World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-28
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[0:00] yes
[0:04] there on World News Tonight this Monday
[0:06] Hurricane George pounces on the Gulf
[0:10] Coast and stays there medical technology
[0:14] on The Cutting Edge an injection without
[0:16] a needle and operating on a heart that
[0:18] isn't there and why is the government
[0:21] knocking down houses and then rebuilding
[0:24] them at four times the cost it's your
[0:27] money
[0:34] from ABC News World Headquarters this is
[0:37] a West Coast edition of World News
[0:39] Tonight with Peter Jennings good evening
[0:42] it's the hurricane that would not quit
[0:44] that's Hurricane George of course it's
[0:46] been 11 days since this Frenchman came
[0:48] storming up the Caribbean today's George
[0:51] was stomping on the Gulf Coast in
[0:53] Mississippi winds as high as 175 mph in
[0:56] Alabama 25t waves in Florida inches of
[1:00] rain so far 250,000 people told to leave
[1:03] their homes we're going to begin right
[1:06] in the middle of it all ABC's Anton Mora
[1:08] reports from gulport
[1:13] Mississippi first it was the
[1:16] wind a wind so powerful it sent White
[1:19] Caps through flooded streets and bent
[1:22] huge steel signs as if they were rubber
[1:24] it's devastating it's scary it's my
[1:27] first experience with the hurricane and
[1:29] it's scary devastating it was throughout
[1:31] downtown Gulfport the hurricane smashed
[1:34] buildings and destroyed
[1:37] businesses on the gulf it lifted boats
[1:39] onto their docks and in Harrison County
[1:42] alone the storm left nearly 100,000
[1:44] people without power people whose home
[1:47] survived the worst of the winds are
[1:49] still threatened rain has poured down
[1:51] for more than 24 hours and the flood
[1:53] waters are still Rising it is unreal I
[1:57] was here during