The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour (PBS) - 1993-07-08
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[0:23] >> Good evening. I'm Robert McNeel in New
[0:24] York.
[0:25] >> And I'm Roger Mud in Washington. After
[0:27] the news summary, we go first to an
[0:29] update report on one town's battle
[0:31] against the Mississippi floodwaters.
[0:33] Then we spend the rest of the NewsHour
[0:35] focusing on three trouble spots in the
[0:37] former Soviet Union.
[0:39] New York Life is proud to provide
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[1:01] Company,
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[1:08] and by the Corporation for Public
[1:10] Broadcasting, and by the annual
[1:12] financial support from viewers like you.
[1:16] >> Much of the country faced dangerous
[1:18] weather today. Records were set along
[1:20] the Mississippi River as flood waters
[1:22] continued to rise, particularly in
[1:23] Missouri and Iowa, and rain kept
[1:26] falling. There were up to 3 in in parts
[1:28] of Iowa along the De Moines River, a
[1:30] tributary of the Mississippi. The
[1:32] governor said 2500 Iowa families had
[1:34] been forced from their homes. President
[1:37] Clinton sent a radio message from the
[1:38] Tokyo Summit to flood victims. He
[1:41] promised to ask Congress next week for
[1:43] emergency federal disaster relief. We'll
[1:45] have more on the situation in one
[1:47] Missouri town right after the news
[1:49] summary. On the East Coast, the problem
[1:51] was record heat. Tempera