CBS Evening News - 2005-08-29 (Hurricane Katrina)
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[0:00] Barbara Strikes and Barry Gib together
[0:02] again next ET.
[0:05] >> Wide and powerful Hurricane Katrina rips
[0:08] across the Gulf Coast, wrecking
[0:10] buildings and flooding roads from
[0:13] Louisiana to the Florida panhandle. And
[0:16] it is not over yet. Good evening, I'm
[0:19] Bob Schaefer. We'll have full coverage
[0:21] of Katrina tonight, what it's already
[0:23] done and where it's heading. John
[0:25] Roberts in New Orleans is heading up our
[0:28] hurricane team. New Orleans is a flooded
[0:31] ghost town tonight. Much of the city is
[0:33] underwater. Most people left town.
[0:36] Others are spending this night in the
[0:38] stormb battered Superdome. The hurricane
[0:41] disrupts oil production and sends crude
[0:43] oil prices to record highs.
[0:49] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:53] Schaefer.
[0:55] >> Well, it's been a bad one. The eye of
[0:57] Katrina made landfall just east of New
[0:59] Orleans as a category 4 hurricane with
[1:02] winds of 145 m anph and very heavy rain
[1:07] tonight. It is slowly weakening and
[1:09] moving northward from Mississippi with
[1:12] its wind, rain, and flooding. Here's the
[1:15] latest now. The storm has been deadly.
[1:17] The casualty count is growing. More than
[1:20] half a million people in four Gulf Coast
[1:23] states lost power. Experts say insured
[1:26] losses could hit $16 billion dollar.
[1:30] Hundreds of flights have been cancelled
[1:32] and the price of oil hit an all-time
[1:35] high. CBS News has a team of
[1:37] correspondents in the hurricane zone
[1:40] tonight. John Roberts is heading up our
[1:42] coverage. John, good evening to you,
[1:44] Bob. Late this afternoon, New Orleans
[1:46] mayor reported that some 200 people in
[1:49] New Orleans are still s