CBS Evening News - 2001-10-16

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[0:00] Federated Tribes of Grand and no

[0:01] interest on Ford SUVs. Interest free

[0:04] financing from your Northwest Ford store

[0:07] to help drive America.

[0:10] Anthrax the movie plus a stars wedding

[0:13] and Jag next.

[0:16] Terra by mail. CBS News brings you the

[0:19] evidence in the envelopes. What was

[0:22] written in those notes carrying anthrax

[0:25] and why they have Congress, newsrooms,

[0:28] and mail rooms coast to coast on high

[0:30] alert. The US introduces a new weapon in

[0:33] the war against terrorists and Taliban

[0:36] targets in Afghanistan. And eye on

[0:39] America. Americans line up for anthrax

[0:41] tests. But how reliable are the results?

[0:51] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:54] Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:56] headquarters in New York. Good evening.

[0:59] Anthrax was the talk of this nation

[1:01] again today. Who has it? Who's at risk

[1:04] of getting it? And who is sending it

[1:06] through the mail? CBS has the very

[1:08] latest on all this tonight. We begin

[1:10] with the investigation of what the US

[1:12] government now labels as terrorism. CBS

[1:16] News correspondent Jim Stewart has new

[1:18] information about who may be behind the

[1:20] attempts at murder by Mayo.

[1:24] US officials are now convinced that in

[1:26] the midst of Osama bin Laden's war with

[1:28] the United States, someone else, perhaps

[1:31] another terrorist or a domestic crackpot

[1:33] has launched his own campaign of

[1:35] bioteterrorism. Sources say the same

[1:37] person mail letters containing very

[1:39] high-grade anthrax to Senator Tom Dashel

[1:42] and NBC headquarters in New York. One

[1:44] had a fake return address. Both letters

[1:46] were postmarked Trenton, New Jersey. The

[1:48] letter to NBC was mai

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