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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.
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
Interesting in ref to that- driving the other day I heard Neal Boortz discussing this- his opinion is that the Atlanta Red Cross is above reproach- and is in charge of all the southeast..
(Not that I always agree with Boortz!)
AOK!
LOL!
Those of you in this thread in the buses in NO debate
be sure and look at the pic at post # 2219
Don't worry about proving anything. My bf attends a predominently black evangelical church. He and the pastor are friends from way back. I asked him what the church was going to do and help, and the pastor and the elders had a meeting yesterday afternoon. the pastor is also going to find the name of the woman who is accepting material donations. I'm going to call City Hall tomorrow, and see if they know who she is.
Okie, please don't make assumptions. These folks are poor, but they'll give their last buck to help out.
Then why didnt Fox News tell anyone?
What has me p.o.'d is the MSM carrying water for the State and Jessie....
I'll take your word for it, but they must have moved the equipment out of there quick because I've been looking for it since they started showing the breach repair ops and haven't seen it. It had to be darned quick too. That's a big hole.
If the piling is in, the fill can do the job. If not, it can't, it's that simple.
MIT'67 XVI, NASA KSC 67-94 retired consultant.
Exactly. I believe the city made an economic decision to save their buses. NOLA has NEVER used their buses to help people evacuate when a hurricane approaches. Criminal. It will all come out when the dust settles.
from the convention center? I think the issue at the convention center, was not starving people. it was the evac. they had food initially because they broke into the food service area in the convention center, then water and MREs were brought in. but I will admit, the evac did take a long time there, and medical and sanitary conditions were bad. but it took a long time to setup the airbridge to chopper them out, that's just the reality of it.
His wife works for them.
Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is calling for a commission to investigate who to blame. Is she an idiot or what? We are still trying to save lives, and give people food, water and housing.
I can't tell from the picture you posted...
was that her 55th or 60th BLACK PANTSUIT????
CNN saying that Blanco won't give up the NG because if they fall under FEMA they wouldn't be able to shoot at will, that they would only be able to fire in defense.
Can that be true?
Nice.
Gotta tell you though, been chucklin at the idea of using CAS as a demo aid since you first brought it up. What is it exactly, that you have against a small boat and a case of 40%?
"In a separate online poll on our site, 61% of 1,078 respondents said New Orleans would return as a vibrant city; the remaining did not."
Many potential interested "pollee's" could not register their opinion however. They are on the other side of the great chasm.
I heard there was damage to the Superdome a while ago, that is why the city always was slow to offer it.
I am guessing the entire evacuation plan wouldn't work, even if it was firing on all cylinders. They had a plan they never expected to implement, and would not function if they had implemented it.
That sounds like Bob Mann (Blanco's press whore) psychobabble...
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