CBS Evening News - 1999-08-31

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[0:01] Nature's fury on both sides of America.

[0:05] In the West, it's a fight against

[0:06] wildfires burning thousands of acres in

[0:09] six states. In the east, unpredictable

[0:12] Hurricane Dennis is moving slowly back

[0:14] toward land. Now, the FBI and the Branch

[0:18] Devidian fiasco. Pressure builds for a

[0:20] new outside investigation.

[0:23] And the telephone wars. Red-hot

[0:25] competition cuts the cost of long-d

[0:28] distanceance calls.

[0:33] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:37] Rather.

[0:39] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:40] John Roberts. Firefighters in five

[0:43] states are waging a frustrating war,

[0:45] battling tinder dry conditions and high

[0:48] winds, trying to get the upper hand on

[0:50] dozens of serious wildfires burning

[0:52] tonight. Across the dry and windy West,

[0:55] one is by far the worst. A little over

[0:57] an hour's drive from Los Angeles. Bill

[1:00] Whitaker reports. The so-called Willow

[1:02] Fire has already consumed a number of

[1:04] homes and seems hungry for more.

[1:09] Like a voracious beast, the wind whipped

[1:12] whirls of flame are devouring huge

[1:14] patches of mountainsides in the San

[1:16] Bernardino National Forest east of Los

[1:18] Angeles. More than 50,000 acres so far,

[1:21] feeding on dry brush and parched trees,

[1:24] cloaking the rugged area in smoke,

[1:26] forcing people and their animals to

[1:28] evacuate.

[1:30] The Estradas stayed behind to fight for

[1:32] their first home just bought in April.

[1:35] But it looks like we might be able to

[1:37] save it. We should be able to save it.

[1:40] >> Stuck around long enough, stubborn

[1:42] enough.

[1:42] >> You got an extra hose. They did manage

[1:44] to save it, but the monstrous wildfire

[1:47] already has consumed dozens of houses.

[1:50] This is one of four wildfires raging in

[1:52] the Los Angeles area alone. Across the

[1:55] West, this has been one scorcher of a

[1:57] fire season. Blazes have blackened

[1:59] thousands of acres from Montana to

[2:01] Texas, making this one of the worst

[2:03] seasons in years. Nationwide, almost

[2:06] 70,000 major wildfires have scorched

[2:09] more than 4 million acres, twice the

[2:12] acreage of last year.

[2:14] Back near Los Angeles, 1100 firefighters

[2:17] are battling this blaze on the ground

[2:19] and in the air.

[2:20] >> What we're trying to do with the water

[2:22] drops right now is uh slow it down, try

[2:24] to hold it along a little bit of a road.

[2:26] >> This fire started by an illegal campfire

[2:29] has tripled in size since Sunday. With

[2:32] conditions so dry and hot, firefighters

[2:35] fear it'll be some time before they get

[2:37] it contained. And with the end of the

[2:39] fire season still weeks away, they fear

[2:42] things out west can still get a lot

[2:44] hotter. Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los

[2:47] Angeles. On the East Coast,

[2:50] unpredictable wandering hurricane Dennis

[2:52] is giving forecasters fits. Dennis could

[2:55] change direction at any time, but right

[2:57] now, the storm is on the move again

[3:00] toward the coast. And a hurricane watch

[3:02] is up from Cape Lookout, North Carolina

[3:04] to Chinkatig, Virginia. Our CBS News

[3:07] camera at Virginia Beach, Virginia this

[3:09] evening shows the pounding surf being

[3:11] whipped up by Dennis, whose center is

[3:13] still about 125 miles off the coast.

[3:17] There is no consensus on what Hurricane

[3:19] Dennis will do next. It could start

[3:21] treading water at any time and head off

[3:23] on any course on the compass. CBS News

[3:26] weather consultant Brian Norcross says

[3:28] whatever happens, it won't happen fast.

[3:32] >> Not going anywhere fast, but the problem

[3:33] is going toward the coast. John, take a

[3:35] look at the satellite picture and focus

[3:37] on the center right in there and you'll

[3:39] see it easing ever so slightly toward

[3:42] the North Carolina coast. Now, what's

[3:44] going on? Well, it's high pressure and

[3:46] it's high pressure building to the north

[3:48] over top of Dennis with the flow coming

[3:50] around like that. The thinking is here's

[3:52] Dennis out here. That will ease Dennis

[3:55] down the coast. So, we're going to be

[3:57] dealing with this for a while because

[3:59] the movement does not look like it's

[4:00] going to be very fast. Brian, any chance

[4:02] that as it moves back toward the coast,

[4:03] it could intensify some?

[4:05] >> Well, the issues are complicated, John,

[4:07] because the water will get warmer the

[4:09] further south it goes, but it was kind

[4:10] of ripped up getting into the dry air

[4:12] further north, and they usually don't

[4:14] come back, but you don't mess with any

[4:16] hurricane.

[4:17] >> Brian Norcross, hurricane consultant in

[4:18] Miami. Thanks for joining us. A second

[4:21] defendant went on trial today for a

[4:23] crime that shocked the nation. The

[4:24] murder of a black man dragged to death

[4:26] behind a pickup truck in Texas. CBS's

[4:29] Bob McNamera was on hand as jury

[4:32] selection began.

[4:33] >> Sir,

[4:34] >> it is the same crime.

[4:36] >> Same as always.

[4:37] >> And many of the same characters, too.

[4:39] >> Any jury we get, we're going to like.

[4:41] >> But now it is 32-year-old ex-con

[4:43] Lawrence Russell Brewer's turn to face a

[4:46] possible death sentence for his alleged

[4:48] role in the brutal killing of this man,

[4:50] 49-year-old James Bird Jr. Every now and

[4:53] then you run across an individual that's

[4:56] so bad, so dangerous that uh it's about

[4:59] the only sensible alternative. It's it's

[5:03] about all you can do in this kind of

[5:05] case and we'll seek it.

[5:07] >> Already, John William King has been

[5:09] sentenced to death for James Bird's

[5:11] murder, and evidence weighs heavily

[5:13] against his old prison mate, Brewer.

[5:15] Now,

[5:16] >> anyone in the state of Texas that's

[5:18] charged with a crime is presumed to be

[5:19] innocent, and Mr. Brewer has entered a

[5:20] plea of not guilty. And while the Brewer

[5:23] trial was moved 150 miles from Jasper

[5:25] here to Brian because of all the

[5:27] coverage around the killing and the

[5:28] first murder trial, much of the evidence

[5:31] seen before will be seen again. The

[5:34] chain the killers used to lash James

[5:36] Bird to the back of a truck, the pickup

[5:39] used to drag him, and the FBI video

[5:41] tracing the back road down which Bird

[5:44] was dragged more than three miles before

[5:46] he was decapitated.

[5:48] >> Again, too, Bird's family will attend

[5:50] the trial. It's just like living through

[5:51] the same nightmare over and over again.

[5:54] But but we but we'll make it.

[5:55] >> Trial security is unprecedented for

[5:58] Brian. Born of fears the same clan and

[6:01] Black Panther groups that grabbed

[6:02] attention in Jasper could come here.

[6:05] >> We love you, brothers and sisters.

[6:07] >> As Jasper, Texas, still struggles to put

[6:09] a hate crime behind it, a verdict in

[6:11] Lawrence Russell Brewer's trial will not

[6:13] end a nightmare. 24y old Shaun Baring,

[6:17] the third and last man accused of the

[6:19] bird murder, is now demanding his trial

[6:21] be held in Jasper, publicity or not. Bob

[6:25] McNamera, CBS News, Brian, Texas. FBI

[6:29] director Louisie Free is now

[6:30] recommending appointment of an outside

[6:32] investigator to look again at the Branch

[6:35] Devidian siege and what the government

[6:37] did and did not do to end it. CBS News

[6:40] correspondent Jim Stewart has the

[6:42] latest.

[6:43] Attorney General Janet Reno was said to

[6:45] be close today to naming someone from

[6:47] outside the Justice Department to head

[6:49] up the latest investigation of the

[6:51] government's handling of the 1993

[6:53] standoff with the branch Devidians near

[6:55] Waco, Texas. Reno's search comes even as

[6:58] House Republicans subpoenaed all that

[7:00] remained of the Devidian complex, a

[7:02] warehouse of charred weapons now being

[7:04] held by the Texas Rangers, plus

[7:06] witnesses for a new round of hearings on

[7:08] the Waco siege set for this fall. The

[7:11] renewed interest in the standoff centers

[7:13] on Reno's testimony four years ago that

[7:15] the FBI used no incendiary tear gas

[7:18] canisters in their assault on the

[7:20] compound.

[7:20] >> I'm very satisfied that in the

[7:22] information furnished to me by the FBI,

[7:25] I was informed.

[7:27] >> Only now, it seems she wasn't. Internal

[7:30] documents recently surfaced clearly

[7:32] implying that some people in both the

[7:34] FBI and Justice Department have always

[7:36] known that at least two incendiary

[7:38] devices were used that day. But both

[7:41] were deployed 6 hours before the fire

[7:43] started and both were aimed at a bunker

[7:46] not housing the Devidians. A February

[7:48] 15, 1996 internal FBI memorandum, for

[7:52] example, cites a request from the

[7:54] bureau's hostage rescue team C to use

[7:56] militarystyle tear gas, which is

[7:58] incendiary, and notes that authority was

[8:00] granted at 6:07 a.m. Two rounds were

[8:04] fired, according to the memo. But it

[8:06] wasn't until 6 hours later that flames

[8:08] were first noticed in the main compound,

[8:10] and several outside review panels have

[8:12] already concluded that those fires were

[8:15] set by the Devidians themselves after

[8:17] the bureau doused their fortress with

[8:18] nonflammable tear gas. The new

[8:21] investigation will apparently center on

[8:23] who authorized the use of those two

[8:25] militarystyle gas canisters and perhaps

[8:27] more importantly just why all that

[8:29] information wasn't passed up the chain

[8:31] of command to a now thoroughly angry US

[8:34] Attorney General. Jim Stewart, CBS News,

[8:37] Washington. Still ahead on tonight's CBS

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[8:45] How diet may affect the chances for

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[10:30] The telephone long-distance price wars

[10:32] are heating up with AT&T, the latest

[10:35] carrier to jump into the fray. CBS News

[10:38] correspondent Sandra Hughes reports

[10:39] what's behind the price slashing and how

[10:41] you could save some money.

[10:45] >> Making it in Hollywood means making a

[10:47] lot of long-distance telephone calls.

[10:49] And producer Kevin Fry spends about $300

[10:51] a month.

[10:52] >> They're out of out of hand. But

[10:53] consumers like Fry could be in for big

[10:56] savings if they pay attention to offers

[10:57] like AT&T's 7 cents a minute 24 hours a

[11:01] day.

[11:01] >> We were responding to the marketplace

[11:03] and to customers needs for simplicity

[11:05] and a great value.

[11:07] >> Making a long-distance call used to be a

[11:09] laborintensive big event. Just 15 years

[11:12] ago, the average rate was 40 cents a

[11:14] minute.

[11:14] >> Introducing Sprint Nickel Night.

[11:16] >> Now, long-distance companies like Sprint

[11:18] are slashing rates to 5 cents a minute

[11:20] for some calls. New technology and lower

[11:23] government fees have combined to make

[11:25] long-distance calling pretty cheap. AT&T

[11:28] was holding at 10 cents. It had to cut

[11:30] rates, too, or face losing customers.

[11:32] But it's not just long-d distanceance

[11:34] companies that threaten AT&T. More and

[11:37] more people are using their wireless

[11:39] phones exclusively for long distance

[11:42] because many cellular companies don't

[11:44] charge long distance or roaming fees. It

[11:47] may not be long before everyone gets

[11:49] long-distance free as a part of a

[11:51] package.

[11:52] >> Wireless phone service, internet

[11:54] service, cable television service. You

[11:57] can make a lot of money in those

[11:58] services. I think we're looking at the

[11:59] day of free long distance before we know

[12:01] it.

[12:02] >> But the big savings are only for calls

[12:03] to other states, not other area codes

[12:05] within the same state or town. And

[12:08] there's a monthly fee. So, it's

[12:09] confusing to a lot of people. They

[12:11] advertise 7 cents as as a as a bargain,

[12:15] but when you look at your total bill,

[12:17] that seems to be going up.

[12:19] >> And if 5 to 7 cents a minute encourages

[12:21] people to make more long-distance calls

[12:23] than usual, the phone company's gamble

[12:26] pays off. Sandra Hughes, CBS News, Los

[12:29] Angeles.

[12:30] >> On the CBS Market Watch tonight,

[12:32] consumer confidence fell in August for

[12:34] the second straight month. Analysts said

[12:36] higher interest rates and gas prices and

[12:39] the eastern drought help dampen optimism

[12:41] by the spending public. Stay with us now

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[15:03] >> The race for the White House has begun

[15:05] with a race for campaign cash. And the

[15:07] latest tally shows George W. Bush far

[15:09] and away the leader with an all-time

[15:11] record war chance of nearly $50 million.

[15:15] But is there a downside to being the

[15:17] financial front runner? Joining us now

[15:19] is CBS News special correspondent Gloria

[15:21] Borgger. Gloria,

[15:22] >> John, some of the other candidates argue

[15:24] that Bush has to be careful here because

[15:26] he's in danger of becoming better known

[15:28] for raising money than his ideas. But

[15:30] the advantages to this money clearly

[15:32] outweigh the liabilities and the

[15:34] candidate knows it.

[15:36] >> I know there are some who are talking

[15:37] about my capacity to raise money,

[15:40] particularly some opponents. I would

[15:41] suggest that if you ask them, they would

[15:44] like to trade places.

[15:46] >> In fact, some Bush staffers are

[15:48] surprised at how easy it's been. And

[15:50] they say it's partly due to a strong

[15:51] anti-Clinton sentiment among Republicans

[15:54] who picked Bush as their best hope to

[15:56] win back the White House. As for Bush,

[15:58] he wants to make sure he can match a

[15:59] wealthy opponent like Steve Forbes. No

[16:02] presidential candidate has ever raised

[16:04] this much money. Think of it this way.

[16:06] George Bush has so far raised 12 million

[16:08] more by himself than President Clinton

[16:11] and Bob Dole raised combined at this

[16:13] point in the race four years ago, but

[16:15] it's not even Labor Day. And the other

[16:17] Republicans haven't given up. John

[16:19] McCain is still chairman of the Senate

[16:21] Commerce Committee, which helps him

[16:22] raise money. And Elizabeth Dole's

[16:24] campaign says she's tapping new sources

[16:26] like women. And don't forget Steve

[16:28] Forbes, who can always write himself a

[16:30] check. John

[16:32] >> Gloria Borgger in Washington. Thanks. A

[16:34] powerful explosion shook the walls of

[16:36] the Kremlin in Moscow today. A video

[16:38] game machine exploded in an underground

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[19:48] >> A major new medical study out tonight

[19:50] followed for as long as 18 years nearly

[19:53] 2,000 women stricken with breast cancer.

[19:55] The conclusion, the differences in the

[19:57] women's diet helped determine how long

[20:00] they survive.

[20:01] >> Good.

[20:02] >> Since Dorothy Golabowski was diagnosed

[20:04] with breast cancer two years ago, she

[20:06] has completely changed her diet.

[20:08] >> Turkey is really good. the turkey wrap.

[20:10] >> Gone are sugars in red meat in favor of

[20:13] poultry and vegetables high in protein,

[20:15] fiber, and calcium. She says it just

[20:18] seemed like the right thing to do.

[20:20] >> I just really feel that that diet is

[20:23] definitely a big contributing factor to

[20:25] to long-term survival.

[20:27] >> Good.

[20:27] >> And today's study in the journal Cancer

[20:29] suggests she's on the right track. Women

[20:32] who ate the most protein and poultry had

[20:36] about a 30% decreased risk of death

[20:38] compared to the women that ate the

[20:40] least.

[20:40] >> The study's authors don't know why

[20:42] poultry lowered the risk, but Dr.

[20:44] Mitchell Gainer, an advocate of diet as

[20:46] a cancer preventive, says it may be the

[20:49] way the body reacts to chicken and

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[20:53] growth factors than red meats and

[20:55] sugars. And people who eat poultry also

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[21:03] >> All of these types of foods increase

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[21:13] our bodies.

[21:15] >> The study also found that contrary to

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[21:30] Pete Sampas was bested today at the US

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[21:34] A clearly disappointed Sampress told

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[21:47] championships. you know, to break the

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[21:52] to to do it here in New York. But,

[21:55] you know, it just goes to show how

[21:56] important your health is, uh, you know,

[21:59] without my health, I I can't play.

[22:01] >> Samper said that he injured his back

[22:03] during practice on Sunday and said he

[22:05] won't be able to even get on a tennis

[22:07] court for at least a month. Straight

[22:09] ahead, I America looks at a teenager

[22:12] summer job that could be worth a

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[24:45] With Labor Day just around the corner,

[24:47] high school and college students are

[24:49] winding up their summer jobs. Most have

[24:51] earned enough for books and snacks in

[24:53] the fall. But in these economic boom

[24:56] times, others may have hit the road to

[24:58] riches. In tonight's Eye on America, Ray

[25:00] Brady reports on one kid and what he did

[25:04] this summer.

[25:07] Don't think he's just another teenager

[25:09] having a laid-back summer. Rody Knight's

[25:11] spending his vacation hard at work in

[25:14] California's high-tech Silicon Valley.

[25:18] He's working at not one but three summer

[25:21] jobs as a computer programmer and an

[25:24] internet site manager. And this

[25:26] 18year-old's making much more than the

[25:29] minimum wage.

[25:31] >> I'm making uh close to $5,000 a month

[25:33] from my three jobs right now. And that's

[25:34] not all. Though he's still in high

[25:36] school, Rody Knight is part of what may

[25:38] well be a burgeoning Silicon Valley

[25:41] trend along with his salary, he's

[25:43] getting stock options as part of his

[25:46] summer internship at Keynote Systems.

[25:48] >> It's definitely more exciting than just

[25:50] getting a regular salary.

[25:51] >> Exciting because if this startup company

[25:53] is successful, those options could set

[25:56] Rody Knight on the road to riches.

[25:59] >> Basically, it's a series of commands um

[26:01] in in a in a row. Stock options make you

[26:03] feel like an owner and owners work

[26:05] harder.

[26:05] >> Um Gupta, the CEO of Keynote Systems,

[26:09] believes stock options motivate workers,

[26:12] even workers still in high school.

[26:14] >> From my viewpoint, it doesn't matter

[26:15] whether he's a young man or older. It's

[26:17] how good you are at what you do. And

[26:19] Rod's good at what he does.

[26:21] >> Once stock options went only to CEOs and

[26:24] a few others at the top of a company.

[26:26] But here in the Silicon Valley, they're

[26:28] rewriting the book. options are going to

[26:30] just about everybody, even janitors. And

[26:34] they've enabled some secretaries to buy

[26:37] milliondoll homes. High-tech companies

[26:40] are granting options at a rate of three

[26:42] to four times general industry. They're

[26:45] sharing the wealth that much more, and

[26:48] that gives them a competitive advantage

[26:50] in attracting smart people.

[26:52] >> What's your wildest dream about your

[26:54] stock options?

[26:55] >> Uh, I guess that they would do as well

[26:56] as Microsoft. And what a dream. Anyone

[27:00] with options to buy even just 100 shares

[27:03] of Microsoft when it went public in 1986

[27:06] at $21 a share would have shares today

[27:09] worth about 1,296,000.

[27:15] If you hit it rich with the options,

[27:17] what will you do with the money?

[27:19] >> I'm sure it'll come in handy once I

[27:20] graduate from college if I should uh

[27:22] decide to start my own company.

[27:23] >> Do you ever think you might be a young

[27:25] Bill Gates?

[27:26] Uh, I I hope so.

[27:29] >> Right now, Rod's at the top of his game,

[27:31] but he knows that with stock options,

[27:33] you don't always win. Indeed, of the

[27:36] CEOs at America's top corporations who

[27:39] received options in 1997,

[27:42] 25% of them got no payoff by the end of

[27:45] 1998.

[27:47] Still, at age 18, Rody has time and a

[27:50] bright future in his court. in San

[27:53] Mateo. I'm Ray Brady for Eye on America.

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