NBC Nightly News - 1998-09-27
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[0:01] Hurricane George begins its Siege on the
[0:04] Gulf Coast wind rain and coastal
[0:06] flooding over 100m stretch only a fool
[0:11] uh would take something like this
[0:12] lightting it's serious business the
[0:14] Storm Center is still headed towards an
[0:16] area just east of New Orleans the
[0:19] Superdome has been designated as a
[0:21] shelter we hope and pray that each one
[0:23] of you will be following through and
[0:25] taking shelter CU this is a very large
[0:28] dangerous storm
[0:31] from NBC News world headquarters in New
[0:34] York this is NBC Nightly News reported
[0:38] by Len Cannon good evening Hurricane
[0:41] George is bearing down on the Gulf Coast
[0:43] tonight with 110 M hour winds it's
[0:46] expected to cause massive flooding from
[0:48] Alabama to Louisiana hundreds of
[0:51] thousands have evacuated the coast just
[0:53] where will this storm hit Ground Zero
[0:56] appears to be an area east of New
[0:58] Orleans we have three reports tonight
[1:00] Kenley Jones is in New Orleans as is
[1:03] Robert Hagar and Bob doson is an hour
[1:05] East in gulport Mississippi first Bob
[1:09] doson Len the hurricane is now less than
[1:13] 100 miles due south of here so there is
[1:15] a curfew from Dust to Dawn no one
[1:18] allowed out on the streets except
[1:19] essential Personnel fact of the matter
[1:21] is that most people who live along the
[1:23] coastline have already gone a long time
[1:25] ago no one wants to be here when
[1:28] Hurricane George comes for Sunday
[1:32] dinner the storm hit like a fist
[1:36] punching a Shore near Pensacola Florida
[1:39] pounding man-made
[1:40] beaches a wall of water in some places
[1:43] 15 ft high low tides helped but the wind
[1:48] is whipping flood waters into city
[1:50] streets r