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

[popdonnelly]

The President is coming tomorrow!!” “Oh yeah,” the mayor quietly says “ Yeah, the president is coming…”

The product of endless decades of Democratic Party inbreeding. Maybe this is the fate of all the blue States.

[AlaninSA]

Gang-

By all means, donate to the Red Cross! I'm on volunteer duty here in San Antonio -- working the counseling and shelter management duty.

We need money.

That money is needed to purchase things like medication. That -- and entertainment items like games, toys and books -- is what is in shortest supply.

[Gabz]

I finally lost it with one of them today. I try my best to stick with my upbringing when posting online........not even my mother would have recognized me in that particualr post today :)

[BurbankKarl]

I noticed Amazon.com put the Red Cross on their home page...wonder how many hates mails they received....

[tapatio]

Could it be that things are moving along well now that the media isn't instigating and stirring up things?

Amazing isn't it?

[popdonnelly]

"Scarborough has been blaming Bush all week...I hate that man.."

These people are revealing themselves as total idiots. Bush isn't responsible for the devestation caused by the hurricane. No other President in history that I know of has ever been blamed for a natural disaster. It just shows the intellectual poverty of the Democrats and their lack of anything to say except, "it's Bush's fault".

[Txsleuth]

OH, please, please, say that it is so...Tony back tomorrow...terrific...

I never thought I would miss a talk show host as much as I have missed Tony the last few weeks..

Rush won't be there tomorrow...he is gonna have a HUGH "stack of stuff" by Tuesday!!!

[Strategerist]

I heard that! Good chance for another hurricane hitting the US in a few days! Yikes!

As is typical for Bastardi, it's somewhat overhyped.

And before some Bastardibot chimes in with how he hyped Katrina and how great that was, actually, Bastardi was one of the contributors to the constant overhype of EVERYTHING so that when a storm really DOES need to be hyped, it doesn't stand out...Bastardi was hyping Dennis hitting New Orleans, which never happened or came close to happening, for example.

[Davis]

FOX cleaned Geraldo up, put him in dockers and a Ralp Lauren polo shirt and tried to make us think he had a brain.

But...

If he walks like an *ss and talks like and *ss...

We ain't fooled.

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" Joe Scarborough just "speculated" that over 10,000 may have died in NO...

THEN, he said that is too bad....that 4-5 years ago (coincidently, Bush's length of presidency), it was KNOWN that those levees wouldn't hold, and "the government didn't do anything about it"...then he shook his head."

When Joe Scarborough was a Congressman and served on the Government Reform and Oversight Committee he sponsored legislation to address the levee problem ... oh wait, I'm wrong.
Scarborough had the power to address the situation while in Congress and did zero.
Scarborough was in Congress longer than President Bush has been in office .

[OKIEDOC]

Interesting from the stand point of facts.

However, you could feel the elite look down your nose smugness of another Eastern seaboard hypocrite laying into a part of the country he knows little about.

Black poverty is suddenly cause celled for many of these self styled , over educated pimps.

These people have known about the poverty in the ghettos and done nothing about any thing.

How many poor has this turkey physically brought out of Harlem.

I would venture to say that Chicago, Detroit, New York City, LA and other big cities have the same problem as New Orleans had with it's poor.

He speaks like another George Jefferson and surely is movin on up.

You don't pull people out of poverty by giving them a hand out as race baiter's John Conkers and Jessie Jackass want to do.

You pull them out of poverty as President Bush is proposing to do by giving them an education system that works and a hand up.

Now tell me who cares more for the poor.

Whos better for the country and its people. A charlatan like ole Jackass and Sharptongue or a president that demands that school systems teach.

The Democrats have for 100 years enslaved these people down on the plantation by using poverty and teaching the hatred of white skinned people.

Seems the terrorists Muslim clerics are doing the same and using the same rhetoric.

[TexKat]

A look at refugee situation around U.S.

Associated Press

Snapshots of states taking in refugees from Hurricane Katrina:

TEXAS: More than 230,000 refugees are already in Texas. Gov. Rick Perry on Sunday ordered emergency officials to initiate an airlift to take some of them to other states that have offered help.

LOUISIANA: The Red Cross says more than 50,000 refugees were in its shelters. Tens of thousands of hurricane survivors were bused to Texas.

ARKANSAS: Gov. Mike Huckabee says Arkansas likely had 50,000 evacuees in the state as of Friday and another 20,000 could be expected.

TENNESSEE: Gov. Phil Bredesen says nearly 13,000 refugees were being sheltered and that number could double. More than 10,000 people have gone to Memphis, about 350 miles north of New Orleans.

MISSISSIPPI: More than 17,000 were in American Red Cross shelters, while untold others were in hotels, churches and private homes.

ALABAMA: Gov. Bob Riley is seeking to offer housing for 10,000 refugees.

MICHIGAN: The state has offered to house up to 10,000 refugees, a spokeswoman for Gov. Jennifer Granholm says.

NEW MEXICO: Up to 6,000 hurricane victims may find shelter in New Mexico. Gov. Bill Richardson said the first 1,000 evacuees will be housed at the Albuquerque Convention Center.

SOUTH CAROLINA: U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn proposed housing up to 5,000 refugees in unused military barracks, an empty mall and other large buildings in Columbia.

MINNESOTA: Gov. Tim Pawlenty says Minnesota is preparing to host as many as 5,000 evacuees for a year or longer.

OKLAHOMA: Buses carrying nearly 2,000 evacuees arrived in Oklahoma on Saturday. As many as 3,000 others are expected to follow.

NORTH CAROLINA: Authorities say they are ready to house up to 1,500 evacuees at shelters.

FLORIDA: More than 1,100 people were in seven shelters, along with 13,500 refugees in hotels.

ARIZONA: One thousand or more refugees were expected to arrive sometime Sunday.

COLORADO: Up to 1,000 refugees will be housed at dorms at the former Lowry Air Force base.

OREGON: State officials are working to accommodate up to 1,000 people.

GEORGIA: State officials have opened 12 shelters housing more than 900 evacuees, Gov. Sonny Perdue says.

MISSOURI: The American Red Cross has housed more than 500 people, says Susie Stonner, a spokeswoman for the State Emergency Management agency.

WEST VIRGINIA: The first of an expected 500 refugees began arriving late Saturday.

ILLINOIS: Authorities were aware of 400 to 500 refugees in the state.

UTAH: About 450 refugees had arrived in Salt Lake City by Sunday.

CALIFORNIA: About 80 evacuees were expected to arrive Sunday in San Diego. Some 300 families were expected in San Francisco and another 100 in San Jose, emergency officials said.

[GOP_Proud]

You can say what you want, but Geraldo is there and he's being kind and compassionate. He was so gentle with Floritta and Dusty. I can't criticize Geraldo right now.

[popdonnelly]

The Times-Picayune has probably been supporting the Democratic machine that produced two incompetents, Blanco and Nagin, for decade upon decade. To the Times-Picayune I would say, the people of the United States are rescuing your city, despite the incompetence of your elected officials. We will continue to rescue your city, and provide all the assistance we can. The City of New Orleans and the State of Louisiana have done very little or nothing to make this task any easier. I would suggest that the Times-Picayune stop whining and pointing fingers, or you will wear out our good will.

[dfwgator]

I advise all Freepers to email your local radio talk show hosts and make sure that they cover the incompetancy of Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin. They are our best hope of getting the truth out there to the general public.

[NautiNurse]

I finally lost it with one of them today.

When things get you down, just visualize Sean Penn bailing water with a red Solo cup. It made me laugh for a long time.

[Republic]

There is a thread running right now that states that most of the federal moneys allocated for levee security were redirected by the corrupt mayor and city council and used to build CASINOS!!!!

[Txsleuth]

I think it (prostituting oneself) must be a requisite of MSNBC...

because I saw Rita Cosby interviewing Jesse Jackson and she was doing the same thing as Scarborough, pandering to the wacked out reasoning of the left....and was was "feeding" the racist questions to Jesse perfectly....

She wasn't quite THAT bad when she was at Fox!

[bvw]

The attacks and mouth-foaming hatred of Bush, the Federal response, FEMA, these attacks made under the banner of racism and class-warfare parallel nothing so closely as the continual vile attacks on Israel on behalf of the designated permanent victim class there -- the Palestinians.

[Frank_2001]

Excellent post; very well stated!!