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Posted on 09/04/2005 6:14:35 PM PDT by 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
I agree, and even if it doesn't stick to this forecast, it still looks destined to create trouble anyway. Needs to be watched.
WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
10:09 AM CDT on Monday, September 5, 2005
Tom Planchet
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9:48 A.M. - Five Plaquemines schools have cancelled classes for all of 2005-06. Belle Chasse high schools are trying to open by January.
9:46 A.M. - Video from oil company spokesman shows total devastation in lower Plaquemines.
9:40 A.M. - NEW YORK (AP) -- With memories of the Sept. 11 attacks still vivid, hundreds of police officers and firefighters left New York City on Monday, bound for Louisiana.
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9:35 A.M. - (AP) A steady stream of reinforcements for police poured down interstate highways toward New Orleans on Monday -- long convoys of police cars, blue lights flashing, emblazoned with emblems from scattered police, sheriff, and other jurisdictions, in and out of state.
Mayor Ray Nagin, in a telephone interview on WWL radio, the city's linked emergency broadcast center, said he was arranging to rotate out the city officers who have been working virtually around the clock since before the storm hit.
He said they and their families would get five or more days in cities with large numbers of hotel rooms -- Atlanta and Las Vegas in particular. In addition to the police, firefighters and dispatchers will be included.
Dad, who worked as a clerk in the federal court system explained to me, when O'Connor put in her resignation, that if the CJ were to die his appointment would supercede that of O'Connor....There would be three appointments in this order.
1. Appoint replacement for a deceased member
2. Appoint the CJ
3. replace a retiring justice
IIRC there are time limits for 1 & 2.
Both could be telling the truth, and it is a doggone shame that supplies were slow in coming.
Chertoff is head of DHS, and likely doesn't micromanage. Not sure what "FEMA on the ground" refers to, but it is highly likely that the Nat'l Guard at the Dome sent at least some people to the Convention Center. People "inside" knew - it was a matter of communications and logistics to get supplies where they were needed.
No recon scheduled yet to my knowledge. Though, it looks to be on its way to a depression. I wouldn't be surprised to see it become one this afternoon/evening. Fortunately, it's close to shore, so it won't have much time to develop before coming into FL. It's also going to have to go over more land than Katrina did... so, we'll see what exits.
Thanks for the ping!
Excerpts from an editorial in Sunday's New Orleans Times-Picayune:
We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we're going to make it right."
Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise before believing you.
But we have good reason for our skepticism.
Bienville built New Orleans where he built it for one main reason: It's accessible.
The city between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain was easy to reach in 1718.
How much easier it is to access in 2005 now that there are interstates and bridges, airports and helipads, cruise ships, barges, buses and diesel-powered trucks.
Despite the city's multiple points of entry, our nation's bureaucrats spent days after last week's hurricane wringing their hands, lamenting the fact that they could neither rescue the city's stranded victims nor bring them food, water and medical supplies.
Meanwhile there were journalists, including some who work for The Times-Picayune, going in and out of the city via the Crescent City Connection.
On Thursday morning, that crew saw a caravan of 13 Wal-Mart tractor trailers headed into town to bring food, water and supplies to a dying city.
Television reporters were doing live reports from downtown New Orleans streets.
Harry Connick Jr. brought in some aid Thursday.
Yet, the people trained to protect our nation, the people whose job it is to quickly bring in aid were absent.
Those who should have been deploying troops were singing a sad song about how our city was impossible to reach.
We're angry, Mr. President, and we'll be angry long after our beloved city and surrounding parishes have been pumped dry.
Our people deserved rescuing. Many who could have been were not.
That's to the government's shame.
We, who are from New Orleans, are no less American than those who live on the Great Plains or along the Atlantic Seaboard.
We're no less important than those from the Pacific Northwest or Appalachia.
Our people deserved to be rescued.
No expense should have been spared.
No excuses should have been voiced. Especially not one as preposterous as the claim that New Orleans couldn't be reached.
Mr. President, we sincerely hope you fulfill your promise to make our beloved communities work right once again.
When you do, we will be the first to applaud.
The Times-Picayune, based in New Orleans, never stopped publishing during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The company fled its downtown office Tuesday and printed online editions of the paper until Friday when it resumed printing. The 16-page Friday paper was finished at the printing facilities of The Houma Courier, about 60 miles from New Orleans.
Thanks - and please keep me posted.
Statement as of 11:30 am EDT on September 5, 2005
For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico...
The National Hurricane Center is issuing advisories on Hurricane
Maria... located about 475 miles east of Bermuda.
A well-defined low pressure system located about 280 miles
south-southwest of Bermuda is moving slowly northwestward. This
system has not become any better organized over the past several
hours...but upper-level winds could become more favorable for
tropical cyclone formation over the next day or so.
A broad area of low pressure has remained nearly stationary just
off the southeastern coast of Florida and over the northwestern
Bahamas. This system has become slightly better organized this
morning...and a tropical depression could form in this area during
the next day or two. A NOAA hurricane hunter aircraft is scheduled
to investigate the system tomorrow..if necessary. Interests in the
Bahamas and Florida should monitor the progress of this system.
A tropical wave is approaching the Lesser Antilles...accompanied by
widely scattered showers and a few thunderstorms. Significant
development of this system is not expected over the next couple of
days as it continues moving westward at 15 to 20 mph.
Elsewhere...tropical storm formation is not expected through
Tuesday.
Forecaster Pasch
I got the account via personal email, not an FR thread. I know the guy thru the Society for Creative Anacronism.
Anyone listen to drudge last night -- he had an interview with Nagin where he explicitly ruled out using the airport or the conv center as a designated shelter. That was the night before the storm - Sunday. The poeple that went there remembered it had been used after other storms and just broke in.
I see Storm Floater #2 has it.
food and water was being brought to the convention center before the evac, pictures were posted on this thread at the time. the logistical details of what was needed to evacuate the convention center, I admit, some of that was confusing - but the helicopter airlift took time to setup according to general Honore's interview with Geraldo last night.
Two questions I have been asking every single "journalist" I can get either email or phone number for
Do you know the lines of legal authority in a disaster like this from the 1st Responders (City of NO) to the 2nd Responders (State of New Orleans) to the 3rd Responders (The Federal Govt)? If this is "All the Feds fault" why is the State of Louisianan STILL refusing to release operational control over this mess to the Feds as of Mon 9-5-05? Please explain to me How it is "All Bush's fault" for something the State of Louisiana is in control of? Considering what we saw last week in NO. Just what did the billions of dollars in Federal Homeland Security money give to the State of Louisiana and the City of New Orleans since 9-11 to manage this sort of disaster for the 72-96 hours FEMA directive tell them it will take for Federal Assistance to reach a disaster zone BUY the Federal Taxpayer's?
360,000 MRE were at the SuperDome before the storm.
BTTT
We can thank God at least that they did not use the airport. It would have been completely trashed. The airport is the heart of the relief effort right now.
CNN still trying to pick the bones. Questions to ADM Tim Keating, NorthCom Commander about late response. ADM spells out what was done in advance on Saturday and Sunday before the storm struck. (Begs the question once again, if the feds were moving, why weren't those directly in front of the storm and responsible for local/state actions also moving.)
Just went to thread. It has been pulled.
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