World News (ABC) - 2006-11-17
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[0:29] British forces launch a search and
[0:31] rescue mission to save American
[0:33] civilians kidnapped in Iraq. History
[0:36] lesson. President Bush takes his first
[0:38] trip to Vietnam. He says lessons from
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[1:01] >> From ABC News headquarters, this is
[1:04] World News with Charles Gibson.
[1:07] Reporting tonight, Elizabeth Vargas.
[1:10] >> Good evening. In Iraq tonight, there is
[1:12] an urgent search and rescue mission
[1:13] unfolding to save a group of kidnapped
[1:16] American civilians. They are among 14
[1:18] contract workers abducted when they
[1:20] stopped at a fake checkpoint in the
[1:22] south yesterday afternoon. It is a
[1:24] harrowing reminder that US troops aren't
[1:26] the only ones facing danger in Iraq.
[1:29] More than 600 private contractors are
[1:31] believed to have been killed there,
[1:33] including at least 151 Americans. Our
[1:36] national security correspondent,
[1:38] Jonathan Carl, first broke the story of
[1:40] this latest kidnapping last night, and
[1:42] he joins us now with new details on the
[1:44] hunt to find them. Jonathan
[1:46] >> Elizabeth, American and British forces
[1:48] are conducting operations near the site
[1:50] of that brazen hijacking. Earlier today,
[1:53] they killed two people believed to have
[1:56] been involved, but they have still found
[1:58] no sign of those missing Americans. A
[2:00] senior military official tells ABC News
[2:03] Shiite militia men tied to anti-American
[2:06] cleric Makta al-Sader were behind the
[2:08] ambush and that they were wearing newly
[2:10] issued Iraqi police uniforms, the kind
[2:13] that are supposed to be tightly
[2:15] controlled and hard to duplicate. ABC
[2:18] News has also learned new details about
[2:20] the attack. It happened in broad
[2:21] daylight on one of the main highways in
[2:23] southern Iraq. A convoy 49 vehicles long
[2:27] was forced to stop at what appeared to
[2:29] be an Iraqi police checkpoint. When a
[2:31] coalition patrol drove up, the hijackers
[2:33] sped away, taking 19 large trucks, one
[2:36] security vehicle, and the 14 hostages
[2:39] with them. Paul Rubin, a retired police
[2:42] officer from Minnesota, is among the
[2:43] four Americans captured.
[2:45] >> Put him in your prayers, and we just
[2:47] want him back. And we want everyone over
[2:49] there uh back. F.
[2:53] GOD DAMN.
[2:55] >> INCREASINGLY, convoys have become prey
[2:57] for hijackers.
[2:58] >> I AM DOWN.
[3:00] >> THIS video was shot by a truck driver
[3:02] last year during an ambush.
[3:04] >> I'M TAKING FIRE. 104, COME BACK.
[3:06] >> He was shot and left for dead on the
[3:08] side of the road. To western
[3:10] contractors, just the sight of an Iraqi
[3:13] checkpoint can be horrifying because
[3:15] they never know what to expect.
[3:17] >> It is the wild, wild west. Lots of white
[3:19] knuckled clinch fist. uh you'd actually
[3:24] be sweating. It uh you know, your nerves
[3:27] would be right on edge and then soon as
[3:28] you cleared it, you'd breathe easy
[3:30] again. There are an estimated 80,000
[3:33] contractors in Iraq, lured by large
[3:35] tax-free salaries, but often with little
[3:38] protection.
[3:41] Military officials tell ABC News that
[3:43] some of the vehicles have been
[3:44] recovered, but there's been no sign, no
[3:46] word from those missing Americans. Their
[3:49] company, the Crescent Security Group
[3:51] says there has been no demands for
[3:52] ransom, no claim of responsibility. In
[3:55] fact, Elizabeth, no communication of any
[3:57] kind from the hijackers.
[3:59] >> Not a good sign as of yet. Jonathan Carl
[4:01] at the Pentagon. Thank you. The war in
[4:03] Iraq shadowed President Bush today
[4:04] during his visit to Vietnam. The second
[4:06] stop in his trip to Asia. The US of
[4:09] course fought a long and unpopular war
[4:11] in Vietnam. A war that has drawn
[4:13] comparisons to America's experience in
[4:15] Iraq. Our chief White House
[4:17] correspondent, Martha Ratitz, is
[4:19] traveling with the president. She joins
[4:21] us now from Hanoi where it is now
[4:22] Saturday morning. And Martha,
[4:25] Elizabeth, this visit has really become
[4:27] a story of two wars. The war the US is
[4:30] involved in now in Iraq and the war it
[4:33] was involved in more than 30 years ago.
[4:37] The president was greeted as a friend of
[4:39] Vietnam. Today,
[4:42] promoting capitalism and trade in a
[4:45] country which fell to communism in 1975.
[4:49] Tonight, at a state dinner, the
[4:51] president toasted his communist hosts.
[4:53] >> For decades, he was gone torn torn apart
[4:56] by war. And today, the Vietnamese people
[4:59] are at peace. One of the first things
[5:00] the president saw on his drive into
[5:03] Hanoi today was the lake where Senator
[5:06] John McCain was captured after his
[5:08] aircraft was struck by a missile during
[5:10] the war.
[5:10] >> He's suffered a lot as a result of his
[5:14] imprisonment and uh he was literally
[5:17] saved in in one way by the people
[5:19] pulling him out.
[5:20] >> George Bush is only the second US
[5:22] president to visit Vietnam since the war
[5:24] ended in 1975. Bill Clinton was the
[5:27] first. But for President Bush, the
[5:29] comparisons to his own war in Iraq were
[5:32] inevitable. President Bush was asked
[5:35] today if there are lessons to be learned
[5:37] in Iraq from the Vietnam experience.
[5:40] >> One lesson is is that we tend to uh want
[5:43] there to be instant success in the world
[5:46] and the the task in Iraq is going to
[5:49] take a while. We'll succeed unless we
[5:51] quit. Chuck Cersei, a Vietnam vet, runs
[5:55] the Vietnam Memorial Fund here in Hanoi,
[5:57] an organization that honors the memory
[6:00] of US vets.
[6:01] >> The Vietnamese actually feel some
[6:03] sadness, I think, for Americans that we
[6:06] again find ourselves in a very difficult
[6:09] uh dilemma. They really feel kind of
[6:11] sorry for us.
[6:12] >> We spoke to Nwen Duo, a former Vietkong
[6:15] soldier who says the two wars should not
[6:18] be compared.
[6:21] The US was trying to overthrow the
[6:23] government in Vietnam. He said in Iraq,
[6:26] the US is trying to help.
[6:29] >> Later today, the president will visit a
[6:31] PM MIA command center. Elizabeth, there
[6:34] are still 1,800 military personnel who
[6:37] are unaccounted for here.
[6:39] >> Martha Ratitz reporting live from
[6:40] Vietnam tonight. Thank you. Back in this
[6:42] country, there is late medical news
[6:44] concerning controversial silicone breast
[6:46] implants. You may remember they were
[6:48] pulled off the market more than a decade
[6:50] ago over concerns they could be
[6:51] dangerous. Major lawsuits followed
[6:54] driving a major implant manufacturer
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[6:59] enlargement is one of the most popular
[7:01] cosmetic surgeries in the United States.
[7:03] 300,000 women underwent the procedure
[7:06] last year. ABC's Lisa Stark joins us now
[7:08] with more on the government's
[7:10] announcement late today. Lisa
[7:12] >> Elizabeth, this has been a lengthy and
[7:14] emotional debate, but tonight the FDA
[7:16] has determined that silicone gel breast
[7:19] implants can go back on the market for
[7:22] widespread use. The FDA has been
[7:25] wrestling with this decision for more
[7:26] than 3 years. Tonight, the agency says
[7:29] its concerns have been answered.
[7:31] >> We're making this decision based on the
[7:33] extensive amount of data that we've
[7:35] collected on these products and because
[7:37] we've determined that they are safe and
[7:38] effective. The FDA banned most silicone
[7:41] implants in 1992 due to safety concerns.
[7:45] Reports that ruptured implants and
[7:47] leaking silicone could lead to cancer,
[7:49] autoimmune disease, connective tissue
[7:51] disorders. Proponents argued and the FDA
[7:54] today agreed that these risks have never
[7:57] been proven conclusively.
[7:59] >> We have listened to exhaustive studies.
[8:01] We have read reams of paperwork and it's
[8:04] time for science to take back over here
[8:07] where um emotion has run rampant in the
[8:09] past.
[8:10] >> Silicone implants have been available to
[8:12] women undergoing reconstructive surgery
[8:14] after breast cancer. Today's move allows
[8:17] their use for women such as Denise
[8:19] Partardu for breast enlargements. These
[8:22] women had been limited to saline
[8:24] implants. Partardu will now switch her
[8:27] saline for silicone. I've gotten an
[8:30] opportunity to feel them and actually
[8:32] look at them and they just feel and look
[8:34] so much more natural to me.
[8:36] >> Opponents denounced the FDA's move.
[8:39] >> This decision is really a low point for
[8:41] the FDA. It really tarnishes their image
[8:44] to approve a product that has not been
[8:47] proven safe for long-term use. But
[8:51] tonight, that position lost out. The FDA
[8:54] did say it will require the implant
[8:56] manufacturers to conduct extensive
[8:58] safety studies to follow 40,000 women
[9:01] for 10 years and it's urging women who
[9:04] get the implants to get MRIs on a
[9:06] regular basis to make sure the implants
[9:08] have not ruptured. Elizabeth
[9:10] >> Lisa, how does today's announcement
[9:12] affect all those lawsuits we mentioned
[9:13] in the intro? All those huge claims that
[9:16] were awarded. It doesn't affect them,
[9:18] but we should say there are still
[9:20] hundreds of outstanding claims and there
[9:22] is a trust that's been set up to pay and
[9:24] it could approach $2.5 billion dollar.
[9:27] >> All right, Lisa Stark, thank you. In
[9:30] Regalwood, North Carolina, the painful
[9:32] process of recovery from devastation
[9:34] begins today. Regalwood is the tiny
[9:36] community where eight people were killed
[9:38] by a tornado yesterday morning. Today,
[9:40] the National Weather Service classified
[9:42] the storm as a strong category F3
[9:44] tornado with winds approaching 200 m an
[9:48] hour. It left behind a mile long path of
[9:51] destruction. ABC's Mike von Friend is
[9:54] there.
[9:55] >> That's total destruction.
[9:57] >> The sky that was so terrifying yesterday
[9:59] was pristine and blue this afternoon as
[10:02] survivors returned to salvage what they
[10:04] could.
[10:05] >> It's amazing. I made it through it. It
[10:08] was a blessing. Martin Brown was by
[10:11] himself as the tornado slashed through
[10:13] his front door. He says he dove for
[10:15] cover underneath his kitchen table.
[10:17] >> I'm going to put my table back together.
[10:20] That table saved my life and I'm going
[10:23] to restore it. I'm going to keep that.
[10:25] >> The flag at the one elementary school
[10:27] here now flies at half staff. Two
[10:29] children died, five others were injured.
[10:32] The principal is offering comfort to a
[10:34] grieving community. Really, you tell
[10:36] children that it's okay to hurt and that
[10:39] we all suffer loss and we don't
[10:41] understand loss, but it's it's okay to
[10:45] hurt and it's good to grieve.
[10:47] >> The governor took a helicopter tour of
[10:49] the devastation. He says help is on the
[10:52] way.
[10:52] >> We're going to do everything we can to
[10:55] try and make folks whole as soon as
[10:57] possible to try and disrupt their lives
[10:59] as little as possible. Try to keep the
[11:00] kids in school. Try to keep people
[11:02] working. But getting this community back
[11:05] to normal will not be easy. The
[11:07] devastation is overwhelming and today
[11:09] many people told us they are afraid.
[11:11] >> I'm kind of scared of a trailer. To see
[11:14] that trailer go through all of that is
[11:16] scary to know something so heavy can
[11:18] move so easy.
[11:19] >> Yesterday's warning from the weather
[11:21] service was of little help because this
[11:23] community has no tornado siren. Today
[11:26] officials promised to try to change
[11:28] that. Mike von ABC News Regalwood, North
[11:31] Carolina.
[11:33] And still ahead, the dark secret about
[11:35] one of the most glamorous cities. How
[11:37] the workers are being cheated and
[11:39] abused. Brian Ross investigates.
[11:42] The growing ranks of doctors who refuse
[11:44] to help some patients. They say they're
[11:46] following their faith. Our series
[11:48] Medicine and the Culture War. And the
[11:51] beauty queen exchanging her gown for a
[11:54] combat gear. She's our person of the
[11:56] week.
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[14:08] We're talking about Dubai, an oasis of
[14:10] oil wealth. This week, the group Human
[14:12] Rights Watch said the people building
[14:14] Dubai have been systematically cheated
[14:16] and abused. And the government has been
[14:19] looking the other way. Our chief
[14:21] investigative correspondent, Brian Ross,
[14:23] has just returned from Dubai.
[14:26] >> This is Dubai's architectural showpiece.
[14:29] The world's tallest and some say most
[14:31] luxurious hotel. Like much of this
[14:33] Persian Gulf city, over the top.
[14:35] >> If it looks like gold, it is gold.
[14:38] >> In less than a decade, Dubai has gone
[14:40] from desert town to boom town with
[14:42] hundreds of new skyscrapers going up,
[14:44] including what will be the world's
[14:46] tallest building.
[14:48] All being built, it turns out, by
[14:50] workers who on average make less than a
[14:52] dollar an hour.
[14:53] >> That is how these new fancy buildings
[14:55] are being built.
[14:56] >> Behind the glitz of Dubai are some
[14:58] 500,000 foreign workers who human rights
[15:01] groups say live in virtual enslavement.
[15:04] >> It's clear that workers are being
[15:06] abused.
[15:06] >> Most live in labor camps an hour outside
[15:08] the city. Six to eight, sometimes 12 to
[15:11] a room. What even the government says is
[15:14] an embarrassment. I think some of them
[15:16] are not bad and I think some of them are
[15:18] very bad.
[15:19] >> Is Dubai proud of that?
[15:20] >> No. No, of course not. We have
[15:22] >> Why do you allow it to continue?
[15:23] >> Because like any any city, any any
[15:25] country, we of course have growing
[15:28] pains.
[15:30] >> Growing pains being felt mostly by the
[15:32] men doing the hard work. Many have their
[15:34] meager wages withheld by contractors so
[15:36] they won't run away. And given the
[15:38] 24-hour pace of construction, Human
[15:40] Rights Watch says there have been
[15:42] hundreds of deaths as the men have been
[15:44] crushed by machinery or fallen off those
[15:46] soaring skyscrapers.
[15:48] >> A really disturbing report, and you'll
[15:49] have more on that report tonight on
[15:51] 2020.
[15:51] >> That's right.
[15:52] >> All right, Brian. Thank you. Well, one
[15:54] of the legendary college football
[15:55] coaches has died. Bo Shambckler was of
[15:58] Michigan died a day before number two
[16:00] ranked Michigan faces off against
[16:02] topranked Ohio State. It is one of the
[16:05] most anticipated college football games
[16:07] ever.
[16:09] >> Bo Sheckler used to call the Michigan
[16:11] Ohio State rivalry everything I lived
[16:14] for. Buckeyes against Wolverines.
[16:17] Sheckler coached Michigan for 21
[16:19] seasons, winning 13 Big 10 titles. His
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[16:25] and Shemckler coached the same way.
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[16:36] Michigan's battles against Ohio State
[16:38] and coach Woody Hayes, once
[16:40] Shambbeckler's mentor. She Beckler, who
[16:43] coached last in 1989, was taping a
[16:46] pregame show today when he collapsed and
[16:49] died. At Michigan, flowers were left at
[16:52] Sheambeckler Hall. The university's
[16:54] president called the death an
[16:56] irreplaceable loss. Bo Sheambeckler was
[16:59] 77 years old. When we return, doctors
[17:02] who turned their patients away in the
[17:05] name of faith and morals. Our series
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[20:00] >> We turn now to our series on the
[20:02] collision between medicine and faith in
[20:04] America. As we noted last night, this
[20:06] can mean pharmacists refusing to fill
[20:08] birth control prescriptions or clinics
[20:10] opposing abortions setting up next to
[20:13] those that provide them. Tonight,
[20:15] doctors who cite their faith when they
[20:16] refuse to provide some services for
[20:18] their patients. ABC's Dan Harris has
[20:21] part two of medicine and the culture
[20:23] war.
[20:25] >> After Tara Harish was raped outside her
[20:27] home in rural Pennsylvania, she says she
[20:30] was victimized again at this hospital.
[20:33] She was refused the morning after pill,
[20:35] emergency contraception, because her
[20:37] doctor, Martin Gish, said it violated
[20:40] his religious beliefs. Harish had to go
[20:42] to another doctor for the prescription.
[20:45] >> Who wants to carry their rapist baby
[20:46] really? Like, who wants to do that?
[20:49] >> Dr. Gish would not grant us an
[20:50] interview, but he did tell a local
[20:52] newspaper that this case created a
[20:54] dilemma for him. Who are you more
[20:55] concerned about? He asked, "The mother
[20:57] or the life that was possibly created?"
[21:00] Dr. Dr. Cynthia Jones Noichek supports
[21:02] Gish's decision. She is part of an
[21:05] increasingly vocal group of Christian
[21:07] doctors who refuse to provide abortions,
[21:10] sterilizations, even contraception. They
[21:12] call themselves conscientious objectors.
[21:15] >> I think a doctor should have the right
[21:19] uh not to be forced to practice medicine
[21:21] in a way that would go against their
[21:23] moral beliefs. Across the country, an
[21:26] increasing number of high-profile cases.
[21:29] Christian doctors refusing to remove
[21:31] ventilators or feeding tubes from
[21:32] terminally ill patients and even
[21:34] refusing to prescribe Viagra to
[21:37] unmarried men. In California, Lupita
[21:39] Bonitez is suing a doctor who wouldn't
[21:42] give her fertility treatments because
[21:44] she's a lesbian. With the help of
[21:46] another doctor, Bonitez had her son,
[21:48] Gabriel.
[21:49] >> I believe they are playing the role of
[21:50] God by deciding, well, you can have
[21:53] children. You can't.
[21:55] >> In 49 out of 50 states, laws protect
[21:58] doctors who refuse treatments based on
[22:00] their religious beliefs. But some states
[22:02] are now debating whether these doctors
[22:04] can be fired.
[22:05] >> I think a patient has the right to
[22:07] expect the best care available, but also
[22:09] to expect that a doctor has certain
[22:11] moral beliefs. With advances in medical
[22:14] technology, as treatments using
[22:16] embryionic stem cells become available,
[22:18] for example, more patients are likely to
[22:21] get caught up in the collision between
[22:23] their rights and the religious freedom
[22:26] of their doctors. Dan Harris, ABC News,
[22:29] Lebanon, Pennsylvania.
[22:32] And when we come back, our person of the
[22:34] week, going from Queen of the Lakes to
[22:36] battlefields of Iraq,
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[25:22] I'm Steve Dunn. Next to the Northwest
[25:24] only all local newscast tonight, the
[25:26] changes that are being made by
[25:27] authorities after K2 exposed horrible
[25:30] conditions at a local dog breeder. Plus,
[25:32] another lawsuit for Blazer Zack
[25:34] Randolph. What one local man is saying
[25:36] tonight.
[25:39] >> Finally tonight, our person of the week.
[25:41] At first glance, she is someone who
[25:42] stands out for her poise and grace. She
[25:45] is, after all, a beauty queen. But we
[25:48] were struck by the dedication and
[25:50] selflessness she displayed when she
[25:52] announced she's giving up her crown to
[25:54] serve her country in a war zone.
[25:57] >> Our new Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes
[26:01] is Miss Robinsdale.
[26:06] >> It was only four months ago that Jessica
[26:08] Golki, Miss Robbinsdale, Minnesota, was
[26:11] picked as the Minneapolis Queen of the
[26:13] Lakes.
[26:14] chosen to be a Goodwill ambassador for
[26:16] the next year. Public appearances, trips
[26:19] to the Rose Bowl and to Japan.
[26:22] >> It's a lot of work, but it's to me it's
[26:25] fun work. But Jessica has a few other
[26:28] commitments, too. She's a college
[26:29] senior. She's engaged to be married and
[26:33] she's a member of the Minnesota National
[26:35] Guard. It seemed natural for her to join
[26:37] up. Her dad was a member for 28 years.
[26:40] I was actually looking through some old
[26:42] photos and for Halloween when I was 8
[26:44] years old, I was dressed in my dad's
[26:47] fatigues and and so I knew at that point
[26:49] when I looked back at that picture that
[26:51] this is something that I had always
[26:53] wanted to do.
[26:54] >> Now her unit of 300 has been told to get
[26:56] ready for 6 months of training in Texas
[26:59] and then deployment to Iraq.
[27:01] >> We were told that we will be in Iraq for
[27:04] one year and I mean of of course all of
[27:07] that can change. It means a lot to me
[27:09] that you guys have come here today.
[27:13] >> Last night, Jessica tearfully told the
[27:16] folks who run the beauty pageant that
[27:17] she will give up her crown after New
[27:19] Year's. Minneapolis's mayor honored her.
[27:22] >> So, January 3rd will be Jessica Gali Day
[27:24] in the city of Minneapolis,
[27:26] >> as did the city council.
[27:27] >> I had to.
[27:29] >> And Jessica's two princesses, one of
[27:31] whom will take over as queen of the
[27:33] lake. As with so many others, Jessica's
[27:36] future has radically changed.
[27:38] >> My life has, I will admit, that has been
[27:41] flipped upside down completely. But I
[27:44] think you just got to take things and
[27:46] and roll with it. I am staying positive.
[27:48] >> She's moved up her wedding to fiance
[27:50] Jeff, who will take care of things while
[27:52] she's gone.
[27:53] >> You know, it's going to be difficult. I
[27:55] mean, there's no question about that.
[27:56] But, you know, it's difficult for
[27:58] everybody that's over there. And I mean,
[27:59] we just all got to work together and
[28:01] we'll make our way through it.
[28:03] They will all make their way through it.
[28:05] Joseph Conlin, who will leave his wife
[28:07] and seven-year-old daughter behind.
[28:09] Allison Slavvens, who will put her
[28:11] airline career on hold.
[28:14] So too, Jessica Golki's last semester of
[28:17] college will just have to wait. A role
[28:20] model in two very different worlds.
[28:25] you can do anything you want to do
[28:26] whether it's um on one spectrum of being
[28:30] the queen of the city or in the other is
[28:32] going over and fighting. And so we
[28:35] choose Jessica Golki, one of more than
[28:37] half a million reserveists and members
[28:39] of the National Guard who put all else
[28:41] second to report for duty in Iraq and
[28:44] Afghanistan. If there's someone you
[28:46] think should be person of the week, you
[28:47] can email us at person of the week
[28:49] atabctv.com.
[28:52] And that's world news for this Friday.
[28:53] I'm Elizabeth Vargas. For all of us at
[28:55] ABC, good night.
[28:57] >> Tonight, it's a place you'd die to
[28:58] vacation in with luxurious hotels and
[29:01] resorts, even ski slopes in the desert.
[29:03] But what's behind the splendor? Now,
[29:05] Ryan Ross reveals the shocking truth
[29:07] behind the billions on a special 2020.
[29:09] Tonight at a special time, 98 central.
[29:14] >> Now at 6:30, the K2 investigation
[29:17] exposes conditions inside a local dog
[29:19] breeding operation. What happened today
[29:22] to protect the animals as a result of
[29:23] our story? Plus, new images of Highway
[29:26] 35. What will it take to reopen the
[29:28] storm damaged freeway in time for
[29:30] Christmas? And another lawsuit for
[29:33] Portland Trailblazer Zack Randolph. What
[29:35] one local man says Randolph did to him
[29:37] for 2 years.
[29:40] >> Live at 6:30, K2 News. The spirit of the
[29:43] Northwest.
[29:44] >> Good evening. Thanks a lot for being
[29:46] with us everybody. I'm Steve Dunn
[29:47] >> and I'm Deborah Knapp. Our top local
[29:48] story tonight, a K2 investigation into a
[29:50] local dog breeder keeping dozens of dogs
[29:52] in cramped and unclean conditions
[29:54] results in action.
[29:56] >> It's an update tonight on our exclusive
[29:57] report, Dog Laws, No Teeth. K2
[30:00] investigative reporter Tom Jensen joins
[30:01] us now with the very latest. Stop.