CBS Radio newscasts - 1989 earthquake

[jeff560]

Here are the 1 and 2 a.m. ET CBS Radio hourly newscasts on Oct. 18, 1989. They report a possible death toll of 200.

https://soundcloud.com/jeff560/cbs-radio-newscasts-1989-san-francisco-earthquake

 

[michael hagerty]

Here are the 1 and 2 a.m. ET CBS Radio hourly newscasts on Oct. 18, 1989. They report a possible death toll of 200.

https://soundcloud.com/jeff560/cbs-radio-newscasts-1989-san-francisco-earthquake

Big difference from the actual number of 63 killed, that's true. But at 1:08 in, CBS reports the number came from the California Office of Emergency Services and was based on the collapse of I-880 in Oakland (most likely a worst-case number---the cars they believed were trapped times the maximum number of passengers per vehicle).

Not much you can do when given a death toll by the agency in charge in a natural disaster except report the number and say where it comes from. CBS did that.

 

[TeaPartyDude]

I was there and I remember a rumor going around that one of cars smashed in the Oakland Freeway collapse was a drug dealer transporting a large quantity of narcotics. I heard several people tried to sneak onto the ruins in an effort to recover the narcotics but were chased away by the cops.

 

[ChocoMingo]

Here are the 1 and 2 a.m. ET CBS Radio hourly newscasts on Oct. 18, 1989. They report a possible death toll of 200.

https://soundcloud.com/jeff560/cbs-radio-newscasts-1989-san-francisco-earthquake

We should have this in the Tampa Bay thread too, because this comes from 620 WSUN (now WDAE), which is not from the Bay Area. It's from "Tampa" Bay Area. So it's Bay to Bay. Lol...