CBS Evening News - 1997-10-01
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[0:03] Inside El Nino tonight, a new 3D view of
[0:06] the growing weather monster in the
[0:08] Pacific. And El Nino's potentially more
[0:11] dangerous sister, Laninia. Risky
[0:14] business in space. [music] A US
[0:16] astronaut and a Russian cosminaut team
[0:18] up for a spectacular but dangerous
[0:20] spacew walk around the rickety Russian
[0:23] space station. And risky business at
[0:26] home. A new crackdown on telephone
[0:28] scammers who dial you for dollars and
[0:31] rake in the big bucks, especially from
[0:33] the elderly.
[0:34] >> The grand prize is $25,000.
[0:38] It's cold.
[0:42] >> This is the [music] CBS Evening News
[0:46] with Dan Rather reporting tonight
[0:47] [music] from Washington.
[0:49] >> Good evening. We are starting tonight
[0:51] with the weather and what experts
[0:52] predict could be the weather event of
[0:54] the century. The phenomenon known as El
[0:56] Nino producing unusual and dangerous
[0:59] weather all over the world, building out
[1:02] in the Pacific. It's expected to grow
[1:04] into the biggest El Nino on record.
[1:06] Tonight, CBS News correspondent Jerry
[1:08] Bowen has a new view of El Nino and of a
[1:11] potentially more dangerous weather
[1:13] system coming up right behind it.
[1:16] >> Here's this big warm blow up in the
[1:18] ocean.
[1:18] >> For the first time today, a look at the
[1:20] underbelly of the beast. What you're
[1:22] seeing coming up here now is the third
[1:23] dimension, namely what's happening at
[1:25] depth.
[1:25] >> Using data gathered from a line of
[1:27] sensor boys spanning the Pacific, Tim
[1:29] Barnett and other scientists at the
[1:31] Scripps Institution of Oceanography have
[1:33] just completed a three-dimensional view
[1:35] of El Nino.
[1:36] >> At depth, that's where the actio