CBS Evening News - 2001-02-19
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[0:00] The best people, the best coverage. Jeff
[0:03] Gianola, only on Coin 6 News.
[0:07] The forecast from hell.
[0:10] Why America may see more killer
[0:12] tornadoes and floods, hurricanes and
[0:15] wildfires in the years ahead.
[0:18] Aftermath of the death at Daytona.
[0:21] Did safety collide head-on with a race
[0:24] for ratings?
[0:26] For police, it's the next best thing to
[0:28] X-ray vision. The Supreme Court will
[0:31] decide whether it's legal.
[0:33] And I on America. In the battle of the
[0:35] sexes, this woman is waving a WHITE
[0:38] FLAG.
[0:44] THIS IS THE CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:48] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:50] headquarters in New York.
[0:52] Good evening. There are new and dire
[0:54] predictions tonight about the future of
[0:56] our planet. Around the world, glaciers
[0:59] are in full retreat. Some, like the
[1:01] ancient ice cap on Mount Kilimanjaro in
[1:04] Africa, could be gone in a decade or
[1:06] two. It's a dramatic symptom of the
[1:09] warming of the earth, detailed in a new
[1:11] thousand-page United Nations report,
[1:14] Climate Change 2001.
[1:16] It predicts the new century will bring,
[1:18] and I quote, large-scale and possibly
[1:21] irreversible changes affecting every
[1:24] last person on earth. Correspondent
[1:27] Byron Pitts has more on the CBS Weather
[1:29] Watch.
[1:31] Imagine a Texas-type heat wave in
[1:33] Toledo, Ohio. Wildfires year-round in
[1:36] California.
[1:39] That 500-year flood that devastated
[1:41] Grand Forks, North Dakota occurring
[1:43] every 5 years.
[1:46] It is a doomsday scenario detailed in a
[1:48] report sponsored by the United Nations
[1:50] and researched by 700 of the world's
[1:53] leading experts on global warming.
[1:54] We believe that that
[1:57] the rate at which climate is projec