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[0:00] on tonight. Well, this night shooting,

[0:03] most Somali seem to be very grateful for

[0:06] Operation Restore Hope. They see it as a

[0:08] national rescue effort for this

[0:09] belleaguered nation. That's especially

[0:12] true for out

[0:16] living here in what is described as the

[0:18] relief community. NBC's Martin Fletcher

[0:20] has more on that tonight. This is

[0:22] exactly what the aid workers feared that

[0:24] with so many weapons in a tense

[0:26] situation, an accident was bound to

[0:28] happen. not helping their humanitarian

[0:30] mission but hindering it. The

[0:33] >> first reaction to the French killings.

[0:35] >> Their purpose here was to keep the

[0:36] peace, not to create a problem, which

[0:38] makes it very difficult for all us

[0:39] volunteers.

[0:40] >> In the camps where the victims of the

[0:42] famine survive on food aid, it's a

[0:44] different story.

[0:46] This feeding center registered 40 new

[0:49] arrivals today, 10 times more than last

[0:51] week. For them, Mogadishu so far is a

[0:54] place of hope. They come to Modisho,

[0:56] they think Americans and everybody who

[0:59] is in Modisho here, they will help them

[1:02] and it is more safer than the area that

[1:04] they come from. The

[1:06] >> people they like the Americans you get

[1:07] excitement so much it ended in a party.

[1:12] Yesterday this would have seemed so out

[1:14] of place in a feeding center. Today,

[1:16] well

[1:19] could this last week I asked an aid

[1:21] worker. He laughed. Forget it, he said.

[1:23] What was there to celebrate?

[1:26] And remember little fel we met him 3

[1:28] days ago. Then I said young fizel is in

[1:32] good hands but even they may not be good

[1:35] enough. Well today he's better. A little

[1:38] energy even sitting up. But he hadn't

[1:41] had his intravenous drip for 2 days and

[1:44] could die without it. Since the American

[1:46] landing, the foreign nursers haven't

[1:48] come to work. We went to find them

[1:50] before today's shooting. They've been

[1:52] ordered to stay home until it's safe.

[1:54] >> We would all like to get up this morning

[1:55] and gone out to our feeding centers, but

[1:58] we respect the fact that there may be

[2:00] dangers and it is it would be an

[2:03] international issue if aid workers were

[2:04] killed.

[2:05] >> Back to the camp, the Somalis were

[2:07] embarrassed by our questions and did

[2:09] what they should have done much earlier.

[2:12] A little tale which shows how much

[2:14] Somali still have to learn about looking

[2:16] after their own. Man fetch NBC News

[2:19] Madishu Somalia.

[2:21] >> I'll be back with more from Somalia.

[2:24] Somalia later in the program and Jane

[2:25] Paul will have more from New York. I'm

[2:27] Bill Clinton's new economic team in just

[2:29] a moment.

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[3:29] >> President-elect Clinton made his first

[3:31] cabinet appointments today,

[3:32] concentrating on the area that was also

[3:34] first priority during his campaign, the

[3:36] economy. And there was more encouraging

[3:39] news on that front today. Wholesale

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[3:44] the first drop in 10 months, driven in

[3:46] large part by the biggest drop in

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[3:51] Welcome news in Little Rock where NBC's

[3:53] Andrea Mitchell is with Bill Clinton.

[3:55] Andrea Jane, Bill Clinton campaigned as

[3:58] an agent of change. To lead that change,

[4:00] he's chosen an economic team headed by

[4:03] congressional leaders and Wall Street

[4:04] insiders.

[4:07] as Treasury Secretary, Senate Finance

[4:09] Chairman Lloyd Benson, courtly

[4:11] establishment and chosen largely for his

[4:13] ability to get Clinton's economic

[4:14] program through Congress. Post,

[4:16] >> I wanted someone who had the unique

[4:18] capacity to command the respect of Wall

[4:21] Street while showing an unrelenting

[4:24] concern for the Americans who make their

[4:26] living on Main Street.

[4:28] >> But Pensson is also a lifelong friend of

[4:31] special interests like the oil and gas

[4:32] industry. Not the kind of outsider

[4:34] likely to shake things up. I've heard

[4:36] all these stories about my being an

[4:38] insider. Let me tell you, I felt like an

[4:41] outsider for 12 years, and I'm tired of

[4:44] the gridlock.

[4:45] >> Benson's deputy will be former Carter

[4:47] official and Wall Street investment

[4:48] banker Roger Alman. As budget director,

[4:51] Clinton picked House Budget Chairman

[4:52] Leon Petta, a strong advocate of deficit

[4:55] reduction. During the campaign, Petta

[4:57] said Clinton's deficit plan didn't add

[4:59] up.

[5:00] >> Well, I'm going to give him a chance to

[5:01] teach me some math. I gave I gave

[5:06] I gave him the best arithmetic teaching

[5:08] job in America. You see,

[5:09] >> I think the first priority and I and I

[5:12] believe deeply that the governor shares

[5:13] this first priority is to develop a

[5:15] long-term deficit reduction plan

[5:18] combined with the kind of investments

[5:19] that have to be made within our own

[5:21] society.

[5:22] >> Panetta's deputy will be another

[5:23] hardliner on deficit reduction. Former

[5:26] Congressional Budget Office head Alice

[5:27] Rivlin. Clinton named Wall Street

[5:29] investment banker Robert Rubin, head of

[5:31] Goldman Sachs, to lead a new White House

[5:33] economic policy group. similar to the

[5:35] National Security Council, inevitably

[5:38] downgrading the long-standing Council of

[5:39] Economic Adviserss. And NBC News has

[5:42] learned that Clinton will name at least

[5:43] four more major appointments tomorrow.

[5:46] Laura Tyson, an economist at Berkeley to

[5:48] head the Council of Economic Adviserss,

[5:50] Harvard lecturer Robert Rich is

[5:52] Secretary of Labor, Florida

[5:54] Environmental Official Carol Browner to

[5:55] head the Environmental Protection

[5:57] Agency, and University of Wisconsin

[5:59] Chancellor Donna Shala to be Secretary

[6:01] of Health and Human Services. Clinton is

[6:03] known to be considering Joint Chiefs

[6:05] Chairman Coen Powell for Secretary of

[6:07] State. Powell said today he already has

[6:09] a job.

[6:10] >> I certainly think he's qualified to be

[6:12] Secretary of State.

[6:14] >> Clinton's proposed budget director said

[6:15] today that the middle class tax cut

[6:17] promised in the campaign would not be a

[6:19] top priority, but he said he would look

[6:21] for budget cuts everywhere, including in

[6:23] Social Security. Jane,

[6:26] >> thanks Andrea. Oregon Senator Bob

[6:28] Pacwood has struggled to limit the

[6:29] damage ever since years of rumors about

[6:32] his treatment of women exploded last

[6:34] month into front page charges of sexual

[6:36] harassment. Pacwood has expressed

[6:38] regret, admitted alcohol abuse,

[6:41] attempted to discredit his accusers.

[6:43] Today, Pacwood took a new tac. NBC's

[6:45] Lisa Meyers has more. Fighting for his

[6:48] political life, Pacwood said that after

[6:50] 18 days of reflection, he now knows that

[6:53] his unwanted sexual advances were wrong.

[6:56] Although most of these incidents are a

[6:58] decade or two decades old and no one's

[7:02] job or pay or status in the office was

[7:06] threatened, my conduct was still wrong.

[7:10] I just didn't get it. I do now.

[7:14] >> Pacwood was unable to explain how he

[7:16] could not realize that holding the woman

[7:18] down to kiss her or trying to pull off

[7:20] her clothes was wrong at the time. He

[7:22] did not dispute any of the allegations

[7:24] of the 10 women who accused him of

[7:26] sexual misconduct.

[7:26] >> Apology. I would like to meet with them

[7:28] personally and apologize that my conduct

[7:30] was wrong.

[7:31] >> But Pacwood did not apologize for or

[7:34] even discuss his previous attempt to

[7:36] discredit these women by digging up

[7:38] embarrassing personal and sexual

[7:39] information.

[7:40] >> I am not going to discuss the issue at

[7:42] all.

[7:43] >> That infuriated leaders of women's

[7:45] rights groups in Oregon, many of them

[7:46] Democrats. The fact that he continues to

[7:49] try and smear these women and refuses to

[7:51] take responsibility for that sends a

[7:53] very chilling message out.

[7:55] >> Pacwood's performance today did not

[7:57] quiet demands for his resignation.

[7:59] >> He still doesn't get it. And that's the

[8:01] message. He still doesn't get it.

[8:04] >> However, efforts by these women to force

[8:06] a recall of Pacwood face big obstacles.

[8:09] The fallback strategy is to force a

[8:11] referendum asking him to resign, hoping

[8:13] that the humiliation will make him quit.

[8:15] But Pacwood today seemed determined to

[8:17] tough it out.

[8:18] >> I am not going to resign under any

[8:20] circumstances.

[8:22] >> The Senate Ethics Committee already has

[8:23] begun an investigation and plans to take

[8:25] up Pacwood's case in January. When it

[8:28] does, the credibility of the entire

[8:30] Senate will be on the line. Lisa Meyers,

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[10:17] homeless, who have long suffered public

[10:20] indifference, are increasingly feeling

[10:22] the public's resentment and worse,

[10:24] physical abuse. On any given night, up

[10:26] to 700,000 people in shelters or just

[10:29] camped out on the streets. NBC's Robert

[10:32] Hager begins his report in Gastonia,

[10:34] North Carolina.

[10:36] >> The homeless. While some Americans are

[10:39] sympathetic, some are not. There's been

[10:41] backlash and occasionally it's turned

[10:43] ugly. As in Gastonia, North Carolina,

[10:46] Mayor Jick Garland. The police

[10:48] department reacted in a manner that

[10:51] would not be expected of law enforcement

[10:53] officers by pouring oil on them by

[10:57] sometimes I think maybe even striking

[11:00] them again some urinated on them.

[11:03] >> Ed Sanders says the police dumped oil on

[11:06] him.

[11:07] >> I had a bucket of oil. One of them just

[11:10] kept oil over my head. Johnny Smith says

[11:14] he still bears scars where the police

[11:17] beat him. And a street person named

[11:19] Chainsaw says this wall was splattered

[11:21] with warm cooking oil thrown by police.

[11:24] Much of which landed on a homeless man

[11:26] named Ben Hannah who reported it to an

[11:29] attorney. Two months later, Hannah's

[11:31] body was found a shotgun nearby. Local

[11:34] authorities called it a suicide. Now, 3

[11:37] years later, federal prosecutors charge

[11:39] a small group of Gastonia police

[11:41] actually formed a gang to systematically

[11:44] harass the homeless, pick them up in

[11:47] patrol cars, drive them around, and

[11:49] terrorize and beat them. The city has

[11:51] already paid nearly $100,000 to the

[11:54] homeless to settle a civil suit. Now,

[11:57] four officers have pleaded guilty to

[11:59] criminal charges, and three more go on

[12:02] trial Monday. Attorney James Ferguson

[12:04] represents some of the homeless.

[12:06] >> This was the outrage of outrages

[12:10] because the purpose of the police is to

[12:14] protect the citizens. The police chose

[12:18] the very people that they should have

[12:20] been helping to harm them.

[12:23] >> Many in Gastonia disagree. The mayor

[12:26] doesn't defend the police conduct, but

[12:28] he is critical of some homeless. The

[12:30] street people are people who generally

[12:33] want to be where they are.

[12:35] >> Gastonia resident Gary Johnson.

[12:37] >> If I'd been there when the police

[12:38] officers done, I'd give them another

[12:40] bottle of oil if you want to know the

[12:41] truth. I mean, you know, I have no

[12:43] sympathy for these guys.

[12:44] >> Nationally, there is growing hostility

[12:46] and violence against the homeless. Near

[12:49] Fort Myers, Florida, two years ago,

[12:51] police raided a homeless camp, burning

[12:53] everything they could and bulldozing the

[12:55] rest. In New York City, this homeless

[12:58] man was night and an arsonist burned

[13:00] down the shanty town. 16 New York

[13:03] homeless have been set a fire this year,

[13:05] mostly by teenage gangs. Four died. When

[13:09] violence does occur, the homeless are

[13:11] urged to report it, but one research

[13:13] group says they're afraid. Many are in

[13:15] fear

[13:17] um and believe that there will be

[13:19] retaliation by police. In fact, the

[13:22] message that we want to get across to

[13:23] street people is that we want them to

[13:26] complain.

[13:27] >> In Gastonia, someone did complain and

[13:29] now police officers are about to stand

[13:32] trial. Robert Hager, NBC News,

[13:34] Washington.

[13:36] >> More news and John Chancellor's

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[15:43] >> Now, a check of some of today's other

[15:45] news. Russian President Boris Yelson

[15:47] taking parliamentary opposition headon,

[15:49] calling for a national referendum to let

[15:51] the public decide who should rule,

[15:54] accusing hardliners of inviting civil

[15:56] war. In Florida, end of the line for 100

[15:59] more Haitians rescued before dawn when

[16:02] their wooden freighter ran ground. The

[16:04] Coast Guard has picked up some 31,000

[16:06] refugees this year, most sent back.

[16:10] Far from sunny Florida, weather is a

[16:12] problem. Snow in Wisconsin and Illinois,

[16:15] up to 8 in in some places, and miserable

[16:18] conditions in parts of Pennsylvania,

[16:20] snarling highway traffic, closing most

[16:22] schools. John Chancellor is here now

[16:25] with some thoughts about President-elect

[16:26] Clinton's appointments. John,

[16:28] >> Jane, lots of jobs for women in the

[16:31] Clinton administration, but what is Mrs.

[16:34] Clinton going to do? I thought, give her

[16:36] a job in government. Hillary Clinton is

[16:39] a respected lawyer and an expert on the

[16:41] legal rights of children. She is

[16:43] certainly qualified to serve in a subc

[16:45] cabinet position. She could be confirmed

[16:47] as an assistant attorney general. Sorry,

[16:50] wrong. Can't be done. forbidden by the

[16:53] Bobby Kennedy law. When John F. Kennedy

[16:56] made his brother Robert attorney

[16:57] general, a lot of people didn't like

[16:59] that. After President Kennedy died, the

[17:01] Congress passed a law making it illegal

[17:04] for a president to give any kind of

[17:06] salaried government job to a relative.

[17:09] Reminds me of the 22nd amendment to the

[17:11] constitution. Franklin Roosevelt was

[17:14] elected president four times. After he

[17:16] died, the Republicans got the

[17:18] Constitution amended to limit a

[17:20] president to only two terms. The 22nd

[17:23] Amendment and the Bobby Kennedy Law are

[17:25] wrong in my view because they're based

[17:27] on revenge. The law leaves Hillary

[17:30] Clinton in limbo. She has advised her

[17:32] husband for on policy decisions for 20

[17:35] years, and she certainly will continue

[17:37] to do that. But the law makes her a kind

[17:39] of my Eisenhower or Best Truman, only a

[17:42] pillow talk counselor to the president.

[17:45] Too bad the three out of four mothers of

[17:48] Mrs. Clinton's age go to work every day.

[17:51] If we had a working couple in the White

[17:53] House, it would reflect the way

[17:54] Americans live. But that is impossible

[17:57] now because of a 25-year-old law based

[18:00] on revenge. Jane,

[18:02] >> thanks, John. Maybe you've noticed it's

[18:04] beginning to look a lot like Christmas.

[18:06] In Washington this evening, an American

[18:08] tradition, President and Mrs. Bush

[18:10] presided over the lighting of the

[18:12] National Christmas Tree. This year, a 38

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[18:17] south of the White House.

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[20:24] >> Back now from the airport at Mogadishu,

[20:26] Somalia, a country that has become the

[20:29] world's favorite charity case during

[20:30] this Christmas season. Ironically,

[20:32] Operation Restore Hope was launched just

[20:35] as American charities were struggling to

[20:37] raise money, raising far less than they

[20:39] did during the boom years of the 1980s.

[20:41] But Operation Restore Hope has changed

[20:43] the climate. NBC's Mike Jensen tonight.

[20:47] >> Good afternoon. care. May I help you?

[20:52] >> Okay. Uh, did you want to make a check

[20:54] or make a credit card contribution?

[20:56] >> Until this week, the relief agencies

[20:58] were having a terrible time getting

[21:01] contributions for Somalia.

[21:03] >> Our agencies had raised approximately

[21:06] 10% of what they raised for the 8485

[21:09] Ethiopia famine. We were concerned that

[21:12] with a a media message being that food

[21:15] was not getting out where it was needed

[21:17] to go and that the ports were full of of

[21:21] unloaded ships that people would stop

[21:23] giving.

[21:24] >> Then the Marines landed and the phone

[21:26] banks came to life.

[21:29] >> You would like to give a one-time gift

[21:30] for Somalia?

[21:32] Care rushed into print an expensive

[21:34] advertising campaign reassuring people

[21:37] that their money would be put to good

[21:39] use with dramatic results. According to

[21:42] John Moracker, John, you spent $100,000

[21:45] on full page ads in five major

[21:48] newspapers. What kind of response have

[21:50] you gotten from that?

[21:51] >> Well, we're making about $10,000 a day

[21:53] from telephone calls and about the same

[21:55] thing per day from mail response. And

[21:57] what would you anticipate being the

[21:59] total amount you'll make from that

[22:01] $100,000 investment?

[22:02] >> We'll clear uh $400,000 and take

[22:05] expenses out of that.

[22:07] >> This flurry will last a few weeks and

[22:09] then donors will move on to some other

[22:11] charity. The latest crisis gets the

[22:14] cash. Meanwhile, even relief agencies

[22:17] that have nothing to do with Somalia are

[22:20] doing quite well. Partly because of the

[22:23] season, people feel charitable at

[22:25] Christmas. Also, contributions made

[22:28] before January 1st are deductible on

[22:30] this year's tax return.

[22:33] So, donations are up. The Salvation Army

[22:36] expects to take in $10 million more this

[22:39] year than last year. And it's a good

[22:42] thing because even in this country,

[22:44] people are hurting. As for Somalia, this

[22:47] food in New Orleans will soon be on its

[22:49] way. Financed by generous Americans with

[22:53] delivery guaranteed by the US Marines.

[22:56] Mike Jensen, NBC News, New York.

[23:00] >> And Jane, tomorrow we do expect the

[23:02] first convoys to leave the city with

[23:04] military escorts from the United States

[23:06] heading for the interior where the need

[23:07] is especially great. And there will be

[23:09] an important political meeting tomorrow

[23:10] between the two major warlords and

[23:12] Robert Oakley who is President Bush's

[23:14] special representative here. We don't

[23:16] know what impact tonight's shooting may

[23:17] have on all of that. Well, Tom, from a

[23:19] personal point of view there in

[23:20] Mogadishu, is your anxiety level and

[23:23] I've which would match everyone else's I

[23:27] would think marketkedly less than it was

[23:29] before the uh troops arrived.

[23:32] Uh it's a different kind of situation

[23:34] now. Before it was very dangerous. There

[23:36] were lots of guns around. But tonight we

[23:38] did put on flack jackets when we moved

[23:40] across the city to try to meet with one

[23:41] of the warlords and he wouldn't see us

[23:43] which was unusual. Well, that's nightly

[23:45] news for this Thursday night. I'm Tom

[23:47] Broka in Somalia. I'll see you from here

[23:50] again tomorrow night.

[24:00] >> She's being watched.

[24:01] >> You think somebody is stalking me

[24:02] >> by an admirer? Another package. Where'd

[24:04] you get this?

[24:05] >> Who's getting out of control?

[24:07] >> Why are you doing this to me?

[24:10] >> She's a new attorney.

[24:12] >> Welcome to Mackenzie Breman

[24:13] >> who wants to be in control. How'd you

[24:15] bamboozle your way into this job?

[24:17] >> All new LA Law NBC tonight.

[24:19] >> Tomorrow morning on Today, the latest

[24:21] from Somalia with Tom Bro reporting

[24:23] live. Plus Tom Cruz from A Few Good Men

[24:25] and the music of Harry Kic.