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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
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Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VIII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VII
Hurricane Katrina Live Thread, Part VI
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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
Surprise, surprise, surprise!!
What we have here....is a failure...to COMMUNICATE!!
S'pose it's because the nimrod Mayor and wet-pants Governorette don't KNOW what the hell to do?
Appreciate your posts. Ask that you be non-specific on Bush location in realtime.
Got a feeling he might try something risky.
The ANG is getting ready to mop up. These brave soldiers will be going house to house, building to building to fine the people of New Orleans. As this dangerous operation unfolds, the tragic scope of human suffering and loss will strike home. Shep sez 10,000 dead or more. God Bless their souls.
The pictures of the children and babies make me want to cry. Anybody who with children who stayed in their houses and didn't get them evacuated when they were told to leave should be held accountable.
Shep just read that the death toll may reach 10,000+ in LA
That is awful.
Heheh.
You know, a little while back I was doing my mea culpa to admin mods for having posted clarion ledger material. In process, I reread exchanges storm force force, is it squared is it cubed... seems insignicant at this point now, doesn't it?
MSNBC trying to bait Delay into the race card....
He was reading a statement from Congressman Vetter (sp.)
The ones who understand are too busy working to hold press conferences.
The ones that don't are playing CYA and bashing Bush.
They have 85 showers available. Unfortunately, instead of the number of evacuees they expected to get, it's grown to twice that amount. I just heard on local radio, they are trying to move a lot of people to San Antonio, Austin and Dallas.
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Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico are HUGE OPEN SPACED STATES. These are just a few states that are good places to place the displaced for the time being and until eveyone can coordinate future plans.
Would love to be a fly on the wall for the off camara discussion.
I just cried as well... I get so mad..
The video earlier of The President with those two young ladies in Miss. mad me get misty as well.Thats the man I remember from '98 in Del Rio Texas after a flood wipped it out.
its 10000 dead in MS....all those USAR teams from across the country will help in finding all those bodies in NO...
Updates as they come in on Katrina
02:09 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
2:05 P.M. - (AP): A mix of cheering and swearing has greeted National Guardsman pouring into New Orleans.
As a convoy of relief trucks swarmed through downtown, some near the city's convention center threw up their hands and screamed "Thank You, Jesus!"
Others weren't as pleased. One man says "hell no," he's not happy to see the Guard, saying troops should have shown up days ago. Michael Levy says he'll be pleased when 100 buses arrive to evacuate people.
Levy says people at the center have been sleeping on the ground "like rats." And he says if he had his way, New Orleans would be burned down.
1:57 P.M. - WWL-TV: State School Superintendent Cecil Picard is asking the School Superintendents of St. Bernard and Plaquesmines Parishes to call him as soon as possible.
Yes. You are right. I'll be careful.
ATA still has L10s they use to ferry troops. They are configured to seat 300+.
Go airlift!
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