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

[Cboldt]

I am not 'persistently refusing' anything.

I apologize for asserting that. I didn't read the whole thread, and only picked up your response to my post.

Here is another description of the process, also on the DHS National Response Plan website.

Emphasis on Local Response

All incidents are handled at the lowest possible organizational and jurisdictional level. Police, fire, public health and medical, emergency management, and other personnel are responsible for incident management at the local level. For those events that rise to the level of an Incident of National Significance, the Department of Homeland Security provides operational and/or resource coordination for Federal support to on-scene incident command structures.

Proactive Federal Response to Catastrophic Events

The National Response Plan provides mechanisms for expedited and proactive Federal support to ensure critical life-saving assistance and incident containment capabilities are in place to respond quickly and efficiently to catastrophic incidents. These are high-impact, low-probability incidents, including natural disasters and terrorist attacks that result in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the population, infrastructure, environment, economy, national morale, and/or government functions.

http://www.dhs.gov/dhspublic/interapp/editorial/editorial_0569.xml
Local/Federal Response Strategies & Coordination Structure

I note the use of the word "support" in "expedited and proactive Federal support," and not the word "takeover."

[Patriot from Philly]

The President begged the governor to call for an evacuation before the hurricane hit. Wouldn't it be nice if this conversation was taped.

Wouldn't it be nice if CNN had to play it over and over again, like they did the pictures from Abu Ghrabib (boy does that story seem trivial now)

Well, a gal can dream, can't she?

[Cboldt]

Cite to the Stafford Act, for the record and for any curious. It is a self-contained reference. I don't know if there is a similar reference for the CFR (administrative rules) aspect of this act. If so, will post a link to that as well.

http://www.fema.gov/library/stafact.shtm <- Very dry reading

[tentmaker]

bookmark

[i_dont_chat]

Ping - facts about the response to disaster

[berkeleybeej]

Bush 1 and Clinton - Funds raised will be handed over to affected states for the locals to determine how best to use.

OH VEY!!! Is this a bad idea or what?

[NautiNurse]

X41 looks great. Big note of gratitude to the total $23 million donated by Waltons/WalMart.

X42 thanking his buddies, biting his lip. Pat on the back for admin response following the Northridge earthquake.

[Cboldt]

- Standard procedures regarding requests for assistance may be expedited or, under extreme circumstances, suspended in the immediate aftermath of an event of catastrophic magnitude.

All that says is the relief requestor doesn't have to necessarily follow the standard procedure (which is forms, letters, copies to certain agencies, and so on and so forth as the bureacracy goes) for making the request. E.g., a phone call might be enough in certain circumstances.

Waiving the assistance requestor's duty to follow standard procedure does not suppoert the assertion "that DHS had the authority to roll FEMA into this on its own accord."

[thouworm]

"Feel free to use any of this if is interestin or useful, much of the info came from these links to begin with."

Did mod see author's opening line granting free-use permission? Shame to waste time hoping Comitatus will soon initiate a thread he has clearly given permission for already. Could mod be persuaded to rethink this decision?

And, btw, been lurking on this thread since its inception; Nothing like FR anywhere --- its uniqueness underestimated by all media. And this thread is FR at its absolute best! Thank-you NN and all.

[CedarDave]

Clinton was unusually subdued.

[Peach]

Pat on the back for admin response following the Northridge earthquake.

I'm not listening. Did X42 pat HIMSELF on the back?

Just turned it on. Clinton says he thinks they started to work to strengthen the levee system in his second term.

Should be analysis of what happened and I have strong feelings about how things should be organized and operate but the time to do that is after time passes.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Yep. I hope in the end it comes out. And it will, but maybe not years from now, when they start writing histories and do the analysis.

[NautiNurse]

Bubba says people were killed in a NOLA flood during his first term. Near the end of his 2nd term, he said a study was completed analyzing the levee system. Says he doesn't know what happened to the study.

[texasbluebell]

Boy, does clinton look old -- he has aged so much since his surgery.

[Peach]

Clinton just HAD to put in there that he thinks in his second administration they tried to work on strengthening the levee system. Did you see the look X41 gave him?

[gpapa]

This may answer your question. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477605/posts?page=26#26

[You Dirty Rats]

I'm not listening. Did X42 pat HIMSELF on the back?

No, he's stabbing the Bushes in the back.

[sam_paine]

bump for later detailx

[Dolphy]

And then, after saying he has Bush's back when critical questions come, he weaves in that under his administration they were improving the levees and that he has ideas on how to improve FEMA.

[Peach]

Did you just hear the last question shouted out as they left the podium?

I think it was "What do you say to the people who say the levee broke on purpose". OMG