Katrina Live Thread XII

#5307 in this thread

Just watched an interview on CNN (yes, I know...I switch all around the dial) with Bush 41 and Clinton... she tried to blame Bush for this mess and CLINTON jumped all over her! He cut of 41 to have his say and got red in the face doing it... he said the President is doing everything he can and this is no time for anyone to point fingers at him, that NO escaped Katrina and was decimated by the high water in Ponchartrain and the Mississippi AFTER the hurricane passed... they both said they understand the anger and grief, but everyone is moving as fast as possible.

5,741 posted on 09/01/2005 2:34:41 PM PDT by Soul Seeker

I'm sure Cafferty thinks that's Bush's fault too.

5,742 posted on 09/01/2005 2:34:47 PM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)

Freepmail links, please.

5,744 posted on 09/01/2005 2:35:44 PM PDT by NautiNurse ("I'd rather see someone go to work for a Republican campaign than sit on their butt."--Howard Dean)

The picture of the Chevron Refinery is plain frightening. My hubby is a ChemE in this industry, spcifically, hazardous clean-up for these types of facilities, and I can actually say everyone should be VERY concerned at that picture.

5,745 posted on 09/01/2005 2:36:16 PM PDT by Woodstock (Unionize China)

Video cam of NO via The Interdictor blog

http://194.97.144.25/NewOrleans

5,746 posted on 09/01/2005 2:36:47 PM PDT by hipaatwo (Nazis Love Mother Sheehan)

CNN and Cafferty playing the race card big time right now. Big time.

this is why the left and the media craves seeing Bush ordering the looters shot.

5,747 posted on 09/01/2005 2:36:58 PM PDT by oceanview

Lautenberg is a POS...troops on the ground Monday...Katrina made landfall Monday you twit..the flooding started Tuesday...it's up to the Gov of the state to call out the NG you moron....God, I hate all the rats blaming Bush for this...

5,748 posted on 09/01/2005 2:37:04 PM PDT by mystery-ak (Home of the free, because of the Brave.....do you understand that Cindy?)

During press conference it's announced that Presidents from all over the world are calling and asking what they could do for Louisiana including Vincent Fox, Hugo Chavez, etc. etc. etc.

The world is responding according to him.

5,749 posted on 09/01/2005 2:37:30 PM PDT by STFrancis

It quiet at the moment on this scanner channel:

http://radio.scannerbuff.net:8008/

5,750 posted on 09/01/2005 2:37:30 PM PDT by Woodstock (Unionize China)

LOL... I just thought the same thing when I saw the picture... Now THAT has to be one of the only things today that made me TRULE LOL... hahaha

5,751 posted on 09/01/2005 2:37:41 PM PDT by pamlet

I did not take it as snippy at all. I thank you, and surely the bandwidth deprived thank you :)

5,752 posted on 09/01/2005 2:38:19 PM PDT by ARealMothersSonForever (Bless those in need this day)

To: daybreakcoming

Agreed.

While things could probably be better, what is happening on the Gulf Coast is not the fault of any elected official.

5,753 posted on 09/01/2005 2:38:27 PM PDT by lugsoul ("She talks and she laughs." - Tom DeLay)

I filled up today...was 2.80/gallon

5,754 posted on 09/01/2005 2:38:27 PM PDT by pitinkie (revenge will be sweet)

To: Soul Seeker; Arizona Carolyn

Holy COW.

Thank you for alerting me to that post. I had to call my husband to tell him that, I am so shocked.

5,756 posted on 09/01/2005 2:38:59 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)

CNN fully loaded up against Bush with the race card. is anyone else watching this? its unreal.

5,757 posted on 09/01/2005 2:39:10 PM PDT by oceanview

Yeah - I find that image very disturbing. No bleeding heart here, but, just damn. We have lost cities, a large section of the Gulf Coast, thousands (tens? hundreds of?) and these these two are yukking it up?

Gimme a break!

5,758 posted on 09/01/2005 2:39:32 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)

To: Smogger; rwfromkansas

5,759 posted on 09/01/2005 2:39:49 PM PDT by mware (Atlantic County, NJ Heart of the Pinelands.)

Updates as they come in on Katrina

04:38 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005

Tom Planchet

4:36 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): New Orleans Archbishop Alfred Hughes says he and thousands of other evacuees from New Orleans are being housed in Roman Catholic churches, schools and gymnasiums in Baton Rouge.

He told CNN that the Baton Rouge area's population of 350,000 is expected to double as refugees continue to arrive from New Orleans.

The archbishop says a special collection will be taken up at Catholic churches nationwide this Sunday for hurricane relief. Hughes notes that contributions also can be made to Catholic Charities or to the American Red Cross.

4:34 P.M. - (AP): Supplies ran dry at a small-but-growing number of gas stations across the United States on Thursday as Gulf Coast refiners and pipelines remained hobbled by Hurricane Katrina and motorists nervous about tightening supplies lined up to top off their tanks.

Most of the stations with "Out of Gas" signs and yellow caution tape draped across their pumps were concentrated along the East Coast and in Midwest states. Station owners said many of the shortages were temporary, exacerbated by panic buying and delayed deliveries.

A few stations turned off their pumps because wholesale prices were rising so fast that they were selling fuel at a loss -- even as prices spiked overnight to levels well above $3 a gallon.

Governors in Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania urged motorists to conserve fuel and they warned retailers about alleged price gouging. President Bush also called for conservation and sought to calm motorists, saying that Hurricane Katrina would only cause a "temporary disruption" to the supply of gasoline.

Gas stations ran dry in many states, including Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia West Virginia and Wisconsin.

4:31 P.M. - BAGHDAD (AP): National Guard troops from Louisiana and other Gulf states will not be withdrawn from Iraq ahead of schedule, despite devastation from Hurricane Katrina.

Some units already are due to leave next month, ending a year in Iraq, but the process could take weeks to complete.

The U.S. Command says it has installed help lines for troops trying to contact family members. Still, pressure appears to be building for an early pullout allowing troops to return to their home states battered by Katrina.

More than 18,000 National Guard troops in the United States have been dedicated to Katrina relief and security. This could be the largest military response to a natural disaster.

4:22 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): The Times-Picayune of New Orleans will resume printing a newspaper -- days after Hurricane Katrina forced it to abandon a printed edition. The newspaper has been available online. Officials hope to print 50-thousand copies, using the facility of The Houma Courier, a newspaper 60 miles southwest of New Orleans.

4:19 P.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): The Rev. Jesse Jackson was expected to arrive in Louisiana on Thursday to visit with evacuees forced into shelters by Hurricane Katrina and then to see the devastation the storm has wrought on New Orleans.

State Sen. Cleo Fields, who invited Jackson to the area, said Jackson intended to stay in the storm-affected areas "as long as it takes to restore hope to the people who have lost everything in the wake of Hurricane Katrina," according to a news release from the Louisiana Senate.

Jackson was expected to receive a briefing from emergency preparedness officials before traveling to the Baton Rouge shelters and to New Orleans.

4:15 P.M. - (AP): Police say storm victims are being raped and beaten inside the New Orleans Convention Center.

About 15,200 people who had taken shelter at the convention center to await buses grew increasingly hostile.

Police Chief Eddie Compass says he sent in 88 officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly beaten back by an angry mob.

Compass says, "We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten."

He says tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon.

In hopes of defusing the unrest at the convention center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they can find. But the bedlam appeared to make leaving difficult.

4:11 P.M. - HOUSTON (AP): More patients from hurricane ravaged hospitals in New Orleans and other medical facilities along the Gulf Coast arrived today in Texas.

Many of the patients are being transported to Houston by planes landing at Ellington Field.

Doctors and nurses at the airport are offering the evacuees preliminary care before sending them to Houston-area hospitals. Some hospitals in the Dallas-Fort Worth areas also have been receiving patients from Louisiana.

4:07 p.m. - WASHINGTON (AP): It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level, House Speaker Dennis Hastert said of federal assistance for hurricane-devastated New Orleans.

5,760 posted on 09/01/2005 2:40:15 PM PDT by cgk (We'll have to deal w/ the networks. One way to do that is to drain the swamp they live in - Rumsfeld)

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