CBS Evening News - 2005-09-01 (Western)
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[0:00] You're watching Coin News 6 news that's
[0:02] to the point.
[0:05] >> New Orleans has descended into near
[0:07] energy. There is violence in the streets
[0:10] and the mayor has issued what he calls a
[0:12] desperate SOS as local officials call
[0:15] the federal government's response a
[0:17] national disgrace. Good evening, I'm Bob
[0:20] Schaefer. Again, we're devoting our
[0:22] broadcast to the worsening crisis in and
[0:25] around New Orleans. And again tonight,
[0:27] John Roberts is heading up our coverage.
[0:30] Everywhere you look in this sweltering
[0:32] city, there are scenes from hell,
[0:34] buildings on fire, bodies floating in
[0:36] the water, looting without fear of
[0:39] arrest, and the city doesn't have what
[0:41] it needs to deal with it all.
[0:47] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Bob
[0:51] Schaefer.
[0:52] With 40,000 National Guard troops
[0:55] already called up for duty, the
[0:57] situation in New Orleans is so bad that
[0:59] our CBS News correspondent David Martin
[1:02] reports the Army is now making
[1:04] preparations to send in as many as
[1:07] 10,000 combat troops from the active
[1:10] duty force. There is one scrap of good
[1:13] news from New Orleans tonight. More than
[1:15] a hundred buses evacuated thousands of
[1:18] people from the hellhole that was once
[1:21] the Louisiana Super Dome and more will
[1:24] be brought out tonight and taken to the
[1:26] Astrodome in Houston. But they leave
[1:28] behind a city in anarchy with most of
[1:31] New Orleans still flooded. Angry mobs
[1:33] set fires, continued wholesale looting,
[1:36] and shot at rescue helicopters as
[1:39] frustration boiled over in ways large
[1:42] and small. It was also another day of
[1:45] dramatic rescues in Washington.
[1:48] Offici