Al Roker raises alarm on deadly flood: ‘Potential for another’

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🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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When the South Fork Dam broke in 1889, the 20 million tons of water it released destroyed Johnstown, a bustling industrial town in Southwest Pennsylvania.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.7	Meet the press.
0:04.9	Meet the press.
0:09.6	Welcome to 1947, the Meet the Press podcast.
0:12.7	My guest today is Al Rooker.
0:14.4	He's, of course, co-anchor at the Today Show.
0:16.3	But he's also author of a new book called Ruthless Tie, The Heroes and Villains of the
0:21.6	Johnstown Flood, America's Estonishing Guilded Age Disaster.
0:26.6	The book details events before and after May 31st, 1889, when Pennsylvania's South
0:32.0	Fort Dam broke during flooding, sending 20 million tons of water onto a downstream town,
0:37.7	destroying that town, killing 2,000.
0:41.1	Al Rooker, welcome to 1947.
0:43.0	Hey, thanks so much, Chuck.
0:44.4	Thanks for having me.
0:45.4	Look, the book, the timing, the idea, everything about it, it fits you, it fits the moment.
0:55.0	It is what motivated you to say, you know what, this is a story that America should
1:00.3	hear again, essentially.
1:02.0	Well, I think it's one of these things.
1:04.0	Look, I'm in weather and I knew about the Johnstown Flood, but I didn't know about the
1:10.7	Johnstown Flood.
1:11.7	I didn't know what led up to it.
1:13.7	I didn't know how many people perished in it.
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