CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-09-26
Channel: malgent
Uploaded:
Duration: PT590S
Read a transcript preview of “CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-09-26” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-09-18.
Transcript preview
Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)
[0:00] Hello, I'm Bob Schaefer and welcome to
[0:02] the CBS Evening News online edition.
[0:04] Just ahead, we'll have a first look at
[0:06] some of the areas hardest hit along the
[0:09] Gulf Coast by Hurricane Rita as millions
[0:12] of evacuees began to head home. Also,
[0:15] there is an undeclared civil war
[0:17] happening in Iraq. We'll have the inside
[0:19] story. Plus, the latest controversy over
[0:22] intelligent design. It's all starting
[0:25] now on the CBS Evening News Online
[0:27] Edition.
[0:30] Texas Governor Rick Perry put it this
[0:32] way. As bad as it could have been, we
[0:34] came out of this in pretty good shape.
[0:36] And when you look at the path that
[0:38] Hurricane Rita took, you can see what
[0:40] the governor meant. Those areas marked
[0:43] in red show the big population centers
[0:45] and the hurricane literally went between
[0:48] them. Had it veered left or right, there
[0:50] is no way to know how much worse it
[0:52] would have been. One thing's for sure,
[0:54] in the lesser populated areas where it
[0:57] did hit, the storm was devastating. One
[0:59] of those places is Cameron, Louisiana,
[1:02] and John Blackstone was one of the first
[1:04] to get in there today. Isolated and
[1:07] ruined, Cameron, Louisiana is cut off
[1:10] from the world. This may well be the
[1:12] place that Rita hit hardest.
[1:15] Approaching Cameron from the air, about
[1:16] the only hint. There was once a town
[1:18] here, the water tower that miraculously
[1:21] is still standing. Between the wind and
[1:24] the storm surge, just about nothing else
[1:26] was spared. In other places, Rita may
[1:28] have been milder t