NBC Nightly News - 1982-08-11

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[0:00] TV Nashville

[0:05] >> This is NBC [music] Nightly News with

[0:07] Roger Mudd in Washington and Tom Brokaw

[0:10] in Jerusalem.

[0:12] >> Good evening from Jerusalem where today

[0:14] the Israeli government raised three

[0:16] major objections to the proposed plan

[0:18] for the evacuation of the PLO from West

[0:20] Beirut. But everyone does agree that

[0:22] progress was made today. However, while

[0:25] the meeting between Prime Minister Begin

[0:27] and the American mediator Philip Habib

[0:28] was going on here, the Israelis were

[0:31] once again attacking PLO positions in

[0:33] West Beirut.

[0:34] First, the diplomatic story.

[0:37] Habib had two meetings with the Israeli

[0:39] leaders today before returning to Beirut

[0:40] tonight to work on their objections.

[0:43] Prime Minister Begin and Foreign

[0:44] Minister Shamir are said to be eager for

[0:46] a diplomatic solution and tonight even

[0:48] Defense Minister Sharon sounded

[0:50] optimistic.

[0:51] >> I hope that

[0:54] we are on the eve of

[0:57] the evacuation

[0:59] of the

[1:00] PLO terrorists

[1:02] from Beirut.

[1:04] And I believe that that will bring

[1:07] a new development and maybe new era to

[1:10] the region.

[1:12] >> NBC News has learned that these are the

[1:14] major Israeli objections.

[1:17] First, they want confirmation from the

[1:19] Arab governments involved that they will

[1:21] take the number of PLO fighters listed

[1:23] in the evacuation formula. The word of

[1:25] the PLO is not good enough.

[1:27] The Israelis also reportedly want to

[1:29] know the name, rank, and destination of

[1:31] each PLO fighter.

[1:34] Next, the Israelis are not happy with

[1:36] plans to deploy a French peacekeeping

[1:38] force in Beirut first after the initial

[1:40] contingent of PLO fighters leave.

[1:43] Defense Minister Sharon said this is the

[1:45] major objection.

[1:48] And the Israelis don't want United

[1:50] Nations forces to play a role in Lebanon

[1:52] once the war is over.

[1:54] Israeli Defense Minister Sharon said

[1:56] tonight that the Israeli forces won't

[1:58] leave Lebanon until all of the Syrian

[2:00] forces are out as well.

[2:01] And Sharon said the continued Israeli

[2:04] military attacks on West Beirut are

[2:06] designed to make sure that the PLO stick

[2:08] to the evacuation agreement.

[2:10] Americans involved in this negotiation

[2:12] effort are concerned that they could

[2:14] have the opposite effect. That they

[2:16] could drive the PLO to a more desperate

[2:18] decision, a decision to stay and fight.

[2:22] Beirut was under attack again today.

[2:29] >> The Israelis moved up during the night

[2:32] under cover of artillery, tank, mortar,

[2:34] and machine gun fire.

[2:38] The Israeli troops didn't take a lot of

[2:40] ground and the attacks seem to be

[2:42] designed more to keep up pressure than

[2:44] to drive the Palestinians out.

[2:50] This morning the heavy guns continued to

[2:52] pound the Palestinians near the

[2:54] racetrack, the new front line in the

[2:56] center of the city.

[3:00] Israel then unleashed its air power

[3:02] again. The fighter bombers concentrated

[3:04] on Palestinian positions in the south.

[3:10] One Israeli armored personnel carrier

[3:12] raced into a new position.

[3:16] In Juni, 8 miles to the north of Beirut,

[3:19] Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa

[3:21] landed, the first lady of peace in a

[3:24] land which has very little of that

[3:25] commodity.

[3:27] Dick Kagan, NBC News, East Beirut.

[3:35] >> This is the prod Israel uses to speed

[3:38] the evacuation of Palestinian forces.

[3:40] Daily air raids on refugee camps where

[3:43] Palestinian fighters have their

[3:44] strongholds.

[3:46] The time is never the same.

[3:48] The bombs fall for an hour or so, the

[3:51] jets go back to Israel.

[3:54] The raids are pulverizing the camps. No

[3:56] building is unscathed. The majority are

[3:59] destroyed.

[4:00] Many have fled the daily barrage, but

[4:02] there are those who stay on, many of

[4:05] them elderly.

[4:06] This woman said her house had been hit.

[4:09] Now there was no food. What are they

[4:11] shooting at us for? She said, "There are

[4:13] no fighters here."

[4:16] Well, that's not the entire story.

[4:18] Even as we were speaking to that woman,

[4:20] three Palestinian fighters with all

[4:22] their weapons emerged from the basement

[4:23] of a nearby building. The truth is that

[4:25] the Palestinian forces are mingled with

[4:28] civilian Palestinians everywhere in this

[4:30] refugee camp.

[4:33] With the constant barrage from Israeli

[4:35] planes and artillery, every Beirut day

[4:37] has its moments of terror when incoming

[4:40] artillery or a sniper send everyone

[4:42] running for cover.

[4:45] For some, war is so familiar that they

[4:47] can't bother to hurry.

[4:50] Evacuation plan or not, there is no sign

[4:53] Israel will moderate its intense

[4:55] pressure on this city until Palestinian

[4:57] forces are gone.

[4:59] James Compton, NBC News, West Beirut.

[5:04] >> This complicated emotional situation has

[5:07] been complicated even more by the

[5:09] situation in France.

[5:10] Before this week, the Israeli government

[5:12] was opposed to the idea of a French

[5:14] peacekeeping force. And the murder of a

[5:16] half dozen Jews in Paris only hardened

[5:19] attitudes here.

[5:20] There was more trouble in Paris today,

[5:22] and Steve Mallory has that story.

[5:27] >> An Iraqi consulate building was engulfed

[5:29] in flames when a bomb hidden in a truck

[5:32] exploded in the street. Paris firemen

[5:34] fought the blaze for an hour.

[5:36] Six people were injured. Three were

[5:38] children related to embassy personnel.

[5:41] Their injuries were minor.

[5:44] I witnesses said a A truck parked in

[5:46] front of the consulate building near the

[5:48] Iraqi Embassy late this afternoon.

[5:50] The truck exploded seconds after the

[5:52] driver got out and walked away.

[5:55] A caller claimed a dissident Iraqi group

[5:57] was responsible for the bombing attack.

[6:00] French police said they had never heard

[6:01] of the group before today.

[6:03] Earlier, a bomb exploded outside a

[6:05] commercial building in central Paris

[6:07] where some Jewish businesses are

[6:09] located.

[6:10] When firemen fought to contain the fire

[6:12] at the Iraqi consulate site, French

[6:14] government and political leaders were

[6:16] attending a special memorial service at

[6:18] a Paris synagogue to honor those killed

[6:20] or wounded at a Jewish restaurant

[6:22] earlier this week during a shooting

[6:24] attack.

[6:25] The chief rabbi of France urged French

[6:27] Jews to remain calm in the wake of the

[6:29] growing number of terrorist incidents in

[6:31] Paris.

[6:32] Saying the Jewish people should rely on

[6:34] the government to protect them.

[6:36] But the French Prime Minister was

[6:38] heckled as he left the services.

[6:41] Later, more than a thousand people

[6:43] gathered at a Jewish memorial in Paris

[6:45] to condemn terrorism in the country.

[6:47] Angry speakers said the French

[6:49] government allows terrorism to flourish

[6:51] here. The demonstration continued into

[6:53] the night. As it ended, people gathered

[6:55] around the eternal flame dedicated to

[6:57] the French Jews deported to Nazi Germany

[7:00] during World War II. Steve Mallory, NBC

[7:02] News, Paris.

[7:06] >> The incidents in Paris have only made

[7:08] the Israelis more defensive. And their

[7:10] leaders sound more militant. Tonight,

[7:12] Foreign Minister Shamir said of Jews,

[7:14] "We are capable of defending ourselves

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[9:08] Montana bringing none other than the

[9:10] president of the United States. Here's

[9:12] John Palmer.

[9:15] >> It looked like a scene from Mr. Reagan's

[9:17] old TV western series, Death Valley

[9:20] Days, as the president, riding on top of

[9:22] a stagecoach, arrived to help celebrate

[9:25] Billings' 100th birthday and to plug his

[9:28] tax increase.

[9:41] >> His message, a 99 billion dollar tax

[9:44] increase is needed to lower the huge

[9:46] federal deficit. His language was more

[9:48] colorful here than in Washington.

[9:51] >> For a conservative president like me to

[9:53] have to put his arms around a

[9:55] multi-billion dollar deficit

[9:58] is like holding your nose and embracing

[10:00] a pig.

[10:02] And believe me, that budget deficit is

[10:04] as slippery as a greased pig.

[10:07] >> The president then turned on his critics

[10:09] in Congress.

[10:10] >> If I could correct 40 years of fiscal

[10:12] irresponsibility in 1 year, I'd go back

[10:15] to show business as a magician.

[10:21] You know, that might be more fun pulling

[10:23] rabbits out of a hat and jackasses out

[10:25] of the way in Washington.

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[10:30] >> Later at a political fundraiser, the

[10:32] president said he had made a compromise

[10:35] in accepting the tax bill in order to

[10:37] lower the federal deficit.

[10:39] While the president believes passage of

[10:41] the tax bill is important, his senior

[10:43] aides say much bigger stakes are

[10:45] involved that rejection by Congress

[10:47] would seriously weaken the president's

[10:49] leadership and ability to get the rest

[10:51] of his economic program through

[10:53] Congress. John Palmer, NBC News with

[10:55] President Reagan in Montana.

[10:58] >> There used to be a joke when Mendel

[11:00] Rivers of South Carolina was chairman of

[11:02] the House Armed Services Committee that

[11:03] if another military installation got

[11:05] added to Rivers' district, Charleston

[11:07] would sink. Today, as the 7 billion

[11:09] dollar military construction bill

[11:11] reached the House, it was obvious the

[11:12] committee was at it again. Here's Lisa

[11:14] Myers.

[11:16] >> Even the rapid deployment force, pride

[11:18] of the Pentagon and would-be protector

[11:20] in the Middle East, was told that some

[11:22] of its facilities would have to wait.

[11:25] As Brinkley of Georgia told the House

[11:27] >> Because of the severe budgetary

[11:28] constraints,

[11:30] a number of reductions were made

[11:32] and some projects were deleted

[11:35] that would otherwise be considered valid

[11:37] requirements.

[11:40] >> [music]

[11:43] >> But the budget constraints that forced a

[11:44] retreat on some Pentagon priorities did

[11:47] not prevent members of the House Armed

[11:49] Services Committee from funding

[11:50] priorities of their own. Altogether,

[11:53] they added $300 million in projects the

[11:56] Pentagon didn't even ask for, more than

[11:58] 2/3 of it in their own districts. For

[12:01] example, Fort Benning, Georgia,

[12:02] represented by Jack Brinkley, receives

[12:04] $11 million, mostly for barracks. Also

[12:07] mostly for barracks, Fort Sam Houston,

[12:09] Texas, represented by Abraham Kazen, $22

[12:12] million. And Aberdeen Proving Ground,

[12:15] Maryland, represented by Roy Dyson, $25

[12:18] million. Philadelphia Naval Shipyard,

[12:20] represented by Thomas Foglietta, $19

[12:23] million, including a new engineering

[12:25] building.

[12:26] Such projects create jobs, of course,

[12:29] which is why even congressmen who

[12:30] persistently complain of bloated defense

[12:32] budgets, such as House Speaker Thomas

[12:34] O'Neill, are anxious to get in on the

[12:36] act. O'Neill is pushing to add another

[12:39] $5 million to the bill so that this

[12:41] armory in his district can be replaced

[12:44] with a new one.

[12:45] By congressional standards, $300 million

[12:48] may not seem like much. But that's about

[12:51] how much Congress hopes to save by

[12:53] eliminating emergency aid for the

[12:55] destitute and reducing spending for

[12:57] cancer research, food programs for

[13:00] infants and pregnant women, and welfare

[13:02] payments to the elderly poor, the blind,

[13:05] and the disabled.

[13:06] Lisa Myers, NBC News, at the Capitol.

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[14:49] ruled that unless there were major

[14:50] modifications in the plan to break up

[14:52] the American Telephone & Telegraph

[14:54] Company, the plan could not go forward.

[14:56] Mike Jensen reports.

[14:59] When the government settled its 8-year

[15:01] antitrust suit against AT&T last

[15:03] January, the terms were considered by

[15:05] many to be very favorable to the

[15:07] telephone company.

[15:09] But, today in Washington, Federal Judge

[15:10] Harold Greene, who must approve the

[15:12] settlement, proposed taking some of the

[15:14] goodies away from Ma Bell and giving

[15:16] them to the 22 local operating

[15:18] companies, which are being split off. do

[15:20] it. He wants the local companies to be

[15:22] permitted to produce and sell the yellow

[15:24] pages. They earn about $2 billion a year

[15:27] in profits. And he wants the local

[15:29] companies to be permitted to sell

[15:31] telephones and switchboards.

[15:33] AT&T would be deprived by Judge Greene

[15:35] of the right to get into electronic

[15:37] publishing right away. That was

[15:39] permitted in the original agreement.

[15:42] AT&T and the Justice Department have 15

[15:44] days to respond. They're both studying

[15:46] the proposal.

[15:47] Wall Street analyst James McCabe hasn't

[15:50] think Judge Greene's proposals will hold

[15:52] up the deal.

[15:53] >> I'd say the odds are very much in favor

[15:55] of the modified agreement going through

[15:58] pretty much as he's suggesting.

[16:00] >> Wall Street took the news calmly. AT&T

[16:02] stock was up 25 cents. It's the most

[16:05] widely held stock in the world, more

[16:07] than 3 million shareholders.

[16:09] Because Judge Greene's modifications

[16:11] mean more money for the local operating

[16:13] companies, there'll be less pressure on

[16:14] them to raise rates after they're split

[16:16] off from AT&T. That means people who use

[16:19] their telephones mainly for local calls

[16:21] will make out very well in all this.

[16:24] Mike Jensen, NBC News, New York.

[16:27] >> General Motors, which is usually in the

[16:29] position of paying out money, now finds

[16:31] itself in the strange position of trying

[16:33] to collect it, $90 million of it from

[16:35] some laid-off employees. Jim Cummins

[16:37] reports.

[16:40] The General Motors assembly plant in St.

[16:41] Louis was one of the company's busiest

[16:43] before it drastically cut production in

[16:45] 1979 and began laying off 7,000 workers.

[16:48] The people who used to work here

[16:50] collected full benefits from the company

[16:52] unemployment fund. They also got a

[16:54] windfall from the federal government,

[16:55] extra benefits because they'd lost their

[16:57] jobs to foreign competition. Tim Brown

[17:00] got $7,800 in a lump sum. He used it to

[17:03] fix up his house.

[17:05] >> I had thought it was too good to be

[17:06] true.

[17:06] >> It was. GM wants its money back. It sent

[17:09] letters to 29,000 laid-off workers

[17:11] nationwide ordering them to pay back the

[17:13] extra $90 million in and they got under

[17:16] the threat of legal action. The GM fund

[17:18] doesn't have enough money to pay newly

[17:20] laid off workers full benefits anymore.

[17:22] >> You you need to come into the office and

[17:24] talk to us and make some type of

[17:25] arrangements to repay the money.

[17:28] >> Ernestine Harper wants to repay her debt

[17:30] to GM.

[17:31] >> $7,076.51

[17:34] >> Mrs. Harper, who now works part-time and

[17:36] is supporting three children by herself,

[17:38] agreed to pay $20 a month for 30 years.

[17:41] >> Now, I'm not going to say it's going to

[17:42] be easy, but I'll be willing to try.

[17:44] >> But Morris Riddle says he can't repay GM

[17:47] the $8,000 the company says he owes.

[17:49] Riddle, who works part-time, is

[17:51] struggling to support his family on a

[17:53] salary of $80 a week.

[17:55] >> Even though they can do all collection

[17:56] action they want, but uh I don't have no

[17:59] $8,000, you know,

[18:01] to give back.

[18:02] >> Riddle and many other long-term

[18:04] unemployed GM workers have told the

[18:06] company they will only replenish the

[18:07] fund to help the newly laid off workers

[18:09] when they get their old jobs back. Jim

[18:12] Cummins, NBC News, St. Louis.

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[19:51] >> An explosion rocked the passenger

[19:53] section of a Pan Am jumbo jet flying

[19:55] into Honolulu from Tokyo today. A

[19:58] Japanese teenager was killed by what the

[20:00] FAA said was an explosive device under

[20:02] his seat. Daryl Huff of KHON reports

[20:05] from Honolulu.

[20:08] >> The Pan Am 747 landed safely after

[20:10] making an emergency descent from 26,000

[20:13] ft. The dead man was identified as a

[20:15] 16-year-old Japanese whom witnesses say

[20:17] was seated in row 47 in the very rear of

[20:20] the plane.

[20:26] The injured, all Japanese, were taken to

[20:28] a Honolulu hospital where they were

[20:30] described as not serious.

[20:37] A passenger described what happened.

[20:40] >> And there was an explosion. I was in the

[20:41] aft galley.

[20:43] I heard the explosion. I I

[20:45] walked around or ran around. I looked

[20:47] and I saw

[20:49] a lot of smoke. I saw the oxygen mask on

[20:51] two rows had fallen.

[20:53] There was a lot of debris as far as

[20:55] looked like seats blown

[20:57] type thing.

[20:59] And

[21:00] I proceeded over to the aisle where the

[21:02] explosion occurred and I saw an

[21:04] individual laying in the aisle.

[21:06] >> The FBI has started an investigation to

[21:08] find out exactly what the device was and

[21:10] how it got aboard the plane. For NBC

[21:12] News, this is Darrell Huff in Honolulu.

[21:16] >> The FAA, which is responsible for air

[21:18] safety, came under heavy fire today from

[21:20] the head of the National Transportation

[21:21] Safety Board, which investigates air

[21:24] crashes. The occasion was a

[21:25] congressional hearing on bad weather

[21:27] flying. The committee chairman called

[21:29] the Safety Board testimony frightening.

[21:31] Emery King reports.

[21:34] >> Severe weather was a factor in three

[21:36] major commercial plane crashes in the

[21:38] last 7 months. Boston, where a World

[21:40] Airways DC-10 skidded off an icy runway

[21:43] into the harbor. Washington, where snow

[21:45] and ice contributed to the crash of an

[21:47] Air Florida flight. And in New Orleans,

[21:50] wind shear and thunderstorm conditions

[21:52] are believed to have contributed to the

[21:53] Pan Am crash last month.

[21:56] >> The head of the National Transportation

[21:58] Safety Board today accused the Federal

[22:00] Aviation Administration of dragging its

[22:02] feet on making safety in bad weather a

[22:04] top priority. He said the agency was

[22:07] urged 7 years ago to develop equipment

[22:09] to monitor strong winds.

[22:11] >> The history of this [clears throat]

[22:13] issue and the treatment of this issue by

[22:15] the Federal Aviation Administration

[22:17] indicates that there's a problem with

[22:18] follow through.

[22:19] >> The FAA's deputy administrator said the

[22:22] agency is planning major improvements,

[22:24] but he could not say where the money

[22:25] would come from in the FAA budget for

[22:28] weather detection equipment.

[22:29] >> If nobody is responsible for such a

[22:32] simple fact about weather related

[22:35] problems at FAA, then it's no wonder

[22:38] that no one is responsible for

[22:40] coordinating the effort to solve these

[22:42] weather related problems.

[22:44] >> Airline pilots want a better

[22:45] relationship between the NTSB and FAA.

[22:48] They think that would go a long way

[22:49] towards helping safety. Emery King, NBC

[22:52] News at the Capitol.

[22:54] >> Roger O'Neil of NBC News Chicago Bureau

[22:56] drove out to Park Ridge, Illinois today

[22:58] to cover the first pictures of America's

[23:00] youngest quintuplets, the children and

[23:03] Roger went expecting to see only still

[23:05] pictures, but he came back with movies.

[23:07] >> And here it's a boy, it's a girl, it's a

[23:09] girl, it's a girl.

[23:11] And

[23:13] it was really exciting.

[23:14] >> That makes four babies, but Amy

[23:17] Chicarachi gave birth to five babies a

[23:19] week ago today.

[23:20] Ben Jared was the first born

[23:24] and the least interested in all the

[23:26] attention today. Julie Natsu was next.

[23:29] All of the babies were delivered by

[23:30] cesarean section.

[23:32] Christie Aiko at 1 lb 3 and 3/4 oz was

[23:36] the smallest of the children and she's

[23:37] in critical condition. Then there was

[23:40] Carrie Chioko and finally the last of

[23:42] the children, Jamie Fumiko.

[23:44] >> It's like holding a blanket with nothing

[23:45] in it. It's so light.

[23:47] >> The medical bills are not so light,

[23:49] about $700 a day for each baby. The

[23:52] Chicarachis say thank God for insurance.

[23:55] The mother was taking a fertility drug.

[23:57] The babies were born 2 months

[23:59] prematurely.

[24:00] >> The anesthesiologist mentioned that

[24:02] she was telling them, "You know, it's a

[24:03] boy." And they're kicking and they're

[24:05] nice and pink. And Amy goes, "Pink?

[24:08] They're supposed to be yellow, they're

[24:09] Japanese."

[24:10] >> The quints won't be able to go home for

[24:12] about 2 or 3 months. Enough time, the

[24:15] Chicarachis say, to build some more

[24:16] bedrooms on their home.

[24:18] Roger O'Neal, NBC News, Park Ridge,

[24:21] Illinois.

[24:23] Henry Fonda remains in serious but

[24:25] stable condition in a Los Angeles

[24:26] hospital today. His daughter Jane

[24:28] released a statement denying a New York

[24:30] Daily News report that the family had

[24:32] decided not to use life support

[24:34] machinery. She said the situation has

[24:36] not gotten to that point.

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[26:14] >> Toward the end of World War II, early

[26:16] 1945, Army Private Joseph Hartley

[26:19] disappeared under heavy mortar fire near

[26:21] a small town in Germany. His body was

[26:23] not discovered until this spring in an

[26:25] unmarked grave. Today, he received a

[26:27] full military funeral in Charleston,

[26:28] South Carolina. Kenley Jones was there.

[26:32] >> Halt.

[26:34] >> [music]

[26:37] >> Private Joseph Hartley was buried in his

[26:39] native soil today, 37 years after he was

[26:43] killed in action during World War

[26:44] [music] II.

[26:45] His remains were just recently uncovered

[26:48] on a farm in West Germany.

[26:50] They were identified [music] by Army

[26:51] medical experts. He was 19 when he died.

[26:55] After he was reported missing in 1945,

[26:58] his parents, Cleavy and Ella Hartley,

[27:01] had hoped he had been captured or

[27:02] wounded instead of killed. He had been

[27:05] wounded once before and awarded the

[27:07] Purple Heart.

[27:08] >> Kept up that hope.

[27:11] Thought that maybe he was a wounded

[27:13] somewhere else and

[27:15] needed me and couldn't get me.

[27:17] >> The last time he wrote you a letter,

[27:18] what did he say?

[27:19] >> letter he wrote me he said, "Mom, if

[27:21] anything happens to me, you'll know I

[27:23] went down for my country." I figured he

[27:26] was in great danger.

[27:29] It hurt me very bad.

[27:31] >> That hurt, dulled by the passing years,

[27:34] became sharp again when the Army

[27:35] notified them that their only son had

[27:38] been found.

[27:39] >> Tore me up.

[27:40] I just couldn't believe it. It just hurt

[27:42] me so bad. I'm glad they found him. It's

[27:44] a hard pill to swallow, but still at the

[27:46] same time I'm glad they did find him and

[27:48] we'll have him in our cemetery.

[27:50] >> Private Joseph Hartley, once missing in

[27:53] action, now home at last.

[27:56] Kem Ley Jones, NBC News, Charleston,

[27:58] South Carolina.

[28:01] >> That's Nightly News for Wednesday. I'm

[28:02] Roger Mudd in Washington.

[28:05] >> And I'm Tom Brokaw in Jerusalem. Good

[28:08] night for all of us at NBC News.

[28:12] >> Tomorrow morning on Today, live from Tel

[28:15] Aviv, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel

[28:17] Sharon on what's next in the Mideast.

[28:19] [music]

[28:24] >> [music]

[28:26] >> You probably think the brightest,

[28:27] freshest new comedy of the season will

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[28:47] >> Coming up in just a minute on the scene

[28:49] at 6:00, the court rules on a

[28:50] long-standing civil rights suit against

[28:53] the state prison system. And metro

[28:55] prosecutors say they will seek the death

[28:56] penalty against Douglas Bell, the man

[28:58] charged with last week's slaying of a

[29:00] police officer.

[29:02] >> Also in the news tonight, a convicted

[29:03] wife murderer is denied a new trial. And

[29:06] a report on the experiences of the first

[29:08] Nashville woman to serve jail time under

[29:10] the state's new drunk driving law.

[29:14] >> These stories and more news coming up on

[29:16] the scene at 6:00.

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