CBS Evening News - 2005-09-09 - Hurricane Katrina

Name: CBS Evening News - 2005-09-09 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] It's been our pleasure for 75 years.

[0:03] >> From the executive producers of Frasier,

[0:04] Out of Practice, CBS Mondays this fall.

[0:07] >> I'm John Roberts. President Bush yanks

[0:10] the top FEMA man out of the hurricane

[0:12] zone and puts an admiral in charge of

[0:14] disaster relief. Full coverage tonight

[0:17] of the devastation on the Gulf Coast.

[0:20] >> I'm Byron Pitts in New Orleans, where

[0:22] the death toll may not be as high as

[0:24] first feared.

[0:26] Much of New Orleans sits in a toxic

[0:28] soup. The environmental clean up will be

[0:30] massive. I'm Mark Strassmann with that

[0:32] story.

[0:34] >> I'm Mark Phillips in Holland, where they

[0:36] know about floods and what it costs to

[0:38] stop them.

[0:39] >> Worried about your heating bills this

[0:41] winter? I'm Anthony Mason. Wait till you

[0:43] see what Katrina could cost you.

[0:49] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Bob

[0:53] Schieffer.

[0:54] >> And Bob is off tonight after more than a

[0:56] week of trying to manage a natural

[0:58] disaster and a political debacle,

[1:00] President Bush made a major personnel

[1:02] change today. Under growing pressure, he

[1:05] ordered the head of FEMA, Michael Brown,

[1:07] to leave the Gulf Coast disaster zone

[1:09] and return to Washington. The president

[1:12] put a military man in charge, Vice

[1:14] Admiral Thad Allen of the Coast Guard.

[1:17] Bob Orr begins our coverage tonight of

[1:18] disaster relief and damage control.

[1:22] >> Even before hurricane winds began

[1:24] battering the Gulf Coast, there were

[1:26] questions about the federal response and

[1:28] the nation's top emergency manager.

[1:30] On Saturday morning, two days before

[1:32] Katrina struck, analysts inside FEMA

[1:34] headquarters sounded an