NBC Nightly News - 2005-08-31 (Hurricane Katrina)

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[0:06] Survivors using any means they can to

[0:08] get help as the mayor of New Orleans

[0:10] says thousands may be dead in this city.

[0:13] Victims of Hurricane Katrina

[0:16] Cameron

[0:17] >> Huntley David Tom. Underwater, under

[0:21] siege, flood waters paralyze New Orleans

[0:23] as officials move to evacuate everyone

[0:26] still in the city, including 20,000

[0:28] people in the Superdome.

[0:30] Desperate wait, no shelter, no power, no

[0:33] clean water, no food. What's next for

[0:36] the victims in devastated Gulfport,

[0:38] Mississippi?

[0:40] And help on the way. How Americans near

[0:42] and far are trying to get help to those

[0:45] in Katrina's path.

[0:47] [music]

[0:50] Hurricane Katrina. This is a special

[0:54] edition of NBC [music] Nightly News with

[0:56] Brian Williams reporting tonight from

[0:59] New Orleans.

[1:00] >> And good evening again from New Orleans.

[1:02] Tonight, a city underwater. The mayor

[1:05] here gave voice to what many had feared

[1:07] today, that thousands may be dead in

[1:10] these flood waters. And tonight,

[1:12] officials at all levels of government

[1:14] are mobilizing to evacuate all 100,000

[1:18] people still here. Tonight, we join you

[1:21] from inside the old French Quarter on

[1:24] one of the few dry streets in the center

[1:26] of the city. This storm, it is now

[1:28] clear, will change life in this country.

[1:30] It has already transformed this region.

[1:32] The president confirmed late today it

[1:34] will take years to recover from this.

[1:36] There is a massive federal response on

[1:39] the way. For the survivors of Hurricane

[1:41] Katrina here in New Orleans, there were

[1:43] pleased for help by any means available.

[1:45] From people perched on rooftops [music]

[1:47] or waiting through the streets in search

[1:49] of higher ground for a second day in a

[1:51] row now. There are still rescues going

[1:53] on as we come on the air tonight. To the

[1:55] east of us in the Gulfport, Mississippi

[1:57] area, in many places there's not a soul

[1:59] to be found or a building left standing.

[2:02] Residents are lining up in search of

[2:04] anything to eat or drink. and they,

[2:06] believe it or not, are the lucky ones.

[2:08] So far, Mississippi has confirmed 110

[2:10] deaths, but the mayor of New Orleans

[2:12] again says the number dead in this city

[2:14] alone could number in the thousands. And

[2:17] the Pentagon is sending another 10,000

[2:19] National Guard troops to Louisiana and

[2:21] Mississippi by the end of the week. That

[2:23] will bring the total deployment to

[2:25] 21,000 to this battered Gulf region. And

[2:28] that is just part of a huge effort by

[2:30] this nation's government and defenses to

[2:32] tackle the massive problems left in this

[2:35] hurricane's wake. We are covering this

[2:37] story once again from all angles

[2:39] tonight. And we begin with NBC's Martin

[2:41] Savage who is here with us in New

[2:43] Orleans. Marty, good evening.

[2:46] >> Good evening, Brian. You're right. It

[2:47] was a frightening statement that came

[2:49] from the mayor of New Orleans today when

[2:50] he was pressed on how many may have

[2:52] died. He said a minimum hundreds,

[2:54] possibly thousands. But today in this

[2:56] city, they were focused simply on

[2:58] surviving.

[3:03] The flooding in this city is leveling

[3:05] off, but 80% of New Orleans is still

[3:07] underwater. And while the mayor wants

[3:09] everyone to get out of the city, people

[3:11] here are still trying to figure out how

[3:14] to leave. Already, thousands of people

[3:16] roam the streets in a mass migration

[3:18] looking for food, water, help, or just a

[3:21] way out. You

[3:22] >> all right? They told us go to the super

[3:24] dome. If you want to be rescued, go to

[3:26] the super doome. All of a sudden, now

[3:27] they telling us go to the bridge. We

[3:30] have very few resources. What are we

[3:31] supposed to do?

[3:32] >> Among those in the confused crowd are

[3:34] thousands of tourists far from home, far

[3:37] from hell.

[3:38] >> I feel like they forgot about the

[3:40] hundred people that were staying in the

[3:41] Duffy New Orleans. And we have nowhere

[3:44] to go. We haven't seen any cops. We

[3:46] haven't seen any National Guard. We

[3:48] haven't heard anything. The Superdome,

[3:49] which was the shelter of last resort,

[3:51] has become the last place anyone wants

[3:53] to be.

[3:54] >> GET UP OUT OF HERE. WE WANT TO GET OUT

[3:56] OF HERE.

[3:56] >> THE AIR has gone bad. The toilets are

[3:58] overflowing. Tensions are rising among

[4:01] rival gang members inside. Things are so

[4:04] bad, state officials are now evacuating

[4:06] the evacuees.

[4:07] >> Excited to see these blessings.

[4:09] >> Am I

[4:11] having sin?

[4:14] >> Definitely gone. This is a blessing

[4:17] right here.

[4:18] >> 475 buses loading up to take these

[4:20] people with so little left to another

[4:23] way station, the Houston Astradome, 350

[4:26] m away.

[4:29] Looting continued throughout the

[4:30] downtown area today. It isn't a game for

[4:33] many of these people. It's a matter of

[4:35] survival. You

[4:36] >> know, you're not supposed to do that.

[4:37] >> I know we don't, but if we're barefoot

[4:39] and we're walking in the water, our feet

[4:40] is going to get cut.

[4:42] >> But it's still dangerous.

[4:46] As police search this office supply

[4:47] store, elsewhere residents plunder at

[4:50] will. The filthy water shifts

[4:52] constantly, creating a hot zone for

[4:54] diseases. We are gravely concerned about

[4:56] the potential for cholera, typhoid, and

[4:59] dehydrating diseases that could come as

[5:01] a result of the stagnant water and the

[5:03] conditions and cutting off access,

[5:06] leaving residents to hold up desperate

[5:08] messages for whoever might be watching

[5:10] from above. family.

[5:12] >> One of those flying overhead is

[5:13] President Bush surveying the scene from

[5:14] Air Force One. But the people on the

[5:16] ground are more interested in the Coast

[5:18] Guard helicopters who've come to give

[5:20] them a chance to live. This man finally

[5:23] arrives in a safe location. One more

[5:26] survivor in a city where so many are

[5:29] still waiting for a helping hand.

[5:33] Meanwhile, the Army Corps of Engineers

[5:35] says it will take weeks to pump all the

[5:37] water that's in New Orleans out. That's

[5:39] once they get the pumps going. Brian

[5:43] >> Martin Savage here with us tonight.

[5:45] Marty, thanks. And remember, at the

[5:46] Astradome, at least they will have power

[5:48] and water and air and food. Think of the

[5:51] hospitals here in New Orleans. As you'd

[5:53] imagine, they are in perilous conditions

[5:55] running on generator power, no running

[5:58] water, no supplies. NBC's Carl Kinttonia

[6:00] was on his way to try to find out what

[6:02] was happening at one of them when he

[6:04] ended up in a rescue situation himself.

[6:09] This is the scene on Napoleon Avenue. A

[6:12] neighborhood of stately homes flooded to

[6:14] the front door. Choppers above us. Our

[6:16] crew drives until we have to walk.

[6:18] >> The water is getting too deep and it's

[6:20] getting deeper. We're told there's a

[6:22] hospital about six blocks away and we're

[6:23] going to try to make it there.

[6:24] >> Each encounter gets more and more

[6:26] profound.

[6:27] >> We got people in threetory houses that's

[6:29] still trying to survive out in in the

[6:30] houses.

[6:32] An airboat offers to take us to the

[6:34] hospital, but it sinks in the maze of

[6:36] tight corners. We dig the boat out and

[6:39] Stanley Bordalan, a volunteer who has

[6:41] brought four of his airboats to New

[6:43] Orleans, offers us a ride. But just as

[6:46] we reach the front door, we meet

[6:48] Terrence and Victoria Tonsen swimming up

[6:50] to their chins. A young married couple

[6:52] who say they need to find their father

[6:54] stranded at home.

[6:55] >> Dad, he's trapped in a house.

[6:58] >> Thank you so much.

[7:00] Slowly, we reach their street and it's

[7:02] suddenly clear this neighborhood is

[7:04] packed with people who never left. We

[7:07] finally see Victoria's father. He's

[7:09] built a raft out of the back door and

[7:12] uses it to get to our boat.

[7:15] >> So does the dog scoops.

[7:18] >> As we head back, we learn the hospital

[7:20] has no patients. They've all been

[7:22] airlifted, but there are thousand

[7:24] employees and family members inside

[7:26] waving down at us. Across Orleans

[7:28] Parish, 2500 patients have been

[7:30] evacuated from hospitals. Finally, on

[7:33] dry ground, Victoria and her father are

[7:35] lucky. They'll try to get to family in

[7:37] Houston. But the hard part is all too

[7:39] clear. Missions like this are going to

[7:42] have to happen again and again and

[7:45] again. Carl Kinttonia, NBC News, New

[7:48] Orleans.

[7:50] There is no quality of life period in

[7:52] this region tonight. And aside from

[7:54] journalists being whlaid to help the

[7:56] stranded all around this area,

[7:58] volunteers are showing up just to offer

[8:00] to help. Brittany Fullard is an EMT

[8:03] student from Baton Rouge. She along with

[8:05] her boyfriend Steve Woodward, a young

[8:07] teacher, made their way to New Orleans

[8:09] just to see what they could do. Here is

[8:11] what they experienced here today in

[8:12] their own words.

[8:15] >> A softball coach. We came down last

[8:17] night. that we got here at 8:00 today.

[8:19] She's been working in the triage and

[8:21] I've been helping unload the the Hilos

[8:22] as they come in. Right past those

[8:24] ambulances, there's a line of people.

[8:26] We're waiting for the buses to come

[8:27] back. Then we're going to get y'all on

[8:28] the buses and get y'all out of here.

[8:31] It's hell. I mean, I can't imagine what

[8:33] these people are going through, losing

[8:35] everything they have, you know, and I I

[8:36] volunteered for a day, two days tops, to

[8:38] be down here to help as best I can.

[8:40] There you go, buddy.

[8:43] >> They're going to go that way. You follow

[8:44] them. Can't even describe it.

[8:49] You just you just hope. You just hope

[8:51] that you get these little they get these

[8:52] little ones out and they get them to

[8:53] safety before any of the little ones are

[8:54] hurt, you know, and there's only so much

[8:56] you can do. You got you help one person

[8:58] and you turn around and you got to go

[8:59] straight to the next.

[9:00] >> He's been gone forever. 30 hours. 30

[9:02] hours straight. But he's not going to

[9:03] stop. He won't stop.

[9:05] >> Just trying to stay busy. You know, less

[9:07] time to think about it.

[9:10] Britney and Steve, two volunteers from

[9:12] Baton Rouge, Louisiana tonight in their

[9:15] own words. Tonight, the US Navy is

[9:17] sending four ships loaded with food,

[9:19] water, soap, and medicine. But for

[9:21] residents in neighboring Mississippi,

[9:23] those supplies can't get there fast

[9:25] enough. We have two reports from the

[9:27] Mississippi front tonight, beginning

[9:29] with NBC's Lester Hold in Gulfport.

[9:31] Lester, good evening to you.

[9:33] >> Brian, good evening to you. The only

[9:35] thing angrier than Katrina are the

[9:37] thousands of hungry, tired, and thirsty

[9:40] that Katrina left in its wake.

[9:43] [screaming]

[9:44] >> A handful of stores finally opened their

[9:46] doors today, and the people of Gulfport

[9:48] were ready for them.

[9:49] >> It's going to be very, very slow.

[9:51] >> Along Highway 49, homeowners hearing

[9:54] word of an open water pipe lined up for

[9:56] water. Possibly the only running water

[9:59] for miles.

[10:00] >> We need water. We need ice. ice.

[10:02] >> We We need food.

[10:04] >> And at Central Middle School, now an

[10:06] emergency shelter, a child found relief

[10:08] from the heat in a rain puddle. Storm

[10:10] refugees here ate their first hot meal

[10:13] in days.

[10:14] >> Thank you very much for the

[10:16] >> hundreds huddle in dark, sweltering

[10:18] hallways where frustration is high and

[10:20] nerves raw.

[10:24] >> FEMA is also moving supplies and

[10:26] equipment into the hardest hit areas as

[10:28] quickly as possible. In fact, help has

[10:31] arrived. This morning, these National

[10:32] Guard troops emptied six truckloads of

[10:35] water, ice, and food to thousands of

[10:37] people who had waited in line. In four

[10:39] hours, it was all gone.

[10:41] >> Yeah, it got out of hand a little bit. A

[10:43] few elderly people uh pushed down. Uh

[10:46] water taken from them.

[10:49] >> Several hours later, a second handout

[10:51] proved more orderly. But what residents

[10:53] here don't have is reliable

[10:55] communications with phone and cell

[10:57] service largely down.

[10:59] local radio tries to keep residents ab

[11:01] breast of services and supplies, but

[11:04] many find themselves dependent on the

[11:06] rumor mill and word of mouth.

[11:08] >> I just drove by and saw it.

[11:09] >> And until basic services are up and

[11:11] running again, the people here have no

[11:13] choice but to go along with the flow.

[11:16] Lester Hold, NBC News, Gulfport,

[11:18] Mississippi.

[11:22] This is Campbell Brown in Pointc Cadet,

[11:25] Mississippi. It is just a place on a map

[11:28] now. Most of the people here had little

[11:30] money. Many elderly with no way to

[11:32] leave.

[11:33] >> All of them just stayed in the point and

[11:35] basically just drowned.

[11:39] >> Today, rescue teams searched house to

[11:41] house looking just to recover bodies.

[11:44] They say there's no longer any hope of

[11:46] finding survivors.

[11:48] >> Do we have resources to

[11:49] >> The local morg is overwhelmed and so are

[11:52] the people who escaped Point Cadet. I

[11:55] don't know, but nobody is. Nobody. Not

[11:58] my sister, my brother.

[12:01] >> Darlene Nicks, who barely got out with

[12:03] her own life, is still in shock. At a

[12:06] Buxy grade school, Kayetta Robert is

[12:08] helping the survivors find their way.

[12:11] >> We have a lot of people here that are

[12:12] have not only lost people, but are not

[12:14] exactly sure where some of their other

[12:16] family members or neighbors [crying]

[12:18] went.

[12:18] >> One of the people at the shelter, a

[12:20] 10-year-old boy. He managed to survive

[12:23] this wreckage, but his immediate family

[12:26] did not. Tonight, he's waiting, hoping

[12:29] someone he knows will find him. Campbell

[12:31] Brown, NBC News, Point Cadet,

[12:33] Mississippi.

[12:35] In Washington tonight, even though few

[12:37] people around here could hear his words.

[12:39] President Bush tried to calm the nerves

[12:41] of millions of Americans, but he also

[12:43] cautioned this recovery is going to take

[12:45] years. More on that tonight from NBC's

[12:47] Kelly O'Donnell.

[12:50] After 29 days away from Washington,

[12:53] >> just received an update.

[12:54] >> President Bush was back in the Rose

[12:56] Garden, flanked by cabinet officials to

[12:58] preside over a crisis destined for

[13:00] history.

[13:02] >> This recovery will take a long time.

[13:05] This recovery will take

[13:08] years. The president listed by the

[13:10] truckload a massive government care

[13:12] package to the region including more

[13:14] than 5 million meals, 13 million lers of

[13:17] water, and 135,000 blankets.

[13:20] >> The challenges that we face on the

[13:22] ground are unprecedented.

[13:24] >> Earlier today, the route back from Texas

[13:26] to Washington included an Air Force One

[13:29] detour, dropping to an altitude of just

[13:32] 2500 ft. The president surveyed damage

[13:35] over Louisiana and Mississippi for 35

[13:37] minutes. The president's simple

[13:39] priorities are difficult to achieve.

[13:41] Saving lives, rebuilding communities.

[13:43] Mr. Bush will visit the region later

[13:45] this week. Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News,

[13:47] the White House.

[13:50] Up next, from here, across the nation,

[13:52] fallout from Katrina continues at the

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[13:56] $3 a gallon for your Labor Day weekend

[13:59] drive. And later, how Americans are

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[16:11] event ever in the lives of millions of

[16:13] Americans. And today this story

[16:14] developed now far from here. It's now

[16:16] about gasoline nationwide. Tonight,

[16:19] prices for a gallon of regular gas are

[16:21] at more than $3 across this country. And

[16:24] remember the days when we had to line up

[16:26] to buy gasoline? Here is NBC's chief

[16:28] financial correspondent Anne Thompson.

[16:32] >> In hurricane battered Mobile, Alabama,

[16:34] gas lines are hours long and TEMPERS

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[16:37] >> MAN, THERE WAS NO RULE. THERE WAS

[16:39] NOTHING THERE.

[16:40] >> WHILE ACROSS AMERICA, everyone's feeling

[16:42] the economic wallup of Katrina. Today,

[16:46] $3 a gallon gas became a reality. in

[16:49] Kansas City, Champagne, Illinois,

[16:52] Huntington, West Virginia. The prices

[16:54] rising right before driver's eyes.

[16:57] >> So, it went up 50 cents in a matter of 5

[17:00] minutes.

[17:01] >> In Bethesda, Maryland, Bobinson has

[17:04] raised his prices three times since

[17:06] Monday, frustrating him and his

[17:08] customers.

[17:09] >> They're asking us questions. When do we

[17:11] think the price is going to start going

[17:12] down? And unfortunately, we don't have a

[17:14] good answer for them at this point. And

[17:16] it's not just worries about prices going

[17:18] up. There are some shortages in

[17:20] Indianapolis. Most of the 23 stations in

[17:23] the Crystal Flash chain are out of

[17:25] premium and running short on mid-grade

[17:27] and regular. Supply is so tight,

[17:29] President John Madden is having to

[17:31] ration what fuel he has to his stations

[17:34] and commercial clients like the city of

[17:36] Indianapolis.

[17:37] >> If we've only got so much available,

[17:38] we've got to do the best we can to see

[17:40] who gets it and who really needs it. To

[17:42] help ease the supply crunch today, the

[17:44] Environmental Protection Agency waved

[17:46] its specific fuel requirements for

[17:48] different parts of the country. Meaning

[17:50] gasoline made for New York can now be

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[17:55] matter what kind of gas is sold today,

[17:58] it's now unbelievably expensive.

[18:00] >> You got to pay the price. Whatever it

[18:02] is, you know, life goes on.

[18:04] >> One more shock wave in the wake of

[18:06] Katrina. Anne Thompson, NBC News, New

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[21:00] >> We have a big international story to

[21:01] tell you about tonight. It also has to

[21:03] do with a great loss in Iraq. More than

[21:06] a thousand people, most of them women

[21:08] and children, are feared dead following

[21:10] a stampede during a religious pilgrimage

[21:12] today. NBC's Richard Angel has our story

[21:15] from Baghdad.

[21:18] >> It started out an impassion pilgrimage.

[21:21] several hundred,000 Shiite Muslims

[21:23] commemorating the death of one of their

[21:25] martyrs.

[21:28] The crowds were already on edge after

[21:31] four mortars landed nearby, killing

[21:33] seven. Then, as thousands crossed this

[21:36] 300yd bridge 30 ft above the Tigress

[21:39] River, somebody yelled they saw a

[21:41] suicide bomber. Some pilgrims jumped,

[21:45] others were pushed, more were trampled.

[21:48] So,

[21:49] >> "We fell down on each other," said this

[21:51] woman. "It was death, death, death."

[21:55] >> At local hospitals and on the street,

[21:58] the injured were lined up along with the

[22:00] dead. Iraqi troops have now sealed off

[22:03] the neighborhood as people continue to

[22:05] leave the area. Most people say they

[22:08] blame Sunni insurgents who have in the

[22:10] past attacked Shiite pilgrims for

[22:12] causing the panic that led to this fatal

[22:15] stampede. Hours later, a haunting image

[22:18] on the bridge. Sandals. People kicked

[22:21] off their feet to run faster to escape a

[22:24] suicide bomber who wasn't there. Richard

[22:27] Engel, NBC News. Back at you.

[22:31] When we come back here tonight, how

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[25:09] >> Next, after nightly news, how a ham

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[25:26] All the news and weather coming up in a

[25:28] few minutes at 6.

[25:30] We're back here in devastated New

[25:32] Orleans tonight. And as soon as the

[25:33] magnitude of this disaster started to

[25:35] sink in, Americans across this country

[25:37] started trying to figure out how they

[25:39] could help. And tonight, many are either

[25:41] already on their way or trying to ease

[25:44] the pain somehow in the wake of this

[25:46] mighty storm. Here with that, NBC's Ron

[25:48] Mott.

[25:52] >> On a hot Mississippi summer day, a hot

[25:54] meal.

[25:55] >> First hot meal finally.

[25:57] >> Chili and green beans. a refreshing

[26:00] fruit cocktail. Sandra Douglas and her

[26:02] two boys along with scores more at this

[26:05] Baptist church in Bualuxy are the

[26:07] recipients of generosity now stretching

[26:09] across America.

[26:10] >> Without them, we don't know where we

[26:12] will get our next meal from. There not

[26:14] many stores open.

[26:15] >> This feeding station is one of a half

[26:17] dozen sent by the Southern Baptist

[26:19] Convention from several states.

[26:20] >> If you see a brother in need, you're

[26:22] supposed to minister to them. And that's

[26:24] what we're doing.

[26:25] >> Empathy is coming from everywhere. In

[26:28] Minnesota, volunteers who normally fight

[26:30] forest fires packed for a 12,200 mile

[26:33] drive south for the most basic reason.

[26:35] >> I think we can do some good.

[26:37] >> In Long Island, New York,

[26:39] >> Jennifer Voomvas reaches out to

[26:40] Katrina's victims over the internet,

[26:42] opening her heart and more.

[26:45] >> We have a dry home. We have electricity.

[26:47] We have food and water. We'd be willing

[26:49] to share it.

[26:50] >> In Georgia, a FEMA warehouse dispatching

[26:52] a million meals and 300 trucks of water.

[26:56] You just feel so small when uh the

[26:59] people there thank you for bringing them

[27:01] water.

[27:02] >> There is one big problem with so much

[27:04] aid arriving to be distributed over

[27:06] weeks, even months. Nearly every

[27:08] warehouse along the Gulf Coast has been

[27:10] damaged or destroyed.

[27:12] >> I need a 50,000t building right now. If

[27:14] you got one, call me.

[27:15] >> For today, Sandra Douglas and her boys,

[27:17] like so many of her neighbors, grateful

[27:20] to see the best of humanity revealed in

[27:22] the worst of times.

[27:23] >> Conceive your sister coming. Brown, NBC

[27:25] News, Buxy, Mississippi.

[27:29] >> And we'll repeat this. For more on how

[27:31] you can help, you can log on to our

[27:32] website. That's nightly.msnbc.com.

[27:36] And so we head into another night