CBS Evening News - 1998-04-09
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[0:21] the deadliest us tornado season in 14
[0:24] years strikes again this time at least
[0:26] 44 dead and Counting as tornadoes rake
[0:29] the southeast East Alabama at Ground
[0:32] Zero near Birmingham a church takes a
[0:34] crushing tornado hit but the
[0:36] congregation inside is spared a pilot's
[0:40] life hangs by a thread you will see the
[0:42] dramatic end to a daring Highwire rescue
[0:45] and I on America the state-of-the-art in
[0:48] shelters for the homeless but wait till
[0:51] you see who's living
[0:55] there this is the CBS Evening News
[1:00] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[1:03] headquarters in New York good evening
[1:06] new and tragic evidence that April is
[1:08] the cruellest and deadliest month of the
[1:11] spring tornado season this is the scene
[1:14] today whole neighborhoods wiped off the
[1:16] map near Birmingham Alabama where in
[1:19] this area alone at least 32 persons died
[1:23] but the overnight storms and twisters
[1:24] and search and rescue today go much
[1:27] wider the tornado Terror stretched AC
[1:29] across three states from Georgia to
[1:32] Mississippi but it was Alabama that took
[1:34] the deadliest hit one monster tornado
[1:37] near Birmingham tore up a path a mile
[1:40] wide and 15 miles long cbs's art rascon
[1:43] is at Ground
[1:45] Zero everywhere you look there is
[1:47] massive destruction Three Counties were
[1:50] hit hard by at least two Twisters maybe
[1:52] more I thought we were gone 68-year-old
[1:55] Frederick Johnson somehow survived even
[1:58] after being buried under his house
[2:01] reduced to 4 ft of rubble rain started
[2:03] hitting me I knew then the top was
[2:06] gone and then about a few second later
[2:08] the floor start doing this up and down
[2:11] up and d