CBS Evening News - 1982-01-16
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[0:04] from around the world and from CBS News
[0:06] headquarters in New York. This is the
[0:09] CBS Evening News with Bob Schiffer. Good
[0:12] evening. A super blizzard is roaring
[0:15] through the plain states and the Great
[0:16] Lakes area today and it is driving
[0:18] temperatures even lower in the eastern
[0:20] half of the United States. Already
[0:22] experiencing the coldest weather of the
[0:24] century. More than 250 people are dead
[0:26] now because of the past week's weather.
[0:29] And new snow in Washington last night
[0:31] has complicated recovery efforts for the
[0:33] victims of Wednesday's airliner crash.
[0:35] We have two reports. First, Bob McNamera
[0:38] in Chicago. Chicago was like a city on a
[0:41] cake of dry ice with a noontime
[0:43] temperature of 16 below and a wind chill
[0:46] factor of 64 below. Usually crowded
[0:49] State Street was almost empty. A haird
[0:52] dryer moaned in the cold to thaw open a
[0:54] revolving door. And business,
[0:57] >> business, I'm going to close up in the
[0:59] next 15 minutes.
[1:01] >> All across the Arctic Midwest, from Ohio
[1:03] to Idaho, those who went out in the bone
[1:05] chilling 20 and 30 below cold didn't go
[1:08] far or go slowly for long. After I get
[1:11] the tank filled up, we're going to go to
[1:12] the bank and then we're going to
[1:13] hibernate.
[1:15] Still, some couldn't avoid trouble. In
[1:18] Cleveland, a 25 car pileup injured 16
[1:21] persons when the cutting edge of the
[1:22] snow and cold wave put a sheet of ice on
[1:25] a city freeway. In Milwaukee, overnight,
[1:28] firemen fought a pair of blazes in 20
[1:31] below temperatures. But one of the fires
[1:33] claimed the life of a 9-year-old boy and
[1:36] today left an icy reminder of the
[1:38] f