CBS Evening News - 2006-07-16

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[0:00] Rockets hit many miles inside Israel and

[0:02] the Israelis retaliate, pounding

[0:04] Lebanese coastal towns and Beirut. The

[0:07] Goring War is where we begin tonight.

[0:09] >> Hezbollah rockets strike deep into the

[0:11] Israeli heartland, shattering any

[0:13] illusion of safety. I'm Lara Logan. A

[0:17] message of defiance from Hezbollah as

[0:19] the bombing intensifies. I'm Elizabeth

[0:21] Palmer in Beirut. I'm Jim McCasta on the

[0:24] summer sizzle putting 2006 on track to

[0:27] be the hottest year on record.

[0:35] >> This is the CBS Evening News

[0:39] with Russ Mitchell. And good evening. It

[0:42] was a day of deadly surprising attacks

[0:44] in the Middle East as the crossber war

[0:46] between Israel and Hezbollah

[0:47] accelerated. Here's the latest.

[0:50] Eight Israelis died in a rocket barrage

[0:52] on the city of Hifa. In Lebanon, Israeli

[0:55] air strikes killed dozens as the

[0:56] Hezbollah leader warned the conflict is

[0:58] just beginning. The US moved to begin

[1:01] evacuating Americans to Cyprus. The US

[1:03] and its G8 partners condemned Hezbollah

[1:05] but called on Israel to use restraint.

[1:08] We have reports in all aspects of the

[1:10] crisis. But first, our chief foreign

[1:12] correspondent, Laura Logan, in Hifa.

[1:14] Laura,

[1:16] >> good evening, Russ. Well, just over an

[1:18] hour ago, Hezbollah rockets hit two more

[1:21] Israeli towns that have never been hit

[1:23] before. Nazareth and Aula. And what's

[1:26] particularly significant about this

[1:28] attack is that Auler is even further

[1:30] south than Hifer. Now, there were no

[1:32] casualties reported there, but that was

[1:34] not the case earlier in the day when

[1:36] Hezbollah delivered on their promise to

[1:38] hit Hifer hard.

[1:41] In less than a minute, the history of

[1:43] Hifer was changed forever. Hezbollah

[1:46] gerillas reach deep into Israel with

[1:48] their deadliest attack in the current

[1:50] crisis. Air raid sirens sent emergency

[1:53] workers running for cover.

[1:57] Missiles have just hit. There are bodies

[1:59] all over the ground from earlier hits.

[2:00] There have just been three more

[2:02] explosions here. Amidst pools of blood

[2:05] and shattered glass, religious emergency

[2:08] teams carefully gathered the remains of

[2:10] every victim. A slow and painful task

[2:13] that's taken very seriously here. It was

[2:16] a day that shattered any illusions the

[2:18] Jewish heartland might escape the latest

[2:21] conflict in Lebanon. Emergency workers

[2:24] are trying to remove those killed from

[2:26] the scene of this attack. We're inside

[2:29] the industrial port of Hifa at a train

[2:31] maintenance facility. This is the

[2:33] heaviest attack in the history of

[2:35] Hezbollah on this city. The worst the

[2:37] people living here have ever seen.

[2:41] Hezbollah called it retaliation for the

[2:43] Israeli campaign against Lebanon. Israel

[2:46] vowed retaliation of its own.

[2:50] >> Almost immediately, one of their top

[2:51] generals warned Lebanese civilians of

[2:53] even heavier attacks.

[2:55] >> I want to say to the to the population

[2:58] in south of Lebanon that we want to

[3:01] avoid

[3:03] innocent victims. So we recommend them

[3:05] to leave their

[3:07] villages and homes.

[3:11] >> The Israeli artillery thundered their

[3:13] response, targeting rocket launching

[3:16] sites in Lebanon from the ground and the

[3:18] air. The Israeli army says this cockpit

[3:21] video shows Hisbellah rockets being

[3:23] fired moments before their position is

[3:26] destroyed.

[3:28] It didn't stop there. Here you can see

[3:30] the view from the air as Hisbullah's

[3:32] main television station in Beirut was

[3:34] also hit. The explosion knocking their

[3:38] correspondent off the air for 6 minutes.

[3:44] >> For many Israelis, the attack on Hifer,

[3:47] although threatened, still came as a

[3:49] real shock. One person here said to me,

[3:51] "For an American, it would be like

[3:53] looking out of your window and seeing

[3:55] bombs falling on San Francisco." It

[3:57] really brought home to many people here

[3:59] that they are now at war. Russ

[4:02] >> Laura, thus far the Israel response to

[4:04] anything has been swift and direct. I

[4:06] despite what that Israeli official said

[4:08] in your report, do you get any sense at

[4:09] all that Israel will dial back on

[4:11] retaliation?

[4:14] >> No, Russ. In fact, just the opposite.

[4:16] While we've been standing here, we can

[4:18] hear in the distance the thunder of

[4:20] explosions across the border as Israeli

[4:22] strikes on Lebanon continue. And in

[4:24] fact, there hasn't been indication from

[4:26] either side that they're prepared to

[4:27] scale back.

[4:28] >> Lara Logan in Hifa, thank you very much.

[4:31] The Canadian government has confirmed

[4:32] that eight Canadians died in Lebanon

[4:34] today. Six more were critically injured.

[4:37] It was yet another bloody day in Lebanon

[4:39] as Israel fired back. Elizabeth Palmer

[4:41] is in Beirut.

[4:43] >> Another round in the deadly escalation.

[4:46] Israeli missiles thundered down across

[4:48] southern Lebanon, destroying houses,

[4:51] cars, and factories and killing at least

[4:54] 36 people. This is Israel's reply to

[4:57] Hezbollah rockets hitting Hifa earlier

[4:59] in the day.

[5:02] By late afternoon, the group had already

[5:04] released a video celebrating the

[5:06] strikes. And on television, Hezbollah's

[5:08] leader promised more what he called

[5:10] surprises.

[5:12] >> "We thank God that we're in full

[5:14] battle," said Hassan Nasola. and we

[5:16] won't let the enemy impose either the

[5:18] means or the place to use our weapons.

[5:21] Once again, the business section of

[5:22] Beirut's downtown was eerily quiet.

[5:25] Anybody who did venture out found that

[5:27] Israeli planes had been dropping

[5:29] leaflets. Some, like this one, were

[5:31] anti-Hzbollah cartoons. Others simply

[5:34] warned the Israeli attacks would

[5:35] continue on Hezbollah neighborhoods. And

[5:38] they did, flattening apartment buildings

[5:41] and more of Hezbollah's facilities. But

[5:44] no matter how precise these attacks,

[5:47] everyone is scared, including the

[5:49] foreign students at Beirut's American

[5:51] University. Sana Ajami, whose Lebanese

[5:54] parents immigrated to New Jersey, and

[5:56] her friend Farah Zugni are graduate

[5:59] students stunned to find themselves

[6:01] stranded in a war zone.

[6:03] >> When the bombs are falling, I'm furious

[6:04] with Israel.

[6:06] And I'm also angry at Hezbollah for

[6:11] for taking the executive decision to do

[6:14] this and putting all of our lives in

[6:15] danger. With just basic Arabic, reliable

[6:18] information is hard to come by.

[6:20] >> We don't understand what happens on the

[6:22] news. We can't understand them. And

[6:24] we're having friends translate for us

[6:25] and that there's so many rumors going

[6:27] around.

[6:28] >> Took us 2 days to realize how serious

[6:29] this was. I think

[6:30] >> Farah's parents are so worried she's

[6:33] decided to get out as soon as the US

[6:36] government arranges safe transport for

[6:37] its citizens. But leaving the program

[6:40] would be a wrench for Sana and she's

[6:43] going to stay at least for now.

[6:45] >> Connection with the Canadian.

[6:48] Now, those eight Canadians that you

[6:50] referred to, Russ, uh, just before my

[6:52] report, they were actually Lebanese

[6:54] Canadians, and they were all killed, all

[6:56] members of the same family, uh, in an

[6:58] attack that destroyed their house, which

[7:00] was right down on the border, of course,

[7:03] the area that seen the heaviest pounding

[7:06] today. Russ

[7:07] >> Elizabeth Palmer in Beirut. Thank you

[7:09] very much.

[7:11] We want to go to Syria now to speak with

[7:13] correspondent Richard Roth, who just

[7:14] landed in Damascus. Richard, what is the

[7:17] situation there?

[7:18] >> Well, I think that two messages are

[7:20] coming from the Syrians tonight, Russ.

[7:22] One is that Syria is not even

[7:24] considering abandoning its sponsorship

[7:26] of Hezbollah. Damascus announced to the

[7:28] political and logistical capital of the

[7:31] militant group and reaffirmed its

[7:33] support as recently as today. The other

[7:35] is Syria's warning that if it's attacked

[7:37] by Israel, it will strike back with a

[7:40] response the Syrian information minister

[7:42] warns will be harsh, direct, and

[7:44] unlimited. But that said, there's no

[7:47] sign Syria wants to get involved in the

[7:49] fighting. Only a growing worry that

[7:51] tension so high between old enemies that

[7:54] it could only take an accident to widen

[7:56] the war.

[7:58] >> Richard Roth in Damascus. Thank you. A

[8:01] UN team has been sent to Lebanon to see

[8:03] if a deal can be hammered out to end the

[8:04] fighting. And the crisis was topic A

[8:06] this Sunday at the G8 summit in Russia.

[8:09] Our chief White House correspondent Jim

[8:10] Axelrod is in St. Petersburg with the

[8:12] latest. Jim.

[8:16] Well, Russ, that UN delegation is

[8:18] already on the ground in Lebanon.

[8:21] Meanwhile, here in Russia, the leaders

[8:23] of the world's eight most powerful

[8:25] democracies have reached their own

[8:26] agreement about how to proceed.

[8:29] The G8 leaders put the blame squarely on

[8:32] Hamas and Hezbollah for starting the

[8:34] crisis in the Middle East. Israel is

[8:36] urged to exercise what's called utmost

[8:39] restraint. The leaders stopped short of

[8:41] calling for an immediate ceasefire,

[8:43] setting out conditions that could lead

[8:45] to one instead. The return of the

[8:47] kidnapped Israeli soldiers, an end to

[8:50] the shelling of Israel, and an end to

[8:52] the Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza.

[8:55] This echoes what President Bush has been

[8:57] saying all weekend here.

[8:59] >> This started because Hezbollah

[9:01] uh decided to capture two Israeli

[9:04] soldiers and fire hundreds of rockets

[9:08] into into Israel. And uh so our message

[9:12] to Israel is look, defend yourself, but

[9:14] as you do so, be mindful of the

[9:16] consequences. While G8 leaders who've

[9:18] been critical of Israel did not get

[9:20] language they may have wanted, the US

[9:22] also went without something it's been

[9:24] clear about as well. Mention of Iran and

[9:27] Syria as sponsors of Hezbollah and

[9:29] Hamas.

[9:30] >> I absolutely uh see that Syria and Iran

[9:33] are playing a part in this. They're not

[9:35] even trying to hide their hand.

[9:39] Tonight, Russian President Vladimir

[9:41] Putin said when it comes to linking

[9:42] Syria and Iran to Hamas and Hezbollah

[9:45] and the unfolding crisis, in his

[9:47] opinion, there just isn't enough hard

[9:49] evidence to do so. Russ,

[9:51] >> well, Jim, there is a report out there

[9:52] that French President Jacques Shar said

[9:54] the G8 leaders are indeed calling for an

[9:57] immediate ceasefire. What can you tell

[9:58] us about that?

[10:02] Well, it just points up the difficulty

[10:04] of speaking with a single voice when

[10:06] there are so many different members of

[10:07] the choir and so many different agendas.

[10:10] If you read the statement, clearly there

[10:13] is no call for an immediate ceasefire.

[10:15] Again, just the conditions that could

[10:18] lead to one.

[10:19] >> Russ Jaxad in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[10:21] Thank you. For Americans still in

[10:23] Lebanon, the word from the US government

[10:25] is stay where you are as officials work

[10:27] on a safe way to get those who want to

[10:29] leave out. Joey Chen has more on that

[10:31] tonight from Washington. Joey

[10:34] >> Russ, in just the last hour, the

[10:35] Pentagon released to us the very first

[10:37] images of the first rescue efforts by

[10:40] Marines of US citizens still trapped in

[10:42] Beirut. You take a look, there are

[10:43] pictures of the first group. We're told

[10:45] it's 21 US citizens who are brought out

[10:48] to safety from Beirut to Cyprus. One, we

[10:51] were told was a very sick child that

[10:53] authorities felt needed to be brought

[10:55] out right away. But in the coming days,

[10:57] the Defense Department expects that it

[10:59] will be able to have ready a far more

[11:01] major evacuation operation, and

[11:03] Americans may need it. We're told that

[11:05] as many as 8,000 Americans may turn to

[11:08] the Marines for help.

[11:11] Desperate to get themselves out,

[11:13] Lebanese and foreign nationals rushed by

[11:15] road for the Syrian capital, Damascus,

[11:18] and their only chance for flights out of

[11:20] the region.

[11:22] The Swiss, French, and Greek

[11:23] governments, among others, have begun to

[11:25] evacuate their citizens. But Americans

[11:27] calling home say each day there are

[11:29] fewer options, fewer ways out for them.

[11:33] Reached at Beirut's American University,

[11:35] 21-year-old exchange student Vanessa

[11:37] Aante says she's packed and ready, but

[11:39] doesn't know how to go. From her dorm

[11:41] room window, she can see Israeli ships

[11:43] blockading the port. Beirut's airports

[11:46] are ruined, and she's too afraid to

[11:48] leave by car.

[11:50] >> I wanted to go to Syria like everybody

[11:52] else. And um you know, we didn't know if

[11:54] it was safe or not to go to be on these

[11:57] roads because it's known as the war of

[11:59] the bridges, the bridges and the roads.

[12:00] I keep thinking, how can I go to sleep

[12:02] knowing that my daughter's life is in

[12:04] danger as well as everybody else?

[12:06] >> Back home in New Jersey, Aante's mother

[12:07] is keeping an eye on the latest news and

[12:10] growing more frustrated that the US

[12:12] didn't move more quickly. The State

[12:14] Department's reply, "The situation has

[12:16] been the kind that has not allowed us to

[12:18] guarantee that people could get out

[12:20] safely.

[12:21] >> That's not enough to satisfy a worried

[12:23] mother. If they knew that other

[12:26] countries were doing it from the first

[12:27] day that the situation began, why waste

[12:30] so long?

[12:32] >> The Pentagon now has what it calls a

[12:34] fast response team on the ground in

[12:36] Lebanon. That's to be able to monitor

[12:37] the situation and to be able to act

[12:39] quickly if that becomes necessary. But

[12:41] the thing people want to know most of

[12:43] all, Russ, is when that evacuation

[12:45] operation full scale will begin. And we

[12:46] just don't know that yet.

[12:48] >> Of course, Joey Chen at the Pentagon.

[12:49] Thank you very much. Still ahead on

[12:51] tonight's CBS Evening News, a look at

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[16:00] To get some perspective on the crisis in

[16:02] the Middle East, earlier today, I spoke

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[16:07] him if he is surprised by how fast this

[16:10] explosive situation has escalated.

[16:13] >> Well, what you've seen is a spreading of

[16:15] the conflict. You've had the tensions

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[17:01] in particular Hezbollah and Hamas.

[17:03] >> Mr. Mr. Ambassador to the United States,

[17:04] the Bush administration has said it will

[17:06] not press Israel for a ceasefire from a

[17:08] diplomatic standpoint. Do you think

[17:10] that's a good idea?

[17:12] >> The United States should not press

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[17:16] What we should be though doing is urging

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[17:34] ceasefire. Richard Hos, thank you so

[17:36] much for joining us. We appreciate it.

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[20:57] twist, some Republicans in Congress are

[20:59] opposing the president. Cheryl Atkinson

[21:01] has more.

[21:03] Politics makes strange bed fellows, but

[21:06] it's not often that conservative

[21:08] Republicans like Gordon Smith line up

[21:10] with Democrats against the president.

[21:12] >> So, I respect his view. I simply have a

[21:16] different one.

[21:17] >> The issue is federal research using stem

[21:19] cells from human embryos. This week, the

[21:22] Senate is expected to pass a bill

[21:24] allowing them to be harvested from

[21:25] embryos left over from fertility

[21:27] treatments. To some researchers, stem

[21:30] cells have an almost magical quality.

[21:32] Think of them as nature's shape

[21:34] shifters. They're not pre-programmed,

[21:36] and scientists believe they can be

[21:38] engineered to develop into bone, muscle,

[21:40] cartilage, and more. If scientists can

[21:42] perfect recipes to control them, there's

[21:44] hope stem cells can one day be

[21:46] transplanted into people to treat

[21:48] diseases like Alzheimer's, diabetes, and

[21:51] also Parkinson's, which Senator Smith

[21:53] says claimed his grandmother, his uncle,

[21:56] and cousin Mo Udall, who once ran for

[21:59] president. and you see the most

[22:02] dehumanizing,

[22:04] lengthy, painful kinds of deaths that it

[22:08] does lead you to really question the

[22:11] wisdom of of uh halting research.

[22:16] >> So, what's the controversy? Some,

[22:18] including President Bush, believe

[22:20] destroying a human embryo to get stem

[22:21] cells is immoral.

[22:23] >> We must proceed with great care. Others

[22:26] worry that embryos or even fetuses will

[22:28] be created and sacrificed for the sole

[22:30] purpose of getting stem cells. That's

[22:32] why Senator Bill Frist, a doctor, threw

[22:35] some fellow conservatives for a loop

[22:37] when he also came out in support of

[22:39] embryionic stem cell research. For him,

[22:42] it's an ethical way to use embryos

[22:44] slated for destruction anyway.

[22:45] >> In fact, hundreds of thousands of

[22:47] embryos are being thrown away today. A

[22:49] lot of people don't realize that they're

[22:50] just being discarded because they're not

[22:52] needed. They're in excess after in vitro

[22:54] fertilization.

[22:55] >> That puts the Republican leader of the

[22:57] Senate at odds with President Bush, who

[23:00] favors stem cell research only using the

[23:02] limited number of colonies already in

[23:04] the research pipeline. Which is why

[23:07] President Bush has promised to use the

[23:08] veto pen for the first time on the stem

[23:11] cell bill. Congress can turn around a

[23:13] veto with enough votes, but nobody we've

[23:15] talked to thinks they have the numbers

[23:16] to do that. So this week's Senate vote

[23:18] will probably make a statement, but not

[23:21] policy. Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News,

[23:24] Capitol Hill.

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[26:06] Finally this evening, coast to coast,

[26:08] from the Canadian border to the Rocky

[26:10] Mountains to the Gulf of Mexico, America

[26:12] was stuck today under a blanket of

[26:14] stifling, record- setting summer heat.

[26:16] Here's Jim Acasta.

[26:19] Outside Yankee Stadium in New York City,

[26:21] fans were less than spirited

[26:25] about the dandy of a heatwave that could

[26:27] shatter records across the East Coast

[26:29] early this week. From the Big Apple,

[26:32] >> stay cool, drink water, and wear loose

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[26:34] >> To the nation's capital,

[26:36] >> Woody Allen said, "I don't tear, I

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[26:40] about the sun.

[26:41] >> As a wall of steamy weather swept

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