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

[Steve_Seattle]

I was watching CNN a few minutes after Bush spoke in Alabama. Afterwards, they cut to Bill Schneider and a female CNN twit, who both immediately bashed the president for his "lack of leadership." I've I'd been there, I would have physically attacked that partison POS Schneider. All morning, CNN has been beating the "it's all Bush's fault" drum. I detest those people.

[SeaBiscuit]

Fire is spreading rapidly.. possible shots fired.. this looks like a warzone.

[Spktyr]

Agreed. Didn't some wacko environmentalist nutjob try to blow up a Mississippi levee back in the 90s with a car bomb?

As I recall, all that happened was the levee got an interesting scorch mark and little else. Oh, yeah, all the grass on it for a 500' radius died.

[Tarheel]

Is the whole state like that--graft, etc.?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Yep, that was the part that got to me, too... and why I think they need to segregate these people; not by color, but by gender.

[steveegg]

You forgot Nobody's Senator and owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, Herb Kohl (D-WI).

[Jrabbit]

Me too....Fox guy reporting guys driving around in pick-ups with AK 47's.

[lifacs]

According to WWL it was the Mayor who made things better by whining about it last night. Somehow he made Bush take it seriously. Right.

Pretty obvious how the corruption runs rampant in New Orleans politics. The local reporters have covered their butts all along and are now just continuing with business as usual.

[NonValueAdded]

Speaking of inflections ... doesn't JJ sound like William F. Buckley's evil twin?

[Types_with_Fist]

Is the whole state like that--graft, etc.?

Yes, absolutely. Rotten to the core.

[olde north church]

Uh-Oh, I'm thinking steel cage match. State Government Corruption: LA vs NJ!!!

[Broker]

Let's go to Rush!

[conservativeinferno]

Why the hell are those thugs burning their own city? They take over a useless city and then burn it? Where is the logic in that?

[TheSpottedOwl]

They have been told what to do ever since we brought the first slave to this country... don't you think the collective we did the same thing to the American Indian... a once proud people that we reduced to handouts. I honestly don't blame them for that. We and our Government allowed it to happen each and every one of us bare a certain responsibility for this. Just like the people in Iraq who have to be told what to do because of what Saddam did to them. When you program people -- any people of any color -- not to think for themselves then you need to be prepared to care for them without complaint.

I was just talking to my next door neighbor about this, this morning. Some of these folks have been depending on the government for generations. They're so conditioned, that they probably call their social worker every time they need to make a decision. Is that their fault? Some make it out, but it's difficult. They are our brothers and sisters in Christ.

Except for the gangbangers, God looks on all of us equally. He sees you and me, as he sees the poor folk who weren't told to get out, in a way they could understand. Okay, He values the gangbangers, too.

I'm collecting info, and then I'm going to call the Post Office to find out how difficult it will be to deliver diapers and clothes. I don't have a lot of money, but I'm a diehard cheapskate. I'll get them some stuff : )

[oceanview]

ot looks like the arson is picking up. that's usually the last phase of civil anarchy like this, the arson.

police escorting a milk truck past the scene where Harrigan is.

[Peach]

I think the gangsters are setting the fires, too. Police and National Guard with weaopns drawn in NO.

[tx_eggman]

I don't honestly give a damn what you think of me

Think of you ...

Don't flatter yourself.

[Arizona Carolyn]

All our worts are showing and the Foreign Press (in addition to our liberal press) is having a field day exposing them. I find this from Sri Lanka particularly telling and embarassing:

"I am absolutely disgusted. After the tsunami our people, even the ones who lost everything, wanted to help the others who were suffering," said Sajeewa Chinthaka, 36, as he watched a cricket match in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

"Not a single tourist caught in the tsunami was mugged. Now with all this happening in the U.S. we can easily see where the civilized part of the world's population is."

[maryz]

Someone posted something about a lawsuit by Save Our Wetlands against the Army Corps, too. Someone else posted that Bob Barr has been talking about this stuff. (Maybe the wacko environmentalists -- between this and gas prices -- will be put in their place finally!)

[JFC]

Pretty obvious how the corruption runs rampant in New Orleans politics. The local reporters have covered their butts all along and are now just continuing with business as usual.

I know N.O has been full of corrupt govt' for years and now these thugs are out to hamper effort in saving these people. Where are the BUSES!!!!