World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-08-26

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[0:00] Yes, and we'll see you back here with

[0:01] more news tonight at 6.

[0:02] >> See you then

[0:04] >> on World News Tonight this Wednesday.

[0:08] Hurricane Bonnie hits the Carolina

[0:10] coast. Furious winds,

[0:13] torrential rains, massive waves. I'm

[0:17] stuck.

[0:18] You can't get off now. I left my truck

[0:20] up at the shop so I wouldn't worry about

[0:23] it flooding. And uh I'm just going to

[0:25] have to ride it out. It's home. I don't

[0:28] want to leave.

[0:29] I'll pay the consequences no matter what

[0:31] it is.

[0:32] >> Tracking Bonnie minute by minute with

[0:34] the people who are under pressure to

[0:36] figure out where the storm will go next

[0:39] and a dire prediction. 20 years of bad

[0:42] hurricanes. We'll take a closer look

[0:53] from ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:56] York. This is World News Tonight with

[0:59] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,

[1:01] Forest Sawyer.

[1:02] >> Good evening. Hurricane Bonnie has blown

[1:04] ashore near Capefir, North Carolina,

[1:07] causing property damage, power outages,

[1:09] and swamping roads. Here's how Bonnie

[1:11] looks right near the center of the

[1:13] storm. It has slowed over land, moving

[1:16] only about 5 mph now, which means the

[1:18] area around the storm center could be

[1:20] battered by fierce rain for as long as

[1:23] 36 hours. Sustained winds are reported

[1:25] at around 115 mph, gusts up to 130. We

[1:30] have several reports from up and down

[1:32] the coast, as well as a look at where

[1:34] the storm is likely to move next. We

[1:36] begin at ground zero, Wilmington, North

[1:39] Carolina with ABC's Rebecca Chase.

[1:41] Rebecca

[1:42] >> Forest, I'm here on the banks of the

[1:44] Capefar River, which is rising rapidly.

[1:47] This slowdown of Hurricane Bonnie is

[1:49] very bad news here because there's been

[1:52] virtually no letup in the intensity.

[1:54] It's going to be a very long night and

[1:56] it's already been a long day.

[2:01] First light brought the first strong

[2:03] winds. By 10:00, winds intensified.

[2:09] Rain came down in sheets and water

[2:12] covered peers and roadways.

[2:17] On the coast, waves crashed violently,

[2:20] pushed by the first hurricane force

[2:22] winds. As the eye headed towards

[2:24] Wilmington, the Baker family, like many

[2:26] families here, chose to ride out the

[2:28] storm in their boarded up home. With no

[2:31] power, a weather radio was a vital

[2:33] source of information.

[2:35] >> Dangerous wind gust from the east as

[2:37] high as 100 mph. The Bakers have gone

[2:40] through hurricanes before, but Estelle

[2:42] Baker says it never gets any easier.

[2:45] >> It's very intimidating and um yes, it

[2:48] does make me nervous. The sound of the

[2:50] wind really unnerves me.

[2:52] >> Estelle's friend Rachel Christopher

[2:54] anxiously watched as the wind buffeted

[2:57] trees and blew debris down the street.

[3:00] >> Are you a little nervous? It's a little

[3:01] scary.

[3:02] >> It's Yeah, I'm apprehensive because I I

[3:04] can see the power of the storm and the

[3:06] damage it could do. The Bakers are

[3:08] especially worried about the damage to

[3:10] the restaurant they own on the

[3:11] waterfront across from their home.

[3:14] That's one of the reasons they didn't

[3:15] want to leave.

[3:16] >> I guess it's kind of like leaving a

[3:18] child or leaving something you don't

[3:19] ever want to do it. You know, you have

[3:20] to you have to sit here. Not there's

[3:22] anything you can do to protect it.

[3:24] >> By early afternoon, the leading edge of

[3:26] the eye of the hurricane brought some of

[3:28] the strongest winds of the day. Trees

[3:31] toppled. Electrical transformers were

[3:34] popping.

[3:35] Power lines came down. Not an easy time

[3:39] for families.

[3:40] >> At times it can be very scary because of

[3:42] course I have four children.

[3:44] >> 25 miles from Wilmington, Bonnie ripped

[3:47] the roof off a community hospital. No

[3:49] one was injured, but patients in

[3:51] critical condition had to be taken to

[3:53] other hospitals. Late this afternoon,

[3:55] the eye approached downtown Wilmington

[3:58] and stalled, but continue to build in

[4:00] strength. For residents, this just

[4:03] prolongs the agony of the storm.

[4:06] This slowdown of Bonnie means that it

[4:09] will be here through the night and even

[4:10] tomorrow. That means another night in

[4:13] darkened homes and shelters and hours

[4:15] and hours of this driving wind and rain.

[4:18] Emergency crews are here and ready to go

[4:20] to work if Bonnie will ever leave.

[4:23] Forest

[4:24] >> Becky, I know that for the folks in

[4:25] Wilmington, this is bringing back

[4:26] unpleasant memories of Hurricane Fran

[4:28] back in 1996. How do you compare? Is it

[4:31] is this one worse?

[4:33] >> Well, they've certainly learned the

[4:35] lessons from Fran and they seem much

[4:36] better prepared and coordinated this

[4:38] time around. And while Bonnie is a a

[4:41] category 3 storm just like Fran was. In

[4:44] fact, because it's hanging around so

[4:45] long, it may very well end up to be far

[4:48] more damaging. Rebecca Chase around

[4:50] Wilmington, North Carolina. Go find

[4:51] someplace dry. Rebecca, thanks a lot.

[4:54] Well, half a million people may have

[4:55] evacuated the hardest hit parts of the

[4:57] coast, but as always, there are still a

[4:59] few who simply refuse to leave, no

[5:01] matter what the danger. The question is

[5:03] why? ABC's Steve Osansami is in Atlantic

[5:07] Beach near Morehead City, North

[5:08] Carolina.

[5:11] >> At noon, high winds forced Atlantic

[5:14] Beach detective Dave Morris to close the

[5:16] bridge between the island and the

[5:17] mainland, one of the last roads to

[5:19] inland safety. But there are people left

[5:22] behind determined to stay. Harry Rippy

[5:25] owns the pier on the outer shore and

[5:26] decided to ride out the storm so he can

[5:29] make quick repairs to protect his

[5:31] business.

[5:32] >> Well, I need to stay here because it's

[5:34] so long. It takes me so long to get back

[5:36] across this bridge after they close it.

[5:38] And uh I need to stay and assess the

[5:40] damage that I have probably.

[5:41] >> By tomorrow morning, people here will

[5:43] have a better idea of what they have

[5:45] left. And according to forecasters, it's

[5:47] the flooding that will do the most harm.

[5:50] That's one reason why Tony Hill and his

[5:52] family are carefully watching the ocean

[5:54] from the beach motel they've owned for

[5:55] years. They hope to keep rising waters

[5:58] from destroying the business.

[5:59] >> You know, what happens happens and uh

[6:02] just try to deal with it the best you

[6:03] can. Try to save what you can save and

[6:06] that's all you can do.

[6:09] >> Late this afternoon, the storm took out

[6:11] power lines that serve the entire

[6:13] island. So tonight, both Rippy and Hill

[6:16] will have to hold their own in a city

[6:18] even firefighters say is too dangerous

[6:21] to navigate. Steo Sansami, ABC News,

[6:24] Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. Let's

[6:27] move on up the Carolina coast. The

[6:28] damage there is not as bad yet, but the

[6:31] few people left on the string of barrier

[6:33] islands known as the Outer Banks are

[6:35] waiting and they are certainly

[6:36] preparing. ABC's Bill Ricker is in Nags

[6:39] Head, North Carolina. Bill.

[6:41] >> Forest. The barrier islands form a

[6:43] narrow strip of land and bridges that

[6:45] run parallel down the coast for hundreds

[6:47] of miles. They are therefore exposed to

[6:49] the fury of the storm on both sides. Now

[6:52] today, because Bonnie is taking so long

[6:54] in getting here, local officials had a

[6:56] welcome opportunity to get out on the

[6:58] island to see who is here and who is

[7:00] not. From one end of the Outer Bank to

[7:04] the other, it was mostly deserted today.

[7:06] Gone were more than a quarter of a

[7:08] million tourists who abandoned thousands

[7:10] of vacation rental homes. In the coastal

[7:12] community of Kildevil Hills, firemen

[7:15] searched for those who stayed behind.

[7:17] Come for a storm. You know what I mean?

[7:20] >> Notice though, a lot of houses are

[7:22] boarded up.

[7:23] >> The tourists may have fled, but about

[7:25] 3,000 of the people who live here year

[7:27] round are still here in Nags Head. James

[7:30] Spens, his wife Wanda, and their five

[7:32] children stayed behind. They stocked up

[7:35] on three days worth of supplies and

[7:37] nailed down everything that could be

[7:38] blown away.

[7:39] >> Basically take care of the outside of

[7:40] the building so that we'll be safe

[7:42] inside. Right here, we got everything

[7:44] totally covered. There's no exposed

[7:45] windows. Cover the door locks up cuz

[7:47] they'll get sand blasted.

[7:50] >> Farther down the barrier island in

[7:51] Rodanthy, well known for its worldclass

[7:54] surfing, there were other stragglers,

[7:56] but no takers. Not even the most

[7:58] experienced surfer here would challenge

[8:00] these 10-ft waves. The waves are too big

[8:03] and the wind's blowing too hard right

[8:04] now.

[8:05] >> Too dangerous.

[8:07] >> Yeah, it's a little bit crazy.

[8:09] >> More than anything else, flooding is

[8:11] what worries people here the most. They

[8:13] expect the storm will back up the water

[8:15] in the sound between the Outer Bank and

[8:17] the mainland, causing serious flooding,

[8:19] making it impossible for anyone to get

[8:22] out.

[8:23] That danger will be at its peak tonight

[8:25] and early tomorrow morning when the full

[8:28] fury of the storm that is now battering

[8:30] the coast in the south arrives here in

[8:32] the north forest. Bill Ricker at a

[8:35] deceptively calm neck. Thank you, Bill.

[8:37] Now, former director of the National

[8:39] Hurricane Center, Bob Sheets, now an ABC

[8:41] News consultant, joins us again tonight

[8:42] from Orlando. And if you would once

[8:44] again, Bob, provide us with some

[8:45] grounding. Where is the storm going?

[8:47] What do you see it up to next? Well,

[8:48] Forest, we've had some little disturbing

[8:50] news here this afternoon because the

[8:52] storm really slowed down even though the

[8:54] core is not as strong as a Hugo or

[8:56] Andrew or anything like that. It slowed

[8:58] down considerably. And in fact, it may

[9:01] take another day or two before it moves

[9:04] off of North Carolina and may even

[9:06] little loop. In 1884, we had the

[9:08] hurricane out there, Diana, that sort of

[9:10] looped there. And so, that means we're

[9:11] going to have a very extended period of

[9:13] 24 to 48 hours where this storm is still

[9:16] going to be around. A lot of flooding, a

[9:18] lot of beach erosion.

[9:19] >> Well, Governor Hunt of North Carolina

[9:20] has already expressed a lot of concern

[9:21] that the storm has stalled. That means

[9:23] it's just going to sit there and

[9:24] continue to pound the very same region.

[9:26] >> Exactly. Right for us. And and that's of

[9:28] course makes it much more difficult to

[9:30] forecast what's going to happen. We'd

[9:32] expected what this little front over

[9:33] here to pick it on out and take it out,

[9:35] but it may be flattening out and it may

[9:37] stall there and just loop right around

[9:38] over the eastern part of North Carolina.

[9:40] Happened before 1984.

[9:42] >> This time we'll hope for the best. Bob

[9:43] Sheets in Orlando. Thanks again, Bob.

[9:44] >> Thank you. Now, the concern about

[9:46] Hurricane Bonnie does extend far to the

[9:48] north. The military has moved 300 planes

[9:50] and 80 ships out of its path. One of the

[9:52] largest redeployments since the Gulf

[9:54] War. Most of those planes are now all

[9:56] the way over in Ohio. Beaches are

[9:58] closed. Swimmers are being kept out of

[10:00] the water as far north as Massachusetts.

[10:02] You can see the strength of the storm

[10:04] they're worried about at an amusement

[10:06] park in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

[10:08] And you might think that ferris wheel is

[10:09] running. It is not. It's actually being

[10:12] blown by the wind. We'll be back in a

[10:15] minute with more on the storm. When the

[10:16] forecast could make the difference

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[11:49] The sheer magnitude of Hurricane Bonnie

[11:52] is certainly striking. This is an

[11:54] enormous storm, 400 miles across, about

[11:57] the size of Kansas, which means its

[11:59] destructive impact will be felt far

[12:01] beyond the storm center. Bonnie's a

[12:04] category 3 hurricane with heavy rain and

[12:07] winds between 112 and 131 mph.

[12:11] Category 3 storms typically cause

[12:13] extensive damage to trees, power lines,

[12:16] and smaller structures, especially

[12:18] mobile homes.

[12:21] Bonnie is hitting the coast dead on,

[12:23] which means devastating walls of water

[12:26] as high as 12 ft.

[12:29] And when a massive storm like this one

[12:30] hits, everyone along the coast needs to

[12:32] know as best they can how strong it is,

[12:35] where it is, where it may turn next. It

[12:37] is lifesaving information. Getting it

[12:40] out is a job at the National Hurricane

[12:41] Center in Miami. ABC's Bob Woodruff has

[12:44] just spent a very tense 24 hours there.

[12:47] >> Two different numbers. late Tuesday

[12:49] afternoon at the National Hurricane

[12:51] Center in Miami.

[12:52] >> I got nice round numbers here. I've got

[12:53] um 310765

[12:57] 250 mi south of Cape Lookout.

[12:59] >> For days, this team of a dozen

[13:01] scientists has worked around the clock

[13:03] tracking Bonnie.

[13:04] >> But only now can they begin to say where

[13:06] she's going.

[13:07] >> We think it's going to curve north and

[13:08] again the eastern part of North

[13:10] Carolina.

[13:11] >> What is decided here will affect

[13:12] evacuation and rescue plans up and down

[13:15] the east coast. Many lives and billions

[13:17] of dollars are at stake.

[13:19] >> That much time and you need to go ahead.

[13:21] >> Reporters in the next room are critical

[13:23] to getting the word out.

[13:24] >> If you're supposed to evacuate, if you

[13:26] live close to the coast and you're

[13:27] supposed to evacuate, do it.

[13:29] >> The scientists rely on sophisticated

[13:31] computers and satellite imagery to make

[13:33] their predictions, but it's not an exact

[13:35] science.

[13:36] >> Get people nervous. It has a turn. You

[13:37] know, they expect ext, you know,

[13:39] exactness, precision, you know, and and

[13:42] we're trying to be precise, but we can't

[13:45] uh, you know, we can't be perfect.

[13:46] >> 2:00 this morning, the hurricane appears

[13:48] to have made a dangerous turn west. It

[13:51] could hit land sooner than they had

[13:52] thought.

[13:53] >> I'm going to extend the warnings from uh

[13:55] the hurricane warnings from Cape Roma

[13:57] down to Adisto Beach. What makes this

[14:00] job even more difficult is that in

[14:02] addition to Bonnie, there is another

[14:04] powerful hurricane named Danielle coming

[14:06] in along the same path just a few days

[14:09] behind.

[14:10] >> Big news is Danielle got even stronger

[14:13] overnight. Highest.

[14:14] >> But the forecasters still can't tell

[14:15] where Danielle will land. So at 9:00

[14:18] this morning, the focus is on Bonnie.

[14:20] The eye just 110 m from the coast.

[14:23] >> Does this hurricane worry you in its

[14:24] intensity and size?

[14:25] >> It does. It's going to do damage. 4:00

[14:28] the hurricane slams ashore. Now they

[14:30] must predict where the storm will turn

[14:32] next.

[14:33] >> You worry about being right or wrong.

[14:35] >> Yes, there are people's uh lives and

[14:39] that's that's

[14:40] people in danger.

[14:41] >> And when Bonnie passes, there will be

[14:43] more hurricanes. The season has just

[14:45] begun. Bob Woodruff, ABC News, Miami.

[14:49] >> And here's the latest on the next one.

[14:50] Danielle, it's about 600 miles east of

[14:53] St. Martin in the Leeward Islands. It is

[14:55] getting weaker late this afternoon. and

[14:56] winds dropped to about 85 mph.

[15:00] We'll be back in a moment with some of

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[17:15] >> In Washington today, new legal worries

[17:17] for the executive branch and this time

[17:19] it's Vice President Gore. Attorney

[17:21] General Janet Reno has stepped up the

[17:22] investigation into whether Gore broke

[17:24] the law while raising money for the 1996

[17:27] campaign. Here's ABC's John Cochran.

[17:31] >> Reno has decided to order a 90-day

[17:33] preliminary inquiry into whether an

[17:35] independent council should investigate

[17:36] the vice president's fundraising calls.

[17:39] At issue, did Gore make calls on federal

[17:41] property to raise so-called soft money,

[17:43] money to help the Democratic party? That

[17:45] would be legal. Or did he solicit hard

[17:48] money, money to help himself and Bill

[17:49] Clinton get reelected? That would be

[17:51] legally questionable. Gore seemed out of

[17:53] danger until last month when

[17:55] investigators obtained notes written by

[17:57] a former Gore aid during a campaign

[17:59] meeting. The aid wrote, "65% soft, 35%

[18:03] hard." He also quotes the vice president

[18:05] as saying, "Count me in on the calls."

[18:07] Reno's Republican critics will be

[18:09] satisfied only if she goes the next step

[18:12] and ask for an independent council to

[18:13] explore all campaign finance

[18:15] allegations.

[18:16] >> I get fussed at one way and I get cussed

[18:19] at another way and I'm never going to be

[18:21] mispar.

[18:23] >> Gore may still avoid what every

[18:25] Washington politician fears an

[18:26] independent council. Reno has indicated

[18:28] Gore should probably not be prosecuted

[18:30] unless there is evidence of aggravating

[18:32] circumstances such as pressuring federal

[18:34] workers to contribute. But Reno's

[18:36] decision to keep the controversy alive

[18:38] is still politically embarrassing for a

[18:40] vice president who wants to appear

[18:41] squeaky clean at a time when his boss

[18:44] does not. John Cochran, ABC News,

[18:47] Washington.

[18:48] >> Also in Washington today, Attorney

[18:49] General Janet Reno ordered a Justice

[18:51] Department review of evidence from the

[18:53] Martin Luther King assassination to

[18:55] examine whether James Earl Ray acted

[18:57] alone in the killing. That falls short

[18:59] of the national commission requested by

[19:02] the King family. Overseas tonight, the

[19:04] Libyan government has accepted a

[19:06] proposal by the US and Britain to try

[19:08] the two Libyans suspected in the bombing

[19:10] of Panama 103 over Lockerbe Scotland 10

[19:13] years ago. The proposal calls for the

[19:15] suspects to be turned over to the

[19:16] Netherlands and tried there in front of

[19:19] a panel of Scottish judges. In Russia

[19:22] tonight, a growing sense of panic over

[19:24] the nation's financial crisis. The

[19:25] ruble, Russia's currency, dropped

[19:28] another 5% against the dollar today.

[19:30] That's a full 40% in the past week and a

[19:32] half. And now the government is saying

[19:34] it can no longer afford to prop the

[19:36] ruble up in further trading which has

[19:38] prompted fears of a financial bloodbath

[19:40] tomorrow. The turmoil pushed stocks down

[19:43] worldwide, including on Wall Street,

[19:45] where the Dow Jones Industrials lost

[19:47] more than 79 points to close at 8523. On

[19:51] the NASDAQ market, stocks were down 30

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[22:26] Our closer look tonight is at a

[22:28] troubling prediction that affects the

[22:30] North Carolina coast and anywhere at

[22:32] risk of hurricanes that develop in the

[22:34] Atlantic Ocean. Now, you may have heard

[22:36] that forecasters are saying the Linia

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[22:42] worse. There is also a prediction that

[22:44] we are already in the midst of two

[22:46] decades of bad hurricane seasons. Here's

[22:49] ABC's Bill Blakemore.

[22:52] >> Though he lives and works in the

[22:53] Colorado Rockies, far from any

[22:55] hurricanes, Professor Bill Gray is

[22:58] famous for predicting hurricane seasons.

[23:01] And what he and his colleagues now say

[23:03] is that we'd better get ready for much

[23:05] more of what's facing us today along the

[23:07] coast of North Carolina.

[23:11] The probability of major landfall, of

[23:14] major storms along the southeast coast

[23:16] is going to go way up.

[23:17] >> Scientists have discovered 20ear cycles

[23:19] in which major hurricanes are much more

[23:21] frequent. Gray says we entered one of

[23:24] these cycles in 1995.

[23:28] >> 1995 and six were the two most active

[23:31] consecutive hurricane years we've ever

[23:34] uh had.

[23:36] 1997 was quiet because it was an El Nino

[23:39] year, which always means fewer Atlantic

[23:41] hurricanes. But 98 already appears to be

[23:44] a return to the predicted more active

[23:47] cycle.

[23:48] >> We're going to see hurricane damage more

[23:50] than we've ever previously seen it. And

[23:52] that's a very ominous out look.

[23:55] >> Gray's successful predictions are not

[23:57] made by computers.

[23:59] The atmosphere is too complex for

[24:02] >> scientists have found so many factors

[24:04] that affect hurricane seasons. They say

[24:07] even a computer as big as the Earth

[24:09] could never compute all the possible

[24:11] combinations.

[24:12] >> We understand some of it, but we don't

[24:14] understand it all and nobody does.

[24:17] >> The basic method Bill Gray uses for

[24:19] predicting hurricane seasons is to study

[24:21] the past. He compares bad hurricane

[24:24] seasons of the past to see what they

[24:25] might have in common. One of the things

[24:27] he's found is salt. When North Atlantic

[24:31] water is saltier, bad hurricanes are

[24:34] more frequent. They're also more

[24:36] frequent in years when West Africa has

[24:38] more rain and when mid-Atlantic water is

[24:42] warmer and when water north of Australia

[24:44] is cooler.

[24:49] All these global signs reappeared in

[24:52] 1995 after a lull of 20 years and it

[24:56] foreshadows enormous damage because

[24:59] during that lull construction along the

[25:01] east coast has exploded.

[25:04] >> There's been such a buildup of people

[25:05] and property values along the coast.

[25:08] Florida is a sitting duck. For example,

[25:11] if the 1926 hurricane that hit Miami did

[25:14] so today, it would do an estimated $60

[25:17] billion in damage. So for the next

[25:20] couple of decades, says Gray, coastal

[25:22] property owners and their insurance

[25:24] companies should batten down the

[25:26] hatches. Bill Blakemore, ABC News, Fort

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[25:31] >> Yeah, that looks pretty rough. We'll be

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[27:27] >> Now, a brief review of our lead story,

[27:29] Hurricane Bonnie. The storm has come

[27:30] ashore near Capefir, North Carolina, and

[27:33] is damaging homes causing power outages,

[27:36] flooding roads, sustained winds reported

[27:38] at 115 mph. Up and down the Carolina

[27:42] coast, people have been evacuated. And

[27:44] worse, the storm is slowing down, which

[27:47] forecasters say means it could batter

[27:48] the Carolinas for the next day or even

[27:51] two days. And we'll be watching. That's

[27:53] our report on World News Tonight. Keep

[27:55] up with the latest on Hurricane Bonnie

[27:56] on Prime Time Live and later on Night

[27:59] Line. I'm Forest Sawyer. For all of us

[28:01] here at ABC News, a very good night.

[28:09] Tomorrow, what's going on here? When

[28:11] hurricanes strike, why does the

[28:13] government help some and let others fend

[28:16] for themselves? Watch ABC's World News

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[29:16] more than 115 m anph. Right now, Bonnie

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