Katrina Live Threads, Part XV

Various ^ | 4 September 2005 | Various

[NautiNurse]

U.S. commercial air carriers continue transporting tens of thousands of evacuees from the New Orleans airport to destinations throughout the nation.

Rooftop air rescue efforts continue. One rescue chopper crashed late today. Crew members are reported safe. Gunmen who fired upon bridge repair contractors were killed by law enforcement.

To date, an estimated 70 countries and U.S. businesses have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars, supplies, food and equipment to assist the United States' efforts in Katrina's aftermath. Lt. General Honore described the damage to Mississippi today, "all infrastructure south of Jackson, MS is either damaged or destroyed." Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice visited the devastated areas, and attended Sunday church services in Mobile, Alabama.

Elsewhere, Sean Penn's rescue boat, sans plug and full of his personal entourage,reportedly sank during launch in New Orleans. Senator Mary Landrieu (D-LA) threatened to punch President Bush, and Jefferson Parish President Broussard decried that the bureaucracy of FEMA has committed murder.

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

New Orleans Emergency Operations Center - is now open:
504-463-1000
504-463-1001
504-463-1002

Streaming Video:

All information is subject to change. Many stations are relying on their corporate parents to configure and maintain Internet streaming. Because of the intense interest in the feeds, they may be unavailable at times because of network congestion or a problem feeding the video to the streaming servers.

WWL-TV New Orleans - WWL-TV is operating from studios at Louisiana Public Broadcasting. CBS has a relay during the morning and afternoon. When available, use the CBS relay first as they have greater streaming capacity. They have a secondary stream from Yahoo. WWL-TV is also offering a special low-bandwidth audio-only stream for dial-up users.

WDSU-TV New Orleans - The news staff has started to return to temporary news studios near New Orleans. However, expect evening coverage from Hearst-Argyle sister stations WAPT Jackson and WESH Orlando when the New Orleans staff needs to take a break.

WGNO-TV New Orleans - New Orleans' ABC affiliate has returned to the air with WBRZ-TV and launched video streaming with continuous Katrina coverage.

WPMI-TV Mobile, AL - WPMI is webcasting from 5:30am - 10:30pm CDT. When off air, you can view pre-recorded reports on demand. This feed is often unreliable.

WKRG-TV Mobile, AL - This station is providing good coverage of the situation to the east in Mississippi and Alabama. However, the station is now signing off at around 10:30pm CDT like WWL and WPMI.

WJTV-TV Jackson, MS - The CBS affiliate in Jackson is providing live coverage for both the Jackson area and south Mississippi (knowing a lot of media in that area is off the air).

WFAA-TV Dallas, TX - WFAA-TV is here because Dallas is one of the evacuation cities.

United Radio From New Orleans: WWL-AM, WNOE-FM, "KISS-FM," WRNO-FM, WYLD-FM, and WJBO-AM (Clear Channel & Entercom) who have joined forces as United Radio From New Orleans, and they are streaming.

Gulf Coast Storm Network (Clear Channel Radio) - Clear Channel offers radio listeners across the gulf coast access to a simulcast emergency radio service. This service seems primarily focused on Alabama and Mississippi, but does cover Louisiana to some degree.

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
Katrina Link Archives Nice work by backhoe
Mary Landrieu-"I'll Punch Bush"
Sean Penn's Rescue Bid Sinks
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/ Southern Baptist: NAMB - http://www.namb.net/
Samaritan's Purse - http://www.samaritanspurse.org/

Previous Threads:
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIV
Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII
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

[Spktyr]

Before last week, I didn't want to see the demise of the Democratic Party. As an idea, it provides a balance against bad ideas (in theory) that might come from our side of the fence, and it was what our Founders intended.

After seeing what happened last week and thinking about it some, I can no longer countenance the existence of a party whose members left 250,000 Americans to die in New Orleans through inaction, negligence, and infighting.

The Democratic Party must be exterminated as an effective party. They truly are Nazism under a new flag and new label now.

[DrewsMum]

and where might i find that video?? on their website??

[nopardons]

SNCC...an old member of SNCC?

Will somebody, ANYBODY, please tell these people ( and I use the word loosely ) that this is 2005 and not,not, NOT 1969,1970,nor even 1973.

[nopardons]

bttt

[nuclady]

Took the words right outta my mouth!! Muhammed, indeed!!!!

[montanus]

Then he should have used the media spotlight he was in and publicized the whole thing.

Well, it's not like he had much time to work with. I'm not excusing him. But the published plan was unrealistic, calling for evacuation of outlying parishes, then voluntary evacuation of New Orleans, then mandatory evacuation. That plan was stupid- to carry it out would have taken what, four days? This storm came out of nowhere fast.

It appears the state rigidly followed the plan and used up all the time that should have been used for mandatory evacuations. Nagin was up against the wall: he had one day to perform a mandatory evacuation. With traffic as bad as it was Sunday, he could have only gotten one trip out of the buses- and he didn't have time to force Blanco to open up shelters, even if he went public.

There was a very real chance those buses could have gotten stuck in a traffic jam while the hurricane blew over, or ran out of gas before he could get the riders to shelter.

Nagin isn't innocent, but at the same time, look who he had to work with.

[DrewsMum]

thanks----you're a peach---and he's a uh,,well i'm not a cussin girl,,,,

[BigSkyFreeper]

Yeah. They might have it on their website.

[Miss Behave]

Dear Lord. READ THE POSTS REGARDING ALL OF IT. You have no idea what you're talking about. The claim was that city buses were used to evacuate beforehand--were picking up people all over town and TAKING THEM OUT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.

Now, kindly BACK OFF and get educated. Thank you.

[nopardons]

Holy cow!

[DrewsMum]

I beg to differ, just a little,,,,the LA state emergency plan says that as soon as a CAT 3 or higher is in the gulf of mexico it is considered a threat to NO and the officials should begin to carry out the plans,,,,I'm paraphrasing but I can give you the link if you need,,, please correct me if you find info to the contrary

[BigSkyFreeper]

Doesn't surprise me. The former mayor, now on the board of the National Urban League was frothing-at-the-mouth with complete idiocy with his blame Bush tripe on MTP on Sunday.

[DrewsMum]

Before last week, I didn't want to see the demise of the Democratic Party. As an idea, it provides a balance against bad ideas (in theory) that might come from our side of the fence, and it was what our Founders intended



Actually, George Washington advised against political parties, but they were inevitable,,,,and what a sad country this would be if we all thought alike,,,but I really wouldn't mind seeing the downfall of the dems, flipside is that a worse party might emerge,,,,actually, I could handle the green party or the libertarians---

[BigSkyFreeper]

the LA state emergency plan says that as soon as a CAT 3 or higher is in the gulf of mexico it is considered a threat to NO and the officials should begin to carry out the plans,,,,

That's true. The plans were evacuate citizens by bus, but the mayor chucked those plans out the window as recently as July of 2005. Stating in a Times-Picayune article 'You're On Your Own'.

[DrewsMum]

OH yea, the black panthers and the muslims are butt buddies,,,

[DrewsMum]

sorry for my potty mouth,,,,cleaning it out as we speak

[investigateworld]

RE: "The Democratic Party must be exterminated as an effective party. They truly are Nazism under a new flag and new label now."


All of your suspicions/thoughts are correct. I was active in my cop Union PAC and went on retreats and seminars with Demo speakers spotlighted. They don't like this nation and see it as 99% responsible for all the worlds problems. All of their activities are to undermine us as a nation.

[DrewsMum]

could you email that bill oreilly???? He might like to see that,,,,

[nopardons]

I've read enough of the posts; I suggest that you reread them.

Try following your own advice, re getting educated!

[Spktyr]

All he had to do is say something like the following in one of the many news conferences that he had:

"I am ordering a mandatory evacuation of the city. Our plan calls for us to bus our citizens to Baton Rouge and other cities out of the strike path; however, our Governor has refused to accept them or open shelters for them. Therefore, I am going before national TV like this to request that the Governor change her mind so that we can save as many of our citizens as possible. In the event that we cannot get everyone out, there are several shelters of last resort in the city..."