World News Tonight (ABC) - 1998-09-23
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[0:00] five. We thank you for joining us and
[0:01] we'll see you back here at 6.
[0:04] New
[0:12] from ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:14] York, this is World News Tonight with
[0:18] Peter Jennings.
[0:19] >> Good evening. We begin tonight with the
[0:20] waste and the wreckage that Hurricane
[0:22] George has brought to the Caribbean.
[0:24] Last night at this time, George was
[0:26] taking its last shots at the Dominican
[0:28] Republic. Today's yours raked across
[0:30] Haiti. And tonight, though in a somewhat
[0:32] weakened condition, it is having a go at
[0:34] Cuba. Next stop, the Florida Keys. We
[0:37] know of almost 40 people killed so far.
[0:40] And the director of the Federal
[0:42] Emergency Management Agency says this
[0:44] may become the most powerful storm to
[0:47] hit the Keys since the 1930s. Our storm
[0:50] report begins with ABC's Jim Williams.
[0:54] >> Key West is getting ready.
[0:57] sandbagging,
[0:59] boarding it up, and getting them out.
[1:02] >> Attention, attention. Key West Police
[1:04] Department, we have mandatory
[1:06] evacuation.
[1:08] >> Police want everyone off this 110 mi
[1:10] stretch of island.
[1:12] >> Can't forget Elmo.
[1:13] >> If everybody listens, everything will be
[1:14] all right, and hopefully everybody makes
[1:16] it through safe.
[1:17] >> They are even closing this hospital.
[1:19] >> Two, three.
[1:21] >> So, more than 30 patients had to be
[1:23] flown to a hospital in Central Florida.
[1:25] This is simply a precaution. Obviously,
[1:27] the nature of hurricanes are
[1:28] unpredictable.
[1:30] >> People here have already seen the
[1:31] devastation the hurricane has caused. In
[1:34] Puerto Rico, officials have barely begun
[1:36] to assess the damage.
[1:38] >> Our very initial survey of about 40% of
[1:41] the island made it look like about
[1:43] 15,000 families with really serious uh
[1:46] damage. But what frightens us, of
[1:48] course, is the 60% of the island we
[1:50] haven't gotten to or haven't heard from
[1:52] yet. Communities in low-lying coastal
[1:54] areas have been especially hard hit.
[1:56] Thousands of homes destroyed. There is
[1:59] still virtually no electricity on the
[2:01] island and no estimate when it will be
[2:03] restored. Vacationers trying to leave
[2:05] are out of luck. Most flights are full
[2:08] or cancelled. The Dominican Republic and
[2:10] Haiti were struck next. 150 mph winds
[2:14] killed at least 28 people. Almost 2/3 of
[2:17] the trees in the Dominican capital were
[2:19] blown down. In Cuba this evening,
[2:22] Georgia's winds are down to a far less
[2:24] deadly 75 m an hour. But the hurricane
[2:27] is expected to pick up speed and
[2:29] strength when it heads across the open
[2:31] sea. People here in South Florida fear
[2:34] they will be next. Though they have
[2:36] heard dire hurricane predictions before,
[2:39] many are taking this warning very
[2:41] seriously. Jim Williams, ABC News, Key
[2:44] West, Florida.
[2:45] >> And we are joined, as we always are on
[2:47] these occasions, by Bob Sheets, the
[2:48] former director of the National
[2:49] Hurricane Center. are now an ABC News
[2:51] consultant. Bob, the most powerful
[2:52] hurricane to hit the Keys by the 1930s.
[2:54] >> It will have to go some to do that. Uh,
[2:56] it's uh going to have to get over the
[2:58] open water to do that. Right now, it's
[3:00] traveling down the Florida, I'm sorry,
[3:02] down Cuba. And if it stays close to that
[3:05] island, then it will not strengthen a
[3:07] great deal. In fact, next 24 hours. But
[3:09] if it gets just slightly north of that,
[3:11] then indeed it could strengthen
[3:12] marketkedly because it's such a large
[3:14] system. It's remarkably resilient having
[3:17] passed over Hispanola and still
[3:19] maintained itself. So, well,
[3:20] >> can you tell by looking at the orange on
[3:22] that screen how much damage is doing to
[3:23] Cuba or anywhere else?
[3:24] >> Uh, no. The whites are the areas that
[3:26] are the heaviest rain there and the
[3:28] heaviest shower activity. I wouldn't
[3:30] expect great wind damage, but indeed the
[3:32] rain is the problem just as it was in
[3:34] Haiti. The rain is going to be the
[3:36] problem in Cuba also.
[3:37] >> And what are the chances of it changing
[3:38] significantly in the Florida Straits
[3:40] there between Cuba and the Keys? uh very
[3:42] good that it could strengthen
[3:44] marketkedly if it gets away from Cuba.
[3:46] Right now it's just over the eastern tip
[3:47] of Cuba and if the center would get away
[3:49] from Cuba on a track something like this
[3:52] directly into the Keys then indeed it
[3:54] could strengthen market.
[3:55] >> Thanks Bob. Bob Straits our consultant
[3:58] on hurricane matters. Later in the
[4:00] broadcast we'll actually take a closer
[4:01] look at how scientists take a closer
[4:03] look at hurricanes. And we turn on the
[4:06] subject of predictions from the
[4:07] hurricane to what the chairman of the
[4:08] Federal Reserve may or may not do. On
[4:11] Capitol Hill today, Alan Greenspan gave
[4:14] his clearest hint yet that for the first
[4:16] time in more than two years, the Federal
[4:18] Reserve Board will cut interest rates
[4:20] when it meets next week. And after that,
[4:22] it was a fairly predictable what would
[4:24] happen on Wall Street. By the end of the
[4:26] day, the Dow Jones had jumped 257 points
[4:28] to close at 8154.
[4:31] On the NASDAQ market, stocks gained 62
[4:34] points. With what all that means, here
[4:36] is ABC's Bob Jameson.
[4:40] Alan Greenspan's words moved the market
[4:42] even before he delivered them. Stock
[4:45] prices jumped 40 points when advanced
[4:47] news reached Wall Street. He is ready to
[4:49] stimulate the economy by cutting
[4:51] interest rates.
[4:52] >> I haven't changed.
[4:52] >> Greenspan told the Senate Banking
[4:54] Committee the US economy was now more
[4:56] seriously threatened by the economic
[4:58] clouds in Asia and elsewhere.
[5:00] >> And we are beginning to to feel the
[5:02] raindrops, if I may put it that way. And
[5:05] obviously we will respond to that. The
[5:07] words we will respond to that are
[5:10] understood to mean the Federal Reserve
[5:11] will cut rates as early as next week.
[5:13] >> If a cut were not taken at this time, uh
[5:16] the there is a danger that the US
[5:18] economy could fall near recession in
[5:22] 1999.
[5:23] >> Normally, when the Fed lowers interest
[5:25] rates, banks do too. And when banks
[5:27] charge lower interest on loans,
[5:29] companies borrow more. They use that
[5:31] borrowed money to expand their
[5:33] businesses, buying new equipment and
[5:35] hiring more workers. Those workers in
[5:37] turn have more money to spend. And when
[5:40] consumer spending increases, the economy
[5:42] improves. And getting consumers to buy
[5:45] more products made here and around the
[5:47] world will help the economy here and may
[5:50] help economies around the world. Bobson,
[5:52] ABC News, New York.
[5:54] >> When we come back, we'll have some of
[5:55] the other developments today. We're
[5:57] going to have an exclusive interview
[5:58] with the ministers guiding the
[6:00] president's spiritual healing and the
[6:03] dark side of the night shift. One of the
[6:05] more difficult ways to work.
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[7:56] as long as it takes and he says there
[7:58] should be no talk of a possible deal to
[8:01] save the president's job until the house
[8:03] has completed its investigation. Last
[8:06] week we introduced you to two ministers
[8:09] who've agreed to work with Mr. Clinton
[8:10] in intensely personal sessions to, as he
[8:14] put it, hold him accountable for his
[8:16] behavior. Their work has already begun.
[8:18] And in this exclusive interview with our
[8:20] religion editor, Peggy Wayer, they talk
[8:23] about it.
[8:25] deep.
[8:26] >> These are the two men who've been
[8:28] charged with the job of repairing the
[8:30] president's soul.
[8:31] >> I am concerned about a man whose soul is
[8:33] in mortal danger. That's where I have to
[8:36] focus my attention.
[8:37] >> These are the two men the president
[8:39] telephoned on Labor Day to ask if they
[8:41] would hold him accountable for his
[8:43] behavior.
[8:44] >> You have about 30 seconds to discern the
[8:46] genuiness in a voice. And uh God help
[8:49] you if you hang up on a genuinely broken
[8:52] person. Soon after, Tony Campolo and
[8:55] Gordon Macdonald met with the president
[8:57] in the White House. In fact, Macdonald
[8:59] spent the night there, the evening
[9:01] before the breakfast, where Clinton
[9:03] confessed he had sinned.
[9:04] >> The night before, I was I spent several
[9:07] hours with a deeply broken man, a deeply
[9:10] sorrowful man.
[9:11] >> I don't think there is a fancy way to
[9:13] say that I have sinned.
[9:16] >> We have a specific purpose. When we go
[9:18] to the White House, we don't talk
[9:19] politics. We don't make suggestions to
[9:22] him how he can increase his ratings in
[9:23] the polls. We talk about this man and
[9:26] his personal walk with God
[9:28] >> and about sin.
[9:30] >> Now, all sin is addictive. But whether
[9:33] you look at any 12step program, all of
[9:35] them say the crucial point is when you
[9:37] realize you can't help yourself and you
[9:42] have to turn to a higher power.
[9:44] >> They meet with the president regularly.
[9:46] >> This is not we just wait around wait for
[9:48] the phone to ring. I we we any either
[9:51] one of us at any given time are calling
[9:52] the White House and we know who the
[9:54] people are to call and we simply say I'm
[9:56] coming on Friday. I want to see him and
[9:58] almost every time the time is wedged
[10:00] back and we see him. When we're down
[10:02] there with the president we're not just
[10:03] going to walk in and do a 15minute how
[10:06] you doing here's a verse of scripture a
[10:09] verse a day will keep the devil away. We
[10:11] won't let him off that easily.
[10:13] >> Have you confronted him?
[10:14] >> Oh absolutely.
[10:18] You're not just You mean you're not just
[10:19] holding his hand and praying for him and
[10:21] helping him feel good?
[10:22] >> We have gone to the bottom with this
[10:24] man. We have said things that are very
[10:28] very confrontative.
[10:29] >> The sessions haven't always been easy.
[10:31] >> We've seen him yell at us.
[10:34] >> Yes.
[10:34] >> I mean, we can we can tell you about a
[10:36] time when we've come on so strong that
[10:39] he ended up yelling at us. And that's
[10:41] not an easy thing, you know, to have the
[10:43] president of the United States yelling
[10:44] at you. That's when conversations become
[10:46] real, isn't it? That's when they become
[10:48] real.
[10:49] >> And what if the two of you work with the
[10:51] president all these hours and discover
[10:55] that he's pulled the wool over your
[10:57] eyes, that he wasn't sincere? Then what?
[10:59] >> If there came a moment where we uh
[11:02] concluded that that sincerity was not
[11:05] there, we would have to let people know
[11:08] in in our world that that uh that this
[11:11] was something other than repentance. If
[11:13] there's a day comes where he says, "Hey,
[11:14] I just want to play golf. I just I just
[11:16] want to talk about a football game,"
[11:18] then we're not we're not there. That
[11:19] that's not our time. We're we're out of
[11:21] there.
[11:22] >> As for what happens to the president's
[11:24] political life, both men have an
[11:26] opinion, but neither is willing to
[11:28] discuss it. They say the American people
[11:30] are the ones who must decide.
[11:32] >> And I hope they do the right thing, and
[11:35] I pray that they do the right thing. My
[11:37] job is to make sure that and pray that
[11:39] the president does the right thing.
[11:40] Peggy Wayer, ABC News.
[11:44] >> Fascinating, Peggy. We'll have more on
[11:46] these two men and the president's
[11:47] pursuit of spiritual healing later this
[11:49] evening on 2020 Wednesday. President
[11:52] Clinton went to Capitol Hill today where
[11:54] he was able to bask in the glow of the
[11:57] South African President Nelson Mandela,
[11:59] his friend.
[12:03] Mr. Mandela was there to receive the
[12:05] Congressional Gold Medal, the highest
[12:07] civilian honor the country gives. He
[12:09] said that his only regret in life is
[12:11] that he never became the heavyweight
[12:12] boxing champion of the world. Today he
[12:15] did say he felt like a champion.
[12:18] There was the clearest signal in a long
[12:19] time today that the United States and
[12:21] other members of the NATO alliance may
[12:23] launch military strikes against Serb
[12:26] forces in the former Yugoslavia. The UN
[12:29] Security Council voted to consider
[12:31] further action if the Serbs don't lay
[12:34] off ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The
[12:37] thought of action stronger than the
[12:38] words. More than a quarter million
[12:40] people have now been turned into
[12:42] refugees because of the Serb onslaught.
[12:45] When we come back, the night shift on
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[14:56] >> Now to our series on the way we work.
[14:58] Last night it was about freelancers,
[14:59] people who work on their own. Today it
[15:01] is the time we work. Do you know that
[15:02] one in five workers in America is a
[15:05] shift worker, someone not doing 9 to5.
[15:08] Of those nearly 6 million people work
[15:10] the hardest shift of all, and that's the
[15:13] night shift. And it often means messing
[15:15] up the kids schedule so that everyone
[15:17] can have a life. Here's ABC's Betsy
[15:20] Stark.
[15:23] >> Human beings are not biologically
[15:25] designed to work by night and sleep by
[15:27] day, but millions do it anyway.
[15:30] >> You have fun tonight. Okay.
[15:32] >> Sandy Ray is a night worker, not because
[15:34] she wants to be, but because the best
[15:36] job she can get happens to begin around
[15:38] dinner time.
[15:40] >> You do what you got to do. That's what
[15:41] my motto is. Mama does what mama's got
[15:44] to do.
[15:45] >> Right now, Mama is dropping baby Eric
[15:47] and three-year-old Matthew off at a
[15:49] pioneering 24-hour child care center
[15:52] where toddlers keep the kinds of hours
[15:54] teenagers do.
[15:56] >> The goal is to put the children on the
[15:59] same schedule as the parents.
[16:00] >> That means three-year-olds are routinely
[16:03] up until midnight, so they'll sleep
[16:05] through the morning with their parents
[16:06] and be up with them in the afternoon. On
[16:09] the night shift, they call that family
[16:11] life.
[16:13] Night work does pay more. Here at
[16:15] Toyota, 5% more. At other companies, as
[16:18] much as 15% more. But most workers say
[16:21] they'd trade the bigger paycheck in a
[16:23] heartbeat.
[16:24] >> I've got a 9-year-old boy. I don't see a
[16:27] lot of him.
[16:28] >> If you could switch, would you?
[16:30] >> Oh, yes, definitely. We're working on
[16:32] that. Aside from the challenge of
[16:34] maintaining a normal family life, night
[16:37] shift workers are also at greater risk
[16:38] for health problems such as heart
[16:40] disease, stomach ailments, and chronic
[16:43] sleep deprivation. Many suffer from the
[16:46] equivalent of perpetual jet lag just as
[16:49] their bodies adjust to night living. The
[16:51] weekend comes and they move back toward
[16:52] a daytime schedule.
[16:54] >> Is that okay?
[16:54] >> They are always bucking their biological
[16:57] clocks. We meant this world that runs 24
[17:00] hours a day and the machinery does and
[17:02] the computers run enormously well in
[17:03] that environment. The efficiencies are
[17:05] there, but people are finding it very
[17:07] hard to cope.
[17:10] >> And what about the children? Parents we
[17:12] talked to say they do just fine as long
[17:14] as they stick to their routine here. But
[17:17] like their parents, pediatricians say
[17:19] they're at risk of not getting enough
[17:21] sleep if they change their patterns on
[17:23] the weekend.
[17:25] Back at the child care center after a
[17:28] long shift.
[17:28] >> Anybody tell you you're supposed to be
[17:30] asleep, boy?
[17:31] >> Sandy Ray wakes her sleeping children.
[17:34] If she hurries, she'll get the boys back
[17:36] to bed, have a shower, and get to sleep
[17:39] all before daylight when the rest of the
[17:41] world begins to wake up. Betsy Stark,
[17:44] ABC News, Georgetown, Kentucky.
[17:47] >> Tomorrow, the skills you need to survive
[17:49] in the modern workplace. Some jobs you
[17:51] need a college degree just to answer the
[17:53] telephone. When we come back, what could
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[20:24] >> We're going to take a closer look at a
[20:25] hurricane tonight. Those of us who have
[20:27] had the opportunity to fly with the US
[20:30] Air Force hurricane hunters know that
[20:33] it's a never to be forgotten experience.
[20:35] As you know, Hurricane George has been
[20:37] turning lives upside down through the
[20:38] Caribbean. And it's because we now have
[20:40] pretty sophisticated information that we
[20:43] know it's likely to arrive in Florida
[20:45] tomorrow night or Friday morning. This
[20:47] time it was our correspondent Rebecca
[20:49] Chase's turn to fly.
[20:52] As the sun rises over Barbados, Air
[20:55] Force Reserve pilots trained to avoid
[20:57] storms, prepare to fly right into the
[21:00] eye of Hurricane George. Radar and
[21:03] satellite photos provide important
[21:04] information, but nothing has yet
[21:07] replaced the hurricane hunters. We make
[21:09] a tremendous amount of difference. We
[21:11] just found the other day that the
[21:12] satellite imagery was off 80 miles.
[21:16] >> As we approach the eye, flying at 10,000
[21:18] ft, the skies grow darker, the rain
[21:21] increases, and winds reach 120 mph.
[21:25] >> Get them strapped in. Oh, this could be
[21:27] a rough ride going today.
[21:29] >> The plane bounces around. Then all of a
[21:31] sudden, it is calm and the skies clear.
[21:34] It is incredibly bright and beautiful.
[21:37] We are in the eye of the hurricane.
[21:40] >> Holy cow, it's beautiful.
[21:41] >> It is a fairly well-shaped eye and the
[21:43] crew records its position and measures
[21:46] the diameter to help determine the
[21:48] intensity of the storm.
[21:49] >> Once again, that was 32 m diameter.
[21:52] >> I showed it as 33.
[21:53] >> In the back of the plane, Tech Sergeant
[21:55] Carrie Kennedy prepares to launch a drop
[21:58] sand.
[21:59] >> It's got sensor in the in the end here
[22:01] that measures the temperature, pressure,
[22:03] humidity, and wind. Kennedy enters
[22:05] computer and radio frequencies in the
[22:07] tube.
[22:08] >> It's ready to launch. Have to be locked
[22:09] and loaded. Hit the button and it's
[22:12] gone.
[22:13] >> As the tube drops, it immediately
[22:15] transmits data and all of the
[22:17] measurements are continually sent by
[22:19] satellite to the National Hurricane
[22:21] Center in Miami.
[22:22] >> 020. Okay.
[22:24] >> As the eye starts to cross land, we can
[22:27] see the coast of the Dominican Republic
[22:29] below. On this trip, the hurricane
[22:31] hunters flew through the eye of George
[22:33] four times in a five-hour period.
[22:36] Thousands of measurements were recorded
[22:38] and transmitted immediately by
[22:40] satellite. And some of the best
[22:42] observations come from just looking out
[22:45] the window. The weather officer can tell
[22:47] how fast the surface winds are blowing
[22:49] from the patterns on the water below.
[22:52] >> I think what we found is that George is
[22:53] definitely a wellorganized storm. After
[22:56] 12 hours in the air, the hurricane
[22:58] hunters land. And tomorrow, they will do
[23:00] it all over again. Rebecca Chase, ABC
[23:04] News, Miami.
[23:06] >> Well, as terrifying as hurricanes can
[23:07] be, they are part of nature's cycle.
[23:10] Hurricane George is actually headed for
[23:12] a place that needs it, Florida Bay.
[23:15] Here's ABC's Bill Blakemore.
[23:18] For millions of years, hurricanes have
[23:20] been vital for the health of Florida
[23:22] Bay. This entire area west of the
[23:24] Florida Keys, it's only six or eight
[23:26] feet deep, so sediment can quickly build
[23:28] up and choke off life. Hurricanes clean
[23:31] that out.
[23:32] >> And a lot of this water will flush out
[23:34] of the system by the the normal route,
[23:36] and then some out this way and be
[23:38] carried away, too.
[23:39] >> Hurricanes clean out bays and rivers
[23:41] along the entire Atlantic coast. They
[23:44] also distribute nutrients between
[23:46] shallow and deeper waters, necessary for
[23:48] feeding many kinds of sea life. A year
[23:50] or two after a hurricane, the fishing
[23:53] often improves dramatically uh in these
[23:55] areas that have been disturbed.
[23:58] On land, hurricanes are the main source
[24:00] of rain for many regions. They're also
[24:03] critical for repopulating areas where
[24:05] plants and animals have died out.
[24:07] Hurricanes actually blow in new ones.
[24:10] Finally, for the whole planet,
[24:12] hurricanes are a safety valve. They move
[24:14] excess summer heat up from the tropics,
[24:16] which keeps the north from being too
[24:18] cold. For nature, hurricanes are a
[24:21] necessity. Bill Blakemore, ABC News.
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[26:06] >> On 2020 tonight with Diane Sawyer and
[26:09] Sam Donaldson, Monica Lewinsky. Was she
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[26:23] A brief review of our main story.
[26:24] Hurricane George plowed across Haiti
[26:26] today and is now pounding Cuba. Almost
[26:29] 40 people have been killed that we know
[26:31] of. Next stop, the Florida Keys, where
[26:33] they're trying to get ready. It could be
[26:35] the most powerful storm to hit the Keys
[26:37] since the 1930s if it gathers power
[26:39] again as it goes across the Florida
[26:41] Straits. Finally, from us this evening,
[26:44] without further ado, Mr. Sammy Sosa
[26:49] swung on belt to deep toward right.
[26:51] Bernett's on the run toward THE CORNER.
[26:53] LOOKS UP. HE DID IT. IT'S OUT OF HERE.
[26:55] NUMBER 64,
[26:59] >> Sammy Sosa of the Chicago Cubs sending
[27:01] love and kisses back home to the
[27:03] Dominican Republic. One more time where
[27:05] they need the inspiration today.
[27:07] Hurricane George has killed 28 people
[27:10] there.
[27:11] >> Sammy Sosa one more time.
[27:14] >> TWO TWO
[27:16] BELTON LINE DRIVE CENTER FIELD. GRIST
[27:19] BACK. HE DID IT. NUMBER 65. AND THERE IS
[27:23] NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
[27:30] No doubt about it. He tied Mark Maguire
[27:32] with that one. And as we said, the
[27:34] Dominican Republic can use all the
[27:37] inspiration today.
[27:39] By the way, the Cubs lost it in the
[27:41] ninth, so the Mets live on. That is our
[27:45] report on World News Tonight. Don't
[27:46] forget 2020 later on. And then on Night
[27:48] Line later this evening, they're going
[27:50] to look at Pakistan and the partisan
[27:53] battle over impeachment in the Congress.
[27:55] I'm Peter Jennings. Have a good evening.
[27:56] Hope you'll be with us tomorrow night.
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