World News Tonight (ABC) - 2001-10-23
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[0:00] 40 and 45° I'm Rob Mariano at 6:00 World
[0:03] News Tonight is
[0:08] [Music]
[0:15] next on World News Tonight Anthrax
[0:18] founded a mail center that serves the
[0:20] White House the president's spokesman
[0:21] says the White House itself is secure
[0:24] the two postal workers who died in
[0:26] Washington had inhaled the anthrax two
[0:29] more are are being treated Health
[0:31] officials are criticized for not
[0:33] reacting more quickly and Sue we'll take
[0:35] a closer look tonight at the Centers for
[0:37] Disease Control are they up to the job
[0:41] the Pentagon acknowledges that civilians
[0:43] in Afghanistan have been killed and
[0:45] wounded in the bombing campaign and
[0:48] finally should Americans be worried
[0:50] about the mail they get at home the
[0:52] pleasure of getting a letter has
[0:54] certainly been
[0:58] threatened from ABC News world
[1:01] headquarters in New York this is World
[1:04] News Tonight with Peter Jenning good
[1:06] evening everyone we're going to begin
[1:08] tonight with Anthrax in the mail
[1:10] including the White House mail but for
[1:12] just a second to put this Rush of
[1:14] attacks in perspective from 1900 until
[1:17] this summer there had only been 18 cases
[1:19] of inhaled Anthrax in the whole United
[1:22] States 18 cases in more than a hundred
[1:25] years now we have at least six cases in
[1:27] two weeks and thousands of people being
[1:30] tested for exposure we're going to begin
[1:32] at the White House Terry Moran is there
[1:34] Terry the symbol of this is uh is fairly
[1:37] obvious but I gather two things the
[1:39] letter never reached the White House
[1:40] itself and the amount of anthrax was
[1:43] minuscule right on both counts Peter
[1:45] White House officials tell us tha