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ANGELINA JOLIE, ACTRESS: Like most people, I was just shocked.

HAMMER: For the first time since the Hurricane Katrina disaster, Angelina Jolie speaks. Her emotional and powerful words...

JOLIE: These are the people that are the most vulnerable.

HAMMER: And her never-ending passion to help all over the world.

JOLIE: We can`t afford not to just find these solutions.

HAMMER: It`s Angelina like you`ve never heard her before, and it`s only on SHOWBIZ TONIGHT.

BRYANT (voice-over): Also, a black and white issue. Tonight, the startling results of a new poll. Does America really think the Hurricane Katrina response and race are connected? And why do so many people believe what Kanye West said during an NBC telethon is true?

HAMMER: And an "Apprentice" shocker. Tonight, a story of sex, obsession and murder that could rock the hit show even before the start of the new season. SHOWBIZ TONIGHT investigates.

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BRYANT: Hello, I`m Karyn Bryant.

HAMMER: I`m A.J. Hammer.

Tonight, a SHOWBIZ TONIGHT exclusive. Angelina Jolie opens up about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and a whole lot more.

BRYANT: That`s right. In a wide-ranging, passionate, and sometimes emotional interview with SHOWBIZ TONIGHT, Jolie talked about her remarkable journey to help some of the poorest people on earth, and she spoke with me about the horror at seeing the devastation and misery that followed Hurricane Katrina.

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JOLIE: Like most people, I was just shocked.

BRYANT (voice-over): Angelina Jolie, like so many others, could not believe what she was seeing as New Orleans seemed like a scene from a third world country after the devastation of Katrina. And as a U.N. ambassador since 2001, Angelina Jolie has seen those third world countries firsthand.

JOLIE: I have friends there. A close friend of mine, her best friend is there. It`s very personal for a time.

But really, it`s just -- you look at that and you think -- I`ve seen refugees -- refugee camps around the world, and I know what this looks like.

On a global scale, this is what`s happening and this is what we`re talking about. That -- that when you see the people that really were hit the worst, that were kind of in many ways abandoned, and they were the poorest of the poor. They didn`t have -- they weren`t thought of ahead of time. You know, this is what happens. And when things explode, these are the people that are the most vulnerable.

BRYANT: The most vulnerable and poorest people in the world of what Jolie and U.N. special advisor Dr. Jeffrey Sachs got to see when they traveled to Western Kenya in Africa. An emotional yet inspirational journey captured on tape for an MTV documentary called "The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa."

Back from Africa, Jolie was frustrated by the initial lack of response to Katrina, as so many others were.

JOLIE: I sent a letter to my representative, the president, and asked people to do the same to push for a better federal response. We have to also demand that our government does what it should do so we can get our aid to the people and we can really help. And we can really -- but they`ve got to do their job and do it properly, so that money really gets to the people.