Hurricane Isabel - CBS Evening News - 2003-09-16
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[0:03] Packing up and moving out as still very
[0:06] dangerous Hurricane Isabel closes in,
[0:09] thousands evacuate. We'll tell you where
[0:11] the storm's likely to hit, when, and how
[0:14] hard.
[0:15] A new round in court for the California
[0:18] recall.
[0:19] Why voters could wind up with the ballot
[0:22] from hell.
[0:23] Will your boss do what he's doing?
[0:27] Why he decided to help his workers get
[0:29] lower cost prescription drugs despite
[0:32] opposition from Washington. And we'll
[0:35] show you an American treasure as you've
[0:37] never seen it before.
[0:44] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:47] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:50] headquarters in New York.
[0:52] Good evening. Tens of thousands of
[0:54] people who live along the Atlantic coast
[0:56] are being urged tonight to leave their
[0:58] homes for safer ground. As Hurricane
[1:00] Isabel, somewhat diminished but still a
[1:03] very dangerous hurricane, moves closer
[1:05] to land. Right now, the storm is more
[1:08] than 500 mi off Cape Hatteras, North
[1:10] Carolina. This is a very large storm,
[1:13] 350 mi wide with top winds still over
[1:17] 100 mi an hour and with the potential to
[1:20] build up again. Hurricane watches are
[1:22] posted tonight from the Carolinas to
[1:25] Virginia, official hurricane watches,
[1:27] and that means that these areas could
[1:30] have hurricane conditions within 36
[1:32] hours. The most likely landfall is
[1:35] considered to be along the central North
[1:37] Carolina coast sometime Thursday. That
[1:40] could change. The danger of high water
[1:43] runs well inland and well into
[1:46] mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast. A
[1:48] state of emergency is in effect tonight
[1:50] in North Carolina. CBS's Lee Cowan is
[1:52] there and beg