Hurricane Katrina - 2005-09-03 - CBS News (audio only)
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:02] good morning I'm Tracy Smith in Kenner
[0:03] Louisiana the massive evacuation of the
[0:06] Superdome in New Orleans has been halted
[0:08] forcing an even longer wait for
[0:10] Katrina's desperate victims possibly
[0:12] days longer will have full coverage
[0:14] across the gulf coast region I'm Hannah
[0:17] Storm with the state of Texas already
[0:19] flooded with as many as 2,000 evacuees
[0:22] from Louisiana they are being rerouted
[0:24] to States as far away as Utah Wyoming
[0:27] and Michigan we'll have the latest on
[0:28] the relief efforts and I'm Maurice
[0:30] dubuis touring the stricken region
[0:32] Friday President Bush said he was
[0:34] unhappy with relief efforts so far but
[0:37] that the government would get the job
[0:39] done and he's expected to return to the
[0:40] area Monday for an update we'll have
[0:42] details early this Saturday morning
[0:44] September 3rd
[0:47] 205 starting a new
[0:53] day a brand new
[0:55] [Applause]
[0:56] [Music]
[0:58] way good morning I'm at the New Orleans
[1:01] airport and as you can hear even though
[1:03] the sun has not come up yet it is a very
[1:06] busy place there are a couple of
[1:07] helicopters behind me they are
[1:09] continuing to evacuate people from this
[1:12] area I just spoke to an EMT who told me
[1:15] that of course the most important thing
[1:16] is to get the critical patients out of
[1:19] here and that in fact they've been able
[1:21] to get most of the critically ill out of
[1:23] this area the problem is there are still
[1:25] more ambulances coming more helicopters
[1:27] coming thousands of people that are
[1:30] still in dire need and still need to get
[1:32] out of here there also are thousands of
[1:34] people that have taken to camping around
[1:37] here at t