CBS Evening News - 2000-06-16
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[0:03] Suddenly, they're back as mysteriously
[0:06] as they vanished. Computer hard drives
[0:09] containing US nuclear secrets reappear.
[0:13] Rising gasoline prices. The president
[0:15] says he's worried. We'll look at the
[0:17] impact on the US economy. A CBS News
[0:20] exclusive. Where terrorist Osama bin
[0:23] Laden may strike next. And a dietary
[0:27] supplement that could reduce the risk of
[0:29] heart attack.
[0:36] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan
[0:39] Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:42] headquarters in New York.
[0:44] Good evening. The missing nuclear weapon
[0:46] secrets at the Los Alamos laboratory in
[0:48] New Mexico have suddenly been found. The
[0:51] two computer hard drives with the
[0:53] weapons data on them turned up inside
[0:55] the facility where they'd been reported
[0:57] missing 6 weeks ago. And they may
[0:59] actually have been missing longer. It's
[1:01] possible someone took them and put them
[1:03] back. CBS's Sharyl Attkisson is on the
[1:06] fast breaking story of lost and found at
[1:08] Los Alamos. Sharyl?
[1:09] Dan, the Energy Department rushed out
[1:11] the announcement late today. The missing
[1:13] hard drives have been found and if
[1:15] there's a glimpse of good news in the
[1:17] security fiasco, it is that they were
[1:19] found within the lab's secure area X
[1:21] division.
[1:23] Energy Secretary Richardson announced
[1:25] that although the hard drives have been
[1:27] visually validated, meaning identified
[1:29] by sight, the official validation of
[1:32] their authenticity is underway. Among
[1:34] the unanswered questions, did the hard
[1:36] drives leave the secured area and were
[1:38] they subsequently returned? Remember,
[1:41] lab personnel, the FBI, and Energy
[1:43] Department had, qu