CBS Evening News - 1999-12-30
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[0:00] Jessica Barker on
[0:03] ET. Live from Time Square on the eve of
[0:06] the new millennium, a nationwide FBI
[0:09] roundup of people with suspected ties to
[0:12] terrorists. US officials say they've
[0:15] linked two people arrested along the
[0:17] Canadian border to the same terrorist
[0:19] group in Algeria. Fear of possible
[0:22] terrorism leads to air traffic tie-ups
[0:25] in Los Angeles. And an intruder stabs
[0:28] former beetle George Harrison in his
[0:31] home near
[0:33] [Music]
[0:35] London. This is the CBS Evening
[0:39] News with Dan Rather reporting tonight
[0:42] from Time Square in New York City.
[0:46] And this is a special Western edition.
[0:49] Good evening from the Great White Way.
[0:51] One of history's great New Year's Eve
[0:53] celebrations will be held right here in
[0:55] Time Square tomorrow night. There'll be
[0:56] big ones in Los Angeles and Las Vegas as
[0:59] well as the world officially welcomes
[1:01] the year 2000 with worldwide concerns
[1:04] about security. Here's the latest on the
[1:06] countdown. The FBI is questioning people
[1:09] coast to coast about possible terrorist
[1:12] connections. Prosecutors allege a man
[1:14] and a woman arrested recently along the
[1:16] Canadian border have links to the same
[1:19] Algerian terrorists. Final preparations
[1:22] are underway for big public Y2K parties
[1:24] under tight security. CBS's Jim Axelrod
[1:27] begins our coverage tonight with America
[1:30] ready to party but on alert. Jim. Dan.
[1:33] Late this afternoon, a man in Brooklyn
[1:35] was indicted in federal court. Charged
[1:37] as an accomplice of suspected terrorist
[1:39] Amed Rasam in Rasam's alleged effort to
[1:42] smuggle explosives into the United
[1:44] States.
[1:47] They have seen arrests bef