Baton Rouge

Now, people here really don't know which way to go except north, as far away as they can get, because the mayor is saying that with the force of this hurricane, if it comes in as a four or five hurricane, in Baton Rouge, which is some 80 miles away to the north and northwest that even in Baton Rouge, people there would feel 100-mile-an-hour winds.

CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2008 2008

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well it's finally letting a little bit go for Baton Rouge, which is just got battered, because at the very end of this track across southern Louisiana the storm turned to the north.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008 2008

She's in Baton Rouge, which is being hit really hard right now, the Louisiana capital.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2008 2008

And we're expecting that the population of metropolitan Baton Rouge, which is about 350,000, will be doubled before we get through absorbing the refugees from New Orleans.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2005 2005

But again, you know, 100-plus mile-an-hour winds, if that's what we're going to get here in Baton Rouge, that is certainly nothing to take lightly, as you know -- Chad.

CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005 2005

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Boyce, Louisiana, is someplace between Shreveport, where we were this morning, and Baton Rouge, which is where we're heading to now.

CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2005 2005

Some of it has been reported as high as 75 miles per hour as well, into Baton Rouge, which is further away from New Orleans, so that's the picture now.

CNN Transcript Aug 29, 2005 2005

We're coming to you live from the River Center in Baton Rouge, which is home now, a temporary home, to about 4,500 people at the Red Cross shelter that's been set up here.

CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2005 2005

Those that are not outside the state, to Baton Rouge, which is the capital where I went to school, and I have friends there and others that are helping me find apartments and temporary housing, so that I can reunite my family this weekend.

CNN Transcript Sep 6, 2005 2005

If you remember, in Baton Rouge, which is about 60 miles away from here, is where the much larger FEMA staging ground is for a lot of those supplies.

CNN Transcript Sep 2, 2005 2005