CBS Evening News - 2008-08-20
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[0:33] tonight disaster on the runway a Spanish
[0:35] jetliner filled with vacationers crashes
[0:38] in Flames while taking off from Madrid
[0:41] most of the people on board were killed
[0:43] I'm Harry Smith also tonight Fay not
[0:46] going away the tropical storm takes
[0:49] another swipe at Florida leaving
[0:51] hundreds of homes flooded hundreds of
[0:54] thousands of American kids are getting
[0:56] paddled at school a disproportionate
[0:59] number of them might minorities and
[1:01] disabled and the silver medal mom Dara
[1:04] Torres back from Beijing for me my most
[1:07] important place is is home and being
[1:09] with my daughter but now is she ready to
[1:16] retire this is the CBS Evening News with
[1:19] Katie
[1:21] kurick good evening Katie is off tonight
[1:24] they were heading off on a summer
[1:26] vacation looking forward to a visit to
[1:28] the Canary Islands but but their plane
[1:30] never made it into the air a Spanish
[1:33] jetliner attempting a takeoff from
[1:35] Madrid today crashed in Flames at the
[1:37] end of the runway there were more than
[1:39] 170 people on board more than 150 of
[1:43] them died Nancy ctis covers
[1:45] transportation for CBS News and as our
[1:48] report span airflight 5022 had problems
[1:52] right from the start abandoning its
[1:54] first takeoff attempt from Madrid
[1:56] because of a technical
[1:58] problem when I spoke spoke to my sister
[2:00] at 2 p.m. she said that the plane was
[2:02] delayed due to a blinking red light
[2:05] after a while she said that the plane
[2:07] was about to depart and I asked if the
[2:09] plane was switched but she said no it
[2:12] was on the second takeoff attempt that
[2:14] Witnesses say the left engine caught
[2:16] fire the jet lifting up b