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

[publana]

Can somebody please post the link to the guys that are in NOLA that are keeping the Web Hosting Company up and running? I accidentally closed the page, didn't have it bookmarked, and can't find the darned link by searching.

[LadyPilgrim]

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~ovens/loops/wxloop.cgi?wv_east_enhanced+12+-update+3600

This is what I've been watching.

Good Morning! ;-)

[Just mythoughts]

Why are liberals NOT demanding an environmental impact study of pumping toxic New Orleans water into the lake?

Personally speaking I think it would be a wise idea to study what exactly they are doing before they do it. I can only imagine what the accusations will be after the fact.

[oceanview]

Gingrich is really getting me mad - "the system has failed". the guy is out of his mind. an evacuation of an entire city, the performance of the military in this - and he says "the system has failed".

[mhking]

Open Letter to Jesse Jackson:

Dear Mr. Jackson:

Shut up.

Sincerely,

M.H. King

[Dolphy]

An open letter to the President

And what do they have to say about local and state authorities who arguably multiplied their problems by incompetence?

[hansel]

I haven't read through all of this thread and so I apologize in advance if this topic has been discussed:

My husband is trying to defend himself against a liberal. The lib is arguing that if Bush declared Louisiana a disaster area before the hurricane hit (last Sat.), he was negligent because he should have had supplies shipped and ready and waiting outside of the state for use after the hurricane hit.

Did Blanco not accept the aid or was there a breakdown in communication that supplies never got into LA?

Does anyone have a source for WHY no supplies were moved in right after the hurricane? Was that FEMA's job or was that under the jurisdiction of Blanco?

Anything I can tell him to link to?

Thanks.

[Cboldt]

Ah - so you are content to fall back on the authority of the person who doesn't have the assets to respond.

She had the assets at her disposal. LA Nat'l Guard and inter-state compacts for more Nat'l Guard. Those are the assets for police presence / preservation of civil order.

The other material and manpower (SAR) asssets were in place by FEMA and the Feds.

Your original point was ...

Anyone who thinks that an investigation of this matter will show that the failure was with the state or local government in failing to request Federal involvement needs to read DHS' National Response Plan.

I don't think you'll be pleased by what you find. It is very clear that DHS had the authority to roll FEMA into this on its own accord.

I disagree with your conclusion. So what? Maybe I'm just an obstinate idiot.

[queenkathy]

I live in a small rural community in Mich. So it's already a pretty conservative town. But I have a friend in the UK who was asking questions too. Lots of online friends. And some small groups on Yahoo that I connect with.

[CedarDave]

Newt on Fox: Talking about how system didn't work and how the laws need to be changed.

Hint for Newt: It's not the laws that need to be changed, it's the local officials who don't see a threat when its presented 72 hours in their face in advance and refuse to take necessary action.

[mhking]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

[Just mythoughts]

Liberalism is the system and it failed miserably!!! He is saying what is without politicizing it.

[hoosiermama]

Thanks BH!

Comintatus please post this to it's own thread so we can more easily ping others to it. Great Job!

[Cboldt]

Supplies were there. The local authorites advised against moving the supplies into NOLA becuase of civil unrest. The Red Cross website asserts this. The material was there.

[maryz]

Thank you so much for posting that!

[oceanview]

supplies and material are pre-staged - but they cannot be staged inside the zone of destruction, what sense would that make. the first 48 hours of an event like this, requires the locals do something - anything, to help themselves. and at a minimum, the locals should maintain civil order so that when FEMA does get there, they don't have to enter anarchy in an attempt to deliver relief and begin evacuations. FEMA wasn't designed for that.

[hoosiermama]

Why Mike, You're such a gentleman!...Not even a STFU?
;^)

[texasbluebell]

Yep, exactly.

Luckily the media bias is so obvious now that even some people who I know who never believed there was bias -- are now wondering what's going on.

Then there are others I know, some even in my own family, who have gone off the deep end from listening to the constant Bush-bashing. It's getting pretty sad in one case I know about.

[texasbluebell]

LOL!

That's perfect!

[Spktyr]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/