World News Tonight (ABC) - 2000-08-19
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[0:05] This is World News Tonight Saturday.
[0:09] Good evening. I'm Antonio Mora. Even the
[0:11] Russian government tonight is admitting
[0:13] what many have feared for days. It is
[0:15] likely there are no survivors on board
[0:17] the doomed submarine at the bottom of
[0:19] the Barren Sea. International help is on
[0:21] the scene tonight. The Russian
[0:23] government is under severe criticism for
[0:25] its handling of the crisis and new
[0:27] details are emerging about how much the
[0:29] crew suffered when their vessel
[0:30] exploded. ABC's Richard Gizbert is in
[0:33] the Russian port city of Merman.
[0:37] Russians got the news today over their
[0:39] television sets.
[0:43] However difficult it is to say, this
[0:45] senior naval officer told them, "It is
[0:47] quite likely that we must confirm our
[0:49] worst expectations."
[0:51] He told millions of Russians that the
[0:53] crew at the front of the submarine died
[0:55] within minutes of the explosion. Those
[0:57] further back survived longer, tapping
[0:59] out messages to rescue divers. They were
[1:02] telling us water was coming in, he said,
[1:04] shrinking the time limit for survival.
[1:06] They were asking to be supplied with
[1:08] oxygen. But that never happened. After
[1:12] days of alienating Russians by saying
[1:14] little about the accident, the
[1:15] government has at least begun to talk.
[1:17] The deputy prime minister theorized
[1:19] today that the sub might have hit a
[1:21] stray mine. The news that stuck with
[1:23] people though was the fate of the crew.
[1:28] There was hope, this man said. Many
[1:30] people had hope, but it was not God's
[1:32] will. While he was talking, his friend
[1:35] began to cry.
[1:39] I wish it could have happened faster,
[1:40] she said, because for us it seemed to
[1:43] take a long time. Imagine how long it
[1:45] must have been for them.
[1:47] What the authorities here finally
[1:49] admitted today was something that most
[1:51] Russians had already feared was true.
[1:53] And they made the announcement at a time
[1:54] when help from overseas was just a few
[1:57] hours away. A British Norwegian rescue
[1:59] team was quite literally on the horizon.
[2:04] >> Russian TV was reporting live from the
[2:06] rescue scene when it spotted the
[2:08] Norwegian vessel in the distance
[2:09] accompanied by a Russian warship. These
[2:12] pictures were taken earlier on the
[2:14] ship's journey to the rescue site, and
[2:16] they focus on a new mini submarine built
[2:18] for the British Navy, the LR5. Unlike
[2:21] the Russian rescue subs, the LR5 is not
[2:24] attached to a cable, free floating and
[2:26] highly maneuverable, it's been described
[2:28] as an underwater helicopter. It has a
[2:31] threeperson crew, two pilots, and a
[2:34] rescue chamber operator. If it was to
[2:36] successfully dock with the Kursk and
[2:38] miraculously find survivors, it has a
[2:40] capacity of 16.
[2:42] >> As you can see, it's a bit cramped in
[2:43] here, but we can actually get 16 people
[2:45] in here. Not very comfortably, but we
[2:47] will get them in.
[2:48] >> Had the sub not been delayed in a
[2:50] Norwegian port while waiting for Russian
[2:52] government clearance, it would have been
[2:54] here 2 days ago. Russians may never know
[2:56] if that holdup cost some sailors their
[2:59] lives or what actually happened on the
[3:01] ocean floor. And at the nearby naval
[3:03] base of Searam Morsk, they are making
[3:05] preparations at the cemetery. Richard
[3:08] Gizber, ABC News, Mormansk.
[3:12] Some observers say shades of the old
[3:14] Soviet Union have emerged as the
[3:16] submarine disaster has unfolded. More on
[3:19] that story from ABC's Hillary Brown
[3:21] reporting tonight from Moscow.
[3:23] >> From day one, Russian authorities put up
[3:26] an information barrier around the
[3:28] disaster. first taking two days to admit
[3:31] that it happened at all and then issuing
[3:33] contradictory statements about its cause
[3:36] in the space of 48 hours. They said the
[3:38] sub went down because of a technical
[3:40] malfunction, a collision with a foreign
[3:43] submarine, and an explosion in the
[3:45] torpedo bay. The only frank statement
[3:48] came from the chief of the Navy when he
[3:50] said on television, "We have no idea
[3:53] what is going on inside that submarine."
[3:56] From the beginning of the crisis, they
[3:58] the Russian authorities were either
[3:59] distorting the facts or withholding the
[4:02] facts
[4:03] or just simply lying about what's
[4:06] happening.
[4:07] >> The silence for President Putin was
[4:09] deafening. He was on vacation for 5 days
[4:12] before he made any public statement
[4:14] about the catastrophe. Two days later,
[4:17] he asserted that the Navy had never
[4:19] refused any offers of assistance from
[4:21] Western countries. In fact, it had
[4:24] consistently. Analysts say this is a
[4:26] complete throwback to Soviet times where
[4:29] their priority is to save face rather
[4:32] than save lives.
[4:34] >> They know the Russian admirals that in
[4:35] Russia you could go to the prison to
[4:37] Siberia if you undermine state security
[4:40] and state secrecy. And if sailors die,
[4:43] well, most likely you won't get into
[4:45] prison for that at all.
[4:48] The families of the crew were given no
[4:50] information and no explanation for the
[4:53] 4-day delay in launching a rescue
[4:55] attempt.
[4:58] >> "What are you doing?" says this mother.
[5:00] "Our sons are dying."
[5:06] >> Prayers were said for the men of the
[5:08] Kursk in churches all over Russia and
[5:10] especially here in Moscow's main
[5:12] cathedral. These were prayers for their
[5:15] safety. They may soon be prayers for
[5:17] their souls.
[5:19] >> There is something positive in all this.
[5:22] The way the Russian authorities handled
[5:23] this crisis is not a complete regression
[5:26] to Soviet ways. In Soviet times, there
[5:29] would have been no news of it at all.
[5:31] Hillary Brown, ABC News, Moscow.
[5:34] >> On an island near Tokyo, residents are
[5:37] digging out from a blanket of volcanic
[5:39] ash. Mount Oyama erupted again
[5:41] yesterday, sending ash 5 miles into the
[5:43] sky. As much as 8 ines of the ash
[5:46] covered homes and roads, evacuated
[5:48] residents began returning home today. In
[5:51] Carlsbad, New Mexico, a family camping
[5:53] trip ended in tragedy when a gasoline
[5:55] explosion killed six people and injured
[5:58] six more. Four of the dead were
[5:59] children. Authorities believe the
[6:01] explosion was triggered by a rupture in
[6:03] the pipeline. A class action lawsuit has
[6:06] been filed in Ohio against Ford Motor
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[6:10] risking thousands of lives with a
[6:12] deliberately confusing tire recall. Ford
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[6:17] month, Ford announced the recall of 6
[6:18] and a half million Firestone tires after
[6:21] a possible link emerged between the
[6:23] tires and accidents that caused 62
[6:25] deaths and 100 injuries. When World News
[6:28] Tonight this Saturday continues, now
[6:30] that the conventions are over, the
[6:32] presidential candidates hit the campaign
[6:34] trail and campaign river. And a shocking
[6:37] discovery at the North Pole. Fires up
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[8:38] for the White House are pounding the
[8:39] campaign trail this weekend by land and
[8:42] by river. Vice President Al Gore is on
[8:45] the stump on a Mississippi steamboat.
[8:47] Traveling with him is ABC's Terry Moran.
[8:52] On the riverfront in Deuke, Iowa, Al
[8:54] Gore's voice was deteriorating, but he
[8:56] kept hammering home his populist attack
[8:58] on the Republican ticket.
[9:00] >> They give in to the big drug companies.
[9:02] I fight for families. That's the
[9:05] difference in this election. They're for
[9:06] the powerful. We're for the people.
[9:09] After a birthday serenade from the crowd
[9:11] for Tippergore,
[9:18] it was back on board the panel wheeler
[9:19] Mark Twain for day two of this
[9:21] postconvention trip down the
[9:22] Mississippi.
[9:25] All the states this campaign is hitting
[9:27] on this trip, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
[9:30] and Missouri, were won handily by Bill
[9:32] Clinton in the past two elections. And
[9:34] yet the vice president is spending
[9:36] precious time trying to line them up
[9:37] this year because these are among the
[9:39] states where the election will be won or
[9:41] lost.
[9:41] >> And David, it's really kind of amazing
[9:43] that Gore chose to campaign in Eastern
[9:45] Iowa. Right.
[9:46] >> So far, the Gore campaign has been
[9:48] successful in one main objective,
[9:50] garnering a lot of positive coverage in
[9:52] the local press. And for some of the
[9:54] people who showed up this morning, the
[9:55] vice president seems to have turned a
[9:57] corner. you know, people were used to
[9:59] him in the background a lot and I think
[10:01] he's really stepped forward now and
[10:03] speaking up a lot and people are
[10:04] listening.
[10:05] >> He's so personable and he's he comes
[10:08] across really well.
[10:09] >> And the campaign is turning up the heat
[10:11] on Governor Bush on the issue of debates
[10:13] since Bush has said he would rather not
[10:15] participate in formal debates,
[10:16] preferring other venues like cable news
[10:18] talk shows.
[10:19] >> George Bush ought to be able to step up
[10:21] on stage and debate Al Gore one-on-one
[10:24] and tell the American people on national
[10:25] television where he stands. He should
[10:27] not duck. He cannot run. We will not let
[10:29] him hide.
[10:30] >> This campaign is definitely feeling a
[10:32] lift from the Democratic convention. And
[10:34] Al Gore himself seems more focused and
[10:36] disciplined on the stump. But with
[10:38] Governor Bush making major inroads in
[10:39] what used to be Clinton country, this
[10:42] candidate knows he can't take anything
[10:44] for granted. Antonio, thank you, Terry.
[10:46] ABC's Terry Moran in Belleview, Iowa.
[10:49] Republican presidential nominee George
[10:51] W. Bush launches his biggest ad campaign
[10:54] ever on Monday. Today, Bush and his
[10:56] running mate, Richard Cheney, rallied
[10:58] with supporters at Southern Methodist
[11:00] University in Dallas. It is the last big
[11:03] event planned in Mr. Bush's home state.
[11:05] ABC's John Yang reports.
[11:09] George W. Bush was in familiar territory
[11:11] today, talking about a familiar topic.
[11:13] He's beginning his general election push
[11:15] with a two-eek focus on education, which
[11:18] experts say is a powerful issue among
[11:20] crucial swing voters. I know we need to
[11:22] have a president and when we find
[11:24] children trapped in schools that will
[11:26] not teach and will not change, we better
[11:28] challenge the status quo because there's
[11:30] no second rate children in America and
[11:32] no second rate.
[11:35] >> Later in New Mexico, he called for
[11:37] spending $900 million to rehabilitate
[11:40] crumbling Native American schools.
[11:42] Buildings are old and classrooms are
[11:44] poorly equipped and maintenance often
[11:46] times is neglected.
[11:48] There's a failure of responsibility at
[11:50] the federal level.
[11:51] >> And a new television ad on education
[11:53] will appear in 21 states, including many
[11:56] key electoral battlegrounds.
[11:58] >> Now is the time to teach all our
[12:00] children to read and renew the promise
[12:02] of America's public schools.
[12:04] >> Analysts say Mr. Bush will have to offer
[12:06] policy specifics right up to election
[12:09] day in order to counter Democratic
[12:11] critics.
[12:11] >> I think the Democrats have scored some
[12:13] points or at least raised some questions
[12:14] about how serious and substantive he is.
[12:16] He does tend to be rather general in his
[12:18] comments and and he does have to
[12:21] demonstrate that he can be president of
[12:22] the United States, not just a good
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[12:26] >> Next week, Mr. Bush takes his message on
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[12:29] Illinois, and Missouri, and Antonio.
[12:31] Those are all key battleground states
[12:33] that will decide the winner in November.
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[12:43] joined by his wife Hillary and daughter
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[15:02] Week.
[15:04] >> Sports fans at University of Mississippi
[15:07] campus events are now prohibited from
[15:09] waving Confederate flags. A federal
[15:11] appeals court backed the ban, upholding
[15:14] a federal district judge's decision from
[15:16] last year. An attorney for the white
[15:18] supremacist nationalist movement says he
[15:20] will appeal the decision. In North
[15:22] Carolina, tens of thousands of people
[15:24] are still without power tonight. Savage
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[15:30] yesterday. 50,000 power outages were
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[15:42] mooring pole, tearing it and dumping the
[15:45] metal cockpit onto its side. The captain
[15:47] and six passengers all walked away
[15:49] uninjured.
[15:50] More than 2 million Catholic pilgrims
[15:53] braved 100 degree heat for a glimpse of
[15:55] Pope John Paul II. The mass and vigil at
[15:58] a campground in Rome capped off this
[16:00] year's World Youth Day. The Pope created
[16:03] the event in 1985 to inspire young
[16:06] Catholics. More news in just a moment.
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[18:35] Clinton's weekly radio address
[18:37] highlighted what the White House is
[18:38] calling a Marshall Plan for AIDS.
[18:41] Clinton signed a bill today authorizing
[18:43] $300 million for AIDS prevention, health
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[18:52] devastated by the epidemic.
[18:56] Remains thought to be those of 14
[18:58] Americans who fought in the Korean War
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[19:12] up, the ice cap at the top of the world
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[21:17] two-year-old female, and Tian Tian, a
[21:20] three-year-old male. The zoo has been
[21:22] without a panda since the death of Sing
[21:25] Singh last year. Part of the ice cap at
[21:28] the top of the world has melted. The New
[21:31] York Times reports that some scientists
[21:32] are calling it dramatic proof that
[21:34] global warming has started to alter our
[21:37] climate. ABC's Dan Harris has more.
[21:42] This is how it usually looks.
[21:45] >> What you expect to see when you get to
[21:46] the North Pole is solid ice.
[21:50] >> But on a recent expedition from Norway
[21:52] to the North Pole, Malcolm McKenna along
[21:54] with a group of scientists and tourists
[21:57] found open water, about a mile of it,
[22:00] right on the Earth's crown. McKenna, a
[22:03] paleontologist who has studied global
[22:04] warming, immediately started taking
[22:06] pictures to record what he says should
[22:09] be a serious wakeup call.
[22:11] >> I think uh those who um think that
[22:15] global warming is not occurring should
[22:17] pay a little closer attention to at
[22:19] least this single instance.
[22:21] >> What McKenna and the others saw,
[22:23] however, may have been just an
[22:25] aberration. Experts say strong winds
[22:28] likely broke the ice apart. What is
[22:30] truly remarkable is that the expedition
[22:32] saw thinning ice all over the polar
[22:34] region. Climatologist Doug Martinson
[22:37] says the area has been warming at an
[22:39] alarming rate.
[22:40] >> It's just another piece of evidence
[22:41] that's starting to say, "Wow, this may
[22:44] be really happening up there. It's
[22:45] really getting thinner and eventually if
[22:47] we lose the ice in the summertime, we're
[22:50] talking about a potentially dramatic
[22:51] change not just to the wildlife but also
[22:53] to global climate." Global warming, he
[22:56] says, could change weather patterns all
[22:58] over the Earth, affecting agriculture,
[23:00] water management, and energy management.
[23:03] But skeptics say the climate of the
[23:04] North Pole is always fluctuating, and
[23:07] that the open water recently seen there
[23:09] should not be cause for concern.
[23:11] >> It's fashionable these days to blame
[23:13] everything on global warming, uh,
[23:15] particularly on man-made global warming,
[23:17] but I'm afraid the evidence doesn't
[23:19] point in that direction.
[23:21] >> Malcolm McKenna remains shocked by what
[23:23] he saw. He says we should not ignore
[23:25] that. As he Riley puts it, Santa's
[23:28] workshop is now underwater.
[23:32] Dan Harris, ABC News, New York. To learn
[23:35] more about global warming and how it may
[23:37] be affecting your part of the country,
[23:39] visit the weekend page at abcnews.com.
[23:43] And that is our report for tonight.
[23:44] Tomorrow on this week with Sam Donaldson
[23:47] and Koki Roberts, Bush communications
[23:49] director Karen Hughes and Gore senior
[23:52] adviser Bob Shrum dissect the Democratic
[23:54] convention. I'm Antonio Mora. For all of
[23:57] us here at ABC News, have a great night.
[24:20] Sunday, defendants have a right to
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[25:55] Memphis to avoid arrest.
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[26:21] >> On World News Tonight this Sunday,
[26:24] dramatic first pictures of the doomed
[26:26] Russian submarine
[26:29] and conflicting reports about exactly
[26:32] what happened down there. The death toll
[26:35] climbs as investigators search for the
[26:37] cause of a New Mexico pipeline
[26:39] explosion.
[26:40] Critics of a new court ruling in
[26:42] California say it could turn murder
[26:45] witnesses into murder victims.
[26:49] And old McDonald's it's not. Things are
[26:52] different these days down on this farm.
[27:00] From ABC,
[27:02] this is World News Tonight Sunday.
[27:06] >> Good evening everyone. I'm Carol
[27:08] Simpson. It is a dark, dangerous, and
[27:11] delicate operation. Norwegian divers
[27:14] struggled all day and through the night
[27:16] with the escape hatch of the Russian
[27:18] nuclear submarine that sank to the sea
[27:20] floor a week ago. No luck opening it and
[27:24] no sign of life from the 118 crew
[27:26] members. As ABC's Richard Gizbert
[27:29] reports, there are conflicting accounts
[27:31] between the Russian and Norwegian navies
[27:34] about the condition of the submarine.
[27:38] >> Today, the joint Norwegian British
[27:40] rescue team went to work on its mission
[27:42] getting into the Russian submarine on
[27:44] the ocean floor. The divers were lowered
[27:46] to the sub in a diving bell. 350 ft
[27:50] below the surface, they emerged. These
[27:52] pictures are shot by cameras mounted on
[27:54] their helmets and relayed to the
[27:56] communication center on the ship. Okay.
[27:58] By tapping on the submarine surface with
[28:00] the hammer, the dive team can hear which
[28:03] parts of the sub are flooded and where
[28:05] the remaining air pockets are. Where
[28:07] there is air, there may be life. At one
[28:10] stage, they tap out a message. Is
[28:11] anybody alive in there? Apparently, they
[28:14] get no reply. The divers find extensive
[28:17] damage to the submarine, filming a piece
[28:19] of the hull. But this is where the
[28:21] arguments begin. The Norwegians disagree
[28:23] with Russian claims that the escape
[28:25] hatch was too bent in the accident to be
[28:28] locked onto by a rescue sub. Russia's
[28:30] deputy prime minister went on TV today,
[28:34] saying the inspection showed a serious
[28:36] crack. That's why we think the British
[28:39] sub will not be able to dock onto the
[28:41] hatch. A few hours later, the Norwegian
[28:43] military, whose divers were at the sub,
[28:46] contradicted him. Well, our divers have
[28:48] been down there today and they have
[28:51] confirmed