CBS Evening News - 1999-08-22

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[0:02] Storming ashore, Hurricane Brett slams

[0:04] into the Texas Gulf Coast with powerful

[0:07] winds and driving rain. Ready or not,

[0:10] Texas residents brace themselves for a

[0:12] powerful blow. Sensing trouble, experts

[0:15] try to figure out how this storm grew so

[0:18] big so fast. And a few last miracles

[0:22] aside, rescue crews in Turkey are ending

[0:25] the search for survivors.

[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:32] with John Roberts.

[0:35] Good evening. The first hurricane of the

[0:37] 1999 season is a monster and it is

[0:41] battering the coast of Texas tonight.

[0:43] Hurricane Brett is taking aim on a

[0:45] stretch of coastline between Brownsville

[0:47] and Corpus Christi with sustained winds

[0:49] of 140 mph, making it a dangerous

[0:53] category 4 storm. The Federal Emergency

[0:56] Management Agency says it has the

[0:58] potential to be a major disaster. We

[1:00] have expanded coverage of Hurricane

[1:02] Brett tonight, beginning with Bob

[1:03] McNamera in Baffin Bay.

[1:06] This is Baffin Bay on the South Texas

[1:08] coast. It's about 30 mi south of Corpus

[1:11] Christi. It's an area of fishing

[1:13] resorts, small farms, and some family

[1:15] homes. It's a relatively sparssely

[1:18] populated area, but some forecasters say

[1:20] it could be in or near the bullseye of

[1:23] Hurricane Brett when it comes ashore.

[1:25] All day here, the winds and the rains

[1:27] have been building. And though some say

[1:29] they will stay here and ride out the

[1:31] storm, others say they're scared and

[1:33] they're getting out.

[1:36] >> We're just taking a guess right now

[1:38] where we're going to go, but we're going

[1:39] away from the water.

[1:41] >> As Ta Lunis' children watch her, she

[1:43] packs all of the things she can never

[1:45] replace. memories,

[1:46] >> the trophies, the photo albums, the

[1:48] memories of 15 years on Baffin Bay.

[1:51] >> Like if I were to drive back here in 2

[1:53] days and find out my house is leveled, I

[1:56] will not feel that upset because I can

[1:58] replace the home, but I will have my

[2:00] family and my things with me and and

[2:03] start all over.

[2:06] >> Outside, Greg Lunas has dismantled a

[2:08] wooden fence to board up the windows of

[2:10] the house. And as the winds and rains

[2:13] intensify, he's scared Hurricane Brett

[2:16] could bring a wall of water that might

[2:17] level his waterfront home.

[2:19] >> Tide surge is is one of the main

[2:21] concerns, and the tornadoes that are

[2:23] normally associated with hurricanes is

[2:24] another thing that I worry about.

[2:26] >> Nearby, men boarded up the stained glass

[2:28] windows at Our Lady of Consolation

[2:31] Catholic Church. The church will be a

[2:33] shelter tonight for anyone needing it.

[2:35] >> We had a hurried mess so everybody could

[2:37] go home and get prepared.

[2:40] said a few prayers.

[2:43] >> The Federal Emergency Management Agency,

[2:45] FEMA, is worried that a storm surge, a

[2:47] 15t wall of water, could inundate this

[2:50] place when the hurricane comes ashore.

[2:53] They're also concerned that people here

[2:55] are not leaving fast enough. And in

[2:57] that, they say a major disaster could be

[3:00] at hand. Bob McNamera, CBS News, Baffen

[3:03] Bay, Texas. Hurricane Brett is the first

[3:06] category 4 storm to hit the US mainland

[3:08] since Andrew in 1992 and the first to

[3:10] hit Texas since Hurricane Carla back in

[3:13] 1961. And with memories of those

[3:15] disasters well in mind, no one along the

[3:18] coast was taking any chances today.

[3:20] Cynthia Bowers is at the northern end of

[3:22] the warning zone in Corpus Christi.

[3:25] The winds are now gusting and are

[3:26] expected to pick up with predictions for

[3:28] Corpus Christi of gusts between 70 and

[3:31] 120 mph. Corpus Christi has weathered

[3:34] some deadly and dangerous storms, but

[3:37] never a category 4 hurricane like Brett.

[3:40] Today's exodus jammed major thorough

[3:42] affairs as many of the nearly 300,000

[3:45] people who live in this port city made

[3:47] their way inland on the advice of

[3:49] authorities preparing to deal with what

[3:51] could be the fiercest storm ever to hit

[3:53] this close to Corpus Christi.

[3:55] >> This is a very serious storm. We're

[3:57] taking it very seriously and we're

[3:58] asking for their cooperation. Officials

[4:00] are concerned about complacency in this

[4:02] coastal resort. The last major hurricane

[4:04] to hit this area was more than a decade

[4:06] ago, and they're worried people won't

[4:08] take warnings seriously, but residents

[4:11] tell us Hurricane Brett has them scared.

[4:13] There is a real sense of danger.

[4:15] >> I am concerned. I'm from Florida

[4:17] originally, and there it wasn't, you

[4:19] know, as bad. Here it seems like there's

[4:21] a little bit more of a panic and it's

[4:22] making me a little bit nervous.

[4:23] Nonetheless, Jackie is planning to ride

[4:26] this one out and was stocking up on

[4:28] groceries this morning at one of the few

[4:30] stores still open in Corpus Christi.

[4:32] >> We've been uh selling taste of pallets

[4:34] of water, pallets of uh potted meats,

[4:36] pallets of uh any kind of fruit or

[4:39] anything else that they can find that

[4:41] they need to buy. We're trying to keep

[4:43] up.

[4:43] >> As fast as Stan Riley is stocking, many

[4:46] of the shelves here have emptied as

[4:48] people prepare to take shelter. Debbie

[4:50] Pauline says this storm intensified so

[4:52] quickly she was caught off guard.

[4:54] >> But I have a lot of animals. I have a

[4:56] lot of kids. And when you're trying to

[4:58] get out in this this late,

[5:00] you might get stuck in the storm in a

[5:02] car. I'd rather be in my house.

[5:04] >> The hurricane isn't the only concern

[5:06] here in Corpus Christi. This city is

[5:08] under a tornado watch and a flash flood

[5:10] watch as well. John.

[5:13] >> Well, every hurricane has its own

[5:15] distinct character. Some scientists say

[5:17] Brett appears to be following a pattern

[5:19] seen in other storms. How did a

[5:21] relatively small hurricane suddenly grow

[5:24] into a monster? Jeffrey Kaufman tonight

[5:26] with some new theories on that.

[5:29] As hurricanes go, Brett began the

[5:31] weekend as a pretty meek one. But by

[5:34] late Saturday, Brett had transformed

[5:35] itself into a tiger, leaping from a

[5:38] category 2 to a category 4 in just a few

[5:41] hours. Something happened. Scientists

[5:44] suspect the Eddie effect. The red area

[5:47] on this heatsensitive map shows a deep

[5:49] puddle of warm water in the Gulf. Late

[5:52] yesterday, Brett passed right over that

[5:54] eddy, and that's just when it

[5:56] intensified.

[5:57] >> An eddy affects the hurricane by

[5:59] providing more heat to the atmosphere.

[6:02] Of course, the more heat to the

[6:04] atmosphere, the greater the chances of

[6:07] intensification for these systems.

[6:10] >> That's exactly what happened in 1995

[6:12] when Hurricane Opel crashed into the

[6:14] Florida panhandle. Just before Opel hit,

[6:17] its moderate winds intensified from 98

[6:20] to 150 m an hour. Opel had passed over

[6:23] an eddi. The eddies are constantly being

[6:26] formed as the warm Caribbean current

[6:28] winds through the Gulf. The giant eddies

[6:30] break off and slowly spin across, taking

[6:33] months to hit the west coast where they

[6:35] disintegrate. Using high-tech

[6:37] temperature gauges, scientists are now

[6:39] tracking the Eddie's impact on

[6:41] hurricanes.

[6:42] >> The good news is we know where the

[6:44] eddies are this year. The bad news is

[6:46] it's in phase with hurricane season.

[6:49] >> It's not simply about proving theory.

[6:52] It's about helping scientists predict

[6:53] the strength and the path of hurricanes

[6:55] so that people have time to prepare.

[6:58] Jeffrey Kaufman, CBS News, New York.

[7:01] Still to come on tonight's CBS Evening

[7:02] News, little hope for finding any more

[7:05] miracle survivors of the Turkish

[7:07] earthquake.

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[8:44] The total of confirmed dead from last

[8:46] week's earthquake in Turkey passed

[8:47] 12,100

[8:49] today, though the final toll could reach

[8:51] 40,000. Incredibly, two more people were

[8:54] found alive, but Randall Kingston tells

[8:56] us it's clear organized rescue efforts

[8:58] are ending.

[9:02] >> Adellet Chatino may be one of the final

[9:04] miracles of this earthquake. 52 years

[9:07] old and disabled, she was found alive

[9:09] after 130 hours. But now, following six

[9:13] desperate days of feverish struggle, the

[9:15] search and rescue teams and the Turkish

[9:17] government have decided there will

[9:19] likely be no more miracles. Sure.

[9:25] Nobody.

[9:26] >> The Swiss have left. The team from

[9:28] Virginia will leave soon. And the

[9:30] mountains of concrete have now been

[9:32] turned over to the bulldozer crews.

[9:37] But on the main street of Adapazari,

[9:39] which is about as bad as it gets around

[9:41] here, these people won't give up,

[9:43] doggedly searching for what they believe

[9:45] is a survivor.

[9:47] Then the sad reality. No one is alive

[9:51] here. Soon they will join their

[9:53] neighbors in salvaging what they can.

[9:56] Anything to start over again. A sewing

[9:58] machine, furniture, curtains.

[10:02] There's never a good place for an

[10:04] earthquake, but this one couldn't have

[10:06] occurred in a worse location. This city

[10:08] is one of several in the epicenter of

[10:10] Turkeykey's industrial production.

[10:12] Onethird of the nation's wealth is

[10:14] produced here. But with massive power

[10:16] disruptions, shortages of fuel and

[10:18] water, and a shattered workforce, Turkey

[10:21] is at a standstill. By one estimate, the

[10:24] earthquake cut commerce by $250 million

[10:27] a week. Money that will never be

[10:29] recovered. The good news is that many of

[10:31] the largest factories escaped damage.

[10:34] But until these people have somewhere to

[10:36] live, food, and safe running water,

[10:38] Turkeykey's industrial health is the

[10:40] least of their concerns. Randall

[10:42] Kingston, CBS News, Adapazari, Turkey.

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[12:50] As the nation's schools reopen, teachers

[12:52] are increasingly worrying about security

[12:55] and behavioral issues that rarely

[12:57] concern them before. To the already long

[12:59] list of worries add one more. Academic

[13:02] honesty or the lack of it. That's

[13:04] tonight's Sunday cover. High-tech

[13:06] cheating. As simple as a double click,

[13:09] but a lot harder to stop.

[13:13] 16-year-old honor student Leah Salowski

[13:16] has always used hard work to get good

[13:18] grades.

[13:19] >> But last year, she crossed the line when

[13:21] she was assigned to write a paper in

[13:23] Spanish about the importance of eating a

[13:25] healthy diet.

[13:26] >> I just didn't think I'd get caught. So,

[13:28] I went on the internet and I looked up a

[13:30] healthy diet in Spanish and it brought

[13:33] up a whole bunch and I just picked one.

[13:35] I printed it out and I retyped it and I

[13:37] turned it as my own work. I don't have

[13:40] school on Monday yet.

[13:41] >> But Leah did get caught. She got an F on

[13:43] her assignment and a strike against her

[13:46] academic record for cheating. Her school

[13:48] has a strict honor code. But if you ask

[13:51] Leah if she cheated

[13:52] >> in a sense, but I didn't think it was a

[13:54] big deal as it really turned out to be

[13:57] that it was like a small thing since it

[13:59] was a homework assignment. I didn't

[14:00] think it was like, oh, I'm cheating on a

[14:01] test or anything like that.

[14:03] >> Any question about the directions?

[14:05] >> And that lace fair attitude toward

[14:07] cheating is approaching epidemic

[14:09] proportions in America. Nearly 90% of

[14:12] high school students admit they cut

[14:14] corners by copying homework, cheating on

[14:16] tests, and plagiarizing papers. And an

[14:19] estimated 70% of college students admit

[14:22] to cheating.

[14:23] >> You certainly can't deny that there's a

[14:25] bull market in plagiarism right now. And

[14:27] part of that is a result of the

[14:29] internet.

[14:30] >> Barbara Glatt is a former English

[14:32] professor who now runs a website

[14:34] dedicated to helping teachers identify

[14:36] and cope with cheating. She says easy

[14:39] access on the internet to everything

[14:41] from research papers to publications is

[14:44] threatening the very concept of

[14:45] education. Academic honesty speaks to

[14:49] the integrity of the entire learning

[14:51] process. And so when you tamper with

[14:53] that and when you have plagiarism going

[14:55] on, then no learning is taking place.

[14:57] And that affects all of us.

[14:59] >> Get into this Little Rock High School.

[15:01] Why would they do that?

[15:02] >> Christopher Mack is a senior and

[15:04] straight A student in Austin, Texas.

[15:06] He's never done it, but says fierce

[15:08] competition for good grades drives many

[15:11] students to cheat.

[15:12] >> It can definitely be intense, especially

[15:13] when you're vying for scholarships and

[15:15] things like that. And you know, every

[15:17] grade affects your GPA and your GPA

[15:19] affects the kind of colleges you can be

[15:21] admitted into.

[15:22] >> 14-year-old junior Sarah Schulman says

[15:25] teachers don't know how to handle the

[15:27] problem.

[15:28] >> Teachers aren't really stopping it. At

[15:30] least in uh none of the classes I have.

[15:32] I see students cheating all the time and

[15:34] it's a really big loss for those of us

[15:36] who do study.

[15:37] >> I don't let any instance of academic

[15:39] cheating go by unnoticed or uncharged.

[15:43] Colleges with stringent honor codes,

[15:45] like the University of North Carolina at

[15:47] Chapel Hill, strive to eliminate

[15:49] academic dishonesty, but can't catch

[15:52] everyone. Senior Drew Haywood, an

[15:54] investigator with UNC's Honor Court,

[15:56] listens to as many as 60 cheating cases

[15:59] each semester.

[16:00] >> I think academic cheating is a bigger

[16:02] problem here than say drug use, for

[16:03] example. Um, it's a problem that we

[16:05] constantly have to work on. For Leah

[16:08] Solowski, who starts classes this week,

[16:10] that means resisting temptation. With

[16:13] one strike for cheating already against

[16:15] her, two more and she's out.

[16:17] >> I might think about it, but well, right

[16:20] now, I think I'm going to look back on

[16:22] what happened to me, and it should be a

[16:23] lesson to me not to do it again.

[16:26] So, at this point, I probably won't.

[16:29] >> Would be cheaters at the college level

[16:30] beware. More schools are putting

[16:32] cheating incidents on students

[16:34] disciplinary records. And more and more

[16:36] employers are asking to see those

[16:38] records before they hire. There's a

[16:40] happy event at the San Diego Zoo, the

[16:42] birth of a baby giant panda. Zookeepers

[16:44] say the cub appears to be healthy, but

[16:46] it's too early to tell its gender. The

[16:48] cub is the first to be born in the

[16:50] Western Hemisphere since 1990.

[16:53] And updating our top story today,

[16:55] Hurricane Brett, a powerful category 4

[16:57] storm, is moving in on in the Texas Gulf

[16:59] Coast this evening with sustained winds

[17:01] of 140 mph. The eyewall has now passed

[17:04] over Padre Island. Stay with CBS and the

[17:07] CBS station for the latest on this

[17:09] dangerous storm. I'm John Roberts, CBS

[17:11] News in New York. Thanks for joining us.

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