NBC Nightly News - 2008-09-12
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[0:00] the number one news station in all of
[0:02] Tennessee. Thank you for your trust.
[0:09] On the broadcast tonight, wall of water.
[0:12] Up to 13 million people brace for a
[0:14] monster storm and major flooding along
[0:17] the Texas Gulf Coast as Hurricane Ike
[0:19] comes ashore. Gas surge as Ike lashes
[0:22] Texas. The price of gas shoots up. How
[0:25] bad will it get? how she did. After
[0:28] Sarah Palin's first big interview,
[0:30] everyone's got an opinion. And connected
[0:33] for young people navigating troubled
[0:34] waters, a lifeline online. Nightly News
[0:38] begins now.
[0:44] From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:47] York, this is NBC Nightly News with
[0:50] Brian Williams.
[0:52] >> Good evening. I'm Anne Curry. In for
[0:54] Brian Williams tonight, Hurricane Ike,
[0:56] now officially described as potentially
[0:58] catastrophic, is slamming into Texas
[1:00] right now, hours earlier than predicted.
[1:03] And not just Galveastston is getting
[1:05] hard hit. Take a look at this. The storm
[1:07] is cutting a dangerously wide swath,
[1:09] hitting as much as 400 miles of the Gulf
[1:12] Coast of Texas and Louisiana. Houston,
[1:15] the nation's fourth largest city, is in
[1:17] jeopardy with channels not protected by
[1:19] seaw walls and only low-lying portions
[1:21] of the city under a mandatory evacuation
[1:23] order. As many as 13 million people are
[1:26] believed to be in the hurricane zone,
[1:28] including our NBC News correspondents,
[1:30] beginning tonight with Janet Shamlan in
[1:33] Galveastston. Janet.
[1:36] >> And good evening. Gam Gabston rather is
[1:39] being pummeled by wind and water and we
[1:42] are still hours away from landfall here.
[1:44] Much of this island is already flooded.
[1:47] The rea