CBS Evening News - 2001-01-26
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[0:00] The third division was the key players
[0:02] of an earthquake that has killed
[0:04] thousands. The dark age has come to
[0:06] modern America. What's behind short
[0:08] supplies and high prices for energy? An
[0:11] explosion of eco terror. Tonight's Eye
[0:14] on America. And men on a mission to
[0:17] score the hottest ticket in town.
[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:32] Rather.
[0:33] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm
[0:35] John Roberts. It took just 2 minutes for
[0:37] a day of national celebration in India
[0:40] to become a day of national calamity.
[0:43] Thousands are dead or missing after a
[0:45] violent earthquake magnitude 7.9 brought
[0:48] down hundreds of buildings. It was
[0:50] centered near Puj 200 miles from two
[0:53] major cities. Amadabad, India and
[0:56] Karachi, Pakistan. Officially tonight,
[0:58] more than 2,000 are dead with thousands
[1:01] more unaccounted for. CBS News
[1:03] correspondent Richard Roth begins our
[1:06] coverage. With some heavy machines, but
[1:08] mostly with bare hands. Tonight, Western
[1:10] India is in a desperate struggle to dig
[1:13] out survivors from what's been the worst
[1:15] earthquake on the subcontinent in 50
[1:17] years. At the epicenter, a town called
[1:20] BCH, where nine of every 10 buildings
[1:22] have been damaged or destroyed.
[1:25] Officials say as many as a thousand
[1:26] people are dead and hundreds more are
[1:29] injured. The quake collapsed buildings
[1:31] in Ahmedabad, India's textile center,
[1:34] including a school with 30 children
[1:36] inside. It was so powerful it shook the
[1:39] ground from the capital in Delhi to the
[1:41] mountains of Nepal a thousand miles
[1:44] away. The prime minister put the country
[1:46] on a war footing, ca