The shooting in New Orleans was captured by Vine user MoneyMakingTUCHE, which may perhaps be a first for the Twitter-owned platform. Scary stuff. If you turn on the audio you can hear the gunshots. (via @AntDeRosa)
NEW ORLEANS — NOPD Superintendent Ronal Serpas says that at least 12 people were shot a Mother’s Day second-line parade in the 7th Ward. The youngest victim in the shooting was 10 years old. Another, thirteenth victim wasn’t actually shot, but was injured in a fall. Police believe three suspects were involved. They were seen fleeing toward Claiborne Avenue. Police say there were 200 people at the corner where shots rang out, and 300 to 400 people at the second line in all. There were about 10 cops on the scene trying to control the second line when the shooting happened. There were reportedly two different guns involved.
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No immediate fatalities were reported in the shooting, according to the New Orleans Time-Picayune. A fluid situation however; we’re keeping an eye on.
Calvin was living Uptown before Katrina. He was evacuated to seven different cities starting with San Antonio, TX. But, he managed to get back. After he did he opened his own barber shop. When asked what he would say to New Yorkers, he paused for a minute before he said it’s not about the material things…
Over last weekend we asked folks in New Orleans to give advice in hurricane prep to New Yorkers.
Great idea for a story. Better ideas from Calvin.
Hurricane Isaac was downgraded Wednesday afternoon to a tropical storm but continued to hover over Louisiana with heavy rains and damaging winds. The storm, which was a Category 1 hurricane for 24 hours, has since sustained weakened winds of 75 mph, the National Hurricane Center reported. The storm’s latest recorded location was about 50 miles west-southwest of New Orleans, moving to the northwest at 6 mph.
Isaac has knocked out power to more than 725,000 customers in five states as of Wednesday afternoon, the affected utilities reported. WWLTV in New Orleans reports that the CEO of Entergy Louisiana said power could be out for nearly half of the region’s customers for at least a week after the wind and rain plowed through the company’s energy grid.
While the situation on the ground is still far from ideal, it’s good to know that the billions spent on new levees in New Orleans actually yielded results. Unfortunately, $1.5 billion in insured damages are expected to be claimed, and flooding remains an issue in many parts of southern Louisiana as well.
I take a lot of pride in my work, even after I’ve been fired and told my experience, skills, and talents are of no use after Sept. 30. I know that I am good at what I do.
But compared to other news outlets, our website is a joke. We break news — but no one would know because of the worst news website known to man and the priority setting — whoever is doing it, is totally @(&%!*. Embarrassing, compared to TV. And yet we are focused on digital now? Enhanced? Who is buying this crap?
The paper is cutting back on its issue count and will downsize as a result. The reporter, Kari Dequine Harden, may have endangered her severance by sending the letter and leaking it to media blogger Jim Romenesko.
Outside Wit’s Inn, someone called up NOLA.com on a smartphone and tried to watch a video of Amoss that had been posted earlier in the day — a video addressed to the paper’s readers, in which Amoss promised the new, smaller news operation’s future might be digital rather than print, but it would be just as bright. The video, however, was not formatted to play on smartphones.This story about the layoffs at the Times-Picayune is devastating for way too many reasons. (via maura)
If anything is front-page news, it’s that your newspaper is going to stop printing every day. Here’s how The Times-Picayune and three other Advance Publications (and one outsider) told their readers Friday morning about the changes.
The “dear subscriber” note at the bottom loses its punch when you consider how blown out it is up top. As pointed out in this story, broadband is not a given in New Orleans — the state of Louisiana lags behind the rest of the country in broadband penetration. Also worth checking is the Blog of New Orleans’ roundup of reactions in and out of the newsroom. Key line: ”My supervisor didn’t even f****** know. My supervisor.”
The bloodshed gets worse: On the heels of news that the New Orleans Times-Picayune would be moving away from a daily edition is news that three metro papers in Alabama would be getting the same treatment. Each of these newspapers is owned by Newhouse, a chain with newspapers across the country. Not a very good day for newspapers in general, folks. (thanks @MegsLeigh)
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Major newspaper downsizes to three “more robust” issues per week: The New Orleans Times-Picayune, the largest newspaper in Louisiana, will downsize and stop publishing a print edition daily, moving many of their resources to online-only publishing and probably cutting jobs along the way. This isn’t the first time the paper’s gone digital-only. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the city, forcing the paper to come out with a digital-only PDF for three days, because their printing presses were down. Eventually, the printing presses went back up, but the spirit of the paper never went down. Let’s hope for their community’s sake that these changes don’t strip the community of that spirit. (above, today’s cover, via Newseum)
EDIT: The Times-Picayune isn’t alone — three major Alabama newspapers are getting similar treatments.
» A massive party with a massive impact: ”There are a lot of municipalities all over the world that want to copy what we do here in New Orleans because it drives tourism,” claims Barry Kern, whose float-building studio is busy year-round getting designs ready for the event and other similar events elsewhere. And with good reason, too. While the party itself is free, the 100,000 people riding the floats each year can spend as much as $2,000 to $3,000 on costumes, throws and fees. Then when you throw in the thousands of others who spend money on parties, king cakes and other revelry, and the financial impact adds up fast each year.
We’re not out of the woods. Don’t go to sleep on this storm.New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu • Offering a word to residents about the possible danger Tropical Storm Lee poses, particularly because it’s not a quick moving storm. With the potential for heavy rains over extended periods, the storm could test the region’s support system for the first time since Katrina brought it past the brink back in 2005. A lot of rain has fallen in the Gulf Coast region thus far. source (via • follow)
Before Katrina, it was a longstanding tradition in our country for political officials to wait until the last minute to warn, to take action, to evacuate. No more. With Irene, you had mass evacuations — mandatory ones — issued days ahead of time. That was the right thing to do.Retired Army Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honore • Regarding the changing approach to hurricanes since Hurricane Katrina, which made landfall in Louisiana six years ago today. Honore was one of the officials whose work on the recovery from that storm was widely respected. To put his point another way: “I’ve been in the storm business for years and I’ve never seen officials be prudent enough to cancel commercial and sporting events before a storm. Folks in the Northeast did that. The day before Katrina, we had a football game in Baton Rouge. That’s how far the community has come.” So there you have it: The guy who coordinated much of the the Katrina response says they did the right thing on Irene. source (via • follow)
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