CBS Evening News - 1998-05-31
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[0:07] the deadly gray wall face to face with a
[0:10] powerful tornado that all but destroyed
[0:12] a small South Dakota town the same wave
[0:15] of violent storms brings death and
[0:17] destruction to a Broadband of the Upper
[0:20] Midwest and first pictures from its
[0:22] nuclear test site show Pakistan's new
[0:27] power this is the CBS evening
[0:31] news with John
[0:33] Roberts good evening on many a Sunday
[0:36] evening this year we have reported on
[0:38] tragedies brought about by a springtime
[0:40] of severe weather some people have
[0:41] called the worst they have ever seen now
[0:45] Nature has struck again this time with a
[0:47] tornado that touched down in the small
[0:49] town of Spencer South Dakota what
[0:51] residents described as a gray wall
[0:53] hundreds of yards wide destroyed 90% of
[0:56] the town and there is concern that it
[0:58] may never recover
[1:00] Jim Axel Rod is at Ground Zero of this
[1:02] latest tornado hit in
[1:07] Spencer a tornado has put Spencer South
[1:10] Dakota on the map tonight by practically
[1:12] wiping it off the map every tree is
[1:15] broken every house is damaged or gone it
[1:18] just looks like the like a nuclear uh a
[1:20] nuclear blast with that wave from a
[1:22] nuclear explosion just blew the town
[1:24] over oh man look at that baby the
[1:27] tornado blew in just before 9:00 some
[1:30] Witnesses say it stretched more than A4
[1:31] mile wide in this small town of fewer
[1:34] than 400 six are now dead most of the
[1:38] 150 injured lived in this apartment
[1:40] complex designed for the
[1:44] elderly
[1:46] years Emma gross is among the
[1:50] lucky she was out in a neighboring town
[1:52] when the tornado tore through her home
[1:55] for her Spencer will never be the same
[1:58] it's sh wel