CBS Evening News - 1994-01-18
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[0:00] five.
[0:03] In the wake of the quake, the ground
[0:05] still rumbles, the death toll rises, and
[0:09] man finishes the job the earth began.
[0:12] This is the CBS [music]
[0:14] Evening News
[0:16] with Connie Chung in New York and Dan
[0:19] Rather in Los Angeles.
[0:21] Good evening. Southern California today
[0:23] began digging out and coming back from
[0:25] the great earthquake of 1994. Everywhere
[0:28] you look, especially from this vantage
[0:30] point up here, there's some
[0:31] extraordinary scenes. This is I-5, one
[0:34] of the main freeways in all of
[0:36] California.
[0:37] Can you imagine what it would have been
[0:39] like to be in that truck
[0:41] or in that Winnebago-style vehicle
[0:44] when the freeway literally dropped away
[0:47] on both sides of
[0:50] Aftershocks collapsed the Route 14
[0:52] interchange right onto Interstate 5.
[0:55] Interstate 5 was the quickest route
[0:58] between Northern and Southern
[0:59] California.
[1:00] Also from up here, you get a good view
[1:02] of what happened to a train when the
[1:04] earthquake came rumbling through.
[1:07] Place after place, mile after mile,
[1:09] these are the kinds of sights you see.
[1:12] Now, all around these places, tremendous
[1:15] damage.
[1:16] There are homes, buildings,
[1:18] installations, freeways that weren't
[1:20] damaged. That's the way it goes in an
[1:22] earthquake.
[1:23] For an overview and summary of what's
[1:25] been happening here in the wake of the
[1:26] quake, CBS News correspondent Sandra
[1:28] Hughes has a report.
[1:31] Overnight, the sky was lit by a fireball
[1:34] touched off by one of the hundreds of
[1:36] aftershocks.
[1:39] National Guard troops watched over a
[1:41] quiet curfew. There have been 73 arrests
[1:44] since the quake, much fewer than
[1:45] expected, but daw