CBS Evening News - 2001-10-24
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[0:01] Bond body lotion medicated to work as
[0:04] hard as you do. Reports from the war.
[0:07] We're with the troops overseas. Next,
[0:09] ET.
[0:13] President Bush says we're still under
[0:15] attack with four additional suspected
[0:18] cases of anthrax today. The post office
[0:21] says it cannot absolutely guarantee your
[0:24] mail is safe. What is your government
[0:27] doing about this? The new Homeland
[0:29] Security director brings us the latest
[0:31] in an exclusive CBS Evening News
[0:34] interview. A Pentagon warning the
[0:36] Taliban may fight back with a monstrous
[0:39] act against their own people and
[0:42] millions of refugees hungry, sick, and
[0:45] desperate with winter ahead.
[0:53] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:56] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:58] headquarters in New York. Good evening.
[1:01] The White House said today your mail is
[1:03] overwhelmingly safe. The postal service
[1:06] said it cannot absolutely guarantee that
[1:09] and recommended that if you're worried
[1:10] you wash your hands after you handle
[1:12] your mail. And as still more suspected
[1:16] cases of anthrax were announced,
[1:18] everyone in America wants to know what
[1:20] is the government going to do about all
[1:22] this. We put that question to the
[1:24] director of homeland security and we
[1:26] will have the answer for you in a
[1:27] moment. But we begin our coverage
[1:29] tonight with CBS's John Roberts on the
[1:31] latest suspected
[1:33] infections. Postal workers marched into
[1:35] a hospital in Washington today anxious
[1:37] because four more of their colleagues
[1:39] are in the hospital tonight with
[1:40] suspected cases of inhaled anthrax.
[1:43] angry that they were given antibiotics
[1:45] but not tests for anthrax ex