Hurricane Katrina - 2005-08-30 - CBS & WFOR - morning
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[0:02] [Music]
[0:10] it's 10 past the hour it's been 24 hours
[0:12] since hurricane Katrina made landfall
[0:14] just east of grand a Louisiana dozens
[0:17] are confirmed dead but the full death
[0:19] toll won't be known for possibly days
[0:21] even weeks David Brady reports on the
[0:24] devastation local and federal officials
[0:26] are just now beginning to
[0:28] grasp in the hours just after the storm
[0:30] moved North the first dramatic look at
[0:32] the devastation rought by Katrina the
[0:35] Hurricane's 145 mph winds had whipped a
[0:38] wall of water ashore with buildings in
[0:40] downtown New Orleans like the hayatt
[0:42] hotel devastated the roof has been
[0:45] completely torn off there is no roof
[0:48] left on the top of this Grand St here
[0:50] this uh this racetrack the voice is that
[0:52] of JT Alpa of helinet his crew brought
[0:55] its camera equipped Chopper in from
[0:57] vanise California to bring us these
[0:59] amazing pict pictures of the storm's
[1:00] aftermath many buildings with roofs and
[1:03] facades ripped off the local racetrack
[1:05] just one of them those who rode out the
[1:08] storm inside a courthouse found
[1:10] themselves trapped there looking at
[1:11] downtown streets turned into canals it's
[1:15] just absolutely Devastation here one of
[1:18] the places where flooding is most severe
[1:20] this neighborhood near Lake ponchatrain
[1:22] now 20 ft under water hundreds if not
[1:25] thousands were stranded around New
[1:26] Orleans having been unable or unwilling
[1:29] to fle ahead of the storm authorities
[1:31] had warned these people that they risked
[1:33] their lives this dramatic scene on the
[1:35] south end of Lake Poncha train as only
[1:37] in the hours well after Katrina roared
[1:40] throu