Hurricane Katrina

Good Neighbor
Saul Gonzalez of KCET-Los Angeles reports from Houston as more residents from New Orleans arrive in the area seeking shelter.

Newsmaker: Army Corps Official
Margaret Warner interviews Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, who commands the Army Corps of Engineers, the agency in charge of repairing the levees and draining the floodwaters in New Orleans.

Wipeout in Mississippi
Coastal residents desperate for water and food are facing long lines and deteriorating conditions as hundreds of National Guardsmen arrive to keep order in the hardest-hit areas of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on conditions in the flood-ravaged state of Mississippi.

Brooks, Oliphant and Page
Jim Lehrer talks with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Boston Globe columnist Tom Oliphant and NewsHour essayist and Chicago Tribune columnist Clarence Page about the week's horrific events, including racial tensions that have arisen.

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Then, Elizabeth Brackett of WTTW-Chicago reports from Jefferson Parish as residents of New Orleans cross the bridge seeking refuge. Saul Gonzalez of station KCET-Los Angeles follows with a report from Houston as the first wave of New Orleans residents arrive there.

Newsmaker: FEMA Director
Jim Lehrer speaks with a key official in the government's relief effort, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Mike Brown.

Violence in New Orleans
Ray Suarez discusses the violence and chaos in New Orleans with Joseph Estey, president of the International Association of Police Chiefs, and Kathleen Tierney, director of the Natural Hazards Research Center at the University of Colorado.

Relief Effort
Margaret Warner talks about the efforts to assist victims of the hurricane with Todd Bassett, the national commander of the Salvation Army, and John Spain, executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.

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Then, Independent Television News provides a look at the damage from Biloxi, Miss.

Ray Suarez follows with an update from Joe Contreras of Newsweek.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana responds to criticism of the state's rescue and recovery efforts.

Broken Barriers
Gwen Ifill talks with John Rennie, the editor of Scientific American magazine, about breaches in the New Orleans levee system that unleashed a deluge of water and flooded the city.

Oil Jitters
Jeffrey Brown talks with Red Cavaney, president of the American Petroleum Institute, about the disruption in production and distribution of U.S. oil as a result of the hurricane.

Fatal Stampede
Independent Television News reports on the stampede in Baghdad that resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Shiite pilgrims. Then, correspondent Terence Smith speaks with Los Angeles Times reporter Borezoo Daragahi, who is in Baghdad.

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Following a recap of today's press conference with Louisiana's governor and senators, Gwen Ifill talks with Jim Ballow, deputy director of operations for Louisiana's Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

For a report on the situation in Mississippi, Gwen Ifill speaks with Peter Slevin of the Washington Post.

Then, Jim Lehrer gets an overview of the government's response to the hurricane disaster from Federal Emergency Management Agency Deputy Director Patrick Rhode.

College Prep
Ray Suarez discusses how prepared high school graduates are for college with Freeman Hrabowski, president of the University of Maryland Baltimore County; Pat McGuire, president of Trinity University in Washington, D.C.; and Sandy Shugart, president of Valencia Community College.

Essay: Politics of Division
Essayist Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune considers race and politics.

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Jeffrey Brown follows with two interviews with an official and a reporter from the hardest hit areas: Robert Latham of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency and Peter Whoriskey of the Washington Post.

Iraqi Constitution
Ray Suarez discusses the struggle in Iraq to produce a constitution with Laith al-Saud, a lecturer in social sciences at Harold Washington College in Chicago; Rend al-Rahim Francke, executive director of the Iraq Foundation; and Spence Spencer, Washington director of the Public International Law and Policy Group.

Newsmaker: Sen. Patrick Leahy
Gwen Ifill interviews Senate Judiciary Committee ranking Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont about the upcoming confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts.