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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
"CNN has a woman on the phone from the Convention Center. She's saying how the guard is there, they're getting food and water and how happy they are to see them. Presstitute says so your feeling good and the woman says yes. They cut away from her for now, but told her to hold on."
Some more great news. Finally, it feels like someone is in control of the situation. Just in time.
Interesting email, from my new Tank-truck guy:
Mr. Goldberg: I'm sick and tired of the media's treatment of the Katrina relief efforts. I run a trade association of tank truck carriers trying to assist in the relief efforts by transporting food and potable water. I'm in regular contact with many of the companies, and here are some "on the ground" facts:
1) Large trucks (80,000 lbs. gross weight) almost always have to use the Interstates. For trucks attempting to come in from outside the area, most of those roads (approaching the disaster area) are either closed or have bridges out. The so-called secondary roads may be somewhat passable, but their bridges (over rivers and streams) are not built to sustain such loads. Simply stated, you can't get there from here.
2) Trucks domicled in those areas (because that's where the companies traditionally serve customers) are still underwater, thus the equipment is not accessible;
3) Nobody in their right mind is going to take loads of gasoline and fuel oil into a city controlled by unfriendly folks carrying automatic weapons. A tank truck loaded with 8,000 gallons of gasoline can produce a very impressive fire;
4) Those local trucking companies can't contact their drivers. There's no power, thus (even) cellular is unavailable, and many of the drivers homes (in places like Kenner, Slidel, Metarie, etc) have been destroyed and families dispersed. I have one member with about 120 drivers and mechanics in that immediate area. To date, management has been able to contact 12. Those in the National Guard have been mobilized and are not available to drive.
5) Pumps -- needed to load the vehicles -- don't work because there's no power;
Finally, it's very interesting to see the media not-so-subtly inferred racism. NO's neighboring communities, noted above, and others are mostly composed of middle-class white neighborhoods. They too were flooded with the same level of devastation and face the same food/water shortages. So far, they've been "off camera". I'm genuinely puzzled by this.
If only George Bush could join the Governor in a photo-op "cry-a-thon" all of these problems would go away.
I love animals but PEOPLE come first
Just a point of order...it takes a lot less than that to start a riot in American inner cities. But otherwise, your post (in fact all your posts)is and have been outstanding.
"To: Peach
"This is obscene. I do not understand how healthy people could be airlifted before those with life threatening illnesses"
Survival of the fittest?"
No.
Triage.
If the river levees break, or the leaking POL storage tanks ignite, we will lose the ability to save large numbers of people.
In any event, people can only survive a few days without water. Others need medical care. We do not have an infinite period of time to rescue these people. It is a race against the clock.
If you have to choose between one guy on a vent or ten guys that are sick but can sit upright in the chopper, you choose the ten.
It is called triage, it is a decision that sucks worse than any other and it is the only way to save as many lives as you can.
Writing a few checks just does'nt seem to cut it. My offer strikes me a just being neighborly common decency; i.e., the least I can do.
Pondering that question...
I'd bet there will be a shift of focus. Instead of showing us the obvious relief..she (and others) will turn their focus to All Blame All The Time.
A group of recovery room nurses who were trapped inside the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans cry and hug one another after being evacuated to Baton Rouge. The nurses said the hospital was without power for days and as many as two-dozen or more critically ill patients who died over the past five days were left behind.
Exactly . . .
How sick is that kind of politics during somehting like this?
My hubby has been making that point as well...why didn't the mayor evacuate these folks by train PRIOR to the hurricane!
Fox just said that some big containers of oil are leaking into the Mississippi River....uh, oh!!!
Don't go here today - this has been discussed and cussed already ;)
Just reportedf that W is heading to NO..will he meet with LA governor and NOLA mayor?...
I wonder (seeing he called Bush43 every nasty name you could think of yesterday and started used the race card) how bad it will be this afternoon?
Fortunately I am wont be watching CNN today.
Speak of the Devil...
WWL just had a report that the Revvvrund Jaaackson, had "tried" to rescue some people, but people on I-10 formed a human chain around his bus.
He then proceeded to bash Bush, saying his trip through the devastated area was "ceremonial" (snarl), and would do no good.
That guy is such a jerk.
my deepest apology
Okay. As you can tell I'm watching this fire closely, because of concern about where it might be. I guess that tall building in the background is not One Shell Square. That might be the hotel with the "W" on it. That might be closer to the Quarter. Is anyone else familiar with this area?
Greta doing her walk arounds in Houston....but, at least, she isn't dissing the officials running the Astrodome shelter like her putrid collegue did this morning.
Well, what will poor Paula Zahn talk about tonight?
I'm sure she'll find something. I never watch her. CNN went to commercial. Guess they don't want good news to be broadcast. They didn't bring that woman back.
ACKKK GRETA IN HOUSTON.
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