Even First Lady Nancy Reagan toured Mexico City with U.S. The Mexican and international communities responded swiftly, wih the United States sending heavy machinery, medical supplies, and excavation equipment. Between 10,000 and 35,000 people were left dead, 30,000 injured and thousands more homeless as over 100,000 buildings were demolished or suffered serious damage. The epicenter of the quake was actually 250 miles west of the city, in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of the Mexican state of Michoacán. On September 19, 1985, Mexico City was jolted awake by a powerful earthquake of 8.1 magnitude, the strongest to ever hit the area.
In the Congressional Record, one can read how Texas Senator Ralph Yarborough praised the media, stating that "Rather's accuracy and unstinting efforts were directly responsible for the saving of lives." Rather was awarded both the prestigious Dupont and Ohio State University national awards for journalistic excellence, rarely awarded for local news coverage. tropical landfall on the Hurricane Severity Index and led to the death of forty-three people. While the 1900 Galveston storm had killed six thousand, Hurricane Carla ranks as the most intense U.S. A mass evacuation was ordered, and more than 500,000 people left the coast, many convinced by the images they saw on television. But it was not just a television coup, it also saved thousands of lives. The KHOU team stayed on the air for more than seventy-two hours in what was the first live television broadcast of a hurricane, including the first radar image. Jones had the idea to show Carla superimposed on a map of Texas and the Gulf of Mexico, and Rather explained and repeated how dangerous the situation was becoming. Carla grew 400 miles wide, with the eye 50 miles across, and with 150 mph wind. Weather Bureau Chief of Observation Vaughn Rockney agreed that it would enable them to warn and make people grasp the gravity of the situation. Jones suggested they could maybe put the radar itself on television and once in Galveston, U.S. The team decided to go to the Weather Bureau Office in Galveston, which had installed a radarscope, relatively new equipment in 1961. They were following a tropical depression in the Caribbean Sea, which grew to Carla, a Category 5 hurricane. In 1961, Dan Rather was the news director of the CBS affiliate in Houston, Channel 11, KHOU, where he worked with program director Calvin Jones and station manager Jim Richdale. Schwarzkopf in Vietnam: A Soldier Returns.Caution: Water May Be Dangerous to Your Health.
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