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

[Arizona Carolyn]

If these hoodlums burn down the French Quarter... the heart and soul of the city ... then they are putting the final nail in the coffin.

[JellyJam]

Rachel Madcow needs to STFU.

[Amalie]

I hate to say this, but no railroad president in his right mind would risk the legal ramifications of transporting humans in freight equipment - it is Amtrak, not they, who carry most of the liability insurance. The PR would be nightmare("Then, just like the Nazis, we were crammed in a boxcar for three days..."), lawsuits would be likely since the ambulance chasers see the railroads as a sugar daddy, and that is the truth. IT IS NO LONGER POSSIBLE FOR BUSINESS TO *RISK* THE RESULTS OF COMPASSIONATE RESPONSE, even in a disaster of this magnitude.

[bwteim]

I didn't know he was going to fly over NOLA again.

[Spktyr]

Unless you have a standoff shaped charge, a backpack bomb, even against the liner, isn't going to do anything other than make a scorch mark. These things are HUGE - and all a shaped charge would do is gouge out some of the concrete. Most of these things in critical areas (where the Corps hasn't been hindered by morons) are a hundred feet thick or more.

[MMkennedy]

A dream

I hope the president does meet with Nagin in a live public briefing. And I hope that Nagin starts whining and cursing and screaming about other people's incompentence. Heck I even hope he tries to blame Bush to his face. And I hope that at just that moment the president presents to "his honor" this disgusting photo of lines and lines of flooded busses and holds it up to the camera. Glass houses Mr. Mayor.

[WoodstockCat]

Feedback on the Bash Bush 24/7 Channel a.k.a. CNN

[Steve_Seattle]

What angers me is that during the first three days, when the medis repeated over and over that nothing was being done, THOUSANDS of people were being rescued and thousands of people were taken to shelters, were being fed, etc. But because Bush couldn't close his eyes and click his heels and magically save everyone at the same time, he's being blasted.

[No Blue States]

I wonder what the math is in your pic of flooded buses multiplied by 50 passengers each.

More than 10,000 souls at a quick glance.

[steveegg]

I knew that Mississippi was well down there. It makes the contrast between Long Beach, where people shopped for the food after the hurricane, and New Orleans, where they looted for anything they could carry, that much more shocking.

[sweet_diane]

"Train tracks are out. Many of the roads are out. Airport barely open."

Early on, they were trying to get to folks via flat-bottom boats, but were encountering too much debris in the water..big debris like chunks of concrete bridges.

[meanie monster]

Is she the the fugly chick that looks like a man? I can't stand her.

[AFPhys]

Destroyed area larger than 38 states!

WOW!

[Txsleuth]

Chris Wallace is on Fox News right now...and he was practically giddy....saying that it won't be long before we have a "Katrina Commission" like we had the 9/11 Commission!!!

He was excited....that lib a**hole!

[Types_with_Fist]

then they are putting the final nail in the coffin.

I would have thought the "final nail" would have been the MS river levy -- and it would have. But, the Quarter going down would accomplish this too. Jesus.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I think we need Joe Albaugh right now.

[OhioFreak]

If you guys really want to hit the MSM then when you send those angry emails also tell those folks you are switching off their station. That's what we're doing, I just can't put up with this crap anymore.

BTW I burnt my tongue on a Hot Pocket and it's all Bush and Rove's fault.

[Jrabbit]

Fox is blaming Bush as I type this. I need a break....

[NonValueAdded]

I'll look for that post that described the $hitstorm that descended on local govt for NO evacs for Georges and Ivan when they didn't strike. Shep was one of the major talking head idiots making fun of them on air. I remember posting something at the time about that (gotta find that too). Instead of breathing a sign of relief that the storm didn't hit and that we've just had a impromptu drill from which lessons could be learned for the next time, ridicule and scorn rain down on officials making them gun-shy the next time as well as making the population think that evacs weren't necessary. The media has a share of the blame here. They added just enough uncertainty to the minds of local and state officials that they dithered until it was too late for a storm that demanded a prompt decision. I'm not excusing the actions of the mayor and governor, just adding perspective.

[rwfromkansas]

Didn't Eisenhower send the National Guard into the Little Rock when the governor of Arkansas tried to prevent integration in the schools?