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]

You may just be onto something in that assessment. Makes more sense than anything else.

[No Blue States]

"We're *well* over the 100,000 we were initially told to expect."

The lone star state of Texas has welcomed most of the evacuees from one of the worst natural disasters in US history, housing 127,000 in shelters or in the homes of private citizens, an official of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said.

Health Official Declares Emergency in Texas:

SAN ANTONIO - The nation's top health official declared a public health emergency in Texas on Monday, saying it would speed up federal assistance as the state tries to accommodate almost 240,000 refugees from Hurricane Katrina

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050905/ap_on_re_us/katrina_health_emergency_1

[Soul Seeker]

He does have an E-Mail address for subscribers. I'm not sure if he has a general account for non subscribers.

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

I thought President Bush said the results were not acceptable on Thursday of last week. Then he repeated it on Saturday.

[Canadian Outrage]

2149 - EXCELLENT post B4Ranch!!

[BurbankKarl]

they showed all these hardwood floor buckled due to water damage.....man....all those houses.

[Roccus]

Good rant on the Pres's dilemma.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477917/posts

[Spktyr]

Yup, and we're projected to have 250K in shelters by the end of this week.

Damn the corrupt #)$()*&$#)@&)$ in Louisiana.

[Not A Snowbird]

I can never win an argument (not that this is a reasonable expectation for for any husband) because all she has to do is remind me that I moved us down there.

A lifetime of payback? :-)

[capt. obvious]

On WAJR (1440 AM - Morgantown) they were reporting that some of the refugees were staying at Camp Dawson, in Preston County; apparently they went through Charleston first, so I assume more are staying elsewhere in the state.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

The radio here in Dallas had a Houston physician on who said they are seeing TB and several people have presented with flesh-eating bacteria. Some doctors are giving antibiotics to everyone, as nearly every person with an open wound has developed nasty infections, and this flesh-eating thing is nothing to mess around with.

[oceanview]

the decision to rebuild NO should not be based on whether its a lib stronghold or not. NYC is a lib stronghold too. the rebuilding of NO will occur, but some parts of the city may not be rebuilt. NO is important economically to the US in terms of shipping and oil.

we need a good solid plan, and we need to take the corrupt LA and NO political machines out of the rebuilding effort.

Bush needs to show that the adults are in charge.

[JohnBovenmyer]

There will be a lot of work needed to restore the damage in NO and elsewhere. Some work will be skilled, some won't. There are a lot of displaced folks, some who have useful skills, some who just have strong backs. FEMA needs to record those willing and able to help and put them to work as soon as the work is available. No reason to have outsiders do all the work. It will be done quicker and better and will create more civic pride to let the natives do as much as possible. If dewatering NO delays work there than put NO natives to work in other areas with the promise of moving them to NO work as soon as possible. DON'T let able bodies sit and fume in relocation camps for months. Provide good communications for those working back to those who can't so they know progress is being made. Otherwise we'll have riots in a couple months.

[publana]

I keep thinking about the post where it was stated there were 4 dempsey dumpsters worth of weapons collected in the Dome. Then I think of all those buses with just one armed guard each. I find it an absolute miracle that all the guards and drivers made it to Houston alive.

[Peach]

I generally adore Krauthammer but think he's off base on this matter. And has been since the start.

Maybe as someone with special needs of his own he relates to how those poor people must have felt being practically abandoned by the city officials.

[texasbluebell]

And as it becomes more well known that the locals had both the knowledge and responsibilty to take timely action, I wouldn't be surprised if some don't call for their indictment and criminal prosecution.

If some of these officials are not brought to justice in this disaster, there is no justice.

[Spktyr]

They have also noticed (more disturbingly) that conventional antibiotics are not doing *anything* against some of this stuff. There's also an opportunistic little bug that is some variant of cholera that, while not airborne, is NOT responding to drugs.

[No Blue States]

"Yup, and we're projected to have 250K in shelters by the end of this week."

At this rate Texas might need its own Katrina thread 1-15.

[TheSpottedOwl]

I have to admit that WalMart really stepped up to the plate.

[ohioWfan]

Thanks, Mike. We're sure not getting them from the media.

And if you can get an autographed pic of Honore, I will love you forever. ;)

Prayers for your safety and quick return...............and for your lovely wife!