CBS Evening News - 1999-08-29
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[0:00] Heading
[0:01] to safer ground. As Hurricane Dennis
[0:04] blows past the Carolas, residents are
[0:07] ordered to pack up and leave. Churning
[0:10] water stirs up trouble for some popular
[0:12] vacation resorts. No water in much of
[0:15] the droughtstricken east despite recent
[0:17] rain. And how deep is safe enough for a
[0:20] burial ground for nuclear waste?
[0:25] This is the CBS Evening News
[0:29] with John Roberts.
[0:32] Good evening. Will it be a near miss or
[0:35] a glancing blow? That's a question being
[0:37] asked up and down the Carolina coast
[0:39] this evening as Hurricane Dennis
[0:41] continues to threaten the eastern
[0:42] seabboard. If it misses, it will be a
[0:45] squeaker. Dennis with winds of 105 mph
[0:49] is just off South Carolina and forecast
[0:51] now to move on a parallel track with the
[0:54] coastline. While the area may be spared
[0:56] the worst of the winds and storm surge,
[0:58] Dennis is still having plenty of effect.
[1:00] Churning up the surf, scouring beaches
[1:02] and dumping lots of rain. And for a read
[1:05] on where it will be heading, we go now
[1:07] to hurricane consultant Brian Norcross
[1:08] at our Miami station WFO.
[1:12] >> John, we have a good view of the
[1:14] hurricane now on coastal radars. Just
[1:16] take a look at it here and watch as we
[1:17] go through the last 6 hours. And here's
[1:19] the eye of the hurricane. Now, you'll
[1:21] see that it's bending a little bit to
[1:23] the east as forecast. So, the thinking
[1:25] is that it's going to take a path
[1:27] something like that. But here's the
[1:28] news. The hurricane force winds extend
[1:31] out from the center about that far. And
[1:33] the tropical storm force winds now are
[1:35] just off the coast. So, if it comes on
[1:37] that kind of track, those kind of very
[1:39] strong winds are going to affect the
[1:41] North Carolina coast. If it stays
[1:43] offshore further, they'll get just the
[1:44] tropical storm force winds. Of course,
[1:46] there's some possibility that the eye
[1:48] will actually come over the coast. We
[1:49] just can't predict with that kind of
[1:51] absolute certainty. In any case, they're
[1:53] going to get very strong seas from the
[1:54] wind flow coming around like this,
[1:56] piling the water up on the coast. And in
[1:58] these yellow bands, there could indeed
[2:00] be tornadoes involved in that as well.
[2:02] Now, here's what's coming up downstream.
[2:04] See this little dip in the jetream here?
[2:06] That's what's going to push the
[2:07] hurricane off to the right. But here's
[2:10] the bad news. High pressure behind that
[2:12] may stall the hurricane once it gets off
[2:15] Kate Happer Hatteris. We'll just have to
[2:16] see.
[2:17] >> Brian Norcross in Miami. While Dennis
[2:19] may not make landfall, authorities along
[2:22] the coast are taking no chances and have
[2:24] ordered many people inland and away from
[2:26] danger. Jim Axelrod is in a place that
[2:28] has seen more than its share of
[2:30] hurricanes in the last few years.
[2:31] Writesville Beach near Wilmington, North
[2:33] Carolina. Jim
[2:35] >> John, a mandatory evacuation is now in
[2:37] effect all along the fragile barrier
[2:39] islands of the North Carolina coast.
[2:42] 150,000 people have been put on alert as
[2:44] Hurricane Dennis makes its way north.
[2:48] It's become a late summer ritual. A
[2:50] hurricane bears down, vacationers pack
[2:52] up, and head inland.
[2:55] Homeowners board up and say a little
[2:57] prayer. Tonight it's North Carolina, the
[3:00] most likely place for Dennis to make
[3:02] land if he comes ashore at all. Here in
[3:05] Writesville Beach, Bubba Atkinson says
[3:07] that's a big if.
[3:09] >> Looks like we've been kind of unlucky.
[3:10] Seems like three of the last four on the
[3:12] East Coast has hit us dead center. The
[3:14] eyes come right over this house, which
[3:16] is just like one in a million. So, you
[3:18] would think that this one would have to
[3:19] miss us.
[3:20] >> The models show Dennis kissing the coast
[3:22] and then veering east out to sea. But
[3:25] for emergency management officials,
[3:27] better safe than sorry.
[3:28] >> Don't be complacent. There's too much
[3:31] chance for intensity uh increase in
[3:34] intensity. There's too much of a greater
[3:36] chance of variation in the forecast.
[3:39] >> Even though Hurricane Dennis is still
[3:41] quite a distance from the North Carolina
[3:43] coast, and it is still quite a distance
[3:46] from the North Carolina coast, we are
[3:47] starting to feel the winds and the rains
[3:50] from the outer bands. The barrier
[3:52] islands are now nearly empty, which is
[3:54] exactly the way emergency management
[3:56] personnel want it. Once it's dark, it is
[3:59] much more difficult to get people to
[4:02] leave. John
[4:03] >> Jim Axarrod on Ritsville Beach. Thanks.
[4:05] People in Charleston, South Carolina are
[4:07] resting easier tonight. They remember
[4:09] all too well the toll a hurricane can
[4:11] take from Hugo's visit in 1989. But even
[4:14] a near miss can bring with it enormous
[4:16] cost in everything from evacuations to
[4:19] emotional capital. CBS's Byron Pitts in
[4:22] Charleston has that story.
[4:26] >> Finally, for the first time, Dennis
[4:29] looked mean. Angry 10-ft waves forced
[4:31] surfers in early as the threat of
[4:34] tropical storm force winds kept
[4:36] homeowners out late. We have five
[4:39] houses, so we have to go ahead and board
[4:41] it out. Kept saying it was going to
[4:42] turn, going to turn. The pressure was
[4:44] going to push it out. So far, it hasn't.
[4:46] So, we can't wait any longer. Nor could
[4:48] weekend vacationers who checked out of
[4:50] area hotel Sunday. Hurricane Dennis may
[4:53] miss the Carolina coast, but he still
[4:55] will severely damage South Carolina's
[4:58] $12 million a day tourism industry.
[5:01] >> We've had a bunch of cancellations today
[5:03] and um we've lost 10 to 12,000. My
[5:06] manager says
[5:07] >> we normally are 100% occupancy on on
[5:10] weekends and my occupancy is so
[5:13] embarrassing right now. I don't know
[5:14] that I want to tell you. But the six
[5:16] people that are staying here are having
[5:18] one hell of a time.
[5:20] >> Under the circumstances, most here
[5:22] remained in good spirits. City leaders
[5:24] encouraged all to continue using good
[5:26] common sense.
[5:27] >> I think it's also important that people
[5:29] realize that we're not out of this yet.
[5:31] Uh it only takes one tree coming across
[5:33] your house uh to to make you feel that
[5:35] you have had a disaster.
[5:36] >> Tonight's forecast calls for more rain,
[5:39] winds of up to 50 to 60 mph, a 2 to 4ft
[5:42] storm surge. Those are not
[5:44] life-threatening conditions, but still
[5:46] serious enough to cause beach erosion,
[5:48] inland flooding. Hurricane Dennis may
[5:51] have slid past South Carolina, but he
[5:53] did not go by unnoticed.
[5:56] Byron Pittz, CBS News, Charleston. Still
[5:59] to come on tonight's CBS Evening News,
[6:01] the siege at Waco. The FBI replies to
[6:04] charges it hid the truth. The first
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[7:54] The FBI tried more damage control today
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[7:58] devidian siege and fire near Waco, Texas
[8:01] six years ago. The chief FBI negotiator
[8:03] at Waco says information about the use
[8:06] of potentially flammable tear gas
[8:08] canisters was not hidden but was buried
[8:11] in the bureau's official report. He
[8:13] called that a very glaring oversight.
[8:17] >> I would submit to you that there is no
[8:19] excuse. uh this information should have
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[8:24] potential magnitude of its importance
[8:26] and apparently it was not. It was just
[8:28] buried in the in the magnitude of the uh
[8:31] evidence that was to be presented in
[8:33] relation to this case. Republican
[8:35] leaders in Congress say they will hold
[8:37] hearings on the Waco siege this fall.
[8:39] The deadline is approaching for Hillary
[8:41] Clinton to announce whether or not she
[8:43] will run for the Senate from New York.
[8:45] The first family is now vacationing and
[8:47] house hunting in the Empire State. And
[8:50] Diana Ol reports, the first lady looks
[8:52] more and more like a candidate.
[8:54] >> Yeah, we love you.
[8:56] >> The weekend was build as a working
[8:57] vacation. And today, it was abundantly
[9:00] clear who was working and who was
[9:01] playing. As the president teed off, Mrs.
[9:04] Clinton headed off to yet another
[9:06] political fundraiser.
[9:07] >> Please welcome Hillary Rodm Clinton.
[9:10] >> The first lady seemed to be enjoying the
[9:12] spotlight. She gave quick nod to her
[9:15] husband's work and then shifted to her
[9:17] own agenda.
[9:18] >> And I want to be part of continuing that
[9:21] kind of progress, the opportunities that
[9:24] are available for people and to really
[9:27] do whatever I can to keep faith with the
[9:31] young people of America.
[9:33] >> The weekend should net Democrats $2
[9:35] million, 400,000 of which goes to Mrs.
[9:38] Clinton's Senate Exploratory Committee.
[9:40] Despite her still undeclared status, she
[9:43] did everything candidates do, delivering
[9:45] an unscripted stump speech, pressing the
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[9:51] >> The woman I have shared the last, well,
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[10:04] the most consistent public citizen I
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[10:13] >> But to qualify, Mrs. Clinton needs to
[10:15] establish residence in the state by
[10:17] election day. And again, despite her
[10:19] unconfirmed intentions, she's wasting no
[10:21] time.
[10:22] >> Nice to meet you. I'm glad to see you.
[10:24] Hi. How are you?
[10:26] >> Mrs. Clinton squeezed in another house
[10:28] hunting trip in a New York City suburb.
[10:30] This could be a new White House for the
[10:32] first family. A four-story colonial on 1
[10:34] acre. Asking price 1.7 million. The
[10:38] Clintons will now take their vacation to
[10:40] Lake Skinny Atlas near Syracuse, New
[10:42] York. Their first stop, the New York
[10:44] State Fair, not build as a campaign
[10:46] stop, although very few local candidates
[10:49] would miss the chance to work a state
[10:51] fair. Diana Ol, CBS News, Long Island,
[10:54] New York.
[10:55] >> Israel is dampening hopes of a
[10:56] breakthrough in peace talks with the
[10:58] Palestinians. Prime Minister Barack's
[11:00] cabinet met today. Negotiators saying a
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[11:04] week. But later, Iraq's office said if
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[14:11] there has never been a central storage
[14:13] site for the wastes piling up at
[14:15] America's nuclear power plants. For
[14:17] almost 20 years, scientists have been
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[14:22] our Sunday cover. The safety of Yuckah
[14:25] Mountain. Can it contain the wastes for
[14:27] 10,000 years?
[14:30] I bought a farm here, Stone Throw, from
[14:34] Yuckah Mountain.
[14:35] >> When Ralph and Deborah McCracken moved
[14:37] onto this ranch 7 years ago,
[14:39] >> there's nothing between it and me,
[14:42] except for my orchard.
[14:44] >> Little did they know they'd be living in
[14:46] the shadow of what is likely to become
[14:47] the nation's first nuclear waste dump.
[14:50] >> I do feel vulnerable. Uh, I feel a
[14:53] little bit like the the first guinea pig
[14:56] in a row. Come on.
[14:57] >> The McCrackens and their four mustangs
[14:59] live just 17 miles away from Yaka
[15:02] Mountain, a site where the US Department
[15:04] of Energy soon hopes to bury 70,000 tons
[15:07] of highly radioactive waste generated by
[15:10] the country's nuclear power plants.
[15:12] >> The real question is, can you design a
[15:14] system to protect the health and safety
[15:16] of the public? And we believe the answer
[15:17] is yes. Scientists are gambling that
[15:19] Yaka Mountain, an hour and a half's
[15:21] drive northwest of Las Vegas, is the
[15:23] perfect spot to store the nuclear waste
[15:26] because of its remote desert location.
[15:28] Earthquakes are uncommon, and the area
[15:30] only gets on average 7 in of
[15:33] precipitation a year.
[15:34] >> The only way the radiation is going to
[15:36] get out of that is first of all whether
[15:38] there's a defect in the package or
[15:40] whether water is eventually reaches
[15:41] those materials and somehow corrods
[15:43] through it, picks up a waste material
[15:45] and carries it on through. But after
[15:47] extensive testing, which took 17 years
[15:49] and cost almost $6 billion, scientists
[15:52] found a few surprises in the rock deep
[15:55] inside the mountain where the waste
[15:56] would be buried.
[15:57] >> The two big things in my mind is they
[15:59] didn't expect faults. They found faults
[16:00] and didn't expect water. And they found
[16:02] water both there and uh percolating in.
[16:06] >> We thought this site was going to be
[16:08] drier than it turned out to be. Those
[16:09] findings have Ralph McCracken worried
[16:11] that the radiation will eventually
[16:13] migrate to his farm, contaminating
[16:15] people, animals, and his crop of
[16:17] pistachio nuts, which are sold across
[16:20] the country.
[16:20] >> They are expecting a leaky mountain.
[16:23] They're expecting leaky containers, and
[16:26] they're expecting us to survive it
[16:28] somehow.
[16:29] >> Environmentalist Anna Aurelio says more
[16:31] than 219 groups have called for the
[16:34] government to scrap the yucka project
[16:36] >> for the time being.
[16:39] We think that the best thing to do is to
[16:41] store this stuff on site where it's
[16:44] already being stored until we can figure
[16:47] out a safe permanent place to put it.
[16:50] >> But time is running out. Of the 103
[16:53] operating nuclear power plants, 18 don't
[16:56] have any more room in underground pools
[16:58] to store spent fuel. By the end of 2004,
[17:01] 32 more will have to move to above
[17:04] ground storage. According to industry
[17:07] officials, only a project like Yaka
[17:09] Mountain will solve the issue once and
[17:11] for all.
[17:12] >> Nuclear power plants and the fuel
[17:14] facilities, uh, this used fuel storage
[17:16] facilities were never designed for
[17:19] long-term storage of the used fuel. Yet,
[17:23] the responsible thing is to put the used
[17:26] fuel in a central repository.
[17:29] >> Ralph McCracken isn't happy with that
[17:31] solution, and he's already thinking of
[17:33] moving far away. If if we're successful
[17:35] at having a kid or two,
[17:39] how long do we stay here?
[17:41] >> Since he and Debbie are trying to have a
[17:43] baby,
[17:43] >> everybody wants their children to have
[17:45] the best. Do you want to leave them your
[17:46] best legacy? And I don't know that that
[17:49] mountain is your best legacy over there.
[17:52] >> The Secretary of Energy is to recommend
[17:54] to the president by the year 2001
[17:56] whether Yucka Mountain is a go or no go.
[18:00] The $43 billion price tag would be
[18:02] financed by attacks on nuclear power.
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[20:11] >> The third fatal amusement park accident
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[20:18] on a brand new roller coaster in Ocean
[20:20] City, New Jersey near Atlantic City.
[20:22] Police say they were killed when their
[20:23] car rolled backwards and hit another car
[20:25] that was being loaded. The cause is
[20:27] being investigated. Wildfires in the
[20:30] West have claimed a second life. A
[20:32] firefighter was killed near Santa
[20:33] Barbara battling a blaze in the Los
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[20:39] areas, but three new fires east of Los
[20:42] Angeles are threatening some homes. The
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[20:48] parched over much of the eastern United
[20:51] States as well, and that has many
[20:53] communities watching the water they use.
[20:55] They're grateful for recent downpours.
[20:57] But has the deluge made a difference?
[20:59] Cheryl Atkinson has the story.
[21:02] >> In the parched Mid-Atlantic, when it
[21:04] finally rained last week, it poured.
[21:07] Some places got 4 in in 2 hours. The
[21:11] result, a rising river and new greenery
[21:13] peeking out for the first time in weeks.
[21:15] It was enough to make a lot of people
[21:17] here think the drought had been
[21:18] quenched. But listen to the denials from
[21:21] the headquarters of the regional water
[21:23] utility. No, the drought is not over. It
[21:26] is not over.
[21:28] Just as the drought didn't happen
[21:30] yesterday,
[21:32] the drought is not over tomorrow.
[21:34] >> And it's the same story from the chief
[21:36] executive in Maryland's very dry
[21:38] Montgomery County. What did that big
[21:41] rainfall do for the drought?
[21:43] >> Well, it provided some temporary relief.
[21:45] >> Relief, not a cure. The Ptoac River
[21:48] rushing with water is still way below
[21:51] normal. The water line is supposed to be
[21:53] above the light colored rock.
[21:55] >> A lot of these rocks down here would not
[21:57] be exposed in a normal flow of the
[22:00] river. Families like the Fileramos,
[22:02] who've been living with mandatory
[22:03] restrictions for a month now, are
[22:05] beginning to grasp the lingering nature
[22:07] of this drought and the limits on water
[22:09] use.
[22:10] >> I'd rather be safe than sorry.
[22:12] >> We need about 25 to 30 more days of rain
[22:15] just like the one we had this last week.
[22:16] So, if we can get that much rain, again,
[22:19] a steady soaking kind of rain, uh
[22:21] that'll make all the difference in the
[22:22] world.
[22:22] >> But that may be just wishful thinking.
[22:25] Forecasters expect the drought to
[22:26] continue into the winter and say even a
[22:29] brush with hurricanes now making their
[22:31] way up the coast might not be enough to
[22:33] chase away the most serious dry spell in
[22:36] 70 years. Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News,
[22:39] PTOAC, Maryland.
[22:41] >> Next up on tonight's CBS Evening News,
[22:43] what's good for people is good for
[22:45] animals. Health care for aging residents
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[25:16] >> Arthritis, eye trouble, weakness, just
[25:19] some of the health problems of getting
[25:20] older for humans and animals. Eric
[25:24] Angberg tells us how America's aging zoo
[25:26] population is posing new challenges for
[25:29] veterinary medicine.
[25:32] The National Zoo's most famous resident
[25:34] is also one of its oldest. Few pandas in
[25:37] the wild live as long as Shing Shing,
[25:40] who is 28. For zoo veterinarian Lucy
[25:43] Spelman, Shing Shing is only one of
[25:45] dozens of elderly patients she tends on
[25:47] daily rounds.
[25:50] Nancy the elephant, who is 45, has a
[25:53] serious infection in one of her massive
[25:55] toes.
[25:55] >> A good girl. Okay.
[25:57] >> Almost every day, Spelman X-rays Nancy
[26:00] to see if antibiotics injected into the
[26:02] bone marrow will cure the problem. The
[26:04] unhappy finding today, no change.
[26:07] >> It's very, very difficult to treat and
[26:10] um if you decide to treat you, you're
[26:12] deciding to put an animal through an
[26:14] awful lot.
[26:14] >> The doctor rules out surgery. It's too
[26:17] risky at NY's age. At zoos across the
[26:20] country, vets are pushing the boundaries
[26:22] of animal medicine. Animals have never
[26:25] lived so long, and vets like Dr. Spelman
[26:28] are encountering new forms of geriatric
[26:30] diseases for which they've had to invent
[26:32] treatments. Washington's National Zoo
[26:34] has a policy of keeping its animals on
[26:37] display, not replacing them even as they
[26:39] age. The Siberian tiger suffers from
[26:41] weak legs. Norman the sea lion has eye
[26:44] problems.
[26:46] >> So, it's better.
[26:48] >> There's an old lizard who's lost weight.
[26:50] >> You can see he's pretty thin.
[26:52] >> Elderly wolves are bothered by
[26:54] arthritis. Today, Dr. Spellelman will
[26:57] examine Cherokee while she has her
[26:59] annual dental checkup, courtesy of
[27:01] dentists who volunteer their time.
[27:03] >> This tooth should be looking like this,
[27:06] but instead it was broken off, so the
[27:08] nerve was exposed.
[27:10] >> The availability of high techch medical
[27:12] care. Everything from root canals to
[27:14] organ transplants contributes to longer
[27:16] lives. Another big factor, the high
[27:19] level of personal care.
[27:21] >> It reflects years of being fed right,
[27:23] housed right. All that together is
[27:25] allowing these creatures to live longer.
[27:27] Um, and that's a that's a good thing.
[27:30] >> Shing Shing gets his arthritis medicine
[27:32] in a blueberry muffin. Misu the gorilla
[27:35] enjoys highfat cottage cheese.
[27:38] >> See, it wasn't so bad today.
[27:39] >> Nancy is rewarded with special fruits.
[27:42] Many of the keepers have cared for the
[27:44] same animals for years.
[27:46] >> They're now preparing themselves
[27:48] emotionally for the inevitable.
[27:50] >> He is a marvelous animal and I love him
[27:52] very much. I hope I can age as
[27:54] gracefully as he does. I really do.
[27:57] >> For zoo visitors, there's much to be
[27:59] learned and enjoyed at any age. That's
[28:02] true for animal and human alike. Eric,
[28:06] CBS News, Washington.
[28:08] >> I'll take my medicine in a blueberry
[28:10] muffin any day. That's the CBS Evening
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