Hurricane Rita - CBS Evening News - 2005-09-22

Name: Hurricane Rita - CBS Evening News - 2005-09-22
Uploaded: 2026-01-08
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[0:00] The great escape is on. Texans and some

[0:03] people who were evacuated to Texas from

[0:06] the New Orleans disaster zone are slowly

[0:09] making their way to higher ground

[0:11] tonight as powerful Hurricane Rita

[0:13] closes in on the Gulf Coast. Good

[0:16] evening, I'm Bob Schaefer. We're

[0:17] devoting most of our broadcast to this

[0:20] dangerous storm and John Roberts is

[0:22] heading up our cover. It is a massive

[0:25] undertaking getting the more than 1

[0:27] million people under evacuation orders

[0:29] out of Rita's way. And no matter where

[0:32] you are, you could be paying a lot more

[0:34] for fuel as Rita threatens energy alley.

[0:39] And the story with a happy ending

[0:40] everyone is talking about. A coolheaded

[0:43] pilot saves a crippled jetliner as the

[0:46] country and the passengers watch on live

[0:49] TV.

[0:53] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob

[0:57] Schaefer.

[0:59] >> For the people who escaped to Texas from

[1:01] New Orleans, it is an unbelievable

[1:03] nightmare. But tonight, it is a

[1:05] nightmare they are sharing with the

[1:07] Texans who took them in. They are all on

[1:10] the move now as another hurricane,

[1:12] Hurricane Rita, churns toward the Texas

[1:15] coast. Rita did weaken some today to a

[1:18] category four, but it remains an

[1:20] extremely dangerous storm with sustained

[1:23] winds now of 145 miles an hour.

[1:26] Hurricane warnings are up along much of

[1:28] the coast of Texas and Louisiana

[1:31] tonight. The latest projections show

[1:33] Rita heading for landfall sometime

[1:36] tomorrow around Galveastston, the most

[1:38] likely strike zone there in red. We've

[1:41] deployed the full resources of CBS News

[1:43] correspondents, producers, camera crews

[1:46] all along the coas