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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by NautiNurse
U.S. commercial air carriers continue transporting tens of thousands of evacuees from the New Orleans airport to destinations throughout the nation.
Rooftop air rescue efforts continue. One rescue chopper crashed late today. Crew members are reported safe. Gunmen who fired upon bridge repair contractors were killed by law enforcement.
To date, an estimated 70 countries and U.S. businesses have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars, supplies, food and equipment to assist the United States' efforts in Katrina's aftermath. Lt. General Honore described the damage to Mississippi today, "all infrastructure south of Jackson, MS is either damaged or destroyed." Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the devastated areas, and attended Sunday church services in Mobile, Alabama.
Elsewhere, Sean Penn's rescue boat, sans plug and full of his personal entourage,reportedly sank during launch in New Orleans. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) threatened to punch President Bush, and Jefferson Parish President Broussard decried that the bureaucracy of FEMA has committed murder.
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
New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002
Streaming Video:
All information is subject to change. Many stations are relying on their corporate parents to configure and maintain Internet streaming. Because of the intense interest in the feeds, they may be unavailable at times because of network congestion or a problem feeding the video to the streaming servers.
WWL-TV New Orleans - 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. They have a secondary stream from Yahoo. WWL-TV is also offering a special low-bandwidth audio-only stream for dial-up users.
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).
WFAA-TV Dallas, TX - WFAA-TV is here because Dallas is one of the evacuation cities.
United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM (Clear Channel & Entercom) who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.
Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.
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
Katrina Link Archives Nice work by backhoe
Mary Landrieu-"I'll Punch Bush"
Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
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 XIV
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
Husband's job. I would love to move back to Texas!!!!!
My husband loves California (the natural resources). He loves the weather, the mountains, the beach.
We do have good friends. We're in a conservative part, but I can barely take all the liberals.
There was an article on FR that of the 1,500 police force, 1,000 either never showed up after the hurricane or walked shortly thereafter.
And the clueless Governor waited until at least Wednesday (late, as I recall) to order up additional National Guard troops.
I just had a freeper on another thread tell me that a few rapes and what happened in NO didn't represent a breakdown in civil society. OMG
Thank you for doing that Johnnie. We all need to keep bombarding the media with the facts. They are too stupid for belief.
WDSU showing pics. One showed debris deposited on top of a levee, which means the water did indeed overflow the levee.
Something we're missing, for sure, because they are like parrots about that.
Let's think on that ....
Tell, Tex!
Hmm....
I have a sneaky suspicion that that whole system came to an abrupt end on Thursday.
Whew. Glad I just downloaded a hard copy minutes before it was pulled.
postponed until after Rehnquist is buried, its no big deal.
Remember there been a communication problem all along....The only thing getting through is the Rat's talking points. BTW why hasn't Dean showed up. He's a DR.
Latino Health Access Network (La Red)
Latinos represent 5.1% (48,244) of total population of Orleans and Jefferson Parishes combined (2000 US Census). No reliable estimates are available for undocumented residents, but the numbers are estimated to be significant. Currently, the health system does not adequately address the unique needs of this population.
La Red is a collaborative project of Daughters of Charity
http://www.pathla.org/home/about/initiatives/view/6/
The Corps Of Engineers does the difficult immediately, the impossible takes a little bit longer.
I'd bet that the pumps are dewatered and back in operation by end of day or sometime tomorrow.
They make airplanes for that - you can fly out, check out whatever, then fly back to a real state.
What does he do there that he can't do here?
"And now I was just reading that the Today show today was droning on about how there are TOO many military in NO. A day or 2 ago there weren't enough, now too many.
You can't ever please people like this.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished as Today Show Now Frets Too Many Troops in New Orleans."
Thanks!
As Abe Linclon said, "You can please some of the people all the time, all of the people some of the time,
but, you can't please all of the people all of the time. And you can't please the liberals any time."
Deep down the majority of Americans think that most of the blame belong to the residents of New Orleans who stupidly stayed despite all the warnings to have mandatory evacuation. What strenghten this belief are the looting, and crimes that occurred in the aftermath of the hurricane. Of course the majority of American will not say this publicly but this is what they believe. Liberals and their defeated media can go and blame the President all what they want and they can create all the bogus polls they want to show that the majority of Americans blame the President for what happened but this will not change the fact that majority of people do not believe this but rather they are blaming the New Orleans resident who decided to stay and not leave.
Rev. T. D. Jakes of Dallas on with the President now.
There was an article on FR that of the 1,500 police force, 1,000 either never showed up after the hurricane or walked shortly thereafter.
And the clueless Governor waited until at least Wednesday (late, as I recall) to order up additional National Guard troops.
I found/saved a copy too....One of my friends that serves in the Guard (he trains MP here in IN) says they are getting the State Mental Hospitol located near here ready for something. (It's been vacated in the last couple of years and is now being used as a training area for military)....It has high fences...security locked building...etc....Didn't give me any more information.
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