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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
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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/
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Katrina Live Thread, Party XII
Katrina Live Thread, Part XI
Katrina Live Thread, Part X
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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
A *good* job..... what I heard was a hit piece and I changed the channel and sent him a scathing email.
That's in every issue of Newsweek.
Yes, he did.
Nice job Wolfie. Way to keep sending your network down the toilet ratings.
Even after the guy did the really good job of trying to show you the number of transportation outlets that had been destroyed and obscured.
How many reporters were out lifting trees off the roads?
Everyone should copy and paste
http://sigmund.biz.nyud.net:8090/kat200509012/index0005.html
Be sure to use the arrows at the bottom to go to other pages.
No... What you are ashamed of is Blacks being portrayed as looting, murdering, pillagaging and raping...
And I got hammered last night for suggesting that if ANY disaster excercise had included planning for an inner-city population going nuts would have created a media/PC backlash...
Here's your proof, folks...
WWL just said that Pres. Bush is about to
do a walking tour of New Orleans...
this Vitter is a real backstabber, not a word about the state and local breakdown. he's going to be the media's "chuck hagel" for this event.
I am really getting mad now, I'm going to try and find charities that are only focusing on the Mississippi and Alabama relief efforts. These Louisiana people are ungrateful, their elected officials are idiots, their police are cowards, their own populace looting and shooting up the relief efforts - forget it.
Any word on the status of hospital evacuations? I have relatives working at Charity and Tulane.
Now, Mary Landries wants the FEMA head guy's head on a stick; she wants a new "Cabinet level" appointment within 24 hours to oversee the disaster.
The last I heard, the last of the patients and staff were being removed this very afternoon.
After he stands with the President at the press conference and thanks the President, they'll change their mind.
Just saw Nagin get on the helicopter with the President, I guess for a tour of the city.
Tulane is complete. Charity is ongoing. You didn't hear it from me.
A doctor interviewed last night said the hosp had no elec. and limited food and water. They set up a mini government and rationed food and water to keep order. I'm losing all patience with the MSM showing all the bitching and moaning from ingrates that people are desperately trying to help. They keep this up and people will get disgusted and stop donating. I know that there are thousands that are so greatful for all the help. I wonder why the media can't find them....
Oh Lord..please guide our President's steps and the bullets of his escorts.
What?!!!
"Karl, my mom just called me from DE, and my brother (Army reserves), who could not go to Iraq due to a medical problem, is leaving for MS in the morning. He has been told that his group will probably be doing body recovery. Already, the likelihood for disease and contamination is very great - he has been told to bring a change of clothes, military or otherwise, for each of the 14 days he will be gone. These guys are going to need meds and clean-up areas before and after the fact each day. Not sure what the policy for body containment will be after recovery. We're just at the onset of the problems we are facing, and that statement has nothing to do with the fall of NO..."
On the way to New Orleans, the Oklahoma National Guard spent the night at Canton where they all received "lots of shots" Reported by a local member to his wife.
There are now reports of CANNIBALISM in New Orleans. We have all feared it. Can anyone confirm or disprove it?
Yeah you can go at least a week without food its total balony. The only cannibalism I see is the dems trying to devour the President...
Is that the guy who was always introduced as head of the Transafrica group in the 1980s? I remember he first came to public attention as an anti-apartheid activist, but seemed to get more and more extreme once that victory was won.
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