CBS Evening News - 1999-11-17
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[0:00] six
[0:02] months Fashion Victims of the year plus
[0:05] Ricky Martin
[0:08] on the mark of el zordo that's what they
[0:12] call that near Category 5 hurricane
[0:14] entering the record books as it makes a
[0:17] hit on American islands in the Caribbean
[0:20] the Egypt Air investigation focuses now
[0:22] on this co-pilot we'll piece together
[0:25] his final words and actions and you will
[0:27] hear from relatives who say don't blame
[0:29] him and you'll soon be getting a warning
[0:32] in your mailbox about a potential ripoff
[0:35] on your
[0:38] phone this is the CBS Evening
[0:42] News with Dan R reporting from CBS News
[0:46] headquarters in New York good evening
[0:49] this one slipped up on almost everybody
[0:51] a once in a century monster hurricane
[0:54] battered the US Virgin Islands in Puerto
[0:56] Rico today and the worst could be yet to
[0:58] come late large hurricane Lenny took a
[1:01] rare track from west to east on its
[1:04] Caribbean rampage this hurricane is now
[1:06] headed for possible direct hits on St
[1:09] Martin and anguila with top sustained
[1:12] winds reaching 150 mph in gust higher
[1:15] than that the hurricane verged on
[1:18] maximum Category 5 that is capable of
[1:20] catastrophic destruction and it wasn't
[1:23] just the wind there was almost
[1:25] unbelievable rain 15 in and more in a
[1:27] few hours in some places cbs's Jim aarod
[1:30] is covering this historic hurricane on
[1:33] the Weather
[1:35] Watch hurricane Lenny came knocking on
[1:37] the Caribbean's door
[1:40] today an unwanted visitor packing 135
[1:43] mph winds here in Puerto Rico at near
[1:46] 150 mph in the US Virgin Islands at
[1:50] least one person is reported dead here
[1:53] 100,000 are without water 990,000
[1:55] without
[1:57] power nearly e