World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-08-16
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[0:00] James call it the biggest advance for
[0:02] heart disease treatment in 20 years. Two
[0:05] simple pills. Love and intrigue at
[0:08] Buckingham Palace. Will Queen Elizabeth
[0:11] finally let Prince Charles marry his
[0:13] girlfriend. And in the heat of summer,
[0:16] one place where people actually are
[0:18] praying for a drought, their town is
[0:21] being swallowed by a lake.
[0:27] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:30] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:32] Peter Jennings. Sitting in tonight,
[0:35] Charles Gibson.
[0:36] >> Good evening. It is like Sherman's march
[0:39] to Atlanta. That's how one official
[0:41] characterized the relentless fire season
[0:43] in the West right now. Half a million
[0:46] acres of wildfires are now burning in 10
[0:48] western states. And it's no coincidence
[0:51] that where there is fire, there has been
[0:53] drought. In some places, the worst
[0:56] drought in 40 years. In other places,
[0:57] the worst in a century. Record
[0:59] temperatures. No prospect for rain.
[1:02] ABC's Bill Rker is in Northern
[1:04] California tonight. Bill.
[1:06] >> Charlie. The hot, dry, and windy
[1:08] conditions here in the West have
[1:10] dramatically increased the amount of
[1:11] land burned in the last 24 hours by
[1:14] about 100,000 acres.
[1:18] Fire exploded and raced through the
[1:20] mountains of northeast Washington today.
[1:24] The governor declared a state of
[1:25] emergency in four counties. 1,500 homes
[1:29] are threatened in the community of
[1:30] Levvenworth. In Oregon, where the
[1:33] biggest fires have consumed more than a
[1:34] quarter million acres, National Guard
[1:36] fire training is being stepped up.
[1:38] Nearly 400 Guardsmen will be on the line
[1:41] tomorrow. The US and now t