NBC Nightly News - 2009-03-25

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[0:01] On our broadcast here tonight, uphill

[0:03] fight. The president goes to Congress

[0:05] hoping to head off a Democratic family

[0:07] feud over deficit spending. Not so fast.

[0:10] Home sales are still in the basement,

[0:13] but a slight upward tick raises hopes of

[0:15] a silver lining in a dark economy. Her

[0:18] father's story, Maria Shrivever's moving

[0:21] testimony about her famous father and a

[0:24] family struggle with the slow heartbreak

[0:26] of Alzheimer's and making a difference.

[0:28] It takes a lot of hands to hold back the

[0:30] Red River. Tonight, it's all hands on

[0:32] deck in the American Midwest. Also

[0:35] tonight, a hero's welcome at the White

[0:37] House. It was a long time coming.

[0:38] Nightly News begins now.

[0:44] From NBC News World Headquarters in New

[0:47] York. This is NBC Nightly News with

[0:50] Brian Williams.

[0:52] >> Good evening. Last night, the president

[0:54] tried to take full advantage of the home

[0:56] field advantage that comes with

[0:57] incumbency. A chance to spend an hour

[0:59] with the American people in the form of

[1:01] a prime time news conference. He got a

[1:03] chance to lay out his positions, what he

[1:05] wants, how he plans to pay for it. Well,

[1:07] today that spotlight shifted a bit to

[1:09] Congress. President isn't going to get

[1:11] everything he wants. No one ever does.

[1:13] But he wants to hold the family together

[1:15] while both sides are fixing for a fight.

[1:17] It's where we begin tonight with our own

[1:19] Savannah Guthrie at the White House.

[1:21] Savannah, good evening.

[1:22] Good evening, Brian. Congress unveiled

[1:24] its version of the federal budget today,

[1:26] and the White House says it's pleased

[1:28] its core priorities in healthcare,

[1:30] energy, and education remained intact.

[1:33] But Congress saved the hardest

[1:34] questions, how to pay for all that for

[1:36] another day.

[1:39] >> The president traveled to Capitol Hill

[1:41] to meet with Senate Democrats behind

[1:43] closed doors. Vice President Joe Biden

[1:45] lunched with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

[1:48] We're going to get uh our budget with

[1:50] all the major elements intact.

[1:53] >> The House and Senate officially unveiled

[1:55] their versions of the federal budget,

[1:57] but with some key differences from the

[1:59] president. Gone is the Obama

[2:01] administration's signature initiative, a

[2:03] permanent middle class tax cut, a

[2:06] proposal to pay for health care with tax

[2:08] hikes on the wealthiest Americans, and

[2:10] billions the president had set aside for

[2:12] future financial bailouts. Congressional

[2:15] Democrats also slashed some of the

[2:16] president's proposed spending because

[2:18] the Congressional Budget Office forecast

[2:20] a deficit $2.3 trillion higher than

[2:23] White House projections.

[2:25] >> When we got the new forecast and I had

[2:27] the responsibility of delivering that

[2:29] news to him, he understood immediately

[2:32] the implications.

[2:36] >> Since the president's budget was handd

[2:37] delivered to Capitol Hill a month ago,

[2:40] Republicans have kept up a drum beat of

[2:42] opposition. spends too much taxes too

[2:44] much and it borrows too much.

[2:46] >> Today, congressional Democrats postponed

[2:49] some of the toughest questions, leaving

[2:51] room in the budget for healthare, but

[2:53] not a specific plan to pay for it, and

[2:55] the president's controversial plan to

[2:57] combat global warming was left out of

[2:59] the budget. Still, White House budget

[3:01] director Peter Orzag says the

[3:03] president's priorities are intact.

[3:05] >> It's not like we can just ever expect to

[3:08] send up a budget and have it mimographed

[3:10] or xeroxed and and then have a vote on

[3:12] it. That's not that's not a realistic

[3:14] expectation. It's not the way we govern

[3:16] in the United States.

[3:18] >> Well, that middle class tax cut will be

[3:20] in effect for the next two years. And

[3:22] the administration says it'll work on a

[3:24] way to make it permanent. Tomorrow, the

[3:26] president holds a town hall here at the

[3:28] White House. He'll take questions online

[3:30] and from a live audience. Again, Brian,

[3:32] trying to push this budget, sell his

[3:34] priorities directly to the American

[3:36] people.

[3:36] >> Savannah Guthrie starting us off at the

[3:38] White House tonight. Savannah, thanks.

[3:39] on Wall Street here in New York today. A

[3:41] wild ride as the Dow rallied early, gave

[3:44] it all back, then surged higher at the

[3:46] closing bell. At the end of it all, the

[3:47] Dow finished up just under 90 points.

[3:50] One part of the economy that's given

[3:52] investors some hope this week, the

[3:55] housing market. It's so far just a

[3:57] glimmer, but monthly home sales numbers

[4:00] for February have come in higher than a

[4:03] lot of economists expected. That has

[4:05] some people wondering whether there

[4:07] might be something at work here. Our

[4:09] report from CNBC's Scott Conn.

[4:12] >> Master bedroom with a double tray

[4:14] ceiling.

[4:14] >> Traffic is brisk at this open house near

[4:17] Tampa.

[4:17] >> We've seen an onset of buyers that we

[4:19] haven't seen in years now.

[4:21] >> Even more than the usual jump this time

[4:23] of year. Nationwide, new home sales were

[4:26] up nearly 5% last month, though still

[4:28] far below where they were a year ago.

[4:30] And existing home sales posted their

[4:32] biggest monthly increase in five years.

[4:35] Why? because prices have plunged down

[4:38] 18% from a year ago for new homes, 15%

[4:42] for existing homes.

[4:43] >> Now, can someone build behind that

[4:45] fence?

[4:45] >> That's what brought Brian Stroka to the

[4:47] open house in Florida all the way from

[4:49] Ohio.

[4:50] >> It's the best time I've ever seen in in

[4:52] my time that I've ever looked for a

[4:53] house. Um prices are lower than I've

[4:55] ever seen them.

[4:56] >> This house, three bedrooms, two baths,

[4:58] 2,000 square ft, sold 3 years ago for

[5:01] $387,000.

[5:04] Now it's on the market for 205,000.

[5:07] It's simple supply and demand and it's

[5:09] happening across the country. With so

[5:11] many homes on the market thanks to the

[5:13] housing bust, it's hard to resist the

[5:15] resulting low prices. So does this mean

[5:17] the housing markets finally turn the

[5:19] corner? Not quite. Prices are still

[5:22] falling, meaning the market hasn't hit

[5:24] bottom. And while interest rates are at

[5:26] historic lows and mortgage applications

[5:28] are up, most of those applications are

[5:30] for refinancing. six by four.

[5:33] >> Florida builder John Vanhoff says people

[5:35] are still having trouble getting loans.

[5:38] >> Banks just aren't coming on board.

[5:40] >> But the biggest problem, the overall

[5:42] economy is still hurting.

[5:44] >> As long as we're losing jobs and

[5:45] unemployment's rising, the housing

[5:47] market's just not going to get much

[5:49] traction.

[5:49] >> It has a double door entry.

[5:50] >> The house in Florida hasn't sold yet.

[5:53] They plan another open house this

[5:54] weekend. But at least they've got people

[5:57] looking, and that is a welcome sign.

[6:00] >> Hi, sweetie. Scott Con, CNBC West New

[6:02] York, New Jersey.

[6:04] >> Along the border between North Dakota

[6:06] and Minnesota, rescue crews are working

[6:08] to evacuate people stranded by the

[6:10] rapidly rising Red River. Officials are

[6:13] warning the river could crest at an

[6:15] astonishing 41 ft by Saturday. That' be

[6:18] worse than the record flooding that hit

[6:19] the area a century ago. We are keeping

[6:22] an eye on it. Volunteers are pouring

[6:24] into the flood zone to help. Later in

[6:26] this broadcast, we'll have more on how

[6:28] they are, all of them, making a

[6:30] difference. We wanted to take a moment

[6:31] tonight to note a stunning turn of

[6:34] events in Iraq. As you might have noted,

[6:36] there was not one question about the war

[6:38] in last night's presidential news

[6:40] conference. While it has been crowded

[6:42] off the national radar of late, the

[6:44] level of violence in Iraq has thankfully

[6:46] fallen sharply. A military spokesman

[6:49] there said today the number of attacks

[6:51] has dropped to the lowest level since

[6:54] the months following the US invasion 6

[6:56] years ago now from a peak of more than

[6:58] 1,200 attacks a week to what is now

[7:01] often fewer than 100 a week. And we

[7:04] learned today there's no more global war

[7:06] on terror at least has been renamed by

[7:08] the Obama administration. The Pentagon

[7:10] will now call the ongoing US military

[7:13] effort the overseas contingency

[7:16] operation. Now we turn to the drug war

[7:18] south south of the border in Mexico. The

[7:20] Obama administration calls that nation's

[7:23] drug cartels a national security threat

[7:26] to this country. The president will pay

[7:28] a visit to Mexico next month. His

[7:30] secretary of state Hillary Clinton is

[7:32] there tonight. With her, our chief

[7:34] foreign affairs correspondent Andrea

[7:36] Mitchell, who filed this report.

[7:41] >> Police and kidnappers shoot it out in

[7:43] Baja Mexico. While in Tijana,

[7:45] investigators search a truck riddled

[7:47] with bullet holes. Another victim in an

[7:49] escalating drug war that has already

[7:51] killed 7,000 people in the past 15

[7:54] months. Today, Hillary Clinton said the

[7:56] US has to take responsibility for the

[7:58] insatiable appetite for drugs that is

[8:01] fueling the illegal trade.

[8:03] >> We know very well that the drug

[8:05] traffickers are motivated by the demand

[8:09] for illegal drugs in the United States.

[8:12] 60% of the drugs in the US come from

[8:14] Mexico, a $ 38 billion a year industry,

[8:17] but 90% of the cartel's guns come from

[8:20] the US.

[8:21] >> We need to do more to make sure that

[8:23] illegal guns and cash aren't flowing

[8:25] back to these cartels.

[8:26] >> Clinton told Mexico's leaders help is on

[8:29] the way. The Obama administration is

[8:31] pledging 360 new border agents,

[8:33] high-tech surveillance equipment, and

[8:35] helicopters. Here in Mexico, people see

[8:38] some hope in the Obama plan, but they

[8:40] say to really fight the drug cartels,

[8:42] much more needs to be done on both sides

[8:45] of the border. The US says Mexico's

[8:47] President Felipe Calderon is attacking

[8:49] the cartels and police corruption. But

[8:52] Anamaria Salazar, a lawyer and human

[8:54] rights activist in Mexico City, says her

[8:56] government needs more help than the US

[8:58] has promised. Mexican citizens and the

[9:01] Mexican government look at the United

[9:03] States and they say, "Okay, United

[9:04] States, if you want to control the

[9:07] violence on the border, you have to also

[9:10] acknowledge your responsibility for a

[9:12] crisis that US officials today called

[9:14] America's number one organized crime

[9:16] threat." Andrea Mitchell, NBC News,

[9:19] Mexico City.

[9:20] >> In that news conference we televised

[9:22] last night, President Obama was asked

[9:24] about his role as the nation's first

[9:26] Africanamean president. He noted he had

[9:29] about a day to think about it before he

[9:31] had to get to work. And it was a

[9:32] reminder of the great strides this

[9:34] nation has made in race relations. But

[9:37] today there was a reminder of how much

[9:39] work remains to be done to heal what has

[9:42] long been this nation's greatest wound.

[9:44] More from NBC's Ron Mott.

[9:47] >> Change we seek it.

[9:48] >> Two months on the job, President Obama

[9:50] today got a sobering message about the

[9:52] state of black America detailed in the

[9:54] National Urban League's annual

[9:56] assessment of racial progress. The

[9:58] country is in a ditch and black

[10:00] Americans have lost ground over the last

[10:02] eight years. Those are the facts. Uh and

[10:04] those facts are not lies.

[10:07] >> According to the report, blacks are

[10:09] three times more likely to live in

[10:10] poverty as whites, more than six times

[10:13] as likely to be imprisoned, and blacks

[10:15] lag behind in home ownership and median

[10:17] household income.

[10:19] >> Could I ask you about race?

[10:20] >> You may. During his prime time news

[10:22] conference Tuesday night, the president

[10:24] was asked whether race played a role in

[10:26] any of the policy debates underway at

[10:28] the White House.

[10:29] >> Obviously, at the inauguration,

[10:32] uh I think that there was justifiable

[10:35] pride on the part of the country that we

[10:36] had taken a step to move us beyond uh

[10:40] some of the searing legacies of of

[10:44] racial discrimination in this country.

[10:46] Uh but uh that lasted about a day.

[10:49] What's lasted longer, according to the

[10:51] report, is the slow but steady widening

[10:53] of the gap between whites and blacks in

[10:55] recent years on priority issues. What

[10:57] about your background, educational

[10:59] background

[10:59] >> like economics, education, and jobs?

[11:02] Soaring unemployment among

[11:03] African-Americans is also high on the

[11:05] list of priorities. In February, that

[11:07] number hit 13.4%,

[11:09] even worse for black men, more than 16%,

[11:13] twice the national average. There are,

[11:15] of course, exceptions.

[11:16] >> I want you to push up. Exhale.

[11:19] >> Since we profiled her new personal

[11:20] fitness business in Atlanta a year ago,

[11:23] Amber O'Neal has doubled her workforce.

[11:26] >> What I've got right now is what I

[11:27] dreamed about, but when I got here, my

[11:30] dreams got bigger.

[11:31] >> Today's report offers 31 recommendations

[11:33] to the president. Everything from

[11:35] mortgage counseling to healthcare.

[11:37] >> Very good. We're just getting that heart

[11:38] rate up.

[11:39] >> So that more blacks might see their

[11:41] dreams become reality, too. Ron Mott,

[11:43] NBC News, Atlanta. As we move along here

[11:47] this Wednesday night, the big changes

[11:49] that could be coming soon to a doctor's

[11:51] office near you. And later in the

[11:53] broadcast, the event that brought the

[11:54] president to Arlington National Cemetery

[11:57] today.

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[14:01] Tonight, he's been visible and vocal

[14:03] selling his economic plan. Has America

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[14:12] In health news tonight, President Obama

[14:14] campaigned on it. You've probably heard

[14:16] it, but what does it mean? The

[14:18] transition from paper to digital medical

[14:21] records. Big priority on the president's

[14:23] healthc care reform plan. A study out

[14:26] tonight says less than 2% of the

[14:27] nation's hospitals have fully electronic

[14:30] records. We get more from our chief

[14:32] science correspondent, Robert Bazelle.

[14:34] >> Aim. Okay.

[14:35] >> The old way. Mountains of folders often

[14:38] written in illeible scroll and difficult

[14:40] to find.

[14:41] >> Going to take your temperature and put

[14:43] your vital signs in.

[14:44] >> The new way. A doctor or nurse types in

[14:46] notes, medication requests, and views

[14:49] the entire medical history, including

[14:51] scans and lab reports.

[14:52] >> What does it tell you?

[14:54] It basically tells us almost everything

[14:56] I want to know about the patient.

[14:57] >> The Obama administration wants the whole

[14:59] country's medical system to be

[15:01] electronic in 5 years.

[15:03] >> This will cut waste, eliminate red tape,

[15:06] and reduce the need to repeat expensive

[15:09] medical tests.

[15:10] >> See the computers in the room.

[15:11] >> Dr. Steven Corwin is chief operating

[15:13] officer of New York Presbyterian

[15:15] Hospital, which is totally electronic.

[15:17] When we put electronic ordering into

[15:19] place, all our physicians having to do

[15:21] electronic ordering, our medication

[15:22] errors went down by about 80%.

[15:24] >> In addition to their enormous benefit,

[15:26] electronic medical records have two big

[15:29] challenges. One is patient privacy and

[15:32] the other is the ability of different

[15:34] computer systems to talk to each other.

[15:36] There have been privacy breaches

[15:38] already. Hackers getting into hospital

[15:40] systems, doctors losing laptops, and

[15:42] medical staff looking at records they

[15:44] don't need to see. Already strict laws

[15:47] protect medical privacy, paper or

[15:49] electronic.

[15:50] >> A digital information highway of health

[15:52] information.

[15:53] >> Some say they just need to be enforced.

[15:54] >> But how good is it to have a policy to

[15:57] protect health information privacy if

[15:59] there are no consequences for those who

[16:01] uh break that u faith with uh consumers?

[16:04] >> Many hospitals have different computer

[16:06] systems making interaction difficult.

[16:08] >> Ultimately, things have to connect up to

[16:10] one another. Uh if you're at a Chase

[16:12] ATM, uh it works if you're a cityroup

[16:15] customer. Um we have to we have to be

[16:17] able to do that.

[16:18] >> A tall order, but part of almost

[16:21] everyone's view of the future of

[16:22] medicine.

[16:23] >> Robert Bazelle, NBC News, New York.

[16:27] >> On last night's broadcast, we told you

[16:28] about some truly chilling new numbers

[16:30] showing the spread of Alzheimer's

[16:32] disease, an affliction that now touches

[16:34] so many families. Today in Washington,

[16:37] there was some moving testimony from a

[16:39] member of one of those families. Maria

[16:41] Shrivever, who is first lady of

[16:43] California and a longtime member, of

[16:45] course, of the NBC family. Maria was

[16:47] there to talk about her dad. Sergeant

[16:49] Shrivever, brother-in-law to President

[16:51] Kennedy, former vice presidential

[16:52] candidate, and the founding head of the

[16:55] Peace Corps. Sergeant Shrivever is now

[16:57] 93 and living with Alzheimer's.

[17:00] Sergeant Shrivever was an idealistic,

[17:03] intelligent, optimistic public servant.

[17:06] Sharp, witty, a walking encyclopedia.

[17:10] His mind, a beautifully tuned instrument

[17:12] that left people in awe. That was then.

[17:16] Today, he doesn't even know my name. To

[17:20] be honest, that's still really difficult

[17:21] to wrap my own mind around. But that is

[17:24] the heartbreak and the reality of

[17:26] Alzheimer's. a reality that is

[17:28] terrifying and incomprehensible. At the

[17:32] age of 93, he still goes to mass every

[17:34] day. And believe it or not, he still

[17:36] remembers the Hail Mary. But he doesn't

[17:38] remember me, Maria. I'd be lying if I

[17:41] didn't admit that that still makes me

[17:43] cry. But even so, in the past six years,

[17:46] I have gone from hopelessness to hope. I

[17:49] have hope because things are changing.

[17:51] >> Maria Shrivever testified today as a

[17:54] member of the Alzheimer's study group.

[17:56] Its report out today was sharply

[17:58] critical of the federal government,

[18:00] saying it lacked even the most

[18:02] rudimentary plan to deal with this

[18:04] Alzheimer's epidemic. The report noted

[18:06] that for every dollar spent on care,

[18:09] less than a penny is invested in

[18:11] research to find a cure for Alzheimer's.

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[18:16] before the flood, as the Red River

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[21:17] this bad economy. The good things people

[21:19] are doing for each other. You can send

[21:21] yours to our website. This one is a lot

[21:23] like a story we did in Denver recently.

[21:25] Came to us from Jason in Oak Park,

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[21:48] the community. People are responding to

[21:51] where there's a great need. Right now,

[21:53] the volunteer effort to hold back the

[21:55] waters of the Red River in the upper

[21:57] Midwest is enough to restore your faith

[22:00] in humanity. They are making a

[22:02] difference. And NBC's Kevin Tibbles has

[22:04] our story tonight from Fargo, North

[22:06] Dakota.

[22:08] Adding insult to injury today it snowed

[22:13] and yet to Fargo and other points

[22:16] Midwest they came by the thousands.

[22:18] Jesse Frman a student teacher from Duth

[22:20] Minnesota drove here sandbagging on his

[22:23] spring break.

[22:24] >> There's 200 people standing here. They

[22:26] all need help. They're all friendly and

[22:27] they're all you know just here to help

[22:29] each other. I don't think anyone knows

[22:30] who lives here. They're all just here to

[22:31] help. Cities and towns throughout the

[22:33] Midwest are now also facing a welcome

[22:36] flood of volunteers. Today in Fargo

[22:39] alone, 5,000.

[22:41] >> Oh, it's overwhelming. I mean, we had

[22:42] people from probably 250 mi away,

[22:45] unknown to me at all, and they just came

[22:47] and asked what they could do.

[22:48] >> Websites like Craigslist are being used

[22:50] to round up workers. Jerry Pilington, 5

[22:53] hours away in Minneapolis, St. Paul, put

[22:56] the call out on Facebook, took a day off

[22:58] work, and headed south. took about 15

[23:01] minutes and I had a bunch of people

[23:04] volunteer and and uh so here we are.

[23:06] >> Lorie Macker joined the caravan from the

[23:08] Twin Cities.

[23:09] >> I've always wanted to help out and when

[23:11] there's need when people need help.

[23:14] >> It's a no-brainer. You're in the car.

[23:16] >> That's right. You got it.

[23:18] >> Unless it's me that needs help.

[23:22] >> A huge garbage disposal warehouse is now

[23:25] dubbed Sandbag Central. It's here that

[23:28] 24year-old Kristen Sanchez has come from

[23:31] Iowa. She grew up in Fargo and followed

[23:34] the volunteer efforts on Twitter.

[23:36] >> It was about knowing that my city needed

[23:38] something some place that I love that

[23:40] I've called home for how many years. I

[23:43] needed to be here.

[23:44] >> So many volunteers organizers say they

[23:47] expected nothing less.

[23:49] >> We're from the Midwest. We work hard. We

[23:50] play hard. We've worked hard this week

[23:52] and we're going to get it done. and

[23:54] getting it done is an army of regular

[23:56] folks with strong arms and big hearts.

[24:00] Kevin Tibbles, NBC News, Fargo.

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[26:43] >> This is a KJW News Channel 8 update.

[26:47] >> Next, two fugitives wanted for beating a

[26:48] Wugal man and leaving him for dead have

[26:50] been arrested in Mexico. How police

[26:52] tracked them down. Plus, the trime route

[26:54] cuts that could make things tough for

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[27:06] Tonight, there is a 99-year-old man in

[27:08] Washington, DC who must now feel he has

[27:11] seen it all. John Finn was the first man

[27:15] to receive the Medal of Honor for heroic

[27:17] actions in World War II. In fact, when

[27:20] he did what he did, it wasn't yet clear

[27:22] we were in another world war. On the

[27:24] morning of the Pearl Harbor attack, he

[27:26] stood at his 50 cal machine gun for two

[27:29] solid hours, firing at incoming Japanese

[27:32] planes despite being wounded more than

[27:35] 20 separate times. Well, today is

[27:38] National Medal of Honor Day. And at a

[27:40] wreath laying ceremony at Arlington

[27:41] National Cemetery, John rose up from his

[27:44] wheelchair, walked, and stood at the

[27:46] side of his commander-in-chief as taps

[27:48] was played.

[28:02] And then late today, John Finn visited

[28:05] the White House for the first time in

[28:06] his life. President Obama hosted John in

[28:09] the Oval Office. FDR was never able to

[28:12] give Jon his medal. Admiral Chester

[28:15] Nimttz placed it around John's neck 67

[28:18] years ago in a ceremony on the deck of

[28:20] the USS Enterprise in Pearl Harbor as

[28:23] the war in the Pacific still raged on.

[28:25] So, so today really made up for lost

[28:28] time, 4 months short of John's 100th

[28:31] birthday. Now, he has in fact seen it

[28:34] all. And John Finn, we salute you.

[28:37] That's our broadcast for this Wednesday

[28:38] night. Thank you for being with us. I'm

[28:40] Brian Williams. We'll look for you

[28:42] tomorrow evening. Good night.

[28:46] >> A mystery unraveling.

[28:48] >> This is certainly not what any of us was

[28:51] hoping for.

[28:52] >> A decadel long search for a missing

[28:53] teenager is over. The remains of

[28:55] Stephanie Condan identified and now an

[28:58] arrest. We talked to the man who found

[29:00] her. Trimming trime. Portland's transit

[29:02] agency unveils its hit list. The bus

[29:05] routes that could be cut and how Max may

[29:07] come less often. And score one for

[29:09] nature. Congress passes the wilderness

[29:11] bill, giving 2 million acres of land

[29:14] federal protection. Why some say the

[29:16] bill will cost jobs.

[29:19] From the KGWHD

[29:21] studios,

[29:24] where the news comes first. News Channel

[29:26] 8 at 6 starts now.

[29:29] >> Hello, I'm Joe Don.

[29:31] >> And I'm Tracy Barry. First at 6 tonight,

[29:33] we begin with breaking news. A father

[29:35] and son arrested in the brutal beating

[29:38] of a Wugle man. The big break in

[29:40] Insanada, Mexico. And tonight,

[29:42] detectives from Schemania County are on

[29:45] their way to bring back their suspects.

[29:48] News Channel 8's Anne Jagger joins us

[29:49] with this huge development. Dan,

[29:51] >> Tracy, Mexican police and US Marshalss

[29:53] arrested Michael and Kevin Collins in

[29:55] Insanada this morning. Tonight, the

[29:57] father and son are being deported to

[29:59] Southern California in route back to

[30:01] Washington State. The two were accused

[30:03] in the brutal beating of Robert Tracy

[30:06] last month in the Dugan Falls area of

[30:08] Scammania County. Tracy, who was out for

[30:10] a cross-country ski, was nearly killed

[30:13] and left for dead near a creek bed.

[30:15] Police say that Collins beat Tracy with

[30:17] a wooden stick, then stole his car. The

[30:20] television show America's Most Wanted

[30:22] generated brand new leads in the case.

[30:25] Schammania County detectives track the

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