Sean Penn bails water out of a boat with a plastic cup as he and members of his entourage make an attempt to rescue stranded people in New Orleans. Photo: AFP
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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
Los Angeles County is refusing to take evacuees.
No. and I just saw the FIRST interview of anyone about it...and it was some Deputy with the NO police..
he kinda low-keyed it...and said that 5 were shot, 2 killed, 3 injured and then later a 6th arrested..
quite a different story than has been reported...and no video AT ALL. Very curious considering how much media is roaming around...and he said this happened this morning.
Something is fishy IMHO...
"Did the race baiter's happen to say what skin color those 6 or 8 dead gunmen might be."
When the movie is made, they will be white supremacists from South Africa. I still don't understand why fools want to hamper relief efforts by sniping at the people doing them.
nice skirt, molly henneberg.
Another reason that Joe needs to shut up
Off topic answer - I think there have been some bombings, there was that mass casualy (500+) incident wehre a mob went over a bridge on belief of a terror attack. But otherwise, I think the Iraq activity is about the same as the past year - daily incidents, some with death of armed service.
I am happy to see that Sheehan witch and Aruba off the air - but would suffer through Cindy witch and Aruba a thousand times over if it would mean Katrina didn't swamp the Gulf Coast as she did.
Oh yes, John Travolta is coming tomorrow to inspect the refugees.”
John Travolta lives in Ocala , Florida in the private aviation community of Jumbolair.
Most homes have private airstrips, like the rest of us have driveways.
Travolta literally has his 707 parked in front of his house.
How many people did Travolta evac ?
How much relief did he drop in ?
Just curious.
Well, they ARE using the right word "refugee". "Evacuee" is also good. I have no idea why "refugee" is considered inappropriate.
Mayor Villaracista won't be taking any non-Latino evacuees I take it.
Great info - thanks.
COL
Chuckling out loud.
For a longer winded explanation look here. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476864/posts?page=160#160
From WWL yesterday:
8:00 A.M. - Landrieu [Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu]: - We need to stop calling them refugees, they are American citizens. I've made that mistake myself.
see
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475946/posts?page=6207#6207
Wow.
Landreau's comment may not have been as off the wall as it seems. Look here--
http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/family_epics/marcello/13.html?sect=16\
This is a huge article about the now dead New Orleans boss, what really got my attention is the incident where he punches an FBI agent.
ML's comment is so far off the map of rational Senatorial comment, could she have been deliberately referencing this incident? I have seen only one reference on FR and no discussion of the effect of Katrina and the flood on the NO mafia.
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too much knee?
"The more I see, and the more I read, I am beginning to believe that BLANCO should be held CRIMINALLY responsible."
The evident incompetence of this woman is one reason the Democrats are loudly blaming Bush.
If so, I imagine that they figure that they have enough of their own home grown problematics.
Can you fix me up with Linda Vester?
Sean Penn bails water out of a boat with a plastic cup as he and members of his entourage make an attempt to rescue stranded people in New Orleans. Photo: AFP
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