CBS Evening News - 2005-09-04 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] Dwayne Dog Chapman and his crew on the
[0:03] next montage. I'm Roberts.
[0:10] And good evening from New Orleans. Hopes
[0:12] that the stricken city had turned a
[0:14] corner were shattered this evening with
[0:16] word that local police have been
[0:17] involved in what appears to be a tragic
[0:19] case of mistaken identity. A group of
[0:22] Army Corps engineers was shot at. Some
[0:25] of them apparently killed after police
[0:27] believed that they were looters or armed
[0:30] men. Elsewhere, this vast majority of
[0:33] Hurricane to Elsewhere, the vast
[0:34] majority of Hurricane Katrina survivors
[0:36] have left and attention is now turning
[0:39] to the gruesome task of finding the
[0:41] dead. Here's the latest.
[0:44] Louisiana today confirmed 59 deaths, but
[0:47] federal officials echoed the warnings of
[0:49] local authorities that thousands more
[0:51] bodies will be discovered under the
[0:53] debris. The governor of Texas says after
[0:55] accepting a quarter of a million
[0:57] evacuees, his state is out of room and
[0:59] will airlift some to other states. The
[1:02] United States today accepted an offer of
[1:04] disaster aid from the United Nations.
[1:07] And the US Army Corps of Engineers has
[1:09] sealed New Orleans's biggest levy breach
[1:11] from further flooding.
[1:16] We'll have more on those stories in just
[1:18] a moment, but first we go to Mika
[1:20] Bzinski in New York for the latest on
[1:22] the death of Chief Justice William
[1:24] Renquist. Ma,
[1:25] >> John, thank you. Chief Justice Renquist
[1:27] died at his home late last night, almost
[1:29] one year after being diagnosed with
[1:31] thyroid cancer and just weeks shy of his
[1:34] 81st birthday. CBS News correspondent
[1:36] Jim Stewart looks back at