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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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
Don't forget there are two buildings on fire where Harrigan is....no water to put the fires out..
AND, there supposedly is two major hotels really close to those fires...
He's probably struck by the resemblance. It's gotta be shocking to a guy who thought of America as the safest place in the world. He's probably been to NO many times, and had fun there. To see these jackals on the street is no doubt a very rude wake-up call.
True, but they got a handle on it quickly in Mississippi; much more quickly (IMHO) than the mere scale would suggest.
You and I seem to have grasped the concept (we aren't alone on FR, anyway) of the Principle of Subsidiarity.
The FIRST RESPONSE must come from the local Gummint--then the State--and finally, the Feds.
But unless the local and state folks have operable plans and some idea of what's going on, there's no way the Feds can be too helpful.
Not sure I follow. Who is Harrigan? What is the screen?
Harrigan has a death wish. He may acheive this soon.
On the hotels... which ones? I heard "warehouse" district but it's been so damned long since I've been there. Isn't that adjacent to the Quarter, along the river?
We get it! CNN HATES George Bush. Certain Bill Schneider, Paula Zahn, Wolf Blitzer, and that arrogant jerk who does your financial shows who has been spouting off to Wolf all week.
George Bush didn't cause this hurricane, not did he create the gangs of hoodlums who have held New Orleans hostage since Monday evening.
These poor, uneducated people and these thugs were not created by George Bush. To the best of my knowledge Louisiana is and has forever been a Democratic State -- you know, one of YOUR states.
If anything this is an indictment of the Socialist System that you think SHOULD drive this nation; but if you want to blame someone, blame the real problem, the gangsta's, the rap generation.
These are people who will and have raped a four year old child. Not created by George Bush, created by 140+ years of people being forced to live in poverty and under the thumb of the democratic system and beaten down until they have no self-respect and think the world owes them a living.
spectre, as well as some other FReepers, have grown up noticeably on these threads, as they have come to reassess the position.
The government needs to step in and grant them immunity from any kind of lawsuit.
Correct. These people can go run and do nasty things to the looters and the National Guard can disclaim all responsibility....
Thank you! Couldn't agree more.
Hey, JJ is getting CREDIT for the buses to take people out of the dome.
Thank you for those appropriate biblical passages.
I am in the weirdest state.
Seeing this hideous disaster and reading posts about the beginning attempted destruction of our president.
It is beyond sadness, this political hate fest, I don't have words for it. All while seeing what is happening in NO.
I thought things could not get worse in this country with the death fight of the politcal parties. But I think they will.
This is going to tear this country all to pieces. And a million or more people are homeless and destitute and wandering, most in a state of shock.
All the big-time CEO's simply have their shareholders make the donations through the Company rather than mak8ing personal contributions.
Besides, it's damned expensive to send all the children to Yale, Brown, and Hahvahd
Do you think the quote was fabricated, or are you just in a state of denial?
The resupply convoy (cross-loaded onto military trucks because they're the only ones that can get through the floodwaters) now rolling into the Superdome and toward the Convention Center. The buses are back to the Superdome as well for another trip.
That is because your neighbors are civilized Americans and they live in a state with a proper government. Clearly, neither exists in large parts of New Orleans. The guy on Fox right now is explaining how order is being maintained in Biloxi. The police are actually running the show. What a concept. Now don't get me wrong, the police officers that are still on the job in New Orleans are heroes. But the officers and leaders that abandoned that city are criminal.
We truly are seeing the best and the worst humanity has to offer....unfortunately it takes only a little bit of the worst to breed the chaos we've seen in NOLA....
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