NBC Nightly News - 1993-08-31

Name: NBC Nightly News - 1993-08-31
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[0:01] [music]

[0:01] >> Chrysler LHS, the American luxury car is

[0:04] now in the fast lane.

[0:06] >> See your [music] local Northwest

[0:07] Chrysler Plymouth dealer.

[0:11] >> Dear Midas, your mechanics gave me a

[0:13] free estimate and even pointed out that

[0:15] my brake pads were under warranty,

[0:17] saving me a lot. I was so [music]

[0:19] thankful I bought them all lunch.

[0:21] Sarah Akko.

[0:26] >> Thank you for watching Portland's

[0:27] [music] most honored news station.

[0:32] >> [music]

[0:32] >> Emily now very strong and hitting the

[0:34] coastal islands of North Carolina.

[0:37] The old warrior Arafat now a missionary

[0:39] for peace in the Middle East.

[0:41] And on America close-up tonight,

[0:43] hospitals in Maine show how to save

[0:45] money together.

[0:47] >> This is NBC nightly news with Tom

[0:49] Brokaw.

[0:52] >> Good evening. Hurricane Emily is coming

[0:53] ashore tonight, hammering the outer

[0:55] coast of North Carolina at this hour. It

[0:57] is now a [snorts] much more dangerous

[0:59] storm. Along the mid-Atlantic coast

[1:01] today, there were rising winds and

[1:03] heightened apprehension, especially for

[1:05] North Carolina's fragile outer banks.

[1:08] Tonight at this hour, we have NBC's Bob

[1:09] Hager in Nags Head and Bob Dotson in

[1:11] Atlantic Beach. We'll begin with Bob

[1:13] Hager.

[1:15] >> This was what the single road along

[1:17] North Carolina's outer banks looked like

[1:19] this afternoon. A whiteout of blowing

[1:21] sand and rain.

[1:23] Winds of more than 100 miles an hour

[1:25] offshore swelled the sea 8 feet and more

[1:28] in some places.

[1:29] The North Carolina National Guard was on

[1:31] alert. And the Federal Emergency

[1:33] Management Administration, FEMA, stood

[1:35] by inland with supplies and generators

[1:37] if