CBS Evening News - 2005-09-08 - Hurricane Katrina
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[0:00] Has anything happened that seemed weird?
[0:03] >> Threshold. CBS Fridays this fall.
[0:07] >> Good evening, I'm John Roberts. New
[0:09] Orleans is a toxic sewer and still some
[0:12] residents are refusing orders to leave.
[0:15] President Bush vows to speed up
[0:16] financial help to victims and the vice
[0:18] president gets his first look at the
[0:21] devastation. Again tonight, we will have
[0:23] full coverage from the disaster zone.
[0:26] I'm Byron Pittz in New Orleans with
[0:28] serious showdowns between holdouts and
[0:31] police.
[0:32] >> On the Gulf Coast, the priority is flood
[0:35] control. Here in Washington, it's damage
[0:37] control. I'm Gloria Borg.
[0:39] >> I'm Lee Cowan with the story of
[0:41] Katrina's four-legged victims whose time
[0:43] is running out.
[0:45] >> Unprecedented need, unprecedented
[0:47] response. I'm Jim Axrod with the story
[0:49] of America's giving.
[0:54] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:58] Sheaffer. And Bob is off tonight. The
[1:01] water is slowly flowing out of New
[1:03] Orleans, but there is still plenty left.
[1:05] The Army Corps of Engineers estimates
[1:07] that 60% of the city remains underwater
[1:10] and that water is contaminated. It is
[1:12] disgusting. It is dangerous. Yet, some
[1:15] people insist on living in the middle of
[1:18] the germinfested stew. The police say
[1:20] that most who were willing to leave
[1:22] voluntarily have done so. For the rest,
[1:25] officers have orders to remove them, but
[1:27] they say they will do that with as
[1:29] little force as necessary.
[1:31] >> CBS News correspondent Byron Pittz is in
[1:33] New Orleans and begins our coverage
[1:35] tonight.
[1:37] >> The pumps are working, the water's
[1:39] receding as the levies are patched up.
[1:42] Bu