CBS Evening News - 1992-04-08

Channel: malgent

Transcript

Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] Another

[0:01] sports legend announces that he has

[0:04] AIDS. Shocking news about radioactive

[0:07] pollution. Tens of thousands of

[0:09] contaminated sites in almost every state

[0:12] in the country. Also, eye on America.

[0:15] Tonight, how you can cash in on the tax

[0:17] code just like the rich and famous.

[0:22] This is the CBS Evening News.

[0:29] Good evening, Dan Rather reporting. The

[0:31] news today came as a shock. Tennis Hall

[0:34] of Famer Arthur Ash revealed that he has

[0:36] AIDS. It was something Arthur Ash wanted

[0:39] to keep private, but he says he was

[0:41] finally forced to go public. CBS News

[0:43] health correspondent Edie Magnus reports

[0:45] on Arthur Ash and AIDS.

[0:49] Arthur Ash was the first black man to

[0:52] win one of tennis's grand slam

[0:53] tournaments, defeating Jimmy Connors at

[0:55] Wimbledon in 1975.

[0:58] He ranked among America's top 10 tennis

[1:00] players for 15 years until he suffered a

[1:03] heart attack in 1979, which forced him

[1:05] suddenly to retire. "Why me?" Ash asked

[1:08] Ben. He could be asking that question

[1:11] now. I have known since the time of my

[1:13] brain operation in September 1988

[1:17] that I have AIDS.

[1:18] >> Test showed Ash had a brain infection

[1:21] and more tests confirmed the cause was

[1:23] AIDS acquired he says from a blood

[1:25] transfusion during one of two bypass

[1:28] operations on his heart.

[1:29] >> I am not sick

[1:32] and I can function very well and all

[1:34] that I have been involved in for the

[1:36] past several years.

[1:40] As for my family,

[1:42] my wife and daughter are in excellent

[1:45] health and both are HIV negative.

[1:49] >> Ash did not want to go public today, but

[1:51] said that rumors about his health had

[1:53] been leaking out that someone had, in

[1:55] his words, ratted on him to reporters

[1:57] who started asking questions.

[1:59] >> I didn't commit any crime. I'm not

[2:00] running for public office. I should be

[2:03] able to reserve the right to keep things

[2:05] like that private.

[2:07] But now it's out and friends and

[2:09] admirers are profoundly sad.

[2:11] >> He's a very bright guy. Uh he is got a

[2:15] big heart and uh

[2:19] >> Lisa Jones, now 28, was among the first

[2:21] recipients of an Arthur Ash tennis

[2:24] scholarship at age 13. continues to be a

[2:26] great role model and I feel like um a

[2:29] blow has been hit to our in the black

[2:32] tennis community knowing that someone

[2:34] like that that we hold high on a

[2:36] pedestal is been hit by something like

[2:39] this.

[2:39] >> To date, the Centers for Disease Control

[2:41] has traced more than 4700 cases of AIDS

[2:44] to contaminated blood. Almost all of the

[2:47] cases like Arthur Ash occurred before

[2:49] 1985 when the US started to screen all

[2:52] donated blood for the AIDS virus.

[2:54] There's no question about the fact that

[2:56] the blood supply in the United States

[2:58] now is infinitely more safe than it was

[3:00] in 1983.

[3:02] >> Ash says he's not going to sue the

[3:03] hospital where he had heart surgery.

[3:05] He's looking forward as best he can.

[3:08] >> I'm feeling very optimistic about uh

[3:11] being able to get on with my life in his

[3:13] normal way as possible.

[3:15] >> And Arthur Ash says he plans to get

[3:17] actively involved in the AIDS movement,

[3:19] likely teaming up with Magic Johnson to

[3:22] try to reach this country's children.

[3:24] Dan.

[3:24] >> So, why did Arthur Asher wait so long to

[3:27] go public?

[3:28] >> He said today it was for one very simple

[3:30] reason. He wanted it to be private. He

[3:32] was worried that he would be treated

[3:34] differently, that his wife and daughter

[3:36] would be treated differently. Uh they

[3:38] said today they're going to have to

[3:39] teach her now to deal with cruelty that

[3:41] people project onto AIDS all kinds of

[3:44] fears. And Arthur Ash did not want his

[3:47] family to be subjected to that, but uh

[3:50] events conspired against it. Ed Magnus,

[3:53] thanks. A new US government survey says

[3:56] there are more than 45,000

[3:58] locations across this country that may

[4:00] be contaminated by radioactive waste.

[4:03] That is many more sites than the public

[4:05] was previously told about. And as

[4:07] correspondent Bruce Morton reports, some

[4:09] are in places you'd never expect.

[4:13] Radiation sterilizers, Inc. indicator

[4:15] Georgees sterilized medical instruments

[4:17] using radioactive cesium in stainless

[4:19] steel capsules leased from the US

[4:21] Department of Energy which had said they

[4:23] were safe.

[4:24] >> There could never be any kind of a

[4:26] problem or leak. It was impossible to

[4:27] have any kind of incident where they

[4:29] would leak.

[4:30] >> But one of the capsules did rupture, did

[4:32] leak. That was 4 years ago and the

[4:34] cleanup isn't over yet. Find the leaking

[4:36] capsule. Send all the capsules back.

[4:39] Deal with contaminated water. Strip the

[4:41] steel lining from the tank that filled

[4:43] the water. and on and on. The job may be

[4:46] finished next September. The taxpayers

[4:48] are footing the bill.

[4:49] >> And the total project cost at that time

[4:51] will be somewhat over $35 million.

[4:54] That's astonishing. That is an

[4:56] astronomical figure.

[4:57] >> The DOE would appear to me to need some

[5:00] kind of an overhaul, a management

[5:01] overhaul of looking at what are they

[5:04] doing, how effectively are they doing

[5:05] it, and uh how do they restore trust?

[5:09] What happened at RSI is one example of

[5:11] the time and the costs involved in

[5:13] nuclear cleanups. But a report out today

[5:16] says this is just one case, but across

[5:18] the country there may be thousands. The

[5:20] Environmental Protection Agency says the

[5:22] contaminated sites are in practically

[5:24] every state in the union. The heaviest

[5:26] concentration is in the West, where the

[5:28] government has been storing radioactive

[5:30] waste ever since it first built the

[5:31] atomic bomb.

[5:34] Besides obvious places like the Hanford

[5:36] Nuclear Reservation in Washington State,

[5:38] the study lists some sites never

[5:39] disclosed before. Item: Under this golf

[5:42] course at Norton Air Force Base in

[5:44] California, there's a bunker of

[5:45] radioactive dirt collected from planes

[5:48] which flew through above ground nuclear

[5:50] tests in the 1960s. Radioactive waste

[5:53] still lingers from accidents like this

[5:55] Titan missile silo explosion 12 years

[5:57] ago in Arkansas. When we have 45,300

[6:01] sites, estimated number of sites out

[6:03] there, it indicates this danger is much

[6:05] more widespread, I think, than most

[6:07] people had thought.

[6:09] >> The cost of all the cleanups will run

[6:11] into billions of dollars. Now, at least,

[6:13] there's a laundry list of places that

[6:15] may need to be cleaned. Bruce Warren,

[6:18] CBS News, Decar, Georgia. There is also

[6:21] a laundry list out today of America's

[6:23] new most endangered rivers. The Colombia

[6:26] and Snake River system in the West heads

[6:28] the list of beautiful and previously

[6:30] clean rivers now facing the most

[6:32] environmental damage. Conservationists

[6:34] say more than 200 varieties of its fish

[6:37] are imperiled by dams and development in

[6:39] Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. Also high

[6:42] on the new endangered rivers list, the

[6:44] American River in California, the

[6:46] Colorado, the Mississippi River, and the

[6:48] Everglades, among others. Everyone knows

[6:51] there is no cure for the Common Cove.

[6:54] But there are many products sold over

[6:56] the counter that promise relief from

[6:58] cold symptoms. Do they really work? Rita

[7:01] Braver reports. There are some new

[7:02] doubts about that.

[7:10] Everyone knows that feeling, that awful

[7:12] feeling of having a cold.

[7:14] >> I have a little cold. So, I'm going to

[7:16] see if I can get rid of the runny nose.

[7:18] >> Got a cough. Persistent cough, too. Very

[7:20] dry.

[7:21] >> I feel terrible.

[7:24] >> And a lot of us think we know what to do

[7:26] about it.

[7:26] >> We've been using Venadryil

[7:29] and uh Cordaid. I use Alka-Seltzer Cold

[7:33] Plus. That seems to work the best for

[7:34] me. But today in Congress came

[7:36] allegations that many of the cold

[7:38] medications America spends $1 billion

[7:41] dollar a year on do no good at all.

[7:44] >> So for example, when advertisers tell us

[7:46] to quote give you a cold to contact,

[7:50] maybe what they mean is give your money

[7:52] to contact and keep your cold to

[7:54] yourself.

[7:56] >> The problem say many medical researchers

[7:58] is that antihistamines found in almost

[8:00] all cold formulas work only on

[8:02] allergies, not on colds. And some

[8:04] decongestants may be worthless, too.

[8:06] According to a recent study of Datap,

[8:09] commonly given to sniffling children,

[8:11] >> I found that there was no difference in

[8:13] symptom relief regardless of whether a

[8:15] child received the antihistamine

[8:17] decongestant medicine, a placebo, or no

[8:20] medicine at all. Not so, replied the

[8:23] over-the-counter drug manufacturers.

[8:26] Millions and millions of Americans have

[8:28] used these antihistamines

[8:30] to treat their runny noses and sneezing

[8:33] for 40 years. And they wouldn't have

[8:36] kept doing that if they didn't believe

[8:39] that something was healthy.

[8:41] >> But the researchers had an answer for

[8:43] that, too.

[8:44] >> The sneezing usually goes away and the

[8:46] runny nose becomes a stuffy nose. And so

[8:48] they may think that they've derived

[8:50] benefit when in fact uh it's the natural

[8:52] course of the cold.

[8:54] The Food and Drug Administration has

[8:56] been under fire for allowing cold

[8:57] medicines to be sold without sufficient

[8:59] proof they work. Today, the FDA says

[9:02] it's evaluating whether to keep allowing

[9:04] antihistamines to be sold for cold

[9:06] relief. Rita Braver, CBS News,

[9:09] Washington.

[9:10] >> Doctors in Switzerland say they have

[9:12] found the cause of the common beer

[9:14] belly. All right, it's beer or any kind

[9:17] of alcohol. Here's how it happens. The

[9:19] doctors say alcohol makes a body burn up

[9:22] fat more slowly. The fat that isn't

[9:24] burned is stored in, among other places,

[9:27] yep, the belly. Still ahead on tonight's

[9:30] slim and trim CBS Evening News, living

[9:32] proof that Yaser Arafat survived a crash

[9:35] landing in Libya. And presidential

[9:38] candidate Bill Clinton goes looking for

[9:40] labor support.

[9:52] Ladies and gentlemen, feast your eyes on

[9:55] the elegant new J30.

[9:59] A classic luxury sedan in an infiniti

[10:02] kind of way. A driver's car with two

[10:06] airbags,

[10:07] soft leather appointments,

[10:10] and tasty wood.

[10:13] Hey, Dal, don't you even think about it.

[10:15] The new J30 from Infiniti.

[10:18] >> Tylenol users discover a powerful name

[10:20] in aspirin free pain relief.

[10:22] >> It took away my headache. Aspirin

[10:24] Anisonin worked as well as Tylenol.

[10:25] >> Like Tylenol, aspirin free anin is 100%

[10:28] aspirin free acetaminophen. So it's

[10:30] gentle on your stomach.

[10:31] >> Now I have a choice.

[10:33] >> For painful gas, which would you choose?

[10:36] Your ant acid or Gasex? The tablet made

[10:39] for gas. It's extra strength. 100%

[10:42] syimethone to fight gas faster. Faster

[10:45] than your ant acid. Fight gas right with

[10:47] Gas X.

[10:50] >> That quintessential survivor, Yasha

[10:52] Arafat, has survived yet again. The PL

[10:55] leader walked away from a crash landing

[10:57] in the Libyan desert that killed three

[10:59] crewmen on his chartered plane. Tonight,

[11:01] Libyan TV showed Arafat in the hospital

[11:04] with a visitor, Muar Kaddafi. Arafat

[11:06] reported he suffered only cuts and

[11:08] bruises. He'd been missing for 15 hours

[11:10] while Arabs, Israelis, and world leaders

[11:13] thought about life without him. Now they

[11:16] have to think again. Bob Simon Israel

[11:18] has our report.

[11:20] >> Yasser was dead, the radio said, and his

[11:23] rallies were delighted.

[11:24] >> I think it's one of the best things that

[11:26] happened.

[11:27] >> It's the hand of God. Uh, and it's it's

[11:30] a good thing.

[11:31] >> Think that nobody is going to mourn his

[11:34] death. Meanwhile, Palestinians huddled

[11:36] together like an extended family the way

[11:39] Americans did the day JFK was shot on

[11:41] the West Bank. Those tired symbols of

[11:44] the struggle came out again. Burning

[11:46] tires, token funeral ps. The Inter this

[11:49] morning had many sons but no father.

[11:52] Police patrolled the sullen streets of

[11:54] East Jerusalem where local leader Fisel

[11:57] Husini and his friends had begun their

[11:59] wake.

[11:59] >> Morning.

[12:03] But then word came that Arafat had

[12:05] pulled one more life out of his long

[12:07] cafir.

[12:08] >> Joy, happiness.

[12:10] >> The West Bank exploded in ecstasy. There

[12:13] were hell storms of candy. Midday

[12:15] traffic was transformed into a triumphal

[12:17] procession followed by one Israeli jeep.

[12:21] Arafat was the PLO. The PLO was the

[12:23] interifat and they were all alive. Even

[12:26] the Gaza Strip was smiling. Today's

[12:28] narrow escape will only bolster Arafat's

[12:31] standing on the West Bank and Gazm.

[12:33] Nothing is respected in this part of the

[12:35] world as much as survival. And by

[12:37] reappearing from Africa's deepest

[12:39] desert, the PLO leader has established

[12:41] once again he is the master of the art.

[12:45] He survived the Israeli war against him

[12:47] in 1982, as well as Jordanian and Syrian

[12:50] attempts to get him before and after.

[12:52] His two most important aids were

[12:54] assassinated over the last four years.

[12:56] And once again today he scraped through.

[12:59] There was a boisterous celebration in

[13:01] Jerusalem this evening attended by

[13:03] supporters of the peace process and

[13:05] others. Arafat is irreplaceable. They

[13:08] chanted. Tonight it was a cry of joy.

[13:11] This morning it had been a traumatic

[13:13] moment of truth. There are no successes.

[13:16] Bob Simon, CBS News, Jerusalem.

[13:20] Stay here with us now for more CBS news,

[13:22] including the US airline industry frozen

[13:26] in the desert.

[13:32] >> Butter Philly.

[13:34] >> Thank you.

[13:37] >> Looks good, doesn't it? Ounce for ounce

[13:39] Philly cream cheese has half the

[13:41] calories of butter or margarine.

[13:44] Next time, butter your bread with Philly

[13:46] instead.

[13:48] What does this woman know about dieting

[13:50] that maybe you don't?

[13:52] That you don't have to drink for

[13:54] breakfast. Because a serving of

[13:56] Kellogg's Special K actually has fewer

[13:58] calories than a glass of the leading

[13:59] diet shake. In fact, the entire Special

[14:02] K breakfast, including fruit, skim milk,

[14:04] and coffee, has fewer calories than the

[14:06] Diet Shake. So, if you're going to have

[14:09] something special when you're trying to

[14:10] lose weight, shouldn't it be something

[14:12] special with fewer calories? Kellogg

[14:14] Special K. lose the fact.

[14:17] >> Stay within the line.

[14:21] >> The lines are our friends. Stay within.

[14:30] >> Stay within the line. The line of

[14:34] friends.

[14:35] >> Introducing the world's first V6 Crayon.

[14:39] >> Are you listening?

[14:41] >> The Isuza Rodeo. Built to go way outside

[14:43] the lines.

[14:48] If your doctor has recommended Metamucil

[14:50] and you like the results, but you don't

[14:52] like those glasses of thick liquid,

[14:54] change to Fiverr, get the same fiber

[14:57] action in easy to swallow tablets. Get

[14:59] doctor recommended Fiverr.

[15:02] He heard voices that made him kill their

[15:05] daughter. He says he's all better. Would

[15:07] you let him go free? 48 hours tonight.

[15:14] Japanese stockholders are taking a real

[15:16] beating. Prices on the Tokyo exchange

[15:18] plunged again today to a 6 and 1

[15:20] halfyear low. The freef fall is blamed

[15:23] in part on an overall slowdown in the

[15:25] Japanese economy. There was a ripple

[15:27] effect on Wall Street today. The Dow

[15:29] industrials fell more than 32 points.

[15:31] Some investors are concerned that a US

[15:33] economic recovery could be delayed or

[15:36] stopped by Japan's problems. After the

[15:39] latest round of presidential primaries,

[15:41] it's again looking like perhaps a

[15:43] Clinton Bush fight for the presidency in

[15:45] November. On the Democratic side,

[15:46] there's even some talk now about who

[15:48] might be a Clinton running mate. More

[15:51] about that from Richard Tulko.

[15:54] >> Bill Clinton's first stop today was to

[15:57] visit the picket line in front of the

[15:58] Strikebound Caterpillar plant in Peoria.

[16:01] It was a gesture to try to win back some

[16:03] of the organized labor support that's

[16:05] drifted away to Jerry Brown. and Clinton

[16:08] was wellreceived.

[16:09] >> You got my vote and a lot of these other

[16:11] guys were behind you.

[16:13] >> Even though twothirds of voters in

[16:15] yesterday's primary said they wanted

[16:17] another choice, Clinton's victories in

[16:19] three of them restored his momentum and

[16:21] the growing sense that his nomination is

[16:23] inevitable.

[16:25] >> I'm not interested in whether they love

[16:26] me or not. I want them to respect me and

[16:29] I want them to want me to be their

[16:30] president.

[16:31] >> We have just begun to fight. Brown

[16:33] nonetheless will pursue Clinton right

[16:35] through to the convention, but he's

[16:36] likely now to be more of an irritant

[16:38] than a threat. Paul Sonis finished

[16:41] second to Clinton in New York. The

[16:42] Clinton campaign's worried that Songis

[16:44] might drain off enough delegates in

[16:46] coming primaries to deny Clinton a

[16:48] majority. Songis will announce tomorrow

[16:51] whether he'll resume his campaign. If he

[16:53] doesn't, will he endorse Clinton? As

[16:56] long as there are there is more than one

[16:58] candidate, then I think issues like

[17:00] endorsements are inappropriate.

[17:02] >> But Sonis is thought to be on the short

[17:04] list of Clinton vice presidential

[17:06] possibilities along with Senators Bob

[17:08] Kerry, Jay Rockefeller, Bill Bradley,

[17:11] Bob Graham, and General Coen Powell.

[17:13] Clinton's still well short of a lock on

[17:15] the nomination, and nobody's more

[17:17] worried about his electability than the

[17:19] party establishment. My concern is not

[17:21] with the message. It's with the

[17:23] perception about the messenger.

[17:25] >> I would have to say at this point it

[17:27] would be very difficult for any of the

[17:29] current candidates in my judgment to

[17:30] beat President Bush.

[17:31] >> Bill Clinton could still self-destruct.

[17:34] But then who Brown and Sonis have proved

[17:36] even less popular? And do the Democrats

[17:38] dare nominate as somebody else who's

[17:40] avoided all the primaries and who owes

[17:43] his nomination to the party bosses in

[17:45] the smoke fil rooms of the convention?

[17:47] Think of the fun the Republicans would

[17:48] have with that. Richard Stalkel, CBS

[17:51] News, New York.

[17:52] >> Coming up next, Eye on America Tonight,

[17:54] how Americans hit by hard times are

[17:57] getting some help from the Internal

[17:59] Revenue Service.

[18:07] The medical facts are clear. Tylenol is

[18:10] so gentle on your stomach, doctors even

[18:13] recommend it to their ulcer patients for

[18:14] everyday aches and pains. They know

[18:17] Tylenol can't aggravate an ulcer the

[18:19] same way aspirin can. That's important

[18:22] for all of us to know. And so is this.

[18:25] Hospitals use Tylenol 23 times more than

[18:29] all aspirin brands combined. Tylenol,

[18:33] the pain reliever hospitals use most.

[18:39] This plant is in trouble.

[18:41] Maybe so are you.

[18:47] Because what will you do

[18:50] and how will you do it

[18:56] with the one who guides you every step

[18:58] of the way?

[19:00] Ortho,

[19:02] it's our nature to help.

[19:06] Can

[19:06] >> I get that perfect

[19:07] >> back in five? Stephanie,

[19:08] >> when you're trying to eat right, days

[19:10] like this are a disaster. This is it.

[19:13] Stephanie Powers talks about Kellogg's

[19:15] Neutrorain.

[19:16] >> The only time I really control what I

[19:17] eat is at breakfast. And the whole grain

[19:19] in Kellogg's Neutrorain gives me a

[19:21] natural start. No sugar added, no

[19:24] preservatives, nothing fake. No matter

[19:27] what I eat later, at breakfast I call a

[19:30] shot.

[19:31] >> Naturally good. Neutrograde. The natural

[19:34] place to start.

[19:37] >> You know why I like CVS this morning?

[19:39] >> Oh, cuz they say it's breakfast for your

[19:40] head and it sounds neat. No, cuz it's

[19:42] where Michael J. Fox will be talking

[19:44] about directing us Monday.

[19:50] >> American Airlines is reportedly planning

[19:51] to announce fair cuts of up to 40%

[19:54] tomorrow. American Airlines has been

[19:56] losing about a million dollars a day.

[19:59] Mean times in the sky mean more planes

[20:02] on the ground. Correspondent David Dao

[20:04] looks at the commercial airlines

[20:06] mothball fleet.

[20:09] It's a startling sign of the times. Row

[20:12] upon row of jetliners lined up in the

[20:15] desert. The manager of this remote

[20:18] airfield is surrounded by ghostly

[20:20] hulking symbols of recession. 747s,

[20:24] DC9s, L1011s. A jet age armada grounded

[20:29] by hard times in the airline industry.

[20:31] You're looking at a neighborhood of

[20:33] maybe two$2.5 billion dollars worth of

[20:36] airplanes just sitting here in the

[20:38] desert. That makes this pretty expensive

[20:39] desert.

[20:42] And the planes keep coming in more every

[20:45] week. A congested panorama rivaling the

[20:48] world's busiest airports. But it's quiet

[20:51] here. These are the planes of the

[20:53] bankrupt that temporarily downsized.

[20:56] getting uh phone calls every day for

[20:58] people looking to park their planes

[21:00] until they can uh use them again and um

[21:02] make money.

[21:03] >> Some have never flown a commercial

[21:05] passenger like the brand new Air Canada

[21:07] 747 worth $150 million each parked and

[21:12] waiting for business to pick up.

[21:14] >> We cover up the engines. We cover up

[21:16] every single nook and cranny on the

[21:17] aircraft. We literally put it in a

[21:19] plastic bag.

[21:19] >> The airlines pay up to $500 a month to

[21:22] park each of these mothballled aircraft.

[21:25] $6,000 a year. But that is cheaper than

[21:28] flying them into economic winds that

[21:30] cost the US airline industry more than

[21:33] $6 billion in losses over the last 2

[21:36] years.

[21:36] >> The industry is going to turn around in

[21:38] the next year or so. So, we just to keep

[21:41] them in good shape so that when they do

[21:42] go back into work, uh, they're ready to

[21:44] go. And from time to time, a plane does

[21:47] return to the air. A symbol of hope

[21:50] tempered by the drone of tractors

[21:52] preparing more space for the

[21:54] economically grounded. David Dao, CBS

[21:57] News, Mojave, California.

[22:08] As beneficial as self-examination is,

[22:11] Mary Brody won't feel the tiny lump in

[22:13] her breast for another 2 years. But

[22:16] she'll discover it tomorrow after her

[22:18] first mamog. Thanks in part to a new

[22:21] X-ray film created by DuPant that makes

[22:24] it safer to start mimography early. And

[22:26] for Mary, early detection means a 2-year

[22:29] head start on the rest of her life. At

[22:32] Dupant, we make the things that make a

[22:34] difference.

[22:38] >> Red Lobster may have gone too far this

[22:40] time. A full pound of tempting shrimp

[22:43] overflowing your plates. Red Lobsters

[22:46] never offered you Whoops. So much on one

[22:49] plate. 10 grilled shrimp, 15

[22:52] butterflies, 11 scampy, a full pound of

[22:55] our biggest and best shrimp for a

[22:57] limited time. So much shrimp with all

[22:59] the extras, including a doggy bag.

[23:24] The new Chrysler Fifth Avenue at

[23:26] $22,000. The perfect balance between

[23:28] self-indulgence and common sense.

[23:34] >> Now get $1,500 cash back on Chrysler

[23:37] Fifth Avenue.

[23:40] Ordinary pickles are cooked and limp.

[23:43] Not clawson. They're packed fresh and

[23:45] stored cold. So they're always crisp and

[23:48] delicious. Taste the difference. Cold,

[23:51] crisp, clawson. Tylenol users discover a

[23:55] powerful name in aspirin-free pain

[23:57] relief.

[23:57] >> It took away my headache. Aspirin

[23:59] Anisonin worked as well as Tylenol.

[24:01] >> Like Tylenol, aspirin free anin is 100%

[24:04] aspirin free acetaminophen. So it's

[24:06] gentle on your stomach.

[24:07] >> Now I have a choice.

[24:13] got one of these? It's an instruction

[24:15] booklet from the IRS. Tax day is a week

[24:18] away. But maybe 1991 was a bad year for

[24:21] you. You didn't make much and you don't

[24:23] owe any tax. Says here, you don't have

[24:26] to file a return. Well, it may just pay

[24:29] you to file anyway. As Aaron Hayes

[24:32] explains in tonight's Eye on America,

[24:37] >> this year, tax loopholes, as always,

[24:39] will provide money back for the rich,

[24:42] the crafty, the well-invested,

[24:46] and like never before, well, we're

[24:48] adding up, the financially strapped, and

[24:51] say Merry Christmas. For families tight

[24:54] on money, there's one loophole this year

[24:56] that's a gift. It's called the earned

[24:58] income credit. It's double what it was

[25:00] last year and can mean up to $2,000 from

[25:03] the IRS, even for people who haven't had

[25:05] to pay a dime in taxes. Well, that has

[25:08] those struggling to help the homeless

[25:10] and unemployed taking note. At this

[25:12] Atlanta Community Center, volunteer tax

[25:14] preparer Jackie Bolton has hauled in

[25:17] over $30,000 in refunds for her clients.

[25:20] >> Well, you're not required to file. I can

[25:22] tell you that. However,

[25:24] >> the however is file anyway. And Bolton's

[25:27] out spreading the news. Hi, I'm Jackie

[25:29] Bolton.

[25:29] >> Even taking it to cable TV.

[25:32] >> We're here for tax talk.

[25:33] >> Her message, it's not just earned income

[25:36] credit that can help.

[25:37] >> As you know, each year the exemptions

[25:39] get higher and higher. That's why you're

[25:41] showing some type of variation.

[25:43] >> Using any legitimate deductions, folks

[25:45] hit by hard times, even if they're not

[25:47] required to file, could find big money

[25:50] in that 1040 form.

[25:51] >> Roughly about $3,000.

[25:54] >> That's what Albert Jones is getting

[25:55] back. He was homeless when Jackie Bolton

[25:58] convinced him he needed to file

[26:00] >> after she figured up my taxes and a

[26:03] backpack form.

[26:07] It was just it was a relief, you know,

[26:09] just like it was a fruit. It was a

[26:11] blessing.

[26:12] >> Come on, sweet pee.

[26:13] >> Charette Dennerson and her husband

[26:15] Thomas are college graduates. She lost

[26:17] her job when she became pregnant. He's

[26:19] been in and out of work. They owed back

[26:21] rent, were really worried, so they

[26:23] decided to try for tax help. So, we did

[26:26] good. That's $900 and then you have 85

[26:28] coming from the state. It's almost a

[26:30] dollar.

[26:31] >> I mean, it was like this is a godsend.

[26:34] That's how I felt. Folton, who does the

[26:36] returns free of charge, says she's just

[26:38] teaching folks they can use the system

[26:40] just like the wealthy do.

[26:42] >> These people have paid their dues

[26:44] and all they need is another chance.

[26:47] >> Homeless shelters in Washington DC are

[26:49] doing the same.

[26:50] >> I know that when you first look at

[26:52] something like this, you go, "Oh my god,

[26:53] I can't do this." convincing working

[26:55] residents to file even if they don't

[26:57] have to.

[26:58] >> They were available, so I took advantage

[27:00] of the opportunity.

[27:01] >> Total here so far, $75,000 in tax

[27:04] refunds.

[27:06] >> Bingo.

[27:07] >> It's great. I mean, it's it's a meal

[27:09] ticket. It's a housing ticket. It's a

[27:13] security deposit and a month's rent or

[27:15] two and maybe some furniture to boot.

[27:17] >> And it's a good buy. Leverne Griffin

[27:19] with $1,500 in refunds and earned income

[27:22] credit not only got a place to live, she

[27:24] started her own thrift store.

[27:26] >> This is an opportunity to put forth some

[27:29] of the ideas that I had on the backlog

[27:31] for so many years.

[27:33] >> Volunteers say they find using a roof

[27:35] usually reserved for the more wellto-do

[27:38] helps preserve one's sense of dignity.

[27:40] >> What are you going to do with the

[27:41] living?

[27:44] >> Uh, I want to get a better place to stay

[27:46] one. and sometimes one sense of humor.

[27:50] What are you going to do with the money?

[27:51] >> Uh, buy a car and go to Disney World.

[27:53] No.

[27:55] >> Are you really?

[27:56] >> No.

[27:59] >> No numbers are available, but the IRS is

[28:02] expecting to send out a lot more money

[28:04] to lower income folks who are becoming

[28:06] taxsavvy and catching on to the fact

[28:08] that the system can work in their favor,

[28:11] too.

[28:11] >> Don't forget to sign it.

[28:13] >> In Atlanta, this is Aaron Hayes for Eye

[28:15] on America.

[28:17] And that's part of our world tonight.

[28:19] Coming up on this CBS station 48 hours,

[28:22] a mass killer convinces a jury he was

[28:24] insane. Now he wants to go free. He says

[28:28] now he's all better. What do you say? 48

[28:32] hours. Murder or madness. Tonight at 10,

[28:36] 9 central time on CBS. Dan Rather, I'll

[28:40] see you in 48 hours.

[28:51] for the McNeel Lair NewsHour has been

[28:53] provided by ODS Health Plan, the group

[28:56] medical plan that meets the needs of

[28:57] more than 600,000 Oregonians by

[29:00] providing a broad range of medical and

[29:02] dental coverage and responsive service.