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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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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/
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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
If the plan wasn't 'tested' then they would never know where the faults are.
Can you post the url for the levee boards???
Googling levee board new orleans turns up some really weird things, as well.
Levin is taking no prisoners, he's been reading our analysis here for sure, making alot of our points.
Did you hear and see that young man who came from another Walgreens? Wow.
Correction - they ended up saving neither.
I don't know where or what they are to do with it, but some scientists are on their way there to start testing the water tomorrow and help figure out what they can do with it.
I think Blanco knows she's in really deep doo doo. The Clintons showing up down there to grandstand, and Blanco who has all but hidden every day, fuel my suspicions.
My husband is based at NAS Belle Chasse just south of New Orleans. Everyone working and living aboard the NAS was evacuated out on Saturday. Every single person. Aircraft were flown to outlying areas, too. This is not local government; it's federal gov't executing an excellent evacuation. Given that it was built at sea level or slightly above, it wasn't affected by severe flooding, however the flooding on the local roads off-base are a large part of the reason the NAS isn't up and running right now.
Kep working on it. Maybe the powers that be will see reason before it's too late.
Man...
Wish I could email that story.
Wal Mart is doing the same thing with their employees...and offering to hire all kinds of people
Greta is on with Brit now, giving glowing report about Harris county..at the Astrodome...saying they have been incredibly good to the hurricane people...
Feds sued the levee board in 1998 over the issue.
I was thinking they could have brought in a 400 foot ship and sunk it next to the breach, repaired the dike, then refloated the ship.
There's not much they *can* do about it. It's getting pumped back out into the lake or out into the river, period.
Wouldn't eat Gulf seafood for a while...
Walmart is donating 20 some million...and offering a job to any Walmart employee who has to relocate anywhere in the country..
How many cubic feet of water do you think ended up in NOLA? Some math: If the flooded area is the size of Washington DC it is 1/8th the size of Lake Ponchartrain.
So 8 ft of water pumped out is only a rise of 1 foot in the Lake. I think there is less water than that in the city. I think that emergency repair will hold.
Direct link to Video of entire Press Conference with Chertoff and Honore (that's B.S.!)(3:23)
http://www.cnn.com/video/player/detect.exclude.html?url=/video/us/2005/09/05/honore.presser.reax.wbrz.affl
What Gibson said at the end of his show made sense... he said obviously Mike Brown didn't have a televison set in his office or he would have know what all of us knew... just as during the last riots in Los Angeles while us viewers were on the edge of our seats watching what was happening, for days the LA police department was behind the gangsters because the LAPD didn't have televison to see what we were all seeing on the ground.
It is my understanding that they have had trial runs wwith evacuation in NOLA. However, in this real situation, not deploying the buses was an ecomonic decision to save the buses. This resulted in death of many people. Someone made this decision, and someone will be held accountable.
Now there's an idea. Let's have FEMA respond to lying and exaggerated news reports. No thanks.
The press is as corrupt as the democrats.
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