CBS Evening News - 1999-08-19

Channel: malgent

Transcript

Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:03] The death toll in Turkey grows to near

[0:06] 7,000. As more bodies are pulled from

[0:09] the earthquake rubble, there are stories

[0:10] of dramatic rescues after people being

[0:13] buried alive for 2 days. Experts say

[0:16] more lives might have been saved if

[0:18] buildings were designed with earthquakes

[0:21] in mind. And as American schools

[0:23] crumble, a new one is planned for this

[0:25] spot. So why is there so much

[0:28] opposition?

[0:32] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:37] Rather.

[0:38] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:40] Bob Schaefer. Well, the numbers coming

[0:42] in from Turkey are staggering, even

[0:44] worse than we thought yesterday. As

[0:46] darkness fell over Istanbul, officials

[0:48] said as many as 75,000 people may be

[0:52] missing, dead, or injured in the quake.

[0:55] It has become one of the worst natural

[0:57] disasters of our time. Yet, as people

[0:59] continue to be found alive, it is a

[1:02] disaster interspersed with seeming

[1:04] miracles. A huge portion of Turkey is

[1:07] the scene of a tremendous heroic

[1:10] international rescue effort.

[1:14] Even in their sorrow, there have been

[1:16] hundreds of little celebrations as one

[1:18] person after another, many of them

[1:20] children, has been pulled from the

[1:22] rubble. By hand and by crane, thousands

[1:25] of buildings are being searched. Those

[1:27] who were found have been buried beneath

[1:29] the rubble for more than two days. An

[1:32] Israeli team found this man.

[1:34] >> We heard the voice under the walls.

[1:36] >> The United Nations estimates as many as

[1:38] 35,000 people may still be trapped.

[1:42] >> This man pleaded with the police to help

[1:43] him search because his each day passes.

[1:46] Exposure and dehydration makes survival

[1:49] more difficult. With hospitals jammed,

[1:52] the injured are being cared for

[1:53] virtually anywhere there's room. a

[1:55] parking lot, a soccer stadium. At least

[1:58] 7,000 are believed dead, more than

[2:00] 33,000 injured. With block after block

[2:03] of buildings crushed in many areas,

[2:05] people are depending on handouts of

[2:07] food. There was one bit of good news.

[2:10] Planes dropping chemicals help bring a

[2:12] major refinery fire under control. What

[2:15] to do with the dead has also become a

[2:18] problem. In one town, a skating rink has

[2:20] been converted into a morg where bodies

[2:22] are being kept until they can be

[2:24] identified and buried. Among the dead

[2:26] were four American children and their

[2:28] grandfather who'd come to Turkey to

[2:30] visit relatives. For others, the

[2:32] funerals have begun. From a simple small

[2:35] town memorial with makeshift grave

[2:37] markers to an elaborate funeral in

[2:39] Istanbul, Turkey is a country

[2:42] overwhelmed by grief. Rescue workers

[2:46] from around the world are streaming into

[2:48] Turkey, bringing with them badly needed

[2:50] equipment and expertise. But they are

[2:52] racing the clock and fighting the forces

[2:54] of gravity. CBS News correspondent Alan

[2:57] Pizzy is with American rescue teams in

[3:00] ISMET.

[3:03] Within hours of arriving, the Fairfax

[3:05] County rescue team made a difference. An

[3:07] 8-year-old boy was freed from a prison

[3:09] of rubble after having been buried alive

[3:11] for nearly 60 hours. His parents died,

[3:14] but two other relatives may be alive,

[3:16] and the firemen kept digging.

[3:21] But success comes at a taxing price. The

[3:24] work must be precise, which makes it

[3:26] painstaking, exhausting.

[3:29] Sound sensors are strung throughout the

[3:31] debris, and then they stop the world.

[3:34] >> Don't move. Don't walk. No walk. Stay

[3:37] still.

[3:42] No equipment working, no talking, no

[3:44] moving. Even a footstep can be heard

[3:46] from a quarter mile away. This time they

[3:49] heard the sound of life. One person,

[3:51] maybe two.

[3:53] >> Where's the translator?

[3:56] >> Four people are known to have been

[3:58] inside this building. Garrett, a trained

[4:00] sniffer dog, is sent to the pile, but

[4:02] his task is complicated by the smell of

[4:04] dead bodies. The rescuers say they see

[4:07] many similarities between this and the

[4:09] site of the Nairobi embassy bombing.

[4:11] Danger, desperation, and above all the

[4:14] destruction. There's very little

[4:15] difference, one fireman said, between

[4:17] what a terrorist bomb and a major

[4:19] earthquake can do.

[4:22] The pancake effect, for example, several

[4:25] floors of a building collapsed onto each

[4:27] other. It's the biggest worry for JJ

[4:29] Walsh and his team. They could have a

[4:31] secondary quake here, collapse some of

[4:34] these pe uh floors on top of our rescue

[4:36] personnel, and then we're going to be

[4:37] have, you know, have to extreme, you

[4:39] know, put all all our efforts to

[4:41] rescuing our own people.

[4:44] >> Most of the nearby digging, however, is

[4:46] done by amateurs, people driven by

[4:48] desperation. It is appallingly

[4:51] dangerous.

[4:52] >> If they're kind of taking the bottom out

[4:53] of this particular area, trying to rake

[4:55] it away, trying to get to their family

[4:56] members or friends, they're leaving the

[4:58] top alone. So, they're going to get to a

[5:00] point where they dig so much from

[5:02] underneath, the whole thing is going to

[5:03] collapse again.

[5:04] >> That's why the Virginia firemen move one

[5:07] massive slab at a time. The difference

[5:09] between life and death here often

[5:11] depends not on speed, but on expert

[5:14] patience for as long as it takes. Alan

[5:18] Pizzy, CBS News, is met. Last night, we

[5:21] told you of one search effort that got

[5:23] underway after a man buried beneath the

[5:25] rubble called for help on his cell

[5:27] phone. Rescuers dug through the night,

[5:29] but the man died before they reached it.

[5:32] The massive earthquake damage in Turkey

[5:34] bears out what quake experts in

[5:36] California already know. When you see

[5:39] one building standing right next to

[5:40] another one that's reduced to rubble,

[5:42] it's most likely not just a matter of

[5:45] luck. Jerry Boy has a report on that.

[5:48] >> It was mother nature that devastated

[5:50] western Turkey, but it was human nature,

[5:53] say experts, that made matters even

[5:54] worse. Earthquakes um are a phenomenon

[5:58] that um really bring forth all of the

[6:01] mistakes of the past. Uh they sort of a

[6:04] physical confessional.

[6:06] From California's 1971 Silar quake to

[6:10] Mexico City in ' 85 to the present

[6:12] Turkish disaster. Urban planning

[6:14] specialist and architect Sam Aron has

[6:17] investigated the aftermath. Why one

[6:19] building stands and the one next door

[6:21] becomes rubble. buildings that have been

[6:24] badly designed, have been badly

[6:25] constructed

[6:27] um uh will will show they are the ones

[6:30] who have collapsed, who have failed.

[6:32] >> It's a point dramatically made across

[6:34] the Turkish landscape. Now, in most

[6:36] cases, the buildings still standing were

[6:38] constructed to be flexible yet strong

[6:40] enough to absorb the quake's tremendous

[6:42] energy. The structures that crumbled

[6:44] were not.

[6:45] >> These buildings, which tend to be

[6:47] brittle, tend to be rigid, uh fail

[6:49] catastrophically. that is that they tend

[6:51] to collapse uh entirely.

[6:54] >> Frederick Crimold, a consultant to

[6:56] Turkey on earthquake construction, says

[6:58] cheap construction and non-existent or

[7:00] uninforced building codes are part of

[7:03] the problem. In Turkey this week, many

[7:05] of the destroyed buildings were slapdash

[7:07] apartment complexes hastily erected for

[7:10] rural Turks who migrated to urban areas

[7:13] looking for jobs. Unfortunately, we've

[7:15] seen significant migration and

[7:18] population growth in many hazardous

[7:20] areas and we have seen the proliferation

[7:24] of unsafe buildings and infrastructure.

[7:28] So, the constant threat is mother

[7:29] nature, but the bigger threat may be

[7:31] human nature, caution the experts. The

[7:33] tendency to forget today's disaster and

[7:36] not build well enough for the next.

[7:38] Jerry Bowen, CBS News, Los Angeles. And

[7:42] still ahead on the CBS Evening News, new

[7:44] questions about drug use for George W.

[7:46] Bush and a new answer.

[7:49] >> A US bank caught up in what's believed

[7:51] to be a Russian money laundering scheme

[7:54] and why their future may be a painful

[7:56] lesson in history.

[8:02] If it's real chicken your dog wants,

[8:06] it's prime you want

[8:10] because highquality chicken is the

[8:12] primary ingredient in pedigree prime.

[8:16] My business runs on long hours and a

[8:19] leave. I can't settle for those pain

[8:21] relievers that quit too soon. Just two

[8:23] Al leave are strong enough to work all

[8:25] day. I used to need a Tylenol to do

[8:27] that. There's a tool for every job. For

[8:29] tough pain, leave.

[8:32] >> Frogs do not have the active response

[8:35] system.

[8:37] And it shows

[8:40] only the arrow has the active response

[8:43] system. 16 features working together to

[8:46] connect you to the road. Frog without

[8:49] the active response system.

[8:52] Aero with the active response system.

[8:57] Alo by Oldmobile. Start something.

[9:28] Ask your doctor about Viagra.

[9:33] In the presidential campaign, if Texas

[9:35] Governor George W. Bush thought his

[9:37] responses yesterday would end the

[9:39] questions about past drug use, it

[9:42] certainly didn't turn out that way.

[9:43] There were more questions today

[9:45] everywhere he went. Eric Ingberg has our

[9:48] report.

[9:50] Unable to get away from questions about

[9:52] whether he ever experimented with drugs,

[9:54] Republican presidential contender George

[9:56] W. Bush today offered some firm advice

[9:59] to a group of children in Rowan Oak,

[10:01] Virginia.

[10:02] >> You got to make the right choices in

[10:04] life. When some when somebody says drugs

[10:06] are cool, you say they're not cool. As

[10:09] for whether Bush ever used cocaine or

[10:11] other drugs, his plan to refuse to reply

[10:14] directly to such questions has been

[10:16] modified on the fly as the press and

[10:19] opponents pursue the issue. For the

[10:21] first time yesterday, Bush told a Texas

[10:23] paper he could pass the current White

[10:25] House background check in which senior

[10:28] officials must answer whether they have

[10:30] used illegal drugs in the past seven

[10:32] years. Today, having opened the door,

[10:35] Bush expanded that first from 7 to 15

[10:38] years.

[10:39] >> Not only could I pass the background

[10:40] check of the standards applied in

[10:43] today's White House, I could have passed

[10:45] the background check on the standards

[10:47] applied on the most stringent conditions

[10:49] when my dad was president of the United

[10:51] States.

[10:52] >> Then, playing the game he had vowed he

[10:54] would not, Voice responded to a

[10:56] reporter's question that by

[10:57] extrapolation stretched his drug-free

[11:00] claim back 25 years. Could you have

[11:02] passed the standard when your dad was

[11:04] president? As said today,

[11:06] >> uh, let's see here.

[11:09] >> Uh, yes, I could have.

[11:10] >> In stages and under repetitive

[11:12] questioning, the candidate who said he

[11:15] would not play the game of responding to

[11:16] allegations about his past has denied

[11:19] any drug use after the age of 28.

[11:22] >> I hope that people appreciate a

[11:24] candidate who comes along and says

[11:26] enough is enough. And that's where for

[11:29] now he draws the line.

[11:31] >> Eric Henberg, CBS News, Washington.

[11:34] >> Among the other presidential candidates,

[11:37] by the way, Democrats Al Gore and Bill

[11:38] Bradley have acknowledged smoking

[11:40] marijuana in the early 70s. A spokesman

[11:42] says the vice president has never used

[11:44] cocaine. Spokesman for Republican

[11:47] candidates Bower, Buchanan, Dole,

[11:49] Forbes, Hatch, Keys, McCain, and Quail

[11:52] all say they have never used illegal

[11:54] drugs. Well, on the CBS weather watch,

[11:57] there are now two possible Atlantic

[11:59] hurricanes in the making. Tropical Storm

[12:01] Brent is off the coast of Mexico

[12:03] tonight, and warnings are up now for

[12:06] Tampico, Mexico. In the far eastern

[12:08] Atlantic, a second system is expected to

[12:11] reach tropical storm strength tonight as

[12:13] it passes near the Cape Verie Islands.

[12:16] Far from all that wet weather, the

[12:18] drought in parts of the United States is

[12:20] getting worse. Four more states were

[12:23] officially declared drought disaster

[12:25] areas today, bringing the total to 25.

[12:28] And still ahead on the CBS Evening News,

[12:31] how billions in Russian mob money may

[12:33] have passed through a major US bank.

[12:39] A neglected septic system is like a time

[12:41] bomb under your house. Diffuse it with

[12:44] maintenance and advanced formula redex

[12:46] septic treatment. It digests grease and

[12:48] paper and helps keep your system

[12:50] troublef free. Diffuse that time bomb.

[12:52] Use Reex every month.

[12:54] >> Right now, Lens Crafters is having an

[12:56] end of summer sun sale. You can get a

[12:58] complete pair of prescription sunglasses

[13:00] for only $99 in your choice of hundreds

[13:02] of the latest styles. The end of summer

[13:04] sun sale on now at Lens Crafters. Hurry,

[13:07] sale in soon. Have you tried these yet?

[13:10] Specialized blends from one a day. Not

[13:13] just herbs. Herbs, vitamins, and

[13:15] minerals for things like memory. Have

[13:18] you seen my keys? Where are the keys?

[13:22] 83 and energy. Excuse me. Excuse me.

[13:28] Even tension and mood.

[13:31] >> Help your body help itself with one a

[13:34] day specialized blends. They're just

[13:37] what you need to feel your best.

[13:39] >> Do you use the same corn pads your

[13:41] grandmother used? Well, there's a

[13:43] breakthrough. Band-aid brand corn relief

[13:46] cushions. It covers the whole corn,

[13:48] relieving the awful, painful pressure.

[13:51] Plus, it's more comfortable than your

[13:53] old pad, and it stays in place better.

[13:55] After all, it's from Band-Aid Brand.

[13:58] >> Band-Aid brand cushions for feet. A

[14:00] breakthrough in corn pain relief

[14:02] >> for blister prevention, calluses, and

[14:04] bunions. Try the line of Band-Aid brand

[14:07] cushions for feet.

[14:12] >> Hi, I have a question about buying

[14:14] stock. What's the difference between a

[14:16] market order and a limit order?

[14:23] Hello.

[14:29] Excuse me.

[14:30] >> When you have an investment question,

[14:32] does your online brokerage have anybody

[14:33] there to answer it?

[14:36] >> We do.

[14:41] CBS News confirmed today that

[14:43] independent counsel Ken Starr has told

[14:45] the judges who appointed him he plans to

[14:47] leave the post in the next few months.

[14:49] But he also told the judges they need to

[14:51] consider a replacement because his

[14:53] investigation of the Clintons isn't

[14:55] over. The FBI is investigating a

[14:58] widescale money laundering operation

[15:00] suspected of cleansing billions of

[15:03] dollars in illicit profits through a

[15:05] major US bank. And what makes this case

[15:08] unusual is the alleged source of the

[15:10] money, Russia and its notorious mob. CBS

[15:13] News correspondent Jim Stewart reports.

[15:17] Western law men have long suspected that

[15:19] when the old Soviet army rolled out of

[15:21] Eastern Europe a decade ago, not all of

[15:23] their tanks and weapons went with them.

[15:26] Some of the gear investigators believe

[15:27] was sold instead to middlemen who then

[15:30] made a fortune pedalling it to places

[15:32] like Iraq and Iran. The suspicions, it

[15:35] seems, were wellfounded. Today, one of

[15:37] those suspected Russian middlemen,

[15:39] Simeon Mogvich, emerged at the center of

[15:41] an alleged money laundering scheme that

[15:43] now threatens a major US bank. A New

[15:46] York Times report said as much as $10

[15:48] billion in Russian mob money may have

[15:51] been washed through the Bank of New York

[15:52] in recent months. In a statement, the

[15:55] bank acknowledged it is cooperating in

[15:56] the investigation of the use of the bank

[15:58] to transfer funds from Russia, but

[16:00] pointed out there are no allegations of

[16:02] wrongdoing by the Bank of New York. In a

[16:05] country increasingly rocked by mob

[16:07] violence, federal and international

[16:08] investigators say Mgalevich and his gang

[16:10] stand out. They tend to be brutal. They

[16:13] have no qualms about that. They like to

[16:15] make examples. One report credited by

[16:17] law men says Mogvich employed Russian

[16:19] veterans who became infamous for their

[16:22] torture of extortion victims. Other

[16:24] reports link him to ongoing efforts to

[16:26] sell off part of Russia's aging nuclear

[16:28] arsenal.

[16:29] >> Certainly the uh nuclear program in Iran

[16:33] wouldn't even exist that nearly at the

[16:36] level it is without the Russian

[16:37] assistance. Uh it's out there.

[16:40] >> What bothers federal law men the most

[16:42] about this case is the sheer scope of it

[16:44] all. In one six-month period, the bank

[16:46] was reportedly flooded with 10,000

[16:48] Russian mob transactions totaling more

[16:51] than $4 billion. And apparently, they

[16:53] had a great deal more where that came

[16:55] from. Jim Stewart, CBS News, Washington.

[16:58] And still ahead on the CBS Evening News,

[17:00] a new report says there's a shrinking

[17:02] pool of teachers for a big swell in

[17:05] schoolaged children.

[17:06] >> Harvey as well to kill him.

[17:13] Finally, a polished brass finish that

[17:15] holds up under siege. New brilliance for

[17:18] the kitchen from Delta. It's guaranteed

[17:21] to shine for life. Delta the faucet.

[17:26] >> Great meal.

[17:27] >> Uh-oh. Gas pressure. What now? What

[17:30] else? Gas X. With the most powerful

[17:32] medicine for fast relief. Nothing works

[17:35] faster.

[17:35] >> Hey, want to go for ice cream? Gas X.

[17:38] The power to fight gas fast.

[17:41] I'm not a person who rushes into things

[17:42] until they're great. Like this new

[17:45] fabric spray, Resolve Fabric Refresher.

[17:48] It gets rid of odors safely and

[17:50] permanently and dries faster than the

[17:52] leading brand.

[17:54] See, Resolve has this quick drying spray

[17:57] that removes the toughest odors with a

[17:59] gentle mist. Your sofa is not only fresh

[18:02] smelling, in minutes it's dry. New quick

[18:05] drying resolve fabric refresher. Why

[18:08] wait? It's in your laundry aisle now.

[18:20] Based on reactions so far, new banana

[18:22] strawberry neutrorain twist bars seem to

[18:24] be creating quite a stir. Could be the

[18:27] banana, could be the strawberry. But

[18:29] we've got a hunch it's the unique way

[18:31] they're twisted together. That's why we

[18:33] did it. New banana strawberry neutrorain

[18:35] twist bars. A twist you can't resist.

[18:40] >> Now our first denture cleanser keeps

[18:42] dentures feeling clean all day. New

[18:44] fixed with ProG Guard, a breakthrough

[18:47] tablet and bath system. First, place

[18:50] your dentures into the bath and release

[18:52] the power of ProG Guard to get them four

[18:54] times cleaner. Then you lift the inner

[18:57] basket to help seal in the clean with

[18:59] the ProG Guard barrier, protecting

[19:02] against plaque and odorcausing bacteria

[19:04] from morning till night. Fix it with

[19:07] Progard. Start cleaner, stay cleaner.

[19:12] >> On the CBS Market Watch, Alcoa, the

[19:14] world's largest aluminum company, has

[19:17] won a hostile takeover bid for number

[19:19] three Reynolds. And on Wall Street,

[19:21] stocks closed lower. The Dow is off 27

[19:24] points, NASDAQ down 36.

[19:27] President Clinton cited population

[19:29] trends in a new education report today

[19:32] as he argued for his plan to improve the

[19:35] schools and against the Republican plan

[19:37] for an $800 billion tax cut. We have a

[19:40] report on that tonight from CBS News

[19:42] chief White House correspondent John

[19:44] Roberts. John. Bob. In a final parting

[19:46] shot before leaving on vacation,

[19:48] President Clinton took aim at the

[19:50] Republican tax cut bill today, saying it

[19:52] jeopardizes the educational future of

[19:55] America's children.

[19:57] The congressional majority wants to back

[19:59] off from our commitment to more teachers

[20:00] and smaller classes.

[20:02] >> The president coordinated his attack

[20:04] with the release of a new study that

[20:05] shows for the fourth year in a row a

[20:07] record number of students will be

[20:09] enrolled in school. 53.2 million

[20:12] children this fall.

[20:14] >> The challenges are going to increase as

[20:16] enrollment rise rises and a projected 2

[20:20] million of our teachers retire in the

[20:23] next few years.

[20:25] In Los Angeles, the effects of

[20:27] increasing enrollment have already gone

[20:29] from challenge to crisis. Manual Arts

[20:32] High is becoming the norm. Built for

[20:34] 2,000 students, the population is now

[20:36] double that. And within 6 years, it will

[20:39] need space for 2,000 more.

[20:41] >> Rooms are always, always, always an

[20:44] issue. And it's the fundamental issue

[20:46] because how can you teach them if you

[20:47] don't have any place for them to be?

[20:48] We've even had classes out here. The

[20:50] president has earmarked money from the

[20:52] projected budget surplus to build new

[20:54] schools, fix aging ones, and hire more

[20:57] teachers. But conservatives say the

[20:59] federal government should stay out of

[21:01] the construction business.

[21:02] >> I think the goal ought to be boosting

[21:04] academic achievement, not focusing on

[21:07] things like class size reduction, hiring

[21:09] more teachers, building more schools.

[21:12] >> The Republicans say their tax cut plan

[21:14] puts money for education into the hands

[21:16] of states and parents to use as they see

[21:18] fit. The president says anyway you do

[21:20] the math, the numbers just don't add up.

[21:22] And though he vowed again today to veto

[21:24] the bill, he sounded a note of optimism

[21:26] before leaving, saying he believes a

[21:28] compromise can be worked out when

[21:30] Congress returns in September. Bob,

[21:32] thank you, John. Coming up next, one

[21:35] Mississippi town has found the money to

[21:37] build a sparkling new school. So why are

[21:40] so many people against it?

[21:47] Got heartburn caused by acid reflux?

[21:50] Only Gavascon forms a soothing

[21:52] protective barrier that keeps acid down.

[21:54] Pepsid AC and Zantac 75 can't do that.

[21:58] Gavascon, it helps keep acid down where

[22:00] it belongs.

[22:02] >> Right now, Lens Crafters is having an

[22:03] end of summer sun sale. You can get a

[22:05] complete pair of prescription sunglasses

[22:07] for only $99 in your choice of hundreds

[22:09] of the latest styles. The end of summer

[22:11] sun sale on now at Lens Crafters. Hurry,

[22:14] sale ends soon.

[22:17] Please release me.

[22:20] >> They're here filled with aroma and

[22:22] flavor. Only they're waiting to be

[22:24] released by you. Introducing Fulier's

[22:27] new whole bean coffee. Every time you

[22:30] grind these beans, you release something

[22:32] sensational. A deeper, richer aroma.

[22:35] This is Arabica Bean Perfection in a

[22:37] whole different folders. The whole bean

[22:39] folders.

[22:41] New folders. Premium whole bean coffees.

[22:44] They're waiting.

[23:13] Ask your doctor about Viagra. Rub.

[23:17] >> Got dirty sweat stains? Spray and Wash

[23:19] Advanced Stain Care penetrates faster

[23:21] than Shout and powers out those dirty

[23:24] sweat stains.

[23:26] >> See? So go ahead and

[23:28] >> let them go with Spray and Wash.

[23:31] >> You've dreamed of opening your own

[23:33] place. Now stay healthy and energetic

[23:35] and enjoy it. Give your life a silver

[23:37] lining with Centrum Silver. Its eight

[23:39] essential nutrients may help maintain

[23:41] your immunity and help keep your heart

[23:43] healthy. Give your life a silver lining

[23:45] with Centrum Silver.

[23:48] >> For tonight's Eye on America, we're

[23:50] going to take you to a corner of the

[23:52] deep south where fortunes have changed

[23:54] dramatically in recent months. Lady Luck

[23:56] has arrived in town and brought plenty

[23:59] of money with her. But amid the good

[24:01] fortune and promises of a bright future,

[24:03] Richard Slesinger reports there are

[24:05] haunting memories of the past.

[24:10] The Mississippi Delta is greener than

[24:13] ever. Big stakes, big money casinos have

[24:15] risen on former plantations in Tuna

[24:18] County, Mississippi, and changed

[24:20] everything. Almost.

[24:22] >> I worked on the farm. Tractor drivers.

[24:25] >> George Hibler is doing better driving

[24:27] this limo than he ever did driving that

[24:30] tractor.

[24:30] >> So, you're you're still driving, but

[24:33] >> Yes, I'm still driving, but a better

[24:35] tractor.

[24:36] Hibler is doing well, but not nearly

[24:39] well enough to live here in the shadow

[24:41] of the casinos on another plantation.

[24:44] There are signs of all that new money

[24:47] and symptoms of all those old problems.

[24:50] >> Who's going to live here, do you think?

[24:52] >> White people.

[24:53] >> Activist Melvin Young is keeping a close

[24:56] eye on this handful of upscale houses on

[24:58] the outskirts of town and more

[25:00] importantly on a public school that's

[25:02] planned for the adjacent field. And

[25:05] who's going to go to that school? White

[25:06] children.

[25:07] >> Tuna County is overwhelmingly black,

[25:10] partly because of casino revenue. The

[25:11] school board has $5 million for a

[25:14] state-of-the-art school here in a county

[25:16] where the existing public schools are

[25:19] substandard. So why would anyone object?

[25:22] >> What this county is attempting to do is

[25:25] to use public funds to build a school

[25:28] for all white children. Washington DC

[25:30] attorney Judy Brown and others believe

[25:32] once the new school is built, more

[25:35] high-priced houses will be built in the

[25:37] area called Robinsonville. They say

[25:40] eventually wellto-do white students will

[25:42] crowd out the poorer black students who

[25:44] live near the site. Now,

[25:46] >> build a state-of-the-art school, but

[25:49] ensure that education is improved for

[25:52] all of the children of Mississippi, not

[25:55] for just some select group of children

[25:56] that live in upscale housing near

[25:59] casinos.

[26:01] In Tunka, it's hard to plan for the

[26:03] future without being reminded of the

[26:05] past. Black kids still swim in their

[26:07] pools, white kids in theirs. Black kids

[26:10] still go to public schools, while most

[26:12] white kids go to private schools. The

[26:16] school system here has been under a

[26:17] federal desegregation order for years

[26:20] and the government has said it opposes

[26:22] this new project. The Department of

[26:24] Justice says the Robinsonville school

[26:26] could become predominantly white within

[26:29] a relatively short period of time.

[26:31] >> I think that the Justice Department in

[26:33] my mind feel like that we're still

[26:34] living in the 60s and that's not the

[26:37] case.

[26:37] >> Oscar Price has given his word that the

[26:40] new school will not be all white and

[26:42] he's the chairman of the school board.

[26:44] we would do whatever it took to make

[26:46] that racial balance come out right.

[26:48] >> It's inconceivable to me that you'll

[26:51] ever have a white majority uh in a

[26:54] school district in Tuna County.

[26:56] >> Why is that inconceivable to you with

[26:57] all the money that's going into that

[26:59] county?

[26:59] >> Just from history, there will not be

[27:01] enough white kids in that district to

[27:02] fill that school up.

[27:04] >> In a recent Washington meeting,

[27:05] Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore

[27:07] offered a legally binding commitment

[27:09] that the school would not become all

[27:11] white. And that he says is more than any

[27:14] federal action has ever done here.

[27:16] >> I just know the history. I mean, you

[27:18] can't get away from the fact that in

[27:20] Tuna County you got 2,000 black kids

[27:22] going to school with 39 white kids after

[27:24] 30 years of desegregation orders. It's

[27:27] history that haunts this issue. And it's

[27:29] not distant history. Just this year, the

[27:32] local newspaper printed an ad for houses

[27:34] in what is still called the colored

[27:37] subdivision. Casino dollars might be a

[27:39] way to fund a new future, but Tunka is

[27:42] still paying for its past in Tuna,

[27:46] Mississippi. I'm Richard Slesinger for

[27:48] Eye on America.

[27:50] And that's the news. Dan Rather will be

[27:52] along later tonight with 48 hours.

[27:54] Here's Troy Roberts with a preview.

[27:56] >> Do dolphins have a dark side just like

[27:59] we do?

[28:01] >> Why would these playful creatures turn

[28:03] violent? I felt this jaw grab my

[28:06] butttock and um pull me under.

[28:09] >> Later on 48 hours for Dan Rather. This

[28:13] is Bob Schaefer, CBS News in New York.

[28:16] Good night.

[28:18] >> For news 24 hours a day, CBS.com on the

[28:20] internet and on our interactive partner

[28:22] America Online at keyword CBS News.

[28:39] Buried alive. How do victims survive

[28:41] with injuries and no food or water?

[28:44] Tomorrow, a survivor of the Northridge

[28:45] quake tells what it was like on the CBS

[28:48] Evening News with Dan Rather. Soar with

[28:50] this elite skydiving team tomorrow on

[28:52] This Morning

[28:54] CBS News.

[28:57] Thunderstorms have produced some hail

[28:59] and wind damage in our area and we're

[29:01] continuing to see some on Sky Tracker