CBS Evening News - 2008-01-05
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[0:05] Tonight, a powerful winter storm blasts
[0:08] the West Coast, bursting a Nevada levee
[0:11] and stranding thousands of people. We go
[0:13] open the front door at 7:00
[0:15] and we find out there's a river
[0:17] out in the front of our street.
[0:19] I'm Anthony Mason. Also tonight, the
[0:21] presidential candidates barnstorm New
[0:24] Hampshire as the clock ticks [music]
[0:25] down to Tuesday's primary.
[0:28] In an exclusive 60 Minutes interview,
[0:30] Pakistan's [music] President Musharraf
[0:32] defends his government's search for
[0:34] Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
[0:37] And tango lovers getting a leg up
[0:39] [music] as their torrid dance rides a
[0:41] new wave of popularity.
[0:47] >> [music]
[0:50] >> This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:56] Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:58] monster storms that are battering the
[1:00] West Coast, bringing wind, rain, and
[1:02] flooding to coastal areas while socking
[1:05] the Sierra Nevadas with feet, not just
[1:07] inches of snow. The weather's even
[1:09] reached east of the mountains into the
[1:11] Nevada desert. Sandra Hughes has the
[1:13] latest.
[1:15] While the West was braced for the series
[1:17] of storms that continues to pound with
[1:20] high winds and drenching rain, the small
[1:22] town of Fernley, Nevada wasn't ready for
[1:25] the flood it got. A levee gave way,
[1:27] affecting 2,000 people and soaking some
[1:30] 500 homes. It was really, really scary
[1:33] because we didn't know what was going on
[1:35] and it was just this huge, wide river of
[1:38] water just coming through the alfalfa
[1:39] field. Helicopters rushed to rescue the
[1:42] stranded. Luckily, no one was injured.
[1:45] More rescues in northern California
[1:47] where water overflowed roads and one
[1:49] p