CBS Evening News open - 2005-01-05

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:00] the Stewart off the street and look what

[0:01] happened.

[0:02] >> It's all new with Keeper

[0:03] Southerntherland and Marv Albert tonight

[0:08] >> tonight from the tsunami zone. New fear

[0:12] for the children. Are the newly orphaned

[0:15] being sold as workers or worse? The US

[0:19] military's massive relief operation. CBS

[0:22] News shows you how it works. And without

[0:24] a trace, a family search for a boy who

[0:28] may have survived a tsunami, then

[0:30] disappeared.

[0:32] >> Also tonight, struggling Delta Airlines

[0:34] takes a gamble and cuts airfares. We'll

[0:37] tell you what that will mean for you and

[0:40] two mothers, two lost sons, and two very

[0:43] different positions now on the war in

[0:46] Iraq.

[0:54] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:58] Rather reporting tonight from Thailand

[1:01] and John Roberts in New York.

[1:05] Good evening. With the US military

[1:07] leading the way, the international

[1:09] effort to get relief to tsunami victims

[1:11] is gathering some momentum and worldwide

[1:14] pledges of aid now to top $3 billion.

[1:18] The number of confirmed dead remains

[1:20] officially at about 150,000. Some

[1:24] estimates are at least double that. The

[1:26] State Department today raised the number

[1:28] of Americans presumed killed to 36 with

[1:31] several thousand still unaccounted for.

[1:34] Australia sharply boosted its promised

[1:37] donation today to $810 million, putting

[1:40] it at the top of the worldwide

[1:42] contributors list. The sheer scope of

[1:45] the disaster is staggering. UNICEF

[1:48] reports one and a half million children

[1:50] dead, injured or orphaned. Children are

[1:54] especially vulnerable in Indonesia.

[1:57] CBS's Lee Cowan reports Secretary of

[1:59] State Coen Powell surveyed the damage

[2:01] there.

[2:03] For a man who has seen so much of what

[2:05] the world has to offer, Coen Powell

[2:07] could find few words to describe what he

[2:09] saw today. I've been in war and I've

[2:11] been through a number of hurricanes,

[2:13] tornadoes, and other relief operations,

[2:15] but I have never seen anything like

[2:16] this.

[2:17] >> Indonesia is a graveyard for some 95,000

[2:21] people. Seeing it with his own eyes,

[2:22] said Mr. Powell, made him realize just

[2:25] how much it will take to complete the

[2:26] recovery. US helicopters continue to do

[2:29] the bulk of the rescue work. But they're

[2:31] fing survivors in at such a rate,

[2:33] patients are now overflowing onto the

[2:35] sidewalks at Bond Ace's two working

[2:37] hospitals.

[2:38] This 8-year-old was one of them.

[2:40] Suffering from pneumonia, he may not

[2:42] make it through the night. But as bad as

[2:45] his fate is, it could unimaginably be

[2:48] even worse. Indonesia has one of the

[2:50] highest rates of child exploitation,

[2:53] either sold into the sex trade or

[2:55] auctioned off as laborers. And UNICEF's

[2:57] executive director fears the disaster

[2:59] has kicked those operations into high

[3:01] gear.

[3:02] >> We know that there are criminal

[3:04] syndicates that are involved in

[3:05] trafficking in this part of the world.

[3:07] and we have a sense that they're already

[3:09] starting to set up here.

[3:11] >> It is the most despicable of crimes, one

[3:14] born out of opportunity and tragedy.

[3:16] With an estimated 50,000 children now

[3:18] left orphaned as a result of this

[3:20] disaster, one aid worker said for

[3:22] criminals, the fruit has never been

[3:24] closer to the ground. In response, the

[3:26] Indonesian government has ordered that

[3:28] no children leave the country and all

[3:30] adoptions have come to a halt. But

[3:32] keeping track of the thousands of