CBS Evening News - 1996-05-24
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[0:00] Good day. Mike Dunaway, and Shirley
[0:02] Hancock. New 7 6.
[0:05] Parched and plagued by a crop-killing
[0:07] drought, it's Dust Bowl 1996, rolling
[0:10] from Texas to the nation's midsection.
[0:13] And now comes the dry season. Scott
[0:16] Pelley and Ray Brady on the growing
[0:18] impact on the farm and at the
[0:20] supermarket.
[0:22] No holiday in the presidential campaign.
[0:24] Republicans target the president's
[0:26] military record in a new negative attack
[0:29] ad.
[0:30] And a jury convicted him of rape more
[0:33] than a decade ago. Now his DNA indicates
[0:36] HE'S NOT GUILTY.
[0:39] HALLELUJAH!
[0:41] PRAISE GOD!
[0:44] THIS IS THE CBS EVENING News
[0:48] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:51] headquarters in New York.
[0:54] Good evening. In the Southwest,
[0:55] discouraging words: drought, dust,
[0:58] disaster. In nine states stretching from
[1:01] Southern California to Nebraska, the
[1:03] National Weather Service reports drought
[1:05] ranging from moderate to extreme. The
[1:07] extreme drought areas are those that
[1:10] have seen not even a quarter of their
[1:12] normal rainfall.
[1:14] And if that isn't bad enough, as
[1:16] correspondent Scott Pelley reports, the
[1:18] land is not all that's running dry.
[1:21] The worst drought of the 20th century
[1:23] now threatens so many farmers with
[1:25] bankruptcy that the main federal fund
[1:28] designed to help them is broke. Today,
[1:30] the Agriculture Department shifted
[1:32] nearly $60 million from other programs
[1:35] to use as emergency farm loans.
[1:38] Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. This
[1:40] could be the straw that breaks the
[1:42] camel's back, uh particularly for people
[1:44] who have a high amount of of cattle and
[1:48] can't find feed or the feed is too
[1:50] expensi