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alicia-w wrote:i dont even know what WDSU is....
TV station streaming on the web http://www.wdsu.com/video/4926042/detail.html
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If I heard right, the mayor is setting up a fund to help, but they're planning to help get all evacuees into fully-stocked apartments as soon as possible.
Actually, I realize now that this is a rebroadcast -- Mayor Nagin is now talking and I already heard what he said this morning. I just didn't heard the mayor of Dallas the first time.
Actually, I realize now that this is a rebroadcast -- Mayor Nagin is now talking and I already heard what he said this morning. I just didn't heard the mayor of Dallas the first time.
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Also from Dallas Morning News/WFAA (owned by same co that owns WWL btw)
Dallas launches Katrina housing fund
12:41 PM CDT on Friday, September 9, 2005
By CHRIS HEINBAUGH / WFAA-TV
DALLAS - With New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin in town, Dallas Mayor Laura Miller on Friday announced a campaign to raise private dollars to move Hurricane Katrina evacuees into apartments around Dallas.
Miller said the city aims to raise $3 million in private donations to cover the first two months' rent for as many as 800 Katrina households. She said the campaign already has received $250,000 in donations, and the 7-11 convenience stores around Dallas have agreed to sell Mardi Gras beads for $1 each to benefit the fund.
The fund is intended for families not already eligible for public housing assistance. About 17,000 Hurricane Katrina survivors from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama were housed at Reunion Arena and the Dallas Convention Center as of Thursday afternoon.
Nagin was in Dallas to see family members who had evacuated here as Katrina neared New Orleans, but also because he wanted to check on the 1,500 evacuees who are still at Reunion Arena and the Dallas Convention Center. He said he was amazed at the effort's organization, and had nothing but positive words about how Dallas has provided housing, food and other aid for evacuees.
"I saw sick people being taken care of in ways that we couldn't take care of them in New Orleans," Nagin said. "I can't say thank you enough."
Nagin and Miller both expressed frustration with FEMA's involvement in helping the hurricane victims who are now in North Texas; the Dallas mayor said the city is not waiting for federal and state help to move Hurricane Katrina victims out of the city's shelters.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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