CBS Evening News - 1992-09-01
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[0:03] Did your apartment get hurt here?
[0:05] >> Yes.
[0:05] >> Wiped out? Hi.
[0:07] >> Hi.
[0:08] >> President Bush returns to Florida to
[0:10] survey hurricane damage and play up the
[0:12] power of incumbency in an election year.
[0:17] An epidemic of car thefts in America.
[0:19] The thieves are younger and more brazen
[0:21] than ever.
[0:22] And the neo-Nazi movement, racial hatred
[0:25] spreads across Europe.
[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:36] Good evening. I'm Connie Chung sitting
[0:38] in tonight for Dan Rather. President
[0:40] Bush returned to South Florida and
[0:42] Louisiana today to survey the physical
[0:44] and political damage from Hurricane
[0:46] Andrew. This time he brought Florida a
[0:49] promise that the feds will pay the full
[0:51] cost of the cleanup. That is everything
[0:53] that qualifies under government
[0:54] programs. Our coverage begins with Susan
[0:57] Spencer who's traveling with the
[0:58] president.
[1:01] >> Good luck.
[1:02] >> On his second tour of the hurricane's
[1:03] devastation, Mr. Bush made it clear that
[1:05] the federal response, although perhaps a
[1:07] day late, won't be a dollar short. As he
[1:11] visited the soup kitchens and tent
[1:12] cities that now are Homestead, Florida,
[1:15] he promised that the local Air Force
[1:16] base will be completely rebuilt and that
[1:19] Uncle Sam will pick up the full tab for
[1:21] all cleanup and reconstruction.
[1:23] >> We, working cooperatively with
[1:26] everybody, will rebuild South Florida.
[1:29] The spirit still here. The spirit is
[1:31] still intact and may God bless the
[1:34] people that have been hurt. We're here
[1:35] to help.
[1:36] >> But help was agonizingly slow at first
[1:39] and FEMA, the Federal Emergency
[1:40] Management Agency, is again being
[1:43] bla