NBC Nightly News - 2005-09-04
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[0:11] John Cameron's place.
[0:14] >> Hurricane Katrina. The federal
[0:17] government acknowledges thousands
[0:18] killed. Rooftop rescues and houseto
[0:21] house searches to save others still
[0:24] trapped.
[0:25] main streets.
[0:28] Shootouts in the middle of all the chaos
[0:30] today in New Orleans.
[0:33] Tough questions for federal, state, and
[0:35] local officials. And questions about the
[0:37] background of the man at the center of
[0:39] the storm.
[0:41] And William Renquist, the life and
[0:43] legacy of the Chief Justice of the
[0:45] United States, and the looming struggle
[0:47] over a court with two vacancies to fill.
[0:54] This is a special edition of NBC Nightly
[0:57] News with John Seagenthaler reporting
[1:00] tonight from New Orleans.
[1:03] >> Good evening everyone from the Garden
[1:05] District in New Orleans still underwater
[1:07] tonight. An area of the city where
[1:09] rescue workers and helicopters and boats
[1:11] continue to find stranded residents
[1:13] alive, where the smell of sewage and
[1:15] death is overwhelming. But on a day when
[1:18] a federal official acknowledged the
[1:19] death toll from this storm could be in
[1:21] the thousands, we start with the
[1:23] eruption of more violence. It's a deadly
[1:25] shooting here in the chaos of New
[1:27] Orleans. A developing story and NBC's
[1:29] Carl Kenttonia joins us now with the
[1:30] latest. Carl,
[1:33] good evening, John. It is a chaotic and
[1:34] developing story. According to the
[1:36] Associated Press, the US Army Corps of
[1:39] Engineers says some of its contractors
[1:40] were fired upon by unknown gunmen as
[1:43] they crossed a New Orleans bridge. And
[1:45] meanwhile, the Associated Press quotes
[1:47] officials as saying police killed five
[1:50] or six of thos