World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-06
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[0:06] On World News Tonight this Tuesday,
[0:08] millions of people looking for more coal
[0:10] and the power companies looking for more
[0:12] electricity. The presidential poverty
[0:14] tour goes to the Mississippi Delta.
[0:16] We'll take a closer look at how hard it
[0:19] is to make a difference. And we're going
[0:21] to take you to one of the stunning four
[0:23] corners of the earth tonight where
[0:25] heaven help them, they are just getting
[0:27] television.
[0:35] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:38] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:41] Peter Jennings.
[0:42] >> Good evening. Yes, it is summer and yes,
[0:44] it's supposed to be hot in July.
[0:46] However, today in well over half the
[0:49] country, temperatures were in the 90s
[0:51] and in one brutal swath. From Virginia
[0:54] north to New England, it was in the
[0:56] hundreds. The strain on people and
[0:58] systems is enormous. So, we go first to
[1:01] ABC's Bob Jameson.
[1:04] On its third day, the Northeast's worst
[1:05] heat wave in 5 years produced far more
[1:08] than discomfort.
[1:11] In Boston, a steady stream of ambulances
[1:14] brought residents with heat related
[1:15] illnesses to city hospital. Calls to the
[1:18] city's emergency services soared.
[1:20] >> Today, we're actually 36% busier than
[1:22] our uh normal call volume throughout the
[1:24] day.
[1:24] >> Hello, you've reached the 4 New York
[1:26] helpline. May I help you?
[1:27] >> In New York, city officials operated a
[1:29] phone center to help with emergencies
[1:31] and direct those without air
[1:33] conditioning to cooling centers. 86
[1:35] cooling centers were open. Officials
[1:37] mindful of criticism that Chicago didn't
[1:40] do enough four years ago when a heat
[1:42] wave there led to 500 deaths. The
[1:45] excessive heat caused power dips that
[1:46] delayed subway service, leaving
[1:48] thousands sweltering in the underground
[1:50] stations.
[1:51] >> The weather is unbelievable. I've never
[1:53] seen it this hot before. Feels like
[1:57] >> the heat buckled and even melted roads
[2:00] from New York's Long Island to I95 near
[2:02] Philadelphia. Metal decking warped on
[2:05] New York's 59th Street Bridge, closing
[2:07] it for 8 hours. In Washington, city
[2:10] officials called off the first day of a
[2:11] summer jobs program for 7,000 youths
[2:14] because of the high heat. This helps a
[2:17] lot. Relief, however, is on the way. The
[2:20] weather pattern that caused the
[2:21] Northeast to bake under hotter and
[2:23] hotter stagnant air is now changing. The
[2:25] jetream, which had dipped far south of
[2:27] normal in the western United States and
[2:29] north of normal in the east, is
[2:31] returning to normal. that will allow
[2:33] cool air to flow through, like turning
[2:35] on a fan, dropping temperatures 10
[2:38] degrees tonight. And by tomorrow, it may
[2:40] not be necessary for visitors and
[2:42] animals at Washington's National Zoo to
[2:44] seek relief the way they did today. Bob
[2:46] Jameson, ABC News, New York. Well,
[2:49] whatever you did to accommodate the heat
[2:51] today, the real scramble on a day like
[2:52] this is among the utility companies
[2:54] trying to keep up with a record demand
[2:56] for power. when they failed. In several
[2:59] parts of the east today, there were
[3:00] brown outs or blackouts. And in several
[3:03] places where the companies knew they
[3:04] were going to have a problem, it was get
[3:06] the power broker on the phone. Here's
[3:09] ABC's Betsy Stark.
[3:11] >> Many power companies prepare for heavy
[3:13] summer usage by making deals with
[3:15] suppliers months in advance. And this
[3:18] week, that preparation paid off. But
[3:20] those who do not prepare are forced to
[3:22] buy the extra power they need dayby day.
[3:26] A utility selling surplus power pumps
[3:28] the extra electricity into the nation's
[3:31] power grid. The buyer pulls the power
[3:33] out of the grid hundreds, even thousands
[3:36] of miles away.
[3:37] >> We're drawing power from Alabama,
[3:39] Louisiana, Florida, uh, South Carolina,
[3:43] and even up through Canada.
[3:45] >> It is not cheap. Normally, the price per
[3:48] unit of power averages around $30. Power
[3:52] companies in the Mid-Atlantic buying for
[3:54] delivery today paid as much as 30 times
[3:56] that rate or $900 per unit.
[4:00] >> You'd rather be selling today than
[4:01] buying. That's for sure.
[4:03] >> For power companies selling energy, this
[4:05] week's heat wave represents a huge
[4:07] windfall for companies forced to buy.
[4:10] It's a big hit to the bottom line. But
[4:12] consumers are largely protected because
[4:15] their rates are set a year in advance
[4:17] and because these soaring prices will
[4:20] last only as long as the heat wave.
[4:22] Betsy Stark, ABC News, New York.
[4:26] >> And very much weather related in Atlanta
[4:28] today. Lightning during a thunderstorm
[4:30] struck an apartment building, sparking
[4:33] an enormous fire, as you can see. Police
[4:36] say lightning from the same storm caused
[4:38] fires at half a dozen other buildings in
[4:41] downtown Atlanta.
[4:43] In Yugoslavia tonight, there have been
[4:45] more demonstrations against the leader,
[4:46] President Malloich, for the second day
[4:48] running in the southern city of Lecovach
[4:50] and more calls for President Mallosvich
[4:52] to resign. Late tonight, there's word of
[4:55] police clashes with demonstrators. Mr.
[4:58] Mr. Mallovich has proved before that he
[5:00] knows how to ride out sustained
[5:01] opposition, but increasingly the
[5:04] political establishment is turning
[5:06] against him. Take the mayor of the town
[5:08] Creoitz. The mayor says he could get rid
[5:11] of Mr. Mallosvich with some help from
[5:13] the United States. And there's the rub.
[5:16] Here's ABC's Bill Ricker.
[5:18] It seems like the perfect place for the
[5:21] US to try to influence postwar
[5:23] Yugoslavia. Krau Yeevets is a company
[5:26] town, home of the Hugo automobile and
[5:28] vehemently anti Mallosvich. City Hall is
[5:31] ruled by the opposition party and the
[5:34] mayor says he would welcome aid from the
[5:36] US.
[5:40] >> Everybody will be against Belosvich in
[5:42] the cities that get help from the west.
[5:43] He says this could be a turning point
[5:46] for democracy to prevail.
[5:49] >> There's just one problem. The US and
[5:52] NATO destroyed the car factory and a
[5:54] nearby small arms plant, leaving the
[5:56] town without work and without resources
[5:59] to oppose the Mallosich government. The
[6:02] factory, which was hit by more than two
[6:04] dozen rockets and bombs, once employed
[6:06] 36,000 workers. No one works here now.
[6:10] Add another 17,000 new Serbian refugees
[6:13] from Kosovo, and more than half the
[6:15] people here are without work.
[6:19] I blame both Melovich and NATO, which
[6:21] was brutal, says this unemployed auto
[6:23] worker. Now we need help from the
[6:25] international community. All we have to
[6:27] offer is our wisdom. Here's the catch.
[6:31] The US says places like Pragueets will
[6:33] get no help until Melosvich is gone. No
[6:36] money to rebuild the car factory. No
[6:38] money to repair the power plant. The
[6:41] mayor says he doesn't understand that.
[6:43] You want to get rid of Mallosich? He
[6:45] says, so do we. All we need is a little
[6:48] help. Bill Ricker, ABC News, Pragueetsz,
[6:52] Yugoslavia.
[6:54] >> One other international item, President
[6:55] Clinton has imposed financial sanctions
[6:57] against the Taliban, which is basically
[7:00] the religious militia which runs
[7:02] Afghanistan. Sanctions may not make much
[7:04] difference. US trade with Afghanistan
[7:06] was worth only $24 million last year.
[7:08] Carpets for the US and machinery for
[7:11] them. But Mr. Clinton says he wants to
[7:13] punish the Taliban, which he says
[7:15] supports the alleged international
[7:17] terrorist Osama bin Laden. And one note
[7:21] about Mrs. Clinton on the verge of her
[7:22] political future. Mrs. Clinton today
[7:24] filed papers with the federal election
[7:25] commission. She can now raise and spend
[7:28] money on a Senate campaign in New York.
[7:30] Tomorrow, she comes to this state to
[7:32] begin a highly publicized tour. So, as
[7:35] she puts it, she can listen to the
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[9:51] and serial killers can stay on the loose
[9:53] for a very long time. ABC's Deborah Wong
[9:56] reports tonight from Seattle.
[9:59] >> They've been searching for a serial
[10:01] killer in Spokane, Washington for close
[10:03] to two years. Police believe he has
[10:05] murdered at least eight women and
[10:07] possibly more. Around New Orleans, six
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[10:11] serial killer. Two bodies have been
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[10:16] >> Both of our cases involved relatively
[10:18] young black males. Uh both cases
[10:21] involved either uh strangulation or
[10:23] esphyxiation.
[10:24] Um and um in both cases they were
[10:27] partially pled with their shoes missing.
[10:29] >> And in the past 2 months in Portland,
[10:32] Oregon, police have found the bodies of
[10:34] three women in remote areas of this
[10:36] park. All of them strangled.
[10:38] >> We're looking at a pattern homicide
[10:40] here. A serial homicide. A serial killer
[10:43] as everyone likes to call it. And in all
[10:45] three cases, police are struggling to
[10:47] find leads in what they say is the most
[10:49] difficult kind of homicide to solve.
[10:52] There is a common thread to many of
[10:53] these cases, like the three victims in
[10:56] Portland, Oregon. Most had histories of
[10:58] drug addiction or prostitution or they
[11:00] lived on the fringes of society, which
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[11:05] which makes the investigation into their
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[11:08] time anyone notices that a victim is
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[11:13] Another difficulty, the history of
[11:15] serial killers tells us they are highly
[11:17] intelligent, their actions methodically
[11:19] plan.
[11:20] >> And then on top of that, uh, he's doing
[11:22] his crimes over and over again. He's
[11:24] he's practicing. He's getting better as
[11:26] he goes.
[11:27] >> For 15 years, detectives in Seattle have
[11:29] been trying to track down the Green
[11:31] River serial killer linked to the
[11:32] murders of 49 people. After compiling
[11:36] 10,000 documents and interviewing 3,000
[11:38] suspects, they are no closer to cracking
[11:41] the case. Which is why serial killers
[11:43] produce so much fear in some parts of
[11:46] town. Nobody knows if they will be
[11:48] caught before they kill again. Deborah
[11:51] Wong, ABC News, Portland, Oregon.
[11:54] >> On the money tonight, a tremendous spurt
[11:56] last month of business being done in the
[11:58] service sector. Banks and retailers and
[12:00] restaurants say that business increased
[12:02] at an even faster pace in June than in
[12:05] May. This is what the Federal Reserve
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[12:08] interest rates last week. The Labor
[12:11] Department tells us today that from 1994
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[12:29] points to close at 11,135.
[12:32] On the Nasdaq, stocks were also down
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[12:38] fight against poverty. What the casinos
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[14:57] poverty this week by visiting some of
[14:59] the country's impoverished regions.
[15:01] Yesterday he was in Appalachia saying
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[15:04] incentives for investing in poor America
[15:07] the way it does for overseas investment.
[15:10] Today he's in the Mississippi Delta,
[15:11] which Jesse Jackson once described as
[15:13] the Ethiopia of America. It was so poor.
[15:17] In the 1990s, the Delta has actually hit
[15:19] the jackpot in some ways. That is to say
[15:22] that more money is now wagered at the
[15:24] new casinos in Tuna, Mississippi, than
[15:26] anywhere else in the country, save Las
[15:29] Vegas and Atlantic City. There are jobs
[15:32] available, and the Delta has people who
[15:34] want to work. You'd think it wouldn't be
[15:35] difficult, but listen to ABC's Rebecca
[15:38] Chase.
[15:42] >> Life has always been hard here in the
[15:44] birthplace of the blues.
[15:48] For generations, the endless miles of
[15:50] cotton fields provided the only jobs in
[15:53] the Delta
[15:55] until the casinos came to Tunica.
[15:58] 10 casinos now employ more than 15,000
[16:01] people.
[16:02] >> The steest solid job I ever had.
[16:05] >> I finally got a chance to get my own
[16:06] car.
[16:07] >> Average starting pay is $8 an hour, more
[16:10] than most people here have ever made.
[16:13] They have insurance for the first time
[16:15] and that is only one of the benefits.
[16:17] >> If I come to work clean, I can go home
[16:19] clean all the dust like I was in in the
[16:21] farm and stuff like that.
[16:23] >> But the casinos have a problem. They
[16:26] have hundreds of unfilled jobs. In order
[16:29] to fill all of its job openings, the
[16:31] Graham Casino started recruiting in
[16:33] small Delta towns like here in
[16:35] Jonestown. But they were shocked at what
[16:38] they found. It reminded me of some of
[16:40] the the small villages that I uh had
[16:42] visited in in third world countries.
[16:45] >> This part of the delta, just 40 miles
[16:47] from the casinos, suffers from the
[16:49] highest rates of long-term joblessness,
[16:52] poverty, and illiteracy in the country.
[16:55] >> I was just absolutely I almost
[16:57] speechless. I couldn't believe that
[16:58] anything like that existed in the United
[17:01] States.
[17:03] The Grand Casino enlisted the help of
[17:05] the local church where the pastor is
[17:08] also the mayor of Jonestown.
[17:11] >> With his encouragement in this town of
[17:13] 1500 people, more than 300 applied for
[17:16] jobs.
[17:17] >> I was surprised to see the numbers of
[17:19] people who never held a job before,
[17:21] >> never had a job, and most never finished
[17:23] high school. Many could not read or
[17:25] write. Only 86 were hired for
[17:28] entry-level jobs in the commissary, the
[17:31] laundry, or picking up after guests.
[17:33] >> How you doing, man?
[17:34] >> Getting to work was a chronic problem,
[17:37] so the Grand provided free bus service.
[17:40] Even so, a year later, only 30 people
[17:42] from Jonestown are still on the job. The
[17:45] casino says they have become excellent
[17:47] workers, but that potential employers
[17:50] who might answer the president's call
[17:52] should be prepared for just how hard
[17:54] life still is. here in the Delta.
[17:57] Rebecca Chase, ABC News, Jonestown,
[18:00] Mississippi.
[18:01] >> Jonestown is actually one of several
[18:03] places that has not reaped the full
[18:05] benefits of the economic boom. A report
[18:07] from the Employment Policies Institute
[18:09] finds there are 270 small cities and
[18:13] rural counties where the percentage of
[18:15] people without jobs is more than twice
[18:18] the national average. In a moment,
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[20:48] >> Dolphins are in the news today, and it's
[20:50] not the kind of news the kids are going
[20:52] to be delighted with. Today, we've
[20:53] learned of a very different side to the
[20:55] playful, intelligent sea creature that
[20:57] almost everyone loves. The ancient
[20:59] Greeks told us that dolphins rescued
[21:01] lost sailors. These days, tourists swim
[21:03] with them looking for healing
[21:05] encounters.
[21:06] Now we learn the dolphin is also a
[21:08] killer. Here's ABC's Ned Potter.
[21:12] >> That was very good. Open.
[21:13] >> Perhaps it was that seeming smile.
[21:17] >> Over the years, we put dolphins on a
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[21:20] >> Look at that.
[21:21] >> To be enjoyed, studied, in some cases,
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[21:25] >> The public perception is that dolphins
[21:27] are not wild animals, that they're
[21:28] flipper. Whereas the exact opposite is
[21:31] true.
[21:32] Look at these pictures of a female
[21:34] dolphin and her child being chased by
[21:37] several male aggressors. Of the mother
[21:40] trying to ward off their attack. And now
[21:43] you have a hint of what biologists have
[21:45] realized in recent years. That dolphins
[21:47] can be killers even of their young. They
[21:51] have a mouthful of very sharp teeth.
[21:53] They can strike animals with either
[21:56] their tails or by hitting them with
[21:58] their rostrm which is their beak-like
[22:00] snout. Why do they do it? Nobody's sure.
[22:03] Though apparently dolphins do not only
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[22:10] mothers will not be preoccupied with
[22:12] child rearing.
[22:13] >> The males may be killing off young
[22:15] calves with the idea that then the the
[22:18] females will be receptive to to mating
[22:21] that year.
[22:22] >> And they do not only kill their own.
[22:24] They've been seen killing other sea
[22:25] animals by the hundreds. Attacks on
[22:28] humans are extremely rare, but on the
[22:30] open water, scientists now urge people
[22:32] to keep their distance.
[22:34] >> What we're finding now, I think, is a
[22:36] little bit of a dose of reality that
[22:38] these animals really are wild animals.
[22:40] >> Here comes the dolphin.
[22:41] >> And so our picture of them changes.
[22:44] Intelligent as dolphins may be, the
[22:46] ocean in which they live is as wild as
[22:48] any jungle. Ned Potter, ABC News, New
[22:51] York.
[22:53] >> Well, here's a story that the young will
[22:55] appreciate. In Louisiana today, good
[22:57] manners became the law. The governor
[22:59] signed a bill that requires children
[23:01] kindergarten through fifth grade to
[23:03] address teachers as ma'am or sir. The
[23:05] law lets the school districts determine
[23:07] how to punish the children if they don't
[23:09] comply. In a moment, a remote mountain
[23:12] kingdom joins the global village.
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[23:24] Nothing is proven to work better or last
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[23:29] You see this one? For 14 years, people
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[23:33] it's gentle on the stomach. And you may
[23:35] be surprised to learn that both are
[23:38] anvil. It's true. Nothing's proven to
[23:41] work better or longer than Advil. And
[23:43] millions of people can tell you it's
[23:44] gentle to the stomach. Strong yet
[23:47] gentle. Advil.
[23:52] >> With days in hotels in over 1,800 cities
[23:55] and towns, finding a place to stay
[23:59] doesn't take a federal investigation.
[24:02] Days in. There you go.
[24:06] >> All set.
[24:06] >> Hey, this isn't my accord.
[24:08] >> No, but it's a great night for a century
[24:09] test drive.
[24:10] >> What about our moon drive?
[24:11] >> Let's flip a coin. Okay, I'll take
[24:13] shotgun.
[24:14] >> So, what do you think?
[24:15] >> It's kind of stuffy in here. Well then,
[24:16] Brandy, you'll appreciate the dual
[24:18] climate control, standard traction
[24:19] control, AB doesn't have that.
[24:21] >> And Cord LX also doesn't have a wife as
[24:23] delicate as a flower.
[24:24] >> What? It doesn't have standard V6 power.
[24:26] What I said there.
[24:28] >> Take the Century Challenge today and get
[24:29] $1,500 cash back. That's a lot of cash
[24:32] back.
[24:33] >> Isn't this reminds me of your honeymoon.
[24:36] If it's real chicken your dog wants,
[24:40] it's prime you want
[24:44] because highquality chicken is the
[24:46] primary ingredient in Pedigree Prime.
[24:51] Wednesday, they thought their child was
[24:53] in loving hands.
[24:54] >> I hit the play button and my whole world
[24:56] turned upside down.
[24:57] >> But their nanny was charged with abuse
[24:59] when they saw this. What's happening in
[25:01] your home when you're not there? 2020
[25:03] Wednesday.
[25:07] Finally, this evening, we're going to
[25:08] visit one of the loveliest places on
[25:09] earth. It's dramatic. It's isolated,
[25:11] magical in many ways. It's the kind of
[25:14] mysterious place that often attracts us
[25:16] on this segment called Four Corners. The
[25:18] Southeast or rather the South Asian
[25:21] mountain kingdom of Bhutan, just above
[25:23] India, just below China. Mind you, in
[25:26] this particular case, the Bhutanese and
[25:28] we have a very different idea of what's
[25:30] mysterious. ABC's Mark Litkkey has just
[25:32] been there.
[25:36] Tucked securely behind the towering
[25:38] Himalayas, its ancient traditions
[25:40] preserved by its isolation, tiny Bhutan
[25:44] has accepted the modern world in only
[25:46] the smallest doses until that is the
[25:49] king decreed.
[25:52] >> The kingdom would finally have
[25:54] >> the two. Every night now for the two
[25:57] hours it's on the air, Bhutanese press
[26:00] against store windows or gather in the
[26:02] few homes with sets. The wonder of it
[26:05] all mirrored in their faces.
[26:07] >> It's a beautiful picture.
[26:09] >> Actually, it's a pretty scratchy
[26:11] picture, but no one seems to mind.
[26:13] >> They're proud to see on the television
[26:16] faces, you know, Putin programs, Bhutini
[26:18] songs, you know, Putin costumes.
[26:20] >> Bhutan TV is still struggling with the
[26:23] technology and the demand for programs.
[26:25] Their biggest hit so far, this
[26:27] production by local students called A
[26:30] Pot of Gold. Not surprisingly, it's been
[26:32] a gold mine for the only television
[26:35] store in the country. It seems everyone
[26:37] here is ready to tune in, especially the
[26:39] young. What do you want to see?
[26:41] >> Uh, the news of Bhutan
[26:43] >> dramas,
[26:44] >> sports.
[26:44] >> Can American shows be far behind? Even
[26:47] Baywatch?
[26:47] >> I don't think so, but if it comes, I'm
[26:49] more than willing to watch it.
[26:51] Bhutan resisted television for decades
[26:54] for just that reason, to keep out what
[26:56] it saw as harmful foreign influences in
[26:58] a spiritual land. But a better educated
[27:01] generation here wants to see more of the
[27:03] outside world. So Bhutan's rulers
[27:06] decided to join the global village.
[27:08] >> I am optimistic. I think television is a
[27:10] very powerful instrument. Yes, a
[27:12] negative instrument as well if you have
[27:14] negative intentions. In fact, the
[27:16] decision to allow TV was partly to
[27:19] counteract the satellite dishes and
[27:21] violent videos already creeping into the
[27:23] land. Bhutan's leaders say they do
[27:26] accept the inevitable that once
[27:28] television has exposed their people to
[27:30] the world beyond these valleys, it will
[27:33] be much more difficult to preserve
[27:35] Bhutanese culture and traditions. They
[27:38] only hope, as others did a half century
[27:40] ago and a world away, that television
[27:42] will fulfill its promise and potential.
[27:45] As they're just learning to say here,
[27:48] stay tuned. Mark Litzky, ABC News,
[27:52] Bhutan.
[27:54] Not many places left on the earth
[27:55] without it. Now, that's our report on
[27:57] World News Tonight. Don't forget Night
[27:58] Line later. I'm Peter Jennings. Have a
[27:59] good evening. Good night.
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