CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-09-22
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[0:00] Hello, I'm Bob Schiffer and welcome to
[0:02] the CBS Evening News online edition.
[0:05] Just ahead, getting away from a
[0:06] powerhouse named Rita. John Roberts
[0:09] reports on evacuation efforts in Texas.
[0:12] Also, you met a couple recently who
[0:14] opened their Houston home for Katrina
[0:16] victims. Now, they have become evacuees
[0:19] themselves. And imagine this. Many of
[0:22] those passengers on that crippled
[0:24] JetBlue plane watched most of the drama
[0:27] unfold on their seatback TVs. It's all
[0:31] starting now on the CBS Evening News
[0:33] online edition.
[0:36] For the people who escaped to Texas from
[0:38] New Orleans, it is an unbelievable
[0:40] nightmare. But tonight, it is a
[0:42] nightmare they are sharing with the
[0:44] Texans who took them in. They are all on
[0:47] the move now as another hurricane,
[0:49] Hurricane Rita, churns toward the Texas
[0:52] coast. Rita did weaken some today to a
[0:55] category 4, but it remains an extremely
[0:58] dangerous storm with sustained winds now
[1:01] of 145 m an hour. Hurricane warnings are
[1:04] up along much of the coast of Texas and
[1:07] Louisiana tonight. The latest
[1:09] projections show Rita heading for
[1:11] landfall sometime tomorrow around
[1:14] Galveastston. the most likely strike
[1:16] zone there in red. We've deployed the
[1:19] full resources of CBS News
[1:21] correspondents, producers, camera crews
[1:23] all along the coast. And we'll begin
[1:26] with John Roberts in Texas City. John
[1:30] and