NBC Nightly News - 2005-08-30 (Hurricane Katrina)

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[0:00] Here is the latest on Hurricane Katrina.

[0:02] Rescue crews are working around the

[0:04] clock to help people stuck on rooftops,

[0:06] trapped in buildings, and waiting in

[0:09] water. 80% of New Orleans is flooded.

[0:12] The city's mayor says thousands of

[0:14] people are still waiting to be rescued.

[0:17] There is no drinking water and there are

[0:19] several reports of looting. In

[0:22] Mississippi, more than 100 people are

[0:24] confirmed dead and the death toll is

[0:26] rising. There is no power there, but

[0:29] generators are keeping some hospitals

[0:31] open. Others are being evacuated. It

[0:33] appears Katrina may very well be the

[0:35] worst natural disaster ever to hit the

[0:38] United States.

[0:39] >> And coming up new at 6, our team

[0:41] coverage on Katrina's aftermath will

[0:43] head on the road to New Orleans where

[0:44] refugees are desperate to get home. But

[0:47] police have the task of telling them

[0:48] their homes are off limits, likely wiped

[0:50] out by the storm. Plus, nine years ago,

[0:53] Oregon City was underwater in the floods

[0:55] of 96. how long it took them to recover

[0:58] from that disaster. At 6,

[1:00] >> there is a special edition of Nightly

[1:01] News straight ahead with Brian Williams

[1:03] anchoring from New Orleans. Looking at a

[1:06] look at the rising death toll, also

[1:08] again how Katrina will compare with past

[1:10] hurricanes and a view from above the

[1:12] devastated region.

[1:13] >> And Katrina's impact on oil prices as

[1:16] refineries and production facilities in

[1:18] the storm's path are affected.

[1:20] >> That and much more next on NBC Nightly

[1:22] News. And we'll see you back here at 6.

[1:30] The damage here along the Gulf Coast is

[1:32] catastrophic. There's a frantic effort

[1:34] underway tonight to find survivors.

[1:37] There are an uncounted number of the

[1:39] dead tonight.

[1:41] >> Tom Cameron Huntley, David, John.

[1:44] >> Worst fears realize. Tonight, entire

[1:47] towns have been wiped out around

[1:49] Gulfport, Mississippi. A local mayor

[1:52] says this is our tsunami.

[1:55] Underwater here in New Orleans tonight.

[1:58] After the giant storm came the rising

[2:00] waters. Over 80% of the city is flooded.

[2:05] On a rampage, social order breaks down

[2:07] in some places with looting, robberies,

[2:10] and carjackings.

[2:12] And a survivor story. One man clings to

[2:15] a tree when the storm surge hits and now

[2:18] picks through what's left of his home

[2:19] and his life.

[2:25] Hurricane Katrina. This is a special

[2:28] edition of NBC Nightly News with Brian

[2:31] Williams reporting tonight from New

[2:34] Orleans.

[2:36] And good evening to you once again from

[2:38] New Orleans. And a word about where we

[2:41] are tonight. First, in plain English,

[2:42] Americans might have learned today just

[2:44] how awful the damage from this hurricane

[2:47] was. We're obviously in front of the

[2:49] Superdome and now we can all see how

[2:51] sand blasted the roof looks from the

[2:53] storm. We're actually on a highway

[2:55] overpass. We should tell you the mayor

[2:57] of New Orleans said today people should

[2:59] consider his city closed, shut down. And

[3:02] inside New Orleans today, we saw some of

[3:05] the depths of human behavior. Of course,

[3:07] they are dealing with some of the worst

[3:09] of human conditions on the planet,

[3:11] certainly in the United States. We want

[3:13] to take you on a tour of the very worst

[3:15] of it tonight. Beginning here in New

[3:16] Orleans where they estimate that over

[3:19] 80% of the city is flooded, covered with

[3:22] water up to 20 ft in depth in some

[3:24] places. It didn't help that today two

[3:26] major levies breached bringing in water

[3:28] from Lake Poncha Train to parts of the

[3:30] city that had been dry over to Gulfport,

[3:33] Mississippi. A lot of people who saw it

[3:35] from the air compared it to Banda Ache,

[3:38] Indonesia. Entire towns and hamlets

[3:41] underwater. It will be a long time,

[3:44] frankly, until the victims are all

[3:46] counted up. And then there's Mobile

[3:48] Mobile, Alabama. A lot of damage there.

[3:50] And they're worried about an oil rig

[3:52] that struck a mooring. It came loose

[3:54] from one mooring and hit one of the

[3:57] state's largest bridges. And tonight,

[3:59] crews are checking out the stability

[4:02] there. In plain English, we are not yet

[4:05] close in this region to knowing an exact

[4:07] death toll. Nothing close. The relief

[4:10] effort in full force. You'll hear a lot

[4:12] of helicopters tonight. This is one of

[4:13] the staging efforts for the military

[4:15] Blackhawks. They will be flying in and

[4:17] out during this half hour. It's expected

[4:19] to go much higher. The toll is already

[4:22] tens of thousands are homeless. Uh

[4:25] they'll be without power or shelter for

[4:27] weeks or months, perhaps two to four.

[4:31] 40,000 people alone tonight are in Red

[4:33] Cross shelters. 5 million people are

[4:36] without power. My colleague Campbell

[4:38] Brown is among the many correspondents

[4:41] we have covering every angle of this

[4:43] story fanned out across the region. She

[4:45] is in some of the worst of it tonight in

[4:47] Gulfport, Mississippi. Campbell, good

[4:49] evening to you.

[4:52] >> Good evening, Brian. Well, these piles

[4:54] of debris you see behind me, they are

[4:56] mostly being ignored right now so they

[4:58] can concentrate all of their efforts on

[5:01] trying to get to people who are trapped

[5:02] under rubble or stuck in some of these

[5:04] flooded out communities.

[5:09] This is what the Gulf Coast looked like

[5:11] today. Mile after mile of devastation.

[5:14] As the mayor of Buxy put it, this is our

[5:17] tsunami. This is what NBC's Carrie

[5:19] Sanders saw over Bay St. Louis.

[5:22] >> This is where the eyewall passed over.

[5:24] There you can see what 145 mph sustained

[5:27] winds does. There's so little left.

[5:33] Completely destroyed. And this is what

[5:35] it looked like up close. Their fears

[5:38] there could be hundreds of dead along

[5:40] the Gulf Coast. In this one Beluxy

[5:42] apartment complex alone, 30 people are

[5:45] believed dead after trying to ride out

[5:47] the storm.

[5:47] >> The first thing that we're doing right

[5:48] now, we got uh search and rescue teams

[5:51] out. And uh we want to make sure that we

[5:53] we do everything that we can to to save

[5:56] people's lives.

[5:57] >> As Katrina approached, Sharon Edwards

[5:59] held on to a tree in her backyard. and

[6:02] my little sister was by my mom

[6:06] and it was God. It's the only thing that

[6:09] saved us. Today, when she went back to

[6:12] the family home, she found Katrina had

[6:14] picked it up and moved it off its

[6:16] foundation. When Cleat Dairo went back

[6:19] to his Beluxy home, he found the one

[6:21] thing that seemed to matter.

[6:23] >> I ain't worried about my house. Got my

[6:25] guitar.

[6:29] In Mobile, Alabama, where the flooding

[6:31] reached 11 feet, an oil rig tore loose

[6:34] and knocked into a bridge. In eastern

[6:36] Tennessee, Katrina triggered flash

[6:38] floods. In Memphis, cutting down trees.

[6:41] In Georgia, tornadoes that flattened

[6:44] houses and killed at least one.

[6:47] But perhaps it was the small Mississippi

[6:49] town of Pass Christian that understood

[6:52] better than anywhere else what the

[6:54] deadly force of a hurricane could do.

[6:56] This is where Camille came ashore in

[6:59] 1969, killing 78 people here. Until this

[7:03] morning, the town had been cut off. And

[7:06] even as rescuers tried to launch a

[7:08] search mission of outlying neighborhoods

[7:10] still underwater, they first had to move

[7:12] what Katrina left behind.

[7:14] >> The whole town's like,

[7:15] >> you got houses back there. It's only 4

[7:17] foot above sea level.

[7:18] >> Late today, the Marines arrived.

[7:21] Tonight, they'll fan out an amphibious

[7:23] assault vehicles, not knowing what

[7:25] they'll find. Survivors or just ghost

[7:28] town?

[7:30] >> And time is everything. If there are

[7:32] survivors out there, rescuers are

[7:34] relying now on the National Guard to

[7:36] help them clear a path. Then about 1,600

[7:39] guard from Mississippi and about 800

[7:41] being sent from Alabama to help out.

[7:44] Brian

[7:45] >> Campbell Brown over in Gulfport tonight.

[7:47] Thank you for that. We're just now

[7:49] seeing how bad it is because our camera

[7:51] crews are just getting to this. A lot of

[7:53] people are realizing the extent after

[7:56] seeing the view from the air. And we

[7:58] have one man story tonight. Kite Bailey

[8:00] is a helicopter pilot and reporter a

[8:03] dual job for our NBC station WLBT in

[8:06] Jackson, Mississippi. Here is what he

[8:09] saw from the air in his own words

[8:11] tonight.

[8:14] >> This is flying over the port of

[8:16] Gulfport. The water tower remains

[8:18] intact, but not much else yet. About

[8:21] half mile in from the beach, everything

[8:23] has been leveled, uh, flat, destroyed.

[8:27] There just aren't really any structures

[8:28] standing anymore. You can see where the

[8:30] storm surge came up and deposited all

[8:33] this debris. We're looking at a lot of

[8:35] freight vehicles. They've been washed

[8:37] all through the downtown area. These are

[8:40] some of the National Guard troops that

[8:41] are trying to keep looters down, uh,

[8:43] looking for people who need need help.

[8:46] The bridge at Highway 90 was completely

[8:49] destroyed. It's going to be a major job

[8:51] to to remove all of that concrete and

[8:53] debris for navigation for for ships in

[8:55] the area and rebuilding it. It's going

[8:57] to be a long long process. And as you

[9:00] can see, some of the barges u from the

[9:03] port area were just washed inland.

[9:06] The casinos, as you know, were floating

[9:08] on the water were actually picked up and

[9:09] deposited on top of homes and

[9:11] businesses. This is the back end of the

[9:13] Hard Rock Casino. You can see it uh has

[9:16] just fallen off into the water. Yeah,

[9:18] one of the casinos was dropped literally

[9:20] on top of the Holiday and just

[9:22] absolutely crushing it. We're proceeding

[9:24] to the east along the beach here. These

[9:26] are all the old homes that were along

[9:28] the beach. Many of them just gone. Just

[9:31] uh you can see foundations and complete

[9:33] devastation through this area. If you

[9:35] remember the aquarium, that's that's the

[9:37] aquarium right there that was in the

[9:39] port of Gulport. It's been completely

[9:41] destroyed. This is downtown Beluxy here.

[9:44] As you can see, this area has just

[9:46] suffered a catastrophic amount of

[9:49] damage. It's just hard to imagine uh

[9:53] anything being much worse than this.

[9:57] Pilot and reporter Quite Bailey in his

[9:59] own words for us tonight. And now to the

[10:02] situation in the city behind us here in

[10:04] New Orleans where the water, believe it

[10:06] or not, is still rising. It is a huge

[10:09] urban area and remember it is built like

[10:12] a bathtub. The city is below sea level.

[10:15] You can see ships going by on the water

[10:17] at or above eye level. It didn't help

[10:20] that those two leveies breached this

[10:22] morning. It has gotten so bad the mayor

[10:25] is threatening the entire city may have

[10:28] to be evacuated. And behind us downtown

[10:30] for us tonight, my colleague Carl

[10:32] Cinttonia. Carl, good evening.

[10:35] >> Good evening, Brian. Tonight, a

[10:37] difficult situation made even worse.

[10:39] Those who were stranded here in New

[10:41] Orleans tried to get out, convinced that

[10:43] with no running water and no

[10:45] electricity, the conditions are ripe for

[10:47] lawlessness.

[10:50] Dragging their luggage on Interstate 10

[10:52] or piling into trucks. The people of New

[10:55] Orleans are trying to get out before

[10:57] sundown. All while helicopters swirl

[10:59] overhead, the skyline smoking, and the

[11:02] National Guard rolling in. 77year-old

[11:05] Audrey May Jackson has been on her feet

[11:08] for hours. And there's a real there's a

[11:11] way.

[11:11] >> Going the other direction, a caravan of

[11:14] 50 ambulances from nearby states headed

[11:16] to flooded zones like this one.

[11:18] >> That's my truck. I see every truck under

[11:20] the water

[11:20] >> where the Coast Guard rescued people

[11:22] from rooftops.

[11:26] >> This disabled woman rode through the

[11:28] storm in her attic.

[11:29] >> I got you, madam. Right here. Just hold

[11:31] on.

[11:32] >> And these small children had stayed

[11:34] behind with their families.

[11:35] >> You're going to be all right. As levies

[11:38] like these were breached today, the

[11:40] flood of water has made utility repairs

[11:42] impossible.

[11:43] >> We won't have electricity for maybe six

[11:45] or eight weeks. We don't have water. Uh

[11:47] you can't flush your toilet. Uh I'm I'm

[11:50] advising all of those people who are

[11:52] watching who are from this area,

[11:53] wherever they are, stay the hell where

[11:55] they are because they're a lot better

[11:56] off than you are coming back home.

[11:58] >> Today, a water mane break near a New

[12:00] Orleans housing project. That was almost

[12:02] a welcome break here in some of the

[12:04] city's poorer neighborhoods. It was

[12:05] almost 90° today. That's usually hot

[12:08] enough even when there is electricity,

[12:10] but there isn't. There hasn't been for

[12:11] 48 hours and tempers are running short.

[12:19] Tonight, the real concern is looting.

[12:23] It's already happening in plain sight.

[12:29] The Saints and the sinners marching in.

[12:33] New Orleans police are patrolling

[12:35] downtown in cars and on foot, armed with

[12:38] semi-automatic weapons, hoping just the

[12:40] sight of them is a deterrent. Residents

[12:42] fear this is just a sign of what's to

[12:45] come.

[12:46] >> Let New Orleans come back. Let it come

[12:48] back. We got to survive this here. It's

[12:51] a test. We got to survive it.

[12:54] >> Despite those fears about tonight,

[12:56] there's still frustration about just

[12:58] when power will be restored. As one

[13:00] person told us tonight, it's going to

[13:02] get dark very quickly. Brian

[13:06] >> Carl, thanks for that. And now a word

[13:08] about these rescuers. We were downtown

[13:09] today, saw the Austin, Texas Fire

[13:11] Department already arrive. They're

[13:13] coming from all over. And now at sunset,

[13:15] every day they are chasing darkness. We

[13:18] get their story tonight from NBC's Don

[13:20] Teague.

[13:24] On a freeway interchange just north of

[13:26] downtown New Orleans. The horrific

[13:28] aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is coming

[13:31] ashore. One tiny boat after another, an

[13:34] armada of rescue craft manned by

[13:36] volunteers from across the region is

[13:38] unloading victims. Many in shock and in

[13:41] need of medical attention after spending

[13:43] more than 24 hours trapped.

[13:45] >> If I had five rescuers, there seems to

[13:48] be 50,000 people that need rescued. Most

[13:50] were forced to climb into their attics

[13:52] when flood waters filled their homes.

[13:54] The lucky ones survived, but an untold

[13:57] number didn't.

[13:58] >> Well, at least had a second floor.

[13:59] >> William Fant said the water rose so fast

[14:01] there was no way he and his 90year-old

[14:04] mother could escape.

[14:05] >> Water just started coming up through

[14:06] manhole covers.

[14:07] >> This operation's been going on for just

[14:09] 90 minutes so far. Already 300 people

[14:12] rescued, but there may be hundreds, if

[14:14] not thousands more.

[14:15] >> I'm going to send you guys up into this

[14:17] area.

[14:17] >> But darkness is coming soon. making

[14:20] finding survivors even more difficult.

[14:22] Still, this makeshift navy of instant

[14:24] rescuers will keep looking knowing many

[14:27] trapped victims won't survive another

[14:29] night. Dante, NBC News, Jefferson

[14:32] Parish, Louisiana.

[14:35] And we will take a break and come back

[14:37] with more of our coverage from here in

[14:38] New Orleans, including NBC News in proof

[14:42] perhaps that people here have their

[14:44] limits. how a part of the downtown

[14:46] section of this city briefly today

[14:48] descended into hell. And then later on

[14:51] in the broadcast, he survived the storm

[14:54] surge by hanging on. But can we say the

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[17:04] tonight. life here in New Orleans these

[17:05] days. If you want to come close to

[17:07] imagining it, take one of your average

[17:09] days, say nothing of 48 hours, and then

[17:12] take away air conditioning, power,

[17:14] electric lights, food, gasoline, and

[17:17] fresh water, and you'll come close. And

[17:20] we saw that frustration spill out into

[17:22] the open today. Some of these pictures

[17:24] are disturbing. The frustration perhaps

[17:26] fueled by the fact that some of the only

[17:29] remaining dry roads they had, we woke up

[17:32] this morning to see covered in water.

[17:36] There was nothing anyone could do to

[17:39] stop it. On a clear morning after the

[17:41] hurricane,

[17:43] water started filling up some of the

[17:45] only dry city streets, including the old

[17:48] French Quarter. This city's storied

[17:51] tourist mecca

[17:53] mine. Later in the downtown area, we

[17:56] also saw what can happen when people

[17:58] have nothing. Looting was everywhere and

[18:01] it was flagrant.

[18:03] >> In a city with no basic human services,

[18:07] there is little police can do.

[18:10] There are scenes here in New Orleans

[18:12] that look like they are from another

[18:13] land entirely. Civil behavior has been

[18:17] suspended. Today, we found the body of a

[18:20] dead man on a street corner. For

[18:22] visitors, this is a special kind of

[18:25] horror with no way out of town.

[18:28] >> I'm stranded. I can't I can't get to

[18:30] nowhere else.

[18:31] >> I don't have a boat to ride down.

[18:35] >> Some tourist hotels have no choice but

[18:37] to ask their guest to leave. They can't

[18:40] take care of them. No one can.

[18:42] >> It never has flooded like this in the

[18:44] downtown area, and the water is

[18:46] continuing to rise. So, I'm not going to

[18:49] stay.

[18:52] In New Orleans right now, it's every

[18:54] man, woman, and child for themselves.

[18:57] >> Mother Nature, we're just going to deal

[19:00] with it with all we have by the grace of

[19:03] God.

[19:04] >> On this morning, when Bourban Street met

[19:06] the water, few could afford not to care.

[19:09] For most, it meant another reason to

[19:11] worry about daily survival.

[19:13] >> We don't know what left to do.

[19:16] >> We don't know. in a city left with

[19:19] nothing.

[19:22] >> I told you we were on a highway

[19:23] overpass. I don't want to give anyone

[19:25] vertigo, but in the search for dry

[19:27] ground, this is what some people have

[19:29] resorted to. They're going to spend the

[19:31] night tonight on another highway

[19:33] overpass and just hope that traffic is

[19:36] held back. We'll have more in just a

[19:38] moment from here in New Orleans,

[19:40] Louisiana. Coming up, how this storm

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[21:14] before you begin an aspirin regimen. Do

[21:17] more. Bayer.

[21:18] >> I love baseball so much. If I could play

[21:21] instead of sleep, I would. But my mom

[21:24] always thinks about my asthma. She

[21:26] worries when I wake up and start

[21:27] coughing at night.

[21:29] >> Do more to help control your child's

[21:31] asthma. Ask your child's doctor about

[21:33] Singular. Singular helps prevent asthma

[21:35] symptoms before they start and helps

[21:37] provide effective 24-hour control in a

[21:40] once a day chewable tablet. Singular is

[21:42] not a steroid and is available for

[21:45] children as young as 12 months. Singular

[21:47] is also approved to help relieve

[21:49] seasonal allergy symptoms. Singular will

[21:52] not replace fast acting medicines for

[21:53] sudden symptoms. Your child should

[21:55] continue taking their other asthma

[21:56] medicines as prescribed. If asthma

[21:59] symptoms get worse, contact your child's

[22:01] doctor at once. Side effects are

[22:02] generally mild and vary by age and may

[22:04] include headache, ear infection, sore

[22:06] throat, and upper respiratory infection.

[22:09] Join the millions of people with asthma

[22:11] who have discovered Singular.

[22:13] >> I just want to play.

[22:14] >> Play.

[22:14] >> Play.

[22:15] >> Ask your child's doctor about Singular

[22:17] today.

[22:20] No matter where you live, you will feel

[22:23] the effects of this storm. By example,

[22:26] look at what it did to oil prices today.

[22:29] They shot up $2.60 just today. That's

[22:33] per barrel. And now the price is just

[22:35] south of that $70 mark. Wall Street down

[22:39] 50 points. NASDAQ down almost eight. We

[22:43] have been calling this the costliest

[22:46] natural disaster in US history. What

[22:48] does that mean? Insurers are estimating

[22:51] $25 billion in claims and the estimates

[22:54] will be coming in for some time. We are

[22:56] all going to feel the effects of this.

[22:58] Here is NBC News chief financial

[23:00] correspondent Anne Thompson.

[23:04] >> Port Forchon, Louisiana. A major entry

[23:06] point for oil and gas underwater.

[23:09] Storage tanks swamped. Loading platforms

[23:12] still tankers are ground on what little

[23:14] dry land there is. Sending a fresh wave

[23:17] of panic through the energy markets.

[23:19] >> The fear today is about the products we

[23:21] use every day, gasoline, home heating

[23:23] oil, and whether we're going to run into

[23:25] shortages. Today at the New York

[23:26] Merkantile Exchange, September gasoline

[23:29] futures jumped 41 cents a gallon. One

[23:32] bright spot, the Louisiana offshore oil

[23:35] port, which sends crude to the Midwest,

[23:37] found no major damage, but it needs

[23:40] power and so does Port Forchon.

[23:42] >> Down in the port, there's considerable

[23:45] damage, but we can be in operation as

[23:48] soon as power could be restored.

[23:50] >> Other problems, Shell's Mars oil and gas

[23:53] platform is damaged. Valero's St.

[23:55] Charles refinery is flooded. Chevron is

[23:58] rationing gasoline supplies to East

[24:00] Coast customers while it assesses damage

[24:03] to its Mississippi refinery. For

[24:05] consumers, Katrina will not just

[24:07] increase the cost of driving your car,

[24:09] but also the price of staying warm with

[24:11] heating oil or natural gas.

[24:14] >> The consumers are going to take a huge

[24:16] hit this winter. Heating bills are going

[24:18] to be at record highs

[24:19] >> as consumers across the country batten

[24:22] down against the economic wrath of

[24:24] Katrina. Anne Thompson, NBC News, New

[24:27] York.

[24:29] Bit of other news tonight. It comes from

[24:31] General Motors. We've received word of

[24:33] 800,000 vehicles being recalled. They

[24:36] are SUVs and pickups as we hear another

[24:39] Blackhawk helicopter overhead here. They

[24:42] were sold in 14 northern states. The

[24:44] problem is corrosion and the antilock

[24:46] brake system. GM says it has led to over

[24:48] 200 crashes, though luckily none of them

[24:51] fatal. We'll be back in a moment with

[24:53] one of the more remarkable good news

[24:56] stories to emerge from this storm.

[25:03] >> Good improvement.

[25:04] >> Thank you, doctor.

[25:05] >> Cholesterol's down. Well done.

[25:07] >> That's great.

[25:08] >> Hello, Dr. S.

[25:09] >> And I got to tell you, nice job,

[25:13] >> Mr. Jack,

[25:15] >> I told you we'd get it down.

[25:21] >> Yep. Even doctors can have high

[25:22] cholesterol. When diet and exercise

[25:25] aren't enough, adding Lipur can lower

[25:26] your bad cholesterol from 39 to 60%. In

[25:30] fact, more cardiologists surveyed said

[25:31] they prescribe Lipur for their own

[25:33] family members than any other

[25:34] cholesterol brand. Lipur is one of many

[25:37] cholesterol-lowering treatment options

[25:38] in addition to diet and exercise that

[25:40] you and your doctor can consider. Lipur

[25:42] is not for everyone, including people

[25:44] with liver problems and women who are

[25:45] nursing, pregnant, or who may become

[25:47] pregnant. Simple blood tests are needed

[25:49] to check for liver problems. Tell your

[25:50] doctor about other medications you are

[25:52] taking or if you experience muscle pain

[25:54] or weakness, as these may be signs of a

[25:55] rare but serious side effect. Ask your

[25:58] doctor about Lipur today.

[26:00] >> I was just getting to the good part when

[26:02] Uncle Ernie dropped his tongs.

[26:06] I'd seen that look before. It was

[26:08] heartburn. Before you could say duck

[26:10] sauce, I was there with my Pepsi

[26:12] Complete. I told him only Pepsid

[26:14] Complete starts to neutralize acid on

[26:16] contact and keeps heartburn from coming

[26:18] back all day or all night. In no time,

[26:21] Uncle Ernie was in Mushu heaven. And I

[26:24] had my eye on the spicy dumpling. Pepsi

[26:27] complete. Just one and heartburn's done.

[26:37] There will be some swelling and

[26:39] discomfort, but it won't hurt a bit.

[26:43] >> Now, with Olay Regenerous, you can rest

[26:45] easy. It works during the night to

[26:47] increase surface cell renewal by 50% for

[26:50] an Olay Mini Lift every morning. Wake up

[26:52] to Olay Regenerous Night. And for

[26:55] daytime, Regenerous Lotion with UV

[26:57] protection. So, the Mini Lift lasts.

[27:01] >> Do you want dessert? Not with my

[27:03] metabolism.

[27:04] >> No, me neither. You know, in your 30s,

[27:06] your metabolism slows down. What can you

[27:08] do? Well, what I do is eat right. I

[27:12] exercise. And I changed my multivitamin

[27:14] to One a Day Weights Smart.

[27:16] >> One A Day Weight Smart is a complete

[27:17] multivitamin with EGCG, a natural green

[27:20] tea extract that helps enhance

[27:22] metabolism when you eat right and

[27:23] exercise.

[27:24] >> Every little bit helps.

[27:26] >> Mhm.

[27:26] >> One a day, weight smart.

[27:31] Next, after nightly news going nowhere

[27:33] fast, residents of New Orleans find the

[27:35] road home blocked. Tonight, the flood

[27:37] that submerged their city a full day

[27:39] after the hurricane. Plus, a longtime

[27:42] Salem coach arrested in a porn rain. I'm

[27:45] Matt Sino in the First Alert Storm

[27:46] Center. We've got great weather on the

[27:48] way. We'll talk about your Labor Day

[27:49] weekend forecast and all the news at 6.

[27:53] All this sadness we wanted badly to try

[27:55] to end the broadcast with a survivor

[27:57] story tonight and we will. This one has

[27:59] to do with Mike Spencer of Gulfport,

[28:02] Mississippi. He was trapped in his home

[28:04] when the storm surge hit. He rode it out

[28:07] and lived to come back and see what was

[28:09] left.

[28:13] This is where I was held up and seen my

[28:16] neighbor's car already floating down the

[28:19] in the backyard and it was, "Oh, I've

[28:22] got to do something." That's when I

[28:23] started running. But this this just

[28:25] started immediately filling up so fast.

[28:28] And it was probably the next two waves

[28:31] just kind of pushed me into the attic at

[28:33] that point. I kicked out the wall on

[28:36] that side up through the attic and

[28:37] climbed out on this tree. Just tried to

[28:40] wedge myself down in it. And that's

[28:42] probably where I sat for the next 6

[28:44] hours at least. My neighbors I lost

[28:47] sight of them cuz they rode their roof.

[28:49] That's the only thing I had to hang on

[28:51] to was I knew there was other people

[28:52] around that

[28:55] you know if nothing else I needed to at

[28:57] least survive to where I could help

[28:59] someone else that in turn would have

[29:01] helped me

[29:03] feel very

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