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

[oceanview]

we will find out soon - if these 40,000 national guard don't start blowing them away tomorrow, we'll know.

[metmom]

Did that really happen?! If it did, it's less that human.

[samantha]

Before any Hurricane Police depts and Municipal Governments offer its citizens rides to shelters. Those in the most vulnerable areas are warned several times by phone and another time by going door to door. I do not know what the procedure is for New Orleans , but they are much more vulnerable there than even Miami Beach, if they do not have this procedure, I would love to know their excuse.

[LdSentinal]

Florida is used to hurricanes; NO hasn't had one for decades.

[Arizona Carolyn]

A guy on H&C tonight said he had nothing but good things to say about the Navy, etc... it was the 'lack' of other officials that is/was the problem... he said the military is doing a great job....unfortunatly they can't do security.

[MarMema]

I was responding to the sentiment in which someone else posted that. And probably tongue-in-cheek.

[netmilsmom]

I can't get it to play.
can you tell me about it?

[tuckrdout]

Kind of proves that people are not "inherently good"...

[RummyChick]

You bet I responsed the same way. You people are INTERJECTING ASSUMPTIONS into my posts. The other poster tried to claim I was writing off the other devastation. There is no basis for making that kind of post to me.
Once again, those people crying over their possessions in MS. should THANK GOD they are not in NO or in the Superdome experiencing multiple rapes, multiple murders, and horrendous conditions.

Now why don't you go ask them if they would prefer to be where they are or in the Superdome.

[madison10]

Not enough National Guard to take care of incidents and still leave the doctors protected.

Where'd that story come from? Don't think the National Guard is allowed to take care of incidents, even if there were millions of them. How can they deal with incidents if they can't shoot?

[BlueNgold]

Agreed, I think.
As I stated on a thread indicating some Delta troops were being deployed to the area:

#1 I hope to God they are assigned to a NG unit. Despite the horrific conditions posse comitatus is an important principal in assuring our freedom. (Yes, even under conditions of martial law I prefer that units assigned to direct security operations be NG units attached even in name only to a state.)

#2 I hope that they can back them up quickly with a significant presence of visible ground units providing a secure corridor for evacuating refugees.

And that's my two cents on the use of troops.

[bwteim]

Prior to break:
Joe Scarbo: "And just in, there is word the NG is moving in. Finally, the people will get the government [protection] they deserve. "

I have never seen more than 2 minutes of Joe Scarbo. This has clinched it.

[Dolphy]

I work for a WF subsidiary and was very disappointed in their choices of the RC and UW. I had already given to the Salvation Army and would have given again to get their matching dollars had they chosen different organizations.

[weegee]

How many millions will Jesse hand over? He's found money in his organization to use to pay his child support.

This has to be at least as deserving.

[andie74]

The youngest rape victim (reported) was four years old.

Stomach turning, prayers up.

[Concerto in D]

Oh, that's just soooooooooo sad! I was so hoping she was safe. Now I'll be crying all over again. What a dear, dear man!

[GOPrincess]

I know they've got to prioritize as far as saving human life during a scope of this magnitude, but I've got four kids, and imagining them without their home or anything, and having their beloved pet ripped from their arms after hellish days...I'm just sick.

[dawn53]

A $100 donation to The Salvation Army will feed a family of four for two days, provide two cases of drinking water and one household clean-up kit, containing brooms, mops, buckets, and cleaning supplies

We donated to the Salvation Army, but that doesn't sound like much for a hundred bucks. They can forget the brooms, etc., those houses are beyond cleaning. I can buy two cases of water at my local grocery for 12 bucks and I can feed a family of four for two days for 40 bucks (a lot less, really, but if we're talking convenience foods.) Hopefully the excess is going to stock the canteens, and I have seen many SA canteens in New Orleans at those staging areas outside the city.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Wait, the Senate is back in session????

[BurbankKarl]

This can't be true...the Governor said all those reports were false.