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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
Hannity challenging Vitters now on H&C.
Hannity sticking it to Vitters now - telling him he has been in public office in LA for 7 years, what has he done to increase preparedness.
this is good stuff.
David Vitter on Fox News says that the State government and Fema failed miserably. He gave both an F. Sean Hannity asked him if he gave everyone else an F what do you give yourself?
Sean just blistered Vitter's a$$...
"you're the one grading people.."
he needs to get Landrieu on there for an interview.
I read 15000 people x 3 days, plus the people were supposed to bring 3 days of food and drink themselves.
"BTW, Hillary looks AWFUL. Simply AWFUL."
I have sworn off CNN and other MSM, not to mention I do avoid any coverage about the Clintons, but I would agree with you totally. Hillary looks terrible in the photos. She has really aged, and not well, since I last looked at any image of her. She looked haggard. I was shocked.
LOL---good descriptions of both NO and Houston...
I haven't been to Utah, but I grew up in Boulder Colorado..we would have rain every afternoon about 5:00 for about 30 minutes...and then over and starry skies...
We never had to water out lawns...but it was never humid...
SEAN JUST NAILED VITTER!!!!!
Said he had been serving for years, did he give himself an F??? Vitter said plenty of blame to go around...bUT STILL DIDN'T take it for himself! Nailed him with the info on Drudge from the paper! Vitter said should focus on efforts to rescue and rebuild, not blame, Sean points out Vitter was the one giving Fema and G.W.B an F.! Tired of FEMA na d Bush getting all the blame. Sean you were amazing, thank you!!!
THAT is where he loses a leg to stand on
The feds DON'T control Cities and States .. they only help them
If the City and State didn't fail so badly .. many of the problems we are seeing today may not have occurred
Scanner: Someone found a helicopter door on someone's roof. No missing helicopters, but someone's missing a door.
The gas station closest to my house was selling gas by appointment only today. I called at 10:00 and made an appointment for 2:30. They called at 1:45 and asked if I could postpone until 4:30. I arrived at 4:25, and didn't have to wait in line more than 1 minute. Just pulled into a vacant pump, went inside and paid my $40 cash (the limit), then pumped the gas ($2.59.9 per gallon) and came back home. I'm going to carpool to work with someone else this week, so I know I've got enough gas now to go to work every day for the next 3 weeks, plus a trip or two to the grocery.
I'm still trying to locate a lot of missing persons, but no success, yet.
There are a few links we can send reporters, at least friendly reporters, to make sure they know the facts.
Too many of them do no research. None.
But also, the administration has GOT to take some responsibility for their own bad press. I know exactly how bad the media is and detest them.
But the WH needs to have better PR campaigns - press releases, press conferences, better spokesman than Scott McClellan, etc.
What will they call it? DU-LA?
"I believe General Honore would say something along the lines Clint Eastwood used:
Just a big cluster F--k or SNAFU (Situation Normal All F--ked Up)."
More like Nagin'd up. Or maybe Blanco'd up. Used in context:
Bob: I was going to fix the furnace but I burned the house down.
Jim: You Nagin'd that up something awful.
$2.59 is very cheap.
I am with you----I have a granddaughter in the first grade in a Metroplex elementary school...she already has diabetes..if she were to get one of those bacterial infections...it could be fatal for her.
Vitters looked like he was taken aback by Sean's question!Good for Sean,for asking Vitter's how he would grade himself.
see the expression on Vitter's face afterwards? He was bruised and beaten. Absolutely gloriously beautiful! First Brit KO's JINdal, then Sena takes out Vitter!
" BTW, Hillary looks AWFUL. Simply AWFUL."
How can two people, who spent ALL LAST WEEK in Kaui, staying in an exclusive luxury retreat and dining on fine food-look so awful ???
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1072525&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2005/08/26/news/news03.txt
Maybe they got indigestion watching the news
-" Hanalei Gourmet owner Tim Kerlin says the former president picked up a deli sandwich, while the women in the party enjoyed a restaurant appetizer specialty: deep-fried crispy artichoke hearts."
" The former president was seen hiking on Na Pali Coast-Kalalau Trail on Monday, and playing golf at Princeville, all the while with U.S. Secret Service agents at the ready."
" A North Shore resident said she spotted Sen. Clinton and daughter Chelsea dining at The Hanalei Gourmet, and otherwise enjoying the Princeville area ."
Hillary Antoinette Clinton- " Let them eat MRE's !! "
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