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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
Before the flood waters started rising, the Salvation Army had trucks there handing out food. One of the FOX reporters mentioned the "Baptist Men" being there Monday afternoon as the storm was still blowing by. Salvation Army were handing out sandwiches and water when people landed at the freeway after being rescued from rooftops. Red Cross vehicles were shown stranded in the flood waters along with residents' vehicles. Organizations were on the ground and helping since Day One, but they just haven't been able to help quickly or vastly enough (and apparently not to the tastes of the evacuees -- "I haven't had a hot meal in three days.")
Fox should pull both of these hysterical "reporters". They are doing nothing but stirring up the people around them!
The hundreds of people are still on I-10 .. for days.
Geraldo: I want everyone in the world to see 6 days after Katrina .. 10 month baby .. look in the face of the baby .. this is it .. no sugar coating .. no spin .. let them go and walk over this damn interstate and let them out of here. He's furious.
Anything important happen the last 3 hours?
Oh God, Geraldo just invoked "Let them Go!"
Let those people go.
hey look, this is what it takes sometimes.
some of you folks may not know that the story that put Geraldo pn the map was his time as a NYC reporter when he broke into a childrens mental hospital, Willowbrook, with hidden cameras to show what was going on there. it was a major scandal, horrible conditions.
FNC better move those two guys outta there. Both of them are about to break.
Actually, I could believe it (although I have no info). As I understand it, there's only one road in/out of NO. It is easy to imagine police deciding to clear the roads of foot traffic so the convoys could go back and forth. It would be infuriating to be trapped that way, but I could easily see how it might happen.
AMEN!
Whorealdo can't count. And also, he said he just left NY yesterday. I can't imagine what he's going to be like in another 24 hours.
Only to let Geraldo lose it!
We beat Dan Rather with his own lies. The lies of the MSM and the Leftist losers will NOT prevail -- not as long as there are outlets like FR to ensure the truth gets out!
Good for you.
Shep couldn't even answer the most basic questions.
For sure! It won't be complete until the Mau-Mau terrorists start shooting on cue.
Warning... note sarcasm, Gentle Readers
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It is true, they are being prepared for use in standing in the breach... at the levees
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This is just unseemly.
The press is not going to the places where people are coping.
But I will tell you something that really surprised me: my biggest liberal friend called me tonight and SHE is furious about the coverage; she is not buying this.
And she worked at Job Corps.
This isn't playing well in middle America.
Oh I see a state income tax for the future of Texas.
I don't know. It seems some of that is Geraldo inducing his own hysteria in some sense. It kind of seemed partly fake.
Maybe that is the real Geraldo in freak out mode.
Yes, but their hysteria is ridiculous.
The fact of the matter is that if they let them go we'll have 30,000 people unsupervised causing who knows what damage. NOT good. And the fact is that they chose not to evacuate, we can only get so many out at a time and Shep and geraldo have NO perspective here.
I do think it's helpful for FOX to demand evacuations at the center, but Shep and geraldo need to be pulled.
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