CBS Evening News - 1982-01-12
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[0:00] It's on
[0:04] >> from around the world and from CBS News
[0:07] headquarters in New York. This is the
[0:09] CBS Evening News with Dan Rather.
[0:13] >> Good evening. The record-breaking
[0:14] history-making cold wave now has caused
[0:17] about 100 deaths nationwide. The
[0:19] National Weather Service says that 75
[0:22] records for same day low temperatures
[0:24] have been set around the country since
[0:26] Sunday. That includes two all-time lows,
[0:29] 26 degrees below zero in Chicago Sunday
[0:33] and one above in Atlanta, Georgia
[0:34] yesterday. Today, the deep freeze sank
[0:37] deeper into the Southwest and Southeast,
[0:39] where Florida's billiondoll citrus
[0:41] industry faces possible disaster.
[0:44] It got so cold throughout the citrus
[0:46] belt, growers kept the water on, hoping
[0:49] that ice would be warmer than air. And
[0:51] in many places, it was true.
[0:54] This one's up to 25°,
[0:56] been down to 21.
[0:58] >> It is the second straight year of hard
[1:00] freezes for Florida citrus growers, many
[1:03] of whom tried, perhaps in futility, to
[1:05] beat mother nature with diesel fuel
[1:07] heaters. Others said it was just too
[1:09] cold.
[1:10] >> Once the uh temperature gets below 28
[1:14] and stays there for four or five hours,
[1:15] the fruit's already frozen, and there's
[1:18] not much we can do about that. You can
[1:21] light up a lot of heaters and not be
[1:22] able to save the fruit.
[1:24] >> Oranges were only one crop suffering
[1:27] extensive damage. South of Miami, tomato
[1:29] farmers growing 80% of the nation's
[1:32] winter tomatoes burned tires in the
[1:34] fields to help keep the crop from icing
[1:36] over. Damage was moderate. Much of the
[1:38] state's lettuce and celery crop was
[1:40] frozen. But it