Hurricane Rita - 2005-09-21 - CBS News (audio only)
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[0:00] Hurricane Rita, it's now about as
[0:03] powerful as they get and hundreds of
[0:06] thousands of people from Texas to
[0:07] Louisiana are being warned
[0:10] get out of the way.
[0:12] Good evening. I'm John Roberts and we're
[0:14] all over the hurricane story tonight.
[0:17] After fumbling Katrina, is FEMA ready
[0:19] for Rita?
[0:21] I'm Randall Pinkston.
[0:23] I'm Sharon Alfonsi in New Orleans. The
[0:25] big question here, will the levees hold
[0:27] as Rita storms by?
[0:29] I'm Cynthia Bowers rebuilding in
[0:31] Hurricane Alley. Are developers turning
[0:33] a blind eye toward disaster?
[0:36] Making sure those who are gone after
[0:38] Katrina are not forgotten. I'm Jim
[0:40] Acosta.
[0:45] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:49] Schieffer.
[0:50] And Bob is off tonight. Well, here we go
[0:53] again. Hurricane Rita is now at the top
[0:55] of the hurricane scale, a category five.
[0:59] And about a million Gulf Coast residents
[1:00] are being evacuated tonight. Rita is
[1:02] tracking across the Gulf of Mexico with
[1:05] top sustained winds above 160 miles an
[1:07] hour. Coastal areas from Texas to
[1:10] Louisiana could be affected including
[1:12] New Orleans where after Katrina even a
[1:15] glancing blow could be devastating. Rita
[1:18] is projected to make landfall around
[1:19] Galveston, Texas by early Saturday.
[1:23] CBS News correspondents are deployed
[1:24] across the potential hurricane zone to
[1:26] bring you full coverage of Hurricane
[1:28] Rita. We begin tonight with John
[1:30] Blackstone in Galveston.
[1:33] The sick are being loaded onto
[1:35] helicopters. Those without cars are
[1:37] climbing into buses. With Rita now a top
[1:40] of the scale category five hurricane,
[1:43] Galveston is quickly becoming a ghost
[1:45] town.
[1:46] We've