CBS Evening News - 1999-07-28
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[0:00] $,000.
[0:04] The heatwave claims more lives and it's
[0:07] not going away anytime soon. In some
[0:10] places, the air is so thick it's easier
[0:13] to see than breathe. Republicans in
[0:15] Congress pushed their tax cut plan
[0:18] despite a caution from the Fed and a
[0:20] warning from the president. And the
[0:22] story of a heroic effort to save the
[0:24] children the world forgotten.
[0:31] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:35] Rather.
[0:37] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm
[0:38] John Roberts. We're beginning with the
[0:40] CBS weather watch because the heat wave
[0:42] is growing deadlier by the day and shows
[0:45] no signs of leaving. Take a look.
[0:47] Another day of red-hot 90 plus
[0:50] temperatures across the map. The heat
[0:51] related death toll is now more than 50.
[0:54] And this was the most dangerous place to
[0:56] be today. In the area in deep red, the
[0:59] heat index, a combination of temperature
[1:01] and humidity made it feel like the
[1:03] mercury was in triple digits. Prolonged
[1:06] exposure could lead to heat stroke. CBS
[1:09] News correspondents have fanned out
[1:10] across the heatwave area. We go first to
[1:12] Jim Axarrod. Deep in the heat of Texas.
[1:17] >> Talking heat in Texas is always a
[1:19] question of when, not if. Finally, when
[1:23] is now
[1:24] >> 5-day forecast, blah blah blah blah blah
[1:27] blah blah blah blah 99 100.
[1:29] >> After a mild start to the summer, the
[1:31] dog days are here. Cafe owners in Dallas
[1:34] are misting down their sidewalk tables,
[1:37] and the roofers are wearing umbrellas on
[1:39] their heads. It seems now like they're
[1:42] pumping more sweat than oil here in
[1:44] Texas.
[1:45] >> We haven't seen the worst of this one
[1:46] yet, I don't think.
[1:48] Texas is now home to the hottest flames
[1:51] in what's become our national furnace.
[1:53] Seven cities here posted heat indexes
[1:56] over a hundred today, including San
[1:58] Antonio, where at the Alamo they
[2:01] remember go nowhere without a jug of
[2:03] water.
[2:04] >> Cool us off. It's hot.
[2:06] >> So once again, people here will start
[2:08] measuring their temperatures in three
[2:10] digits, not two. And while the rest of
[2:12] the country wonders when this heat wave
[2:14] will end, Texans are asking an entirely
[2:16] different question. What took so long?
[2:19] Jim Axelrod, CBS News, Dallas. In the
[2:22] deep south, the suffocating heat in
[2:25] Hotlanta is trouble enough, but add
[2:27] atrocious air quality from smog and high
[2:30] levels of ozone. And health problems add
[2:32] up in a hurry. CBS's Byron Pittz has
[2:35] that part of the weather picture.
[2:38] >> Today in Atlanta, the heat was bad. The
[2:41] smog was worse. The air pollution
[2:43] dangerously high. Many asthma sufferers
[2:46] could barely breathe.
[2:50] >> Pollution, the heat, humidity. Not a
[2:52] good combination.
[2:53] >> Not a good combination at all.
[2:56] >> Dr. Leon Haley is the ER director at
[2:59] Grady Memorial Hospital where the number
[3:01] of heat stroke and heat related injuries
[3:03] have doubled in the last week.
[3:05] >> Right now, it's pretty dangerous. I
[3:06] think people were going to have to be
[3:07] very cautious about the amount of time
[3:08] and their activities that they spend in
[3:10] the heat. Um, heat illness can kill.
[3:12] >> The heat killed a 79year-old woman south
[3:14] of Atlanta who had gone to bed after she
[3:17] shut her windows and turned her air
[3:18] conditioner off. When she died, her body
[3:21] temperature was 108°.
[3:24] Dr. Haley says the very old, the very
[3:27] young, and those with respiratory
[3:29] problems are the most vulnerable.
[3:32] So in these conditions, simply staying
[3:34] cool may not be enough. Byron Pittz, CBS
[3:38] News, Atlanta.
[3:40] >> As the drought worsens in the
[3:42] Mid-Atlantic states, New York City
[3:43] notched another 90 plus day on its way
[3:46] to a record hot month. CBS's Elizabeth
[3:49] Kaledan reports. The Big Apple is
[3:52] baking.
[3:54] >> With only three days left in the month,
[3:56] record keepers are getting ready to
[3:58] update the books. July of 1999 will soon
[4:01] officially be known as the hottest New
[4:03] York City has ever seen.
[4:05] >> New York City is a heat island and it
[4:07] has a major effect on the temperatures.
[4:08] Not only does it get much warmer in New
[4:10] York City, we also look at the fact that
[4:12] it keeps this warm temperatures because
[4:15] of the buildings, because of the
[4:16] streets.
[4:16] >> The average temperature here for the
[4:18] last 28 days straight has been 81.4°.
[4:23] that melts the record set in 1955 when
[4:26] the average was 80.9°.
[4:29] GH
[4:32] >> um staining the air conditioner
[4:34] primarily is my main concern.
[4:36] >> It's a common goal. Utilities are
[4:39] experiencing record high demands. And
[4:41] though the water supply is in good
[4:42] shape, city officials are urging a
[4:45] common sense approach to water use.
[4:47] >> Don't water your sidewalks. It is
[4:49] permitted by law, but obviously common
[4:51] sense would dictate. There's a simple
[4:53] way to do it. It doesn't take any water.
[4:54] It's called a broom.
[4:55] >> New Yorkers may be famous for being
[4:57] survivors, but living through the
[4:59] hottest July ever is a distinction many
[5:01] here would rather do without. Elizabeth
[5:04] Kaledan, CBS News, New York.
[5:06] >> Now, as for when the heat wave and
[5:08] drought might break, the government
[5:10] today unveiled a new highest of tech
[5:12] computer forecasting system. CBS's Phil
[5:15] Jones got a look and a prediction from
[5:17] the very top of the weather service.
[5:21] The forecast today from the boss of the
[5:24] National Weather Service was
[5:26] >> I think you see some more of the same
[5:28] but relief maybe towards the end of the
[5:29] August.
[5:30] >> James Baker says two things are
[5:32] different this year.
[5:34] >> We're seeing longer stretches of very
[5:36] hot days. We're also seeing warmer
[5:39] nighttime temperatures.
[5:41] >> And that's not all. Last year the nation
[5:44] was hit by 10 big storms. And Baker's
[5:46] forecast for this year more and bigger
[5:49] hurricanes. We're forecasting more than
[5:51] average and you start looking for it
[5:53] about the beginning of August.
[5:54] >> Now, you would think the National
[5:56] Weather Service would be able to look
[5:58] ahead and pick the perfect day for its
[6:01] own outside news conference. But
[6:04] >> good morning everyone. I'm
[6:05] >> there. They were all dressed up in their
[6:07] business suits in miserable 90° plus
[6:11] temperatures to announce a new high
[6:14] techch weather computer system. All the
[6:17] equipment for the new advanced weather
[6:18] computer system was inside. It takes in
[6:21] all the information from satellites,
[6:24] radars, and ground tracking, figures out
[6:26] what it all means, and then sends it to
[6:29] computer stations at 152 weather
[6:31] forecast offices. This provides more
[6:34] warning time.
[6:35] >> 15 years ago, we didn't actually
[6:38] forecast tornadoes. We told you when the
[6:40] tornado was on the ground. Now, 12
[6:42] minutes in advance, we tell you. So
[6:44] that's I'll call that the revolution.
[6:46] >> Well, this afternoon, partly sunny.
[6:48] >> The forecast for the National Weather
[6:50] Service itself has never been better.
[6:52] Unfortunately for the rest of us, the
[6:55] forecast is bleak. More drought, more
[6:57] heat, more hurricanes. Phil Jones, CBS
[7:01] News, Sterling, Virginia.
[7:03] >> Space Shuttle Columbia is back on Earth
[7:05] after a hairraising ride. This was the
[7:07] view from the cockpit as commander
[7:09] Eileen Collins became the first woman to
[7:11] land a spaceship late last night at Cape
[7:13] Canaveral. NASA officials later
[7:15] confirmed that the shuttle had leaked
[7:17] fuel from ruptured tubes during takeoff,
[7:20] a serious problem that came close to
[7:22] forcing an emergency landing. Up in
[7:25] Earth orbit today, two cosminauts took
[7:27] what could be the last spacew walk from
[7:29] the aging and accidentprone Russian
[7:31] space station Mir. After the current
[7:33] crew leaves next month, Russian space
[7:35] officials plan to leave the station
[7:37] unmanned and then junk it next year.
[7:40] President Clinton's top aids all praised
[7:42] General Wesley Clark today and denied
[7:44] the NATO commander is being punished by
[7:47] being forced to give up his job two
[7:49] months early next year. But military
[7:51] sources say the move reflects tension
[7:53] stemming from Clark's command of the air
[7:55] war against Yugoslavia. Among other
[7:57] things, he argued for keeping open the
[7:59] option of a ground war, a strategy
[8:01] rejected by President Clinton and the
[8:03] NATO allies. Still ahead on tonight's
[8:05] CBS Evening News, what made the Senate
[8:08] Republican leader nearly burst into
[8:10] song? An extreme sport, extremely
[8:13] dangerous and now deadly. And a woman
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[8:56] going through that the chemo is doing to
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[9:03] I was tired, very, very tired.
[9:07] One time my grandchildren were all over
[9:10] and they all went out and got ice cream
[9:12] and they're all lined up on the porch
[9:15] all with ice cream. They start from the
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[9:55] >> Despite public warnings of don't do it
[9:57] by the chairman of the Federal Reserve,
[9:59] the Senate began debate today on a
[10:01] massive Republican conceived tax cut
[10:03] bill. But the numbers, as they stand
[10:05] now, don't have a chance of getting
[10:07] beyond the White House. CBS's Diana Olic
[10:10] is covering the story. Oh, happy day. I
[10:14] almost feel like singing. Senate
[10:16] Republicans may be optimistic about
[10:18] their $800 billion tax cut plan, but
[10:21] Democrats are singing a different tune.
[10:23] >> We'd rather have no tax cut than a tax
[10:26] cut we can't afford.
[10:27] >> While that was the predictable response,
[10:29] more troubling was a warning today from
[10:31] Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.
[10:34] You
[10:34] >> probably would be better off holding off
[10:38] on a tax cut immediately. As it stands,
[10:41] the Republicanbacked bill reduces income
[10:44] tax rates for some low and middle inome
[10:46] families, expands tax breaks for
[10:48] education, retirement, and health care,
[10:50] and reduces inheritance taxes. The net
[10:53] effect, according to a Treasury
[10:54] Department study, is that 67% of the
[10:57] plan's benefits go to the wealthiest 20%
[11:00] of American families. President Clinton
[11:02] says that's too much and too generous to
[11:04] the rich, and he'll veto it. Senate
[11:07] Majority Leader Trent Lotz reply,
[11:09] "That's his problem.
[11:10] >> If he vetos a fair, honest tax relief
[11:14] package for working Americans that will
[11:16] encourage economic growth over a
[11:18] sustained period of time, that he has to
[11:21] defend that and explain that. Maybe he
[11:22] can get away with it. He's gotten away
[11:24] with an awful lot."
[11:25] >> There are some Democrats in Congress who
[11:27] do want tax cuts. And today, a
[11:29] bipartisan group tried to start the
[11:31] negotiating process with a compromise, a
[11:34] smaller tax cut package. I think that
[11:36] what we have is people in both parties
[11:38] saying do it my way or don't do it at
[11:40] all. I think the American people would
[11:42] like us to do something.
[11:43] >> The House passed an $800 billion tax
[11:46] bill last week. This Senate bill is
[11:48] likely to pass as well and the final
[11:49] product is likely to be vetoed by the
[11:52] president. So in the end, Republicans
[11:54] get another campaign issue and taxpayers
[11:57] get to wait. Diana Olick, CBS News at
[12:00] the capital. On the CBS Market Watch,
[12:02] Compact Computer is cutting 8,000 jobs,
[12:05] 12% of its workforce. This follows big
[12:08] losses in the second quarter. Fed
[12:10] chairman Greenspan says, "Don't worry
[12:11] about the Y2K computer bug eating your
[12:14] bank account." He says, "You have a
[12:15] greater chance of losing your money if
[12:17] you take it out of the bank." A mixed
[12:20] day today on Wall Street. The Dow closed
[12:21] down about seven points, but the tech
[12:23] heavy NASDAQ gained 26 points. Two new
[12:27] surveys on HMOs out today show that both
[12:30] patients and doctors are disgruntled.
[12:32] One survey finds almost nine and 10
[12:34] doctors report frustration in dealing
[12:36] with HMOs in getting care for their
[12:38] patients. The other shows more than one
[12:41] quarter of the patients have some kind
[12:42] of trouble obtaining care and services
[12:45] that they want. Coming up on the CBS
[12:47] Evening News, the adventure vacation
[12:50] that ended in disaster.
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[14:58] >> The eighth leading cause of death in
[15:00] America is suicide, accounting for
[15:02] 30,000 deaths every year. Today, the
[15:04] surgeon general, for the first time,
[15:06] declared suicide a public health threat
[15:09] and announced a campaign to try to
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[15:17] risk of suicide and how to get help. In
[15:20] Europe, an obscure sport for
[15:22] thrillseeking tourists has claimed at
[15:24] least 19 lives. They were swept away by
[15:27] a flash flood that roared down a
[15:29] mountain stream in the Alps. CBS's
[15:31] Richard Roth reports on a canyoning
[15:33] expedition that ended in catastrophe.
[15:38] 19 bodies were recovered from the Swiss
[15:40] Valley today before darkness stopped the
[15:42] search for two people still missing. It
[15:45] was called an adventure vacation. 45
[15:48] tourists and their guides forging alpine
[15:50] rapids and rocky cliffs when a sudden
[15:53] rainstorm and a wall of water swept them
[15:55] away.
[15:57] >> We can't tell this for the moment in
[15:58] which way they died. Whether they
[16:00] drowned or they had head injuries that
[16:03] caused their death, we can't tell.
[16:05] >> It happened in an instant. The alpine
[16:07] stream raging with mud and debris.
[16:10] Helmets and life jackets hardly
[16:12] mattered. Survivors phoned horror
[16:14] stories to relatives at home.
[16:16] >> He said he was just tumbling under the
[16:18] water. Just didn't know which way was
[16:20] up, which way was down. Um he doesn't
[16:21] know for how long, but he reckons he
[16:23] went through six waterfalls on the way
[16:25] down.
[16:26] >> Canyoning is the name of the sport
[16:28] described as whitewater rafting without
[16:31] a raft. Close to nature and close to
[16:34] danger, it draws adventurers who want
[16:37] vacations where there's no chance to
[16:39] call 911. And that's a growing market in
[16:42] the travel business. They're looking for
[16:45] a little bit of an adrenaline buzz, um,
[16:47] a bit of excitement, something they can
[16:49] remember, something they can talk about
[16:50] when they get back.
[16:52] >> The company that organized the trip said
[16:54] till this nothing worse than a broken
[16:56] leg had marred their alpine adventures.
[16:59] Now, along with 50 other Swiss travel
[17:02] firms, it's decided canyoning tours will
[17:05] be suspended. Richard Roth, CBS News,
[17:08] London. Straight ahead on the CBS
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[19:22] Shakespeare wrote, "The evil that men do
[19:25] lives after them." In Romania, 10 years
[19:27] after the demise of Nikolai Chaescu, the
[19:30] effects of his disastrous rule are still
[19:32] multiplying. Among them, a generation of
[19:35] homeless orphans now producing a new
[19:37] generation who live on the streets and
[19:40] under the streets of Bucharest. CBS's
[19:42] Mark Phillips in part two of his
[19:44] assignment in Romania went down into
[19:46] their dark world with someone who's
[19:49] trying to light a candle of hope.
[19:52] Sometimes one pathetic scene says it
[19:55] all. A severely handicapped teenager
[19:57] moves toward his regular begging spot
[20:00] near a street car stop. The passengers
[20:02] just step around him. This is a problem
[20:05] the Romanians not only don't do much
[20:07] about, it's one they've learned not to
[20:09] see. But the problem has been seen from
[20:12] a world away by a commuter railroad
[20:15] conductor named Susan Booth who plies
[20:17] the daily run into New York City from
[20:19] Connecticut. tickets, please. Thank you.
[20:22] >> Susan is trying to give Romania's street
[20:24] children a ticket to a new life, one
[20:27] different from the miserable one they're
[20:29] now living on Bucharest streets. And
[20:31] under them in the sewer tunnels they
[20:33] call home, where the main distraction is
[20:35] the glue sniffing that alleviates
[20:37] hunger. They're the survivors of the
[20:40] abandoned children discovered by a
[20:42] shocked world at the time of Romania's
[20:44] anti-communist revolution. How long have
[20:46] you lived like this? All All your life
[20:48] you've been here. Yeah,
[20:50] >> I have 17 years.
[20:52] >> 17 years on the street.
[20:53] >> Yes.
[20:53] >> Yeah.
[20:54] >> Well, they already lit a fire over
[20:55] there. You uh one of the pipes caught on
[20:57] fire.
[20:58] >> After seeing a TV report years ago on
[21:01] Romania's street child rejects, Susan
[21:03] Booth completely reordered her life to
[21:05] try to help them. She gave up an
[21:07] executive job on the railway and took a
[21:10] $13,000 a year pay cut to work the
[21:12] evening shift,
[21:14] >> freeing her days to run the onewoman
[21:16] charity she founded to raise money,
[21:18] collect clothes, and make plans for the
[21:21] children she couldn't get out of her
[21:22] mind.
[21:23] >> There are a lot of needy children all
[21:25] over the world, but these children that
[21:27] we're concentrating on here have been
[21:30] put out by their parents, and that to me
[21:32] is the greatest tragedy of their life.
[21:35] So she comes to Bucharest along with
[21:37] Steven Doyle, an Irishman who she met
[21:39] there and who shares her compassion.
[21:41] >> I started to help them medically like
[21:43] not me myself, but like bringing them to
[21:45] doctors and nurses. But the response
[21:47] that I got wasn't like, you know, hey,
[21:50] these are these are just street
[21:51] merchants. You don't want you don't want
[21:53] to get involved with these. I'm like,
[21:54] these are kids. These are human beings.
[21:55] Flesh and blood like you and me. But
[21:58] with the arrival of a new generation of
[22:00] street children, the children the
[22:02] original children are now inevitably
[22:04] having, the problem is getting worse,
[22:06] not better.
[22:08] >> She's asking to take them home.
[22:11] >> Why?
[22:12] >> She can't cope.
[22:13] >> But Susan and Steven can't take all the
[22:15] kids away. Instead, they're trying to
[22:18] break the cycle of desperation here. The
[22:20] first step is going to be a mobile soup
[22:22] kitchen where we'll do the cooking, put
[22:24] it in the back of the van, and drive to
[22:27] each of the sewer locations and get
[22:29] these kids used to a regular meal
[22:31] hopefully once a day.
[22:33] >> That's a project they figure will cost
[22:35] $70,000 to get going. And it's just a
[22:38] start. What these kids need is another
[22:41] place to live.
[22:42] >> There's no way you can you can um
[22:46] change a kid's life on the street and
[22:47] say you've got to take them off the
[22:49] street. They've got to be, you know,
[22:50] that that's that's what I'm trying to do
[22:52] with Sue. Anyway,
[22:53] >> until then, they just have to count on
[22:55] the kids' remarkable capacity for
[22:58] survival.
[22:59] >> Not only have they managed to survive,
[23:01] but they smile. They take care of each
[23:04] other. And those bits of humanity are
[23:07] bits that I don't know how they survive.
[23:10] How or if they continue to survive may
[23:12] depend on the dedication of two guardian
[23:15] angels with big hearts, big dreams, and
[23:18] in need of big money to make them come
[23:20] true.
[23:21] >> On assignment in Bucharest, I'm Mark
[23:24] Phillips.
[23:26] >> When we come back, a life and death
[23:28] struggle in Texas to come back from
[23:30] drought.
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[25:06] >> Did you know that mosquitoes are
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[25:36] With the stifling heat today, it was
[25:38] perfect timing for Virginia's famous
[25:40] Chinkatig wild ponies to take a dip. In
[25:43] a century old tradition to thin the
[25:45] herd, about 130 ponies swam the 80 yards
[25:48] to shore from their home on the Asetig
[25:50] National Seashore. They'll be sold at
[25:53] auction to horse lovers for charity. We
[25:56] began our broadcast with reports of the
[25:58] heat and drought affecting so much of
[26:00] the country. Eventually though, the rain
[26:02] does start to fall again. But in one
[26:04] Texas town, CBS's Moren Maher reports,
[26:07] the damage may have been irreparable.
[26:12] >> As dawn breaks in Stanford, Texas, the
[26:14] morning sun shows what a little help
[26:16] from mother nature can do. A year after
[26:18] one of the worst droughts in Texas
[26:20] history, the fields are full of
[26:22] potential.
[26:23] >> We're expecting good yields this year.
[26:26] >> But instead of making up for last year's
[26:28] losses, this year's bumper cotton crop
[26:30] isn't selling at a profitable price.
[26:32] Farmers already in debt from the drought
[26:34] are in trouble yet again.
[26:36] >> The price is the the bad part of it.
[26:38] We're probably
[26:40] looking at hopefully 50 cents per pound,
[26:43] which is really not even a break even on
[26:45] cotton. Last year's drought cost Texas
[26:48] farmers a billion half dollars. The
[26:50] state's economy took a hit of $4.5
[26:52] billion dollars. Because when crops in
[26:55] the heart of cotton country don't sell,
[26:57] the entire town feels it.
[26:59] >> That lumber yard closed. Uh, you know,
[27:01] we build one house every two years.
[27:03] >> Ed Eall is Stamford born and raised.
[27:05] Over the years, he's seen residents
[27:07] come, but with the growing economic
[27:09] struggle for farmers, he's mostly seen
[27:11] them go. You know, this was a prosperous
[27:14] little town when I grew up here. We had
[27:17] uh I guess five or six automobile
[27:19] dealerships in this town. We don't have
[27:21] a we don't even have a used car place in
[27:23] this town right now.
[27:24] >> The ripple effect is evident everywhere.
[27:26] Empty storefronts are filled only with
[27:28] memories.
[27:30] Griffin High's flower shop is a
[27:32] 76-year-old family business. Now he's
[27:35] struggling to make it to the century
[27:36] mark. There are a lot of us who grew up
[27:39] here and and we try to do what we can to
[27:42] promote the town and and see that it
[27:44] survives and prospers.
[27:46] >> But even if they do survive the scars
[27:48] from last year's dust bowl drought, this
[27:50] season's plentiful harvest will not be
[27:52] enough and there will likely be more
[27:54] heartache in the heartland. Moren Maher,
[27:57] CBS News, Stanford, Texas.
[27:59] >> And that's the CBS Evening News for Dan
[28:02] Rather. I'm John Roberts, CBS News in
[28:04] New York. Thanks for joining us. Have a
[28:06] good night
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[28:16] >> Coming up on News Channel 5 at 6, Perry
[28:18] March has been the prime suspect in his
[28:20] wife's disappearance, but tonight
[28:22] someone else is being accused of killing
[28:24] her. Plus, the plot for an elaborate
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