World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-09-21

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-09-21
Uploaded: 2025-03-14
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Read a transcript preview of “World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-09-21” from malgent, uploaded on 2025-03-14.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] It's a 64 up there in Seattle, 74 kind

[0:02] of warm and nice out here in Portland,

[0:04] 77 in Salem, and 80° in Eugene, and no

[0:06] rain in the forecast through tonight,

[0:08] through tomorrow, and through Sunday.

[0:10] Enjoy your weekend. World News Tonight

[0:12] is next.

[0:25] On World News Tonight, two men charged

[0:27] with murder in the Trade Towers attack.

[0:30] The German police say they have the

[0:32] evidence. The Taliban in Afghanistan say

[0:35] they will not surrender to the

[0:37] president's threats.

[0:38] The president's new office of Homeland

[0:40] Security, what will it do?

[0:43] The telephone operator who heard it

[0:45] firsthand from the man on Flight 93.

[0:48] And the need to see what happened at

[0:51] ground zero

[0:52] in person.

[0:57] From ABC News world headquarters in New

[1:00] York,

[1:01] this is World News Tonight with Peter

[1:04] Jennings. Good evening, everyone. It is

[1:06] less than 24 hours since the president

[1:08] told the world that America was now a

[1:10] country awakened to danger and called to

[1:13] defend freedom. The public has told our

[1:15] polling unit by two to one they approve

[1:17] of a war against terrorism and

[1:19] overwhelmingly the public believes that

[1:21] inaction is the greater peril. Today,

[1:24] the campaign against terrorists may have

[1:26] produced some results overseas. ABC's

[1:29] Brian Ross is with us tonight. Brian,

[1:31] first of all, talk about France. Peter,

[1:33] authorities say today was a good day for

[1:35] them and a bad day for terrorist. They

[1:37] believe they have disrupted yet another

[1:39] airborne assault on US interests. This

[1:42] time, the American Embassy in Paris.

[1:45] French authorities overnight and

[1:46] pre-dawn raids took into custody se