Hurricane Katrina - World News Tonight (ABC) (Western) - 2005-08-30
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[0:00] Good evening.
[0:01] >> The Northwest only all local newscast
[0:03] after World News Tonight.
[0:09] >> Tonight, the overwhelming catastrophic
[0:12] damage from Hurricane Katrina. In New
[0:15] Orleans, the city that thought it dodged
[0:17] a bullet, it's now a disaster zone.
[0:19] Water everywhere, looting has begun, and
[0:22] now they're going to evacuate the
[0:24] shelters. In Mississippi, it looks like
[0:27] a bomb went off. There are fears that
[0:29] hundreds could be dead. So many of them
[0:31] poor. And the survivors desperate and
[0:34] stranded. Hundreds of daring rescues.
[0:37] Coast Guard and National Guard
[0:38] helicopters perform non-stop. Tonight, a
[0:42] special edition of World News Tonight,
[0:44] state of emergency on the Gulf Coast.
[0:49] >> From ABC News, this is World News
[0:53] Tonight.
[0:55] Reporting from ABC News headquarters,
[0:57] Charles Gibson.
[0:58] >> Good evening. Hurricane Katrina seems
[1:00] destined to be the most costly natural
[1:03] disaster in American history. Last
[1:05] night, we began this broadcast saying
[1:07] Katrina was bad. Very bad. Last night,
[1:10] we didn't know the half of it. We are
[1:12] still learning just how bad. This was a
[1:15] common sight. Today, helicopters and
[1:18] rescue teams lifting people one by one.
[1:21] Hundreds and hundreds in all from
[1:22] rooftops. Along the Gulf Coast,
[1:25] different cities, different problems. In
[1:28] New Orleans, we have a major American
[1:30] city underwater. New Orleans thought it
[1:33] had been spared the worst. And then two
[1:35] major levies broke and slowly the city
[1:37] filled today with water. Canal Street is
[1:40] now a canal. The city is going to be
[1:42] essentially uninhabitable for many days.
[1:45] In Gulfport, M