NBC Nightly News - 1977-05-27

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[0:02] This is NBC Nightly News with John

[0:04] Chancellor and David Brinkley. Tonight,

[0:07] Friday, May 27th, reported from the NBC

[0:10] News Center in New York.

[0:13] Good evening. Holland's desperados let

[0:16] the children go, 105 of them, tired,

[0:19] sleepy, and hungry. One of them ran to

[0:21] her mother, embraced her, and asked if

[0:23] she could have a pancake. The other

[0:25] hostages are still held. four teachers

[0:27] at gunpoint in the school and 56 other

[0:30] people in a train a few miles away. Now

[0:33] the hijackers are demanding an airplane

[0:35] to take them and their friends held in

[0:38] jail out of the country. Two reports

[0:40] from the scene.

[0:43] The 56 hostages still being held aboard

[0:46] the hijacked train are now the center of

[0:48] intensified negotiations following the

[0:51] release of the children. Late this

[0:53] afternoon, police were rearranging the

[0:55] barbed wire and newspapers that had been

[0:57] pasted over the train windows were being

[1:00] removed. A number of ambulances were

[1:02] dispatched to an area near the train.

[1:05] Earlier, another supply of food was

[1:07] wheeled down the tracks to the

[1:08] passengers who have been in the hands of

[1:10] terrorists for 5 days now. The Dutch

[1:13] government has expressed growing concern

[1:15] for their safety.

[1:24] 15 miles away at the school, a small

[1:27] cart was pushed up the street with food

[1:29] for the nine people still inside. Five

[1:32] South Malikan terrorists and four

[1:34] teachers being held hostage. The freeing

[1:37] of the children came as a surprise at

[1:39] dawn this morning with the arrival of

[1:41] ambulances at the school. During the

[1:43] night, many of the children had become

[1:45] sick with fevers and vomiting. A doctor

[1:48] appealed to the terrorists to release

[1:50] those who were ill. Back came the

[1:52] response. Take them all. We will let you

[1:55] take them all. Many of the children

[1:58] walked a short distance to a bus and

[2:00] freedom. One of the teachers who

[2:02] remained behind as a hostage said

[2:04] goodbye to her daughter who was being

[2:06] released.

[2:32] As the children left, there were smiles

[2:34] and waves. Later, there were emotional

[2:36] reunions with parents who had waited

[2:39] nearly 100 hours for this moment.

[2:42] 26 children are still in the hospital,

[2:45] but none is seriously ill. There's been

[2:47] speculation that authorities may have

[2:49] put a mild toxin into the food sent to

[2:52] the school in order to gain the

[2:53] children's release. This has been

[2:55] officially denied.

[3:03] John Palmer, NBC News, at the town of

[3:05] Asen in Northern Holland.

[3:09] Part of the shock has been that people

[3:11] in this small town always figured

[3:13] terrorism happened in the wicked world

[3:15] outside that it couldn't happen here.

[3:18] Their first reaction when the children

[3:20] came out was protective. Many parents

[3:22] rushed their children home to safety.

[3:24] Away from the irrational forces at work

[3:27] here, away from the prying of newsmen,

[3:29] sometimes with bitter anger. One girl

[3:32] who'd been a hostage came back later to

[3:34] see how her school looked from the

[3:36] outside. But the fright of her

[3:38] experience was still too real and her

[3:40] father had to cart her away. One father,

[3:43] a psychiatrist, was willing to talk

[3:46] about his reaction when he first saw one

[3:48] of two sons who'd just been released.

[3:51] >> He's getting nervous. She's getting

[3:53] nervous about it. If you when you hear

[3:54] their stories, you'll get a bit an

[3:57] impression because well, my oldest son

[3:59] told me when the people came in, they to

[4:03] um uh thought the children thought that

[4:06] they would they were as they were coming

[4:09] to give a kind of play, a kind of act,

[4:12] and they thought that the rifles were

[4:14] plastic rifles. So until 10 minutes

[4:18] after the whole situation began, they

[4:21] thought it was um well a kind of uh of

[4:25] game. The doctor added that he thinks

[4:27] the town has been permanently scarred by

[4:29] the terrorism. He added that only time

[4:32] will tell whether some of the children

[4:34] also have been permanently scarred.

[4:37] David Burrington, NBC News, in the

[4:39] northern Dutch town of Bovenilda.

[4:43] Also on the program this evening, Jimmy

[4:45] Carter, Under the Sea. A long look at an

[4:48] old institution that's become a new fad.

[4:50] The auction of the century and the

[4:52] triumph of the human fly.

[4:57] Aris

[5:00] delicious.

[5:02] >> Harry, have these. They're good for you.

[5:04] >> They go with everything you like.

[5:07] >> Boy, my biscuits with grilled cheese.

[5:09] That's great. They're mighty satisfying.

[5:12] >> 100% natural whole wheat Triscuit

[5:15] wafers. So deliciously different, they

[5:17] serve any situation.

[5:19] >> A Tris. A Triscuit. Darling, these are

[5:22] marvelous. Baked only by a biscuit.

[5:30] >> You should have used Mobile One, Tommy.

[5:32] The oil saves your car.

[5:34] >> You could have gone up to 10 extra

[5:36] miles, darling.

[5:37] >> On every tank full of gas, my son.

[5:39] Mobile One reduces friction so well it

[5:41] can take the average car up to 10 extra

[5:43] miles per tank full.

[5:44] >> Hey man, what's holding everything up?

[5:45] >> Some dummy ran out of gas. Didn't didn't

[5:48] use Mobile One.

[5:52] >> Mobile One, the oil that saves you gas.

[5:57] >> A Russian jetliner crashed today while

[6:00] trying to land at the Havana airport

[6:01] with one engine on fire. The Cuban press

[6:03] agency says 66 people died, two

[6:06] survivors were injured. The plane and

[6:08] Illution 62 was in route to Havana from

[6:12] Moscow with stops in Frankfurt and

[6:13] Lisbon.

[6:15] Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

[6:17] and his wife Margaret have agreed on an

[6:19] official separation at her request. She

[6:22] is 28. He is 57. He will retain custody

[6:25] of their three young children. And

[6:28] somewhere out there in the Atlantic

[6:30] today, Jimmy Carter in the Briney Deep

[6:32] for 3 hours and 20 minutes aboard a

[6:34] nuclear submarine. Marilyn Burgerer

[6:36] reports from dry land.

[6:40] >> The submarine Los Angeles. Some say it's

[6:43] the fastest. It's classified just how

[6:45] fast, the quietest, the best attack sub

[6:48] the Navy has. Carter says he wants to

[6:52] find out just how good it is. And that's

[6:54] why he came aboard today for a

[6:55] demonstration. His guide, Admiral Heyman

[6:58] Rickover, father of the nuclear Navy and

[7:01] Jimmy Carter's mentor. Today the

[7:04] president recalled his days in the Navy

[7:06] when he said Rickover taught him to

[7:08] demand the best of himself.

[7:10] >> So I think both in politics and also

[7:14] running a peanut farm and also in the

[7:16] Navy his concept of what a human being

[7:19] could do compared to what they

[7:21] ordinarily do is just remind them to

[7:23] always measured up to it.

[7:26] >> It was the first time the president and

[7:27] his wife sailed on a nuclear sub. Once

[7:30] below deck, Rickover took advantage of

[7:32] the presence of his commander-in-chief

[7:34] to put in a pitch for the nuclear navy.

[7:37] While the sub was still in port, the

[7:39] president toured the ship, checking out

[7:40] the periscope, the diving plane, and the

[7:43] nuclear reactor. Then they sailed out of

[7:45] Cape Canaveral, a hovercraft full of

[7:47] reporters trailing far behind. Once the

[7:50] ship was in the open sea, the Navy

[7:52] provided a helicopter to permit

[7:54] photographs of the submarine as it

[7:55] submerged. It was a deep dive, but not

[7:58] so deep that the president lost

[8:00] communication with the rest of the

[8:01] world.

[8:05] When he returned after 3 and 1/2 hours

[8:08] of underwater submarine maneuvers and

[8:09] more than 9 hours at sea, the president

[8:12] was eager to talk about it.

[8:14] >> Was on board. Uh the crew acted as

[8:17] though I was not there. They didn't

[8:18] stand at attention when I went in

[8:20] compartments. Ros and I both ate with

[8:22] the ship's crew for lunch and just had a

[8:25] chance to share with the enlisted men

[8:27] and officers what they knew about their

[8:29] own stations, which was superb. But I

[8:32] didn't go aboard to be treated as u as a

[8:34] high official, but just to learn and let

[8:36] them know that we shared a common

[8:38] partnership in the protection of our

[8:40] country.

[8:41] >> Mr. Carter left immediately for St.

[8:43] Simon's Island in Georgia where he will

[8:45] spend a weekend. Marilyn Berger, NBC

[8:48] News, Cape Canaveral.

[8:51] >> The Navy wanted to run a trim ship

[8:53] today, so five overweight sailors were

[8:56] kept ashore out of the president's

[8:57] sight. They complained. A Navy spokesman

[9:00] said if they feel bad, they should lose

[9:02] some weight. David, General Singlob lost

[9:05] his job in Korea because he disagreed

[9:08] with President Carter, but now he's got

[9:10] another one just as good. He is chief of

[9:12] staff of the forces command, an

[9:15] assignment the army regards as a plum.

[9:17] Also, he'll be stationed in Georgia,

[9:19] where the climate is a little better

[9:20] than South Korea. People who mine coal

[9:24] complain there are too many restrictions

[9:25] on digging it, and those who burn coal

[9:28] complain there are too many restrictions

[9:30] on that. But still, the president's

[9:32] energy plan calls for using more of it.

[9:35] A hearing today, here's John Cochran.

[9:39] No one wants his hometown to look the

[9:41] way Pittsburgh did in the 1940s. Neither

[9:44] do the people in Pittsburgh. That's why

[9:46] they cleaned up their air. But now,

[9:48] President Carter wants to force most

[9:50] industries and utility plants to start

[9:52] burning coal. The president says we can

[9:54] offset the dirty air from coal if we cut

[9:57] down on air pollution from other fuels

[9:59] like gasoline. But just yesterday, the

[10:02] House rejected the president's tough

[10:03] clean air standards for auto exhausts.

[10:06] Congressman Dingle from Michigan was a

[10:08] leader in defeating the president on the

[10:09] clean air bill. And today, Dingle's

[10:12] subcommittee was making trouble for Mr.

[10:13] Carter's coal conversion program. High

[10:16] administration officials were treated

[10:18] like school boys who had not done their

[10:19] homework as one congressman after

[10:22] another complained that the White House

[10:24] does not really know what effect coal

[10:25] burning will have on air pollution in

[10:27] specific areas of the country. There's

[10:30] very little if any analysis that's

[10:32] really been done about the impact on my

[10:34] region and I'm being asked to go into

[10:36] markup on a on a portion of the

[10:38] president's plan on a very important

[10:40] portion without having the benefit of

[10:42] that knowledge only the asurances that

[10:44] something's going to be done something

[10:45] that's not even guaranteed to me in the

[10:47] legislation. Administration officials

[10:50] had expected heavy opposition to much of

[10:52] the president's energy package but they

[10:54] hoped his coal program would sail

[10:56] through Congress with ease. Now, it

[10:58] seems that even though Congress will

[11:00] pass a coal conversion bill, it will not

[11:02] be easy and it may look a lot different

[11:05] from the bill Mr. Carter wants. John

[11:08] Cochran, NBC News, the capital. The

[11:11] government's index of economic

[11:13] indicators went up 510 of 1% last month,

[11:16] the third monthly increase in a row. A

[11:18] sign that the economy is growing, but

[11:20] the stock market is in bad shape. The

[11:22] Dow Jones Industrials lost 31 points

[11:25] this week. And the index closed below

[11:28] 900. It hasn't been that low since

[11:30] January 1976.

[11:35] >> Oh, here's the jam.

[11:38] >> Mom sent us for a little league dinner.

[11:40] Mrs. Smith,

[11:40] >> thanks.

[11:42] >> More meatloaf.

[11:44] >> You know that plastic wrap is opening.

[11:45] >> Well, sometimes plastic wraps cling,

[11:47] sometimes they don't. You can't always

[11:48] rely on You can rely on Reynolds wraps.

[11:52] It molds and seals tightly, so it really

[11:55] protects. And I can reheat in it, too.

[11:58] >> You and Reynolds Wrap can join our team.

[12:02] >> Reynolds Wrap. The best rap around.

[12:08] >> See that couple? They've got clout.

[12:11] Influence.

[12:12] >> Well, we've got clout, too. So, maybe we

[12:14] don't eat here every night.

[12:16] >> But we carry clout. Your Master Charge

[12:19] card carries clout. Clout means

[12:21] acceptance. Clout opens doors. Your

[12:24] Master Charge card gives you a personal

[12:26] account in over 2 million places

[12:28] worldwide. That's Clout. That's Master

[12:31] Charge.

[12:31] >> It lets you relax.

[12:36] >> Our correspondent Eric Burns is 31. He

[12:39] was one of our youngest, born in 1946.

[12:42] And a subject he now reports on was

[12:44] beginning to disappear about then. The

[12:46] big dance bands. He never heard Benny

[12:49] Goodman play Stomping at the Savoy and

[12:51] never heard Charlie Barnett play

[12:53] Cherokee and he missed something. But

[12:55] for our special this evening, he has

[12:57] looked into a field personally unknown

[12:59] to him and found there is to some degree

[13:02] a new interest in the music of about a

[13:04] generation ago. An audience not nearly

[13:07] as big as it was, but an audience

[13:26] This is a story about the music that

[13:28] millions of Americans listened to when

[13:30] they were young and the men who used to

[13:33] play it and the men who play it now.

[13:41] More than 40 years ago, these men played

[13:43] it. They are the original Tommy Dorsey

[13:45] band. Duke Ellington had a band in those

[13:48] days. So did Glenn Miller, Benny

[13:51] Goodman, Arty Shaw.

[13:54] These were the big bands. And if you

[13:56] grew up in the 1930s and4s, it's likely

[13:58] that your memories and this music cannot

[14:01] be separated.

[14:04] But in the early 1950s, television came

[14:06] along and people stopped going out to

[14:08] see the big bands. Then then rock and

[14:11] roll came along. People stopped buying

[14:13] big band records. As a result, the big

[14:15] band stopped playing or they played a

[14:18] lot less. This was true in the latter

[14:20] half of the 50s all through the 60s and

[14:23] into the early 70s. It's not so true

[14:26] today.

[14:40] This is the Tommy Dorsy band with mostly

[14:42] new members in Kalamazoo, Michigan. At

[14:45] this concert, the band delighted its old

[14:47] friends and made new ones.

[14:51] >> Well, during the World War II when we

[14:53] were overseas, they played many Dorsy uh

[14:56] records u do the bass all the time.

[14:59] >> So, tonight brought back some memories.

[15:01] >> Very much so.

[15:02] >> What's a young kid like you doing at a

[15:04] big band concert?

[15:06] >> Listening. Writing. Did you like what

[15:08] you heard?

[15:09] >> Oh, a lot.

[15:12] >> A few years ago, the Tommy Dorsy band

[15:14] was out of business. This year, it will

[15:17] be on the road 49 weeks.

[15:20] Buddy Marorrow on the right here is the

[15:22] only original member. He's the leader

[15:24] now. Most of the other men in the band

[15:27] were babies when Tommy Dorsy died in

[15:30] 1956,

[15:32] but they play his arrangements, so they

[15:35] are his band.

[15:37] And like the men in the original band,

[15:40] they measure out their lives in miles

[15:42] and gigs.

[15:54] The Duke Ellington band is playing this

[15:56] gig. The late Duke's son Mercer is

[16:00] conducting.

[16:02] This is alumni weekend at Renolier

[16:04] Polytenic Institute in Troy, New York.

[16:06] Here is why the people in charge of the

[16:09] weekend wanted this kind of music at the

[16:11] Saturday night dance.

[16:14] >> It's music that appeals because it's

[16:17] listenable and it's dable and

[16:22] and what more do you want to do with

[16:23] music than dance and listen?

[16:27] I I was uh advised that I should play

[16:32] some of the old numbers for some of the

[16:34] old folks. I don't see nobody.

[16:40] Some of the people at this dance

[16:42] graduated in 1927.

[16:44] Some of them graduated in 1977.

[16:47] But all of them have one thing in

[16:49] common. They were stirred by this music.

[16:53] >> It's snappy and for some reason it

[16:55] always just it just catches you and you

[16:57] get into it. You just can't help it.

[16:59] >> Well, because it's music. It's lovely.

[17:02] You hold a gorgeous female in your hands

[17:03] and you dance with her. and you get

[17:05] romantic.

[17:06] >> Well, I just think things run in cycles.

[17:10] >> And it's a cycle for the big bands

[17:12] again.

[17:12] >> I think so.

[17:21] >> The big band era is not coming back. But

[17:24] if you like to listen to this music and

[17:27] dance to it, you have more chances today

[17:29] than you've had in 25 years.

[17:33] Eric Burns, NBC News, Troy, New York.

[17:42] >> Terrific.

[17:44] But I can't drink this.

[17:46] >> Yes, you can.

[17:47] >> No, I can't. I want decaffeinated.

[17:49] >> Yes, you can. It's Brim decaffeinated.

[17:52] >> No, I can't. This tastes too good to be

[17:54] decaffeinated.

[17:54] >> Well, you can get good taste into

[17:56] caffeinated coffee with Brim. Just taste

[17:58] its rich ground flavor.

[18:00] >> Brim is delicious. Can I have another

[18:02] cup? Oh, you can. You'll miss your

[18:04] train.

[18:05] >> Broom tastes like fresh ground coffee.

[18:07] It tastes so good you won't believe it's

[18:09] decaffeinated.

[18:12] >> Touch dancing is back and I love it. It

[18:15] feels good to be dancing in a man's arms

[18:17] cheek to cheek.

[18:19] Especially when his cheek smells of

[18:20] English leather cologne.

[18:24] M English leather literally sweeps me

[18:26] off my feet. Maybe that's why men who

[18:29] wear English leather always seem to be

[18:31] two steps ahead of me.

[18:33] And maybe that's why all my men wearing

[18:35] was leather, or they wear nothing at

[18:37] all.

[18:38] >> English leather, a complete grooming

[18:40] line for men.

[18:42] >> UN Ambassador Andrew Young was compared

[18:44] today to Uganda's Edi Amin. The

[18:47] complainant was a minister of the

[18:48] government of Rhdesia, who asked why the

[18:51] United States is pressuring Rhodesia and

[18:53] South Africa to adopt democratic

[18:55] principles which are not observed in

[18:57] most other African countries. In Israel,

[19:00] Mosha Dion is in a political pickle. The

[19:02] Lehood party may withdraw its offer to

[19:05] make him foreign minister in the new

[19:06] government, and his old Labor Party

[19:08] friends are calling him a traitor for

[19:10] accepting the Lehood offer. In England,

[19:13] the sale of the century is over. The

[19:15] treasures of Mentore Towers auctioned

[19:17] for nearly $11 million. Fred Briggs was

[19:20] there. It took 18 sessions to auction

[19:23] off the contents of Metmore Towers, and

[19:26] it was the sort of auction that would

[19:27] have brought tears to the eyes of the

[19:29] late William Randph Hurst. As it is, it

[19:32] brought more than 12,000 wouldbe buyers

[19:34] and curiosity seekers. The most costly

[19:37] items, the paintings, statues,

[19:39] furniture, and tapestries were gone

[19:40] after the first few days. What was left

[19:43] was a collection of knickknacks

[19:44] representing the magnificent, the

[19:46] quaint, the ornate, and the hideous.

[19:50] One might expect that the seventh Earl

[19:52] of Roseberry, who was selling all this

[19:54] to pay taxes, would not want to be

[19:56] around to see his possessions go on the

[19:58] block. Not so. He was not only around,

[20:01] but stage managing the lights and the

[20:03] minor details like the owner of a small

[20:05] town hardware store setting up his

[20:07] window display.

[20:13] >> As we said, the last two days were made

[20:15] up of little stuff. broken mechanical

[20:17] birds and not two gilded cages and

[20:20] occasional items that seem to have no

[20:22] purpose, meaning or mission for any era.

[20:25] And yet almost all of these brought at

[20:27] least twice the amount of their

[20:28] estimated value because of where it came

[20:31] from. The grandest garage sale of them

[20:34] all. And it brought a grand total of

[20:36] 6,400,000.

[20:39] That's almost £11 million.

[20:42] >> Far left at 60.

[20:44] The house and grounds are being sold

[20:46] separately. They're still available.

[20:47] Between $2 and $3 million should do it.

[20:50] It'll also take at least another $1

[20:52] million to get the place back into

[20:54] shape. The maintenance costs are

[20:56] estimated to be $150,000

[20:58] a month. Expensive perhaps. So, but

[21:02] think what it's going to cost to furnish

[21:03] this place again. Fred Briggs, NBC News,

[21:06] Metmore, England.

[21:09] >> The arts festival in Spaltto, Italy has

[21:11] become famous in its 20 years. And what

[21:14] is new about it this year is it's

[21:16] running in the beautiful old city of

[21:17] Charleston, South Carolina. Kenley Jones

[21:20] is there.

[21:30] Amazing Grace played on the bag pipes.

[21:33] Not an ordinary rendition. But then the

[21:36] Spalto Festival of Two Worlds is not an

[21:38] ordinary arts festival. Founded 20 years

[21:41] ago in the old world in Spalto, Italy,

[21:44] the festival has been brought to the

[21:46] shores of the new world and the historic

[21:48] port city of Charleston. Under the

[21:51] leadership of its founder, Italian

[21:53] composer Jean Carlo Manady, the annual

[21:56] Spaltto Summer Festival has provided a

[21:58] showcase for artistic talent from Europe

[22:00] and the United States. Manady chose

[22:03] Charleston as the home of the American

[22:05] version of the festival. It will

[22:07] continue to be held in Spalato each year

[22:09] because of important similarities

[22:11] between the two cities. Both Manady

[22:14] discovered are small enough so that

[22:15] artists and audiences can mingle if they

[22:17] wish and exchange ideas. And

[22:20] Charleston's devotion to preservation of

[22:22] its past indicates a broad base of

[22:24] cultural support. I think it is one of

[22:26] the most charming cities in the United

[22:28] States

[22:30] and uh so um and more important than

[22:33] anything perhaps is because I felt I was

[22:35] wanted here in Charleston. The Stalato

[22:38] Festival is one of the largest arts

[22:40] festivals in the world. During the 12

[22:42] days of its run here, there will be more

[22:44] than 100 events, including two operas,

[22:46] the opening of a new play, exhibitions

[22:49] of sculpture and paintings. There will

[22:51] also be jazz concerts, ballet, and the

[22:54] film festival. And throughout the city

[22:56] each day, so-called mini festivals are

[22:59] being held, which allow local artists

[23:01] and craftsmen to display their talents.

[23:04] Some special drinks have been concocted

[23:06] for the festival. One is the Spalto

[23:08] jewel made with bourbon and Italian

[23:11] vermouth. But the emphasis here is not

[23:13] on two-fisted revalry. This is not a

[23:15] Martyra festival. It is a festival of

[23:17] the art in a graceful old city. And it

[23:20] is truly amazing.

[23:23] Kimley Jones, NBC News, Charleston,

[23:25] South Carolina.

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[25:23] >> New York City has a new hero, but it

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[25:49] You can't prosecute a public hero,

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[25:58] George Willig went to city hall with his

[25:59] lawyer to talk about the city's lawsuit

[26:01] for $250,000

[26:03] trying to recover what it spent on

[26:05] police and rescue workers.

[26:07] >> Mayor Beam agreed to settle out of court

[26:10] and his attorney made a good suggestion.

[26:14] The stories uh you know the 110 stories

[26:18] high. We figured a penny a story.

[26:21] So we'll settle it for a dollar 10.

[26:28] So Willig's lawyer paid up cash on the

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[26:32] city.

[26:33] >> However,

[26:34] >> Willig promised he wouldn't do it again

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[26:38] trying to copy him.

[26:40] >> And the city's expected to drop the

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[26:46] >> It all goes to show that New York is not

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[26:55] Richard Hunt, NBC News, New York.

[26:58] >> That's it for the week, which ended on a

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