AP/Eric Gay
A fire burns on the east side of New Orleans early Friday morning
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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
From another thread, a freeper told me this:
Yep, and Saturday and Sunday a New Orleans TV station was stating that people who left pets behind would be prosecuted for animal cruelty. So no doubt at least some people didn't evacuate because they had pets. Regardless of what you feel about pets, it was a bad idea to discourage anyone from leaving.
More like Patton. From what I've read and heard it's the Colonel who is mostly responsible for getting things under control.
Interesting dynamics. Tells me that W is being supportive rather than accusatory, which is probably by far the most effective tactic. There's time later to dwell on incompetence -- these are still the folks who are notionally in charge, and it's important to get them back on the rails.
Blanco is probably shell-shocked and embarrassed, and Landrieu is probably being herself.
W's a good man.
Do tell; I have laid off CNN (just can't take them anymore).
Re: DU call for Nagin for Pres:
When you're desperate to keep from sinking, you'll grab anything that floats by.
Including a turd.
Multiple times
MSY medical staging and triage: they were set up to handle 200 pt/hr...they have been managing 800 pt/hr...and they are doing it!
Thank God! Hannity is going to drop the no politics rule. About time. Wish it wasn't necessary, but these people have to be hit down hard.
calm down, mary
Is Audra Lee the Governette?
When you're desperate to keep from sinking, you'll grab anything that floats by.
Including a turd.
Nagin's a sinker, not a floater.
Where's that gif with the pres layin' a smackdown on somebody? His tie flappin' and everything...
WHAT!?!
Behind as in left them in their house or behind as in let them go?
FoxNews says 9,000,000 MRE's have been delivered to SuperDome. Weren't they supposed to have a bunch of MRE's stored there before the hurricane hit? What happened to them?
Airlines begin airlift out of New Orleans
By LESLIE MILLER
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Relief flights donated by airlines began to fly into Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans at a rate of about four an hour, beginning midday today.
Transportation Department spokesman Greg Martin said the planes will be bringing in supplies and leaving with people. Most of the flights will take refugees to Lackland Air Force Base in Texas.
The first flight today, he said, was a Spirit Airlines MD-83.
Even before an announcement could be made, Southwest Airlines Co., dispatched a Boeing 737 from Dallas to New Orleans just before noon today, according to airline spokeswoman Paula Berg. She said the plane would take evacuees to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio.
The airport building and runway weren't damaged much by Hurricane Katrina, but navigational aids such as radar weren't working.
Martin said the Federal Aviation Administration was able to establish limited operations within a day of the hurricane. Work over the past few days allowed the airport and air traffic control to sustain a more systematic relief effort Friday.
Air traffic controllers in New Orleans are handling about 300 flights at any given time, Martin said. "All of them are providing humanitarian relief," he said.
The airport is now able to handle nighttime flights thanks to runway lights provided by the military, he said.
More than a dozen passenger airlines and their crews volunteered to provide emergency airlift to more than 25,000 New Orleans residents stranded after Hurricane Katrina.
They are Alaska Airlines, America West, American Airlines, ATA, Continental, Delta Air Lines, Jet Blue, Northwest, Southwest, United, US Airways and Air Canada.
US Airways announced they will begin this afternoon and continue at least through the weekend. US Airways will provide a 126-seat Boeing 737-300 aircraft, as well as other aircraft as needed.
The mission would be styled after a program in which the military uses commercial airliners to transport troops.
While airlines said they were willing to fly airlifts, they want the government to pay the cost of the operation. The nation's major airlines have lost billions since the recession and terror attacks of 2001. AMR Corp., the parent of American, the nation's largest carrier, has lost more than $7 billion.
Airline officials said they were working through a trade group, the Air Transport Association, and the federal Homeland Security officials to secure approval for airlifts.
Airline pilots have been agitating for rescue flights for several days, at least since an American Airlines Boeing 757 landed at New Orleans' Louis Armstrong Airport to deliver supplies and evacuate more than 100 stranded employees and passengers.
"If we save one life wouldn't it be worth the effort?" said Jeff Grinnell, an American Airlines captain. "We're ready to go."
AP/Eric Gay
A fire burns on the east side of New Orleans early Friday morning
all I did was post the fact....it was a copy/paste from WWL...chill
Heard last night they had shower facilities set up outside the Astrodome.
Shep just said "Hope to have the evacuation finished today"
Harrigan a bit ago said "Once the NG got here, many heads poking out of buildings."
Either Harrigan is hallucinating, or Shep is delusional.
My money's on Harrigan... ;)
No, she's one of the evacuees in the Astrodome.
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