World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-29

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[0:00] At 6

[0:04] >> on World News Tonight this Thursday,

[0:06] there's been a shooting at an office

[0:08] complex in Atlanta. Nervous about the

[0:11] economy, a hint of inflation in the

[0:13] stock market goes down. If the country

[0:15] spent more money filtering the national

[0:17] blood supply, it would be even safer

[0:20] than it is. And what about adventure

[0:23] travel? Some people looking for

[0:24] challenge, some people looking for

[0:27] trouble. We'll take a closer look.

[0:37] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:40] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:43] Peter Jennings.

[0:44] >> Good evening. There's been another of

[0:45] those inexplicable shootings. At least

[0:47] 12 people are dead this time. In Atlanta

[0:50] this afternoon, in a private brokerage

[0:52] house where people go to trade stocks

[0:54] and bonds for themselves, a man suddenly

[0:56] began to shoot people. He then went to a

[0:58] second building and continued the

[0:59] killing and police have discovered that

[1:01] several more people were killed at a

[1:03] third location. ABC's Aaron Hayes

[1:06] reports from Atlanta.

[1:10] The call came in the middle of the

[1:11] afternoon. Shots inside this office

[1:13] building. Police found out through the

[1:15] building with a warning to office

[1:17] workers. Lock the doors and stay inside.

[1:20] Nine people were already dead and police

[1:22] could not find the shooter. Some office

[1:25] workers talked to reporters by phone.

[1:27] >> There are three other women in the

[1:29] office with me now. I'm just scared and

[1:31] I just would like to get out of here.

[1:34] >> Unable to find the gunman, police

[1:36] cautiously started evacuating stunned

[1:38] workers from the building and a second

[1:40] building nearby.

[1:41] >> They said, "Get down. He's got a gun.

[1:43] There he is up on the roof."

[1:44] >> And he had a girl up there with him and

[1:46] he was holding her over the edge of the

[1:48] over the edge of the building.

[1:49] >> I was on the third floor. That's where

[1:50] the shootings occurred. I walked down

[1:52] the hallway. I saw a lot of blood. I saw

[1:54] in the management office a pool of blood

[1:57] and uh when I saw that I ran in my

[1:59] office, told everybody it had obviously

[2:00] been a shooting to get out of the place.

[2:02] >> It was surreal, many said. Some did not

[2:04] believe it

[2:05] >> and everyone thought it was a joke or

[2:06] didn't believe him. And we looked out in

[2:08] the hallway and there was some blood in

[2:09] the hallway.

[2:10] >> There was chaos. Someone broke out a

[2:12] window. One man could be seen calling to

[2:14] police from it. SWAT teams scrambled

[2:17] with the dead in two different

[2:18] buildings. Police were looking

[2:20] everywhere and then information began

[2:22] coming in about the suspect.

[2:25] >> The person that's been identified as the

[2:27] perpetrator is Mark O Barton. He had a

[2:30] 45 caliber handgun and a 9 mm handgun.

[2:34] >> And authorities said he may well have

[2:36] known some of those shot.

[2:37] >> He apparently was a day trader at a

[2:40] brokerage firm and was concerned about

[2:43] financial losses. Evacuations continued

[2:46] slowly, carefully into the evening

[2:48] hours. The injured were taken to local

[2:50] hospitals told to stand by for more

[2:52] wounded patients. Three that are

[2:55] critical and in currently in the

[2:56] operating room, another four that are

[2:58] deemed serious right now.

[3:00] >> And then late word of deaths. Police

[3:02] still looking for the shooter learned

[3:04] three more were found dead an hour's

[3:06] drive from here. All believed they said

[3:08] to be related to this tragedy. Aaron

[3:11] Hayes, ABC News, Atlanta. We know just a

[3:14] little more about Mark Barton as time

[3:16] goes by. He's 44 years old, as you

[3:17] heard. Several years ago, his wife and

[3:19] his wife's mother were found murdered in

[3:21] Alabama. Mark Barton was named as a

[3:24] suspect, but he was never charged. At

[3:27] least some of the shooting took place at

[3:29] the office of a company called Altech

[3:31] Investment. It's one of a growing number

[3:32] of so-called direct access stock trading

[3:35] firms. These companies provide computer

[3:38] time and special software to clients,

[3:40] so-called day traders, as you heard, who

[3:42] trade on their own.

[3:45] In the other news today, a hint of

[3:47] inflation, which was what it took to

[3:50] send the Dow Jones Industrials down 180

[3:53] points to close at 10,791.

[3:56] On the Nasdaq, stocks were down more

[3:58] than 65 points. There was a big increase

[4:00] today in the employment cost index,

[4:04] which the Federal Reserve watches very

[4:06] carefully. And when the chairman of the

[4:07] Federal Reserve is concerned about

[4:09] inflation, the market is often

[4:11] concerned. Here's ABC's Betsy Stark.

[4:15] >> In this booming economy, finding workers

[4:18] has been a major headache. Many business

[4:20] owners have been forced to offer higher

[4:22] wages and better benefits to attract the

[4:25] few workers available. Today, those

[4:27] fatter paychecks, sign on bonuses, and

[4:30] expanded health care benefits showed up

[4:32] as a bigger thanex expected jump in the

[4:34] employment cost index. Wages and

[4:36] benefits are the single biggest expense

[4:38] most businesses have. Once they start to

[4:41] go up, it's only a matter of time before

[4:44] customers begin to pay for them. Rising

[4:46] wages and prices create inflation

[4:49] throughout the economy. The Federal

[4:51] Reserve fights inflation by raising

[4:53] interest rates. And the prospect of

[4:55] higher interest rates is precisely what

[4:57] made the stock market edgy today.

[5:00] >> Mr. Greenspan had said pretty

[5:01] specifically in the last 48 hours what

[5:03] he was looking for, what his conditions

[5:05] were to raise rates. And you seem to

[5:07] have seen one of those things come

[5:09] through come through here.

[5:11] >> There was other news today that might

[5:12] have eased investor anxiety a bit. The

[5:15] government reported that consumers are

[5:16] spending with a little less abandoned

[5:19] which slowed down the overall rate. The

[5:21] economy is growing, but inflation fears

[5:24] carried the day here, Peter, which is

[5:26] why we saw that big drop in the Dow.

[5:27] >> Thanks very much, Betsy Stark. On Wall

[5:29] Street tonight, a federal judge has

[5:30] ordered President Clinton to pay about

[5:32] $90,000 in penalties because he gave

[5:35] false testimony in the Paula Jones

[5:36] sexual harassment case. Miss Jones will

[5:39] split about $80,000 with lawyers from a

[5:42] Dallas law firm, and she'll split about

[5:44] 9,500 with the Rutherford Institute, the

[5:47] group that helped with her defense.

[5:48] About $1,200 will go to pay the costs to

[5:52] the court. The map tells the heat story

[5:55] again tonight. So much of the country is

[5:57] still scorching hot in several places.

[6:00] Several regions almost, temperatures

[6:01] were 100 or more. At least 65 people

[6:04] have now died as a result of the heat in

[6:07] St. Louis, Missouri, where they've had

[6:09] more than their share. It has now been

[6:11] 15 straight days of heat and humidity,

[6:14] and it is expected to persist in the

[6:17] days ahead. More news in a moment.

[6:20] Rebuilding what war destroyed in Sievo

[6:24] and the tiny spacecraft that is winning

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[7:54] >> President Clinton is at the NATO air

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[7:58] way to a summit meeting with a very

[8:00] ambitious agenda. Rebuilding Kosovo and

[8:03] trying to prevent war from returning to

[8:04] the Balkans. 40 world leaders will meet

[8:07] tomorrow in Sievo, the city where the

[8:10] Bosnian war was so profoundly intense.

[8:13] So many people regard Sievo as a symbol

[8:15] of failure. ABC's Jim Wooten tonight on

[8:18] the potential for revival.

[8:21] A summer's evening in Sievo and the war

[8:24] seems a distant dream.

[8:27] Yet in the light of day, reality

[8:29] returns. The shredded parliament, these

[8:32] shattered neighborhoods, this broken

[8:35] tower.

[8:36] But if for three long, hellish,

[8:39] terrifying years, this was Sievo.

[8:43] This is Sievo now. With more than 5

[8:46] billion in international aid, a Marshall

[8:49] clan for Bosnia, the city and country

[8:52] are slowly being rebuilt. We've seen

[8:54] enormous uh progress that has been made.

[8:57] >> Craig Buck manages $760 million worth of

[9:01] American assistance here. And it has

[9:03] made a difference between yesterday

[9:07] and today. Utilities restored, schools

[9:10] and gymnasiums reopen.

[9:13] The old town market then and now.

[9:17] And Zetra Stadium built for the 84

[9:20] Olympics burned in the war. Once again,

[9:23] the city centerpiece where the

[9:24] international summit will convene. Even

[9:27] foreign troops are helping rebuild,

[9:30] including some of the half million homes

[9:31] and apartments destroyed in the war.

[9:34] This one belonged to former soldier

[9:36] Nazim Mtovich,

[9:38] who's waited years to return and is

[9:41] happy to pitch in himself.

[9:43] >> Our goal is not for us to rebuild

[9:45] Bosnia, but for the Bosnians to rebuild

[9:47] Bosnia. Yet along with all the

[9:50] destruction, all this wreckage, there

[9:52] was also massive damage done to the soul

[9:55] of this city, once famous for its

[9:57] tolerance, for its multicultural and

[9:59] multithnic zest and sophistication. All

[10:03] of which lie buried somewhere now

[10:04] beneath the rubble and the ruins of the

[10:07] war. Thousands left during the war and

[10:10] haven't come back. What Sieo needs to

[10:12] heal its soul is more people like the

[10:15] Smileovich brothers. Nothing is going to

[10:17] be like before the war.

[10:19] >> Akmed and Muhammad, former soldiers

[10:22] who've decided to stay. There is hope.

[10:24] There is always hope. And that as much

[10:27] as the billions of dollars is this

[10:29] city's hope for the future. Jim Mutton,

[10:32] ABC News, Sargo.

[10:35] >> In China today, the government says it's

[10:37] destroyed more than a million books and

[10:38] posters belonging to the spiritual

[10:40] movement called Falong. The Chinese

[10:42] government also says it wants to arrest

[10:44] the group's leader. He lives in New York

[10:47] City and is not likely to return at the

[10:49] moment. In South Africa today, an

[10:52] apology so long overdue that it is in

[10:55] itself historic. The law society in the

[10:58] province of Quazulu Natal is apologizing

[11:01] to Mahatma Gandhi, the freedom fighter

[11:04] for India in the 1930s and 40s. Mr.

[11:06] Gandhi lived in South Africa before that

[11:08] for two decades. And when he applied to

[11:10] practice law there, he was turned down

[11:12] because he was not of European descent.

[11:15] That was in 1893.

[11:18] Mahatma Gandhi was murdered in 1948.

[11:22] When we come back, blood and money, is

[11:24] it really too expensive to make the

[11:26] nation's blood supply even safer than it

[11:29] already is?

[11:35] Courage. Something shared by countless

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[11:39] those who risk their lives,

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[13:39] today that the average lifespan of

[13:40] Americans has increased by almost 30

[13:43] years since 1900 from 47 to 76. The

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[13:49] in medicine and so many infectious

[13:52] diseases have been wiped out. Simple

[13:55] math would tell us if it goes on like

[13:56] this, the average lifespan will be well

[13:59] over a hundred by the year 3000. Every

[14:02] year, 4 million people in the United

[14:04] States get a blood transfusion, and very

[14:06] often it saves their life. To make it

[14:09] clear at the outset, the American Red

[14:10] Cross says that the blood supply in the

[14:12] country is safer now than it has ever

[14:14] been. But they also acknowledge that

[14:16] with some more money, it could be even

[14:19] safer. In this report, every time you

[14:21] hear the word lucasytes, think white

[14:24] blood cells. Here's ABC's Deborah Amos.

[14:28] >> Every year, donors give 12 million pints

[14:30] of blood for patients who need it to get

[14:33] well. However, white cells in the blood

[14:36] called lucasytes can make us sick,

[14:39] causing fevers, infections, and

[14:41] weakening the immune system.

[14:43] >> Can the blood supply be made safer by

[14:45] lucasite reduction? I believe it can be.

[14:49] Normally lucasytes are good in our

[14:51] blood. White blood cells help fight off

[14:54] bacteria and viruses. But after

[14:56] donation, lucasytes die, then break

[14:59] down, spewing out chemicals that can be

[15:02] harmful.

[15:04] So if the blood supply could be safer by

[15:07] filtering out lucasytes, why don't most

[15:10] hospitals do it? It's significantly

[15:12] expensive to lucasite reduce um all the

[15:16] blood supply.

[15:17] >> In Birmingham, Alabama last year, the

[15:20] Red Cross began filtering out lucasytes.

[15:22] >> The primary interest to truly was

[15:25] patient care. The initial interest

[15:27] >> at Carowway Methodist Hospital.

[15:29] Filtering drove up the cost per unit of

[15:32] blood by about 30%. Enough to worry most

[15:35] hospitals and their accountants. So they

[15:38] come knocking on the door and say, "What

[15:40] are you doing? Your your prices or your

[15:42] your expenses have gone up 30%."

[15:44] >> But by using filtered blood, the

[15:46] hospital showed remarkable savings.

[15:48] >> We estimate probably on an annual basis,

[15:50] we can save well over a million dollars

[15:53] with just cardiovascular surgery

[15:55] patients. Their length of stay has

[15:56] dropped by over 3 days. Last year, the

[15:59] FDA's blood advisory panel recommended

[16:02] all US hospitals eliminate lucasites

[16:05] from the blood supply. But so far,

[16:08] progress has been slow. The Red Cross,

[16:11] which controls almost half of the

[16:12] nation's blood supply, wants to go to

[16:15] 100% lucasite filtered blood by the end

[16:18] of the year 2000. But hospitals still

[16:21] must be convinced that the extra costs

[16:24] will bring savings as well as safety.

[16:27] Deborah Amos, ABC News, Birmingham,

[16:30] Alabama.

[16:31] >> To be very specific, the Red Cross says

[16:33] that in the United States, it currently

[16:34] filters out 100% of lucasytes, white

[16:37] blood cells in four of its 37 regions.

[16:41] There's another horror story from

[16:43] Woodstock 99 today, the Rock Festival in

[16:45] New York State last weekend. Police are

[16:48] now investigating four cases of women

[16:50] alleging they were raped. One woman says

[16:53] she was attacked right in front of the

[16:55] stage as the band played on and a lot of

[16:58] people stood by. In a moment, we'll take

[17:01] a look at adventure vacations, adventure

[17:03] travel, including the possibility of

[17:05] being kidnapped. A closer look.

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[19:33] We're going to take a closer look

[19:34] tonight at taking risks when you take a

[19:36] vacation. In Switzerland today, they're

[19:39] still looking for two people missing

[19:40] from that flash flood which killed at

[19:43] least 19 people earlier in the week when

[19:45] they were doing something called

[19:47] canyoning. Adventure Travel is getting a

[19:50] lot of attention these days because it

[19:51] seems that so many more people can do it

[19:54] who perhaps are not up to it and want to

[19:57] do it and have the money for it. First,

[20:00] a closer look from ABC's Deborah

[20:02] >> Wong.

[20:03] 2.

[20:07] >> Whatever kind of adventure you're

[20:08] looking for, chances are you can find

[20:10] someone in the extreme adventure travel

[20:12] industry who can help you do it.

[20:14] >> People are looking to say, "Hey, I don't

[20:16] want to sit on a beach for my two weeks

[20:17] off. I want to do something really

[20:19] interesting."

[20:19] >> We're going to be doing whitewater

[20:21] rafting.

[20:22] >> Donna Cilius is an adventure junkie

[20:24] who's planning her next vacation in

[20:26] Australia.

[20:27] >> I want to be underwater scuba diving. I

[20:29] want to be hanging from a rock. I want

[20:31] to I want to definitely be jumping out

[20:33] of an airplane. And and when I do it,

[20:35] I'm like, "That's me."

[20:36] >> With Americans now working longer hours

[20:39] and taking fewer vacations, they often

[20:41] want to maximize their thrills.

[20:43] >> When you jump out of a plane, per se,

[20:45] when you're falling out of that plane at

[20:47] 120 mph, you could care less whether you

[20:49] sent that fax out the day before. And in

[20:52] an era when extreme adventures are

[20:54] widely publicized on television, there

[20:56] are few things that seem out of reach.

[20:58] Even the toughest challenges are

[21:00] accessible to the novice if you have the

[21:02] money. You can even get in line to climb

[21:05] Mount Everest at $65,000 per attempt.

[21:08] Alpine Ascent International has seen its

[21:11] business triple in the last 2 years.

[21:14] >> You know, it's bursting. We're certainly

[21:15] pushing the bubble of what we can of

[21:17] what we can do. But as with any

[21:19] high-risk activity, things can go

[21:21] dramatically wrong. In Arizona, a flash

[21:23] flood killed 11 people in a narrow

[21:26] canyon last year. And on the summit of

[21:28] Mount Everest, eight people perished in

[21:30] a freak storm in 1996.

[21:33] But when accidents do happen, they

[21:35] seldom act as a deterrent. For

[21:37] adrenaline junkies, they will heighten

[21:39] the sense of adventure out there.

[21:41] >> Deborah Wong, ABC News, Los Angeles.

[21:44] The whole reason for focusing on

[21:46] adventure travel is to point out there

[21:47] is adventure and then there is peril.

[21:49] While some people may be looking for a

[21:51] physical challenge, others are flat out

[21:54] looking for trouble. From Yemen tonight

[21:57] at the foot of the Red Sea, here's ABC's

[22:00] Clay Scott.

[22:05] >> A trip to Yemen is a trip back in time

[22:07] where ancient traditions still shape

[22:09] everyday life.

[22:12] Tourists marvel at markets rich in

[22:14] incense and spices, at majestic

[22:17] architecture, mud and straw buildings

[22:19] rising from centuries old sites.

[22:22] And at tribal customs, the traditional

[22:25] curved dagger still worn by almost every

[22:27] man. But tourists also come here for

[22:30] something else. The privilege of being

[22:32] kidnapped by tribesmen,

[22:34] >> French, Italians, Americans.

[22:36] >> Marco Livoti runs the biggest tour

[22:38] agency in Yemen. He says scores of his

[22:40] clients actually want to be kidnapped.

[22:43] >> Especially women.

[22:44] >> Especially women.

[22:46] >> They said, "Oh, I would like to be

[22:48] kidnapped by a nice bedwin or by nice

[22:51] mountain men. Why not?"

[22:53] >> Listen to this family from Holland. They

[22:55] expect to be abducted.

[22:57] >> My daughter even just made a small

[23:00] basket full of uh things for the babies

[23:02] and for us in case we were kidnapped so

[23:05] that we have something to rely on. What

[23:08] are these tourists after? A taste of

[23:10] traditional tribal life. The kidnappers

[23:13] actually treat their hostages to

[23:15] elaborate feasts and give them gifts.

[23:17] The kidnappers demands are unusual. They

[23:20] want the government to pave roads and

[23:22] build schools. Sometimes they get what

[23:24] they want, sometimes they don't. In

[23:26] almost every case, the hostages are

[23:28] released. The authorities have begun to

[23:30] crack down on the tribes. Four tourists

[23:32] were shot to death during a kidnap

[23:34] rescue attempt. It was the first

[23:36] kidnapping to end in violence.

[23:39] Yemen officials insist their country is

[23:41] still safe for Westerners. Although when

[23:43] we drove, one of the main tourist routes

[23:45] across Yemen, we were guarded by a

[23:47] military escort with the heavy caliber

[23:49] machine gun. In the ancient city of

[23:52] Matri, believed to be the home of the

[23:54] legendary Queen of Sheba. The kind of

[23:56] tourists who buy souvenirs just don't

[23:58] come anymore, this man told us. But the

[24:00] more intrepid travelers do keep coming.

[24:03] This month alone, four more tourists

[24:05] were kidnapped here wandering these

[24:07] mountains in search of adventure. Clay

[24:10] Scott, ABC News, Yemen. There's a lot

[24:13] more about all this on our website,

[24:14] abcnews.com.

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[25:56] >> Okay, things are changing fast. Think

[25:59] you're keeping up? Things change again.

[26:01] Robotics, cloning, cyber, love, time.

[26:04] Can you live with it? So few answers, so

[26:06] many terrific questions as we head into

[26:09] a brave new world tonight.

[26:13] >> Just a brief review of the main story

[26:15] tonight. At least 12 people killed in

[26:17] shootings that began at an office

[26:19] complex in Atlanta. Witnesses identified

[26:21] the gunman as a 44year-old day trader

[26:24] who did business in one of the

[26:26] buildings. Finding from us this evening,

[26:29] the little spacecraft that could could

[26:32] do almost everything. Fly itself a 100

[26:34] million miles on a journey so close to a

[26:37] tiny asteroid. Show NASA that there may

[26:39] be a whole new way to explore the solar

[26:42] system. There was just that one thing.

[26:46] Here's ABC's Bill Blakemore.

[26:49] >> Deep Space 1 is already a hero to its

[26:51] builders. The first craft ever to steer

[26:54] itself through space, it can read the

[26:56] stars to find its position. By last

[26:58] night, it had located a tiny asteroid as

[27:00] far from Earth as the Earth is from the

[27:02] Sun and flew within 9 miles of it. It

[27:05] also has a new kind of propulsion, an

[27:07] ion engine that thrusts tiny xenon

[27:09] particles out the back. so efficient it

[27:11] uses only two pounds of fuel a week.

[27:14] >> This is like having your car find its

[27:16] own way from Los Angeles to Washington

[27:18] DC, arrive in a designated parking

[27:21] space, and do it all while getting 300 m

[27:23] per gallon. Scientists did have a small

[27:25] embarrassment. They're not sure why, but

[27:27] they did not get good pictures of the

[27:29] asteroid. No matter, the main goal was

[27:31] to get close. Next, I'll ask it to fly

[27:33] past some comets to show how good a

[27:36] fleet of these pluckucky little robots

[27:38] could be at checking out our solar

[27:40] system. Bill Blakemore, ABC News.

[27:43] >> That is our report on World News

[27:44] Tonight. Tomorrow, why is NASA about to

[27:47] crash a satellite into the moon? Later

[27:50] this evening on Night Line, the latest

[27:52] on the shootings in Atlanta. I'm Peter

[27:54] Jennings. See you tomorrow, I hope. Good

[27:56] night.

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