From WWL
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From WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
02:33 PM CDT on Saturday, September 3, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:32 P.M. - The Hammond Daily Star: Farmers at the edge of the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina have to dump their milk because they've run out of room to store it, even as thousands of people go hungry and thirsty in and around New Orleans.
Many farms' storage tanks are just big enough to hold two milkings, and co-ops haven't been able to pick up the milk, Dee Simpson said Friday.
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Farmers also are having trouble finding feed for their 80 cows, numerous calves and 40 horses The plant where they buy it will be closed for four weeks.
"That's going to be the hardest part -- just trying to take care of these animals," Dee Simpson said.
2:30 P.M. - FORT CHAFFEE, AR (AP): New Orleans-area residents brought to Arkansas to escape the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina arrived at Fort Smith on Saturday but the first wave was temporarily diverted because of worries that Fort Chaffee couldn't accommodate their wheelchairs.
**Fort Chaffee, a decades-old Army base in western Arkansas, does not fully comply with standards set under the Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington County emergency officials agreed to take them, but space later was found at Fort Chaffee.**
About 60 planes are expected to arrive over the next two or three days, bringing 4,000 or so evacuees removed from New Orleans because of Hurricane Katrina. The first plane, which arrived Saturday morning, had 60 passengers in wheelchairs.
Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that as many as 50,000 refugees may already be in Arkansas, with as many as 20,000 still to come. He said plans also were being made to house thousands more at church camps, scout camps, and public housing apartments.
2:27 P.M. - The Minneapolis Star Tribune, (AP): Minnesota radio stations plan to team up to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina during a seven-hour radiothon Friday.
Most Twin Cities radio stations will gather for "Storm Aid: Minnesota's River of Relief," to be broadcast from 5 a.m. to noon from a still-to-be-determined location near the Mississippi River.
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2:21 P.M. - Video game development company Bungie is selling shirts to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
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2:18 P.M. - HOUSTON (AP): The triage line inside the Astrodome hasn't changed much since the buses began arriving from New Orleans two nights ago.
It's long with tired, ailing refugees, some in wheelchairs, some on crutches, some critical, some not, but every one of them waiting on a doctor.
This is the Astrodome, not the Superdome. It's smells a lot less here. It's cooler, and less chaotic. Still, it's a basin of folks with so many ills, where everyone lines up to be treated. And it's no short line.
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2:13 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): Governor Kathleen Blanco has declared a state of public health emergency.
The declaration allows doctors, nurses and other medical professionals to register with the Department of Health and Hospitals and go to work immediately in Louisiana. The medical professionals must be in good standing in their home states.
Blanco also is asking that school buses be used to help carry supplies and evacuate hurricane victims.
Superintendents in every Louisiana school district that is still up and running have been ordered to send a list of buses and drivers.