Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

28,000 National Guard troops are deployed to the disaster areas in Mississippi, Alabama, and to Louisiana, where SWAT teams are working to combat the looters and shooters in New Orleans. Additional 1400 National Guard troops are being deployed daily.

Shootings reported at a New Orleans hospital, rescue boats, and a military helicopter, while conditions continue to deteriorate at the SuperDome amid refugee deaths and chaos. Evacuation of New Orleans continues.

House Speaker Dennis Hastert has voiced serious doubts about rebuilding New Orleans with federal funds, while assuring the people of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida that the United States Congress stands ready to help them in their time of need. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin issued a "desperate SOS."

Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, "We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.

The Port of New Orleans is now open to shallow draft vessels. Congress is reconvening in an emergency session. International offers to assist the U.S. have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States.

Jesse Jackson has arrived in Louisiana...

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

Streaming Video:

WWL-TV (via CBS): WWLTV via CBS
WWL-TV Now via WFAA Dallas **NEW LINK**: http://www.wwltv.com/cgi-bin/bi/video/makeadplaylist.pl?title=beloint_wfaa&live=yes
WDSU-TV: http://mfile.akamai.com/12912/live/reflector:38843.asx
WPMI-TV: http://www.wpmi.com/mediacenter/default.aspx?videoId=113739
WKRG-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95518
WTOK-TV Temporarily Not Live Streaming (follow the link on the home page): http://www.wtok.com/
WJTV-TV: mms://wmbcast.mgeneral.speedera.net/wmbcast.mgeneral/wmbcast_mgeneral_aug262005_1435_95563
Louisiana Statewide Katrina Network (WJBO-AM Baton Rouge): http://ccri.eonstreams.com/ccri_la_batonrouge_wjbo_am.asf
Gulf Coast Storm Network (radio): http://www.stormalert.net/main.html#
Louisiana Scanner

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
Looting Begins In New Orleans
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/

Previous Threads:
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

[MMkennedy]

"what is your source for this comparison?"

http://www.noticias.info/Archivo/2005/200501/20050116/20050116_45065.shtm

U.S. Ambassador to Thailand Ralph L. Boyce explained to Wolfowitz that by the day after the tsunami the Thai prime minister had requested military aid. Americans almost immediately started to move U.S. Marines from Japan to assist in the relief effort.

Within four days, Boyce said, U.S. officials had set up a combined support force with 1,500 people from numerous government and nongovernmental organizations. He lauded the Thai government for making a Thai naval base at Utapau available as a hub for relief activities throughout the region.

[steveegg]

What is WWL??? Thanks in advance

The CBS affiliate that was in New Orleans. I don't remember exactly where they relocated to (I think it's Baton Rouge, but don't quote me).

[SouthTexas]

Thank you for the "assist", I neglected to mention the part about the mayor's questioning whether he had the authority to order an evacuation.

[eternity]

This bossman State Trooper is holding back. Have heard they preformed some Marial Law at the Hyatt Hotel last night when the vermins were lurking.

[Cedar]

Yes....do not depend on the government!

I remember hearing a minister from NYC say that he felt these disasters would be coming closer and closer together -- and the government will NOT be able to keep up with them.

[tuckrdout]

That was a much needed rant. I hope it made you feel better. It needed to be said. God Bless you.

I hope you know that so many of us are heartbroken watching this.

[oceanview]

we could make this alot better in 2 days, much less 5. if these 40,000 national guard troops were given shoot on sight orders, security would improve very quickly. and that would allow free movement of rescue boats, buses, and helicopters all over the city.

[NautiNurse]

To Dennis Hassert, I demand an apology immediately. To kick us when we are down etc."

Yowser...have you found a link for the records for that one?

[PhiKapMom]

Well stated. No flames from me as I agree with what you have stated.

[nhoward14]

correction: http://www.wwltv.com

[bwteim]

Great, thanks for that update.

That is good news.

[GOP_Proud]

What he/she said.

[Friend of thunder]

Utterly amazing.

The statement you made

“When I see people walking over the rubble crying over their lost items in MS I think they should THANK GOD they aren't in NO right now.”

is offensive. Would say that people who live in NO should THANK GOD that they are not living in North Korea? It is the same thing.

I have checked your profile you seem sane. I apologized for my posts because I thought I had misread yours, but you respond to NautiNurse in am similar way to you responded to me, so I must consider the fact that it is you.

[dawn53]

Reports that this morning in Houston while they were waiting to receive the NO refugees, some homeless people in Houston were trying to sneak in to the Astrodome to take advantage of the "free services."

That's why they've now set a huge perimeter and not even the reporters are allowed close to the Astrodome, only the buses are allowed in.

[cajungirl]

I think you are right,,nobody expected the flood. They thought they would spend the night and go home the next day. That is how it was with Betsy.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

"once Bush federalizes this, the albatross is around his neck".
Not happening. The governors must handle it. Big part of why the great state of Texas is accepting many evacuees.
Odd that "conservatives" would demand federalization. The Democrat party had such a resounding success with reconstruction.

[Chickensoup]

I am very familiar with the Anabaptists. It is wonderful to be cared for by a loving community ... at the same time it comes at the cost of the radical individualism that is the hallmark of late 20th and early 21rst century USA. I reallly cannot see the majority of Americans opening their lives to the kind of scrutiny and peer pressure that is provided by caring community.

[Ovation_girl]

"Someone told me that you could always out walk a hurricane.

I would have started walking."

Most runners do not go 14 miles per hour, let alone most walkers. If you can't get out, you either go to a shelter of last resort as the Superdome was, or find a safe room in your house and hunker down...As people are always exposed to people who used this third option every time a hurricane hits, they know they have a chance to survive. And yes I hunkered down for Andrew...

[popdonnelly]

Did I attribute something to you by mistake? Sorry if I did. Maybe clicked on the wrong post.

[LdSentinal]

The CBS affiliate in New Orleans; the strongest CBS affiliate in the nation. Before the hurricane hit, just about everybody in New Orleans with a TV watched WWL.