Hurricane Katrina - CBS News UTTM - 2005-09-02
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[0:01] foreign
[0:06] [Music]
[0:14] good morning it's Friday September 2nd
[0:16] from CBS news in New York City I'm
[0:18] Michelle Miller Melissa McDermott is off
[0:20] here's what's happening New Orleans is
[0:23] sinking into deeper chaos the city's
[0:26] mayor has issued an urgent appeal for
[0:27] help as criticism of the federal
[0:29] government response to the disaster
[0:31] mounts
[0:41] thousands of storm victims remain
[0:43] stranded without food or water and no
[0:45] place to go and at the same time looting
[0:48] carjacking and other violence goes on
[0:50] with even Rescuers being attacked and
[0:52] the city does not have what it needs to
[0:54] deal with at all
[0:56] and Washington officials are urging
[0:58] patients but authorities in New Orleans
[1:00] say the whole situation has become a
[1:02] quote National Disgrace today under
[1:05] growing criticism for a slow response to
[1:07] the crisis President Bush will tour the
[1:09] Gulf Coast disaster Zone he's also
[1:11] requested 10 billion dollars in
[1:13] emergency aid from Congress but after
[1:16] days of misery and violence people even
[1:18] those we can usually count on in a
[1:20] disaster are desperate correspondent Lee
[1:23] Cowan reports
[1:26] in the heart of New Orleans Medical
[1:27] District some of the most decorated
[1:29] hospitals in the country have become
[1:31] islands of desperation
[1:33] [Music]
[1:36] passed by any one of them with a boat
[1:38] big enough for a stretcher and doctors
[1:40] and nurses will cry out for help got
[1:42] about a thousand people no supplies no
[1:45] electricity no toilets facilities where
[1:49] are we going to put and most patients
[1:51] are on borrowed time we've got a number
[1:55] of patients still on ventilators we've
[1:57] got patients that