CNN fully loaded up against Bush with the race card. is anyone else watching this? its unreal.
04:38 PM CDT on Thursday, September 1, 2005
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4:31 P.M. - BAGHDAD (AP): National Guard troops from Louisiana and other Gulf states will not be withdrawn from Iraq ahead of schedule, despite devastation from Hurricane Katrina.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.
Unbelievable, no mention of the FACTS that these citizens of NO had no civil gov to help them get out if they choose too.