Washington Week Show - # 4510
Washington Week Show - # 4510
Washington Week Show # 4510 (DUPLICATE of Master # 12203) National Disaster, National Tragedy (Hurricane Katrina). Host Gwen Ifill , guests include Michael Duffy, Alexis Simendinger, Jeffrey Birnbaum, Gloria Borger. 20.00.12 Composite footage (unclean) with Washington Week title and text : Hurricane Katrina aftermath, destruction, survivor says "I just prayed the whole while the water was rising hoping that everyone would be alright." African american woman sitting on top of white car, flood water is up to the windows of the car, blonde caucasian woman says "I still haven't been able to really cry, I'm just so still shocked and just exhausted because we have no where to go." Young african american woman wearing red baseball hat says "It's depressing, you have to start over and we don't know where to begin." Police officer carrying elderly woman in arms, person in wheel chair covered with blanket (dead), african american woman says "People couldn't leave because they couldn't afford to leave, superdome people went in that shelter because they couldn't afford to leave, and now we're dying?" African american man says "Not one time did I see or anybody see an official step out here and talk to these people." Pan crowds of people outside superdome. Caucasian woman wearing sunglasses and white visor says "This is America? You hear about this in foreign countries, not here." Aerial view of flooded street, debris, national guard ? 20.01.25 DO NOT USE - Commercial 20.02.04 Footage of President George W. Bush and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin walking together. Audio clip of Mayor Ray Nagin from radio interview says "You mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming through, a place that is so unique, when you mention New Orleans anywhere around the world everybody's eyes light up. You mean to tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that have died, and thousands more that are dying everyday that we can't figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on man..." 20.08.56 Clip of President George W. Bush with survivors of Hurricane Katrina, President Bush says "I don't think that anybody can be prepared for the vastness of this destruction. You can look at a picture, but until you sit on that doorstep of a house that used to be or stand by the rubble you just can't imagine it. You know this is a huge task that we're dealing with and our jobs as people in positions with the responsibility is not to be satisfied until the job is done as good as it possibly can be done." 20.15.57 Split screen of Jeffrey Birnbaum and gas prices. 20.18.36 Split screen of Jeffrey Birnbaum and aerial of cars at gas station. 20.20.38 (D) Maryland says "Many of these american who now are struggling to survive are americans of color. Their cries for assistance confront America with the test of our moral compass as a nation. We can not allow it to be said by history that the difference between those who lived and those who died in this great storm and flood of 2005 was nothing more than poverty, age or skin color. It would unconscionable to stand by and do nothing."