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

[bannie]

I'm watching her too. She is simply graciously beautiful.

[SE Mom]

Yikes...this is one heckuva great catch...nice job!

[jeffers]

Hey.

That guy's got my shotgun.

Except I don't mess around with six rounds on the stock.

7 in the magazine (holds 8), 1 up, and 56 more on a bandolier.

I heard HK had a full auto 12 gauge, 100 RPM rate, 50 in the magazine upright on top of the barrel, nice for human wave assaults, knocking down flooded structures, and punching holes in the sky.

[eyespysomething]

We just got back from delivering a ton of stuff to our rec department. We have 500+ evacuees at the moment staying at our 4-H / state park (cabins, conference hall etc) and will total about 1000 there. The authorities are busing them to the rec dept to pick out the things they need, they are trying to get everyone 3 changes of clothes, personal hygiene items, toys for kids, shoes... My husband was talking to a few of the evacs and he said they were actually in pretty good spirits. A volunteer brought one man 2 pairs of pants in his size, and he said he would only take 1 pair, because he was sure someone else could use the other pair.

We went and bought a few pairs of men's shoes also because they said that was one thing they were in short supply of.

I think we'll go to the 4-H camp one evening and take our soccer balls and see if we can get a pick-up game going, then leave the kids the soccer balls.

I had to keep our boys from giving away all their toys, but they did give a lot, and were very happy to do it, I am proud of them.

[2111USMC]

Bookmark

[Cedar]

For goodness sakes, I had a prayer thread going for Pres. Bush during one of the debates.

I'm just asking questions here so I can understand the Federal response obligation -- and to know those facts for when I talk with other people.

[Spktyr]

POTUS leaving BR.

Notice that at least one of his Honor Guard is actually wearing a loaded pistol belt.

[easonc52]

The storm was HUGE.

That's for sure. My cousin said they had 110mph winds 60 miles inland (Purvis just below Hattiesburg).

Curious if anyone knows why there are comments on TV that some evacuees don't want to come to Utah (too far?)?

[maryz]

I found on Google that Washington DC was placed under federal receivership in 1995. I also found articles about various city or state agencies being placed under federal receivership. I don't know much about it, but I believe the Boston schools were placed under federal receivership back in the 1970s (related to busing) by order of a federal judge.

Sounds as if it can be done.

[STARWISE]

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p19r0/si.kamx.shtml

[NautiNurse]

Marvelous story - thanks for posting this.

[SauronOfMordor]

I hope somebody has had the foresight to keep all these terric links filed so that we can easily get to them later. They are going to be a fount of information later.

Nauti, could you please add Red Cross Family Links on your next thread?

As a result of Hurricane Katrina, thousands of people within the United States and abroad have lost contact with their loved ones.

In an effort to help restore family links, the ICRC - in close cooperation with the American Red Cross - offers the following services to all those seeking information about relatives who may have been affected by the hurricane.

[Spktyr]

You're confusing the H&K G11 (caseless rifle) with the H&K CAWS.

[NautiNurse]

will do

[FreedomCalls]

Great post. Thanks for the ping.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping, very useful link!

[NautiNurse]

please stop

[OKIEDOC]

Thats so true on a local level many blacks are volunteering their churches and homes to the evacuees.

There are a lot of good people down in that area both black and white.

My comments were directed towards Jessie and Al and not to common sense Americans.

I have volunteered to go down for thirty days.

Maybe I will see you down there.

[montanus]

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.

That was my initial gut feeling, too. There is a LOT of waste in Homeland Security adnd FEMA. This story could be duplicated throughout the United States. The conditions were ripe for this, and continue to be. The Feds have spent a ton of money on this stuff before adequate oversight could be put in place.

[RDTF]

Thanks that's a big help. Question: Could the President or someone else have had the authority to override the Gov in this preparation if it was deemed inadequate? Do they have no choice but to sit back and say 'everyone is gonna die and we can't so a thing about it' when they realize that the Gov is incompetent? These are the arguments I am hearing from people, that they should have stepped in. And no excuses for being left out of the loop or NO officials improperly informing them. One compared it to Enron's President that couldn't claim ignorance. I just want to know the real facts about how this operates so I can have this argument.