World News Tonight (ABC) - 1999-07-16
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[0:05] On World News Tonight this Friday, the
[0:07] computers that will be as fast as
[0:09] lightning. A tiny invention made public
[0:11] today. A remote control for everything
[0:14] where the cellular phone is practically
[0:16] an appendage. Is public broadcasting
[0:19] playing favorites? Only its critics are
[0:22] absolutely sure. And the century's most
[0:25] awesome adventure.
[0:27] >> Tranquility base. Here the angle I've
[0:29] landed.
[0:30] >> Man on the moon.
[0:38] >> From ABC News World Headquarters in New
[0:41] York. This is World News Tonight with
[0:44] Peter Jennings.
[0:45] >> Good evening. We begin this Friday with
[0:47] the future. First of all, as seen from
[0:49] the past, if you were near a television
[0:52] 30 years ago today, this is what you
[0:54] saw.
[0:57] 9:32 in the morning Eastern time, the
[1:00] 32story tall Saturn 5 rocket slipped
[1:03] from its moorings at Cape Canaveral and
[1:05] began the fascinating journey that would
[1:07] take the first men to the moon, three
[1:10] Americans. We'll get back to them a
[1:12] little later in the broadcast. But
[1:14] first, here we are only 30 years later,
[1:16] and the kind of onboard computing power
[1:18] that helped Apollo 11 get to the moon
[1:20] and back can be found in your
[1:22] wristwatch.
[1:24] And now just today, scientists in
[1:26] California announced they have fashioned
[1:28] computer circuits which are the size of
[1:31] a single molecule and could lead to
[1:33] computers 100 billion times faster than
[1:37] they are today. It boggles the mind. Our
[1:39] first reporter from ABC's Ned Potter.
[1:42] This is how computers are made today
[1:45] with microscopic circuits carefully
[1:47] etched on silicon chips. But researchers
[1:50] say silicon will reach its technical
[1:52] limits in a decade or two. So today from
[1:55] Huelet Packard and UCLA, a step to the
[1:58] next generation. They have made a
[2:00] computer switch or transistor from a
[2:03] single molecule.
[2:04] >> We can imagine fitting dozens of
[2:06] workstations onto the grain of sand.
[2:09] >> Such incredible size is crucial to the
[2:11] future. In computing, smaller means
[2:14] faster. So that if a transistor is only
[2:16] a molecule wide, electronic signals
[2:19] moving through it at the speed of light
[2:21] have less distance to travel.
[2:23] >> You can't make anything smaller than an
[2:25] atom and we're only using a few atoms.
[2:28] We are near the limits of what's going
[2:30] to be physically possible.
[2:31] >> And think of what it could make possible
[2:33] in future decades. A microscopic sensor
[2:36] floating in your bloodstream to diagnose
[2:38] and warn of health problems. The chip
[2:40] we're planning to build in 2 years is
[2:42] going to be smaller than a bacterium or
[2:44] white blood cell.
[2:46] >> At that size, such so-called nano chips
[2:48] could be very inexpensive and built into
[2:50] everything we use. Imagine dust-siz
[2:53] computers mixed into the paint on the
[2:56] walls and able to sense when you point
[2:58] at the phone because you want to call
[3:00] someone
[3:00] >> and you point at the wall which becomes
[3:03] a screen and talk to your grandmother.
[3:07] Technologists caution that many
[3:08] breakthroughs are dead ends. But they
[3:10] remind us that time and again when we
[3:13] are warned of the limits of technology,
[3:15] the limits get pushed back. Led Potter,
[3:18] ABC News, New York. From the pure
[3:21] computer to the cockpit, there's radical
[3:22] new technology coming to affect aviation
[3:25] and perhaps change the pilot's job
[3:27] forever. Here's ABC's Lisa Stark.
[3:31] Those who took part in the first major
[3:33] flight test of the new system believe
[3:35] they have witnessed the future of
[3:37] aviation. If the system works, it could
[3:39] replace radar, which has been used to
[3:42] track planes for more than 50 years. The
[3:45] revolutionary technology called ADSB
[3:48] would allow pilots in the cockpit to see
[3:50] what controllers on the ground now see
[3:53] on their screens and much more. It could
[3:56] very well change the way change the way
[3:59] we do business in the air traffic
[4:00] control world, if you will, make it
[4:02] safer and more efficient.
[4:04] >> Right now, air traffic controllers use a
[4:06] network of groundbased radar beams to
[4:08] locate jetliners. The radar updates an
[4:11] aircraft's position only every 6 seconds
[4:14] and cannot see planes close to the
[4:16] ground or over the open ocean. The new
[4:18] system can do much more. It uses global
[4:21] positioning satellites to pinpoint a
[4:24] plane's location anywhere. That
[4:26] information is automatically sent out,
[4:29] available to controllers on the ground
[4:31] and to other airplanes. In the cockpit,
[4:34] pilots can see a display like this one
[4:36] picking up planes more than 100 miles
[4:39] away.
[4:40] >> It will display in the cockpit uh not
[4:42] only where there's a plane, but how fast
[4:44] it's going uh the the direction it's
[4:47] going and the call sign of the plane.
[4:49] Pilots who have tested the system are
[4:51] enthusiastic.
[4:52] >> So, we know what the other aircraft are
[4:53] doing. They know what we're doing.
[4:54] Controllers will know what everybody is
[4:56] doing. And it's a it's a situation that
[4:58] we've never had in the past.
[5:00] >> Making for safer skies and fewer delays
[5:04] by allowing planes to land closer
[5:06] together even in bad weather. Lisa
[5:10] Stark, ABC News, Washington.
[5:12] >> One more report today about new
[5:14] technology. This is a Finnish story, as
[5:16] in Finland, as in no other place on
[5:18] Earth is having quite as intense a
[5:20] relationship as Finland is with the cell
[5:23] phone. ABC's Richard Gizard has just
[5:25] paid a visit.
[5:28] >> Fly into Helsinki and even before you
[5:31] collect your luggage, you'll hear them.
[5:34] They are everywhere.
[5:38] >> Finland has more than twice as many
[5:40] mobile phones per capita as any other
[5:43] country. Okay, it's practical.
[5:46] >> Almost everybody has one in Finland
[5:48] through mobile phones. Everything has
[5:50] changed.
[5:51] >> In Finland, your mobile phone is part
[5:53] credit card, part remote control. They
[5:56] have pilot projects here that allow you
[5:58] to get golf balls at the driving range
[6:00] using your phone.
[6:03] Same thing when you're buying a soda.
[6:06] You can even use it to get the car wash.
[6:08] The cost goes on your phone bill. The
[6:11] mobile phone industry is also looking at
[6:13] stealing business from the people who
[6:15] make postcards. Here's how. Take a
[6:18] holiday snapshot on a digital camera.
[6:21] Transfer the image through a wireless
[6:22] infrared process to the phone. Then
[6:25] email the picture with an address and
[6:28] it's delivered as a personal postcard.
[6:30] >> Finland is really a showcase of what we
[6:33] will see in many other markets in 3 to
[6:36] four years time.
[6:37] >> Why Finland? Fins have a history of
[6:40] adapting quickly to new technology and
[6:42] Finland has Nokia, the world's biggest
[6:45] mobile phone manufacturer.
[6:47] The company was founded in 1865 and grew
[6:50] into Finland's largest industrial
[6:52] conglomerate. Then 10 years ago, Nokia
[6:55] saw the world changing. It sold off its
[6:58] traditional holdings and plowed the
[7:00] money into mobile phones.
[7:02] >> We saw that mobile communications would
[7:04] be big. We saw that it would be huge.
[7:07] But we never saw how big, how huge.
[7:11] >> The new mobile technology can even make
[7:13] people feel right at home. When
[7:16] 11-year-old Anna Lin Touri forgets her
[7:18] house keys, she rings the doorbell.
[7:21] And that triggers her father's phone.
[7:25] >> He doesn't have to be home to let her
[7:27] in.
[7:28] >> I don't see a phone here. I I see a sort
[7:31] of telepathy device. I see a device
[7:34] which uh I can use as remote control for
[7:37] anything.
[7:39] >> A remote control for anything.
[7:42] That's where mobile phones are going and
[7:44] the people of Finland are helping to
[7:46] take them there. Richard Gizert, ABC
[7:49] News, Helsinki.
[7:51] Here's another first for the week. For
[7:53] the first time, the leaders of Congress
[7:54] sent the president legislation by email.
[7:57] They sent the Y2K liability bill. Forget
[8:00] all that applause. The White House told
[8:01] us today they haven't seen it yet. When
[8:04] we come back, public television in hot
[8:06] water and the tour to France, the
[8:09] American and the whispering campaign.
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[10:32] extremists in Afghanistan next door are
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[10:42] international terrorist Osama bin Laden.
[10:44] Two notes about the railroad serial
[10:46] killer. Tonight, ABC News has learned
[10:48] that DNA tests have produced a match
[10:50] between Rescendes and at least four
[10:53] murder scenes. As for the reward money,
[10:56] about $100,000, most of it will go to
[10:59] his family members. In Washington today,
[11:02] there's a fair amount of agitation from
[11:04] some Republicans about public
[11:05] broadcasting, which is supported in part
[11:07] by government money. One of the
[11:09] country's largest PBS stations has been
[11:11] accused of playing political favorites.
[11:14] Now, this may have a lot more to do with
[11:15] money than politics, but at least one
[11:18] station has played into its critics's
[11:20] hands. Here's ABC's Bob Woodruff.
[11:24] >> That was great.
[11:25] >> It all started with Barney.
[11:27] Four-year-old Sam Black watches Barney
[11:29] on Boston public television station
[11:31] WGBH. So, his mother sent the station a
[11:34] $40 check in Sam's name. Several months
[11:37] later, Sam got a letter from the
[11:39] Democratic National Committee asking for
[11:41] money. his mother, a Republican, figured
[11:43] out the connection.
[11:44] >> WGBH released um our names um and to the
[11:48] Democratic party, no less.
[11:50] >> This is PBS.
[11:51] >> For years, PBS and its member stations
[11:53] have been arguing they are not the
[11:55] liberal broadcasters that conservatives
[11:57] have long charged. That effort was dealt
[12:00] a setback with the news that WGBH
[12:02] swapped Sam's name and 32,000 others
[12:05] with the Democrats over 6 years. A
[12:08] congressional committee had been
[12:09] considering increasing PBS's federal
[12:11] funding. Now that is in doubt.
[12:13] >> This is clear evidence of everything the
[12:15] critics have been saying about some
[12:17] elements of public broadcasting being
[12:20] too dogone close to one of the major
[12:23] parties.
[12:24] >> WGBH's name swapping may have been
[12:27] illegal as well. Because it is a
[12:29] nonprofit corporation and does not pay
[12:31] taxes. It is not allowed to show favor
[12:33] to any political party. WGBH admits the
[12:36] deal with the Democrats violated its own
[12:39] policy, but insists it was not
[12:41] political, it was business.
[12:42] >> It's um a very common um activity for
[12:45] nonprofit organizations to trade lists
[12:47] as a cost-effective way of bringing in
[12:49] more donor support.
[12:50] >> Other public television stations,
[12:52] including New York and Washington, now
[12:54] say they also shared lists, some with
[12:56] both Democrats and Republicans. PBS says
[13:00] the practice will now stop. Sam Black
[13:02] never gave the Democrats any money, but
[13:05] he still watches Barney while public
[13:07] television tries to limit the damage
[13:09] from a very public mistake. Bob
[13:11] Woodruff, ABC News, Washington.
[13:13] >> Elsewhere on the money tonight, another
[13:15] indication that American industry is
[13:16] recovering business loss during the
[13:19] global financial crisis. The government
[13:21] reports that production at factories,
[13:23] mines, and utilities was up 210 of 1%
[13:26] last month. It's a small change, but the
[13:28] best quarter for manufacturing in more
[13:30] than a year. Microsoft said today it's
[13:33] the first company to be worth more than
[13:35] half a trillion dollar. On Wall Street
[13:38] today, the Dow Jones Industrial Average
[13:39] gained more than 23 points to close at
[13:42] 11,29.
[13:44] On the NASDAQ, stocks were up a little
[13:46] more than 25 points. Japan is the first
[13:49] country in a decade to begin importing
[13:51] ivory legally. The sale was authorized
[13:54] by the United Nations with the provision
[13:56] that the ivory come only from elephants
[13:58] in Africa who died naturally or were
[14:01] killed for population control. In
[14:03] addition, the proceeds must go towards
[14:05] elephant conservation. We learned today
[14:08] that the Javan rhinoceros of Vietnam is
[14:11] not extinct as many had thought.
[14:13] Pictures from the World Wildlife Fund
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[16:38] patriotic, maybe somewhat angry at the
[16:42] French press and skeptical about
[16:44] professional sports. The American
[16:46] cyclist Lance Armstrong is still very
[16:48] much in the lead of the world's most
[16:49] famous bicycle race, the Tour to France.
[16:52] It's a remarkable achievement,
[16:53] especially for a man who's come back
[16:55] from cancer. But European cycling has
[16:58] also been plagued by a drug scandal, and
[17:01] that's the context. Now, here's ABC's
[17:03] Dean Reynolds.
[17:06] >> It appears that for some people in
[17:08] Europe, the Lance Armstrong story is
[17:10] just too good to be true. Armstrong now
[17:12] is riding away from everybody else in
[17:14] this tour to France.
[17:16] >> A number of publications, including a
[17:17] leading French sports journal, have
[17:19] insinuated that Armstrong is on
[17:21] performance-enhancing drugs, that a
[17:23] cancer survivor could not possibly be
[17:25] strong enough to lead the world's
[17:27] toughest bicycle race.
[17:28] >> This man is riding his own private tour
[17:30] to France now. Nobody's with him.
[17:33] >> Less than three years after being
[17:34] deathly ill.
[17:36] >> It was everywhere. I had 10 or 12,
[17:40] you know, marble sized to golf ball
[17:41] sized tumors in the lungs, two on the
[17:44] brain, in the gut.
[17:46] >> He underwent brain surgery, had a
[17:48] cancerous testicle removed, then months
[17:50] of chemotherapy that cured him. Still,
[17:52] after he resumed training, even he had
[17:54] doubts he'd ever be able to compete at
[17:56] the highest level, as he told ESPN. Do
[17:59] you ever see yourself doing the tour
[18:01] again?
[18:02] Uh, that's a tough one to answer.
[18:06] My gut tells me no. Never again.
[18:09] >> And yet today he is sporting the yellow
[18:11] jersey worn by the leader of this 2300
[18:13] mile race.
[18:14] >> It's a long ways from uh from a deathbed
[18:17] to the yellow jersey. I mean, it's
[18:22] what do you say?
[18:24] The whispering campaign about drug use
[18:26] comes on the heels of a drug scandal
[18:28] that has implicated a number of top
[18:30] cyclists. So with anyone, particularly
[18:33] an American who is 7 minutes ahead in
[18:35] the tour to France, there were bound to
[18:37] be questions. The only American to ever
[18:40] win this race is Greg Lemon.
[18:42] >> To say that Lance is only doing this
[18:44] because of drugs is is ridiculous. I
[18:45] mean, I don't see anybody taking the
[18:48] victory away from him. I think it's
[18:50] would have to be an accident. Armstrong
[18:52] says he's innocent of the drug
[18:53] accusations and has a blood test to back
[18:55] it up. He remains cautious about his
[18:58] chances. There's a long way to go, he
[19:00] said this week, but now he's talking
[19:02] about a bicycle race. Dean Reynolds, ABC
[19:06] News.
[19:07] One other note about Armstrong, he races
[19:09] for the US Post Office, which spent $300
[19:12] million in advertising last year, and
[19:14] likes the association with cycling,
[19:16] which is cost effective, especially when
[19:18] Armstrong is winning. In California
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[19:35] century on Friday,
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[22:53] >> How could a man make love to a woman for
[22:55] 18 years and not know the woman was a
[22:58] man? So you totally believe that he was
[23:01] a woman. 2020 tonight.
[23:05] >> Finally this evening, back to the future
[23:08] for the century on Friday. Today at Cape
[23:10] Canaveral, several Apollo astronauts,
[23:12] including Neil Armstrong, the first man
[23:15] to walk on the moon, held a news
[23:17] conference to mark the 30th anniversary
[23:19] of that flight. Mr. Armstrong was asked,
[23:21] "How long is 30 years?" He said, "The
[23:23] kids used to read about us in science.
[23:25] Now they read in early American
[23:27] history." Here's something to consider.
[23:30] Earlier this week, the columnist Bill
[23:32] Sapphire, a former aid to Richard Nixon,
[23:34] revealed he had written a speech for Mr.
[23:36] Nixon in case Neil Armstrong and Buzz
[23:39] Aldrin could not get off the surface of
[23:41] the moon. My fellow Americans, Mr. Nixon
[23:45] was to say, fate has ordained that the
[23:47] men who went to the moon to explore in
[23:50] peace will stay to rest in peace. Makes
[23:54] you think, doesn't it?
[24:02] >> Tonight, man on the moon.
[24:04] >> Okay, let's go. fight. Go
[24:09] say go.
[24:10] >> I remember getting up late at night with
[24:13] my two small children and watching the
[24:16] landing on the moon. It was unlike
[24:19] anything you'd ever experienced before.
[24:23] >> Base here. The Eagle has landed. It was
[24:26] the instant, the first in history, when
[24:29] people the world over stopped and
[24:31] crossed their fingers in Asia, in South
[24:35] America, in Europe, in Australia, and of
[24:38] course on television screens all across
[24:41] America. On July the 20th, 1969, when
[24:44] Neil Armstrong set his size 9 and a half
[24:47] boot onto the dusty surface of the moon,
[24:50] hundreds of millions of people
[24:52] recognized that they were alive for a
[24:54] singular event in recorded time.
[24:57] >> It was the first time in human history a
[25:00] human would step on a neighbor in space.
[25:03] And for all history to come, that will
[25:05] still remain the first time that
[25:07] happened. Most histories chart the
[25:09] course to the moon by beginning with
[25:10] President John F. Kennedy's challenge to
[25:13] beat the Soviets there.
[25:15] >> We choose to go to the moon in this
[25:17] decade and do the other things, not
[25:19] because they are easy, but because they
[25:22] are hard.
[25:22] >> But cold war competition between the US
[25:25] and the Soviets was only the final
[25:27] catalyst to the achievement of a dream
[25:29] as old as man himself. The great 19th
[25:32] century science fiction writer Jules
[25:34] Vern explored realistic engineering
[25:36] models for space travel in his novels a
[25:38] 100 years before Apollo. Then came the
[25:41] true concrete advancements in the march
[25:43] toward space. Robert Godard developed
[25:45] the first liquid fuel rocket in 1926.
[25:49] And when the German scientist Verer von
[25:51] Braun, then working in Germany, but
[25:53] later to work for America, created the
[25:56] V2 rockets that reigned terror on London
[25:59] during World War II, the crudest form of
[26:01] the technology necessary to reach the
[26:03] moon was finally demonstrated. After the
[26:07] war, Hollywood,
[26:08] >> Jim, do not do,
[26:11] >> we're on the moon. and popular culture
[26:14] began to speculate that the moon was in
[26:17] man's not tooistant future. But if
[26:20] Kennedy's challenge was timed well to
[26:22] meet the longdeveloping popular
[26:24] imagination, it certainly still styied
[26:26] the NASA engineers who would have to
[26:29] meet it.
[26:30] >> I thought that was the dumbest thing I'd
[26:31] ever heard of in my life because we did
[26:34] not have the facilities. We did not have
[26:36] the rocket engines. The American space
[26:39] program was still trying to recover from
[26:40] a series of disastrous missions in the
[26:42] 1950s,
[26:44] but it would recover. First with John
[26:47] Glenn's spectacular Earth orbit, and
[26:50] then the steady march of Gemini and
[26:52] Apollo missions leading to that moment
[26:54] in July 1969.
[26:56] What the millions of people watching did
[26:58] not know was that the Eagle lander had
[27:00] overshot its landing site by more than
[27:02] four miles. And Neil Armstrong, low on
[27:04] fuel, was searching for a safe landing
[27:07] site. He had only seconds to find one.
[27:10] >> We copy you on the ground. You got a
[27:12] bunch of guys about to turn blue. We're
[27:14] breathing again.
[27:14] >> We watched that first step out onto the
[27:19] moon and television was there been
[27:21] printed on our minds forever. I'll never
[27:23] forget the the image of it. And when
[27:25] Neil Armstrong uttered those historic
[27:28] words,
[27:29] >> that's one small step for man,
[27:33] one giant leap for mankind.
[27:36] >> And then suddenly, after the turbulent
[27:38] decade of the 1960s, the decade of
[27:40] Vietnam and LSD, the race riots and
[27:43] assassination, suddenly we were in awe
[27:46] of what was perhaps the 20th century's
[27:49] greatest single accomplishment,
[27:52] man on the moon.
[27:55] That's our report on World News Tonight.
[27:57] We hope you have a nice weekend. Don't
[27:58] forget 2020 Night Line. I'm Peter
[28:01] Jennings. Good night.
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[28:50] Now, News 2 at 6 First, Fast Accurate.
[28:55] Good evening, everyone. On this Friday,
[28:57] we have breaking news to tell you about.
[28:59] Just moments ago, the suspected murderer
[29:01] of two elderly Nashville women was
[29:03] brought back to Nashville.
[29:05] >> Let's go straight to News 2's Tammy
[29:07] Arender, who's at the Criminal Justice
[29:08] Center with more on the return of Robert
[29:10] Leech. Tammy,
[29:12] >> that's right, Ann. It's been just eight
[29:14] days since the murder of two elderly
[29:15] women in Antioch. And now that suspect
[29:18] is behind bars in Nashville. Robert L.
[29:21] Leachch Jr. was brought into night court
[29:23] just a few minutes ago to face his
[29:25] charges. He was brought back from
[29:27] Missouri. He is charged with two counts
[29:29] of criminal homicide in the