World News Tonight (ABC) - 2000-07-14
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[0:00] and Mike.
[0:01] [Music]
[0:04] On World News Tonight this Friday, the
[0:06] tobacco companies get hit again by a
[0:08] jury, $145 billion for selling a
[0:12] defective product and misrepresenting
[0:15] the risks of smoking. The Senate votes
[0:18] to phase out the inheritance tax. The
[0:21] election year question, who will
[0:23] benefit? On Bastile Day, the bond
[0:26] between American flyers of World War II
[0:29] and the French village near Paris. The
[0:32] stained glass windows are back. The town
[0:35] was so poor the people could not afford
[0:39] to uh put the windows in. Good morning,
[0:42] Lambie.
[0:44] And the farmer who says his animals run
[0:46] the farm. A 21st century life.
[0:56] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:59] York, this is World News Tonight with
[1:02] Peter Jennings. Good evening. In a
[1:04] Florida courtroom this afternoon where
[1:05] the country's tobacco companies had
[1:07] already been found guilty of
[1:08] misrepresenting a defective product. The
[1:11] jury came back in with the penalty they
[1:14] had in mind. The judge leaned over their
[1:16] decision and said, "There are a lot of
[1:18] zeros here." And then he read aloud the
[1:21] largest punitive damages award in
[1:23] history, $145 billion to Florida smokers
[1:27] who suffer or suffered before they died
[1:30] from smoking related illnesses. The
[1:32] jurors had been on the case for 2 years.
[1:34] ABC's Ron Clayborn is at the courthouse
[1:36] in Miami. Ron, it did not take them very
[1:38] long to make a decision, did it? No,
[1:40] Peter, not at all. In fact, probably the
[1:42] only surprising thing was just how fast
[1:44] that jury did come back. Less than 5
[1:47] hours. The jury had been expected to hit
[1:49] the tobacco companies har