CBS Evening News - 1999-09-09
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:03] New hurricane alert. We're tracking a
[0:05] tropical storm that could become an
[0:07] especially powerful hurricane over the
[0:09] next few days. And a spectacular
[0:11] lightning storm lights the sky and
[0:14] knocks out the lights in the San
[0:15] Francisco Bay area. President Clinton
[0:18] announces a new federal gun buyback
[0:20] program to get weapons off the streets.
[0:23] And the US pressures Indonesia to stop
[0:25] the violence in East Timor.
[0:30] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:34] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:37] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[0:40] The potential is growing tonight for a
[0:42] monster category 4 hurricane on the
[0:45] scale of Hugo and Andrew to deliver a
[0:47] big hit somewhere on the US East Coast
[0:50] over the next four or five days,
[0:52] possibly from the Carolas on up. Right
[0:55] now, officially, Tropical Storm Floyd is
[0:58] just shy of hurricane force in the
[1:00] Atlantic. Forecasters have no doubt it
[1:02] will become a hurricane. Storm watches
[1:05] are already posted for islands in the
[1:06] Northeast Caribbean. All signs point to
[1:09] a major strengthening as it approaches
[1:12] the US mainland. For an early read on
[1:14] the size, strength, and potential danger
[1:17] of this fast-moving hurricane threat, I
[1:19] spoke a short while ago with our weather
[1:21] consultant, Brian Norcross, at the CBS
[1:22] News Hurricane Center in Miami.
[1:25] Well, significant, Dan, I think, would
[1:27] be the word. Let's go right to the
[1:28] satellite picture here, and let me show
[1:29] you what's going on here. You see a very
[1:32] large system. Now, it's not very well
[1:34] developed internally yet, but certainly
[1:36] has the possibility of being