CBS Evening News - 1999-12-09
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[0:01] Bag pipes whail. Widows weep for fallen
[0:04] heroes.
[0:08] Firefighters from all over America and
[0:10] the world pay a final honor to six of
[0:12] their own who gave their lives trying to
[0:15] save others. The FBI nabs a Russian spy
[0:19] and a bugging device deep within the US
[0:22] State Department. Plus, the business of
[0:24] Y2K. What if they gave a party
[0:28] and nobody came?
[0:31] >> This is the CBS Evening News
[0:35] with Dan Rather [music] reporting from
[0:37] CBS News headquarters in New York.
[0:41] [music]
[0:41] >> Good evening. The soulful sound of bag
[0:43] pipes filled the air today in Worcester,
[0:45] Massachusetts, as tens of thousands of
[0:48] firefighters came from around the world
[0:50] to bring comfort in a family tragedy.
[0:53] President Clinton led the morning for
[0:55] six firefighters trapped and killed as
[0:58] they search for homeless people in a
[0:59] burning warehouse. Four of the men are
[1:02] still missing in the ruins. CBS News
[1:04] chief White House correspondent John
[1:06] Roberts begins our coverage
[1:14] from far and wide. They came to
[1:16] Worcester today to pay tribute to six
[1:18] fallen heroes to celebrate the special
[1:21] bond that firefighters across the globe
[1:23] share.
[1:24] >> It's like a brotherhood and uh when any
[1:27] of them are lost, it's like some one of
[1:28] our own brothers is lost no matter where
[1:30] you are in the world.
[1:32] >> Each of the faces of the 20,000 who
[1:34] marched marked the grief that has seized
[1:36] this community. the loss of Timothy
[1:38] Jackson, James Lions, Thomas Spencer,
[1:41] Paul Brotherton, Jeremiah Lucy, and
[1:44] Joseph Mcgherk.
[1:46] >> We didn't lose six faceless heroes. We
[1:48] lost six members of our family. And
[1:50] because of