CBS anchor John Roberts had a "pretty wild ride" through Rita, the AP says.

"Roberts and ABC's Bob Woodruff had the journalistic good fortune to be stationed at a Beaumont hotel where the wind tore holes and water lapped into the lobby. It made for arresting pictures, and a heartbreaking ABC interview with a sobbing woman who had fled New Orleans, only to be chased by another hurricane.

'When you walk down that corridor, you see people with a lot of fear in their eyes,' Woodruff said." More...