CBS Evening News - 2005-08-30 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:00] The new drama Close to Home coming
[0:03] Tuesdays this fall to CBS.
[0:07] >> Most of New Orleans is underwater
[0:09] tonight. It's been a day of dramatic
[0:12] rooftop rescues. Looting is rampant and
[0:15] now there is no power, no drinking
[0:17] water, and people are being told to
[0:20] leave. Good evening, I'm Bob Schaefer.
[0:22] For the people along the Gulf Coast, it
[0:24] is a catastrophe. Billions in damage and
[0:27] a death toll that cannot yet be
[0:30] calculated. Again tonight, John Roberts
[0:32] heads our coverage. And we have been
[0:35] touring the flooded streets of New
[0:37] Orleans today, witnessing the
[0:39] devastation, the rescuing of survivors,
[0:41] the search for the missing and the
[0:43] looting. We'll have full coverage
[0:45] throughout the hurricane zone tonight.
[0:47] What FEMA now calls the most significant
[0:50] natural disaster to ever hit the United
[0:53] States.
[0:57] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[1:01] Schaefer.
[1:03] We knew it was bad. Tonight, we are
[1:05] beginning to understand just how bad
[1:07] this was. A killer hurricane. The Gulf
[1:10] Coast is so devastated there is no way
[1:12] to tally an official death toll. But the
[1:15] governor of Mississippi
[1:17] says as many as 80 died there. And in a
[1:21] city official in Beluxy says that the
[1:24] number will climb into the hundreds as
[1:26] more searchers are able to get into the
[1:28] hardest hit areas. 80% of New Orleans is
[1:31] still underwater and the water is rising
[1:34] because of another break in a levy and
[1:36] where it is dry. There is so much
[1:38] looting. One woman said it looks like
[1:40] downtown Baghdad. More than two million
[1:44] homes and businesses across six states
[1:46] are without electrici