Hurricane Katrina - CBS Evening News (Western) - 2005-09-02
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[0:00] Freddy Prince [music] Jr.'s fight for
[0:02] his dad. Next ET.
[0:06] >> Help at last. Convoys of federal aid
[0:08] start rolling in along the flooded
[0:10] streets of New Orleans to help the
[0:12] desperate and the dying. Thousands of
[0:15] National Guard troops take up positions
[0:17] to take back the city from the Kremlins.
[0:21] And President Bush tours the disaster
[0:23] zone, saying he'll fix what's wrong in
[0:26] the relief operation. Good evening. I'm
[0:28] Bob Sheeper. We are devoting the
[0:30] broadcast again to the disaster in and
[0:33] around New Orleans. Again, John Roberts
[0:36] heads up our coverage.
[0:38] >> And Bob, the federal assistance could
[0:40] not come soon enough, and for [music]
[0:42] some, it did not. People died here
[0:44] waiting for food and medicine. Tonight,
[0:46] you will hear more of the heartbreaking
[0:48] stories of the hungry and the homeless
[0:51] in this city of despair.
[0:55] [music]
[0:57] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[1:01] Sheaffer.
[1:03] >> As a National Guard general put it
[1:05] today, the cavalry has arrived. It is
[1:08] the federal assistance that New Orleans
[1:10] has literally been begging for. National
[1:12] Guard troops moved in today with
[1:14] truckloads of food, water, and other
[1:16] relief supplies. President Bush toured
[1:19] the area and vowed the Guard will
[1:21] restore law and order. The mayor says
[1:23] the thousands of people stranded in this
[1:25] city are hanging on by a thread. They
[1:28] have not begun to count the dead, but
[1:30] officials are talking in terms of
[1:32] thousands. Damage projections are now
[1:35] more than a hundred billion dollars. And
[1:38] the entire country is feeling the
[1:40] economic impact. Again, we've mobilized
[1:43] the ful