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

[Spktyr]

DMN article last week, IIRC.

[TexKat]

The grocery store rescuee:

The door was locked. The pilot of the helicopter had to fly to the rescue-e's house and get a key to the store from the rescue-e's wife. Now they have dropped the key inside of a bottle to the rescuer. Now the rescuer is talking to the rescuer and does not want to leave.

There is something wrong with this picture.

[maica]

C-SPAN hasn't updated their web schedule, but I just saw that Pres Bush's remarks are going to be played at 10:30 eastern . The Admiral was an official Pentagon briefing, I think, so maybe it will be replayed.

[oceanview]

but aren't you stunned by the fact they they talk as if this hurricane (forget the issues about the relief effort) is something other then a NATURAL DISASTER. When Gingrich says that the americans can't look at what happened there and "accept it". what does he want to do, reverse an act of nature?

I am voting in this billoreilly.com poll, everyone should.

[OKIEDOC]

Well thank God they understand that Jessie Jackson is trying to divide this country into racial boundaries.

Newt called Jackass despicable which I think was way to kind.

[Petronski]

WWL stating that the mold has grown in the homes all they way up the walls....

Good Lord, that gives me the willies!

[jeffers]

I agree with that, but limit the optimism to those parts that stayed mostly dry, like the West Bank and the southern third of downtown.

East Orleans, St. Bernards, Plaqemines...not real optimistic about them.

I'm not exaggerating about my motivation though. I'm so sick of the things we're hearing out of New Orleans that my main focus has shifted to the Gulf Coast. Not one report of anyone shooting at the hospitals, police, or rescue crews there, and no complaints about relief efforts either.

[GOP_Proud]

< maybe RFK Jr could ride in that boat with Sean Penn, taking water samples from the lake with that red dixie cup.
>

I have no doubt that Penn had a lab bottle on him and is taking a sample back with him.

[CedarDave]

Baghdad on the Bayou

[Txsleuth]

What good what it have done in the rescue efforts and the victims, for Bush to get on national TV and blast the effort of those in charge and on down the line???

The only thing it would have done, is give the MSM, the hack, and the dems a chance to blast Bush for blaming others, and not taking the responsibility...

I think that Dubya is the kind of "boss" that believes in encouraging people instead of denigrating them and their efforts...at least in public...I have NO DOUBT that he has told a few people in private that he is NOT HAPPY.

Also, Dubya is consistent...he has never cared what others think, and he isn't gonna start NOW.

[freeperfromnj]

Short of evacuation, nothing would have prevented so many deaths. The death count at the convention center and superdome is nothing compared to what the final body count from the outlying areas is going to be. The idiots in the press forget that if this was the Cat 5 direct hit they were originally supposed to get, everyone in the city of NO would have been wiped out, including Shepard Smith.

[OKIEDOC]

Yep mold will make a lot of people sick.

[owl37]

There is no vaccination against antibiotic resistent bacteria, flesh eating or otherwise.

[Jrabbit]

er...yes...you are correct. My relatives still have homes. They're just under water at the moment!

[abb]

And just imagine how it would have been had the storm accelerated to 25 mph and caught all the people in their cars.....

[Types_with_Fist]

Absolutely correct. The river levy likely would have gone as well and the city would simply have been gone. There would have been no talk at all of "rebuilding." I also agree with you. The death toll is going to be huge. An incredible shock to the national system.

[SolomoninSouthDakota]

"It was supposed to be WWL TV on line news live stream, but this session was obviously mistakenly put out over the internet for a period of time that morning. Like you, I could not believe it when I heard the whispered comments to her aids."

Glad to hear someone with some media-tech knowledge heard the same thing. I was on my computer checking in with FR at around 6:15 since I knew things were getting ugly in NO. I was surprised at how the aid was just coaching her. It was so stereotypical it was uncanny. Then her, "oh yeah, I forgot to call in the military comment..". I think my response woke up half the family.
Thanks in advance for your efforts. I would dearly love to see that segment transcribed to FR.

[Cboldt]

I thought President Bush said the results were not acceptable on Thursday of last week.

The text of his speech from Friday, Sept 2, after viewing the disaster sites, seems rather chummy with the Governor and Senator Landrieu. Recall also, Nagin being asked how was the President reacting to Nagin's criticism? Nagin's reply: "He said 'we're okay'" or something like that.

5:01 P.M. CDT

THE PRESIDENT: The Governor and the Mayor of New Orleans, Senator Landrieu, Senator Vitter and Congressman Jefferson, Congressman Jindal and General Blum and I have just completed a tour of some devastated country. I started in Alabama, and worked our way down through Mississippi, and ended up here in one of America's great cities, and saw first-hand the devastation that this city has gone through. I know the people of this part of the world are suffering, and I want them to know that there's a flow of progress. We're making progress. I want to thank the Governor for her hard work, and I want to thank the Mayor.

[snip]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050902-8.html

That is markedly different from his tone 17 hours later, where he refers to the results of relief in NOLA as unacceptable.

10:06 A.M. EDT

THE PRESIDENT: Good morning. Yesterday I saw the aftermath of one of the largest natural disasters ever to strike America. A vast coastline of towns and communities are flattened; one of our great cities is submerged. The human costs are incalculable.

In Biloxi I met Bronwynne Bassier and her sister, Kim. Bronwynne told me that the only earthly possessions she has left were the clothes on her back. I also met relief and rescue workers who are performing heroically in difficult circumstances. They've been working around the clock, risking their own lives to save the lives of others. Yet, despite their best efforts, the magnitude of responding to a crisis over a disaster area that is larger than the size of Great Britain has created tremendous problems that have strained state and local capabilities. The result is that many of our citizens simply are not getting the help they need, especially in New Orleans. And that is unacceptable.

During my visit I discussed these problems at length with Governor Riley of Alabama, Governor Barbour of Mississippi, Governor Blanco of Louisiana and Mayor Nagin of New Orleans. Each state will have its own set of challenges and issues to solve. Yet all of us agree that more can be done to improve our ability to restore order and deliver relief in a timely and effective manner.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050903.html

[Soul Seeker]

Tammy Bruce is on WABC in place of Laura. Looks like I'm sticking around for an hour or so, really like her.

[Peach]

Ack. Greta interviewing Hillary...showing a promo. Interview at 10:00.

Pres. Bush X41 was asked by Greta why the levees were built to only withstand a Category 3 hurricane and Greta said both X41 and X42 thought it was a gotcha question.

Bill O'Reilly says Hillary has had harsh words for the current president and will in the future.

Greta never heard the comments and the thrust today was looking at the people who need help today and let's move forward.

BTW, Hillary looks AWFUL. Simply AWFUL.