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CNN
September 17, 2008
CNN Newsroom, 1:00 PM
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: Lining up for aid along the Texas Gulf Coast. For thousands of Hurricane Ike victims the wait a long one and the National Guard is doing all it can to speed up the process. Here now is CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BARBARA STARR: The line forms early, days after Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast, Texans are trying to survive, waiting for what food and water they can get. These National Guard troops say that people are hungry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a bunch of water over there, we have none here, right?
STARR: Captain Anthony Zissimos says that one of his buddies was overcome.
CAPT. ANTHONY ZISSIMOS, TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD: We had a woman with a baby and he kept thank him profusely and he got a little teary- eyed.
STARR: These men, all neighbors, have ridden miles to wait in line. Eric Jones has four children, one a newborn.
ERIC JONES, HURRICANE IKE VICTIM: Well, they say that the water may be contaminated so we have to come try to get ice or water or whatever kind of water we can.
STARR: But once they are at the head of the line, the next challenge, balancing the precious cargo for the ride home.
ZISSIMOS: I had about 1,300 cars come through here and we are averaging 20 cars every five minutes we're loading supplies in, and we ran out of food probably in four and a half hours.
STARR: People here didn't even look up as President Bush flew over in Air Force One. Life on the ground now is all about getting help.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can I get a couple more?
STARR: Ironically in Galveston where fewer residents are left, there is plenty available for the National Guard to hand out, but here, there is something else, newspapers are being handed out, the first information that people have had since before Ike.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one says that Ike is heading our way.
STARR: The people in Texas getting what supplies they can and moving ahead trying to recover. Barbara Starr, CNN, Galveston. (END VIDEOTAPE)
WHITFIELD: A long bumpy road to recovery.
September 17, 2008
CNN Newsroom, 1:00 PM
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD: Lining up for aid along the Texas Gulf Coast. For thousands of Hurricane Ike victims the wait a long one and the National Guard is doing all it can to speed up the process. Here now is CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BARBARA STARR: The line forms early, days after Hurricane Ike struck the Gulf Coast, Texans are trying to survive, waiting for what food and water they can get. These National Guard troops say that people are hungry.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have a bunch of water over there, we have none here, right?
STARR: Captain Anthony Zissimos says that one of his buddies was overcome.
CAPT. ANTHONY ZISSIMOS, TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD: We had a woman with a baby and he kept thank him profusely and he got a little teary- eyed.
STARR: These men, all neighbors, have ridden miles to wait in line. Eric Jones has four children, one a newborn.
ERIC JONES, HURRICANE IKE VICTIM: Well, they say that the water may be contaminated so we have to come try to get ice or water or whatever kind of water we can.
STARR: But once they are at the head of the line, the next challenge, balancing the precious cargo for the ride home.
ZISSIMOS: I had about 1,300 cars come through here and we are averaging 20 cars every five minutes we're loading supplies in, and we ran out of food probably in four and a half hours.
STARR: People here didn't even look up as President Bush flew over in Air Force One. Life on the ground now is all about getting help.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There you go.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can I get a couple more?
STARR: Ironically in Galveston where fewer residents are left, there is plenty available for the National Guard to hand out, but here, there is something else, newspapers are being handed out, the first information that people have had since before Ike.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one says that Ike is heading our way.
STARR: The people in Texas getting what supplies they can and moving ahead trying to recover. Barbara Starr, CNN, Galveston. (END VIDEOTAPE)
WHITFIELD: A long bumpy road to recovery.