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

[Soul Seeker]

They are too busy trying to keep the public from connecting the dots.

That MISS and Alabama are okay, LA is not, and there is a reason for that.

I hate to disappoint them, actually I don't, but the president isn't going anywhere and they ae too stupid to be grateful he remains.

[Rokke]

"it's not a skin color issue. There's a cultural aspect to this problem that needs to be addressed."

You are exactly right here. It is an inner city welfare culture that seems to exist everywhere people rely on government handouts instead of working for a living.

[beltfed308]

Doesn't seem to have anything relavent to say. Does he ever? ;>)

[Spktyr]

Read Heinlien's "Expanded Universe".

We've ALWAYS been on our own as citizens. People are just now realizing it (again, after the good times of the 50s-90s).

[CedarDave]

I didn't see JJ's Commie crony, the CEO of CITGO in the group before I turned it off.

Rush's replacement is bringing down my BP!

[jeffers]

Thanks.

Can that airport support 30,000 refugess and still continue to function?

[WoodstockCat]

Doesn't seem to have anything relavent to say.

pretty much status quo for today's "black" leadership in America.

[Abigail Adams]

Tornadoes hit Slidell? Interesting. So sad about the destruction.

[luckystarmom]

To some extent they are correct. I would say that this does switch our priorities. That's just the way it is. Things happen and priorities are switched.

What's more immediate: Fixing the gulf coast or social security reform.

[hipaatwo]

news reporting Bush's poll numbers could go down and entire agenda could be at stake over this -- How do they know this???



What news said this? The news that WISHES this to happen?

[Smogger]

The Baptists are the ones who donated, cooked and served the food at the Astrodome.

Good bunch of people.

Which is why Mississippi - the nation's poorest state in terms of average household income - ranks No. 1 in giving when measured as a percentage of income, followed by Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.

[steveegg]

I don't know how you two can stand listening to a Jackson presser. You've got far stronger stomachs than I.

Jackson's problem is he's throwing lawn darts straight up.

[Abigail Adams]

Looks like the prez is on the ground in NO, driving around???

[dfwgator]

DNC members are high-fiving each other as we speak.

[Pearls Before Swine]

After those remaining in NOLA voluntarily are evacutated, IMHO you will have several thousand hard core thugs, criminals,a nd druggies who will stay, and will have to be rooted out house-to-house.

Absolutely. Loot the city and the pharmacies, take over a penthouse high above the water, and you're better off than going back to prison. You could even plan a night-time escape a couple of months down the road.

There won't be any meaningful attempts at cleanup until these animals are rooted out.

[Frank_2001]

Well stated!

[Arizona Carolyn]

Geraldo isn't afraid to jump into the middle of a situation... sort of like Steve Harrigan. I'm just afraid Harrigan doesn't have Geraldo's street smarts. Anyway, the stuff they are dropping into the breech isn't making a dent.

[LA Woman3]

website for damage/map

http://www.scipionus.com/



Great site....thanks! Still unbelievable that such chaos is happening an hour away from Baton Rouge!

[Lady Heron]

It is disgusting to see people like you that have no clue as to the logistics of a situation like this....In a normal hurricane it takes days to set up a recovery effort, but here there was no usable airport and only one road open in not to mention the city still under water. This disaster is totally different than any that has happened before and so are the logistics because of the location are a nightmare.

FEMA and the Corp of Engineers have been warning the state for years and nothing was done or planned by the state (a huge dem nightmare), lets not even discuss how late the state waited to call for an evacuation.

My father (who worked with FEMA because of his work with TVA) told me that NO was a death trap 15 years ago and never let my husband consider a job or move there.