CBS Evening News - 1992-08-26 - Hurricane Andrew
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:04] A cinjun collision, sun blowing over the
[0:07] top of the roof or something. I don't
[0:08] know.
[0:10] >> I don't know. I came back in.
[0:12] >> Andrew last year's Louisiana with
[0:14] ferocious winds and drenching rain.
[0:16] >> The house was shaking. The trees were
[0:19] cracking around us and it felt like the
[0:22] whole house was just going to cave in.
[0:23] >> Flood waters up, power down, tornadoes
[0:26] on a tear, a hurricane's last to rock.
[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:37] live from Franklin, Louisiana, in the
[0:40] heart of where the hurricane hit. Dan
[0:42] Rather reporting. Good evening. What
[0:44] remains of the big storm is blowing
[0:46] itself out tonight somewhere over
[0:48] Mississippi. Andrew of After a violent
[0:51] 54 hours of life is officially a
[0:54] hurricane no more. The storm left at
[0:56] least 16 dead in Florida and Louisiana.
[0:59] Nearly 2 million people are without the
[1:01] electricity. Damage, $20 million and
[1:04] counting. In Florida alone, 180,000
[1:08] people lost their homes. In Louisiana,
[1:10] the figure is unknown at the moment.
[1:12] After racing across the Gulf of Mexico,
[1:14] the eye of Andrew crashed into the
[1:16] Louisiana coast near Morgan City about
[1:19] 3:00 Eastern time this morning. The
[1:21] storm then knifed northward in a zone of
[1:24] destruction, flooding and terrorizing
[1:27] 100 miles a path 100 m wide. This
[1:32] afternoon, northwest of Baton Rouge,
[1:34] Andrews winds officially lost their
[1:36] hurricane strength, but they are still
[1:39] capable of causing damage. Scott P was
[1:41] in Morgan City when the Andrew eye
[1:44] blasted through. Scott
[1:46] Dan, late this afternoon, the National
[1:48] Guard arrived here in Morgan City at th