CBS Evening News - 2006-07-31 (no intro)

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[0:00] southern Lebanon and left more than 60

[0:02] people dead, half of them children.

[0:04] Sharon Alonsi was along the border of

[0:06] Israel and Lebanon today and she reports

[0:09] tonight from Tel Aviv. Good evening,

[0:11] Sharon.

[0:13] >> Good evening, Bob. Well, Israel's

[0:15] cabinet just approved a measure to

[0:17] expand its military operation. They are

[0:20] hoping that by Thursday they have

[0:22] destroyed all the Hezbollah positions in

[0:25] southern Lebanon.

[0:27] >> For a moment, there was hope. hope that

[0:30] images of yesterday's attack could push

[0:32] both sides closer to a ceasefire. But

[0:35] early this morning,

[0:37] a Hezbollah rocket struck this Israeli

[0:40] tank, destroying it and any hopes of

[0:43] peace. Israel had promised a pause in

[0:46] its air campaign for 48 hours. This

[0:48] morning, US Secretary of State Condisa

[0:51] Rice sounded optimistic, saying a peace

[0:53] deal could be imminent. As I head back

[0:56] to Washington, I take with me an

[0:58] emerging consensus on what is necessary

[1:01] for both an urgent ceasefire and a

[1:04] lasting settlement. I am convinced we

[1:08] can achieve both this week. If the

[1:11] conflict is closer to an end, there are

[1:13] few signs of it here on the front line.

[1:15] Even tonight, we're seeing more tanks

[1:17] brought in, more troops being pushed

[1:19] further to the Lebanon border.

[1:22] Israeli military officials say the

[1:24] ground offensive is intensifying. Today,

[1:27] Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah guerillas

[1:29] were engaged in fierce fights inside

[1:32] Lebanon. So, despite their promise of a

[1:34] pause, Israeli commanders who had left

[1:37] open the option to call in air power and

[1:39] ground troops were in peril

[1:43] did launching two air strikes over

[1:45] Lebanon. This one killed a Lebanese

[1:48] soldier near the port city of Ty.

[1:50] Israeli officials apologized, saying

[1:52] they thought it was carrying a senior

[1:54] Hezbollah official.

[1:57] >> Despite American pleas from the

[2:00] international community after the Kana

[2:02] attack, Israel is clearly not changing

[2:05] its course. If anyone needed any more

[2:08] proof of that today,

[2:11] >> Israeli Prime Minister Ahoud delivered

[2:14] it, saying today there would be no

[2:16] ceasefire.

[2:19] And the prime minister said the fighting

[2:21] will continue until Israelis kidnap

[2:23] soldiers are free and the people of

[2:25] Israel are free from rocket attacks.

[2:28] Bob,

[2:29] >> well certainly the government is being

[2:31] very resolute, Sharon. Uh what sense do

[2:33] you get about the people? Are they still

[2:35] supporting the government in this very

[2:37] hardline position that the government is

[2:39] taking?

[2:41] >> I think they are. There is of course

[2:43] outrage about the attacks that happened

[2:45] yesterday. However, the outrage is

[2:47] definitely directed at Hezbollah. They

[2:49] believed that they were using those

[2:51] people as human shields.

[2:52] >> Okay. Well, thank you very much, Sharon.

[2:54] As brief as it was, the bombing pause

[2:57] did allow thousands of civilians who

[2:59] have been trapped for more than 3 weeks

[3:02] now in southern Lebanon to begin moving

[3:04] north and away from the fighting. And

[3:06] rescue workers did get into that village

[3:08] of Kana where the attack took place

[3:10] yesterday that cost the lives of so many

[3:13] civilians and children. Lee Kellen got

[3:15] in there this morning.

[3:17] >> It is impossible to escape the images.

[3:20] Screaming mothers, tiny body bags. A

[3:23] scene so horrific yesterday is symbolic

[3:27] today. Kana has become a rallying cry.

[3:30] One that's done more for Hezbollah's

[3:32] cause than anything else since the war

[3:34] began.

[3:36] >> The Lebanese people were split, this man

[3:38] told us. But after the Israeli massacre

[3:40] in Kana, we're all behind Hezbollah now.

[3:44] The militant group isn't shy about

[3:46] exploiting the tragedy either.

[3:48] Everywhere we look today, the faces of

[3:50] dead and dying children stared back.

[3:53] >> Here in the Hezbollah suburbs of Beirut,

[3:55] bombed day after day, certainly the

[3:56] tipping point came a long time ago. But

[3:58] the images of that attack in Kana have

[4:00] produced a measure of anger that have

[4:02] now spread far beyond just this

[4:04] neighborhood. Right across the Middle

[4:06] East, Arab nations that were once

[4:08] skeptical or even openly critical of

[4:10] Hezbollah now treated as an ally. It's

[4:13] not surprising to see demonstrators in

[4:15] Thran respond to Kana by attacking the

[4:17] UN officers and burning Israeli flags.

[4:20] After all, Iran has long been

[4:21] Hezbollah's patron and cheerleader. But

[4:24] many were taken aback when Egypt's Hosni

[4:26] Mubarak, who shied away from commenting

[4:28] on the conflict, today lashed out at

[4:30] Israel, warning that one more misstep

[4:33] and the entire Middle East peace process

[4:35] could collapse. Kana is resonating in

[4:38] Iraq as well with protesters carrying

[4:40] coffins symbolizing dead Lebanese

[4:43] children. Even Sunnis and Shiites who

[4:45] usually can't agree on anything are now

[4:48] finding common ground in support for

[4:50] Hezbollah.

[4:51] >> Shiite cleric maktata als

[4:54] join the chorus calling for an immediate

[4:56] ceasefire.

[4:58] Hifa, who we found retrieving what's

[5:00] left of her life in Beirut, says it's

[5:02] hard to imagine Hezbollah is the enemy.

[5:05] >> We're all with them. she says.

[5:07] >> But for families like hers, Hezbollah

[5:09] may not symbolize Lebanon, but for now,

[5:12] it's as close to a flag bearer as she

[5:14] can find.

[5:15] >> Lee Cowan, CBS News, Beirut.

[5:18] >> Secretary of State Rice got back to

[5:20] Washington tonight. So, we're going now

[5:22] to our White House correspondent, Jim

[5:24] Axelrod. And Jim, to say the least, the

[5:26] message she thought she'd be bringing to

[5:28] the president tonight is certainly not

[5:30] the one she is delivering.

[5:32] >> That's right, Bob. Kana has changed

[5:34] everything. Secretary Rice is now here

[5:36] at the White House and she came directly

[5:38] from her plane to brief the president

[5:40] with new urgency about crafting a

[5:43] ceasefire proposal.

[5:46] >> If Kana has pushed Arab and European

[5:48] allies further away from President Bush,

[5:51] it hasn't much changed his rhetoric.

[5:53] Look,

[5:53] >> it's a terrible situation when innocent

[5:55] people lose their lives. And yesterday's

[5:57] situation was awful. We we understand

[5:59] that. It's also awful that a million

[6:01] Israelis are worried about rockets being

[6:02] fired from their from their neighbor to

[6:05] the north.

[6:05] >> The president explained on Fox News

[6:07] Channel's Your World with Neil Kavuto

[6:09] why the tragedy alone wouldn't lead to a

[6:12] ceasefire.

[6:12] >> See, stopping for the sake of stopping,

[6:15] you know, is uh is is could be okay

[6:17] except it won't address the root cause

[6:19] of the problem. And the root cause of

[6:21] the problem is armed militias firing

[6:23] rockets from a sovereign nation into

[6:26] another sovereign nation.

[6:27] >> But behind Mr. Bush's unyielding hard

[6:29] line, Israel's window to pound Lebanon

[6:32] does seem to be closing. Secretary Rice

[6:34] now says she wants the fighting to stop

[6:36] this week. And in Miami today, even the

[6:40] tough talking president started spelling

[6:42] out his conditions for a ceasefire.

[6:44] >> Lebanon's democratic government must be

[6:46] empowered to exercise sole authority

[6:49] over its territory.

[6:52] A multinational force must be dispatched

[6:54] to Lebanon quickly. His position is not

[6:57] just isolating the president overseas.

[7:00] It's starting to cause trouble at home

[7:02] with members of his own party.

[7:04] >> President Bush must call for an

[7:05] immediate ceasefire.

[7:08] This madness must stop.

[7:11] The Middle East today is more

[7:12] combustible and complex than it has ever

[7:15] been.

[7:16] >> For the first time today, the president

[7:18] himself addressed this idea of any US

[7:21] involvement in the multinational

[7:22] peacekeeping force. No US troops, he

[7:25] said. Bob.

[7:27] >> All right. Well, thank you, Jim. Across

[7:29] the country today, most of it anyway,

[7:31] the big headline was simple. It is hot.

[7:33] Not just, hey, it's July and it's hot.

[7:36] It's been hotter longer in more places

[7:38] this month than anyone can remember. And

[7:41] the experts are saying we'd better get

[7:43] used to it. Here's Bob O.

[7:46] From Milwaukee to Massachusetts and

[7:48] Chicago to the nation's capital, the

[7:50] stifling heat wave is not just

[7:52] equatorial hot. It's historic.

[7:54] >> It's enormous. Um and uh it's just not

[7:58] normal. It It hasn't It probably has not

[8:01] happened before in certainly since we've

[8:03] been keeping data.

[8:04] >> Climatologist Jay Gullled says the

[8:06] unmatched misery began almost two weeks

[8:08] ago. On July 20th, every contiguous

[8:11] state except North Dakota topped 90°.

[8:14] Then all-time records fell as

[8:16] temperatures hit 119 outside of Los

[8:18] Angeles and 113 in central California.

[8:22] Now tripledigit temperatures are still

[8:24] choking the Midwest and they're forecast

[8:26] to close in on the East Coast tomorrow.

[8:28] >> It feels like 104 in Frederick.

[8:31] >> So what's going on?

[8:32] >> Things are getting hotter and climate

[8:34] scientists definitely say that the

[8:37] average global temperature is getting

[8:39] hotter because of global warming.

[8:40] >> Scull says there's no longer any serious

[8:43] debate. Glaciers are melting, the oceans

[8:45] are warming, and it seems relentless

[8:47] rains alternate with droughts on an

[8:49] increasingly regular basis. Taken

[8:52] together, it all adds up to global

[8:54] warming. And here's a twist. Scientists

[8:56] say the warming may have come sooner had

[8:59] it not been for pollution. Before clean

[9:02] air rules, coal burning factories and

[9:04] cars using leaded gasoline produced

[9:06] dense blankets of smog that actually

[9:08] repelled some of the sun's harmful rays.

[9:11] When we had all that pollution in the

[9:13] 60s and the 70s, it actually shielded us

[9:16] from some of the effects of global

[9:18] warming.

[9:18] >> It it shielded us from some of the

[9:20] sunlight that was coming in. That's

[9:22] right. And and that reduced the amount

[9:24] by which the Earth was was warming at

[9:26] the time.

[9:27] >> But now with global warming, forecasters

[9:29] say we can expect to have more of what

[9:30] we already have, periods of intense heat

[9:33] and punishing storms. Bob or CBS News,

[9:37] Washington.

[9:38] There are financial storm clouds on the

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[12:29] poll out tonight, more than half who

[12:31] were questioned say they make just

[12:33] enough to meet expenses. 12% say their

[12:36] bills are greater than their income. So,

[12:39] is it any wonder that at a time when

[12:41] saving for retirement is more critical

[12:44] than ever, we are saving less than at

[12:46] almost any time in our history? Here's

[12:49] Trish W.

[12:51] >> Scary sea monsters are nice ones.

[12:53] >> And Devivo de Mesa loves being a

[12:55] stay-at-home mom until it's time to pay

[12:57] the bills.

[12:58] >> It keeps going up and up and up. It's

[13:00] just very frustrating

[13:02] >> and expensive with three kids to raise.

[13:05] So this fall, Anne plans to return to a

[13:07] job that pays even though she and her

[13:09] husband Alex both wish she could stay

[13:12] home.

[13:12] >> It wouldn't be possible cuz I'm already

[13:14] pulling more out of savings. You don't

[13:15] even realize.

[13:17] >> What few of us realize is how saving

[13:19] less and spending more is becoming a way

[13:22] of life. Our personal savings rate has

[13:25] been steadily falling from almost 10% in

[13:28] the 1970s down to about 5% in the '9s.

[13:32] Since June of last year, our savings

[13:34] rate has been in the negative numbers.

[13:37] Meaning simply that month after month,

[13:39] we keep spending more money than we take

[13:41] in.

[13:43] The last time we had a sustained

[13:45] negative savings rate was during the

[13:47] Great Depression. But the reasons for

[13:49] the savings crunch now are different,

[13:51] says economist David Whis.

[13:53] >> It's the rise in the value of the

[13:54] stocks, the rise in the value of your

[13:56] house. And you know, those have been

[13:59] going up nicely enough that most people

[14:01] don't see why they have to save anymore

[14:02] on top of that.

[14:03] >> But stocks and home values can plunge.

[14:06] Remember the dot bust of 2000?

[14:09] Economists thought that downfall in the

[14:11] stock market would make people become

[14:13] better savers. But it didn't.

[14:15] >> We always think that something will work

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[14:19] stock market's always going to go up and

[14:22] therefore why worry?

[14:23] >> But we says we should be worried. We're

[14:26] not saving enough for retirement and

[14:28] we're relying too heavily on credit.

[14:31] Still, an like most Americans is

[14:34] optimistic.

[14:35] >> The money will be there. I really think

[14:37] so. Not in great quantities, but enough,

[14:39] you know.

[14:40] >> And so far, it's that sentiment, not

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[14:44] As interest rates move higher, debt

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[14:51] >> Okay. Well, thank you very much, Trish.

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[18:00] >> The war on terror. We'll take a hard

[18:02] look at our borders to see what's

[18:03] changed in the past 5 years. Tomorrow,

[18:05] see why more people are watching the CBS

[18:07] Evening News with Bob Schiffer.

[18:11] >> If there is one thing to say about

[18:13] politics, it is that the conventional

[18:15] wisdom is usually wrong, which is about

[18:18] the only way to explain how our next

[18:20] story is a story. After all, who would

[18:22] have thought, even a year ago, that one

[18:24] of the most vulnerable senators facing

[18:27] reelection this year would be the once

[18:29] popular party favorite Joe Lieberman of

[18:32] Connecticut. Here's our national

[18:34] political correspondent, Gloria Borcher.

[18:39] >> Three-term Democratic Senator Joe

[18:41] Lieberman was so popular with his party

[18:44] six years ago, he was nominated for vice

[18:46] president. Now he's in real danger of

[18:49] losing a Democratic primary to a

[18:51] political unknown. There's really only

[18:54] one reason. He supports the war in Iraq.

[18:57] My opponent is pedalling what I would

[18:59] have to call a big lie that I'm not a

[19:01] real Democrat.

[19:02] >> Despite the fact that Lieberman has

[19:04] voted with the party 90% of the time,

[19:07] >> but this Senate race is about much more

[19:09] than political history. It's about a

[19:11] simple question. What do the Democrats

[19:14] stand for?

[19:15] >> Ned Lamont. Nice to see you.

[19:17] >> Enter Ned Lamont, a rebel Connecticut

[19:19] style. He may be a wealthy businessman

[19:22] in a blue button-down shirt, but make no

[19:24] mistake, Lamont is tapping into those

[19:27] mad as hell anti-war Democrats who've

[19:30] had enough of Lieberman.

[19:31] >> Joe underestimates how vehemently we are

[19:34] opposed to this war. I'm talking about

[19:36] the majority in Connecticut. He doesn't

[19:39] get it.

[19:39] >> He does now. That's why Lieberman

[19:41] finally called in the Democratic Party's

[19:44] a team. They've fine-tuned his I'm a

[19:46] Democrat message, put him on a bus tour

[19:49] across the state.

[19:50] >> That's what it's about.

[19:51] >> And brought in the big gun.

[19:53] >> Joe Lieberman's a friend of mine. I love

[19:55] him. He's in a tough race.

[19:57] >> Lamont Democrats make an issue of this

[19:59] hug with President Bush. They call it a

[20:02] kiss. It's now a campaign button. But

[20:04] Lieberman got the embrace he wanted. And

[20:07] Bill Clinton now stars in his latest

[20:09] campaign ad.

[20:10] >> He's been a good Democrat. He's a good

[20:12] man.

[20:12] >> What's not in the ad? We don't agree on

[20:15] everything. We don't agree on Iraq.

[20:18] >> Is part of this that that Joe Lieberman

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[20:29] >> Lieberman says he'll run as an

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[20:38] Gloria Borgger, CBS News, Waterberry,

[20:41] Connecticut.

[20:43] And coming up next, she has a real

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[23:59] >> Whether it is flying cars, robot

[24:02] butlers, science fiction usually stays

[24:05] fiction. But every once in a while, a

[24:07] far out idea actually happens. Well, a

[24:10] once fictional notion called virtual

[24:13] reality is now letting millions of real

[24:15] people spend real time and real money

[24:18] living imaginary lives. Jerry Bourne has

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[24:24] >> When reality gets hard to take, there's

[24:26] an escape to a parallel universe, a

[24:29] virtual world without end, where real

[24:32] people create online personas called

[24:34] avatars. She's got red hair, big nice

[24:37] cool glasses,

[24:38] >> and anything is possible.

[24:40] >> This is my deck overlooking the beach.

[24:42] See, I've got neighbors that have like a

[24:44] giant pirate ship.

[24:46] >> Catherine Smith can't afford a beach

[24:47] house in real life. But in Second Life,

[24:50] the online game created by her employer,

[24:52] Lynden Lab. She and nearly 100,000 other

[24:56] subscribers who pay $10 a month can have

[24:58] that and more.

[25:00] >> You could go skydiving and not be afraid

[25:02] of dying. You could become a wild

[25:06] animal, something that you could never

[25:07] do in real life.

[25:08] >> And as hard as this may be to believe,

[25:11] there's real money changing hands among

[25:13] the players in these games. An estimated

[25:15] $1 billion worldwide by users buying and

[25:18] selling virtual goods, furniture for

[25:21] virtual houses, clothing for their

[25:23] avatars, paid for with realworld credit

[25:26] cards. At Second Life alone, $6 million

[25:29] a month.

[25:30] >> I put in 40 hours a week, easy. Shannon

[25:32] Gray supports herself in Medford,

[25:34] Oregon, making virtual clothes for

[25:36] avatars in that other world.

[25:38] >> I couldn't believe that it was really

[25:40] that it was real that you could even do

[25:41] that. And it just it blew my mind. It

[25:43] still blows my mind.

[25:44] >> And she's not alone.

[25:45] >> We have here a virtual loft of sorts

[25:48] that we created for the artist Regina

[25:50] Spectre.

[25:53] >> Warner Brothers Records has set up shop

[25:56] to publicize the pop singer's music. You

[25:58] know, our goal with Second Life is to

[25:59] make it better than real life in a lot

[26:01] of ways.

[26:01] >> But there are real life problems.

[26:03] Hackers have tried to shut it down. But

[26:05] who did you call?

[26:06] >> Uh, we generally call the FBI. And it

[26:08] doesn't stop there. Second Life itself

[26:10] is being sued in the real world over

[26:12] virtual land deals that went bad. And a

[26:15] man in China has been sentenced to life

[26:17] in prison for murdering a friend who

[26:18] sold a prize sword he'd loaned him, a

[26:21] virtual weapon that existed only in

[26:23] cyberspace.

[26:25] Meanwhile, the possibilities are

[26:27] seemingly endless. And that's what

[26:29] creators of Second Life and other sites

[26:31] expect will draw the generations that

[26:33] grew up on video games. The chance to

[26:35] create their own alternative identity in

[26:38] a virtual world. In fact, I can't

[26:40] resist. There's one job I've always

[26:42] wanted. And before Katie gets on board,

[26:44] I'm going for it. And the beauty is

[26:46] Sheer will never know.

[26:48] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Jerry

[26:52] Bowen. And that's the way it is in the

[26:55] virtual world. I'm Jerry Bowen, CBS

[26:57] News, San Francisco. Good night.

[27:02] I I want to become a wild animal myself.

[27:07] That's the news. I'm Bob Sheeper, CBS

[27:09] News in New York. We'll see you here

[27:11] tomorrow.

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