Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[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

[RDTF]

Do you have a link to a source about all this? I'd like to read up on it so I can have this argument properly.

[Dolphy]

How do I prove that many black churches are responding or black friends of mine who have volunteered with the Red Cross?

[Cedar]

Someone else on another thread had mentioned about the difference between natural disaster and terrorist attack.

This possibly might be the only strong explanation for fed. not responding sooner.

And as you said, any action by the President would be criticized.

My concern was not so much with MSM, but with the actual response of the Federal gov't and its obligations to citizens in this situation.

[Dolphy]

I know that they weren't your comments but it seems you often post others critical comments. If unfair, I apologize.

[Fawn]

New Orleans Police Foundation
Elodia Blanco, Recruiting Coordinator
400 Poydras St. Suite 1940
New Orleans, La. 70130
1-888-NOPD-YES (toll free) or 504-566-7404

[oceanview]

we need a southerner to head up thie reconstruction effort - I nominate Zell Miller. he will clean out this mess.

but I don't know the legal means by which Bush can essentially "federalize" New Orleans, how do we remove the state and local officials from the food chain?

[dawn53]

The President was just in Baton Rouge at a huge black church that was housing people and T. D. Jakes was with him.

The President thanked Jakes for organizing the outreach of churches, and I can almost guarantee those were black churches he was organizing, not white churches.

[LA Woman3]

Stonecipher also wondered whether the fact that Blanco is a Democrat might have slowed the Republican administration's response to the crisis in her state.

"I wonder what Rudy Giuliani could have done in Louisiana? Stonecipher said.



Gee....do you think this will be the excuse American buys into?? Keep trying....

[Cedar]

Thanks for your reply. I'm pinging podkane, as those words you quoted were from podkane.

[grey_whiskers]

Totals: $ 9,000,000

Estimated Requirements for assistance under the Stafford Act:

Coordination: $0
Technical and advisory assistance: $0
Debris removal: $0
Emergency protective measures: $ 9,000,000
Individuals and Households Program (IHP): $0
Distribution of emergency supplies: $0
Other (specify): $0

Let's put this in perspective.

Total aid askef for: Nine Million Dollars. With an "M", not a "B".

That total requested probably would not even clean up the SuperDome.

It probably would not do for even two weeks worth of graft for the NO metro area.

Prayers for ALL !

[jveritas]

The vast majority of the folks who stayed were able bodies and they would have walked a mile or two from where they resides to the SuperDome. They had three days to do before the Hurricane hit. Those who were not able to walk should have called the police and they would have moved them.

Metropolitan New Orleans have 1.5 millions people, around 1.3 to 1.4 million evacuated before the Hurricane because they were smart enough to do so.

[Chena]

Excellent!!! I can't thank you enough for taking the time to gather facts and write this well-documented article. I will be sharing this with everyone I know. Thank you so much, chena

[dawn53]

Here's a great website to explain the Feds' versus the State's resonsibilities, and also to lay out exemptions to certain things like "posse comitatus."

http://www.homelandsecurity.org/bulletin/Primer_ChallengestoPreventionandPreparedness.htm

[Bahbah]

An absolutely great find, Ellesu. As I began to hear over and over how ferociously Blanco and her cohorts were resisting any Federal presence, I first wondered why you would do this with all of those people at risk and then could not think of any other reason but that they had something immense to hide. LA may be among the worst of the thieves of HS money, but it is far from alone. I hope that their shredders to not have electricity.

[TAdams8591]

"This from the conservatives."

Do fellow conservatives do "this" to other fellow conservatives? After 30+ years of my involvement in the movement, I'm SHOCKED, SHOCKED I tell you.

Next thing ya know, Lowry will be stalking and terrorizing the FEMA director in REAL life and will bring him to complete ruin, in addition to publicly criticizing him, like other conservatives I am aware of have done. Nah, they won't do that to him. They only so attack conservatives who are the lowest on the totem pole.

[Rokke]

No. I've spent the last 20 years of my life in the Active Duty and National Guard. I've spent the last 7 years in the Air National Guard. Since 9/11 I have been bouncing back and forth between Federal and State authority depending on what my assigned role is. I am very familiar with what my chain of command is depending on what role I am filling. When a person joins the National Guard, he raises his right hand and swears an oath to the Governor of the state he works for. That is because the Governor is his commander. And the Governor must give the DoD the authority to assume command of his National Guard forces. That is why, to this very minute, all the Guardsmen working in New Orleans full UNDER the authority of state officials including local policemen. That's just the way it is.

[RDTF]

I missed that - but right now I see Laura Bush on Fox and she looks fantastic! Very fit.

[Fawn]

Yes---i thought the same thing...she does look fit. I guess I'll get off my butt and walk the treadmill now since I feel guilty.

[conservative cat]

We have Medved on at the same time as Hannity. We listen to Medved on the way home. The worst part of Hannity is the last few minutes when he takes calls.

[McGavin999]

but I don't know the legal means by which Bush can essentially "federalize" New Orleans, how do we remove the state and local officials from the food chain?

That's pretty much been done. Bush has waived the usual 75-25 split between federal and state funds and agreed to pay 100% of the costs. This takes the locals out of the loop, but I'm sure they haven't figured that out yet.