CBS Evening News (first feed) - 2005-09-04
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[0:01] Watch Hurricane 2005 in the path of
[0:03] Katrina tomorrow at 9 on CBS4.
[0:07] >> And good evening from New Orleans. Hopes
[0:09] that the stricken city had turned a
[0:11] corner were shattered this evening with
[0:12] word that local police have been
[0:14] involved in what appears to be a tragic
[0:16] case of mistaken identity. A group of
[0:19] Army Corps engineers was shot at, some
[0:21] of them apparently killed after police
[0:24] believe that they were looters or armed
[0:26] men. Elsewhere, this vast majority of
[0:29] hurricane to Elsewhere, the vast
[0:31] majority of Hurricane Katrina survivors
[0:33] have left, and attention is now turning
[0:35] to the gruesome task of finding the
[0:38] dead. Here's the latest.
[0:40] Louisiana today confirmed 59 deaths, but
[0:44] federal officials echoed the warnings of
[0:46] local authorities that thousands more
[0:48] bodies will be discovered under the
[0:50] debris. The governor of Texas says after
[0:52] accepting a quarter of a million
[0:54] evacuees, his state is out of room and
[0:56] will airlift some to other states. The
[0:59] United States today accepted an offer of
[1:01] disaster aid from the United Nations.
[1:03] And the US Army Corps of Engineers has
[1:06] sealed New Orleans biggest levy breach
[1:08] from further flooding.
[1:13] We'll have more on those stories in just
[1:15] a moment, but first we go to Mika
[1:17] Bzinski in New York for the latest on
[1:19] the death of Chief Justice William
[1:20] Renquist. Ma,
[1:22] >> John, thank you. Chief Justice Renquist
[1:24] died at his home late last night, almost
[1:26] one year after being diagnosed with
[1:28] thyroid cancer and just weeks shy of his
[1:31] 81st birthday. CBS News correspondent
[1:33] Jim Stewart looks back