World News Tonight (ABC) - 2005-08-31 (Western)
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[0:00] Local newscast after World News Tonight.
[0:07] In New Orleans, the mayor says thousands
[0:10] of people could be dead, and it will be
[0:12] months before the city of New Orleans is
[0:15] fit once again for living. In
[0:17] Mississippi, the devastated communities
[0:19] that have still not been reached. So
[0:22] many people are missing. The storm has
[0:24] already had widespread economic impact.
[0:27] Gas prices are spiking across the
[0:29] country and the patch of land that might
[0:32] as well be heaven. The extraordinary joy
[0:34] of finding a place where the cell phone
[0:37] actually works. Tonight, Hurricane
[0:40] Katrina becomes a national crisis. A
[0:43] special edition of World News Tonight
[0:48] from ABC News. This is World News
[0:51] Tonight.
[0:53] Reporting from ABC News headquarters,
[0:56] Charles Gibson.
[0:57] >> Good evening. The massive scale of
[0:59] recovery from Katrina that's going to be
[1:01] necessary is becoming clear. The number
[1:04] of dead is still unknown, but all
[1:07] indications are it will be high. People
[1:10] still in New Orleans, if they looked to
[1:12] the skies this morning, saw Air Force
[1:14] One, the president flying over for a
[1:16] personal look at the devastation. His
[1:18] plane was low, just over the city
[1:20] skyline. What he saw is the largest
[1:23] single domestic challenge the country
[1:25] has faced since 9/11. Today, the mayor
[1:28] of New Orleans said that hundreds,
[1:30] perhaps even thousands of people in the
[1:32] city are dead. Bodies are being left
[1:34] floating in the flood waters. The
[1:36] emphasis is all on rescuing the
[1:38] stranded. Evacuation of people still in
[1:41] the city will be coming in the next few
[1:43] days. It is becoming clear, however,