CBS Evening News - 2002-10-25
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[0:03] Tonight's headlines: Plane crash kills
[0:06] Democratic Senator Paul Wellstone.
[0:08] First sniper charges are announced. New
[0:11] details of police missed opportunities
[0:14] to catch the snipers. Also tonight,
[0:17] Moscow terrorists set a deadline for
[0:19] killing hundreds of hostages. Inside the
[0:22] sniper case, an angry man and the boy he
[0:25] apparently controlled. And a close call
[0:28] at the plate for the littlest bat boy.
[0:36] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:39] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:42] headquarters in New York.
[0:44] >> Good evening. Democratic Senator Paul
[0:46] Wellstone of Minnesota died today in a
[0:48] plane crash just 11 days before the
[0:50] election. With Democrats controlling the
[0:53] US Senate by only a single vote,
[0:55] Wellstone's seat was considered vital
[0:57] and he was in one of the tightest races
[0:59] in the country. Democrats now are
[1:01] weighing options tonight. Former Vice
[1:03] President Walter Mondale's name is
[1:05] mentioned. But the political landscape
[1:08] became uncharted territory and control
[1:10] of the US Senate went even more up for
[1:12] grabs when Wellstone's plane crashed in
[1:15] northeast Minnesota. CBS's Bob Orr
[1:17] begins our coverage.
[1:19] >> Paul Wellstone, one of the Senate's
[1:20] leading liberal voices, his wife Sheila
[1:23] and daughter Marcia were flying to a
[1:25] funeral in upstate Minnesota when their
[1:27] chartered plane crashed in bad weather.
[1:30] The twin engine King Air 100, which had
[1:31] taken off from St. Paul, was preparing
[1:33] to land in Eveleth, Minnesota in light
[1:36] snow and freezing rain when contact with
[1:38] the plane was lost. It crashed in a
[1:41] marshy wooded area 2 miles short of