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Strom Thurmond Collapses in Senate

Aired October 02, 2001 - 10:45   ET

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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Getting word now from Washington, on the floor of the Senate, Strom Thurmond apparently has just collapsed.

Information right now a bit sketchy and varied. But again, Strom Thurmond has collapsed on the Senate floor.

Daryl, if you have anything else, give it to me now, otherwise we can move on here. All right, we have our correspondents Jonathan Karl, Kate Snow also on Capitol Hill. We will track this down for you.

Again, the word we're getting Strom Thurmond at the age of 98 has collapsed on the Senate floor. What this means or if it's regarding his condition, unknown at this point. We will check in shortly though in Washington and let you know what we have here.

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