World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-18

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-18
Uploaded: 2025-06-10
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[0:00] Uh, 60° in Yakima, and 54 up at Safeco

[0:04] Field. Great night for baseball. World

[0:06] News Tonight is coming up next. Stay

[0:08] tuned.

[0:18] On World News Tonight, there are three

[0:20] more cases of anthrax today, and the FBI

[0:23] thinks it has an important clue in one

[0:25] of them.

[0:26] The FBI needs to know more, and offers a

[0:29] million dollars for conclusive

[0:31] information.

[0:32] The Centers for Disease Control advises

[0:35] doctors to be alert for other diseases,

[0:37] including plague and smallpox.

[0:40] The big airlines try to improve their

[0:42] business with very different strategies.

[0:45] The low-cost carriers are doing quite

[0:47] well. And does patriotism move product?

[0:51] Some companies hope so.

[0:56] From ABC News world headquarters in New

[0:59] York,

[1:00] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[1:03] Jennings. Good evening, everyone. We

[1:04] begin this evening with what we know for

[1:06] certain about this spate of anthrax

[1:08] attacks. Seven people in the country now

[1:11] have anthrax and are being treated for

[1:13] it. There were three more cases today.

[1:16] Many more people have been exposed, and

[1:18] many of them are being treated as well.

[1:21] Anthrax has now turned up at all three

[1:23] of the major television networks. Today,

[1:26] it was CBS. Our first report is by ABC's

[1:29] Brian Ross.

[1:30] Brian. Peter, the new anthrax cases

[1:31] discovered today came as no real

[1:33] surprise to investigators, or the fact

[1:36] that they occurred at a post office in

[1:38] New Jersey, and at yet another network.

[1:42] This time, CBS and the assistant to

[1:44] anchorman Dan Rather, according to CBS

[1:47] News President Andrew Heyward. Uh, she

[1:49] had a little irritation on her skin,

[1:52] uh, w