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

[SeaBiscuit]

Doesn't that just make you sick, the mayor should be shot.

[Smogger]

This is a disaster of epic proportions, that NO city or state or nation is prepared for.

Also Louisiana is the 6th poorest state in the Union.

[rwfromkansas]

you think the fires are being intentionally set?

[KakaduDreamer]

Geez, if Louisiana is the 6th poorest...what are the top 5 poorest states?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Anyone have an email address for schneider? I want to send him a 'note.'

[bwteim]

Some say he was selfish...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475135/posts?page=1295#1295

[Elyse]

Listening to the BBC on TV and I guarantee you that if you think CNN and the rest are bad, you do not want to turn on the BBC. The reporter on the ground in New Orleans was explaining that in order to understand what is going on in New Orleans you had to understand that the people left in New Orleans are poor and black and the majority white police department just doesn't care about them. He started telling stories about poor desperate people running up to the white officers cars and having shot guns put in their face. Majority white police department? When I've been to NO I don't think I've ever seen a white police officer in the streets. Anyway, he's point is that Americans are a bunch of racists with guns. It just makes me sick.

[Jrabbit]

Warehouse district....next to W Hotel....no water pressure to put it out and the police are taking sniper fire.

[Pilsner]

Who needs a bomb to breach a levy when the water is high? One guy to run a backhoe, is enough if he gets lucky, add four guys wth full auto rifles to keep the cops back if you don't believe in luck, and you have a hole in the levy. After that just let the flow of the water erode the levy and widen the whole.

[Rutles4Ever]

Just saw a shot on CNBC of smoke coming from downtown, N.O. Is this where Harrigan's at??

[rolling_stone]

heck, the mayor can't walk there without body guard per report yesterday.

He's doing the old duck and cover..and blaming everyone but himself..he needs to be a man and assume responsibility...

[Types_with_Fist]

What do you know about Brown?

The FEMA guy. I've only got to know him the past few days. Couldn't help it. He's been on every channel and on every show. Several here say "that's his job." If that's all his job is I say we don't need a FEMA director.

[No Blue States]

The NHC proved very accurate once again this year.

No one can blame them and be taken seriously.

[OKIEDOC]

steveegg wrote:
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?

REPLY:

Many of the liberal voters live on the Democrat Plantation.

These thugs are being enabled by some with a radical agenda for America.

The race barters are out in force trying any way possible to split this country into a third world country.

Here is an email I sent to the media.

Dear Media
Elijah Cummings and the Congressional Black Congress along with the NAACP and some others, could not restrain themselves a reasonable time until playing the race card.

Many anti Bush and anti-America bashers are working Katrina for their own self serving personal reasons. I find these kinds of race baiting people to be leeches of the most despicable kind.

However, many in the media are also enablers of this race baiting. I hope it stops. If it doesn't, these selfish people are going to permanently split America and like Humpty Dumpty there will be no putting it back together again.

Remember Lincoln said a house divided can not stand. Maybe the race baiter's should take heed of Lincolns comments.

[steveegg]

Geez, if Louisiana is the 6th poorest...what are the top 5 poorest states?

Alabama and Mississippi are down there (and IIRC, Mississippi is even poorer).

[Steve_Seattle]

"Everytime we hear that we need to write a letterof protest. The President isn't keeping the help out of the city.... the hoodlums are the one's keeping help out of the city... and the STATE is responsible for the National Guard."

The problem is that Bush has too much class to fight back on the same level; Nagen (Nagin?) is blasting Bush, but there's no way on earth that Bush would criticize the efforts of local NO officials. But yesterday there was a cry in the wilderness, which ironically I heard on CNN - some woman asked "Where is the NO police chief?" Indeed, where are the NO police? Where are the NO firefighters?"

[JFC]

I am incredibly disgusted with the CNN coverage."

Because this is an all out effort to blame Bush by MSM and the low life thugs. Stay off of SINN. They know negativity is what brings in their ratings.

[SeaBiscuit]

No live feed just reporting from what i see on FOX.

[NonValueAdded]

Understood ... I was only indicating the breadth of existing off-the-shelf technology that is available for full-spectrum (meaning types, not frequencies) communication. Consider that just about everybody and his brother has a cellphone and you don't need to outfit everyone with military radios. All you need to do is have a priority code scheme that gives LEO and FEMA priority access. That portable cell-tower unit looks to be rooftop deployable. The point isn't as much which mode to use but rather that there are lots of modes available. All it would take is the brains to realize at least one mode was necessary.

[Ingtar]

Train tracks are out. Many of the roads are out. Airport barely open. I'm seeing a remarkable response for the conditions in south Louisiana.