World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-01-08
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[0:00] begins.
[0:00] >> Warm weather, but we will dry up.
[0:02] [music] Maybe not seeing a whole lot of
[0:04] sunshine, but not a lot of rain over the
[0:06] next couple days.
[0:13] [bell]
[0:14] On World News Tonight, the president
[0:15] signs an ambitious education plan, new
[0:18] reading and math tests, and making
[0:21] schools accountable. Looking for bin
[0:24] Laden in the lawless mountains of
[0:26] Pakistan. The first visit by a western
[0:28] journalist. the police videotape of the
[0:30] man who was speeding. 48 hours later, he
[0:33] was one of the September hijackers.
[0:35] We'll take a closer look tonight at
[0:37] carbohydrates of Americans gone too far
[0:40] eating all that pasta. On the money
[0:43] trail tonight, the cruise ship that no
[0:45] one seems to want except the Mississippi
[0:47] Senator and the face that sold a billion
[0:51] burgers. Dave Thomas of Wendy's [music]
[0:53] has died.
[0:58] >> From [music] ABC News World Headquarters
[1:00] in New York, this is World News Tonight
[1:04] [music] with Peter Jennings.
[1:05] >> Good evening everyone. We're going to
[1:06] begin tonight with the most aggressive
[1:08] attempt in a generation by the
[1:10] government to reform education. In Ohio
[1:13] today, President Bush signed into law a
[1:15] 26.5 billion dollar education bill.
[1:18] Education has been an issue he's cared
[1:20] about very publicly. and he believes
[1:22] very strongly that testing improves
[1:24] learning. Today's legislation imposes
[1:27] annual tests on millions of school
[1:29] children and holds schools accountable
[1:32] for the result. Mr. Bush didn't get
[1:34] everything he wanted in education
[1:35] reform, but he and the Democrats in the
[1:38] Congress worked out a plan that they
[1:40] both appear to li