CBS Evening News - 1999-08-23

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[0:00] Tennessee.

[0:03] >> The hurricane season moves into high

[0:05] gear as the threat from Brett blows

[0:08] away. Three more storm systems are lined

[0:11] up bumperto-bumper in the Atlantic. A

[0:13] CBS News investigation finds a

[0:16] surprising source of some of the many

[0:18] guns in America. And fighting the

[0:20] effects of stress, a common vitamin, may

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[0:29] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:34] Rather.

[0:36] >> Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:37] Bob Schaefer. Hurricane Brett produced

[0:39] heavy rain, powerful wind, and a big

[0:42] sigh of relief. The threat tonight from

[0:44] what's left of Brett is flooding along

[0:46] the South Texas coast, but there have

[0:48] been no reports of serious injuries and

[0:51] not nearly as much damage as might have

[0:53] been. The hurricane came ashore last

[0:55] evening south of Corpus Christi and

[0:58] began losing strength. Today, it was

[0:59] downgraded to a tropical storm, will

[1:02] soon be a tropical depression. We're

[1:04] going to begin our coverage tonight with

[1:06] correspondent Byron Pittz.

[1:08] In the end, Hurricane Brett was more

[1:11] nuisance than nightmare. The beast

[1:13] forecasters had predicted didn't even

[1:15] break an egg at the Perez household, and

[1:17] they were in Falurious, a town of 6,000

[1:20] that weathered the eye of the storm. I

[1:22] guess the damage is minimal considering,

[1:24] you know, what what it could have been.

[1:27] >> Last night, it appeared Brett could have

[1:29] been the big one, a category 4

[1:31] hurricane. He threatened the South Texas

[1:34] coast with winds of up to 140 mph. But

[1:38] by daybreak, he'd hobbled across seven

[1:40] counties, doing the most damage where

[1:42] the fewest people live. Flooding is the

[1:44] main concern now. Meanwhile, the

[1:47] thousands that fled Corpus Christi over

[1:49] the weekend will return home to

[1:51] shattered sightings and a smiling mayor.

[1:53] >> Well, you might call it the great

[1:54] escape. I think the city of Corpus

[1:56] Christie is very fortunate.

[1:58] >> Fortunate and curious. Get forecasters

[2:00] make the right call.

[2:01] >> You have to allow for error and you

[2:03] can't take a chance on having people not

[2:05] prepared.

[2:07] >> South Texas was prepared and proud of

[2:09] it. This time last night at the local

[2:11] hotel where we were staying, all guests

[2:13] were required to wear body tags just in

[2:16] case. Tonight, the fear is gone, even

[2:18] though the wind and the rain still

[2:21] linger.

[2:21] >> Might as well get out and do a little

[2:23] playing on the backside of the of the

[2:24] storm.

[2:25] >> Playtime or practice. Those who doubt

[2:27] the forecasters should never question

[2:29] history. A hurricane killed 8,000 people

[2:32] in Galveastston in 1900. And old-timers

[2:35] say Texas is due. Byron Pittz, CBS News

[2:40] Corpus Christi.

[2:42] >> This is Jim Axelrod in Serita, Texas, a

[2:45] one-horse town in a county known for

[2:47] cows. They outnumber people here 100 to

[2:50] one.

[2:50] >> Looking at the twisted uh trees and the

[2:52] and the twisted signs. It looks like

[2:54] they had a cyclonic uh type of uh of

[2:56] winds through here.

[2:57] >> Hurricane Brett painted a bullseye on

[2:59] Serita and Kennedy County, snapping

[3:01] trees and smashing windows. But no one

[3:04] was hurt. Even though 100 mph winds

[3:06] passed right through town,

[3:08] >> it was right on top of us and uh we just

[3:11] were lucky. Very lucky.

[3:13] >> The last 24 hours here in Kennedy County

[3:15] seem to offer some convincing proof

[3:17] regarding that age-old theory about

[3:19] clouds and silver linings. Sometimes

[3:22] even hurricane clouds have them. With

[3:25] the whole Gulf Coast to choose from,

[3:26] Brett picked a county of just 500 people

[3:29] sitting right between Corpus Christi and

[3:31] Brownsville and populations in the

[3:33] hundreds of thousands.

[3:35] >> You see the evidence of the kind of

[3:36] winds they had here. If it it did a uh

[3:39] um Corpus Christi, I think you would

[3:40] have seen a lot more damage.

[3:41] >> You got the map

[3:44] and you got the weather radio.

[3:45] >> But while everyone else saw the silver

[3:47] today, hurricane chaser Scott Fellows

[3:49] focused on the cloud. He drove straight

[3:51] from Atlanta to see Brett and is heading

[3:54] home disappointed.

[3:55] >> I just scanned Kennedy County north to

[3:58] south. I went to Armstrong and back. You

[4:00] know, there's nothing here. It's

[4:03] pathetic.

[4:04] >> One man's missed target is another's

[4:06] dodged bullet on the Gulf Coast of Texas

[4:08] tonight. That is how most people prefer

[4:10] to think about it. Jim Axelott, CBS

[4:13] News, Serita, Texas. There is some fear

[4:16] of flooding in the Texas border town of

[4:18] Laredo where Brett is expected to dump

[4:20] up to 20 ines of rain by tonight.

[4:23] Thousands on both sides of the Rio Grand

[4:25] have been evacuated to higher ground.

[4:27] Well, Brett is fading away, but we

[4:30] shouldn't let our guard down yet. Our

[4:32] CBS News weather consultant, Brian

[4:34] Norcross, tells us there may be more

[4:36] trouble out there.

[4:39] Bob, we're looking at the picture of the

[4:40] Atlantic Ocean here and a week ago there

[4:42] was nothing here and now we have three

[4:44] systems to look at. This one is the one

[4:46] of most immediate concern. It's just

[4:48] north of Puerto Rico right now. Air

[4:50] Force hurricane hunters out there today

[4:52] looking at it. It's not named yet, but

[4:54] because it's so close to the US and the

[4:56] conditions appear generally favorable

[4:58] for development. We're going to have to

[4:59] watch that closely really for the east

[5:01] coast of the of the US here later on in

[5:03] the week. This is tropical storm Cindy

[5:06] and it's way out in the Atlantic but

[5:08] moving in a westerly direction and

[5:10] another strong system just now coming

[5:12] off of Africa. So things definitely

[5:13] heating up.

[5:14] >> It's been so quiet so far. Why all of a

[5:16] sudden all these storms?

[5:18] >> Well, you know, Bob, we usually focus on

[5:20] August 20th as the beginning of the

[5:22] season when just climatologically just

[5:24] on average things get going. And indeed

[5:27] that's what happened this year.

[5:28] >> You think it'll be better or worse than

[5:29] last hurricane season? Well, Bob, last

[5:32] year we had 14 storms and they started

[5:34] almost exactly the same time. The

[5:36] conditions over the Atlantic basin this

[5:38] year appear about like they did last

[5:40] year, maybe even a little more

[5:42] favorable. So, we don't really see any

[5:43] reason at this point why we expect less

[5:46] this year and maybe even more.

[5:47] >> Okay, thank you, Brian.

[5:49] Residents of low-flying, low-lying Padre

[5:52] Island, Texas, returned home today and

[5:54] were greatly relieved at what they

[5:56] found. Still, they were in a better safe

[5:58] than sorry mode. As correspondent Bob

[6:01] McNamera reports,

[6:03] >> Hurricane Brett's brush with South Padre

[6:05] Island left only a few scars.

[6:07] >> I think the whole island should be feel

[6:09] pretty lucky.

[6:11] >> Even with 135 mph peak winds, Hurricane

[6:14] Brett has been more about rain than

[6:16] wreckage. Over 2 ft of rain in places.

[6:20] And if anyone believed Brett was mostly

[6:22] height and not much hurricane,

[6:23] >> you can never be too safe. You know,

[6:25] >> the lack of a body count may say a lot

[6:27] about thousands who got out of the

[6:29] hurricane's way.

[6:30] >> There's no way to really tell exactly

[6:32] what a hurricane's going to do. You just

[6:34] got to be prepared.

[6:35] >> It's not as bad as I thought,

[6:38] but it's it's work.

[6:39] >> Today, Tola and Greg Lunas came home to

[6:42] a tree down on the roof of the house

[6:43] they evacuated on Baffin Bay.

[6:45] >> We're in pretty good shape. Pretty good

[6:47] shape.

[6:48] >> The litter of boat docks and other

[6:49] debris on the shoreline, but it was all

[6:52] minor. You know, our house is still here

[6:54] and we're all okay. So, that's really

[6:56] what matters.

[6:57] >> Yesterday, as the hurricane bore down,

[6:59] Greg Lunis used a fence to board up

[7:01] windows. His wife packed photos, all the

[7:04] family's irreplaceables.

[7:06] >> These are something that really cannot

[7:07] be replaced.

[7:08] >> Today, they were back to unloading

[7:10] everything again, reopening the house,

[7:13] but the windows will stay boarded. It's

[7:15] the season again on the Texas Gulf. Bob

[7:18] McNamera, CBS News, Baffen Bay, Texas.

[7:22] And still to come on tonight's CBS

[7:24] Evening News, an amazing rescue from the

[7:26] ruins in Turkey. Eye on America finds

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[9:53] >> The miraculous discovery by Israeli and

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[10:04] But the misery continues. This woman's

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[10:09] their home.

[10:12] >> Clutching his picture, she cried, "What

[10:14] can I do now without my husband? Why did

[10:17] you leave me?"

[10:20] Instead of delicate search and rescue

[10:22] efforts, bulldozer crews have now taken

[10:24] charge of the rubble. And after much

[10:27] delay, the Turkish army is also arriving

[10:29] in large numbers.

[10:32] With bad weather underlining the need

[10:34] for shelter, the army handed out bags of

[10:36] food and water to a long line of

[10:38] victims.

[10:40] But there are dumbfounding actions by

[10:42] the government, too. 20 m away,

[10:45] survivors also desperate for shelter,

[10:48] saw piles of supplies but got nothing.

[10:51] Met Kamal, who lost his home, says there

[10:54] is plenty of food, water, and medicine,

[10:56] but what's needed most is shelter.

[11:00] The homeless in these tents aren't used

[11:02] to deprivation. Until last week, they

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[11:07] apartments. What's remarkable about this

[11:09] place is that while most of the old

[11:11] buildings survived the earthquake, 90%

[11:13] of these luxury units collapsed and all

[11:16] of them will have to be torn down.

[11:19] The developer who built them, a cousin

[11:21] of the local mayor, left town right

[11:23] after the earthquake.

[11:26] Authorities have since discovered the

[11:27] apartments contained cheap concrete and

[11:30] not enough steel. The once respected

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[11:34] rich by risking the lives of his

[11:36] neighbors.

[11:39] His corruption and Turkeykey's natural

[11:42] disaster have proved a lethal

[11:44] combination. Randall Kingston, CBS News,

[11:47] Yaliva, Turkey.

[11:49] >> Trouble in Kosovo today. Angry ethnic

[11:51] Albanians have thrown up a blockade

[11:53] against Russian peacekeeping troops. The

[11:56] Russians tried to move into one town

[11:58] today. They were stopped by a mass of

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[14:29] >> Tonight's Eye on America is part of an

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[14:33] role of guns in the United States. There

[14:35] are an estimated 200 million guns in

[14:38] this country and police departments have

[14:40] been trying to cut that number by

[14:41] offering to buy guns from their owners.

[14:44] But in an ironic twist, Vince Gonzalez

[14:47] has found the police are also pumping

[14:49] guns into the market.

[14:56] >> They went in my room. After the shooting

[14:58] at the Jewish Community Center in

[15:00] California, Buford Furrow allegedly

[15:02] killed a postal worker with this 9mm

[15:04] semi-automatic pistol. The gun was first

[15:07] owned by the Cosmopolis Police

[15:09] Department in Washington State.

[15:11] >> We purchased a gun for evaluation and

[15:13] and sold it to a local gun dealer. Um

[15:15] that gun dealer sold it to a private

[15:17] citizen.

[15:18] >> And that's not uncommon. According to

[15:20] documents obtained by CBS News, law

[15:23] enforcement agencies across the country

[15:25] have sold or traded tens of thousands of

[15:27] their weapons to gun dealers who then

[15:29] sell them to the public. Everything from

[15:31] handguns to machine guns.

[15:34] >> I think that's outrageous. Putting

[15:36] assault weapons back on the street.

[15:37] There's no excuse.

[15:38] >> Jay Wtel is a former federal agent who

[15:41] specialized in gun trafficking. I can't

[15:43] imagine that any police department that

[15:45] appreciates the consequences,

[15:48] you know, would want to add to the pool

[15:50] of firearms.

[15:51] >> It's time to begin classes. We are back.

[15:56] >> When Coline High students returned to

[15:58] school last week, the cheering couldn't

[16:00] erase the memory of what high-powered

[16:02] weapons can do.

[16:03] >> They're going in. They're going in. At

[16:05] the time of the Littleton massacre,

[16:06] local officials, including the Jefferson

[16:08] County Sheriff, condemned assault

[16:10] weapons as having only one purpose,

[16:12] killing people.

[16:14] But CBS News has learned four out of the

[16:16] five departments responding to the scene

[16:18] that day sell or trade their used

[16:21] weapons, including assault rifles, to

[16:23] gun dealers. None of those dealers would

[16:25] talk to us, but we have a list of the

[16:27] weapons they bought from law

[16:28] enforcement. 112 handguns, 194 shotguns

[16:32] and rifles, and 20 assault weapons,

[16:35] including the AR-15.

[16:38] A weapon so deadly it can no longer be

[16:40] imported or manufactured here.

[16:43] That was one of the guns sold by

[16:45] Jefferson County. Sheriff John Stone

[16:47] told us he didn't know his department

[16:49] sold assault weapons.

[16:50] >> I think my philosophy is going to change

[16:53] on on that and and those weapons will

[16:55] not be used in any kind of trade-in

[16:56] program. But Stone defends the practice

[16:58] when it comes to handguns.

[17:00] >> Well, it's just like trading in a car or

[17:02] anything else, except this gun, you

[17:03] know, and I had no problem with the

[17:05] handguns.

[17:06] >> This handgun, first owned by the New

[17:08] York State Police, was later used by

[17:10] Richard Leon Brown to murder two store

[17:12] clerks in California. Brown, caught on

[17:15] surveillance tape, is now on death row.

[17:18] That gun, according to a report, was one

[17:20] of 30 used in crimes which were traced

[17:22] back to New York law enforcement. Now

[17:24] all used state weapons are destroyed.

[17:28] The legendary Texas Rangers, the guys in

[17:30] the white hats, and the Texas Highway

[17:32] Patrol are among the biggest arms

[17:34] dealers in law enforcement. According to

[17:36] inventory reports, they've unloaded

[17:38] thousands of handguns, shotguns, rifles,

[17:40] and dozens of assault weapons over the

[17:42] last decade. But the biggest surprise

[17:44] came from the Irving, Texas police, the

[17:47] only department we found which sold

[17:49] grenade launchers

[17:50] >> of the M203 40 mm grenade launcher. The

[17:54] paper trail leads to a licensed firearms

[17:56] dealer in Idaho who is offering them on

[17:58] his website for $3,500 a piece.

[18:04] >> The people that get them are licensed

[18:05] and that's about the safeguard best

[18:07] safeguards we can come up with is going

[18:08] through the federal government to uh

[18:10] that they're they assure us that these

[18:11] people are the proper people to to deal

[18:13] with them. The licensed weapons dealer

[18:15] from Idaho also promotes as a must-read

[18:18] a new novel in which the hero advocates

[18:20] the execution of police officers who

[18:22] enforce gun control laws. Buford Furrow

[18:25] was an avid reader of such

[18:27] anti-government books and at one time he

[18:29] was a licensed firearms dealer. All

[18:32] these gun deals are perfectly legal. The

[18:34] question is, in a country reeling from

[18:36] gun violence, should those who are

[18:38] supposed to protect and serve be selling

[18:41] and trading such deadly weapons? In Los

[18:44] Angeles, this is Vince Gonzalez for Eye

[18:47] on America.

[18:50] And it is not just the police. Tomorrow

[18:52] night, we'll tell you about some other

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[20:51] >> If Crush would let me kick a ball 50

[20:53] yards, then I'd eat it.

[20:54] >> Tim and Richard love strawberry jam

[20:56] spread on warm toast. Now they're the

[20:58] fourth generation of smuckers making it.

[21:01] >> Now if Crush got me AI's in school, then

[21:03] maybe.

[21:04] >> Nope. Curly hair.

[21:06] >> Here, have my curls, too.

[21:09] >> For more than a hundred years with a

[21:11] name like Smuckers, it has to be good.

[21:16] On the CBS Market Watch, the Federal

[21:18] Reserve is widely expected to raise

[21:20] interest rates tomorrow to keep

[21:21] inflation in check if Wall Street's

[21:23] concerned about that. The Fed's action

[21:25] didn't show today. The Dow soared nearly

[21:28] 200 points to close at a record high,

[21:30] just shy of 11,300.

[21:33] Over on the NASDAQ, internet stocks led

[21:35] the way to a hefty 71 point gain.

[21:39] Vitamin C stock is getting a boost at

[21:41] the American Chemical Society meeting in

[21:43] New Orleans this week. Researchers there

[21:45] say preventing colds and diseases is not

[21:48] the only way that vitamin C can promote

[21:51] good health. Elizabeth Kaledan has more

[21:53] on that.

[21:55] Whether it comes from bottles or fruits

[21:57] and vegetables, vitamin C has long been

[22:00] an important part of any campaign to

[22:02] stay healthy.

[22:04] Drinks loaded with vitamin C are the

[22:06] number one request at Ly's Juice Joint

[22:08] in Manhattan.

[22:09] >> Vitamin C is extremely popular. It's by

[22:12] far the most popular vitamin. And now

[22:14] scientists are unlocking a whole new

[22:16] level of potential for vitamin C, its

[22:19] ability to prevent illness by fighting

[22:21] stress. In new research done at the

[22:24] University of Alabama in Huntsville,

[22:26] laboratory rats like these were

[22:27] restrained from moving for an hour at a

[22:30] time, causing their hormonal stress

[22:32] levels to rise. When they were fed mega

[22:34] doses of vitamin C, production of stress

[22:37] hormones was reduced. The animals that

[22:40] were uh stressed and not given C had uh

[22:43] triple almost triple times the blood

[22:45] levels of these stress hormones.

[22:47] >> But what does that mean for stress in

[22:49] people? It's too early to tell, says Dr.

[22:52] Mark Lavine of the National Institutes

[22:53] of Health, who adds people could never

[22:55] take the quantity given to the rats.

[22:58] >> It's quite possible vitamin C will have

[23:00] effects in the adrenal gland and on

[23:03] stress, but I think based on this study,

[23:05] it's we can't say that now in humans.

[23:07] It's a premature conclusion.

[23:09] >> Still, Dr. Lavine admits the many

[23:11] benefits of vitamin C have yet to be

[23:14] tapped. He believes the current

[23:15] government recommendations of 60

[23:17] milligrams a day are too low. The

[23:20] guidelines for how much vitamin C to

[23:22] take are being debated and new ones are

[23:24] expected by the end of the year.

[23:27] Elizabeth Kaledan, CBS News, New York.

[23:30] >> And now for some new panda family

[23:32] pictures in China. The first photos of

[23:35] those panda triplets we told you about

[23:37] last week. Uh, two of them are healthy,

[23:39] but one of them eventually died. And at

[23:42] the San Diego Zoo, the first giant panda

[23:44] cub born in this country in 10 years.

[23:47] It's now 2 days old. Mother and cub are

[23:50] doing fine.

[23:52] Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

[23:54] searching for a seeker. 40 days in the

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[26:03] >> The governor of Minnesota says he is

[26:05] proud to be a former wrestler and he is

[26:08] willing to go to the mat on it. So, even

[26:10] though critics told him not to do it,

[26:12] Jesse Ventur returned to the ring last

[26:14] night as a referee. He stole the show at

[26:17] the World Wrestling Federation title

[26:19] match in Minneapolis. Ventura says he

[26:22] will donate his $100,000 fee to charity.

[26:27] And finally tonight, a story that sounds

[26:29] like something out of the Bible.

[26:32] Rescue workers found a missing American,

[26:34] Robert Boguki of Alaska, who had been

[26:36] wandering around barefoot in the

[26:38] Australian desert for 40 days and 40

[26:40] nights eating plants and drinking dirty

[26:43] water. His first words to a television

[26:45] crew that found him were not that

[26:47] surprising.

[26:48] >> I'm hungry. I'm tired. Enough of this

[26:51] walking around. You better not.

[26:54] >> Bogi had been the object of a widespread

[26:57] air and ground search since his

[26:58] abandoned bicycle was found on the

[27:00] desert's edge back in July. He lost more

[27:03] than 40 lbs and traveled 250 m during

[27:06] the ordeal. But after changing to a

[27:08] fresh t-shirt, he said he felt a lot

[27:10] better. So why did he wander into the

[27:13] desert with virtually no food or

[27:14] supplies? I just wanted to uh

[27:18] spend spend a while on my own, just, you

[27:23] know, nobody else around and just

[27:27] uh

[27:29] make peace with God, I guess.

[27:31] >> And you've done that?

[27:34] >> Oh, yeah.

[27:36] >> And never again.

[27:37] >> Well,

[27:39] I don't think you should have to do it

[27:41] more than once.

[27:44] >> Well, police hope not. And if he does

[27:45] decide to take another trip, they advise

[27:47] him to tell someone where he's headed.

[27:49] That's the news. Dan Rather will be

[27:51] along later tonight with a 48 hours

[27:53] Monday mystery. Susan Spencer with a

[27:55] preview.

[27:56] >> He may be the most notorious expert

[27:59] witness ever.

[28:00] >> Fred Zayn had faked data in virtually

[28:03] every case that has ever been examined.

[28:05] >> Dozens of people behind bars need to

[28:08] know. Expert witness later on 48 hours.

[28:12] And for Dan Rather, this is Bob

[28:14] Schiffer, CBS News in New York. Good

[28:17] night.

[28:19] >> For news 24 hours a day, CBS.com, on the

[28:21] internet, and on our interactive

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[28:25] News.

[28:29] >> Earlier, we told you about police

[28:31] departments that sell rifles, handguns,

[28:33] even assault weapons to gun dealers. But

[28:35] if you think that's strange, ask

[28:37] yourself this. Why would some of the

[28:39] cities that are suing gun makers still

[28:41] be selling weapons to gun dealers?

[28:43] Tomorrow, an Eye on America

[28:44] investigation continues on the CBS

[28:47] Evening News with Dan Rather.

[28:50] How to organize your chaotic kid

[28:51] tomorrow on This Morning. Experience CBS

[28:55] News.

[28:57] These old battery casings have been in

[28:59] gardens and driveways for years, but at

[29:02] what expense? Residents in one Middle

[29:04] Tennessee town are about to find out.

[29:07] Convicted killer Paul Reed took a trip

[29:09] to Memphis today and a lot of officers

[29:11] made sure he didn't get away. We'll tell

[29:13] you why the convicted killer headed west

[29:15] coming up.

[29:17] >> And with no one running against him, why

[29:19] would Bill Purcell throw a big time

[29:21] fundraiser? Find out why this mayoral

[29:23] candidate says he still needs more

[29:25] money. News Channel 5 at 6 is just

[29:28] seconds away.