CBS Evening News Online Edition - 2005-10-11

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[0:00] Hello, I'm Bob Schaefer and welcome to

[0:02] the CBS Evening News online edition.

[0:04] Just ahead, bad weather deals a blow to

[0:07] rescue efforts in Cashmere. Richard Roth

[0:10] has details from the earthquake zone.

[0:12] Also, we'll have the latest from a New

[0:14] Hampshire town that was devastated by a

[0:17] massive flood. And Move Over Barbie,

[0:20] there are some popular new dolls in

[0:22] town, and they don't call them brats for

[0:24] nothing. It's all starting now on the

[0:26] CBS Evening News online edition.

[0:30] Just when it looked as if the misery in

[0:32] northern Pakistan could not get worse,

[0:34] it did. Bad weather set in and blocked

[0:37] rescue workers from getting into some of

[0:39] the most badly hit areas. The estimated

[0:42] death toll from Saturday's powerful

[0:44] quake is now 35,000 in Pakistan and

[0:47] still rising. In neighboring India, it

[0:50] is approaching 1,500. The international

[0:53] relief effort is ramping up now,

[0:55] including American military helicopters,

[0:57] which were flown to the disaster zone

[1:00] from Afghanistan, but the heavy rain and

[1:03] hail are the main problems for relief

[1:05] workers. We have more on all this now

[1:07] from Richard Roth in Pakistan.

[1:11] >> Injured or simply hungry and homeless,

[1:13] the earthquake survivors are still

[1:15] desperate for help. Her uncle brought

[1:18] 9-year-old Karen to what passes for the

[1:20] hospital here.

[1:22] Get me out, she's screaming, get me out.

[1:24] An earthquake orphan with a head wound

[1:26] in need of comfort as much as medical

[1:28] care. Along with everything else that's

[1:31] in critically short supply,

[1:33] >> even we don't have the gloves to put on.

[1:36] So, we are just sturbing our hands.

[1:39] >> The tables in Muzafrabad's only

[1:41] emergency room were pulled from kitchen

[1:43] rubble. A thousand patients a day lay on

[1:45] them for treatment beneath ceiling fans

[1:48] supporting drips of IV fluid. And there

[1:50] are hundreds waiting round the clock in

[1:53] dusty misery for first aid or

[1:55] evacuation.

[1:57] Big American helicopters joined the

[1:59] effort today. They're the only

[2:00] ambulances carrying patients to

[2:02] hospitals outside the earthquake zone.

[2:05] And doctors say there's simply no end to

[2:08] the injured or the pain. I've seen awful

[2:10] sites. The patients which are brought

[2:12] here are hungry. 3 [music] days they are

[2:15] hungry for 3 days. No food, no water, no

[2:18] shelter. Even nature's compassion was in

[2:21] short supply. Rain started falling and

[2:24] relief lights were grounded. If misery

[2:26] can be multiplied, this is one way it

[2:29] happens. One of the earthquake search

[2:31] and rescue specialists had just been

[2:33] saying that one bit of good fortune here

[2:36] was the good weather. It turned bad just

[2:38] as some supplies of food and blankets

[2:40] began turning up on the city's streets.

[2:43] Hungry crowds turned angry, fighting

[2:45] over meager handouts. And this is what

[2:48] it looks like if you're buried beneath

[2:49] the rubble 3 days after the quake.

[2:52] French rescuers discovered this

[2:54] four-year-old boy in the shattered

[2:55] debris of his school. It took 3 hours to

[2:58] dig him out. 3 hours of his father's

[3:01] reassurance until they were together

[3:03] again. It's impossible to escape the

[3:06] young faces here, the orphans like Karen

[3:09] and the injured. The earthquake struck

[3:11] while children were in school. And with

[3:13] its toll still not counted, Pakistan's

[3:16] worried a whole generation's been

[3:18] changed or lost.

[3:21] And that's in one of Pakistan's major

[3:23] cities. Almost nothing's known about the

[3:26] fate of some remote parts of this

[3:27] country even tonight. Bob

[3:30] >> Richard, there are obviously still

[3:32] people buried in that rubble. Uh do they

[3:34] think any of them are still alive? Oh,

[3:36] they're absolutely certain there are

[3:38] people all around uh the earthquake area

[3:40] who are still trapped in rubble and

[3:42] still alive. There were two women who

[3:44] were pulled from the the the apartment

[3:46] building uh the apartment complex just

[3:48] behind me today. And they've been using

[3:51] heavy equipment, digging at the ruins,

[3:54] knowing there's a risk of injuring,

[3:56] further injuring or even killing people

[3:58] who are still trapped inside. But they

[4:00] believe that as many as 40 people may be

[4:02] in that rubble and may be still alive.

[4:05] All right. Well, thank you very much,

[4:06] Richard, and keep us posted. And back in

[4:09] this country, the Northeast is in for a

[4:11] new round of soaking rain with barely a

[4:13] break from the torrential rain last

[4:15] weekend that left at least 10 people

[4:17] dead. Rivers were just beginning to

[4:19] recede after flooding residential areas

[4:22] in New Hampshire. Now, it's the worst

[4:24] flooding in a quarter of a century.

[4:26] Kelly Kobaya is there tonight.

[4:29] >> It was a homecoming no one in the small

[4:32] town of Allstead, New Hampshire, ever

[4:34] expected. They returned to see how the

[4:36] river had ravaged their community and to

[4:38] search for loved ones lost in the storm.

[4:41] Wayne Hatch came looking for his

[4:42] grandfather.

[4:43] >> My grandfather, Alex Bruscus, he

[4:46] survived.

[4:47] >> Two of Hatch's high school classmates

[4:49] may not have been so lucky. Their house

[4:51] used to stand here. It's gone and so are

[4:54] they. Now on the list of missing in the

[4:57] worst flood to hit New Hampshire in a

[4:59] quarter century. 5 miles of homes, power

[5:02] lines, roads, and bridges in the town

[5:04] are gone, and the cold river has carved

[5:07] out a new landscape. Dorothy O'Connell

[5:09] should know. But you stayed here. You

[5:11] stayed in the area.

[5:12] >> Oh, yeah. And it wasn't pretty.

[5:15] >> She's lived by this river nearly half

[5:17] her life. And she was here Sunday

[5:19] morning when a large drainage pipe

[5:21] upstream clogged then burst, sending a

[5:24] wall of water 5 ft high, crashing down

[5:26] on the town below. There was only one

[5:29] road out and those who stayed were

[5:31] trapped. You thought the house was going

[5:33] to go.

[5:33] >> I'm going to go.

[5:34] >> That lady right there rode the storm out

[5:37] in that building down there that's split

[5:40] in two.

[5:42] >> She's okay.

[5:42] >> Yeah, they had to fish her out.

[5:44] >> Fished out of a stairwell inside half

[5:47] her broken home, which had been swept

[5:49] 150 ft off its foundation. Her daughter

[5:52] says she was told to evacuate, but the

[5:54] warning came too late and the water was

[5:56] already too high.

[5:58] >> It was bad timing, bad planning.

[6:02] >> 2 days now since the floods hit and the

[6:04] list of missing has been whittleled down

[6:06] from 40 at one point to four. And

[6:10] Allstead is trying to repair its broken

[6:12] infrastructure, but that could take

[6:14] days. And more rain is on the way. Bob.

[6:19] >> All right, we'll stay dry there, Kelly.

[6:20] In our continuing effort to bring you

[6:23] all of the news. We turn now to the

[6:25] world of dolls. Mattel has ousted the

[6:28] head of the Barbie doll division. It's

[6:30] been a tough year for Barbie. First,

[6:32] there was the breakup with Ken. And now,

[6:34] just as she's playing the field again,

[6:36] she is facing new competition. And

[6:38] there's a lot more than play money at

[6:40] stake. Here is Anthony Mason.

[6:45] >> To 10year-old girls, they're the epitome

[6:47] of hip.

[6:50] Bratz dolls. They have pouty lips, big

[6:53] eyes, and short skirts.

[6:55] >> It's whatever girl wants.

[6:57] >> Even their own hit single.

[6:59] [music and screaming]

[7:01] >> Now, this posy of doll chicks is

[7:03] threatening to knock Barbie off her

[7:05] pedestal. As the Pink Princess's sales

[7:07] have been slipping, Bratz have been

[7:10] soaring. Isaac Laran, founder of MGA

[7:13] Entertainment, which makes Bratz dolls,

[7:15] had just 50 employees four years ago.

[7:17] Now he has more than 500s. So you're 10

[7:20] times as big as you were four years ago.

[7:22] >> Yeah, we have exploded.

[7:23] >> And suddenly the doll wars have exploded

[7:26] into a cat fight because those Bratz

[7:28] girls have slapped Barbie's maker with

[7:31] this lawsuit, accusing Mattel of

[7:33] stealing the Bratz look. You're saying

[7:36] Mattel and Barbie are copying you.

[7:38] >> Exactly.

[7:40] >> Larian points to Mattel's new my scene

[7:42] dolls. This is the Bratz eye,

[7:44] >> right? And this is Mattel's my scene

[7:46] dolly.

[7:47] >> So Larion has taken the world's largest

[7:49] toy company to court.

[7:51] >> They cannot just go on and bully

[7:53] everybody. At least they cannot bully me

[7:56] or this company.

[7:57] >> Mattel would not respond on camera. But

[8:00] the toy giant has itself sued one of the

[8:02] Bratz creators, a designer who used to

[8:05] work for Mattel.

[8:06] >> When the market is shrinking.

[8:08] >> Maria Weisscott, editor of Play Things

[8:10] magazine, says Barbie faces a real

[8:13] fight. I think she is in trouble.

[8:15] >> Barbie, you're beautiful. [music]

[8:19] >> Since she was introduced in 1959, Barbie

[8:22] has been the blonde bombshell [music] of

[8:24] the toy business. But sales in the US

[8:26] were down 25% the first 3 months of this

[8:29] year. And in Britain, Bratz dolls now

[8:32] out sell Barbie. Does that make her less

[8:34] iconic?

[8:35] >> No, I think she's still an icon. As much

[8:37] as G.I. Joe is an icon and the red wagon

[8:40] is an icon and the Slinkie is an icon.

[8:42] Barbie will always be an icon.

[8:44] >> But there's a new girl in town.

[8:45] >> She looks really pretty.

[8:47] >> They may be dolls, but this is no

[8:49] child's play.

[8:51] >> Anthony Mason, CBS News, Vanise,

[8:53] California.

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