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

[myprecious]

Did the hurricane people say who/what the 'guards' were - ie: cops, troops, etc ?

This was outside by the barricades. This was told to my husband. I will try to find out more information tomorrow.

The men really needed to share with other men. The women opened up early and there were more female workers the first day. The men were holding back their stories. Today, there were more guys from the churches and they began opening up. When a strong man can be there to support another man, it is a beautiful thing.

[mabelkitty]

I just had this feeling in my heart, and you are proving it true.
Those who had no hope, no change, no love....this tragedy is giving them a whole new life. A chance to start all over from scratch and do things differently.
I really needed to read that today. Thank you.

[Mo1]

Thank you for that report .. it made me proud and made me sad at the things these folks had to experience with those gangs

God Bless you and all those effected by this terrible tragedy

[DrewsMum]

Well California has already taken millions of refugees from Mexico, and as Mexico's Presidente Fox said they are doing the jobs even blacks won't do so I guess LA feels they don't need any more refugees.



are they really "refugees" from mexico,,,i thought they were *illegal* immigrants

[Interesting Times]

Thanks... I have Flash installed. For some reason the link from the news site wasn't working, but yours does.

[SeaBiscuit]

It looks as if Wal-Mart has already contributed.

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Countdown-looting-in-Walmart.wmv

[Txsleuth]

Oh, please do!!!

uh, what is an underwear thread?

[tomkat]

Here is the actual link ...

lol
story of my life    

[Spktyr]

It's going to get worse, I'm afraid. Trust me on that.

You might want to think about getting some breath masks...

[Howlin]

Thanks for that; I'm proud of you.

[Iowa Granny]

I smell Katrina. It's like the gulf only wet wood,

Well, I live on a Hog Farm, so I didn't really think it was going to be possible for me to smell anything out of the ordinary here.

But I thought I'd check, just for the heck of it. There is a noticable UNUSUAL odor out there. And it isn't pigs.

I'm 45 miles SW of Iowa City.

[owl37]

"when you here the word, refugee, what is the first thing that comes to mind?"

Someone who leaves a geographical region due to some catastrophe, is homeless, and probably won't be returning. Refugee sounds so "permanent" to me. "Evacuees" are more like the folks on the North Shore who will be coming back in the next week or so. I never thought of refugee as having a political denotation until I looked it up recently.

[tomkat]

Thank you again, mp   :)

[Txsleuth]

When you complimented myprecious for posting the story about the hurricane people...it struck me that if there were people in Iraq to tell us the same types of stories...

we might be hearing of similar circumstances...of helping people have a chance at a new start...a fresh start with opportunities they might not have had.

I could see the similiarities, if there were people sending those stories home where we could read them.

[Spktyr]

That sounds suspiciously like a teenager who's had a house party who's been told that his parents are going to be home tomorrow and that he has no chance to hide what he's been doing....

The adults are coming. Some are already there.

[lugsoul]

NN - I just wanted to drop a note for the benefit of all.

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. And that the President had the right to send them in.

I read it to see what LA and NO failed to do. And the ability of the Feds to bypass those old 'standard' procedures is clearly set forth. I hope we don't see the Administration trying to push the 'we weren't asked' line, because they'll get crucified with their own document if they do.

[myprecious]

Rubber flip flops are out of season, so they might end up in the bargain-store system where clearance items are cleared out. These will be needed all over Texas. If anyone locates some, I can distribute in the Tyler area centers.

The local Salvation Army and thrift stores are opening up their racks for theses people. It is amazing at the generosity. The evacuees are astonished at the response. I am still looking for maternity wear for a few. One lady is due any day now.

[Tobor]

I was thinking of them more for supplies and med-evac.

But, that is becoming moot as more things open up.

[james_f_hall]

Isn't it strange that mostly Red states have beared the brunt of the refugees? Is it a geographic thing? The only blue state I have heard of taking refugees was Mass and they have Mitt Romney. Texas, Arkansas, Tennesse, Kentucky, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Arizona, New Mexico all accepting refugees too.

Blue states? Blues State? Do you care...

I could do like Kanye West and make an irrational statement something to the effect that Blue States don't care about poor people.

[myprecious]

it struck me that if there were people in Iraq to tell us the same types of stories...

Southern Baptists will go a long way to deliver a covered dish, but that is out of my range. :^)