CBS Evening News - 1999-11-18

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[0:00] ultimate outlet for the Northwest kick

[0:03] off the holiday season at our first

[0:04] annual tree lighting ceremony Saturday

[0:06] November 20th at 6

[0:08] p.m. Dudley Mo plus Mission Impossible 2

[0:12] on Entertainment

[0:14] Tonight the unusual tragedy in Texas a

[0:18] bonfire tradition turns into a death

[0:20] trap as tons of logs collapse on dozens

[0:24] of college students the search for

[0:26] bodies and explanations goes on the

[0:29] strongest hurricane ever to hit this

[0:31] late in the season Rampages on in the

[0:34] Caribbean and why doesn't the label tell

[0:37] you if your food has been genetically

[0:39] altered the FDA holds a hearing and gets

[0:42] an ear

[0:46] for this is the CBS Evening

[0:49] News with Dan Rather reporting tonight

[0:52] from

[0:54] Philadelphia good evening one of the

[0:56] nation's biggest and best college

[0:58] campuses is suddenly in a state of

[1:00] morning tonight at Texas A&M at least

[1:03] nine students were killed early today

[1:05] when tons of logs for a traditional

[1:08] pyramid bonfire crashed to the ground 28

[1:11] more students were injured some

[1:13] critically on the campus in College

[1:15] Station the mood was transformed in an

[1:17] instant from football pep rally frenzy

[1:20] to shock disbelief cbs's Meen Maher is

[1:25] there a dramatic rescue as tragedy and

[1:28] tradition collided at Texas A&M

[1:30] University in the middle of the

[1:32] night for hours workers struggled to

[1:35] pull apart a towering pile of logs that

[1:37] had collapsed with some 70 students

[1:39] hanging on just one second we were up

[1:42] having a good time and hoopla and having

[1:44] fun and the next second it was just over

[1:46] it was just we were on the ground the

[1:49] students were building an enor

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