CBS Evening News - 1999-10-08
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[0:00] Troops killing civilians in Korea. The
[0:03] Defense Department says it will
[0:04] investigate. Devastating mud and flood
[0:07] in Mexico. The water and death toll
[0:10] rise. And in tonight's Eye on America,
[0:13] the accent is on Texas.
[0:17] This is the CBS Evening News [music]
[0:22] with Dan Rather reporting from CBS News
[0:24] headquarters in New York. [music]
[0:27] >> Good evening. It was the deadliest act
[0:29] of terror on US soil. A truck bomb blew
[0:32] up the federal building in Oklahoma
[0:33] City, killing 168 people, including 19
[0:37] children. This man, Michael Fortier,
[0:40] could have prevented it. He did not, and
[0:42] was sentenced to 12 years in prison for
[0:45] involuntary manslaughter, but he was
[0:47] back in court today with high hopes
[0:49] after an appeals court ordered him
[0:51] re-sentenced with the possibility he
[0:54] could walk. CBS's Byron Pittz was there
[0:57] when the new decision came down.
[1:00] >> Pelted by rain and soaked in
[1:02] uncertainty, relatives of the Oklahoma
[1:04] City bombing victims arrived at federal
[1:06] court this morning with reasons to
[1:08] worry.
[1:09] >> I'm really afraid that they're going to
[1:11] he's going to walk free today. I hate
[1:13] that. For more than an hour in the
[1:15] courtroom directly across the street
[1:17] from the bomb site, the lawyer for
[1:19] Michael Forier argued for his client's
[1:21] freedom, pleading his sentence should be
[1:23] reduced to time serve because he
[1:25] testified as a government witness
[1:27] against Timothy McVey and co-conspirator
[1:29] Terry Nichols. But prosecutors argued
[1:32] Forier could have prevented the Oklahoma
[1:34] City bombing in 1995 by simply making a
[1:37] phone call. McVey had told forier of hi