NBC Nightly News - 1999-09-02

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[0:00] Friday on the scene at 6:00.

[0:03] Tail of the tape, explosive new evidence

[0:06] of what happened at Waco. Who really

[0:08] started the fire?

[0:10] Making the grade, everyone knows

[0:12] America's public schools need fixing.

[0:15] Tonight, George W. Bush's plan, can it

[0:17] work?

[0:19] In-depth tonight, troubled waters. The

[0:21] last big weekend of the summer, just how

[0:23] safe are America's beaches?

[0:26] And meet the new neighbors. What happens

[0:28] when the first couple picks a new White

[0:30] House?

[0:34] From NBC News world headquarters in New

[0:37] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:41] Brokaw. Substituting tonight, Jane

[0:44] Pauley.

[0:45] Good evening. Tonight, President Clinton

[0:47] says he is deeply concerned and wants a

[0:49] new independent investigation of what

[0:51] happened that fateful day six years ago

[0:54] in Waco, Texas. And who really started

[0:56] the fire that destroyed the Branch

[0:58] Davidian compound, killing 80 people, 20

[1:01] of them children. The fresh questions

[1:03] revolve around new revelations from the

[1:05] FBI, including a never-before-seen

[1:08] videotape. A tape that captured the

[1:10] moment a decision was made to use

[1:13] potentially flammable tear gas grenades

[1:16] hours before the deadly fire broke out.

[1:19] Here's NBC's Pete Williams.

[1:22] The new evidence comes from a videotape

[1:24] made by an infrared camera in an FBI

[1:26] plane circling over the Branch Davidian

[1:28] building that fateful day six years ago,

[1:30] the day of the deadly fire that broke

[1:32] out shortly after noon. But four and a

[1:34] half hours before the fire starts,

[1:36] according to a tape released tonight,

[1:38] FBI supervisors are heard discussing

[1:40] permission to fire heat-generating tear

[1:43] gas rounds. Are you saying we can

[1:45] penetrate the black covering over the

[1:47] construction on the green side? Simple

[1:50] copy, you can try it.

[1:52] Yeah, that's affirmative. The newly

[1:54] discovered tape reveals that the rounds

[1:56] were fired at an underground concrete

[1:58] bunker separate from the main wooden

[2:00] building. That's on the opposite side of

[2:02] the building from the spot where the

[2:03] fire is believed to have started. Proof

[2:05] says the former FBI negotiator at Waco

[2:07] that the tear gas rounds did not start

[2:09] the fire. Had nothing whatsoever to do

[2:12] with the eruption of three simultaneous

[2:14] fires in the wooden structure compound

[2:17] four and a half hours later.

[2:19] Nonetheless, the discovery is

[2:20] significant because for six years the

[2:22] FBI denied firing those kinds of rounds

[2:25] anywhere at Waco. But could they have

[2:27] started the fire if they had landed on

[2:29] the wooden building? An expert on

[2:31] military weapons says probably not, that

[2:33] the rounds get hot when they discharge

[2:35] the tear gas, but not dangerously so.

[2:37] Only if it landed on a piece of plywood

[2:39] or on a desktop or something like

[2:41] something akin to that on a solid

[2:43] surface,

[2:44] I would not expect that it would start a

[2:46] fire. Justice Department officials say

[2:48] the tape was discovered Saturday at the

[2:50] headquarters of the FBI's Hostage Rescue

[2:52] Team in nearby Virginia. But when the

[2:54] FBI told the Justice Department

[2:56] yesterday about what they found on the

[2:57] tape, officials were stunned. So upset

[3:00] to learn about yet more Waco evidence

[3:02] that they called in US Marshals to get

[3:04] the tape from the FBI, which is just

[3:06] across the street from the Justice

[3:07] Department. A public slap at the FBI.

[3:10] Another reason officials say that

[3:11] Attorney General Reno and FBI Director

[3:14] Free have concluded it will take an

[3:15] outside investigation to clear up what

[3:18] really happened that day in Waco, one of

[3:20] the darkest episodes in US law

[3:21] enforcement history. Pete Williams, NBC

[3:24] News, Washington.

[3:26] Now to the political campaign trail and

[3:28] Republican presidential frontrunner

[3:29] George W. Bush's first major policy

[3:32] speech. The topic, education reform. The

[3:35] proposals blunt, including one proposal

[3:37] to get rid of poorly performing public

[3:39] schools by taking away their money.

[3:42] Joining me now with more is NBC's David

[3:44] Bloom traveling with the Bush campaign

[3:46] in Los Angeles. David?

[3:48] Jane polls consistently show that

[3:49] education is the top priority of voters.

[3:52] Today, Texas Governor George W. Bush

[3:54] argued that his record on education is

[3:56] worthy of emulation. And it turns out,

[3:59] many educators disagree.

[4:02] One nation under

[4:05] Responding to critics who say they don't

[4:07] know what Bush stands for, who complain

[4:10] as Texans like to say he's all hat, no

[4:13] cattle, the Republican presidential

[4:15] frontrunner today called for a major

[4:17] overhaul of federal education policies,

[4:20] which Bush says, quotes, "Pay schools to

[4:23] cheat poor children." In my

[4:25] administration, federal money will no

[4:27] longer follow failure.

[4:30] Public funds must be spent on things

[4:33] that work. Bush says that if elected, he

[4:36] would require all states to test

[4:39] disadvantaged children and would cut off

[4:41] federal money to the worst public

[4:43] schools if test scores for minority and

[4:45] poor students do not improve. Now, some

[4:48] say it is unfair to hold disadvantaged

[4:51] children to rigorous standards.

[4:53] I say

[4:55] it is discrimin- discrimination to

[4:57] require anything less.

[4:59] The soft bigotry

[5:01] of low expectations.

[5:06] But even as the mostly Hispanic audience

[5:08] in Los Angeles applauds, President

[5:10] Clinton's education secretary attacks

[5:12] Bush's plan because it would allow some

[5:15] parents to send their children to

[5:16] private and parochial schools with

[5:18] public money. Vouchers drain

[5:22] badly needed tax dollars away from the

[5:25] public schools. But if the White House

[5:28] doesn't like Bush's plan, many educators

[5:31] do. One nation under God.

[5:34] In Texas schools such as Hacienda

[5:36] Heights Elementary in the poor border

[5:38] town of El Paso, test scores for

[5:40] underprivileged students are rising

[5:42] dramatically, earning the Republican

[5:44] governor praise from even liberal

[5:46] Democrats. I would match Texas'

[5:49] improvement in educating every single

[5:52] youngster against any other state.

[5:55] >> When you look at the data, which is what

[5:56] we do as an organization, you can't help

[5:58] but say

[6:00] he may be a Republican, but something

[6:02] very important is going on there. In

[6:05] fact, Bush's push for high standards and

[6:07] tough accountability means the gap

[6:09] between whites and minorities is closing

[6:11] faster in Texas than anywhere else in

[6:13] the country. I say that pigment and

[6:16] poverty need not determine performance.

[6:19] But it is Bush's scholarship plan,

[6:22] vouchers Democrats call it, that's

[6:24] likely to draw the most controversy.

[6:26] Today, Education Secretary Riley said it

[6:28] would amount to abandoning public

[6:30] schools. Jane?

[6:32] Thank you, David. The Vice President Al

[6:34] Gore also out campaigning today and

[6:36] apparently learning some hard lessons of

[6:38] his own about what works and what

[6:40] doesn't in the race for the White House.

[6:42] NBC's Claire Shipman tonight on the Gore

[6:44] campaign makeover, style and substance.

[6:48] Today in Boston, Al Gore on the

[6:50] environment.

[6:51] >> We caught a jellyfish.

[6:53] Announcing new protections for oceans

[6:55] and offering $5 million to strap New

[6:57] England fishermen. Yesterday in San

[7:00] Antonio, education on Bush's home turf.

[7:03] Both days, both events testing a new

[7:06] image for the Vice President. A more

[7:07] casual look, but insiders say there's

[7:10] more than just a fashion change here. In

[7:13] fact, the Gore camp says this is the

[7:15] second start of his campaign, a second

[7:17] chance to get on track. Former Clinton

[7:19] advisor David Gergen. The Vice President

[7:22] went back to his team about six weeks

[7:23] ago and said, "Gentlemen, this just

[7:25] isn't working." This was the Gore

[7:28] campaign of three months ago. After a

[7:30] big kickoff tripped up by gaffes and

[7:32] mistakes, including confusion over staff

[7:35] statements on his abortion policy and

[7:37] controversy over a canoe trip on a river

[7:40] with extra water pumped in to make it

[7:41] look better. In many ways, the smartest

[7:44] thing that Al Gore has done in the last

[7:46] several weeks is to get off the stage,

[7:48] take the production off the road, uh and

[7:51] rewrite the script. And here's the new

[7:53] script. No more talk of distancing

[7:55] himself from Clinton, stick with the

[7:58] popular president. Simplify the message,

[8:00] focus on the economy and working

[8:02] families. Working families depend on the

[8:06] public schools. A new style, casual, and

[8:10] if a suit is a must, out with blue and

[8:12] in with brown, which the staff thinks is

[8:14] warmer.

[8:15] Notes and podiums are gone, replaced by

[8:18] more informal settings like yesterday in

[8:20] San Antonio. Would you mind if I take my

[8:22] coat off?

[8:23] Perhaps most importantly, Gore is said

[8:26] to have given up micromanaging, leaving

[8:28] his campaign in the hands of his staff.

[8:31] But the team is still overwhelmingly

[8:33] cautious. So touchy about the reworked

[8:36] strategy, for example, no one would even

[8:38] talk about it publicly. One thing they

[8:41] do admit, their main focus right now is

[8:43] Bill Bradley, not Bush. I think they've

[8:46] underestimated Bradley from the

[8:47] beginning. And if Bradley can upset Gore

[8:51] in New Hampshire, he is ready with money

[8:54] and organization to go south. The hope

[8:56] that within a few months Gore's makeover

[8:59] will convince wavering Democrats that he

[9:01] is the best man to beat Bush because the

[9:04] Vice President may not get a third

[9:06] chance to introduce himself. Claire

[9:08] Shipman, NBC News, Boston.

[9:11] Up next, NBC News in-depth. As millions

[9:14] get ready for a long weekend at the

[9:16] beach, dangerous conditions, filthy

[9:18] water. We're on the eve of the 21st

[9:20] century, and yet at America's beaches,

[9:22] we still have what should have been a

[9:24] 19th century problem, untreated sewage

[9:27] at the beach in the water where it can

[9:29] make people sick. Is the beach safe for

[9:31] you and your family? The hazards you

[9:33] should know about, in-depth. And later,

[9:36] just call at the Westchester White House

[9:38] as the Clintons make a deal on a home in

[9:40] the New York suburbs. What are the

[9:42] neighbors saying?

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[9:49] Why?

[9:50] It gives you curly hair.

[9:52] If crust would let me kick a ball 50

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[10:11] For more than a hundred years with a

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[11:50] What we want to do is bring some actual

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[11:55] interesting, entertaining. I hope to be

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[12:02] >> Starting Tuesday on NBC.

[12:07] Tropical Storm Dennis is still stalled

[12:10] off the Carolina coast tonight, and

[12:12] officials now say the storm's lingering

[12:14] is actually doing more damage than a

[12:16] single hit from a hurricane would have

[12:18] done. Coastal flooding and sustained

[12:21] heavy surf is causing major beach

[12:22] erosion. And there's plenty of human

[12:25] misery besides ruined vacations. The

[12:28] National Guard had to fight its way

[12:29] through high water to bring military

[12:31] rations to residents of the barrier

[12:34] islands.

[12:35] Which brings us to our in-depth report

[12:37] tonight, serious trouble at the water's

[12:40] edge. What happens when the water is too

[12:42] dirty for you and your family to swim?

[12:45] There are more than 3,000 coastal

[12:47] beaches in this country, and they're

[12:48] America's number one vacation

[12:50] destination. But in a surprising number

[12:52] of communities, the coastal waters is so

[12:55] dirty they can be dangerous.

[12:57] What's going on? Our in-depth report

[12:59] tonight from NBC's Kelly O'Donnell.

[13:03] Huntington Beach, California, a two and

[13:06] a half mile stretch of summer reopened

[13:08] today, just in time for Labor Day

[13:10] weekend after a two month ban on

[13:12] swimming. Bacterial contamination making

[13:15] the ocean water unsafe. Tonight, one

[13:18] mile of the legendary beach still off

[13:20] limits. Around the country, beaches

[13:23] closed this vacation season in Key West,

[13:26] Chicago, and New Jersey. In Southern

[13:28] California, most of the summer America's

[13:31] Surf City deserted. It's devastating.

[13:34] It's they're very devastating to all of

[13:36] us.

[13:37] Instead of 30 or 40,000 beachgoers a

[13:39] day, just 2,000 and no swimming. The

[13:42] reason? High levels of enterococcus, an

[13:45] intestinal bacteria that can cause

[13:47] respiratory and flu-like illnesses. The

[13:50] source still unknown, but Huntington

[13:52] Beach spent half a million dollars

[13:54] searching for answers. One test, tossing

[13:57] oranges into a waterway to track the

[13:59] flow.

[14:00] Officials suspect a leak in the sewage

[14:02] system, or polluted storm drain runoff

[14:05] from around the city. This urban runoff

[14:07] is a toxic witch's brew. We never

[14:09] realized that until until this event

[14:12] took place. But environmentalists say

[14:14] it's all too common across the nation.

[14:17] 729 beaches closed at least one day last

[14:20] summer. In total, more than 7,000 beach

[14:23] days lost. The most closings, New

[14:26] Jersey, California, and Florida.

[14:28] We're on the eve of the 21st century,

[14:30] and yet at America's beaches, we still

[14:32] have what should have been a 19th

[14:34] century problem. Untreated sewage at the

[14:37] beach.

[14:39] How does sewage or bacteria get to the

[14:41] ocean in dangerous levels? One way

[14:43] experts say, aging sewer pipes leak,

[14:46] then untreated water mixes into the

[14:48] drainage system and heads right into the

[14:50] ocean.

[14:52] Critics complain not enough's being done

[14:53] to prevent the problem, in part because

[14:56] of complacency. People have come to

[14:58] expect, even accept, that some beaches

[15:01] will be closed some of the time.

[15:04] Undaunted, surfers only concerned about

[15:07] the next wave.

[15:09] As long as I don't see no raw sewage or

[15:10] anything flowing, I'm happy. I'll surf

[15:13] in anything.

[15:14] Less resilient, local business. Dwight's

[15:17] concession stand in the family three

[15:19] generations. Sales this summer off 75%.

[15:23] Just me and my partner. Everybody else

[15:25] we had to lay off.

[15:27] To entice visitors, parking fees slashed

[15:29] to $1. The biggest lure, a clean bill of

[15:32] health for the water. With much of the

[15:34] sand and surf reopened tonight,

[15:36] Huntington Beach hopes to restore public

[15:38] confidence and recapture a bit of

[15:40] summer.

[15:42] Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News, Huntington

[15:44] Beach.

[15:45] From water to fire, when we come back

[15:47] why many think those wildfires scorching

[15:50] earth in the west may not be such a bad

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[18:42] Firefighters in the west may finally be

[18:44] getting the upper hand tonight on the

[18:46] largest of those fires burning out of

[18:48] control. Lower temperatures and lighter

[18:50] winds in the San Bernardino National

[18:52] Forest have made it possible to set more

[18:54] backfires and gain ground in containing

[18:57] the huge Willow fire there. In all, a

[18:59] dozen fires still burn tonight in four

[19:02] western states. But what looks like a

[19:05] disaster may actually be good for

[19:07] nature. NBC's Roger O'Neil tonight.

[19:11] With fires still burning, with over 4.3

[19:14] million acres already blackened this

[19:16] fire season, it's hard to imagine this

[19:20] will replace the ashes as soon as

[19:22] spring.

[19:24] Few people today, from firefighters to

[19:25] those threatened, would agree fire is

[19:28] good. But it almost always is. Only you

[19:31] can prevent forest fires. Despite Smokey

[19:34] the Bear's 50-year-old admonition.

[19:38] Remember Yellowstone, devastated by fire

[19:41] in 1988, almost half the park affected.

[19:44] Now, a shining example of nature's

[19:46] ability to recover from fire. A wash in

[19:49] new growth, wildflowers, new trees, lush

[19:52] grasses. The park is alive with new

[19:54] animals, from small bugs to songbirds.

[19:57] Yellowstone, scientists say, is

[19:58] healthier today because of the fires.

[20:01] But why are today's fires so big, so

[20:03] destructive? Blame years of government

[20:06] policy which always tried to put fires

[20:08] out as quickly as possible, literally

[20:10] fueling today's fires. They're more

[20:13] intense because the fuel, the natural

[20:16] fuel, the limbs and the debris that

[20:18] would naturally would naturally have

[20:20] burned up is now there for wildfires to

[20:23] burn during the hot dry part of the of

[20:26] the year. Colorado, 1996, in Buffalo

[20:30] Creek, an all-consuming fire. Flames

[20:32] advanced 10 miles in just 6 hours.

[20:35] Officials say this is a perfect example

[20:37] why fire is needed to keep the floor of

[20:39] the forest clean.

[20:42] Getting rid of dead and dying timber by

[20:44] setting fire, called prescribed burns,

[20:47] to prevent the catastrophic fire like

[20:49] this one in Buffalo Creek, is now a top

[20:51] priority of government agencies. But

[20:53] after 50 years of total fire

[20:55] suppression, putting every fire out, it

[20:57] will take another 50 years just to catch

[20:59] up.

[21:00] Rex Alford, a government fire manager,

[21:02] says a checkerboard of small burned-out

[21:04] areas in a forest can actually help stop

[21:07] a wildfire. One thing it creates

[21:09] what we call patch dynamics, which is

[21:11] good for the ecosystem as a whole for

[21:13] the

[21:14] >> it breaks up that

[21:16] loaded forest of fuel that's ready to

[21:18] burn?

[21:20] Uh yes, it does that. And it's a lot

[21:22] less expensive than the $354 million

[21:25] already spent this year to fight

[21:27] wildfires in the West, San Francisco

[21:29] State's Tom Parker, biology professor. A

[21:32] lot of animals benefit from fire because

[21:34] the vegetation that comes up after fire

[21:36] is

[21:37] easier to consume and far more

[21:39] nutritious and a lot more abundant. When

[21:41] the fire and smoke clear, it's not

[21:43] pretty, but the blackened landscape is

[21:45] already recovering. In 5 to 10 years, a

[21:47] brand new forest. Roger O'Neil, NBC

[21:50] News, Denver.

[21:52] From the Centers for Disease Control

[21:54] tonight, this milestone on what used to

[21:56] be a common and serious childhood

[21:58] illness. The CDC reports the measles

[22:01] practically wiped out tonight in the

[22:03] United States. Just 100 cases last year,

[22:06] and most of those brought into this

[22:08] country from abroad.

[22:10] On Wall Street today, interest rate

[22:12] jitters were back in full force, sending

[22:14] the Dow down more than 200 points in

[22:16] early trading. But the blue chips

[22:18] managed to recover about half that,

[22:20] finishing down almost 95 points. The

[22:22] Nasdaq lost 16 and a half.

[22:25] Up next, the Clintons' New York house

[22:27] hunt is over. 11 rooms, a gym, a pool,

[22:30] and a mortgage.

[22:46] Finished?

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[25:17] Tonight at 6:00, he was nearly killed in

[25:19] a drunk driving accident, and now George

[25:21] Jones revisits the bridge where he

[25:23] almost died, but for an entirely

[25:25] unexpected reason. Find out why. And

[25:28] learn why an apparent snafu between

[25:29] state and federal officials may mean

[25:31] putting the brakes on dozens of road

[25:33] projects at 6:00.

[25:48] In the lovely, leafy, wealthy New York

[25:51] City suburb of Chappaqua, the talk of

[25:53] the town the past couple of weeks has

[25:55] been a real estate deal in the making.

[25:57] An out-of-town couple with a daughter in

[25:58] college looking to buy a nice property

[26:01] on a quiet cul-de-sac.

[26:03] It actually sounds pretty unremarkable

[26:05] unless the family happens to be the

[26:07] first family of the United States. And

[26:09] yes, tonight they have a deal.

[26:12] Here's NBC's Rehema Ellis.

[26:15] The rambling, 110-year-old Georgian

[26:17] Colonial the Clintons toured on Saturday

[26:19] in New York will be the next White House

[26:22] they call home. If she becomes a

[26:23] senator, I'll be I'll be the first

[26:25] neighbor.

[26:26] About an hour's drive north of New York

[26:29] City in a small, wealthy village called

[26:31] Chappaqua, and on a cul-de-sac on Old

[26:33] House Lane, this old house sold for $1.7

[26:37] million. While it's not 1600

[26:40] Pennsylvania Avenue, this is a lot of

[26:42] house. 5200 square feet, three stories,

[26:46] five bedrooms, four bathrooms, two

[26:49] fireplaces, a pool, and a two-car

[26:52] detached garage. Built just before the

[26:55] turn of the century in 1889.

[26:57] It sits on 1.1 acres with just enough

[27:01] space on the grounds for Secret Service

[27:03] quarters. When the Clintons move here,

[27:05] it will give them a New York State

[27:07] address, a requirement if Hillary

[27:09] Clinton makes a run for the Senate seat

[27:11] next year. In this village of 17,000,

[27:14] the Clintons may feel comfortable here

[27:16] politically. In Chappaqua, Democrats

[27:18] outnumber Republicans by about 1200

[27:21] voters.

[27:23] For the most part, people here seem to

[27:24] welcome the first family, but have some

[27:27] neighborly concerns. I certainly don't

[27:29] want helicopters over my kids' football

[27:30] practice. There's already traffic,

[27:33] visitors who want to see where the

[27:34] Clintons will live.

[27:36] Mark Tulanis, a former town supervisor,

[27:38] says village rules will apply to

[27:41] everyone. Just because he's a president

[27:43] or the ex-president doesn't mean he's

[27:44] not going to have to get his recycling

[27:45] out at 7:00 in the morning. Tonight, the

[27:47] Clintons have a new home and a new $1.3

[27:50] million loan. In a statement, they

[27:53] thanked the people who helped them find

[27:55] it. One unknown tonight, when they'll

[27:57] actually move in to number 15 Old House

[28:01] Lane. Rehema Ellis, NBC News, Chappaqua,

[28:04] New York.

[28:06] And that's Nightly News for Thursday.

[28:08] I'm Jane Pauley.

[28:10] Good night.

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