Dan Rather reports: Toxic Trailers for Hurricane Katrina Survivors

The paragraphs below are from an online transcript of Dan Rather's show on HDnet. The show is an investigative report about how temporary trailers that FEMA gave to Katrina and Rita victims were made with formaldehyde, a chemical that is toxic if you're exposed to it too long. The part I pasted on here is just the lead for the news broadcast. Sorry it is in all capital letters, it came that way (and the middle paragraph is about John McCain, sorry the broadcast covers two different stories). If you'd like to read the entire transcript, here's the link:

http://www.hd.net/transcript.html?air_master_id=A4558

Dan Rather Reports
Episode Number: 216
Episode Title: Toxic Trailers
Description: Some of the thousands of people along the Gulf Coast still living in travel trailers say formaldehyde used to build the campers is making them sick. Also, take a ride on the straight talk express as Dan Rather sits down with Republican presidential hopeful John Mc Cain.

Transcript:TONIGHT NO PLACE TO CALL HOME I'VE NEVER BEEN WOKEN UP BY A SMELL BEFORE IN MY LIFE. AND I WOKE UP GASPING FOR AIR. THERE WAS A WINDOW RIGHT NEXT TO THE BED CAUSE IT'S SO SMALL. AND I WAS LITERALLY- LITERALLY TRYING TO BREATHE OUT OF THAT WINDOW. SOME OF THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED CAMPERS FOR GULF COAST HURRICANE VICTIMS ARE CONTAMINATED WITH A TOXIC CHEMICAL. WHAT WAS INSIDE THAT CAMPER IS DEADLY. I CAN'T PUT IT ANY PLAINER THAN THAT.

ALSO ON THE ROAD AGAIN SENATOR STRAIGHT TALK. YOUR CAMPAIGN IS OFF TO A SLOW START - IS THIS THE START OF A COMEBACK IS THAT THE WAY YOU VIEW IT? WILL THE LAST STOP FOR THE STRAIGHT TALK EXPRESS BE THE WHITE HOUSE? THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR AMERICA, AND WHEN I'M PRESIDENT IT WONT BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR ME. (APPLAUSE) A LOOK AT JOHN MC CAIN'S CAMPAIGN AND ARE THE VOTERS BUYING IT. IN JOHN MCCAIN'S PHRASE, "STRAIGHT TALK," IS YOUR VOTE GETTABLE FOR MCCAIN? IT'S ABSOLUTELY GETTABLE, YES.

TONIGHT ON DAN RATHER REPORTS GOOD EVENING. TONIGHT WE TAKE YOU BACK TO THE GULF COAST, WHERE THE DEVASTATING HURRICANES OF 2005, KATRINA AND RITA, ARE ANYTHING BUT A DISTANT MEMORY. NEARLY 90,000 FAMILIES WHO LOST THEIR HOMES IN THESE STORMS STILL LIVE IN WHAT WERE MEANT TO BE TEMPORARY SHELTERS- TRAILERS PROVIDED BY FEMA, THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY. IT'S BEEN HARD FOR THE PEOPLE DISPLACED BY THE HURRICANES- PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE TRAILERS WERE SUPPOSED TO PROVIDE A SAFE PLACE TO STAY WHILE THEY REBUILT THEIR LIVES. BUT NOW WE'RE LEARNING THAT SOME OF THESE TRAILERS APPEAR TO BE TOXIC. AND SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO MOVED INTO THESE TEMPORARY SHELTERS SAY THE TRAILERS HAVE BEEN MAKING THEM SICK- AND THAT FEMA HASN'T BEEN LISTENING.