Hurricane Irene - CBS Evening News - 2011-08-27

Name: Hurricane Irene - CBS Evening News - 2011-08-27
Uploaded: 2023-08-20
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[0:00] tonight landfall Hurricane Irene blasts

[0:04] into North Carolina behind 100 mile an

[0:06] hour winds and storms up the East Coast

[0:09] more than 500 miles across Irene is a

[0:12] monster and some 65 million people are

[0:15] in her path more than 2 million have

[0:17] been ordered to evacuate New York City

[0:19] has hunkered down bus and subway service

[0:21] has been suspended and all incoming

[0:24] flights have been canceled disaster

[0:26] declarations have been issued for nine

[0:28] states and storm warnings extend from

[0:31] North Carolina into Canada

[0:37] this is the CBS Evening News

[0:41] good evening I'm Anthony Mason Irene has

[0:44] arrived tonight large and dangerous the

[0:46] storm is lashing the East Coast she

[0:49] slammed ashore this morning near Cape

[0:51] Lookout North Carolina as a category one

[0:53] hurricane with wind gusts up to 115

[0:56] miles an hour here's the latest more

[0:58] than 2 million people have been ordered

[1:00] to evacuate along the Atlantic coast

[1:02] that includes some 370 thousand in New

[1:05] York City at least five deaths are

[1:08] blamed on the Storm including a child

[1:10] killed when a tree fell on a home in

[1:12] Virginia nearly a million homes and

[1:15] businesses are without power tonight we

[1:17] have a team of correspondents deployed

[1:19] throughout the area we begin with Mark

[1:21] Strassman in Kill Devil Hills North

[1:24] Carolina

[1:25] the eye of Irene has just passed to the

[1:27] west of us so this area is now in the

[1:29] back half of this storm there's already

[1:31] flooding and damage and with 25-foot

[1:33] waves reported offshore more troubles

[1:36] coming

[1:39] Irene whipped the Outer Banks slashing

[1:41] rain Winds of 115 miles per hour its

[1:45] Fury knocked