ABC News Nightline - "Bitter Cold" - WLS Channel 7 (1st 16 Minutes, 1/11/1982)
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- Here's the first nearly 16 minutes of an edition of ABC News Nightline, anchored by Ted Koppel, dealing with the bitter cold that has gripped much of the nation and how it has affected those with no heat.
Includes:
Station ID / promo for "Roustabout" (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Opening setup for coming edition (including, after this coverage, a look at mudslides in Northern California), followed by opening titles (and voiceover by Bill Rice)
36 out of 50 states over the past night had temperatures drop below zero, with at least 57 dead as a result; Louisville, KY's -40 wind chills led to cancellation of garbage collection; with following reports:
- Tim Fleischer of WKBW Channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (later to join WABC Channel 7 in New York) reporting on Buffalo's 27" snow and 50 mph winds; interviews with people outside airport and inside shelters; Lt. Alfred McDonald of Buffalo Police Department speaks of tenfold increase in burglaries during blizzard; and at least 3 have died thus far
- NYC Housing Commissioner Anthony Gliedman, at Heat Complaint Center, speaks about what is being done for people freezing to death in their homes, and speaking of up to 25,000 complaints coming in, and temperatures inside below legal standard of 68 degrees in daytime and 55 degrees at night, with 260 homes having no heat at all
- In Dover, FL, Rebecca Chase next to attempts to save Florida citrus crops from the sub-freezing temperatures (22 degrees as she speaks); grower Don Hemphill speaks to her about the situation; she recounts previous year where another cold wave caused the state to lose 25% of the citrus crop
- Once-and-future Chicago TV legend John Coleman, from WSB Channel 2 in Atlanta, details how bad the cold weather is in Florida, as well as across much of the country, and predicting snow in about half the country as well as less severe cold down the road; and previewing his next morning's Good Morning America weather forecasts
Commercials for:
Wang Computer (voiceover by Paul Frees?)
Pontiac 6000 (Note: NOT the 6000 SUX)
National Geographic special on sharks, underwritten by Gulf and to air on PBS (voiceover by Gene Barry?)
Masson Light Chablis wine
Promo for The Fall Guy (voiceover by Ernie Anderson)
Segment on how super-cold affects one's heating bills, starting with report from James Walker, on wood-burning, coal and kerosene stoves, and their effectiveness vs. oil or gas; an interview with Rutherford, NJ kerosene saleswoman Marie Wysock; another, with customer Pat Rose, is about to get underway when recording ends
"It is, statistically, speaking at least, the bitterest widespread cold wave to ever hit this nation during the 20th century."
This aired on local Chicago TV on Monday, January 11th 1982 during the 10:30pm to 10:46pm timeframe.
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Watching this vid makes me wish it was 1982 again.
Man, I was born on March 1982 😂
@@misstee101
That’s cool. 1982 was a good year.
This was the same weekend as the "Freezer Bowl" (AFC Championship Game, Chargers vs. Bengals). The windchill at Riverfront Stadium in Cincinnati was minus 59 degrees F.
@@mrg8581 Probably not. If anything, there are more domes and indoor stadiums today.
Ya I remember that game like it was yesterday!😊
LOVE the old 80's Nightline videos.
Me too! 😀😃
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Wow! Wang Computers! Talk about a blast from the past!
I remember this cold winter because it was so cold the water pipes were frozen and my late father was trying to thaw them out with a blow torch.
Same! This is the year we discovered the water pipes were routed through the wall of our unheated garage.
I was born just 5 days before this aired. From what I remember reading the cold snap here in Chicago began on the 7th and lasted for a good portion of the month. One of the coldest months in the city’s history!
This will be a great video to watch on those scorching days when it's 95+ degrees outside. Conversely, videos about scorching summer days are great to watch during the polar vortex.
I was 10 years old in Louisville, KY and I remember this like yesterday. I drug out those trash cans.
Chicago really did have the best weathermen like John Coleman, Harry Volkman and Tom Skilling!
My dad always told me the story of how John Coleman said "there's a chance we might get a little snow so I'm just going to put one snowflake up on the board". That was the day before the blizzard of '67.
Good ol' Ted Koppel!
Jeezzz Ted looks younger than I remember
He's 41 here. Always looked young for his age.
A few days later, Washington saw a plane crash from Air Florida, whose crash site absolutely freezing.
Yep, less than two days later as Air Florida Flight 90 went down the afternoon of January 13, 1982
feeling SOOOO old, I remember that year like some fever dream; I was child and my grandma had bundle me up for us to take the bus to go to the doctor because I was sick and she didn't drive. My mom was trying to get out of work early to meet us at the doctor's since it was closer to where she worked at the bank. She also had to take the bus. I just remember my grandma taking her the plastic container of vaseline and smearing it on my face to absorb the windchil when we left the house.
How interesting how John Coleman stayed relevant after his tenure in Chicago. I imagine that his proximity to CNN in Atlanta spurred his creation of The Weather Channel.
if I remember correctly, he came back here to Chicago and worked at NBC 5
Too bad he was convinced climate change was exaggerated.
I bet John was there forming TWC at the time. TWC debuted in May '82.
@@mysticakhenaton1701 - He did. But not before a short-lived stint in New York:
th-cam.com/video/P7uUp6X0-8s/w-d-xo.htmlm10s
From a period when temperatures in NYC were ABOVE normal for the period in which that newscast was taped.
I’m watching this in August and it’s making me already hate the coming Winter 🥶
Whatever. I still had to walk to school in Palatine.
I was a kid around this time and I remember the snow drifts and the Sub-Zero temperatures. And No one can convince me that climate change isn't real. It doesn't get cold like this anymore. Even though this was an anomaly, this wasn't normal winter temperature. But in the 1980s it was normal to have winter temperatures around Indiana and Chicago that were about 10° below zero.
And they even went as far as calling it "Global Cooling." And just as that was a bunch of caca, now you don't hear it called "global warming" because we've had some cold, snowy winters in recent years in the Chicago area that hadn't been occurring for decades. Now it's "climate change." It covers all the bases. 🙄
We still have super cold winters just like this now and then, it goes in cycles, about 10 years before this when I was a kid in the early 70's we had a winter where on Christmas eve it still hadn't snowed yet and I cried my eyes out because I thought Santa wasn't going to show up because of the lack of snow, by the end of the 70's we'd had 2 winters that were so bad climate experts at the time predicted the next ice age was coming, about 10 years ago I was working as a logger one winter and it was so cold I thought it'd never end and I was gonna die or at least lose some finger tips from frostbite.
@@mrg8581
Yep, they has an 8 foot deep snow in the winter of 2014, I was a truck driver and delivered there and was just leaving town when it started to snow, another hour or so and I'd have been stuck there for a week.
I laugh at people who think they've seen a change in the climate in their lifetime.
"We need more funding for research", that's what's behind these climate scientists and their doomsday scare tactics, because if the money dries up that funds their university research departments then they have to get a job in the private sector where you actually have to work and produce results.
@@mrg8581- due to breakdown of arctic air currents causing polar vortex. Global warming from fossil fuels causes this.
@@dukecraig2402- No where near 80 below zero anymore.
I was 16 years old then from Massachusetts
It was cold as hell that January. Got down to -26F in Appleton WI one morning.
First time I ever seen a meteorologist sitting while delivering news lol
John Coleman... An absolute treasure
There's already an example of when he was in New York for less than a year, that preceded his return to Chicago via WMAQ:
th-cam.com/video/P7uUp6X0-8s/w-d-xo.htmlm10s
@@wmbrown6 And with The Weather Channel launch May 1982... he is a true meteorological trailblazer. A true legendary guy who is adored.
@@waynemasters - Meaning, this was a few months before TWC was launched.
@wmbrown6 That's correct. John and the team were all getting ready for TWC launch on May 2, 82... it's a shame that Landmark Communications sold out to NBC... they absolutely wrecked TWC.
God we missed him.
Yep, I remember this one...
Hi everyone 👋
12:47 Mwwwwwaaahhhaaa!!! The French! ...
We need to restructure homes with a fire pit in middle of house with vents to air it out n to control the heat inside
So... fireplaces?
@@trevour heat from the side when heat can b at center will rediate with more effect lol Idk never lived in snow state
I’ll will take the 70’s👍. But the 80’s was all some aswell😊
Good ole John Coleman
It is the "biggerest" 🤦♀️
Same news different year ...still the same
Lolol
So much for global warming...lol