CBS Evening News - 1999-03-09
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[0:00] from Easter Seal. Excitement. Junuk wins
[0:02] Casino on the beach in Lincoln City.
[0:05] What?
[0:06] Sandra Bulock's nude scenes and Zena's
[0:08] sexy shoot on ET.
[0:12] A dangerous and widespread band of
[0:14] winter weather marches on and on. Ice,
[0:18] snow, and sleet. Enough to disrupt air
[0:21] travel and the US government. An SOS
[0:25] from the sun. Scientists find this S
[0:28] shape predicts massive solar explosions
[0:31] that could affect your life. New concern
[0:34] over drugresistant superbugs entering
[0:37] the human food chain through animal
[0:40] feed. And coming to America from Central
[0:44] America, orphans and refugees of the
[0:47] monster storm
[0:51] Mitch. This is the CBS Evening News.
[0:56] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:59] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[1:02] The Leninia generated winter weather
[1:03] that began out in the deep Pacific is
[1:06] ending with a bang in the Midwest, East,
[1:09] and South. A huge late winter storm,
[1:12] biggest of the season is sweeping ice,
[1:14] snow, and freezing rain into what has
[1:17] been a typically dry Leninia winter for
[1:20] these areas. CBS's Bob our reports. The
[1:23] storms are dangerous deep and wide and
[1:26] on the move.
[1:28] The late winter storm packed a
[1:30] surprising punch. Countless schools were
[1:32] closed. Highways were clogged by
[1:34] accidents and nervous drivers and air
[1:37] travel snafoos were the norm. The storm
[1:39] born on the Midwest Plains draped a
[1:42] thousand-mile blanket of snow from the
[1:44] Great Lakes to the eastern seabboard.
[1:46] Nearly 10 in of snow fell on Chicago,
[1:48] cancelling more than 600 flights at the
[1:50] city's airports. Even in a city that
[1:53] routinely shrugs off winter storms,