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

[Arizona Carolyn]

I LOVED his comments on the NYSlimes -- called them liberal, yellow-bellied punks and if he sees the reporter he's going to personally smack him in the mouth!-- I KNEW I liked Geraldo!

[abb]

Geraldo's exhibiting symptoms of verbal disyntery....

[Peach]

I don't think you're a plant.

We all do talk a lot here and we speculate a LOT. But in tossing ideas around, we often come up with the agenda of the left and figure stuff out before the conservatives. LOL

[BurbankKarl]

WWL has the police chief live...he is going bananas!

[Soul Seeker]

Yep, and Sean is doing a great job of focusing Geraldo on how conditions were vastly different in MISS and LA because of their differences in leadership.

Our Military and Honore getting a great bump!

[TexKat]

Police present at Astrodome, other shelters

09:51 PM CDT on Sunday, September 4, 2005

Associated Press

HOUSTON —Houston police and other law officers securing hurricane evacuee shelters around Texas have high visibility to keep the peace.

Most of the Louisiana refugees are in the Houston Astrodome and nearby facilities.

Overnight, Houston police reported the arrest of 10 evacuees.

Capt. John Anderson says nine were cited for minor drug offenses, while one was arrested for an assault that was not sexual. Anderson says that's pretty mild for a "city" of 25,000.

In Dallas, about 100 law enforcement officials were at the Dallas Convention Center and another 50 at Reunion Arena. The Texas National Guard is served as a backup.

In San Antonio, military police welcomed refugees after they landed at Lackland Air Force Base.

So did drug sniffing dogs, along with city police at the shelter.

[jeffers]

Might be as innocuous as a radar that needs service. Could be something they don't want seen. Could be reports of aircraft taking fire from the area. Could be AF One making laps over the area. I just don't know and I don't like things I don't know. It is a habit that has served me well.

[Spktyr]

Police Superintendent on TV now, complete IDIOT. Defending Nagin.

[oceanview]

post 1826.

[publana]

It probably was Houston..wasn't that where Bubba and Bush 41 went today? I think so.

ROFL! THAT explains the nine rapes in the Astrodome!

[Dog]

Details.

[Calpernia]

New Orleans, LA, August 31, 2005 -- Residents are evacuated from their homes by a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue team from Florida. New Orleans is being evacuated as a result of floods caused by hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans, LA, August 31, 2005 -- A member of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force assists a baby that was evacuated from an area affected by Hurrricane Katrina. The baby is being placed on a military transport for medical attention. New Orleans is being evacuated due to flooding caused by hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans, La., September 3, 2005 -- Survivors of Hurricane Katrina arrive at New Orleans Airport where FEMA's D-MAT teams have set up and people will be flown to shelters in other states. New Orleans is being evacuated as a result of floods from hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans, LA, August 31, 2005 -- Members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force begin their mission to assist residents affected by Hurricane Katrina. New Orleans is being evacuated due to flooding caused by hurricane Katrina.

[John Jamieson]

Metypwithfistoo!

[Soul Seeker]

OMG!! Geraldo just said the NYT's was a lying piece of, word I don't generally use, "Crap"!

[A Citizen Reporter]

Yes. Geraldo has been on a Bang on FEMA rant for several days now. I don't listen to his "reports" anymore. And I'm sick to death of hearing about he rescued 1 woman and her dog.

[sodpoodle]

John Gibson actually said that Pres. Bush "WAS SLOW OFF THE MARK"

AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I am not watching any more Katrina Koverage!!!!

signing off
sp

[Spktyr]

Hm, I wonder what that scanner feed is pulling then, general HPD traffic?

That said, I think this pretty much invalidates the idea that the Astrodome is degrading that Peach seems to be promoting.

[Txsleuth]

BAD NEWS...I am watching John Gibson's show and he has Kelly Ann Conway and that idiot dem...Bob Beckel...and

JOHN GIBSON has gone to the dark side and wants to blame Bush also....damn, just damn.

[Crawdad]

The media didn't want us to see how bad things were in MS and AL beacuase, because with local leadership, the recovery from a similar degree of devastation will be so much quicker than New Orleans.

[Peach]

I HAD to turn that off too. I keep turning the tv on and then, click. Off.