World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-10
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[0:00] of rain on Tuesday, [music] Wednesday,
[0:01] and Thursday, and drying up for the end
[0:04] of the 10day trend.
[0:06] [music]
[0:20] Enron's connections to the Bush
[0:22] administration, wide and deep. And we'll
[0:25] take a closer look at how vulnerable a
[0:27] retirement plan can be. The US flies its
[0:30] prisoners from Afghanistan to Guantanamo
[0:33] Bay in Cuba. High on security, low on
[0:36] comfort. Our reporter with [music] the
[0:39] US special forces in Afghanistan, where
[0:41] treachery and corruption are a daily
[0:44] challenge.
[0:45] And the town [music] which defied the
[0:47] Germans during World War II, trying to
[0:50] thank America again. [music]
[0:56] From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:59] York, this is World News Tonight with
[1:02] Peter Jennings.
[1:03] >> Good evening everyone. We are going to
[1:04] begin this evening with a criminal
[1:06] investigation of the huge energy company
[1:08] Enron. There have been any number of
[1:09] startling revelations since the company
[1:11] collapsed. As you probably know, a few
[1:14] people were left fabulously rich and
[1:15] many more without their life savings.
[1:18] Today, the company's accounting firm,
[1:20] Arthur Anderson, which failed to sound
[1:22] the alarm about the company's
[1:24] exaggerated earnings, said today that
[1:26] many documents were destroyed. Enron was
[1:29] a company with deep political
[1:31] connections to the Bush administration,
[1:33] and so there are political issues to be
[1:36] dealt with as well. We'll start with
[1:38] ABC's Terry Moran, who's at the White
[1:40] House. Terry
[1:41] >> Peter, the chaos in the wake of the
[1:43] collapse of Enron has now reached the
[1:45] White House with officials from the
[1:46] president on down, scramblin