World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-18
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[0:00] Today
[0:02] K2 [music] News, the station more and
[0:04] more people are watching.
[0:09] [music]
[0:11] On World News Tonight, the raging
[0:13] volcano that cut a city in half. The
[0:16] deadline for new airline security. The
[0:18] terrorists have made it tougher to fly.
[0:21] Being done in by Enron, another example,
[0:24] stuck with a bill that Enron had
[0:25] promised to pay. and the son who spent
[0:28] 26 years on the case of his mother's
[0:31] killers. Finally, he may have prevailed.
[0:36] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:39] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:43] Peter Jennings.
[0:44] >> Good evening everyone. We're going to
[0:45] begin tonight with the volcano. There
[0:46] has been a colossal eruption in Africa.
[0:49] The fire, lava, and smoke have uprooted
[0:51] half a million people in 24 hours. It is
[0:54] in the Congo and rivers of lava from
[0:56] Mount Nuragongo ripped into the city of
[0:59] GMA which was packed with refugees from
[1:02] central Africa's wars. ABC's Martin
[1:05] Semongle is there tonight.
[1:08] Peter, tonight all roads leading out of
[1:10] GMA are full of people. People walking,
[1:14] people sleeping. They're sleeping
[1:16] anywhere they can. Most just here by the
[1:18] side of the road. and they are
[1:20] constantly shaken by tremors from the
[1:23] volcano.
[1:24] The rivers of lava ran for more than 30
[1:27] m and they are still running. In some
[1:30] places, the flow of lava is 200 ft wide.
[1:33] It has sparked fires and set off
[1:35] explosions.
[1:38] It has ravaged the land around GMA and
[1:41] by this afternoon it cut the city in
[1:44] half.
[1:46] >> My house is in ruins. this man says.
[1:49] >> And the lava is still flowing.
[1:51] >> The town, the center, there is nothing
[1:54] again.
[1:55] >> A