CBS Evening News - 2003-10-28
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[0:00] First,
[0:01] >> he's the father of reality TV. Producer
[0:03] Mark Brenette talks about Survivor and
[0:04] More Wednesday. [music]
[0:11] This is the CBS [music] Evening News
[0:15] with Dan Rather reporting tonight from
[0:18] Southern California
[0:20] and John [music] Roberts in New York.
[0:24] >> Good evening from San Diego County in
[0:26] the thick of the Southern California
[0:28] wildfire zone. It's been another brutal
[0:31] day in the battle, though. Some fire
[0:33] crews further north finally got a bit of
[0:35] a break from the weather. But not around
[0:38] here, where one fire chief said his
[0:40] exhausted crews needed a break, even at
[0:43] the cost of more homes lost to the
[0:46] relentless flames.
[0:49] These are now among the most destructive
[0:51] and deadly wildfires in California
[0:53] history with bad flare-ups again today
[0:56] in San Diego and San Bernardino
[0:58] counties. Tonight, about 13 major fires
[1:02] are burning from near the Mexican border
[1:04] and San Diego to Seami Valley north of
[1:07] Los Angeles and east to the San
[1:09] Bernardino National Forest. At least
[1:12] 10,000 firefighters, some brought in
[1:14] from neighboring states, are in the line
[1:16] of fire. The number of people confirmed
[1:19] killed in the firestorms rose today to
[1:22] at least 15. More than 1,500 homes have
[1:27] been destroyed with more than half a
[1:29] million acres now up in smoke. Officials
[1:32] estimate just fighting the fires will
[1:35] cost the state $100 million. And that's
[1:38] not counting the still mounting billions
[1:41] in fire losses.
[1:43] Tonight, CBS News correspondents are
[1:45] again deployed throughout the Southern
[1:47] California fire zones. Here in San Diego
[1:50] County, firefighting cr