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

[No Blue States]

" I am going to drop out of the threads and FR for a few days while I find out what has been happening inside my own house.

Many thanks to all freepers, especially Admin Moderator, NautiNurse, Howlin, Pukin Dog, and others too numerous to mention. Your posts have been a lifeline of hope, sanity and humor during this ordeal."

Same here, thanks to FR its owners, mods, and members.
It has meant a lot to me also.

Let us know how your home made out when you get back. ;)

[DonnerT]

What about a class action lawsuit on behalf of the general public against the media? Seems to me that, especially in this instance, deliberately reporting falsehoods is endangering the welfare of citizens - like shouting "fire" in a crowded theater, knowing there's not really a fire, but just to "see what would happen."

Been trying to figure out just how we could do that myself. Class action suits destroy productive corporations all the time no reason why it shouldn't do the same for destructive ones.

Sign me on. Wonder how many others would join?

[bitt]

jumping in late today - I heard several LA officials offed themselves....

so we had cops just walk off the job, officials killing themselves, and general mayhem and murder -

[Cboldt]

Russert just gave away the media's game on NBC live. Says the only way Bush can recover from the criticism is to show great leadership in rebuilding New Orleans.

The same way the only way he can redeem himself for 9/11 being to show geat leadership and rebuild the WTC? The Pentagon?

Russert is a hack. Good to have him telegraphing the attack strategy.

[jeffers]

I'm a pretty flexible guy.

If you need someone to kick the chair out from under them, just holler.

Grovel...asphixiate...it's all good.

[Spktyr]

Um... I *really* hope that you're not insinuating that Texas is doing this for money. Especially since this was initiated before Texas was declared a disaster area.

Unlike LA, we want to keep the kids out of trouble and busy so the parents can go to work or deal with adult problems without having to tote the kids around or worry about what will happen to them in the shelters.

[oceanview]

I think that we are going to be surprised by how quickly some parts of this city - get back up and running. in areas that have either no flooding, or street & minor first floor flooding - once they get these pumps going for a couple of weeks and get the electricity turned back on to those areas, you will see alot of indigneous efforts to begin the cleanup in those locations.

[CedarDave]

While I fully understand the reasoning behind the no pet rules, maybe we need to address the issue. The truth is, many people simply won't leave their animals and having to go back in to rescue those who won't might, in the long run, be more costly to all of us than planning in advance for a few shelters where pet owners can go. I'm not sure how to work out the problems with such shelters, but perhaps their is a way.

I have heard more than one official say that they will consider shelters that allow pets in the future for exactly that reason.

[GOP_Proud]

< ..., Krauthammer is right that the President is pulling himself out of a PR disaster. But I think the tide is turning, so to speak. >

I disagree. I don't think it's been a PR disaster. Most of the country is still not buying all the Bush bashing. A lot of people are actually resentful of it, as we are. I think in a week, we will see his numbers up.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

In my opinion, this could be very bad for the population at large. What if this flesh-eating bacteria is passed on to others? These families and children should be monitored and deemed healthy before placing them into schools. Plano's school district has decided to get vaccination records first, and they were slammed in an editorial yesterday because of it.

[OKIEDOC]

Yep, we found our next Rudy.

I'm serious this guy makes Wesley Clark look like a private on Kitchen Patrol.

If I was Bush this guy would move up very quick to some spot close to the white house.

[LadyPilgrim]

I had to turn him off after he started arguing that the Pres. was 24 hours too late!

I can't stand listening to that stuff......

[Mo1]

I'm watching O'Reilly and Newit .. and they can both blow it out their ears

Yes, there were some mistakes made with Homeland Security and FEMA

But many of those problems would most likely not have occurred if the City of NO and the State of LA HAD DONE THEIR DANG JOB!!

[ncpatriot]

Good job!

Thank you!

[Spktyr]

My *real* desire is to have their heads up on pikes outside the state capital, but I'm told that's too primitive and unAmerican. I've therefore modified it accordingly.

[abb]

Not Texas. But I do suspect the local school districts in all states doing whatever they can to get more federal $ inbound.

Always follow the money.

[CajunConservative]

Interesting

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Where did you hear that the children would receive vaccinations?

[oceanview]

both Gingrich and OReilly simply will not recognize in the least that this was a NATURAL DISASTER. they talk as if someone caused this hurricane out of neglect, that some human focrce of action created it and steered it into New Orleans. Its a stunningly moronic analysis.

[NautiNurse]

thanks