CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-09-13
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT630S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-09-13” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-08-30.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] Hello, I'm Bob Schiffer and welcome to
[0:02] the CBS Evening News online edition.
[0:04] Just ahead, encouraging signs in New
[0:07] Orleans. First commercial flights begin
[0:09] landing and receding floodwaters help
[0:12] recovery teams in their grim work. Byron
[0:15] Pittz will have that story. Also, the
[0:17] gloves come off. Judge John Roberts
[0:19] faces sharp questioning at his
[0:21] confirmation hearing and saving
[0:23] California's ducks. You'll meet a man
[0:26] who is most unlikely as a savior. It's
[0:29] all starting now on the CBS Evening News
[0:31] online edition.
[0:34] The waters in New Orleans continued to
[0:36] recede today and as searchers moved into
[0:38] new areas, the death toll went up
[0:40] dramatically. The known dead in
[0:42] Louisiana rose from 279 yesterday to 423
[0:48] today. In Mississippi, the toll stands
[0:51] now at 218 dead. But amid all the death,
[0:55] there are signs that New Orleans is
[0:57] beginning to come back to life. And
[0:58] Byron Pittz has more on that. Byron,
[1:03] >> it was the first encouraging sign to
[1:05] come from the sky over New Orleans in 2
[1:07] weeks.
[1:08] >> And welcome 947 down to New Orleans.
[1:12] >> The first commercial flights in or out
[1:14] of New Orleans International Airport
[1:16] since the storm hit. But like the city
[1:18] itself, the planes were virtually empty.
[1:21] I thought I'd see a plane full of uh
[1:23] residents going back and uh contractors
[1:26] going in for the fun.
[1:29] >> And yes, New Orleans is coming back.
[1:32] Engineers are pumping out 6.5 billion
[1:35] gallons of flood water every day.
[1:37] Estimates are the city should dry out by
[1:39] mid-occtober.
[1:40] >> We're out of nuclear crisis mode and
[1:43] we're in normal day-to-day cr