World News (ABC) - 2009-05-05

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[0:22] >> Welcome to World News Tonight. Fading

[0:24] fears. The CDC changes course and now

[0:27] says there's no need to close schools

[0:30] because of the swine flu. Raising the

[0:32] roof. Home prices have sunk so low some

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[1:05] >> from ABC News headquarters. This is

[1:08] World News with Charles Gibson.

[1:10] >> Good evening. What a difference a week

[1:12] makes. Last Tuesday, the Centers for

[1:14] Disease Control issued an advisory to

[1:16] local communities, urging them to

[1:18] consider cancelling school if a case of

[1:21] swine flu was confirmed or even

[1:23] suspected. As of today, more than 700

[1:26] schools were closed and 586,000

[1:29] students stayed home. And then this

[1:32] afternoon, federal officials reversed

[1:34] themselves, saying the outbreak is not

[1:36] as severe as once feared and cancelling

[1:38] school is no longer necessary. Ryan

[1:40] Owens is in Fort Worth tonight where the

[1:42] entire school system has been closed for

[1:45] almost a week. Ryan,

[1:47] >> Charlie, good evening to you. The school

[1:49] behind me is one of 140 shut down in

[1:52] this city alone. 80,000 kids were

[1:55] supposed to be out of school until next

[1:57] week. Well, late today, Fort Worth

[1:58] announced they're coming back on Friday.

[2:02] On the day 30,000 more American students

[2:05] learned their schools were closing, a

[2:07] stunning reversal announced by the new

[2:09] Secretary of Health and Human Services.

[2:11] >> There's new guidance being put out as we

[2:13] speak that will recommend that um

[2:17] schools cease closing the school itself

[2:20] with affected cases. A week after health

[2:23] officials told schools they should close

[2:25] for two weeks if they have even a single

[2:28] case of the swine flu. Those same

[2:30] officials say never mind. The CDC's

[2:33] latest recommendation, children showing

[2:35] symptoms of the flu should stay home for

[2:37] up to a week, but their school need not

[2:40] close. Almost as soon as the

[2:42] announcement was made, schools in

[2:44] Illinois, Maine, and Maryland decided to

[2:47] reopen. I was concerned that there was

[2:49] not a coherent strategy for our country

[2:52] and we had different things happening in

[2:54] different locations.

[2:55] >> Health officials say the reasoning for

[2:57] the reversal is simple. The swine flu

[3:00] just isn't as bad as feared. No more

[3:02] infectious or deadly than the flu

[3:04] schools have to deal with every year.

[3:06] When we hear of the the difficulty

[3:08] involved of children who are dropped at

[3:11] libraries because there's nowhere for

[3:13] for home care, of people who could lose

[3:15] their jobs because they don't have sick

[3:17] leave. Um, these factors are really

[3:20] real,

[3:20] >> especially for parents like Christina

[3:22] Cunningham. She has four children home

[3:25] from Fort Worth schools.

[3:27] >> I just wish they would just make up

[3:29] their minds and tell us what they need

[3:31] to do. I think it was a mess. They

[3:33] should have thought it over some more.

[3:36] Also late today, the health department

[3:38] in the state of Texas confirmed the

[3:39] first Texan to die of the swine flu. She

[3:42] was a woman in her 30s. We're told she

[3:44] lived along the border and had some

[3:46] chronic health problems, but it is a

[3:48] reminder that the flu is out there and

[3:50] the CDC is asking parents to remain

[3:53] vigilant. That is one piece of advice,

[3:55] Charlie, that did not change today.

[3:57] >> All right, Ryan Owens reporting from

[3:59] Fort Worth, Texas tonight. Thanks to

[4:00] you. And in China, concern about swine

[4:03] flu remains as high as ever. Today,

[4:05] China expanded a ban on pork products

[4:08] from the United States. Pork producers

[4:09] in 38 states are not allowed to sell to

[4:12] China until further notice, even though

[4:15] there's never been any evidence that

[4:16] eating pork could be harmful. Steve

[4:18] Osansami is in conquered, North Carolina

[4:21] tonight.

[4:22] >> Yes, it's it's

[4:23] >> Tommy Porter, who spent the past 20

[4:25] years raising hogs at this farm north of

[4:27] Charlotte, says he's angry. Every time

[4:29] you hear swine flu, do you feel a hole

[4:32] in your pocket?

[4:33] >> Well, I I I feel a hole in my pocket, a

[4:36] pit in my stomach.

[4:37] >> He believes his family's farm could lose

[4:39] more than $400,000 this year if

[4:41] consumers here and abroad refuse

[4:43] American pork.

[4:44] >> I can't afford to lose $400,000 a year.

[4:47] I'd be out of business within a year's

[4:49] time.

[4:49] >> For the nation's pork producers, these

[4:51] should be good times just after Easter

[4:53] when ham sales pick up and just before

[4:55] the summer grilling season. But not this

[4:57] year. Swine flu. Swine flu.

[4:59] >> Swine flu.

[5:00] >> Swine flu.

[5:01] >> Swine flu.

[5:02] >> By some estimates, the worldwide panic

[5:04] over the H1N1 virus is costing the US

[5:07] pork industry 1.5 million a day.

[5:11] >> They did have taken a financial hit and

[5:12] that was on top of uh an economic crisis

[5:15] that the the hog industry has been in

[5:18] which was for a couple of reasons. The

[5:20] grain cost of grain which is what we

[5:21] feed our pigs and then also the of

[5:24] course the the economic slowdown. The

[5:26] government has tried to change the name

[5:27] from swine flu to H1N1

[5:30] and underlined that pork is safe.

[5:32] >> You can't get this from eating pork.

[5:34] >> It is perfectly safe to consume pork,

[5:37] pork products from America.

[5:38] >> You cannot get the swine flu from eating

[5:41] pork.

[5:42] >> But swine flu stuck and the fear has

[5:44] persisted. A Harvard poll conducted last

[5:47] week showed that 13% of Americans still

[5:50] believe they could get the flu by eating

[5:52] pork. Another 6% weren't sure. None of

[5:55] this sits well with Neil Keeppy, a pig

[5:57] farmer in Iowa. We first met Keppy when

[5:59] World News was on the road. He helped us

[6:01] get our bus out of the mud. Seven months

[6:04] later, he's the one who needs help.

[6:06] >> It has a direct impact on my livelihood.

[6:09] >> And now he has a newborn son.

[6:11] >> I don't have a crystal ball. I don't

[6:12] know how it's going to affect us. All I

[6:14] can do is hope for the best.

[6:15] >> He says the swine flu virus is making

[6:18] his industry sick.

[6:19] >> Steo Sansami, ABC News, Concord, North

[6:22] Carolina. And next we turn to the

[6:24] economy. The troubled insurance giant

[6:27] AIG has disclosed new information about

[6:29] its corporate bonuses. And this version

[6:32] has the largest numbers yet. AIG has

[6:35] drawn fire for giving huge executive

[6:37] bonuses after receiving $180 billion in

[6:40] bailout money. And the company now says

[6:42] it paid out more than $454 million in

[6:45] bonuses last year. That's almost four

[6:48] times as much as earlier acknowledged.

[6:51] Fed Chairman Ben Bernani testifying on

[6:53] Capitol Hill said today there are signs

[6:55] the three-year slump in the housing

[6:57] market may be hitting bottom, but any

[6:59] recovery will come too late for some

[7:02] housing developments in California that

[7:03] have been foreclosed. The banks have

[7:05] decided it's cheaper just to scrap the

[7:07] projects, literally. Brian Rooney is in

[7:10] Victorville, California.

[7:13] >> This is the new look of the housing

[7:15] collapse. Homes that were unfinished or

[7:17] unsold, knocked down and hauled to a

[7:19] recycling dump.

[7:21] This was to be a development of at least

[7:23] 300 houses selling for about $300,000.

[7:27] 16 were either finished or under

[7:29] construction when the builder went

[7:30] bankrupt. I think it is a shock. I mean,

[7:33] less than 2 years ago when a builder was

[7:35] selling a home, people camped out in

[7:37] tents. We have stories where people were

[7:39] intent in line to buy a home and this is

[7:42] just unbelievable. They're actually

[7:44] tearing them down. During the housing

[7:46] boom, this was a hot spot where

[7:47] developments, some still under

[7:49] construction, sprouted all over the

[7:50] desert. At the peak of the market, the

[7:52] median resale price of a home in this

[7:55] area was just shy of $325,000.

[7:58] Since then, it has dropped 65%,

[8:01] now at $115,000.

[8:04] The houses in this development were

[8:06] being plundered. The Texas bank that

[8:08] owned what was left decided it was

[8:10] cheaper to tear down rather than finish

[8:12] building and lose more money in a

[8:14] sinking market. You can see the

[8:16] insulation here, some copper pipe, brand

[8:19] new roofing tiles. This pile of rubble

[8:21] is all that's left of four model homes,

[8:24] fully built, ready to move in. The city

[8:27] had been pressuring the bank to protect

[8:29] the houses, maybe even finish them.

[8:32] >> We did not imagine they were going to

[8:33] decide to demolish the homes. Another

[8:35] California city is also moving to knock

[8:37] down this unfinished townhouse

[8:39] development. And here in the desert,

[8:42] other model homes sit abandoned, now

[8:44] possibly worth only their weight in

[8:46] scrap. Brian Rooney, ABC News,

[8:49] Victorville, California. There is late

[8:52] news tonight about an internal Justice

[8:54] Department investigation into the

[8:55] conduct of Bush administration lawyers

[8:57] who wrote memos authorizing harsh

[9:00] interrogations of terror suspects.

[9:02] George Stephanopoulos is joining us from

[9:04] Washington tonight. George, that news is

[9:06] >> the news is Charlie. The Office of

[9:07] Professional Responsibility has

[9:09] recommended that these two lawyers, John

[9:10] U, who is now a law professor in

[9:12] California and Jay Bbeby, now a federal

[9:14] appeals court judge in Nevada, should be

[9:16] disciplined by state bar associations,

[9:19] but for their actions, but they should

[9:20] not be prosecuted. This is the only

[9:23] outstanding Justice Department

[9:24] investigation. So, it means that it is

[9:27] highly unlikely that the attorney

[9:28] general will open up another

[9:29] investigation. highly unlikely this will

[9:31] lead to prosecutions,

[9:33] >> but there are a number of of

[9:34] investigations going on in Congress, are

[9:36] they not?

[9:37] >> Senate Intelligence Committee

[9:38] investigation that could take another

[9:39] six to eight months. And the two lawyers

[9:41] are appealing uh this draft report from

[9:44] the Office of Professional

[9:45] Responsibility. They sent in their

[9:47] responses last night. It could take

[9:48] several weeks for the final report to

[9:50] come out, but the bottom line, no

[9:52] recommendation of prosecutions.

[9:53] >> All right, George Stephanopoulos in

[9:55] Washington. Thanks very much. overseas

[9:57] now and the concerns about the growing

[9:59] unrest in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[10:02] President Obama will meet tomorrow in

[10:04] Washington with the leaders of the two

[10:05] countries to urge them to cooperate in

[10:08] the fight against the Taliban and

[10:09] al-Qaeda. Pakistan has recently stepped

[10:12] up attacks on the militants in the Swat

[10:14] Valley, but the situation there is

[10:16] deteriorating by the day. Here's Martha

[10:18] Ratitz.

[10:20] Today, thousands of terrified residents

[10:23] are fleeing Pakistan's SWAT valley. Just

[10:26] 90 miles from the capital, Islamabad,

[10:29] Taliban fighters are seizing police

[10:31] stations and government buildings. We

[10:33] spoke by phone to a man who had just

[10:35] fled.

[10:36] >> People seems to be like hostages are

[10:40] being surrounded by Taliban and security

[10:43] forces firing marts and heavy artillery

[10:48] against them. The Taliban siege comes

[10:51] after a peace deal with the Pakistani

[10:53] government collapsed, sounding alarm

[10:55] bells on Capitol Hill today.

[10:57] >> Let me be blunt. Pakistan's pants are on

[11:01] fire. There is a real and present danger

[11:03] to Pakistan survival.

[11:05] >> The Pakistani military has gone after

[11:08] the Taliban in the Swat Valley before.

[11:10] We visited the very town now under siege

[11:13] a little over a year ago. What you're

[11:15] looking at just across the river is the

[11:18] local Taliban headquarters.

[11:20] >> Indeed, even then the Taliban was

[11:22] closing schools and beheading those who

[11:24] defied them. At the end of 2007, a

[11:27] military operation was launched, but not

[11:30] sustained. Today, things are worse than

[11:32] ever. Pakistan is nuclear armed, a haven

[11:36] for militants, and the likely home of

[11:38] the man George Bush never managed to

[11:41] capture, Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden's

[11:44] border safe havens also create more

[11:46] violence in Afghanistan, making this

[11:48] region the most urgent foreign policy

[11:51] problem the Obama administration faces.

[11:54] Martha Ratitz, ABC News.

[11:56] >> And still ahead on World News, the face

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[12:00] country's first face transplant appears

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[15:03] >> The woman who received the country's

[15:05] first face transplant appeared before

[15:07] cameras today, 5 months after surgery.

[15:09] Until now, her identity and how she

[15:11] became so severely disfigured has been

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[15:15] team at the Cleveland Clinic, she told

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[15:24] She will still need more surgeries, more

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[15:30] new nerves and muscles. But today,

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[15:38] >> I just want to say that when somebody

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[15:47] never know what happened to them.

[15:49] >> Connie was shot by her husband. It was 5

[15:53] years ago. The bullet obliterated her

[15:56] face and nearly her life. Her husband is

[15:58] still in jail. But this 40-year-old

[16:01] mother of two was transformed into this.

[16:04] >> She would walk on the street and kids

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[16:10] >> In December, doctors performed a 22-hour

[16:12] operation, replacing 80% of Conniey's

[16:15] face with donated muscle, skin, and

[16:18] bones from a woman who had died just

[16:20] hours earlier. She was determined to

[16:22] improve her quality of life. She knew

[16:24] that this was not a first option, but a

[16:26] last resort.

[16:28] >> Today, Connie can once again eat and

[16:30] drink without a straw. She can smell and

[16:33] she is learning to smile.

[16:35] >> She's come a long way. She's a lot

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[16:39] physically fit.

[16:40] >> Connie will be on medications the rest

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[16:48] bit more work, doctors predict she will

[16:50] end up looking more like this.

[16:52] >> You never know what might happen to you.

[16:54] And you might get in a car wreck and

[16:56] think you're beautiful one day, but you

[16:58] never know. One day it might be all

[17:00] taken away.

[17:02] >> Taken away and perhaps for Connie Culp,

[17:05] slowly given back.

[17:08] John McKenzie, ABC News, New York.

[17:11] >> Gutsy lady. Good for her. And we have a

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[17:20] >> MORE WOMEN, MORE WINE, MORE

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[17:31] >> AND his laugh made us laugh.

[17:38] >> One profile put it well. This is not a

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[17:43] His career spanned Broadway, television,

[17:49] >> and dozens of films. He was a regular in

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[17:54] >> Pizza the hot.

[17:56] >> And he was more than okay making fun of

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[18:01] >> ACTION

[18:03] in the face.

[18:07] >> Thank you.

[18:09] Dom Deloise with 75.

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[20:53] Tonight, we have a look at how changing

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[20:56] redefining attitudes about work for men

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[21:13] series, The New Gender Rules.

[21:16] 32-year-old Eric Adams worries he should

[21:19] be doing more to advance his career and

[21:22] more to take care of his family.

[21:25] >> It's a balancing act and it's very

[21:27] difficult.

[21:28] >> 33-year-old Amy Adams takes for granted

[21:31] that Eric's ambitions won't stand in the

[21:33] way of hers.

[21:35] >> Feeling fulfilled um in that

[21:37] professional setting is very important

[21:39] to my happiness. Women every bit as

[21:43] ambitious as men and men who worry work

[21:46] is keeping them from home. For many

[21:48] young Americans, traditional gender

[21:50] roles have all but disappeared. Men have

[21:53] become nurturers as well as providers.

[21:56] Women have become providers as well as

[21:58] nurturers.

[21:59] >> There is a coming together of the roles

[22:02] that I think was almost unthinkable in

[22:04] the past.

[22:05] >> Behind this quiet revolution is a

[22:07] dramatic demographic shift. In 1975,

[22:11] 47% of women with children under 18

[22:15] worked outside the home. Now, 71% do.

[22:19] What's more, one in four women now earn

[22:22] significantly more than their husbands.

[22:25] >> Hey, hey.

[22:27] >> As their economic roles have merged,

[22:30] their gender roles have melted away.

[22:32] Just ask 5-year-old Jackson Adams.

[22:35] >> Who makes dinner in your house? Usually

[22:38] >> my dad and my mom.

[22:40] >> Who does the dishes in your house?

[22:42] >> My mommy and my dad.

[22:44] >> Who gives you a bath?

[22:46] >> They do it. They do it every night.

[22:49] >> All right.

[22:50] >> We heard from many young families about

[22:52] this growing partnership. Vivana Russell

[22:55] told us her husband is at home right now

[22:57] cleaning.

[22:58] >> Can you imagine it being another way? I

[23:00] cannot imagine it being another way in

[23:02] terms of a mother working outside the

[23:05] house that also has to keep up with all

[23:07] the domestic duties. I think that would

[23:09] just be nearly impossible. Many of the

[23:11] women who've done it would surely agree.

[23:15] Betsy Stark, ABC News, Canton, Georgia.

[23:19] >> The new gender rules. And up next, gods,

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[25:59] Portland's mayor and police fight

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[26:04] >> Plus, using a church's name to break one

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[26:29] Finally tonight, The Last Olympian, not

[26:32] an athlete, The Last Olympian is an

[26:33] eagerly awaited book out today. The last

[26:36] in the Percy Jackson series, flying off

[26:38] shelves into the hands of enthusiastic

[26:40] young fans. And in the spirit of Harry

[26:43] Potter, these fantasy books are helping

[26:45] transform tween into avid readers.

[26:48] Here's John Berman.

[26:50] >> This rabid mob of children didn't show

[26:53] up today to see a rock star or a ball

[26:55] player. No, they came to see a former

[26:57] English teacher.

[26:58] >> Oh my god, I'm so excited to meet you.

[27:02] Author Rick Ryarden is releasing the

[27:04] final installment of his Percy Jackson

[27:06] and the Olympians series. Percy is a lot

[27:08] like your average mixedup teenager,

[27:10] except

[27:11] >> he is half god, half mortal. His father

[27:14] is the Greek god Poseidon.

[27:16] >> His world is filled with characters from

[27:18] Greek mythology. Gods, monsters, Medusa,

[27:21] and Pegasus.

[27:22] >> There is something about Greek mythology

[27:24] that really does strike a chord with

[27:26] children. You have romance, you've got

[27:28] mystery, you've got magic, monsters,

[27:30] heroes, villains.

[27:31] >> He is adventurous and he's the son of

[27:33] Poseidon, and I really like water.

[27:35] >> But there's more to Percy. He's

[27:37] dyslexic, just like Rick's own son,

[27:40] Haley. In fact, Percy was created from

[27:42] the stories that Rick told his son to

[27:44] keep him interested in school.

[27:46] >> I think everybody needs a hero. I think

[27:47] it's important for kids to know that

[27:49] it's okay to be different.

[27:50] >> They're my favorite books ever, and I

[27:52] hate to read, but I love reading them.

[27:54] The books published by a division of our

[27:55] parent company Disney have already sold

[27:58] more than 5 million copies in the

[28:00] neighborhood of the mega popular

[28:02] Twilight series, but nothing compared to

[28:04] Harry Potter, which has sold more than

[28:07] 400 million. There may never be another

[28:10] Harry Potter, but the Percy Jackson

[28:12] books do have Harry Potterish qualities.

[28:15] The magical powers, Harry's Hogwarts

[28:18] School for Wizards is like Percy's camp

[28:20] halfblood. But most of all, they share

[28:23] fantasy.

[28:24] >> Harry Potter opened a lot of doors. Uh I

[28:27] think that we're in the middle of a

[28:28] renaissance in children's literature

[28:30] right now.

[28:30] >> And judging by the crowd, a renaissance

[28:33] in reading. John Burman, ABC News, New

[28:36] York.

[28:37] >> And that is world news for this Tuesday.

[28:39] I'm Charlie Gibson and I hope you had a

[28:41] good day. For all of us at ABC News,

[28:44] have a good night.

[28:48] Tonight,

[28:53] >> I will I will not not be

[28:55] >> eliminated. Eliminated. Eliminated.

[28:58] >> Eliminated.

[29:02] >> ABC's Dancing with the Stars. The

[29:04] results live tonight 98 central on ABC.

[29:09] >> K2 was the only station there after

[29:12] Portland's mayor was involved in a

[29:13] crash. What Portland police have to say

[29:16] about allegations. They gave him special

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[29:19] >> A report shows Oregon's multi-million

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[29:46] Live at 6, this is K2 News on your side.

[29:50] >> And good evening. Thank you very much

[29:52] for being with us.