CBS Evening News - 2003-02-17
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[0:00] Holiday
[0:03] on ice. A President's Day blizzard
[0:05] blasts the East Coast, stopping
[0:07] travelers in their tracks, turning every
[0:09] house into a White House. Horror in the
[0:13] dead of night. More than 20 people
[0:15] trampled to death when panic sweeps a
[0:17] Chicago nightclub.
[0:20] Also tonight, from Kuwait, the US strike
[0:23] force here grows larger by the day,
[0:25] ready to invade Iraq when and if the
[0:27] order comes. European leaders unite
[0:30] behind the US and say Saddam has one
[0:33] last chance as American spy planes join
[0:36] the search for Iraqi weapons.
[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:48] Rather reporting tonight from Kuwait
[0:50] City and John Roberts in New York.
[0:54] >> And good evening. It is a powerful slow
[0:57] motion blizzard heading up the east
[0:59] coast. Slow and deadly. At least 20
[1:02] deaths are blamed on this holiday storm
[1:04] which has left untold thousands of
[1:06] travelers stranded. Travel by foot,
[1:09] road, or air is either difficult or
[1:11] impossible. This is the scene tonight at
[1:13] Boston's City Hall Plaza where the snow
[1:16] is still coming down. At least 10 in so
[1:18] far. About a foot and a half expected
[1:21] before it's all over. In Philadelphia,
[1:23] where the snow has tapered off at 20 to
[1:25] 21 in, downtown looks peaceful, but
[1:28] there's plenty of plowing left to do.
[1:30] Here in New York City, Time Square, 20
[1:33] in of snow as the Great White Way now
[1:35] extends way beyond the lights of
[1:37] Broadway. Our coverage of this storm of
[1:40] the new century begins with Lee Cowen.
[1:44] here at WCBS 880 in the blizzard of 2003
[1:46] on President's Day.
[1:49] >> When a storm gets a nickname, you know
[1:51] it's bad.
[1:52] >> Crazy