World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-11

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-11
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[0:03] [music]

[0:13] On World News Tonight, the investigation

[0:15] of the Enron affair. The giant energy

[0:17] company put pressure on the government

[0:19] to save it before the company collapsed.

[0:22] The Ford Motor Company is getting rid of

[0:24] [music] 35,000 jobs. We'll see tonight

[0:27] what happens to a tiny company town when

[0:30] the clothing manufacturer moved on.

[0:33] >> When it come down to the almighty

[0:35] dollar, the people of this community

[0:37] didn't matter. The videotape from

[0:40] Singapore, the terrorists planning to

[0:42] attack Americans. We'll take a closer

[0:44] look tonight at the school where they

[0:46] train the dogs to detect explosives.

[0:49] And the musical play that went on for

[0:52] year after year after year. It has

[0:55] finally closed.

[1:00] >> From ABC News world headquarters in New

[1:03] York, this is World News Tonight with

[1:06] Peter Jennings.

[1:07] >> Good evening everyone. Today we had the

[1:09] clearest evidence yet that the giant

[1:11] Enron energy company was actively

[1:13] seeking government help as it was about

[1:15] to collapse and wipe out so many worker

[1:18] savings. The Treasury Department

[1:19] acknowledged today that the company

[1:21] president called a senior official

[1:22] seeking his assistance. This is a

[1:25] complex company with deep ties to the

[1:27] Bush administration and as of this

[1:29] Friday night, there are eight separate

[1:31] government investigations underway, one

[1:34] of them criminal. We're going to go

[1:36] first to Capitol Hill and ABC's Linda

[1:38] Douglas. Linda,

[1:39] >> well, Peter, the Treasury Department did

[1:40] reveal today that the president of Enron

[1:43] called a senior Treasury official six to

[1:46] eight times in the crucial week