CBS Evening News - 1999-10-05 (audio sync problem)
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[0:01] Hope for a nuclear test ban treaty. A
[0:04] story of mice and balding men. Gene
[0:08] therapy may lead to new hair. And
[0:11] thieves stole her identity. Tonight, the
[0:14] hell she went through to get it back.
[0:20] This is the CBS Evening [music] News
[0:24] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:27] headquarters in New York.
[0:29] >> [music]
[0:29] >> Good evening. They are still searching
[0:31] for victims tonight in the smoking
[0:33] wreckage of two commuter trains that
[0:35] collided at the height of the morning
[0:37] rush in London. 26 people are known
[0:40] dead. 160 more were injured, at least 18
[0:43] seriously. Passengers described a
[0:46] tremendous crash and a huge explosion
[0:49] followed by a fireball. The cause is not
[0:52] yet known. CBS News correspondent
[0:54] Richard Roth is on the scene in London.
[0:58] Noise rocked the neighborhood around
[0:59] Notting Hill and smoke spread over West
[1:02] London. More than 500 rush hour
[1:04] travelers were aboard the two trains.
[1:07] >> There was a sudden bang and uh then
[1:10] almost immediately another bang and the
[1:11] train seemed to rise up underneath me
[1:13] and then crash down on the tracks.
[1:16] >> And then came fire. An amateur cameraman
[1:19] recording the scene as passengers
[1:21] struggled out of the tangled wreckage
[1:23] away from the burning rail cars at the
[1:25] front of the trains.
[1:27] >> I was in the middle carriage, thank
[1:28] goodness, and our carriage was tipped on
[1:30] its side, so we just had to sort of jump
[1:33] out and try and help all the injured
[1:35] people.
[1:36] >> Many were trapped and screaming. Rescue
[1:39] workers arrived as some commuters who
[1:41] got out safely were trying to get back
[1:43] in and help.
[1:45] >> I coul