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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.
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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/
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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
Jessie HiJackson trying to steer the questions toward "federal preparations"
Some of the people creating this mayhem and destruction are being shipped to private homes. I am worried about that.
1. So much for Wal-Mart paying "slave wages".
2. NOPD is notoriously corrupt. That amount does not include what the corrupt cops get as bribes or kickbacks. The honest cops starve, quit, or go crooked fast in that environment.
Jessie Jackson make another statement that the Red Cross was told by the State not to go into New Orleans.
Jessie Jackson asking why UNICEF wasnt asked, or Venezuela's offers. (oh plueeze)
My feed was cutting in and out, but if I had to guess, it's probably was generally about their whitewash of Blanco, Nagin and concentration on rhetoric over lives. Someone that had a better feed can give you the precise details, but it seemed to come back loud and clear when he slammed the Times. LOL
I'm listening to Gypsy Jackson...Just damn.
Excellent advice- thanks:)
Let's don't pile on Peach...just reporting what was said.
keeps trying to deflect the blame!
I had to turn WWL TV off. Somebody get that pimp offstage...
She told a few stories and got a lot of responses, right?
Now she can't go? Dyammmmn....
They have to fix the 17th Street canal to get the pumping station back online - and so that they don't pump the water into the canal only to have it pour back in.
Greta is at the Astrodome. She would report it, if so. No doubt in my mind. Greta's reports have been very emotionally uplifting, I might add.
The Red Cross?
Like I said, someone else must know about these events. Why are they keeping quiet?
He used bus when the mayor let them sit, while all the time blaming everybody else that there were no buses. How many people died because there were no buses to evacuate?
No one remembers it took a while to mobilize help from around the nation after 9/11 because there was such strong leadership from Rudi and Bernie and their communication with the President was so close that no one seemed to ask where are the Feds?
Also didn't have to deal with all the racism crud because so many upper middle class black and whites were killed instead of poor blacks and whites. All of a sudden if they are poor then it's the Fed's fault.
Yeah -- the NOPD chief sounds like he at least has his head on straight, comparatively -- especially with the idiot press tossing him questions.
Did you hear the question that asked about the "cowards" that abandonded their post?
God Bless him..and I'm so happy people gave this year..
He lost a ton of his cortisone weight, but I don't know how well he really is.
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By TODD LEWAN
AP National Writer
HOUSTON
Some lessons learned by the new inhabitants of the Astrodome:
-It is pointless to wait for the stark, stadium lights to go out at lights out. (Or, for that matter, to expect one's neighbors to cease sobbing, giggling, gabbing or wailing during the wee hours.)
-It is not a good idea to allow children to wander out of sight for even a moment - unless four hours of continuous searching is in your plans.
-It is not recommended to leave cots unguarded. (They tend to disappear.)
Likewise, it is inadvisable to leave one's clothes on the wall peg outside the showers.
Torres Smith, 42, did, and "they stole 'em," he says. "All of my clothes. I had to walk out on the stadium floor with a towel around my waist, go to the table where they were giving out free clothes and get me some new ones."
Smith is - well, was - a machine operator at a New Orleans seafood plant. Now he sleeps maybe two hours a day, from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m., eats, showers, catches snippets of news on a TV in one of the concourses, minds his four kids with his wife, reclines on his cot, reads the Bible, or wanders his new home, trading numb stares with other aimless people.
Of course, to many who lived the horror of the Superdome in New Orleans last week, this old baseball stadium feels like the Taj Mahal.
It has lukewarm showers; 85 toilets that actually flush; hot grits, pancakes in the morning, Cajun dinners served on plastic foam trays at night; an operating air conditioner; complimentary socks, Twinkies, baby formula, flip-flops, tampons, toothpaste, Bermudas (with the big, stylish pockets), and Tom Wolfe and James Lee Burke paperbacks.
Most important, perhaps, it has a contingent of 500 uniformed, Texas lawmen who stroll the concourses, ramps and stands in white Stetsons, to make sure people behave.
But the Astrodome is also pervaded by a troubling air of unease - a sense of people turned inside out, of a shock too large to quite analyze.
Many folks here have lost contact with loved ones, and they worry if this will be permanent. They feel adrift, detached, anxious. What they did to deserve this, how long they'll stay, where they go - they've got plenty of time now to mull these questions.
Too much time, some say.
A Red Cross volunteer put Smith's name on a list for free and subsidized housing and a new job. Otherwise, he says, it's always the same routine.
"I got to get back to work. I'll do anything: cut grass, wash window, wax floors. When all you see is people lying around ... I don't want to be here any more than two, three months."
Selika Thomas, who landed here two days earlier, is getting out - in three hours. Her husband bought tickets on the 6:15 p.m. Greyhound to Atlanta, where they have family.
"I'm depressed," she murmurs.
"People stealing your clothes when you're sleeping, men peeking into the women's showers, people walking around, day and night, like zombies, afraid to sleep."
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