd a started walking as soon as Katrina had passed over.

[BurbankKarl]

General Leprehcaun of the 99TH FOX INFANTRY DIVISION