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CLARIONLEDGER.COM 2D THE CLARION-LEDGER TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2005 Evacuees: Church opens for first time as shelter S. Louisiana evacuees get to enjoy 'home' newscast "I just found out my whole neighborhood is devastated." Cibro Campo, resident of St. Bernard, La. By Gary Partus gpttia9dariwitedgw.eoni 2003, Kellogg said. WAPT and WDSU are owned by the same company, Hearst-Argyle.

"Stations in the Hearst fami Si Simmons Before the power went out on Monday afternoon, evacuees passed the time by sleeping or watching the news. Boyd described the feeling in the refuge as "relaxed." "Some are tense, but it's pretty pleasant," he said. This was the first time the church has served as a hurricane shelter. As Lana Gamble of New Orleans relaxed on a cot with a book in her lap Monday morning, the roof of the Louisiana Superdome shuddered. She was glad she wasn't there to feel it.

Gamble, a Social Security Administration employee, works directly across the street from the giant domed stadium. But she was some 190 miles away. After heeding her friends' advice, at noon on Sunday, she left home. She left her dad and sister in Den-ham Springs, La. She left her mother andanother sister inNew Orleans.

She left alone. Some seven hours later, she arrived at the Richland High shelter. "I was exhausted," Gamble said. "It was such a relief just to get somewhere." With her, she brought a mattress, flashlights, canned soup and Sterno. And her book: Linda Robinson's Masters of Chaos.

Staff writer Lorinda Bullock contributed to this story. From ID "and he wasn't ready leave." It took the whole family to change his mind, she said. "The pressure finally got on him." They wanted to go much further north, but the traffic was too much by the time they got out, at 11:30 a.m. Sunday. They made it only as far as the Richland High School, south of Jackson.

Inside the school, you can't hear the howling of the storm, Briggs said. "You don't know what's going on outside." And that's fine with her, she said. Cibro and Charlene Campo had just gotten custody of their granddaughters. Now, they may have no home to keep them in. "I just found out my whole neighborhood is devastated," said Cibro Campo, as he sat, dejected, in a folding chair, clutching a cup of coffee at the Richland High shelter.

"It's 4 feet under water and destroyed," said the resident of St. Bernard, located about 18 miles southeast of New Orleans. "I don't think we have very much to look forward to." As he spoke, Campo's wife, mother-in-law and three granddaughters, ages 1, 2 and 3, were sprawled out on pallets and cots. They had left home at 10:40 a.m. In Jackson, WAPT has built the WDSU crew their own broadcasting set.

"So every once in a while one of their (anchors) can break away from our coverage and to their own newscast," Kelr loggsaid. That newscast is available, live, through video streaming, on the WDSU Web site, www.wdsu. com. Live video streaming also is available on WAPT's site, www.thejacksonchannel.com. In south Louisiana, residents can catch the audio portion of the broadcasts over radio station 88.7 FM.

Kellogg said. New Orleans-area residents lucky enough to have electrical power can also pick up a WDSU broadcast beamed back to New Orleans via a satellite truck, said Greg Shepperd, producer for WDSU. WDSU's presence has deepened WAPT's coverage of the storm, especially as it affects New Orleans, Kellogg said. Another plus: News anchor and Jackson native Scott Simmons reported for WDSU for 10 years before joining WAPT in In Jackson, hundreds of evacuees from south Louisiana are getting the latest news on Katrina from familiar faces who followed them to Mississippi. About 19 employees of New Orleans station WDSU-Channel 6 have set up shop at the studios of WAPTChannel 16 in Jackson.

Among those who have shared airtime with WAPT's crew since Sunday night are WDSU anchor Norman Robinson, a Toomsuba native, and chief meteorologist DanMilham. Because of potential damage and power outages to the WDSU studios in New Orleans, "a good deal of the station moved here," said Stuart Kellogg, WAPT's general manager. Some shelters, including the Mississippi Coliseum, have provided TV sets for evacuees, including hundreds who fled the New Orleans area. Many have depended on Jackson's local TV stations to keep them informed about the storm. Sunday, arriving at the Richland shelter around 6:30 p.m., after failing almost a dozen times to find a hotel room.

Campo has lived in his house for 30 years. Katrina is the first storm to make him leave it. As winds picked up speed and strength Monday afternoon, flashlights furnished the only source of light to hurricane evacuees and volunteers at the Pearl Street AME Church in Jackson. After getting an hour and a half of sleep, pastor Samuel Boyd had held a quick planning session with several church members around 6 p.m. Sunday to get a shelter going.

Barely two hours later, members had scheduled shifts, secured supplies and food, he said. "We have about 100 to 125 evacuees from the New Orleans area," Boyd said. People from Alabama have also come to the shelter, he said. It reached capacity at about 1:30 a.m. Monday.

ly usually end up supporting each other in an emergency such as this," Shepperd said. "We were sent extra staffing from other stations during Hurricane Dennis." The decision to move the crew to Jackson rather than to another Hearst station was based in part on WAPT's proximity to New Orleans and the fact that many Louisiana residents were expected to flee to Mississippi, Shepperd said. The WDSU crew should remain in Jackson "at least through Tuesday," he said. Joining forces with WAPT "provides us with a unique opportunity," he said. "I enjoy the fact that we're all in this building together.

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