A New Orleans police officer guards the streets of the French Quarter to prevent looters from helping themselves. The streets of the French Quarter are in much better condition than most other parts of the city.
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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
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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/
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
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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
Funny caption on that last pic. If that helicopter is "preparing to take off" then all the people below it must be midgets.
Okay. I think I've got a fix on that fire and collapse. There's a very tall building in the shot behind the fire. That's One Shell Square. It's across a wide blvd ... Jackson Blvd? I think so anyway. The area on fire should be, if memory serves, across that wide blvd from the back of the Quarter. So the Quarter may be safe from that fire at least.
ewwwwww.
He looks like he needs mega doses of vitamins!
Must have missed that one--what happened with Anderson and Mary Landrieu?
A New Orleans police officer guards the streets of the French Quarter to prevent looters from helping themselves. The streets of the French Quarter are in much better condition than most other parts of the city.
Yes, it's a good start. Nice to see the photos of the military help arriving and President Bush comforting those girls. He is a VERY good man but the liberal media and politicians are trying to crucify him. Luckily the Republican-led congress can deflect their attempts and the President is not up for re-election anyway. I thank God there is no President Gore or Kerry in this situation.
Here's some more about the international oil help:
WASHINGTON (AP) - Twenty-six countries in an international energy consortium will release more than 60 million barrels of crude oil and gasoline to relieve the energy crunch caused by Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
As part of that effort, the Bush administration will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from U.S. reserves.
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman called this an initial response, part of what he called an "aggressive" federal response to the hurricane disaster. The fuel being released by the Paris-based International Energy Agency will be in the form of both crude oil and gasoline and will be released over the coming month.
The reserves will amount to about 2 million barrels a day coming into U.S. markets.
Really? So people listen to the president and try to help by following his recommendations. That's great to hear.
If folks would stop topping off every day out of fear, the situation will get better. Not for a few weeks maybe, but it will improve.
The Georgia governor suspended the taxes on gasoline for some period of time. Smart move.
"To: Deo volente
Lisa Stark on ABC is now saying that the federal govt. can act only if the state requests help first, and this is one of the main reasons for the "slow" federal response.
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This is inaccurate.
You can't send in 5 trucks full of food, you will start a riot.
You can't send 5 buses to the dome, you will start a riot.
You can't bus people from the dome to nowhere. You have to have food and a place to live on the other end.
You have to construct a "pipeline" end to end, before you start.
You have to assess the scope of the disaster, assemble a much bigger package, and then roll it in, with full support all along the way.
That takes time.
It takes three days, 72 hours. This isn't the first hurricane to hit the US. The storm hit Monday between 6 and 10 am. The storm was still blowing Monday afternoon, all across Mississippi, the staging area.
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, there's your three days.
But the big convoys are only just now rolling into NO. Why the extra 24 hour delay?
Because NO "dodged the bullet", it didn't begin to flood until Tuesday, and all day Tuesday, there was hope that the levee breaches could be plugged. New Orleans didn't throw in the towel until Tuesday afternoon.
But the delay may well turn out to be the slim straw that saves the people of New Orleans.
A huge pipeline was constructed, but in the intervening time, the full magnitude of the storm has begun to sink in. Aid and relief from all over the world is now flooding into the staging areas, headed into a well constructed pipeline.
Repeating from an earlier post, New Orleans and the Gulf coast is in the process of being buried in drinking water, food and aid.
The pipeline is in place,and the first huge convoys are arriving right now.
So is Bush. That tells you that the executive work is largely complete. Not to fault him, he is a politician, but it is fair and right for him to ride in at the head of the relief column he worked to put in place.
Everything you have seen to date has been a holding action, trying to hang on by any means necessary until the cavalry arrives.
The cavalry is arriving.
I dont think that helo is on that wood roof.
Well we were discussing FLOOD insurance, and I fail to see how that relates to welfare benefits. They're are lot of working poor who OWN A HOME in the South, who don't have homeowner's insurance and my grandmother is one of them.
I realize that but it's nice to see that fact in print with so many people screaming..where are the troops?
In that article did that pubby senator actually say he gave the feds an "f" in their response so far?
Law enforcement agents keep guard over the ready-to-eat meals for the thousands of people who need them in the city.
Unfortunately, it took the feds to finally get this situation under control.
Well, they say that as time goes by you tend to look more and more like your spouse....
"I just happened by Andrea Mitchell....UGHHH..."
The blonde flip hairstyle is not becoming on Andrea. I thought she looked better with her hair darker and smoothed under.
I can't own my home without insurance since I have a mortgage - please explain
Fox just called the looters "rebels
I am awaiting for the criminals/looters/scum to appoint one of themselves al-Zarqawi Jr. - as they are surrounded in a high rise that they have taken over - and call themselves repressed.
When I see statements like that I am stunned that the planners of hospitals or other buildings or even the government did not foresee that in a city that is below sea level with the water held back by levees did not figure out how to put emergency generator on a level above sea level.
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