CBS Evening News - 2002-10-01
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[0:00] on poachers
[0:01] >> of al-Qaeda Iraq connections. Senate
[0:04] control now up for grabs. Advantage
[0:07] Republicans. Plus, the Pacific dot
[0:10] shutdown threatens businesses coast to
[0:13] coast. New questions about passenger
[0:15] safety after a deadly attack aboard a
[0:18] Greyhound bus. And Eye on America
[0:21] follows two American families struggling
[0:23] with one of the crulest of diseases.
[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:34] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:37] headquarters in New York.
[0:39] >> Good evening. A potentially very
[0:41] dangerous hurricane is heading for the
[0:43] US Gulf Coast and the first major
[0:45] hurricane strike on the US mainland in
[0:47] two years. Major in this case could mean
[0:50] a category three or four hurricane on a
[0:54] scale of five. entering the Gulf of
[0:56] Mexico tonight after a nasty swipe at
[0:58] Cuba. Hurricane Lily is already a
[1:01] category two, which is to say winds over
[1:03] 100 miles an hour. And it's going to get
[1:06] stronger before landfall, probably on
[1:08] Thursday somewhere along the Texas
[1:10] Louisiana coast is the most popular
[1:12] guess. A destructive tidal surge, what
[1:15] used to be called a tidal wave on the
[1:17] coast, is possible before the hurricane,
[1:20] pushes inland toward Arkansas. This
[1:22] storm may bring heavy rain all the way
[1:24] up to the northeast. It did that and
[1:26] more in Cuba. CBS's Bobby Harley is
[1:29] there.
[1:32] >> Hurricane Lily ra the entire southern
[1:34] coast of Cuba with wind gusts of more
[1:36] than 100 miles an hour and rain that
[1:39] filled the streets so quickly it
[1:40] stranded people, making rescues by
[1:42] helicopter the only way out.
[1:49] Nearly 200,000 people crowded into
[1:51] shelter