NBC Nightly News - 1998-02-24
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[0:03] The power and the fury of El Nino.
[0:05] Death, damage, and misery on two coasts.
[0:08] California. Killer mudslides. Florida.
[0:11] Deadly twisters. The search for
[0:13] survivors. And Jonathan, 18 months old,
[0:17] blown from his bed high into a tree. How
[0:19] he survived. On Iraq, the deal with
[0:23] Saddam. The White House worries about
[0:25] the fine print and the fleecing of
[0:28] America. Homes flooded and rebuilt again
[0:31] and again. Are you paying the premiums
[0:33] and getting stuck with the bills?
[0:38] >> From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:41] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:44] Brokaw.
[0:46] Good evening. The question is just how
[0:48] much can California take? Another
[0:51] ferocious storm driven by El Nino batter
[0:53] the already damaged state and tonight
[0:55] the search for bodies continues. El
[0:57] Nino's latest invasion swept across
[0:59] California during the night, tearing up
[1:01] that state from north to south. The
[1:04] latest now from NBC's George Lewis.
[1:08] >> Midnight, the beginning of a night of
[1:10] terror for residents of a canyon in
[1:12] Laguna Beach. A sudden mudslide topples
[1:14] homes causing at least one death. A lot
[1:17] of screaming, just yelling, screaming,
[1:18] sound like people were dying in there.
[1:20] >> 25-year-old Glenn Fluke flees to a
[1:22] neighbor's house to escape the flooding,
[1:24] but is killed when the house collapses.
[1:26] 10 other people are injured in the
[1:27] mudslide. 220 mi to the north, El Nino
[1:31] takes a bite out of a highway in Santa
[1:33] Maria, washing out another hillside.
[1:35] Half a dozen cars plunge into a river.
[1:38] Two highway patrolman whose cruiser
[1:40] lands upside down, are killed. Other
[1:42] motori