World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-24
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[0:00] 55 currently in Salem, dry there, 53 and
[0:02] dry in Redmond and 56 at this hour in
[0:05] the
[0:07] [Music]
[0:14] Dallas. On World News Tonight, the
[0:17] postmaster general says he cannot
[0:19] guarantee the mail is safe from anthrax.
[0:22] The post office scrambles to make it
[0:24] safer. When the mail is delayed, the
[0:27] effect on business. For the first time,
[0:30] we see inside one of the Taliban's caves
[0:33] very hard to get at even with a smart
[0:36] bomb. The world's fifth largest economy
[0:39] is in trouble. And that is
[0:41] California. And the cuttingedge
[0:43] technology that gets rid of anthrax.
[0:45] Will the government approve it for wider
[0:48] use?
[0:52] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:55] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:58] Peter Jennings. Good evening everyone.
[1:00] We begin this evening with the
[1:01] widespread uncertainty about the male.
[1:03] It was the postmaster general himself
[1:04] who said this morning that he could not
[1:06] guarantee the safety of the male. Now,
[1:09] there may only be the tiniest risk of
[1:11] anthrax for the vast majority of
[1:13] Americans, but in this environment, any
[1:16] fear about the mail and any disruption
[1:19] in the postal system simply has a
[1:21] magnified effect. We begin tonight with
[1:24] ABC's Brian Ross. Brian, Peter, federal
[1:26] agents continue the search with no
[1:28] apparent progress for whoever's
[1:30] responsible for these anthrax attacks.
[1:32] Attacks that have hit hard the US mails.
[1:36] The day began with more than 10,000
[1:38] postal workers on antibiotics and the
[1:40] postmaster general on national
[1:42] television with some disturbing words.
[1:45] There are no guarantees that that mail
[1:47] is safe. That's why we're