NBC Nightly News - 1992-03-09

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[0:42] >> Super Tuesday Showdown is in the final

[0:44] hours. Bill Clinton and Paul Sonis make

[0:46] Florida their big battleground.

[0:52] This is NBC Nightly News with Tom

[0:54] Brokoff reporting tonight [music] from

[0:56] NBC News headquarters in New York.

[0:59] >> Good evening. This is the eve of the big

[1:01] one. Super Tuesday. 11 states for the

[1:04] Democrats and in both parties. More than

[1:06] a third of the delegates needed to win

[1:08] the nomination. And two of the states

[1:10] are pivotal to the fall campaign,

[1:11] Florida and Texas. President Bush is

[1:14] predicting a sweep for the Republicans.

[1:16] Bill Clinton is expected to win big for

[1:17] the Democrats, but Paul Sus and Jerry

[1:20] Brown will sail alive. And Tom Harkin

[1:23] tonight is gone. As he pulled out today,

[1:25] the Iowa senator offered to help

[1:27] whomever.

[1:28] >> And so, my fellow Democrats, I say to

[1:30] whomever our nominee is that I'll be

[1:33] there, that I'll pay any price, bear any

[1:37] burden, learn to speak Greek,

[1:44] [applause]

[1:49] develop a southern accent

[1:54] or learn to wear a turtleneck.

[1:58] >> NBC's Andrea Mitchell is keeping track

[2:00] of what is now a threeman Democratic

[2:02] race. Andrea, how's it shaping up?

[2:04] >> Well, Tom, it's a mad rush today, not

[2:06] only for the delegate bonanza, but also

[2:08] for Tom Harkkins disappointed Labor

[2:10] supporters.

[2:12] Showing his Super Tuesday priorities,

[2:14] Bill Clinton ignored the Boston Red Sox

[2:16] at spring training in Florida and dawned

[2:18] a Houston Astros cap. Texas is much more

[2:21] important to him than Massachusetts,

[2:22] which he's conceding to Paul Sonis.

[2:25] >> But we both deal with fast balls and

[2:26] curves.

[2:28] >> Since we're doing

[2:32] >> Yeah. Well,

[2:34] that too, but I'm afraid if I got into

[2:36] that, I would really put myself in

[2:37] trouble. Sonis was also in Florida

[2:40] battling Clinton's big advantage in

[2:41] organization.

[2:42] >> Tomorrow is going to be very important.

[2:46] Tomorrow in Florida, there's going to be

[2:48] a message.

[2:49] The choice is very clear

[2:52] between a machine

[2:54] and a message.

[2:55] >> 11 states have caucuses or primaries

[2:58] tomorrow. Clinton is expected to sweep

[3:00] the South and Southwest. Sus will likely

[3:02] win Massachusetts and neighboring Rhode

[3:04] Island. The only real contest is in

[3:06] Florida, where Sunis and Clinton are

[3:08] playing to every ethnic minority.

[3:10] Targeting Jewish voters, Clinton has

[3:12] been blanketing Miami's condos with

[3:14] pamphlets criticizing Sonis for voting

[3:16] as a senator to send aid to Syria.

[3:19] Furious, Sus points out that all the

[3:21] Jewish senators and Israel supporters

[3:23] voted the same way as part of a peace

[3:25] initiative.

[3:26] >> If Bill Clinton's going to run a

[3:27] campaign with this approach, he's going

[3:30] to be president with this approach.

[3:32] Meanwhile, Harkin's withdrawal from the

[3:34] race leaves labor up for grabs. Clinton

[3:37] will benefit most, but he's from a right

[3:39] to work state. Some labor leaders

[3:41] distrust him. Jerry Brown is trying to

[3:43] overcome labor doubts about him.

[3:45] >> I expect to be meeting with major labor

[3:47] leaders throughout the country, and I'm

[3:48] going to get a lot of their support.

[3:50] >> The one candidate with no labor support

[3:52] is Sus. In fact, Labor could try to

[3:54] block all of these candidates. to see

[3:57] that none of those three candidates got

[3:59] enough delegates the first round and so

[4:01] that a separate candidate could in fact

[4:04] become the nominee.

[4:05] >> Labour's on the sidelines in tomorrow's

[4:07] voting, but it is a big factor next week

[4:09] in Illinois and Michigan, which is not

[4:11] good news for Paul Sanongas. Tom,

[4:14] >> thank you, Andre. And if Bill Clinton

[4:15] does as well as he says he will

[4:16] tomorrow, what about Paul Sanis? Where

[4:18] does he build a fire break down the

[4:20] road?

[4:20] >> He tries to do well in Illinois next

[4:22] week and in Michigan. Uh then if he

[4:24] doesn't do well there, he's in serious

[4:26] trouble. but could still look toward the

[4:27] New York primary and then Pennsylvania

[4:28] down the road. He can discount

[4:30] tomorrow's voting because he can say

[4:32] it's the South, it's Clinton's home

[4:33] turf.

[4:34] >> Still a big prize, however.

[4:35] >> Exactly. A big delegate prize.

[4:37] >> All right, NBC's John Cochran now is at

[4:39] the White House tonight where today the

[4:41] president said his strategy is to act,

[4:44] not react. John, give us a translation

[4:46] of that.

[4:47] >> Tom, even at this late date, the

[4:49] president is still trying to appear

[4:50] unruffled by the Buchanan challenge.

[4:54] Today, the president was bragging about

[4:56] his South Carolina win, even though once

[4:58] again, one in three voters said no to

[5:01] George Bush.

[5:02] >> Work. I thought Saturday was fantastic,

[5:04] and I think we'll have a good day

[5:05] tomorrow.

[5:06] >> But Bush's aids are worried that he

[5:08] lacks a forceful message. No such

[5:10] problem for Pat Buchanan.

[5:12] >> The president has lost his clout with

[5:14] the Congress. He has not feared. And

[5:17] Bush can't seem to buy a favorable news

[5:19] story because of the widespread belief

[5:21] that he really meant it when he told

[5:22] David Frost,

[5:23] >> "I will uh do what I have to do to to be

[5:27] reelected."

[5:28] >> Case in point, on Saturday, Bush took

[5:30] part in a fishing tournament in Alabama,

[5:32] which does not hold its primary until

[5:34] June. But the Montgomery Advertiser

[5:36] Journal insisted the trip was political

[5:38] anyway because fishing is an activity

[5:41] dear to hearts of swing voters, the

[5:43] Reagan Democrats. But today, Bush

[5:45] insisted critics don't bother him.

[5:48] >> Don't get irritated. Be pleasant.

[5:50] >> And he couldn't have been more pleasant

[5:52] today when he spoke to officials from

[5:54] the National League of Cities, but they

[5:56] wanted some hard-nosed economic

[5:58] solutions. Instead, they got a chat on

[6:00] family values.

[6:02] >> Family breakdown ultimately endangers

[6:05] our position in a world increasingly

[6:08] driven by economic competition. I think

[6:11] there needs to be a more uh energetic

[6:14] approach to the way he gets his message

[6:17] across. I think for many of the

[6:19] delegates, it may not have been a

[6:20] complete message.

[6:22] But tonight, aids tell NBC News that

[6:24] President Bush is considering a new

[6:26] strategy. He would still go ahead with

[6:28] his veto of the Democratic tax plan this

[6:30] month as expected. But instead of just

[6:32] bashing Congress, he would consider

[6:34] small changes in his own economic

[6:36] package. He would then resubmit that to

[6:38] Congress and try to sell this to the

[6:39] country. He would say this is what

[6:41] leadership is all about. Tom

[6:44] >> John, let's talk about Super Tuesday for

[6:45] just a moment. Does the president expect

[6:46] tomorrow that he'll continue to get that

[6:48] 30% protest vote against him even if he

[6:50] has a clean sweep?

[6:52] >> He does indeed. And they're also worried

[6:54] about Michigan and Illinois in the

[6:56] following week. They don't think this

[6:57] thing is going to be over tomorrow

[6:58] night, Tom. However, they do feel

[7:00] confident enough they will probably

[7:01] release Dan Quail out here at Bush Quail

[7:03] headquarters tomorrow night to claim a

[7:04] victory of sorts.

[7:06] >> All right. Thank you very much, John

[7:07] Cochran. Tonight and the drive by states

[7:10] for limiting terms of elected officials.

[7:12] Well, it got a big boost today from the

[7:13] US Supreme Court. The court let stand a

[7:16] California ruling that those term limits

[7:18] are constitutional in California. When

[7:21] Nightly News continues in a moment, the

[7:23] Surgeon General and Camel cigarettes,

[7:25] the showdown over kids and smoking,

[7:28] [snorts] and tonight's Daily Difference,

[7:30] the new single mothers. Betty Rollins

[7:32] reports on older women who are certain

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[8:43] today, the US Surgeon General and the

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[8:47] war on Old Joe. That's because he's the

[8:49] advertising symbol of Camel cigarettes.

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[8:53] Lloyd.

[8:55] >> The Surgeon General has urged all

[8:57] billboard companies featuring the

[8:58] cartoon character to refuse all ads.

[9:01] Magazines are being asked to do the

[9:03] same. Even retail outlets are part of

[9:05] the Surgeon General's campaign against

[9:07] R.J. Reynolds and its cartoon camel.

[9:10] >> In years past, R.J. Reynolds would have

[9:13] had us walk a mile for a camel. Today,

[9:16] it is time that we invite old Joe Camel

[9:19] himself to take a hike.

[9:21] >> Officials at R.J. Reynolds say their

[9:23] campaign is aimed at smokers in their

[9:25] 20s to give Camel cigarettes a new,

[9:27] younger look. But the surgeon general

[9:30] says the tobacco company is targeting

[9:32] children. She cited a study which showed

[9:34] that 90% of six-year-olds matched old

[9:37] Joe with a picture of a cigarette and

[9:39] were as familiar with his face as they

[9:41] were with Mickey Mouse.

[9:43] >> Once I saw him on a billboard and um

[9:46] sometimes I see him on my when my mom

[9:48] buys cigarettes. American Medical

[9:50] Association statistics show that kids

[9:53] are starting to smoke at a younger age

[9:55] and that nearly a third of all teenage

[9:57] smokers have now switched to camels. We

[10:00] are creating a whole generation of

[10:02] potential nicotine addicts by this by

[10:05] this advertising.

[10:06] >> But R.J. Reynolds said today it's peer

[10:08] pressure, not advertising, that is

[10:10] causing young people to smoke. And the

[10:12] tobacco company says it has no intention

[10:14] of retiring old Joe and the new image he

[10:17] projects to a new generation of smokers.

[10:19] Robin Lloyd, NBC News, Washington.

[10:23] Another issue facing this generation,

[10:25] global warming. Winter in this country

[10:27] this year has been the warmest on

[10:29] record. A showdown on the warming of the

[10:31] planet could come at the United Nations

[10:33] Environmental Summit this summer. And

[10:35] the United States is at odds on this

[10:37] issue with most of the rest of the

[10:38] world. NBC's chief science correspondent

[10:40] Robert Bazelle tonight on the science

[10:42] and the politics of global [snorts]

[10:44] warming. What we know so far. Robert.

[10:46] >> Tom. Global warming is an

[10:47] extraordinarily important but difficult

[10:49] topic. The science of making the

[10:51] predictions is imprecise, but the

[10:53] consequences of warming could be

[10:54] catastrophic.

[10:57] Sunbathers in New York's Central Park

[10:59] today enjoyed extremely warm weather. At

[11:02] the same time, Colorado dug out of an

[11:04] enormous snowfall. Weather is often

[11:06] unusual and no one day, month, or year

[11:09] indicates a trend. But all sorts of

[11:11] precise scientific observations,

[11:14] including studies of ancient glaciers,

[11:16] reveal that most of the Earth is getting

[11:18] warmer. The big question is whether the

[11:20] temperature changes due to natural

[11:22] trends, or is the result of the

[11:24] greenhouse effect, a warming of the

[11:26] Earth from increased carbon dioxide in

[11:28] the atmosphere. The carbon dioxide comes

[11:30] from the burning of gasoline, coal, and

[11:32] other fossil fuels. At the UN, most

[11:35] nations want a treaty to reduce

[11:37] emissions. So far, the Bush

[11:39] administration has not indicated whether

[11:41] it will go along, saying more research

[11:43] is needed.

[11:44] >> And without that comprehensive approach,

[11:46] we simply uh won't uh come to grips uh

[11:49] with the problem to the degree that

[11:51] science uh proves it to be a problem.

[11:53] But even US government scientists say

[11:55] they will never have all the answers

[11:57] >> given the rate of advance of our firm

[12:01] and and fully complete understanding of

[12:03] the climate system. By the time we have

[12:06] every last uh eye dotted and te crossed

[12:09] the whole issue will be over because

[12:11] presumably if the models are right the

[12:13] warming will have already happened. And

[12:15] if the warming does continue, studies by

[12:18] the World Wildlife Fund have already

[12:20] shown that rising sea levels are killing

[12:22] mangrove trees in Bermuda. Indeed,

[12:24] Bermuda and many other island nations

[12:27] face an uncertain future if sea levels

[12:29] continue to rise. And computer models of

[12:32] climate indicate that many areas of the

[12:33] world could face drought if the climate

[12:36] continues to warm. But these models

[12:38] cannot be precise. And many people in

[12:40] the administration agree with oil and

[12:42] coal companies that we still don't have

[12:44] enough information to make a massive

[12:46] change in energy policy. Tom, what about

[12:48] that big global warming conference in

[12:50] Rio scheduled for this June? What about

[12:52] the politics of the season and the

[12:54] decision of the Bush administration?

[12:55] >> Well, right now the environmentalists

[12:57] say that as long as Bush is running

[12:58] against Buchanan, he's not going to do

[13:00] much on global warming because global

[13:02] warming means a trillion dollar change

[13:04] possibly in our economy and possibly a

[13:07] lot of loss of profits for gas and oil

[13:08] companies. It might be different if he's

[13:10] running against a Democrat in the fall.

[13:12] >> Thank you very much, Robert Brazelle

[13:13] tonight. And remember, Michael Milin,

[13:15] the king of the junk bonds, still is

[13:17] serving that 10-year prison term. But

[13:19] today, a federal judge in New York

[13:21] approved a settlement of all lawsuits

[13:23] against Milin and other associates of

[13:25] Drexel Burnham Lambbear, his old

[13:27] securities company. The amount of that

[13:29] settlement that they'll have to pay,

[13:31] $1.3 billion. On Wall Street today,

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[15:15] When we think of an unwed mother, we

[15:17] usually think of someone who is young

[15:19] and perhaps irresponsible. Well, now

[15:21] that definition is changing to include

[15:24] women who are not so young and yet they

[15:26] are very responsible. NBC's Betty

[15:29] Rollins.

[15:31] >> By about 35, I knew that I definitely

[15:33] wanted to have a child and I wasn't

[15:35] convinced that I would meet the man of

[15:37] my dreams with whom to have this child.

[15:39] >> And so, Jane Gutman at the age of 40

[15:42] became pregnant by a man she did not

[15:44] plan to marry. I felt absolutely

[15:47] compelled to have a child as though my

[15:49] life would not be fulfilled if I didn't

[15:52] have a child.

[15:53] >> Her mother's reaction

[15:54] >> say when she first told me I sort of

[15:57] gasp and I I thought oh my goodness.

[16:01] >> But last November when Jake was born

[16:05] parental shock gave way to grandparental

[16:08] love.

[16:08] >> Oh is that sweet looking is he adorable?

[16:12] One of the reasons for this happy scene

[16:13] is that what Jane has chosen to do is no

[16:16] longer so unusual or unacceptable. Even

[16:19] one of America's best loved sitcom stars

[16:21] is doing it.

[16:22] >> I'm pregnant.

[16:23] >> It's a medical miracle.

[16:26] >> It's neither a miracle nor a novelty. In

[16:29] the past 10 years, the birth rate among

[16:31] unmarried American women over 35 has

[16:33] risen by 55%.

[16:36] Fertility clinics report that many of

[16:38] these women are choosing insemination by

[16:40] anonymous donors. There's even a

[16:43] national support group, single mothers

[16:45] by choice. This chapter in Alexandria,

[16:49] Virginia, meets once a month. Like Jane

[16:52] Gutman, these are college educated

[16:53] self-supporting women whose biological

[16:56] clocks were about to sound the alarm.

[16:58] >> And for Cindy, the question was not

[17:01] whether to get pregnant, but howions I

[17:04] could have a child by adoption. and it

[17:05] was too difficult. I could have a child

[17:08] with a man and either tell him or not

[17:09] tell him. And I felt that that would be

[17:11] very selfish. So I finally decided that

[17:14] donor insemination was my only option.

[17:17] >> Alice also was inseminated and like many

[17:19] of these women has not ruled out

[17:21] marriage. Motherhood alone can be

[17:23] lonely.

[17:24] >> When he was really little, the hardest

[17:26] part was not having anyone else who

[17:27] loved him as much as I do. No one else

[17:30] to sort of share that [snorts] the

[17:31] really wonderful things with. Like the

[17:33] other mothers, Alice has been honest

[17:35] with her son about his origins.

[17:37] >> She tells me the story of how I she get

[17:42] she got me but with no daddy.

[17:45] >> Mhm. And what do you think about that?

[17:47] >> I think it's kind of sad that I don't

[17:49] know daddy.

[17:51] >> Mhm. Mhm. You love your mommy, I guess.

[17:55] >> Yes.

[17:56] Studies show that the absence of a

[17:58] father can be especially hard on boys,

[18:01] particularly when they reach

[18:02] adolescence.

[18:03] >> Father absence is associated with

[18:07] problems [snorts]

[18:07] in sexual identity and sexual

[18:10] orientation,

[18:12] problems in impulse control and

[18:15] diminished intellectual and school

[18:17] performance.

[18:19] >> Yet, Dr. Ross and many other experts

[18:21] agree that one loving parent is more

[18:24] than many children have these days and

[18:26] that a lot of the child's healthy

[18:27] development depends on the individual

[18:29] mother's attitude toward men and the

[18:32] presence of male surrogates.

[18:34] >> Mr. J

[18:37] >> Jane Gutman is aware of the perils of

[18:39] her choice but feels up to the

[18:41] challenge.

[18:42] >> I wish it were different. I didn't want

[18:44] to have a child by myself but I'm really

[18:46] glad I had a child.

[18:48] Betty Rollins, NBC News.

[18:53] >> Tomorrow's Daily Difference, decision

[18:54] 92. I'll introduce you to some black

[18:57] college students on Super Tuesday.

[18:59] >> Who speaks for them?

[19:00] >> What are their presidential hopes?

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[21:06] Our assignment Earth tonight. Sometimes

[21:09] people can love things just too much.

[21:11] Japanese, for example, are so fond of

[21:13] bluefish tuna, blue fin tuna, that the

[21:16] animals are being overfished to the

[21:18] point of extinction. A possible ban on

[21:20] blue fin fish fishing is being debated

[21:22] at an international convention in Japan.

[21:24] However, there seems to be no solution

[21:26] that will leave the Japanese or tuna

[21:28] fisherman very happy. NBC's Brad Willis

[21:31] is in Tokyo. They're among the biggest

[21:34] and most beautiful animals on Earth. And

[21:36] unfortunately for the blue fin, they're

[21:38] also big business. Take this one tuna

[21:40] caught by an American fisherman. Quickly

[21:43] iced, boxed, and shipped to Japan.

[21:51] One fish sold at the Tokyo auction for

[21:54] $34,000.

[21:56] For the American middleman who put the

[21:57] deal together, A TIDY PROFIT.

[21:59] >> 20,000 BABY. THAT'S THE TOP PRICE IN

[22:02] HERE. GOD DAMN.

[22:06] >> THE Japanese buy most of the world's

[22:07] blue fin. 15,000 tons last year alone.

[22:11] Environmentalists say over fishing has

[22:13] wiped out 90% of adult blue fin in the

[22:16] western Atlantic. If

[22:18] >> we don't do something quickly, the tuna

[22:20] will rapidly go commercially extinct.

[22:22] There won't be enough of them around for

[22:23] fishermen to go after them anymore.

[22:25] >> But the idea of banning any part of the

[22:27] blue fin catch has Japanese fishermen in

[22:30] a rage. Hundreds have turned out to

[22:32] protest at the endangered species

[22:34] convention in Kyoto.

[22:36] It's beyond me how anyone could say tuna

[22:39] is on the verge of extinction. If there

[22:41] is a ban, we won't be able to continue

[22:43] living as fisherman.

[22:45] >> Only 15% of the blue fin eaten here in

[22:47] Japan comes from the western Atlantic.

[22:49] But tuna is a traditional mainstay of

[22:51] the Japanese diet. Bluefin, it's like

[22:54] filet minion.

[22:57] Just two little raw slices of bluefin

[22:59] tuna go for as much as $75.

[23:03] That's right, $75. The Japanese are

[23:06] serious about their sushi. Living with a

[23:09] little less blue fin seems horrifying.

[23:12] If

[23:12] >> they ban blue fin, I don't think it's

[23:14] worth going on living.

[23:17] >> That's the extreme view. But the issue

[23:19] of banning blue fin is clearly a

[23:21] conflict between the survival of a

[23:23] species and a way of life.

[23:26] Brad Willis, NBC News, Tokyo.

[23:31] in Israel. He was the man who showed

[23:33] that Israel could make peace with an

[23:35] Arab enemy. Former Prime Minister

[23:37] Manakim Bean died after suffering a

[23:39] heart attack last week. He was 78 years

[23:42] old. Began was buried in a part of

[23:44] Jerusalem, captured by Israel in 1967.

[23:48] He had been in seclusion for a decade,

[23:50] scarred by Israel's invasion of Lebanon,

[23:52] in which hundreds of Israelis and

[23:54] thousands of Arabs were killed.

[23:58] In the 1940s, Bean was a militant leader

[24:01] of that uprising that created Israel.

[24:03] And for years, he was a politician

[24:05] considered just to be an extremist. But

[24:07] in the 1970s, he was called a peacemaker

[24:09] for leading Israel to a treaty with

[24:11] Egypt. President Jimmy Carter called

[24:13] Bean a man of intense brilliance and

[24:15] unshakable convictions.

[24:27] In the midst of the storm, it's only

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[26:24] >> For communists, the old party bosses of

[26:26] the Soviet Union live bitter than many

[26:28] capitalists in the West. We're just now

[26:30] beginning to get a peek at their secret

[26:32] luxurious lifestyle. NBC's Bob Abernathy

[26:36] went to one of their favorite resort

[26:37] areas, the Crimea and the Black Sea, and

[26:40] look at what he found.

[26:44] For 200 years, since Katherine the Great

[26:46] conquered the Crimea, the Black Sea has

[26:49] been Russia's playground.

[26:52] Mikail Gorbachov had a place just up the

[26:55] coast. And it was there that he was held

[26:57] prisoner during last August's coup. Down

[27:00] this unmarked road past the unformed

[27:03] guard, the central committee of the

[27:05] Communist Party had its own special

[27:07] resort, Eujni.

[27:10] Party bosses rested here in Soviet style

[27:13] luxury beyond the dreams of ordinary

[27:16] Russians.

[27:18] The suites are so big the whole resort

[27:20] took only 120 guests.

[27:23] Everything is massive, overgrown,

[27:26] expensive, and all but lifeless.

[27:30] The diagnosis room in the enormous

[27:33] medical wing waits unused.

[27:37] No party boss ever lies here to have his

[27:39] teeth fixed.

[27:41] >> Nurses have little to do but demonstrate

[27:44] the water treatment the top communist

[27:46] used to like.

[27:49] There aren't many guests here these

[27:51] days, but it's interesting who they are.

[27:53] The communist bosses have been replaced

[27:55] by businessmen.

[27:59] businessmen and their friends who don't

[28:01] have time for the 15 or 24-day

[28:04] treatments the old communists used to

[28:06] enjoy. A new class that seems both happy

[28:10] and bitter.

[28:14] >> Very often we ask ourselves the

[28:15] question, why couldn't we do this

[28:16] before?

[28:18] >> The director at Eujni wants a foreign

[28:21] partner to help run it and the chief

[28:23] doctor thinks Western visitors would

[28:25] love his cures. Everybody in the world

[28:29] will have longer life.

[28:33] Yes. After

[28:35] rest and treatment in our sanatorium.

[28:39] But no one knows what will happen to

[28:41] this place and the individual luxury the

[28:44] world's top communists once created all

[28:46] for themselves. Bob Abernathy, NBC News

[28:50] in the Crimea.

[28:53] I think you'd want to know more about

[28:55] the details of that water treatment

[28:56] before you sign up. [snorts] That's

[28:58] nightly news for this Monday night. I'm

[28:59] Tom Brokoff. We'll see you tomorrow

[29:01] night.