World News Tonight (ABC) - 1996-05-24
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[0:00] financing on some of our favorite new
[0:01] Toyotas, including Camry, Corolla,
[0:04] Tacoma, and Turel. But to get 1.9%
[0:06] financing, you got to hurry, cuz there's
[0:08] great values on new Toyotas and a
[0:11] billion sites to go. So drive. See your
[0:15] Portland Metro Toyota dealers.
[0:19] >> Shelving Porn Sunday at 6 on Town Hall.
[0:24] On World News Tonight this Friday,
[0:26] devastation in the planes, the worst
[0:28] drought in decades.
[0:32] The Indianapolis 500. More speed and
[0:35] fewer experienced drivers
[0:38] and listening to America. Concern, yes,
[0:41] but ultimately hope.
[0:43] >> We can moan and groan and all that, but
[0:44] we got the greatest country in the
[0:45] world.
[0:48] >> From ABC, this is World News Tonight
[0:51] with Peter Jennings.
[0:52] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:54] misery for farmers and cattle ranchers
[0:56] in a vast area of the southern plains.
[0:59] For nearly 10 months now, it has been so
[1:01] dry that some people are drawing
[1:02] comparisons to the great drought of the
[1:05] 1930s. In Leach County, Texas, for
[1:07] instance, there should have been nearly
[1:08] 8 ines of rain from last October until
[1:11] now. The actual rainfall about an inch
[1:13] and a half. ABC's Dean Reynolds reports
[1:16] from the southwest.
[1:19] Baked by an unyielding sun and battered
[1:22] by fierce winds, much of the nation's
[1:24] bread basket is bare this spring.
[1:29] The drought that has persisted since
[1:31] August over much of the plains has
[1:33] decimated wheat harvests from Kansas to
[1:36] Texas and left parts of Oklahoma looking
[1:38] like sand dunes. Bob Cole has grown
[1:41] wheat in northern Oklahoma for 50 years
[1:44] and this is the worst season he can
[1:46] remember. All my