Katrina Live Thread, Part XIII

Various ^ | 1 September 2005 | Various

[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

[oceanview]

no way pop. the media is salivating for that, for Bush to federalize this and have news media video of african americans being gunned down by the US military under orders from Bush. keep the focus on Blanco.

[popdonnelly]

"Hell, look at Huey Long as one example."

Huey Long's ego was one large Black Hole, but he was Albert Einstein compared to Governor Blanco.

[Jim Noble]

The agency also will send six 20-person teams to help local and state public health and medical personnel.

Sure they will.

The day anybody from the Federal government puts in stitches or changes a bandage is the day pigs will fly.

[bwteim]

absolutely. someone else said earlier about idle time being a problem for many now and work being a solution.

[RDTF]

so true. The professional stiff upper lip is a limited ability.

[nwctwx]

I don't doubt the fed gov't is working as fast as it can, but I can't help but wish it could be faster. I know that the shear size of the storm has made the process all the more difficult, so I don't blame anyone personally.

[mware]

A couple were seperated from their infant baby right as the hurricane hit. They lost contact and had no idea where the baby was. (The baby was taken to Texas.)

They where told where the baby was about an hour ago.

[Arizona Carolyn]

These people can't help it. They have been being told where to go and what to do most, if not all their lives... not all the people, but a high percentage of them. Anyone who has every been around projects (same name all around the country) knows this is true.

When you are on welfare you live your life being told by social workers what you can do...

[Strategerist]

Well, it's obviously self-serving; Detroit can't justify their massive bureacracy with a shrinking population, and the next step after resettlement would be to ask for 100 billion dollars in "aid" from the Federal Government to be funnelled through said Detroit bureacracy.

[BurbankKarl]

You asked me a question about the City of NOLA radio system. It was flooded out early in this hurricane, and technicians that were authorized to try to help fix it were turned away by the Louisiana State Patrol. The radios were used the first day on SIMPLEX, but could not be recharged etc. Several police precincts were underwater etc. I am sure some are still in use, but not as a citywide trunking system as designed.

[HuronMan]

Homeless New Orleans residents respectfully declined Detroit's offer.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Thanks for the input. I too have noticed a propensity for some to call for the bodies and body counts. Once it degenerates to the point where CNN/FOX show the infanticide live, because of the "popular demand", we shall find out who cannot be pried away from the bigscreen replays.
Decency and compassion have been tossed under the bus for ratings.

[Howlin]

If the SuperDome is trashed, it's becasue the people who are in there trashed it.

I'm not sure I like this "here's a phone number, go get this woman" stuff on TV.

[tomkat]

re encryption, I thought so too at first, but they must be figurin' that sometimes chaos can work in the good guys' favor...

(that, and some serious firepower ridin' shotgun, most likely ;-)

[bwteim]

It is Bill O on now- unless I got deceived by the teasers.... could still be Shep lurking in the back with the horror stories on the dome.

[Carolinamom]

I didn't know that. Thanks for the info.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I guess I'm in the minority then, I think he and all the others are totally stressed out from this reporting... I see they moved Goldblat to Houston after his nightmare last night, you could see him melting down... and they had moved him into the Quarter when they pulled Shep out and Shep started his meltdown there, too... the Quarter is more than dangerous right now and I defy any of us to go there for long and not have PTS.

[uncbob]

Flint Michigan has quite a few empty houses.

John Kerry has several vaction etc homes that must have a lot of room . Same goes for Teddy

Maybe they will make them available

[TXBubba]

I hope they are not from the convention center.

The ones at the convention center that I saw are not a problem. One lady was searching for food for diabetics and found some orange juice, one nurse picked up two elderly while she was on her way there and treated a diabetic while they were filming. They said there were some bad folks there doing bad things but not everyone there is bad. Don't condemn the whole lot who are also trapped with the bad ones.

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!! Priorities!