Posted on 09/06/2005 10:15:17 AM PDT by Abigail Adams
I have been following the Katrina Live Threads daily, and now that they are no longer being posted, I though I'd go ahead and start a Katrina Updates Thread.
Please post any news items, briefs from press conferences, and tidbits you see on TV or streaming video.
I hope it's okay that I started this thread! I've never started a thread before.
On WDSU this morning, they showed video from St. Bernard's Parish. It appears that much of the water has receeded, but the streets are covered in oil due to a spill or leak from a nearby oil company.
Can you change the title to "Katrina Updates Thread 1" please? Thank you!
WH briefing up now.
CNN: E Coli found in the water in New orleans.
Thank you so much mhking!
WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina
12:16 PM CDT on Tuesday, September 6, 2005
Tom Planchet
12:15 P.M. - WHITE HOUSE (AP): In the debate about how to describe those displaced by Hurricane Katrina, President Bush is joining those who don't like the word "refugees."
The president tells reporters, "The people we're talking about are not refugees, they are Americans." And he adds, "They need the help and love and compassion of our fellow citizens."
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His words appear to put him on the same side as the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who has declared it's "racist" to call U.S. citizens refugees. Jackson and other black leaders say the word has a criminal connotation -- and prefer the more neutral term "evacuees."
12:10 P.M. - Meg Casper, State Dept. of Education: Parents should enroll their children in school districts where the family is seeking temporary shelter. We're getting requests from everywhere across the country about enrolling displaced kids.
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12:04 P.M. - CAPITOL HILL (AP): Congress is promising to hold hearings as it conducts its own investigation into the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.
Senator Susan Collins says "government at all levels failed." The Republican from Maine says it's difficult to understand the ineffective response to a disaster that had been warned about for years.
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12:02 P.M. - WWL-TV: Community Coffee pledges over five million cups of coffee to the relief effort.
11:53 A.M. - WWL-TV: A hotline has been established for rescue workers responding to Hurricane Katrina to call if they begin experiencing feelings of stress, anxiety, depression or fear in response to their work. The toll-free counseling hotline is 1-877-556-2476. Please call this number to speak with a licensed counseling representative.
11:45 A.M. - BATON ROUGE (AP): Victims of Hurricane Katrina scrambling for housing in their temporary new hometowns can access a new Web site designed to link renters directly with property owners with an apartment, house or room to rent.
The site, www.HurricaneHousing.net, has a search engine that allows users to choose the city, parish or county where they are seeking housing in a seven-state area that includes Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Arkansas and Georgia.
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11:42 A.M. - NEW YORK (AP): Traveling by boat and wading through foul-smelling water, Harry Connick Junior surveyed the damage by Hurricane Katrina to his father's New Orleans home.
It wasn't as bad as Connick had feared.
He returned to New Orleans Monday, a trip documented for NBC's "Today" show and aired today. He had traveled to the city last week.
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11:39 A.M. - Blaine Kern, Mardi Gras World: Mardi Gras will be hurt this year, but it will come back bigger and better than ever. I'll be helping anybody get
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11:35 A.M. - WASHINGTON (AP): A new search-and-rescue effort is in the works for flooded areas of central New Orleans.
The commander of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division says paratroopers are planning to use inflatable Zodiac craft and other small boats in that effort.
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Anyone here anything about Nagin sending NOLA cops to Vegas?
RE: E Coli found in the water in New Orleans... You mean in the stangnant flood water? Or in the city water supply?
Stagnant flood water, apparently.
With apologies to Randy Newman....
Lake Pontchartrain
Now the Lord can make you rise
And the Lord can make you sink
And the Lord can make you overflow
But the Lord can't make you stink
You are welcome. Hopefully we can focus on news items, and keep the editorializing and ranting to a minimum. :-)
WH briefing: Reporter asks why, if military was repositioned, why didn't Prez order them deployed? Will be looked at in after-action analysis.
Same reporter asking if Prez personally called Mayor Nagin and told him to evacuate. Will look back and find out.
From Natchez Democrat:
Time to point blame is later; let's move on
http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2005/09/06/opinion/opinion31.txt
Katrina overwhelmed in every way possible: decimating the coast of our own beloved state; breaching the levees of beautiful New Orleans; stretching the limits of towns now home to so many displaced residents.
There will be time in the future to point fingers of blame at the disorganization of local and state officials... the painfully slow response of the federal government.. and the lawlessness of a handful of New Orleans' own residents who turned a Category 4 storm into Defcon 5.
Excerpt
WH: Sounds like press is antsy to know where the buck stops and who is to blame.
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