Katrina

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/0...log/index.html

'Incredible scene' on Interstate 10
People living on highway

We're now driving on Interstate 10, and there is just an incredible scene. It looks like people are actually living on the highway.

Some of them may be waiting to be picked-up. But I'm not exaggerating when I say probably thousands of people are just sitting on the interstate, sitting on the side of the road, and shielding their faces from the sun. It is an intensely hot day.

Even port-a-johns have been set up on Interstate 10.

You can tell the job of trying to get all these people out of New Orleans is enormous.

Early this morning, I think it was around 4:30 a.m. or so, there was a massive explosion, just a massive boom. We've heard a lot of gunfire in the city, but this was unlike anything else we have heard. And as soon as I stepped outside, I saw this orange glow out on the horizon.

The entire city of New Orleans is black at night. There are no lights whatsoever in the city. And there was this orange glow after the boom. From there, a flame appeared, and within about an hour, there was a black rainbow that rose up and covered part of downtown.

We're told that a hazmat team has been assembled and is heading out that way. With the security situation the way it is now, it will be very difficult for them to make their way around the city.