CBS Evening News - 1999-08-24

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[0:02] The Fed raises the cost of money. To

[0:04] find out why, we'll take you to a

[0:06] factory that's making dough hand over

[0:09] fist. There are now three full-fledged

[0:12] tropical storms lined up in the

[0:13] Atlantic. All expected to become

[0:16] hurricanes. And a nightmare aboard the

[0:19] Norwegian Dream as the cruise ship

[0:21] collides with a cargo ship.

[0:27] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:31] Rather.

[0:34] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:36] Bob Schaefer. Well, the cost of

[0:37] borrowing money is going to go up. The

[0:39] Federal Reserve raised two key interest

[0:42] rates today to a quarter of a point, the

[0:45] second rate hike this year, aimed at

[0:47] slowing the economy and keeping

[0:48] inflation in check. Inflation is now

[0:51] running 2.4%.

[0:53] That's up from the 1.6% 6% rate last

[0:55] year, but still very, very low. So, is

[0:58] the Fed overreacting? Here's business

[1:01] correspondent Anthony Mason.

[1:03] >> The Fed hiked interest rates today to

[1:06] hold off inflation, but some economists

[1:08] believe Mr. Greenspan has nothing to

[1:10] worry about

[1:11] >> because there really isn't any sign of

[1:14] inflation, any risk of inflation as we

[1:16] look ahead.

[1:17] >> For all the Fed's fears, says economist

[1:19] Larry Shimmeran, prices are barely

[1:21] budging. Sure, Americans are still on a

[1:24] shopping spree, but there are too many

[1:26] stores competing for your business.

[1:29] >> All of those factors combined have made

[1:31] price increases rare in virtually every

[1:34] single industry.

[1:36] >> They know that in the specialty food

[1:38] business where the fellow factory of

[1:40] Dumont, New Jersey, faces heavy

[1:42] competition.

[1:44] >> So, we really don't have the ability to

[1:45] go tell the consumer uh that that we

[1:47] want more money.

[1:49] So, owner Ron Rex Roth has streamlined

[1:52] his factory and redesigned his dough

[1:54] machine

[1:56] >> so that we can basically get double out

[1:58] of it uh than the predecessor machine.

[2:00] >> His 65 workers are now more productive

[2:04] and yes, Ron's making more dough.

[2:06] >> With increasing competition today, uh

[2:09] there's no other way to survive.

[2:10] >> The fellow factory is part of a

[2:12] productivity revolution in the US.

[2:15] Output for every hour worked is growing

[2:17] twice as fast as it did in the 1980s.

[2:21] But with unemployment at historic lows,

[2:24] chairman Greenspan has been worried that

[2:26] wage inflation would kick in. So far, it

[2:29] hasn't. Why aren't wages going up?

[2:31] >> Because companies are in the catbird

[2:33] seat. Companies set wages. Workers have

[2:36] no say.

[2:36] >> Weaker unions are one reason. And

[2:38] economist Roseanne Khan says all these

[2:41] factors can stall inflation while the

[2:43] economy roars ahead.

[2:45] >> Grow is not a four-letter word. It's

[2:48] just fine to grow rapidly uh more

[2:50] rapidly than the Fed thinks without

[2:52] inflation picking up.

[2:54] >> So what is Mr. Greenspan worried about

[2:56] then? Well, the Fed says it wants to

[2:58] close off any possibility of inflation

[3:00] coming back, but most economists pled

[3:03] today believe this will be the last rate

[3:05] hike, at least for this year. Bob, thank

[3:08] you. Anthony, well, Wall Street wasn't

[3:10] sure what to make of the Fed's action

[3:12] today. The Dow Blue chips fell back from

[3:14] yesterday's record high close, but the

[3:16] tech heavy NASDAQ went the other way.

[3:19] Major banks late today followed the Fed

[3:21] lead and raised their prime lending rate

[3:23] to 8 and a4%. That could lead to higher

[3:26] mortgage and credit card rates. On the

[3:29] CBS weather watch tonight, the only

[3:31] thing left of Hurricane Brett in coastal

[3:33] Texas is water. Overflowing creeks,

[3:36] flooded streets, and threatened homes in

[3:39] the farming community of Driscoll, which

[3:41] is near Corpus Christi. As much as 10

[3:43] more inches of rain is forecast in parts

[3:46] of South Texas tonight, new threats are

[3:49] looming in the Atlantic, though.

[3:50] Tropical storm triplets, Dennis, Emily,

[3:53] and Cindy. Emily and Cindy are far away

[3:56] from US shores. The most immediate

[3:58] concern is Dennis. CBS News weather

[4:00] consultant Brian Norcross is watching

[4:03] for the factors that will determine

[4:05] Dennis's path. Bob, we're looking at two

[4:08] things. The main feature we're looking

[4:10] at is over the Midwest right now. Now,

[4:12] let me show you on this water vapor

[4:14] image is called where we clearly see the

[4:15] rotation in the atmosphere. So, we have

[4:18] these upper level winds coming around

[4:19] like that. This is producing bad weather

[4:21] across the Midwest at this point. And

[4:23] that's going to provide kind of a river

[4:26] of air up the east coast. Now the big

[4:28] question is is that going to the river

[4:30] going to be out here or is it going to

[4:32] be more in there? That is open to

[4:35] complete speculation at this point as

[4:37] Dennis down here moves in the direction

[4:39] of the southeast. It's over very warm

[4:41] water and we think that this will be a

[4:43] formidable hurricane by the time it

[4:45] comes close to the southeast here in the

[4:47] next couple days.

[4:48] >> Brian Norcross. Well, after that slow

[4:51] start, the 99 hurricane season is

[4:54] obviously picking up steam, but Brett's

[4:56] low impact hit on Texas may be fueling

[4:59] hurricane complacency along the US

[5:01] coast. Byron Pitts has more on that.

[5:04] Now,

[5:06] >> today, from South Texas, where a few

[5:08] neighborhoods are still kneede in flood

[5:10] water, to the high-tech homes in South

[5:12] Florida supposedly built to withstand a

[5:15] category 4 hurricane, forecasters say

[5:18] they are worried. worried new home

[5:20] building technology and Monday's near

[5:22] miss are sending the wrong message.

[5:25] >> People may get the idea that uh uh it's

[5:29] all uh all talk and no shows in

[5:32] Galveastston, Texas. They're building

[5:34] milliondoll homes not far from where

[5:36] 8,000 people died during the killer

[5:39] hurricane of 1900. Experts at the

[5:41] National Hurricane Center say it's only

[5:43] a matter of when, not if, the coastal

[5:46] United States will be hit by another

[5:48] catastrophic hurricane. One costlier

[5:50] than the 40 billion spent on Hurricane

[5:53] Andrew in 1992 and one potentially

[5:56] deadlier than Galveastston. Laws were

[5:59] spared in South Texas this week because

[6:01] Hurricane Brett did the most damage

[6:03] where the fewest people live. Good

[6:05] fortune that's becoming harder to come

[6:07] by. This room has an exposed ceiling

[6:10] just so it can show you some of the

[6:11] trusses and and hurricane straps and and

[6:14] things of this nature.

[6:15] >> In Deerfield Beach, Florida, the federal

[6:17] government spent millions building quote

[6:19] disasterresistant communities. New

[6:22] technology and tougher building codes

[6:24] have made homes safer. But even the

[6:26] experts say safer does not mean

[6:28] indestructible.

[6:29] >> As it stands today, I think the mother

[6:31] nature is still is still powerful. It's

[6:34] still more powerful than our technology.

[6:37] still more powerful, still

[6:38] unpredictable, and when tested, still

[6:41] unforgiving.

[6:42] Byron Pittz, CBS News, Atlanta.

[6:46] >> Well, another earthquake shook Turkey

[6:48] today, much smaller than last week's

[6:50] deadly tremor, but still enough to send

[6:52] people into the streets in panic. The

[6:54] death toll from the first quake is near

[6:57] 18,000, but it could be twice that when

[6:59] the search for bodies is done. Randall

[7:02] Kingston reports again tonight from the

[7:04] scene.

[7:05] >> On a hillside above the beach resort of

[7:07] Yaliva lie thousands of hastily buried

[7:10] victims. Nearby, a pile of wood to mark

[7:13] more temporary graves. Some plots are

[7:16] not identified, others are color-coded

[7:18] and numbered. A family looking for seven

[7:21] lost relatives is confused. Not only did

[7:24] they lose loved ones to the earthquake,

[7:26] now they can't figure out the code to

[7:28] find their graves.

[7:31] Most of the people of Yalaba have given

[7:33] up the search for survivors,

[7:35] concentrating instead on collecting

[7:37] their possessions.

[7:39] This was once part of a fivestory

[7:41] apartment complex. Most of it reduced to

[7:43] four, some buildings to three. This was

[7:46] the third floor. Almost everyone living

[7:49] on the lower levels were crushed beyond

[7:51] recovery.

[7:53] Rumors of tapping from underneath

[7:55] another building in the complex brought

[7:57] one of the few remaining rescue teams

[7:59] running. If something if someone here

[8:02] never again.

[8:03] >> Roland Schro and his team from Germany

[8:05] already pulled three people out of this

[8:07] building alive. He thinks it's too soon

[8:10] to give up.

[8:12] His dogs are the perfect size for the

[8:14] narrow spaces.

[8:16] >> Every day maybe 2, three, four, five,

[8:19] six, seven people. So you see there is

[8:22] hope. Yeah, the people can live these

[8:26] time.

[8:27] A week after the earthquake, people here

[8:29] are looking for scapegoats. Many are

[8:31] blaming the government, accusing it of

[8:33] having no emergency plan and doing

[8:36] little after the disaster to help them.

[8:38] The government is trying to respond,

[8:40] sending this top police official to find

[8:43] those responsible for building such

[8:45] fragile structures.

[8:48] In the smashed building, Aika, the

[8:50] search dog, has found something. She

[8:52] keeps returning to one spot.

[8:55] But the German rescuers, more realistic

[8:57] than hopeful, decided no one could be

[9:00] alive here. By late afternoon, they gave

[9:03] up. Randall Kingston, CBS News, Yaliver,

[9:06] Turkey.

[9:07] >> And still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[9:10] News, a story of two ships that crashed

[9:12] in the night. Cities fighting gun

[9:15] violence may actually be contributing to

[9:17] the problem. And a remarkable discovery,

[9:21] the return of the mummies.

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[10:58] Well, by now everyone knows this story

[11:00] line. A luxury passenger ship cruising

[11:02] through the night when suddenly it

[11:04] strikes a large unknown object. Well, it

[11:07] happened last night in the English

[11:08] Channel. This time the unknown object

[11:10] turned out to be a container ship. No

[11:13] one was seriously hurt, but it was a

[11:14] spectacular wreck. Mark Phillips

[11:17] reports.

[11:18] One thing was clear as the Norwegian

[11:20] Dream limped into the English port of

[11:22] Dover, looking like she had lost a fight

[11:24] with the nautical Mike Tyson. She wasn't

[11:27] leaving on a new cruise anytime soon,

[11:29] much to the prospective passengers

[11:31] relief.

[11:32] >> I'm glad we're not going anywhere on

[11:34] that.

[11:35] >> Still out in the channel where the

[11:37] collision had taken place early this

[11:38] morning was the cargo ship Ever Decent.

[11:41] Some of her containers still burning

[11:43] after being set on fire by the impact.

[11:46] The fire fueled by paint in the

[11:48] containers burned all day. The cruise

[11:50] ship passengers, most of them American,

[11:53] stepped ashore, relieved they hadn't

[11:55] repeated nautical history.

[11:57] >> The first thought I had was Titanic. Are

[11:59] we sinking? Are we going to die? You

[12:00] know,

[12:01] >> glad to be on ground.

[12:04] >> It was pretty scary. It was very scary.

[12:06] It was very, very scary. At the time of

[12:09] the collision in the middle of the

[12:10] night, the passengers may have had

[12:12] images of Titanic, but the only thing to

[12:14] have sunk today is the value of

[12:16] Norwegian Cruise Line shares on the Oslo

[12:19] Stock Exchange.

[12:20] The collision was so violent it knocked

[12:23] containers off the cargo ship's deck and

[12:25] onto the cruise ships. The passengers

[12:27] counted their blessings, but only a

[12:29] handful of minor injuries resulted.

[12:31] Although there were lots of stories to

[12:33] bring home. One woman walked down the uh

[12:37] the hallway and said, "We're all going

[12:39] to die." We didn't know if she knew what

[12:42] she was talking about or not.

[12:44] Fortunately, she didn't.

[12:47] >> Investigators are equally clueless as to

[12:49] how this accident involving two modern

[12:51] ships could have happened in one of the

[12:53] most tightly controlled seaways in the

[12:55] world. Mark Phillips, CBS News, Dover.

[13:00] An American teenager who fled to Israel

[13:02] to avoid a murder charge is reportedly

[13:04] agreed to plead guilty. The plea bargain

[13:06] is a surprise reversal by 17-year-old

[13:09] Samuel Shinbine. Last month, he pleaded

[13:12] not guilty in an Israeli court to

[13:14] charges of murdering another teenager in

[13:17] Maryland. Prosecutors say that Shinbine

[13:19] will be sentenced to 24 years in an

[13:21] Israeli prison. Well, it is day two of a

[13:25] tense standoff in Kosovo. ethnic

[13:27] Albanians in one divided city refused to

[13:30] lift their blockade against Russian

[13:32] peacekeeping troops. They say the

[13:34] Russians sided with the Serbs during the

[13:36] war and took part in massacres of

[13:38] Albanians. On the other side of town,

[13:40] Serbs rallied in support of the Russians

[13:43] and against the Kosovo Liberation Army.

[13:46] Coming up next, an Eye on America

[13:48] investigation about cities aiming to

[13:50] fight gun violence but actually adding

[13:53] to the arsenal on the street.

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[16:00] Tonight's Eye on America investigation

[16:03] into the flow of guns into and off our

[16:06] streets. To cut the number of firearms

[16:08] out there, Washington DC is paying $100

[16:12] for every gun turned in. Over the past 2

[16:14] days, well over a thousand have been

[16:16] collected. The city intends to melt the

[16:18] guns down. But other cities are actually

[16:21] pumping firearms into the market,

[16:23] selling guns once used by their police.

[16:26] Ironically, some of these same cities

[16:28] are now suing gun makers for the cost of

[16:30] gun violence. Vince Gonzalez reports.

[16:34] >> 101 California.

[16:37] >> In 1993, after a gunman with

[16:39] semi-automatic weapons killed eight

[16:41] people in a San Francisco high-rise,

[16:45] >> the mayor at the time demanded a ban on

[16:47] assault weapons.

[16:48] >> There is absolutely no reason in any

[16:51] kind of an urban setting to ever have a

[16:52] weapon legalized and be able to have it

[16:54] available. This is a weapon of war.

[16:57] >> He's got a big old gun. Looks like an

[16:58] automatic weapon.

[17:00] >> Just a year later, a drifter with two

[17:02] assault rifles and an Uzi killed a

[17:04] police officer and turned the streets of

[17:06] San Francisco into a war zone.

[17:08] >> Oh, you guys are going to have to get

[17:09] off the street

[17:10] >> again. There were calls for tougher

[17:12] laws. But while city officials were

[17:14] trying to get guns taken off their

[17:16] streets, cop,

[17:17] >> the San Francisco Police Department

[17:19] began putting their used weapons back on

[17:21] the streets. According to documents

[17:24] obtained by CBS News, over a two-year

[17:26] period, San Francisco police sold or

[17:28] traded more than 100 of their assault

[17:30] weapons, including AR-15s and Uzi's.

[17:34] Both of those guns are illegal in

[17:36] California.

[17:37] So, they were sold to dealers, including

[17:39] this one in South Central Los Angeles,

[17:41] who resold them to gun shops out of

[17:43] state. I really think a lot of people

[17:47] just weren't thinking.

[17:49] >> That could be a problem for Louise

[17:51] Renie, the city attorney, because San

[17:53] Francisco is suing gun makers for being

[17:55] irresponsible, making it easy for

[17:57] criminals to get guns.

[17:59] >> Will it hurt our lawsuits? I don't think

[18:01] so.

[18:02] >> But it can't help their case. In fact,

[18:04] of the 12 major cities suing gun makers,

[18:07] CBS News has learned that most have been

[18:09] selling or trading their used weapons

[18:11] for years. St. Lewis approved a six-f

[18:13] figureure arms deal just last week.

[18:17] But of all the cities we looked at, it's

[18:19] Detroit. Once the nation's murder

[18:20] capital that now ranks number one in the

[18:23] gun business, according to contracts and

[18:25] shipping records over the last 7 years,

[18:28] the Detroit Police Department made

[18:29] nearly a million dollars selling 14 tons

[18:32] of used weapons, mostly handguns, to a

[18:35] Vermont dealer.

[18:37] In Washington state, money was the

[18:39] reason the budgetstrapped Cosmopoulos

[18:41] Police Department traded in this 9mm

[18:44] Glock pistol.

[18:45] >> I can't just destroy it or or uh I would

[18:48] I would have to answer to the to the

[18:50] council and the citizens here for for

[18:52] wasting the money somehow.

[18:54] >> It was the same gun that Buford Furrow

[18:56] allegedly used during his shooting

[18:57] rampage to kill postal worker Joseph

[18:59] Alto.

[19:00] >> There's only one reason why these guns

[19:02] were manufactured and made, and that was

[19:05] to uh kill people. The Los Angeles

[19:07] Police Department says it is more

[19:09] concerned with saving lives than saving

[19:10] money.

[19:11] >> We don't know where the guns are going

[19:12] to end up, and we just don't want to

[19:14] take that chance, even if we could make

[19:16] a buck or two.

[19:17] >> So, when the Los Angeles Police

[19:18] Department upgrades its arsenal, the old

[19:21] firearms are safe for parts or destroyed

[19:23] along with about 10,000 weapons the city

[19:26] confiscates each year.

[19:29] Some cities are following LA's lead.

[19:31] Boston began restricting sales in April,

[19:34] and just before San Francisco sued gun

[19:36] makers in May, police promised to stop

[19:38] selling their used weapons.

[19:40] >> Am I sorry that we didn't uh end the

[19:44] practice sooner? Of course.

[19:46] >> And gun dealers will be sorry if more

[19:48] police start destroying their old

[19:50] firearms. They've been making a killing

[19:52] off buyers willing to pay top dollar for

[19:54] a gun once owned by a cop, especially

[19:57] the most lethal weapons which can no

[19:59] longer be made in the USA. In Los

[20:02] Angeles, this is Vince Gonzalez for Eye

[20:04] on America.

[20:06] >> And still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening

[20:08] News, an apparent new setback for the US

[20:11] government's China spy investigation.

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[22:22] >> There was confirmation today that a top

[22:24] US Energy Department intelligence

[22:27] officer has quit over the investigation

[22:29] of alleged Chinese nuclear spying. It is

[22:32] only the latest twist in the

[22:34] controversial case against the prime

[22:36] suspect. Cheryl Atkinson has our report.

[22:40] >> The abrupt resignation of Notra Trullock

[22:42] may be another sign that the espionage

[22:44] case against scientist Winho Lee is

[22:46] crumbling. It was Trullock who first

[22:49] blew the whistle on Chinese spying at

[22:51] the nation's weapons labs.

[22:52] >> By early 1996, we had identified a

[22:56] number of suspects.

[22:57] >> The number of suspects quickly narrowed

[23:00] to Lee, a Chinese American. But so far,

[23:03] the intense investigation has failed to

[23:05] link Lee to any espionage, raising

[23:08] serious questions about whether he was

[23:09] targeted because of his race. And that's

[23:12] what Lee told 60 Minutes Mike Wallace.

[23:15] >> They think I'm, you know, Chinese

[23:19] people. I was born in Taiwan. I think

[23:22] that's part of the reason. And the

[23:25] second reason, they want to find out

[23:28] some scapegoat. Energy Department

[23:31] official Ernest Monise said it was the

[23:33] FBI who decided to pursue Lee, not True

[23:36] Lock.

[23:37] >> He with the FBI helped to develop um

[23:40] candidates for further investigation and

[23:42] of course the FBI subsequently uh

[23:45] started an investigation with one one

[23:47] particular suspect.

[23:48] >> Notra Trulock told superiors he resigned

[23:51] because he's angry over the lack of

[23:52] support for some of his work and

[23:54] findings in the Lee case. But Lee

[23:56] supporters view his departure as the

[23:58] latest fallout in the blame game over

[24:01] who's responsible for pinpointing Lee

[24:03] and why. Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News,

[24:06] Washington.

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[26:39] China's population of pandas is growing

[26:42] again. At the Beijing Zoo, 18-year-old

[26:45] Ming Ming is the mother of twins. The

[26:47] labor and delivery were shown on Chinese

[26:50] TV. Only about a thousand giant pandas

[26:53] remain in China, about a hundred in

[26:55] captivity. Mingming has produced nine of

[26:57] them. And finally tonight, some old

[27:00] news, or at least some news from long

[27:02] ago. About 250 mi southwest of Cairo,

[27:06] they have found an ancient treasure of

[27:09] gold.

[27:12] 105 wellpreserved golden mummies. And

[27:16] they say there could be 10,000 more.

[27:19] They're about 1,800 years old, fairly

[27:21] new in Egypt's long history, but

[27:23] remarkable for their detail, lifelike

[27:26] mass. Even more remarkable, the gold

[27:29] still gleans. The find is one of the

[27:31] most important ever. Officials called it

[27:34] breathtaking.

[27:35] >> They found in this tomb 43 mm. In my

[27:38] right hand, gilded mummies. In my left

[27:41] hand, gilded mummies. The rays of the

[27:43] sun was coming. I looked at the rays of

[27:46] the sun. All of it was gold. It is the

[27:49] most exciting moment in my life.

[27:52] Archaeologists found the burial site 3

[27:55] years ago when a donkey stumbled into

[27:57] it, but didn't realize its vastness

[27:59] until this year and now believe it could

[28:02] take 10 years to uncover everything

[28:04] there.

[28:05] >> This discovery that comes to us before

[28:08] the millennium, it is a gift from Egypt

[28:11] to the whole world.

[28:13] >> And so it is. And so it is that that's

[28:15] the news for Dan Rather. This is Bob

[28:17] Schiffer, CBS News in New York.

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