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Posted on 09/01/2005 3:46:26 PM PDT by 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
Question 6 - How is NO going to be rebuilt? - Will listen to experts, basically it's too early to answer that.
People lve on the coast and have no flood ins...I live in Il and have it...
Makes it worse to think that someone may have set the fires deliberately.
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WWL
Updates as they come in on Katrina
12:51 PM CDT on Friday, September 2, 2005
Tom Planchet
12:50 P.M. - SAN ANTONIO (AP): The first of 25,000 Hurricane Katrina refugees ticketed for San Antonio arrived today at the old Kelly Air Force Base aboard nine buses from Louisiana.
A staging area's been set up at what's now called KellyUSA in southwestern San Antonio. There, the refugees will be checked in and given living arrangements.
They'll be staying in a 325,000-square-foot warehouse that was part of the old air base. Medical and mental-health care will be available -- as will showers and meals.
It's not clear how many refugees are expected to arrive this first day.
12:49 P.M. - BILOXI, MS (AP): President Bush has been trying to console people who lost their homes, and everything else but their lives, to Hurricane Katrina.
Visiting Biloxi, Mississippi, Bush spoke with a tearful woman who told him, "We don't have anything." They stood alongside the ruins of homes that had been reduced to pieces amid fallen trees and other debris.
He walked through the debris with the woman and a girl, his arms around their shoulders, and told them to "hang in there."
Bush flew today to Mobile, Alabama for an update on the relief efforts, and left from there to tour other areas of the Gulf coast that were ravaged by the storm.
Before leaving the White House, he said the efforts to provide food and water to survivors, and to stop the lawlessness in New Orleans, had not been good enough. He said, "The results are not acceptable."
12:45 P.M. - (AP): Evacuations resumed today at some of New Orleans' most troubled hospitals where desperate doctors were being forced to make tough choices about which patients got dwindling supplies of food, water and medicines.
Rescuers finally made it into Charity Hospital, the largest public hospital and trauma center in the city, where gunshots prevented efforts yesterday to evacuate more than 220 patients.
Richard Zuschlag, president of Acadian Ambulance Service president, says the military is handling the evacuation of Charity and other nearby hospitals.
Relatives of Doctor L. Lee Hamm, chairman of medicine at Tulane University, also reported that they received a text message from him around midday today. He confirmed that evacuations were taking place at Charity and nearby University Hospital, where more than one-thousand patients, family members, staff and people from the community had huddled.
You and everyone here knows know, but you're giving the media too much credit. ;)
Remember, people thought he was nuts for going to the WTC after 9/11, too.
Being the kind of guy he is, I wouldn't be *too* surprised if he grabs a rifle, helmet and vest and pitches in to help restore order.
Maybe that's why they keep saying "get out" without providing a way for people to get out.
Pretty obvious there was no plan.....
The enemy within.
LOL! dopey reporter: there is talk about rebuilding NO in a different way since its below water.
Pres: (he laughs) we will leave that to people who know about rebuilding cities..
The people can see the choppers landing and taking off from the roof.
There will be a steady flow into any location used for extraction/evacuation.
Current plans cannot depend on static estimates of the number to be evacuated, as they will keep growing until there are no more left to evacuate.
Also, as the numbers grow attention will shift from individual victims needing rescue to the larger depots. I hope the individuals who aren't mobile aren't forgotten, nor the smaller pockets of collected refugees.
Still, as long as assets are limited, a line of "trucks" hauling from a known location, making laps, will save more than rescuing people one at a time.
...:-) Well... I hope he doesn't take it quite that far.
Free cars for everyone!
Got to be a resident of NO to vote from there and effectively most of the folks aren't going to be Residents any longer. Those elections take place in November 06. Do you think they will all be moved back there by then First they got to lower the water then they got to tear down the mess then they got to rebuild all the infrastructure then the have to get utilities in there then the can start rebuilding the houses. A house takes 3-6 months to complete if everything is in place. Everything is not only not in place in ain't gonna be in place for a long time!
In the mean time these folks have to move on with their lives, They are going to start over in areas outside of NO. They will have to officially change residence to get their mail and start jobs and get insurance and cars and license plates and driver license and TAX returns and so on and so forth. Those on Government assistance will have to officialy change their residence to get their checks.
In effect most of New Oreleans is closed until further notice. Which means for the duration it is no longer a voting district.
Needs to be repeated. Thanks for posting.
Pres. Bush promised to get "power to the people!"
WWL-Fisheries and Wildlife is NOT arrainging for more boats to go to the New Orleans Area due to the Security Situation at this time!!!
Yep. Of course, the fact that there is a single source for flood insurance isn't helpful.
The building that was on fire over by Harrigan has collapsed, and the fire department finally found some water pressure (dunno if it's residual pressure from the hydrants or if they strung lines to the flooded area and are pumping water from there).
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