World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-12-21

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 1997-12-21
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[0:05] On World News tonight this Sunday, a new

[0:07] advance and a new battlefield in the

[0:10] controversy over abortion.

[0:13] Devastating and deadly floods cover much

[0:15] of Texas.

[0:17] And why millions believe Princess Diana

[0:20] was assassinated.

[0:24] From ABC, this is World News tonight,

[0:28] Sunday. Here's Carole Simpson.

[0:31] Good evening. This time El Nino has

[0:34] struck the heart of the nation and the

[0:35] results were fatal. It has been a deadly

[0:38] weekend in Texas. A series of freak

[0:40] storms pounded huge regions of the state

[0:43] with rain and snow. ABC's Bill Whitaker

[0:46] has the latest.

[0:48] It happened at the height of the holiday

[0:50] shopping season, when motorists were out

[0:52] in force, and it was deadly. Eight

[0:55] people were killed as winter storms

[0:57] dropped more than a half foot of rain in

[0:59] North, Central, and West Texas. In

[1:02] Houston, the storm battered this

[1:04] restaurant. The whole front end of the

[1:06] restaurant the roof collapsed and we ran

[1:08] from the building and you could feel the

[1:09] air come through the restaurant and

[1:11] stuff blow out the front door. It was

[1:13] amazing. In Dallas-Fort Worth,

[1:16] lightning-packed storms kept planes on

[1:18] the ground, creating delays of up to 1

[1:20] hour. The El Nino effect is being blamed

[1:23] for the southerly direction of the

[1:24] storm. It has now moved east, but

[1:27] weather forecasters say a second storm

[1:29] will roll through the Texas Panhandle

[1:30] beginning tomorrow morning, dropping

[1:32] another 3 in of snow. Bill Whitaker, ABC

[1:36] News, New York.

[1:38] For much of this year, legislators and

[1:40] doctors have been arguing over a

[1:42] procedure for performing late abortions.

[1:45] Now, a n