CBS Evening News - 2005-08-29 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] All
[0:07] >> wide and powerful Hurricane Katrina rips
[0:10] across the Gulf Coast, wrecking
[0:12] buildings and flooding roads from
[0:14] Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. And
[0:17] it is not over yet. Good evening, I'm
[0:21] Bob Schaefer. We'll have full coverage
[0:23] of Katrina tonight, what it's already
[0:25] done and where it's heading. John
[0:27] Roberts in New Orleans is heading up by
[0:29] our hurricane team.
[0:31] >> New Orleans is a flooded ghost town
[0:33] tonight. Much of the city is underwater.
[0:36] Most people left town. Others are
[0:39] spending this night in the stormb
[0:40] battered Superdome. The hurricane
[0:43] disrupts oil production and sends crude
[0:45] oil prices to record highs.
[0:48] [Music]
[0:51] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:55] Sheaffer.
[0:57] Well, it's been a bad one. The Eye of
[0:58] Katrina made landfall just east of New
[1:01] Orleans as a category 4 hurricane with
[1:04] winds of 145 miles an hour and very
[1:08] heavy rain. Tonight, it is slowly
[1:10] weakening and moving northward from
[1:13] Mississippi with its wind, rain, and
[1:15] flooding. Here's the latest. Now, the
[1:18] storm has been deadly. The casualty
[1:20] count is growing. More than half a
[1:22] million people in four Gulf Coast states
[1:25] lost power. Experts say insured losses
[1:28] could hit 16 billion dollar. Hundreds of
[1:32] flights have been cancelled and the
[1:34] price of oil hit an alltime high. CBS
[1:38] News has a team of correspondents in the
[1:40] hurricane zone tonight. John Roberts is
[1:43] heading up our coverage. John,
[1:45] >> good evening to you, Bob. Late this
[1:47] afternoon, New Orleans mayor reported
[1:48] that some 200 people in New Orleans are
[1:51] still stranded on rooftops and that
[1:53] sev