World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-01-17
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[0:00] use as little energy. All over
[0:01] California, it hasn't happened since
[0:03] World War II. Countdown to the
[0:05] inauguration, consumer confidence takes
[0:08] a dive. George Bush's nominee for
[0:11] attorney general says he will not
[0:13] challenge a woman's right to have an
[0:15] abortion. Barbara Walters talks to Mr.
[0:18] Bush. and recalling a product that is
[0:21] very hard to get at, the defective
[0:24] artificial hip.
[0:26] [Music]
[0:30] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:33] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:36] Peter Jennings. Good evening to all of
[0:38] you in the West Coast. We're going to
[0:39] begin in California tonight. There is no
[0:41] ignoring the energy crisis. Now, for the
[0:43] first time since World War II, people
[0:45] across the country's most populous state
[0:47] are having their power turned off on an
[0:50] intermittent basis. And before long,
[0:52] millions of Californians are going to be
[0:54] facing those rotating blackouts, which
[0:56] some of you are experiencing as a
[0:58] reality already. Here's ABC's Brian
[1:01] Rooney. In San Francisco, the stop
[1:04] lights were out at critical
[1:05] intersections. Well, they see no lights
[1:07] and they want to go pedestrians and
[1:09] vehicles. In a brewery pub, the electric
[1:12] cash register was off. The menu limited.
[1:14] We can only make the limited menu, so we
[1:16] can't sell very much. In an East Bay
[1:18] Target store, shoppers push carts in the
[1:21] near dark. Starting just before noon,
[1:23] customers all over Northern California
[1:25] spent part of their day without power.
[1:28] Facing a shortage, the agency that
[1:30] controls power for most of California
[1:32] scoured the West for extra megawws to
[1:34] buy, then