CBS Evening News - 1993-07-16

Name: CBS Evening News - 1993-07-16
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[0:00] You're watching [music] Coin TV, Channel

[0:02] 6, Portland, Vancouver.

[0:04] >> And another levy breaks as the flooding

[0:06] nightmare continues in the Midwest. In

[0:09] Yoseite National Park, a high-powered

[0:11] manhunt for a dangerous gunman. An eye

[0:14] on America. Tonight, the Hollywood

[0:17] legend of Walt Disney. Was it magic or

[0:20] myth?

[0:22] [music]

[0:23] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:27] with Dan [music] Rather and Connie

[0:29] Chung.

[0:31] Good evening. Dan has the night off.

[0:33] What a week in the Midwest. Each day,

[0:36] the map has been redrawn not with ink,

[0:38] but flood waters. Tonight, the

[0:40] Mississippi and Missouri rivers converge

[0:42] 20 miles north of where they did

[0:44] yesterday. CBS News correspondent Vicky

[0:47] Mabry begins our coverage of the floods

[0:49] of 93.

[0:51] >> The Missouri River broke over a levy and

[0:53] merged with the Mississippi today,

[0:55] mixing water 20 miles upstream from

[0:58] where the rivers usually meet.

[1:02] >> Just south of there, volunteers

[1:04] sandbagging along the river Depair are

[1:06] looking for some presidential muscle to

[1:08] help them out. If him and the whole

[1:10] Congress and everybody wants to come

[1:12] down here and pick up a shovel, that's

[1:14] helping.

[1:15] >> In De Moine, on his second tour of the

[1:17] flood ravaged Midwest, the president did

[1:19] pick up a shovel. He also promised more

[1:21] than $2.5 billion dollars in federal

[1:24] disaster assistance. But many believe

[1:26] that's not even half what eventually

[1:28] will be needed.

[1:29] >> We'll see after he gets done with all

[1:30] the aid. I don't think he's going I

[1:33] don't think he's going to do enough,

[1:34] though.

[1:34] >> As presidential helicopters practiced

[1:37] for Mr. Clinton'