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THE NEWS

"Catastrophe - Disaster - War (and other grim predictions)"

AM TV NEWS / New Orleans

Reporters: Hugh Shriek & Ida Hoe

Good morning viewers. We’ve got some good news and some bad news this morning. The good news is, I’m (Hugh) still on the air spewing out one nasty tidbit after another and Ida is on location somewhere in the city, unable to give us more live pictures of unbelievable devastation.

Here’s the latest:

Our fair city has been devastated by a Cat 5 Hurricane, the Levee’s failed and we’re under twenty feet of flood water. Looters run rampant through the streets and half the police force have abandoned us. There’s no phone service, power, food or water. The Mayors moved to Dallas, the Governors drunk and the city’s on fire.

Now for the bad news .............................