Hurricane Sandy - CBS Evening News - 2012-10-29
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:00] tonight Hurricane Sandy coming ashore on
[0:03] the East Coast this is a massive storm
[0:06] one of the largest this country has seen
[0:10] thousands head to shelters others ignore
[0:13] warnings to get out they are now In
[0:15] Harm's Way trains stop flights are
[0:17] grounded and America's largest city
[0:20] closes down as the hurricane closes in
[0:23] we'll have the latest forecast and
[0:26] correspondence up and down the coast
[0:33] this is the CBS Evening News with Scott
[0:36] Pelley reporting tonight from Allenhurst
[0:38] New Jersey
[0:40] and this is a special Expanded Edition
[0:42] good evening Sandy is coming ashore the
[0:46] hurricane is hitting the Mid-Atlantic
[0:48] States as a category one hurricane with
[0:51] Winds of 75 miles an hour gusting up to
[0:54] 90. but the biggest story is probably
[0:56] not the wind but the water the hurricane
[0:59] is pushing a massive amount of water
[1:02] ahead of it all up and down the
[1:04] Mid-Atlantic Coast
[1:05] [Music]
[1:06] from edge to edge tropical force winds
[1:09] extend for 1 000 miles an estimated 54
[1:13] million Americans are in the path of the
[1:15] hurricane the governors of 10 states
[1:18] from North Carolina to Maine have
[1:20] declared states of Emergency the biggest
[1:22] concern is the storm surge along the
[1:25] shoreline it could push Waters as high
[1:27] as 11 feet in New York Harbor and from
[1:30] three to six feet elsewhere
[1:32] no man we have to go home the state of
[1:35] emergency close to a million people who
[1:37] live along the shore are under
[1:38] evacuation orders streets and many
[1:41] low-lying areas are already flooded
[1:44] hundreds and thousands of homes and
[1:46] businesses from the Carolinas to Maine
[1:48] have lost power mo