Hurricane Katrina - CBS Evening News (Western) - 2005-08-30
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[0:00] all over me.
[0:01] >> Meal with eight or [music] more pieces
[0:02] of freshly cooked KFC chicken, homestyle
[0:04] sides, and biscuits, and you'll get a
[0:05] delicious double chocolate chip cake for
[0:07] free. Bring back dinner and dessert at
[0:10] KFC.
[0:11] >> Hurricane Katrina, which stores are
[0:13] fleeing today next.
[0:17] >> Most of New Orleans is underwater
[0:18] [music] tonight. It's been a day of
[0:20] dramatic rooftop rescues. Looting is
[0:23] rampant and now there is no power, no
[0:27] drinking water, and people are being
[0:29] told to leave. Good evening, I'm Bob
[0:31] Schaefer. For the people along the Gulf
[0:33] Coast, it is a catastrophe. [music]
[0:36] Billions in damage and a death toll that
[0:38] cannot yet be calculated. Again tonight,
[0:41] John Roberts heads our [music] coverage.
[0:44] And we have been touring the flooded
[0:46] streets of New Orleans today, witnessing
[0:48] the devastation, the rescuing of
[0:50] survivors, the search for the missing,
[0:52] and the looting. We'll have full
[0:54] coverage throughout the hurricane zone
[0:56] tonight. What FEMA now calls the most
[0:59] significant natural disaster to ever hit
[1:02] the United States.
[1:05] [music]
[1:07] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[1:11] Sheaffer. We knew it was bad. Tonight,
[1:14] we're beginning to understand just how
[1:16] bad. This was a killer hurricane. The
[1:18] Gulf Coast is so devastated, there is no
[1:21] way to tally an official death toll. But
[1:24] the governor of Mississippi says as many
[1:26] as 80 died there. And a city official in
[1:29] Bualuxy says that number will climb into
[1:32] the hundreds as more searchers are able
[1:34] to get into the hardest hit areas. 80%
[1:37] of New Orleans is still underwat