CBS Evening News - 2005-09-29

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[0:01] The Titans take on the Colts Sunday at

[0:03] noon on NewsChannel 5.

[0:07] Good evening. I'm Bob Schieffer.

[0:08] Straight talk from the generals. Our top

[0:10] commander in Iraq admits the number of

[0:13] Iraqi battalions able to operate alone

[0:16] is not increasing, it is decreasing.

[0:19] We'll start there tonight on what is

[0:21] turning out to be another bad day in the

[0:23] war. Then we'll cover these stories.

[0:27] I'm John Roberts at the White House. A

[0:29] new chief justice and new questions

[0:31] about who's next for the Supreme Court.

[0:34] I'm John Blackstone. A month since

[0:36] Hurricane Katrina, a week since Rita,

[0:39] and the South is still reeling. Fast and

[0:42] furious. I'm Jerry Bowen with what's

[0:44] fueling the Western fires.

[0:46] Why Katrina may also go down as a

[0:48] cultural disaster. I'm Jim Acosta with

[0:51] Mississippi's lost historical treasures.

[0:57] This is the CBS Evening News with Bob

[1:01] Schieffer.

[1:03] We are putting Iraq first tonight

[1:05] because it's been another awful day in

[1:07] the war. There's news that five more

[1:09] American soldiers have been killed by a

[1:11] roadside bomb, and 60 Iraqis were killed

[1:14] and 70 more wounded by suicide car

[1:17] bombers. We'll get to that shortly, but

[1:19] we're starting on Capitol Hill, where

[1:22] our top general had some depressing news

[1:24] today. The number of Iraqi battalions

[1:27] able to fight without US support is not

[1:30] increasing, it's going down. Here's

[1:32] national security correspondent David

[1:34] Martin.

[1:36] One of the keys to American withdrawal

[1:38] is for Iraqi troops to take over the

[1:40] fighting.

[1:41] But today's hearing of the Senate Armed

[1:43] Services Committee revealed that the

[1:45] number of Iraqi units capable of

[1:47] operating on their own has actually

[1:49] decreased. Previous report was he had

[1:51] three battalions. Now we're down to one

[1:53] battalion. Right. And and things change

[1:55] in the battalions. I mean That would

[1:57] only be about 700 soldiers.

[1:59] But General George Casey, the senior

[2:01] commander in Iraq, insisted many more,

[2:03] roughly 20,000, can carry out operations

[2:06] backed up by American troops, and

[2:09] pointed out that in the recent assault

[2:11] on Tal Afar, Iraqi soldiers outnumbered

[2:13] Americans for the first time. So, have

[2:17] we lost ground?

[2:18] Absolutely not.

[2:19] >> President Bush, who met with Casey

[2:20] yesterday, has cited the build-up of

[2:22] Iraqi forces as one of the principal

[2:24] signs of progress.

[2:25] >> Now, the increasing number of more

[2:27] capable Iraqi troops has allowed us to

[2:28] better hold on to the cities we have

[2:30] taken from the terrorists. But when

[2:32] committee members pressed Casey on when

[2:34] American troops can start coming home,

[2:37] the answers weren't reassuring. The next

[2:39] 75 days

[2:41] are going to be

[2:42] critical in in what happens after that.

[2:45] Two months ago, he sounded much more

[2:47] confident. I do believe we'll still be

[2:49] able to take some fairly substantial

[2:50] reductions after these elections in in

[2:52] the spring and summer next year. Today,

[2:54] despite repeated attempts to pin him

[2:56] down, Casey remained vague on when and

[2:59] how many troops might come home. Are you

[3:01] planning on troop withdrawals

[3:05] for next year?

[3:06] I just said that, Senator. Yes. I mean,

[3:09] yes or no?

[3:11] Yes, Senator. I do believe that the

[3:13] possibility for troop

[3:16] condition-based reductions of coalition

[3:18] forces

[3:19] still exists in 2006.

[3:22] Bob, Casey pointed out that the average

[3:25] insurgency lasts for 9 years, and he

[3:28] said there's no reason to believe the

[3:30] insurgency in Iraq will take any less

[3:33] time to deal with.

[3:35] All right. Thank you very much, David.

[3:37] More than 140 people, 13 of them members

[3:40] of the US military, have been killed in

[3:42] Iraq over the past 4 days now. The five

[3:45] Army soldiers whose deaths were

[3:47] announced today were on a combat

[3:48] operation near Ramadi, and the 60 Iraqis

[3:52] whose deaths we mentioned earlier, were

[3:54] the victims of three suicide car bombers

[3:57] in the mostly Shiite town of Balad,

[3:59] which is north of Baghdad. Lara Logan is

[4:02] in Baghdad again today.

[4:04] It was a bit shocking to us to hear the

[4:06] general confirm today that there's only

[4:09] one battalion that is able to stand on

[4:11] its own.

[4:12] You're there.

[4:13] What do you make of what he said? The

[4:15] reality on the ground here is that if US

[4:17] forces pulled out tomorrow, there

[4:19] wouldn't be any Iraqi battalion that

[4:21] could stand on its own without US

[4:23] support, and that means everything from

[4:25] logistics to signals to heavy weapons to

[4:27] close air support. And the other big

[4:29] question mark is how significant is the

[4:32] penetration of the Iraqi security forces

[4:34] by the insurgents and by pro-Iranian

[4:37] militias, which raise huge questions

[4:39] over whether these forces can in fact be

[4:40] relied upon. Well, you've been out with

[4:42] these troops in the field on operations.

[4:45] How would you evaluate them right now?

[4:48] There certainly is a huge improvement

[4:50] over their ability a year ago as light

[4:53] infantry troops to lead the fight on the

[4:55] ground, but they can't do this without

[4:57] US support. And it's very likely that

[4:59] you could still have embedded US

[5:00] trainers here for the next 10 years. So,

[5:03] people should expect that. All right.

[5:05] Thank you very much, Lara.

[5:08] A federal judge today ordered the

[5:09] Defense Department to release more

[5:11] pictures of prisoner abuse at Iraq's Abu

[5:13] Ghraib prison. The ruling in a lawsuit

[5:17] brought by the American Civil Liberties

[5:18] Union involves 87 photos and four

[5:21] videotapes not yet seen by the public.

[5:24] The government is expected to appeal,

[5:26] which could delay any release for

[5:28] months. Now, today's other big story, as

[5:31] expected, John G. Roberts was sworn in

[5:34] as the new Chief Justice after being

[5:36] confirmed by the Senate by a huge

[5:38] margin, 78 to 22. And who better to tell

[5:42] us about that than our own John Roberts?

[5:46] It is one of the most important

[5:48] appointments a president can make, and

[5:50] today President Bush stood by his man,

[5:52] sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice of

[5:55] the United States.

[5:56] >> me God. So help me God.

[5:59] The president made special mention of

[6:01] Roberts' son, Jack, who stole the show

[6:03] back in July at the nomination

[6:05] announcement. We extend a special

[6:07] welcome to his wife, Jane,

[6:10] their daughter, Josie,

[6:12] and son, Jack.

[6:16] A fellow who's comfortable with the

[6:17] cameras.

[6:22] Roberts himself couldn't resist joining

[6:24] in. We found a way to get Jack into the

[6:27] committee room,

[6:29] introduced introduced to the committee

[6:31] and back out again without any serious

[6:33] crisis. But on a more serious note, the

[6:35] conservative Chief Justice said he will

[6:38] remain faithful to the Constitution.

[6:40] >> With the help of my colleagues, I can

[6:42] pass on to my children's generation

[6:44] a charter of self-government as strong

[6:47] and as vibrant as the one that Chief

[6:50] Justice Rehnquist passed on to us. Now

[6:52] the attention turns to who's next to

[6:54] fill the critical swing seat being

[6:56] vacated by Sandra Day O'Connor.

[6:59] Consultants to the White House say,

[7:01] "Don't expect another O'Connor."

[7:02] >> I think at the end of the day we're

[7:03] going to see a conservative appointed to

[7:04] the court for the seat of Justice

[7:05] O'Connor, and that is going to shift the

[7:07] balance in the Supreme Court, but that's

[7:08] the prerogative of the president. And

[7:10] it's the prerogative of the Democrats

[7:12] who see this nomination as even more

[7:14] important than Chief Justice to fight

[7:16] that notion. This is a time when America

[7:18] is divided.

[7:21] If there was ever a time when we needed

[7:23] a consensus nominee, it is now. They're

[7:26] warning President Bush that he and the

[7:28] Republican Party don't have the same

[7:30] strength they did when Roberts was

[7:32] nominated. Some potential nominees have

[7:34] even drawn threats of a filibuster. The

[7:36] White House doesn't seem worried. They

[7:38] were saying that before, and it didn't

[7:41] happen.

[7:42] Whomever the nominee is, they got some

[7:44] support from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

[7:46] who said John Roberts was correct to not

[7:48] answer a lot of questions posed to him

[7:50] by the Judiciary Committee. She says

[7:51] it's not appropriate for a nominee to

[7:53] talk about how they would rule in a case

[7:56] that may come before the court. Bob.

[7:58] Thank you very much, John. So, what will

[8:00] the president be thinking about as he

[8:02] decides who should be nominated to fill

[8:04] the next vacancy? Our political

[8:07] correspondent Gloria Borger is on

[8:08] Capitol Hill tonight. Gloria, have you

[8:10] seen any clues so far about which way

[8:13] the president's going to go on that?

[8:15] I think we have seen some clues, Bob.

[8:18] The president has talked an awful lot

[8:19] about the importance of diversity,

[8:21] whether that's a minority or whether

[8:23] that's a woman. We also know his wife

[8:25] and Justice O'Connor have said that

[8:27] they'd like to see a woman in this seat.

[8:29] And the president has also said that

[8:31] he's looking outside the appellate

[8:33] courts, that perhaps he would appoint

[8:35] somebody who is not currently serving as

[8:37] a judge. And lots of people are

[8:39] speculating he could go to his own White

[8:42] House lawyer, who happens to be a woman.

[8:44] But, it's going to be hard any way he

[8:46] goes cuz there's a downside as well as

[8:48] an upside to any appointment for him

[8:50] now, politically.

[8:52] It's It's very difficult for him. He's

[8:54] got a tough choice to make. Does he go

[8:55] with a Roberts-like nomination that gets

[8:58] 22 Democratic votes again? Or does he go

[9:01] with his conservative base?

[9:03] Conservatives are telling people at the

[9:05] White House, "Look, this is a fight you

[9:07] ought to want to have. You need to

[9:09] change the topic now from the hurricane,

[9:11] from ethics, from gasoline lines, from

[9:14] the war in Iraq. How about talking about

[9:16] your woman nominee to the Supreme

[9:18] Court?" That's what conservatives are

[9:20] telling the White House. Whether they

[9:21] will listen, we don't know. Okay, thank

[9:23] you, Gloria. In New Orleans today, some

[9:26] business owners took the mayor up on his

[9:28] call to return to selected neighborhoods

[9:31] to help the city get back on its feet.

[9:33] But, after those two hurricanes in just

[9:35] a month, the communities throughout the

[9:37] Gulf Coast states are struggling

[9:39] day-to-day. Here's John Blackstone.

[9:42] With no electricity, air conditioning,

[9:44] or running water, Wilma Burns is trying

[9:46] to stay cool. For her daughter-in-law,

[9:49] though, it's all becoming too much.

[9:51] Every time I talk about it, I want to

[9:52] cry, and so I just keep myself busy. All

[9:55] across the South, the last month has

[9:57] been hurricane hell, smacked first by

[9:59] Katrina, then Rita, then a week of

[10:02] record-breaking heat. Now, have you

[10:04] slept in 110° weather lately?

[10:07] You know, and now my kids are in Crosby,

[10:10] having to start school over there,

[10:11] because I can't get anybody to help me

[10:13] out to find some place for us to go

[10:14] here. Together, the hurricanes have

[10:16] driven well over a million people from

[10:18] their homes. The Outlaw family has been

[10:20] living out of their pickup truck for a

[10:22] week. We got

[10:24] uh three children,

[10:26] and uh

[10:27] they've been complaining and griping,

[10:29] and oh, it's it's we've been at at each

[10:31] other's throats the whole time. Many of

[10:33] the displaced are also jobless. Latest

[10:35] figures show 279,000

[10:37] are out of work because of Katrina, and

[10:39] more job losses from both hurricanes are

[10:42] expected.

[10:43] Closed refineries are fueling higher

[10:45] prices and fears of shortages. In

[10:47] Georgia, truckers spend hundreds filling

[10:50] their rigs. Ray Houston worries about

[10:52] getting diesel at any price. Well, I

[10:54] don't want to get caught without none,

[10:55] so some days they said there's going to

[10:57] be a shortage. Here in Houston, there's

[10:59] growing concern about the cost of

[11:00] housing some 150,000 evacuees from New

[11:04] Orleans. The city's health care system

[11:06] alone is already out millions. Houston

[11:09] health care system stepped up to the

[11:10] plate

[11:11] when we needed to, and and I hope that

[11:13] it will get the the help that it needs

[11:15] to continue to do it and be available

[11:16] next time. Katrina evacuees are still

[11:18] living in Houston hotels. You'd like to

[11:21] get back home? Yeah.

[11:22] >> Yes.

[11:23] Real bad.

[11:24] But amidst the hardship, there are tales

[11:26] of generosity, like the man who saw

[11:28] Chelsea Davis and her 7-week-old

[11:31] daughter in the hotel elevator. And he

[11:33] just took put his hand in his pocket and

[11:34] gave me all the money he had. And I just

[11:37] started crying and told him thank you

[11:38] because nobody has ever done that for

[11:39] me. It gave her hope there's a brighter

[11:42] future after this month of hurricanes.

[11:45] John Blackstone, CBS News, Houston.

[11:48] And coming up next, Katrina's horror

[11:50] stories. We'll separate the rumor from

[11:52] the reality in tonight's inside story.

[11:55] But first, more faces of the missing

[11:57] from the hurricane. Raheem Marshall is

[12:00] about 5 years old, has black hair, brown

[12:02] eyes, last seen in New Orleans, as was

[12:06] his sister, Sunaile Marshall. She's

[12:08] about 18, 5'5, 145 lb. And Alexander

[12:13] Ellis is about 5 years old. He

[12:16] disappeared in Metairie, Louisiana. If

[12:18] you have any information, please call

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[14:59] Officials in Louisiana today raised the

[15:01] death toll from Hurricane Katrina. They

[15:04] now say 923

[15:06] people were killed in the state. That is

[15:08] still far from the 10,000 the mayor of

[15:11] New Orleans once predicted. A lot of

[15:13] speculation, a lot of rumor and reports

[15:16] in the immediate aftermath of the storm

[15:18] are turning out now to be flat wrong.

[15:21] Cheron Alphonsi now with tonight's

[15:23] inside story.

[15:25] Stupid. In the hours after Katrina hit,

[15:28] New Orleans was a city that seemed to be

[15:30] overwhelmed with crime and residents who

[15:32] were out of control.

[15:33] >> I mean all night. Stories of rape and

[15:35] murder spread inside the dark corridors

[15:38] of the Superdome. Rumors that culminated

[15:40] with confirmation from city officials.

[15:43] Uh our police officers have been in gun

[15:45] battles, running out of ammunition. On

[15:47] the Oprah Winfrey show, New Orleans

[15:49] Mayor Ray Nagin fueled the country's

[15:51] worst fears. They have people standing

[15:53] out there watching dead bodies, watching

[15:55] hooligans killing people, raping people.

[15:58] But now, a month later, police are

[16:00] re-examining those reports and they say

[16:03] they're simply not true. National Guard

[16:05] officials were called here to the dome

[16:07] and told there were 200 bodies inside,

[16:09] including children with their throats

[16:11] slit. When they got here, they found

[16:13] just six bodies.

[16:15] So, you gave them six bodies, not 200.

[16:17] >> No, six. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas

[16:19] Barron was in charge of security at the

[16:21] Superdome. He said there was some

[16:23] fighting, but not the kind of horrifying

[16:25] violence that was widely reported. You

[16:28] were here pretty much 24/7 for a while.

[16:30] >> Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And you

[16:31] may have seen fights, but you said you

[16:32] never saw rapes. No. Never saw murder.

[16:34] No.

[16:35] Not once. State health officials say six

[16:38] bodies were recovered from inside the

[16:39] dome, four from outside. None of those

[16:42] to my knowledge are all homicide

[16:43] victims. And none were children. Still,

[16:47] those rumors may have hurt evacuees

[16:49] anyway.

[16:50] Relief workers were told not to respond

[16:52] to cries for help from the convention

[16:54] center because it was simply too

[16:55] dangerous.

[16:57] And while some police struggled to

[16:59] regain control of the city,

[17:01] investigators are now looking into

[17:02] whether others participated in the

[17:04] looting. At times, Picayune reporter

[17:06] took these pictures of police taking

[17:08] DVDs from a local Walmart.

[17:11] Police announced today four officers

[17:13] have already been suspended. New Orleans

[17:15] now trying to clean up its city and its

[17:18] reputation.

[17:20] Sharyl Attkisson, CBS News, New Orleans.

[17:23] The hospital chain founded by Senator

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[21:16] northwest of Los Angeles, the biggest of

[21:18] four fires in Southern California,

[21:20] fanned by Santa Ana winds and feeding on

[21:22] the heavy brush that followed last

[21:24] winter's near record rains.

[21:25] >> They're flying through the embers,

[21:27] through the smoke, through the fire. So

[21:29] threatening to canyon homes that

[21:30] water-dropping helicopters worked

[21:32] through the night, an operation usually

[21:34] avoided for safety reasons.

[21:37] And through the night ember showers

[21:39] spread the blaze through the rugged

[21:40] horse country, forcing 450 people to

[21:43] evacuate. I can't let anybody in right

[21:45] now unless you're evacuating livestock.

[21:47] Keeping homeowners from reaching home.

[21:49] >> I just bought a house 2 months ago. They

[21:50] promised me there's never any fires here

[21:52] for 30 years, and now I'm trying to go

[21:54] home and I'm not allowed home. By

[21:56] daylight, 3,000 firefighters were on the

[21:58] line, and the loss was amazingly small.

[22:01] One industrial building where rocket

[22:03] engines were designed during the Cold

[22:05] War, and one house. On the Katrina scale

[22:07] of natural disasters, it doesn't even

[22:10] register, unless it's your house that's

[22:12] in danger. Caught fire.

[22:14] Uh while I was inside uh

[22:16] unloading as as much stuff as I could, I

[22:18] could see

[22:20] the the flames behind the house, and

[22:22] then hear the windows cracking. Katrina

[22:25] has changed lives here, too.

[22:26] >> Home can always be replaced. We have

[22:28] insurance, you know, life is what

[22:30] matters most.

[22:32] And in another lesson from Katrina, FEMA

[22:35] has responded very quickly here,

[22:36] announcing it will pay up to 75% of the

[22:39] cost of fighting these fires, which

[22:41] began only yesterday. Bob. Thank you,

[22:44] Jerry. Next on CBS, The Lost Treasures

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[22:52] but fell to Katrina.

[22:56] Thousands lost everything due to

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[25:47] NewsChannel 5 at 6, Nick Barris talks

[25:49] with the wife of Perry March. She's

[25:51] still in Mexico, but tells Nick she

[25:53] wants her husband and family back home.

[25:58] And finally tonight, Hurricane Katrina

[26:00] took hundreds of lives and caused

[26:02] billions of dollars in damage. But as

[26:04] people have come back to the coast,

[26:06] they've discovered the hurricane also

[26:08] took with it a lot of history. Jim

[26:11] Acosta reports.

[26:14] In the mountains of debris piling up in

[26:16] Mississippi are some of the state's

[26:18] greatest treasures.

[26:21] Literally consigned to the ash heap of

[26:23] history.

[26:25] All along the Gulf Coast, mansion after

[26:27] glorious mansion lies in ruins. Like

[26:30] this home, which predates the Civil War.

[26:33] All that's left is the palm tree.

[26:36] Another antebellum gem sits beneath the

[26:38] casino barge. The the storm was truly a

[26:41] monster. It just ripped off the front

[26:43] porch and just scattered it. Beauvoir,

[26:45] the last home of Confederate President

[26:47] Jefferson Davis, survived the Civil War,

[26:50] but lost the battle of Katrina. Just

[26:53] literally my mouth was just hanging open

[26:55] cuz I just couldn't believe it.

[26:58] The museum's director, Patrick Hotard,

[27:00] spends his days digging through the

[27:02] rubble.

[27:04] Salvaging artifacts like this

[27:06] Confederate bullet or mini ball. And

[27:08] that's a example of sort of the small

[27:10] items that we have to look for amongst

[27:12] all this rubble and debris. It's

[27:14] extremely uh trying on the soul.

[27:17] Beauvoir's rebel uniforms and rifles are

[27:19] drying out inside a climate-controlled

[27:21] facility. With all of this devastation,

[27:24] Katrina herself has made American

[27:26] history, leaving the South with its

[27:28] largest reconstruction project since the

[27:31] reconstruction.

[27:32] We had a gun. Also wiped out by a

[27:35] runaway casino barge was this house

[27:38] built by Biloxi's freed slaves. So, it

[27:40] just took my heart.

[27:41] >> The Pleasant Reed Home was one of the

[27:43] region's only links to its

[27:45] African-American heritage. But that

[27:47] history, that piece of history,

[27:49] has been lost.

[27:50] It's been lost, but it's still in our

[27:52] hearts and in our minds. James Crowell,

[27:54] a museum board member, pledges all of it

[27:57] will be rebuilt. And this was a dream

[27:59] that the community had, and we cannot

[28:02] let that dream die

[28:03] just because of this catastrophe. Now,

[28:06] this state with such a turbulent history

[28:08] has a common dream. In years from now,

[28:10] people will be able to come back to this

[28:12] site and see the house, and they'll say,

[28:14] "This is like how I remembered it."

[28:16] Making sure Mississippi's rich past has

[28:19] a future.

[28:20] Jim Acosta, CBS News, Biloxi.

[28:24] And that's the news. I'm Bob Schieffer,

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[29:03] Perry March's wife is now forced to

[29:04] handle things all alone in Mexico.

[29:06] Tonight, we talk exclusively to her

[29:09] about her husband's arrest. And one of

[29:11] the men involved in the shooting on

[29:12] Vandy's campus is in police custody

[29:14] tonight.

[29:15] And it certainly felt like fall today.

[29:17] Tonight is going to be the coolest night

[29:19] we've had in 5 months. Your news begins

[29:23] now.

[29:24] From your news and information leader,

[29:27] winner of the Emmy for news excellence,

[29:30] this is NewsChannel 5 at 6.

[29:34] Good evening, everyone. I'm Scott

[29:35] Arnold. Chris Clark has the night off.

[29:37] >> And I'm Vicki Yates. Thank you for

[29:38] joining us. She calls the $3 million

[29:40] bond unfair and now wants her husband

[29:43] back. Tonight, Perry March's second

[29:45] wife, Carmen, is speaking out about the

[29:47] murder case and the way her husband's

[29:48] been treated since his arrest.

[29:50] NewsChannel 5's Nick Beres spoke

[29:51] exclusively with her this afternoon.

[29:53] Now, this is her first interview since

[29:55] she's uh since he's been here. Since

[29:56] he's returned to Nashville, that's

[29:58] correct. The first time we've talked to

[29:59] her about it. She is still in Mexico. We

[30:01] talked to her by phone, but she's there

[30:02] minding the restaurant that she and

[30:04] Perry opened in Ajijic, Mexico. She does

[30:06] say, however, she hopes to visit

[30:08] Nashville and her husband soon.

[30:12] Carmen Rojas March is now on her own in

[30:14] Ajijic, Mexico. Left alone