Hurricane Rita Weakens Slightly; Bus of Evacuees Catches Fire (audio)

Hurricane Rita bore down on Texas and southwestern Louisiana with 135 mph winds Friday, creating widespread traffic jams as hundreds of thousands of residents raced to safer ground and raising fears of another catastrophic flood in New Orleans as water poured over one of the city's patched levees.

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"Hurricane Rita Weakens Slightly; Bus of Evacuees Catches Fire (audio)." Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, Object #1976 (March 07 2006, 2:32 pm)<http://www.hurricanearchive.org/object/1976>