CBS Evening News - 1992-08-25 - Hurricane Andrew
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[0:03] Danger along the Gulf Coast. Louisiana
[0:06] and parts of Texas take cover as
[0:08] Hurricane Andrew takes aim.
[0:10] >> They don't have They don't have any more
[0:11] gas.
[0:11] >> I'm out of money. Completely out of
[0:13] money and the banks are closed.
[0:14] >> Trying to avoid people having an
[0:15] accident here.
[0:16] >> Already the costliest hurricane in
[0:19] United States history.
[0:24] This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:29] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting live
[0:31] tonight from New Orleans about 65 miles
[0:33] south and west of here in Grand Isle,
[0:35] Louisiana. Hurricane force winds and
[0:38] gust 80 mph winds reported in Grand
[0:40] Isle. What this means is that one
[0:43] shoulder of the hurricane is prowling
[0:46] along this Louisiana coast tonight. The
[0:49] question, however, from Houston to
[0:51] Mobile is where will the eye, the killer
[0:53] heart of this hurricane, come in? Now,
[0:55] at last report, the center of the storm
[0:57] was reported to be in the Gulf of Mexico
[1:00] about 100 plus miles south and west of
[1:03] New Orleans. A hurricane watch is in
[1:05] effect from roughly Houston and
[1:07] Galveastston on over to Alabama. Within
[1:09] that area, a more serious hurricane
[1:11] warning runs from Point Bolivar, Texas
[1:13] to Pasigula, Mississippi. Right now, the
[1:16] central and perhaps westernmost parts of
[1:18] le Louisiana coast and the upper Texas
[1:20] coast around Port Arthur are considered
[1:22] to be best bets for a strike by the eye,
[1:25] but hurricanes are infamous for being
[1:27] unpredictable for quick changes of
[1:29] direction. So, New Orleans is playing it
[1:32] safe. People have boarded up, packed up,
[1:33] and are leaving town. Overall, more than
[1:35] 2 million people i