World News (ABC) - 2009-05-10

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[0:20] I'm Dan Harris and this is [music] World

[0:22] News. Tonight, Dick Cheney on the

[0:24] attack. The former vice president

[0:27] engaging in an extraordinary public

[0:29] debate with the new [music] White House,

[0:31] which he accuses of endangering America.

[0:34] On the run, a tidal wave of fleeing

[0:36] families, tens [music] of thousands of

[0:38] them. A major human crisis tonight as

[0:40] the war on the Taliban escalates. Miami

[0:44] Heat, the [music] priest and TV host

[0:46] known as Padre Opera photographed

[0:48] cuddling with a woman on the beach

[0:50] reigniting the debate over celibacy.

[0:53] America's [music] worst mom on this

[0:56] Mother's Day, the mom who's been called

[0:58] that and worse for letting her

[1:00] 9-year-old ride the subway alone.

[1:03] And Barack Obama's [music] new role,

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[1:07] >> My next 100 days will be so successful,

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[1:11] days.

[1:14] >> [music]

[1:16] >> From ABC News headquarters in New York,

[1:19] this is World News.

[1:22] Good evening. Dick Cheney was not a

[1:24] traditional [music] vice president, and

[1:25] he's not turning out to be a traditional

[1:27] former vice president either. While the

[1:29] former president George W. Bush has been

[1:31] laying low since he left office, Cheney

[1:33] was on the air today accusing the Obama

[1:36] administration of making America less

[1:38] safe. And while Cheney was making his

[1:40] case, President Obama's national

[1:42] security adviser was on ABC News

[1:44] punching back. We start tonight with

[1:47] ABC's John Hendren.

[1:49] President Bush has refused to criticize

[1:51] his successor, but the former vice

[1:53] president is not holding to that

[1:54] tradition. Today, Dick Cheney accused

[1:57] his successors of putting the nation in

[1:59] danger by closing Guantanamo Bay and

[2:01] ending the harsh interrogation of

[2:03] prisoners. They have moved to

[2:07] take down

[2:08] a lot of those policies we put in place

[2:10] that kept the nation safe for nearly

[2:12] eight years from a follow-on terrorist

[2:13] attack like 9/11. The president's

[2:15] national security adviser fired back.

[2:17] Well, I don't believe that. The Obama

[2:19] administration inherited a situation

[2:21] that uh

[2:22] Guantanamo that was uh intolerable.

[2:25] Cheney has launched something of an

[2:26] anti-Obama campaign

[2:29] while former President Bush observes the

[2:31] customary silence. The reason I've been

[2:34] speaking is because I think the issues

[2:37] that are at stake here are so important.

[2:39] The president is also taking heat from

[2:41] the left after administration officials

[2:42] acknowledge he might revive the military

[2:45] commissions created by President Bush to

[2:47] try suspected terrorists. If the

[2:49] military commissions indeed do go

[2:51] forward, yes, President Obama will have

[2:53] betrayed a fundamental promise that he

[2:55] made as candidate and as president. Past

[2:57] military commissions were criticized as

[2:59] slanted against defendants and bumbling.

[3:01] The administration says new tribunals

[3:03] would be fairer, but there's also the

[3:05] question of where the prisoners would be

[3:06] sent to. One likely option, military

[3:09] prisons on American soil. This is nuts.

[3:13] I mean, this is just crazy.

[3:15] These are These are not American

[3:16] nationals. We have no obligation to keep

[3:18] them here. Senator John McCain supports

[3:20] closing Guantanamo, but says the

[3:22] president should have first figured out

[3:23] how to try the prisoners and where to

[3:25] put them. That is a terrible mistake.

[3:28] Announce the closure, but don't address

[3:30] the underlying problems that a lot of us

[3:32] have been wrestling with for years.

[3:34] >> So, but President Obama has pledged to

[3:36] close Guantanamo by January. John

[3:38] Hendren, ABC News, the White House.

[3:41] Back to Dick Cheney for just a moment.

[3:42] He also had some tough words for a

[3:44] former colleague today. Colin Powell,

[3:46] who served with Cheney in the Bush

[3:48] administration, has been having a public

[3:50] dispute over the future of the

[3:51] Republican Party recently with the talk

[3:53] show host Rush Limbaugh. Asked to choose

[3:56] sides today, Cheney said, quote, "I'd go

[3:59] with Rush."

[4:01] Today, the president of Afghanistan,

[4:02] Hamid Karzai, warned that growing

[4:04] civilian casualties from US airstrikes

[4:07] are turning ordinary Afghans against

[4:09] America. But President Obama's national

[4:11] security adviser said the airstrikes,

[4:13] which target Taliban fighters, will

[4:15] continue. General James Jones said,

[4:17] quote, "We can't fight with one hand

[4:20] tied behind our back." There is a

[4:22] serious crisis tonight across

[4:24] Afghanistan's border in Pakistan. At the

[4:26] urging of the Obama administration,

[4:28] Pakistan's government has launched a

[4:29] major offensive against the Taliban

[4:31] inside of Pakistan. But the fighting is

[4:34] now forcing huge numbers of people out

[4:36] of their homes. ABC's Nick Schifrin is

[4:38] on the road leading out of the fighting

[4:40] taking place in Pakistan's Swat Valley.

[4:45] Anyone who can is fleeing the fighting.

[4:48] In a sign of how violent the conflict

[4:50] has become, when the government lifted

[4:52] the curfew for just a few hours today, a

[4:54] staggering 150,000 people fled.

[4:58] The Taliban captured our town, he says.

[5:01] There is no water, no gas, no power, and

[5:04] people are hungry. 20 miles from the

[5:06] fighting, refugees receive food from the

[5:08] UN. A family of six only gets enough

[5:11] grain to eat one piece of bread each

[5:13] day, but they are the lucky ones.

[5:15] Shaista lost her father, mother, and two

[5:17] sisters when a bomb fell on her family

[5:20] as they fled.

[5:22] We were leaving with other people, she

[5:23] says. A lot of people died.

[5:26] People left as soon as they could and

[5:27] after the military ordered them to. And

[5:30] now that most of the residents have left

[5:31] the area, the army will better be able

[5:33] to avoid civilian casualties and is

[5:35] expected to increase its operations. We

[5:38] saw convoys of troops reinforcing 15,000

[5:41] soldiers battling 4,000 Taliban.

[5:44] Militants have taken over much of this

[5:46] area, and US officials have questioned

[5:48] the government's control of the

[5:49] situation. But a defensive Pakistani

[5:52] president insisted the army has enough

[5:54] troops to defeat the Taliban. We have a

[5:57] threat, yes.

[5:58] Uh is uh the state of Pakistan going to

[6:01] collapse? No. But if Pakistan is going

[6:03] to create lasting peace, it must develop

[6:06] an area that is impoverished and poorly

[6:08] governed. The big challenge will be,

[6:11] will the Pakistani military be able to

[6:13] hold the territory and then most

[6:14] importantly, build and provide basic

[6:17] services to its citizens. When the state

[6:20] fails in those areas, that's when you

[6:22] see the Taliban come back in and fill

[6:24] the gap. Which is why the president says

[6:26] this is a war for Pakistan's existence.

[6:29] Nick Schifrin, ABC News, Takht Bai,

[6:32] Pakistan.

[6:33] And back in this country tonight, this

[6:35] weekend is ending on a much better note

[6:37] than it started for tens of thousands of

[6:39] people in Southern California who are

[6:41] back in their homes tonight after

[6:43] firefighters, with a big assist from the

[6:45] weather, gained the upper hand on that

[6:47] raging wildfire. Brian Rooney is

[6:49] watching the fires for us once again

[6:50] tonight.

[6:53] As firefighters stomp out troublesome

[6:55] hot spots, investigators are looking at

[6:57] this hiking trail in the hills as the

[6:59] possible starting point. The fire has

[7:01] cost seven and a half million dollars to

[7:04] fight and burned down 31 houses. In

[7:07] foggy weather, it's laid down, but no

[7:09] one is declaring victory.

[7:11] I want to remind everybody that 55%

[7:14] containment

[7:16] means that 45% of it is not contained.

[7:19] Most of the 30,000 evacuees have been

[7:21] allowed to go home. Only about 350

[7:24] people are still under mandatory

[7:26] evacuation. Among them, JJ and Barbara

[7:29] Jennings, who can't get to their house.

[7:31] The fire looks okay, and

[7:33] the uh fireman was nice enough to con-

[7:36] tell us that nothing happened to it.

[7:38] Even though we couldn't see it, he said,

[7:40] "Don't worry, there's nothing wrong with

[7:41] your house." But the hills all around

[7:43] their home are charred. It was beautiful

[7:45] up here. It was, you know, it it it it

[7:47] was look It looked like a piece of

[7:48] heaven up here. Among the 4,500

[7:51] firefighters here are mothers fighting

[7:53] fire through Mother's Day. Happy

[7:55] Mother's Day, Joey.

[7:59] Joey Anderson ate breakfast this morning

[8:01] before a 24-hour shift.

[8:03] >> I'd rather work Mother's Day than

[8:04] Christmas or Thanksgiving, but uh you

[8:07] think about your kids a lot.

[8:08] Everyone here is grateful to the

[8:10] firefighters. This being a beach town,

[8:13] they were honored in a sculpture of

[8:15] sand.

[8:17] What you're looking at now may be the

[8:19] biggest historical loss of this fire, a

[8:21] 100-year-old Craftsman house. It had

[8:24] three chimneys, it was huge. It belonged

[8:26] to the botanical garden here. Today, we

[8:28] have a lot of helicopters overhead

[8:30] dropping water on the fire. We can hear

[8:32] chainsaws in the brush. Dan, the

[8:34] firefighters are putting on a big push

[8:36] to get full containment by Wednesday.

[8:38] And as the firefighters clearly said in

[8:39] your piece, this thing is not over.

[8:41] Brian Rooney reporting from California

[8:43] again tonight. The governor of West

[8:45] Virginia has declared a state of

[8:46] emergency in several counties in that

[8:48] state after heavy rains flooded hundreds

[8:51] of homes and washed out roads. 300

[8:53] National Guard troops have been

[8:55] mobilized to help with the cleanup. The

[8:56] rains were from the same storm that

[8:58] killed six people from Kansas to

[9:00] Kentucky on Friday. Tens of thousands of

[9:03] homes and businesses still do not have

[9:05] power tonight. And now to the economy

[9:08] and a blunt message today from Vice

[9:09] President Biden. Speaking at Syracuse

[9:12] University commencement in upstate New

[9:14] York, Biden acknowledged that good jobs

[9:16] are hard to find in these tough times,

[9:19] and this is something the class of '09

[9:21] knows all too well. ABC's David Wright

[9:23] is in Syracuse tonight.

[9:27] >> [music]

[9:29] >> At Syracuse University commencement had

[9:31] all the usual pomp, but the

[9:33] circumstances have [music] definitely

[9:35] changed. Today, Vice President Biden

[9:37] acknowledged as much. You are graduating

[9:40] in a world of anxiety and uncertainty.

[9:43] You're walking across this stage without

[9:45] knowing exactly what's going to be on

[9:47] the other side. Bill Pelton majored in

[9:50] journalism only to graduate in a year

[9:52] when one newspaper after another is

[9:54] going bust. It gets a little bit

[9:56] annoying after a while, actually,

[9:58] hearing it from from family members or

[10:00] friends. I just kind of want to say, you

[10:02] know, I get it. I know I'm graduating at

[10:04] a bad time. Get your bachelor's degree?

[10:06] Yes.

[10:06] >> Great.

[10:07] Tory Hornstein has a job, but it wasn't

[10:10] her first choice. Like many in the class

[10:12] of 2009, she'll do community service, in

[10:15] part because the company she had hoped

[10:17] to work for aren't hiring. It wasn't so

[10:20] much rejection letters as really

[10:21] regretful people saying, "We have a

[10:23] hiring freeze." Or

[10:26] uh at this point we we can't do it.

[10:28] College graduations are always a

[10:30] celebration, but there's always that

[10:32] vague sense that the party's over. And

[10:34] for the class of 2009, that's

[10:36] particularly true. These students are

[10:38] graduating into one of the worst job

[10:40] markets in a generation.

[10:42] Two years ago, half the graduating class

[10:44] had a full-time job lined up by now.

[10:47] This year, less than 20% do. Are you

[10:50] looking forward to graduating?

[10:52] Um

[10:53] I'm So, it's like not so much?

[10:56] >> [laughter]

[10:57] >> Jody Ellsworth has had a full-time job

[10:59] for 4 years, working as much as 60 hours

[11:02] a week to pay her way through school.

[11:04] And she's majored in three subjects. All

[11:06] that comes to an end today. What I will

[11:09] do now

[11:11] is it anything, absolutely anything. Any

[11:14] crap job that I can get, I'm going to

[11:16] take. Uh

[11:17] babysitting,

[11:19] >> [clears throat]

[11:19] >> working on cars. Four years ago, these

[11:22] young men and women enrolled with high

[11:24] hopes. Now, they're setting their sights

[11:27] a little lower. David Wright, ABC News,

[11:30] Syracuse, New York.

[11:32] And at Cape Canaveral tonight, a rare

[11:34] sight, two shuttles side by side.

[11:36] Atlantis launches tomorrow on a risky

[11:39] mission to repair the Hubble Space

[11:40] Telescope. The shuttle Endeavour is

[11:42] there in case the Atlantis crew needs to

[11:44] be rescued.

[11:45] Over 19 years, Hubble has given

[11:47] scientists much more than they expected,

[11:49] both images and insight into the cosmos.

[11:52] But this is the last repair mission.

[11:54] Scientists hope it will keep Hubble

[11:56] going for at least 5 more years.

[11:58] And coming up here on World News this

[11:59] Sunday, a rising star [music] in the

[12:01] Catholic Church caught in the arms of a

[12:03] woman. His parishioners say it's time to

[12:06] let priests marry.

[12:08] The woman some call the world's worst

[12:10] mother because she let her 9-year-old

[12:12] ride the subway alone. The emotional

[12:15] debate she's provoked over how much kids

[12:17] need to be protected. And President

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[15:16] Today, Pope Benedict held an open-air

[15:18] mass in the heart of the Arab

[15:23] world. 20,000 people filled a soccer

[15:25] stadium for the event. Benedict, who is

[15:27] on his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land

[15:28] as Pope, praised the courage of

[15:31] Christians in the Middle East who have

[15:32] held onto their faith despite

[15:34] persecution and war. tonight from a sex

[15:37] scandal involving a very popular priest

[15:39] there.

[15:40] He's admitting to violating his vows

[15:42] with a woman he's known for years. He

[15:44] says he's in love and he is provoking a

[15:46] major discussion on celibacy.

[15:50] They call him Padre A nationally known

[15:53] Spanish language television host, advice

[15:55] columnist, and best-selling author of

[15:57] Real Life, Real Love.

[16:00] He now appears to be getting a dose of

[16:02] both of those things after a Mexican

[16:04] magazine ran these pictures of Father

[16:06] Cutie cuddling with a woman on a Florida

[16:09] beach. A woman identified in the media

[16:11] as a 35-year-old divorced mother. In an

[16:14] interview with the Spanish language

[16:16] network Univision, Father Cutie now says

[16:18] he doesn't want to give up either his

[16:20] collar or the woman he loves.

[16:26] "What I can say with all certainty," he

[16:28] says, "is that is a woman that I love,

[16:30] that I liked her since I met her."

[16:33] After these photos appeared, Cutie was

[16:35] immediately relieved of his duties as a

[16:37] priest. Today, his parish held its first

[16:40] Sunday mass without him. This scandal is

[16:43] reigniting the long-running debate over

[16:45] priest celibacy. Critics, including some

[16:48] priests, argue that celibacy is at the

[16:50] heart of the church's current problems,

[16:52] including the shortage of priests and

[16:55] and the sex abuse scandal. What he did

[16:57] was wrong, the way he did it. You know,

[17:00] but I agree that priests should marry

[17:03] and have kids. The Vatican, however, has

[17:05] never wavered on this issue, and most

[17:08] active priests agree. I think there's

[17:10] something very healthy and holy about

[17:13] trying to maintain a discipline that

[17:15] makes you available, fully available for

[17:18] people and for ministry and for what you

[17:20] really believe in. Father Cutie, who has

[17:22] never argued against celibacy, now says

[17:25] he is not ruling out getting married and

[17:27] having children with the woman from the

[17:29] pictures.

[17:31] It's unclear what Father Cutie's role in

[17:33] the church will now be. In recent days,

[17:35] he said that he wants to be a priest

[17:36] until he dies, but he's also recently

[17:38] said that he understands that you cannot

[17:40] be a married Roman Catholic priest.

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[20:27] take a closer look at a woman who has

[20:29] been called America's worst mom. Lenore

[20:32] Skenazy is the opposite of a helicopter

[20:34] parent, one who hovers over her children

[20:36] to protect them all the time. She says

[20:38] kids need more independence, but as our

[20:41] Deborah Roberts reports, Skenazy's

[20:43] methods have inspired a serious debate.

[20:48] Izzy Skenazy was just 9 years old when

[20:50] he asked his mom and dad if he could

[20:51] ride the New York City subway

[20:55] by himself.

[20:56] Armed with a subway map, 20 bucks, and a

[20:58] metro card, they sent him off. The whole

[21:01] thing took about 45 minutes, and he got

[21:03] home so happy. What did it do for you,

[21:06] that experience? It started a

[21:09] a whole new feeling. Like what? Like

[21:12] more grown up. It also sparked a

[21:14] firestorm of anger directed at his mom,

[21:16] Lenore, who wrote about it on her blog.

[21:19] Why did you do it? What if something,

[21:21] you know, God forbid it happens?

[21:22] >> She was called naive and dangerous. Even

[21:26] worst mother in the world. She begs to

[21:28] differ. When a kid comes to you and is

[21:30] telling you something like they're ready

[21:32] to try something, you have to listen and

[21:34] think maybe he is ready, and then you

[21:36] prepare him, and then you let him try

[21:38] it. But I'm a mom, and I would worry

[21:40] that something bad would happen. Am I

[21:41] just a wuss? You're not a wuss. You're

[21:43] living in America in 2009. When you turn

[21:46] on the TV, you're going to see some

[21:48] horrible abduction story, but you know,

[21:50] they'll have gone to Aruba to find that

[21:52] story.

[21:54] Of course, bad things do happen to kids,

[21:57] but crime statistics show that the world

[21:59] today is no more dangerous for children

[22:00] than it was a generation ago. And Lenore

[22:03] says today's kids deserve the same

[22:05] freedoms their parents had.

[22:10] The kind of childhood like in the movie

[22:11] Stand by Me, where kids get to explore

[22:14] the world on their own, even if they

[22:15] might get hurt.

[22:18] You just want them to have some joy in

[22:20] life that isn't them being taken from

[22:23] one place to the other, and then they're

[22:24] at the soccer game, then you drive them

[22:26] home, and it's time for homework, then

[22:27] it's time for Nintendo, then it's time

[22:28] for bed. I don't think that's a great

[22:29] childhood. Some child psychologists

[22:32] agree.

[22:35] Confidence doesn't come from telling

[22:36] kids you're great, you're wonderful,

[22:38] you're very smart. Confidence comes from

[22:40] kids accomplishing things. We're

[22:42] depriving them of that great moment in

[22:44] childhood, which is the I did it myself

[22:46] moment. When you get yourself to the

[22:48] park, when you ride your bike without

[22:50] your dad holding on to the front. Sounds

[22:53] like your mom's pretty smart.

[22:54] >> Sometimes.

[22:56] Always. Most of the time.

[22:58] >> [laughter]

[22:58] >> Deborah Roberts, ABC News, New York.

[23:01] As you might imagine, people are already

[23:03] weighing in on this debate at our

[23:05] website, abcnews.com, where Lenore

[23:07] Skenazy is going to be responding on our

[23:09] message board, and where you can read an

[23:11] excerpt of her new book, which is

[23:12] entitled Free Range Kids.

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[26:19] We've seen many sides of President

[26:21] Obama, world leader, diplomat, husband,

[26:24] father, candidate.

[26:25] Last night, a new role, comedian. His

[26:28] appearance at the White House

[26:29] Correspondents Dinner, one of those

[26:30] annual rituals of Washington, brought

[26:32] together the usual crowd of journalists

[26:34] and an unusually large number of

[26:36] Hollywood stars.

[26:38] ABC's Bill Weir was there.

[26:41] >> [screaming]

[26:43] >> It is hardly rare for politicians and

[26:45] entertainers to share space. President

[26:48] Obama!

[26:49] Public affection is the bread and butter

[26:51] of both vocations, after all. But never

[26:54] has Washington seen an A-list invasion

[26:56] quite like this.

[26:58] Oscar winners and Olympians, stars of

[27:01] rock, rap, and the tube. Even for jaded

[27:04] journalists, it was a trip to pop

[27:06] culture fantasy camp.

[27:07] >> Please ask me what I'm wearing, who I'm

[27:09] wearing.

[27:09] >> you wearing, Bill?

[27:11] Men's Wearhouse.

[27:13] Comedian Wanda Sykes headlined and

[27:16] earned big laughs early on. The first

[27:18] black president, you know. Well, that's

[27:20] unless you screw up.

[27:24] And then it's going to be, "What's up

[27:25] with the half-white guy, huh?"

[27:28] But she brought groans and rage on

[27:30] conservative websites with a shot at the

[27:33] radio host who famously hopes this

[27:35] president fails. Rush Limbaugh was the

[27:37] 20th hijacker, but he was just so strung

[27:39] out on OxyContin, he missed his flight.

[27:43] But even for a veteran comedian, it's

[27:44] almost unfair to follow a man who

[27:46] commands a stable of joke writers and a

[27:48] ballroom full of affection. I am Barack

[27:51] Obama.

[27:53] Most of you covered me.

[27:56] All of you voted for me.

[27:58] >> [laughter]

[27:59] >> No matter which party you belong to, we

[28:01] can all agree that

[28:03] Michelle has the right to bear arms.

[28:05] >> [laughter]

[28:07] >> His zingers were bipartisan, one for the

[28:09] salty-tongued chief of staff.

[28:11] >> This is a tough holiday for Rahm Emanuel

[28:13] because he's not used to saying the word

[28:16] day after mother.

[28:19] Another for a rival Republican fond of

[28:21] spray tan.

[28:22] >> Even John Boehner will consider becoming

[28:25] a Democrat.

[28:27] After all, we have a lot of in common.

[28:29] He is a person of color.

[28:34] Although not a color that

[28:36] appears in the natural world.

[28:40] Makes you wonder what kind of ratings

[28:41] C-SPAN would enjoy if this town was like

[28:44] this every night.

[28:46] Bill Weir, ABC News, Washington.

[28:50] And that's going to do it for World News

[28:51] on this Sunday. I'm Dan Harris for all

[28:53] of us here at ABC News. Thank you for

[28:55] watching, and happy Mother's Day.

[29:01] Tonight We're getting married. I'm off

[29:03] the hook for alimony. What? Things are

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[29:06] Orson's going to get half of everything.

[29:08] >> Wouldn't it be easier to just have him

[29:09] killed?

[29:10] ABC's Desperate Housewives, all new

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[29:17] A fatal confrontation between two

[29:19] neighbors in St. Helens, a gun versus a

[29:22] sword, how it followed a morning of

[29:24] golf.

[29:25] Not exactly mom of the year material,

[29:28] the Northwest mother accused of

[29:29] assaulting a Little League player. On

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[29:35] joy. The new take on whether moms think

[29:38] they're doing a good job. How this local

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[29:45] >> [music]

[29:46] >> Live at 6:00, this is K 2 News on your

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[29:51] Good evening and thanks for joining us.

[29:52] I'm Anna Song. A St. Helens man is dead

[29:55] after an argument with his neighbor goes

[29:57] too far. K2's Adam Gussow has