CBS Evening News - 2009-03-14
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[0:00] Jim Hill. Weekdays at 6 and 11 p.m. on
[0:03] CBS 2 News.
[0:06] >> Tonight, President Obama tells China's
[0:08] leaders the trillion dollars in US debt
[0:10] they're holding is secure and they can
[0:12] have absolute confidence in the US. I'm
[0:15] Jeff Gore. Also tonight, a new chief for
[0:17] the FDA with a mandate to make sure
[0:19] America's food supply is safe. Real
[0:22] estate mogul Donald Trump under fire.
[0:24] Now he's being sued by Americans who
[0:26] lost millions on a failed resort.
[0:28] >> The money is gone. That's all all
[0:30] they've told us is that there is no
[0:32] money. That's it.
[0:34] >> And custody standoff. An American father
[0:37] looks for help at the highest levels to
[0:39] get his son back from Brazil.
[0:47] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Jeff
[0:50] Glor.
[0:53] Good evening. From a high level global
[0:54] conference in England to a presidential
[0:56] pep talk in Washington, this is turning
[0:58] into a weekend for boosting confidence
[1:00] in the economy. Leaders say the times
[1:03] are tough, but they will get better.
[1:05] From the Oval Office, President Obama
[1:07] responded to the Prime Minister of
[1:08] China, who said yesterday he's worried
[1:10] about his country's trillion dollar
[1:12] investment in American bonds. I think
[1:15] that the not just the Chinese government
[1:18] but every investor can have absolute
[1:20] confidence uh in the soundness of
[1:25] investments in the United States.
[1:27] >> The success of the president's stimulus
[1:29] plan depends on a steady flow of Chinese
[1:31] investments just as China's economy
[1:33] depends upon continued US purchase of
[1:35] Chinese goods. Barry Peterson now has
[1:38] more on the circular relationship that
[1:40] has China's leaders so worried. American
[1:43] investors worried about the US economy
[1:46] have a powerful ally, China's premere,
[1:48] who says count him among the nervous.
[1:51] China has invested in more US government
[1:54] bonds than any other country, a trillion
[1:57] dollars.
[1:59] >> I'm a little worried, he said, urging
[2:01] the US to, in his words, stay a credible
[2:04] nation and guarantee the safety of
[2:06] Chinese assets. And when it comes to how
[2:09] President Obama is handling the
[2:11] financial meltdown, China's premier
[2:14] offered a dose of hope tempered by a
[2:16] sense of concern.
[2:18] >> The new administration has introduced a
[2:20] number of new measures, he said, but
[2:22] added, "We are waiting to see how these
[2:25] will work out."
[2:28] The Chinese are already boosting their
[2:30] own economy. The country's Congress on
[2:32] Friday endorsed an almost $600 billion
[2:35] stimulus package with promises from top
[2:38] leaders that if even more is needed, it
[2:41] will be spent. This to keep China's
[2:43] economy growing at 8% a year. Like the
[2:47] American stimulus plan, it will build
[2:49] roads and buildings and put millions of
[2:51] unemployed to work. Many laid off from
[2:53] factories closed after demand for
[2:55] China's exports dropped 25% just last
[2:59] month. Yet, billions spent here can't
[3:02] get China's economy moving by itself. It
[3:05] still needs consumers from its number
[3:07] one export destination, the United
[3:10] States, back in stores and back buying
[3:14] Chinese goods. Barry Peterson, CBS News,
[3:17] Beijing.
[3:19] >> Meanwhile, just outside London, the
[3:21] finance ministers of the so-called G20
[3:23] nations were meeting today to try to
[3:25] coordinate their approach to the
[3:26] economic crisis. Easier said than done.
[3:29] As Mark Phillips reports,
[3:33] >> the people who run the world's 20
[3:35] largest economies gathered to lay the
[3:37] groundwork for a common strategy the
[3:39] leaders of their countries could agree
[3:41] on here next month. The US Treasury
[3:44] Secretary laid out the problem.
[3:46] >> This is a global crisis and it requires
[3:48] a coordinated global response.
[3:50] >> And the finance ministers did lay out a
[3:52] series of grand principles. We stated
[3:55] that we're prepared to take whatever
[3:57] action is necessary to uh ensure that
[4:01] growth is restored and we are committed
[4:04] to do that for however long it takes to
[4:07] do that.
[4:07] >> But behind the class photo is a game of
[4:10] show me the money. While the US,
[4:12] Britain, and others have passed huge
[4:14] stimulus packages and are promising
[4:16] more, some of these governments have
[4:19] been less willing to commit to
[4:20] continuing investment just yet. The
[4:23] German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, who
[4:25] was meeting British Prime Minister
[4:27] Gordon Brown today, wants to make sure
[4:29] the banking system is in fact shored up
[4:32] by the money that's already been spent
[4:34] before she agrees to spend more.
[4:37] >> It makes no sense to pump more and more
[4:40] money in our economy whenever we haven't
[4:43] restored the confidence on the financial
[4:46] markets. The meeting did establish some
[4:48] clear objectives. That more money be
[4:51] channeled through the International
[4:52] Monetary Fund to help struggling
[4:55] developing countries. That international
[4:57] banking and financial rules be tightened
[5:00] up to protect the system from the sort
[5:02] of meltdown it's been going through. If
[5:05] there was a central message, it was that
[5:07] we're all in this together. A healthy US
[5:10] economy requires a healthy and strong
[5:12] global economy. Our recovery will be
[5:15] stronger if the world is stronger.
[5:17] >> Whatever it takes, for as long as it
[5:19] takes is the strategy, but there is
[5:21] still disagreement on what whatever is.
[5:24] The British are spending money on banks,
[5:26] the US on infrastructure, the French on
[5:28] car makers. Before President Obama and
[5:31] the other leaders get here next month,
[5:32] there's still a lot of work to do. Jeff,
[5:35] >> Mark Phillips in London. Mark, thank
[5:36] you.
[5:38] The Arab network Al Jazzer has broadcast
[5:40] a new audio message said to be from
[5:42] Osama bin Laden. On the tape, Bin Laden
[5:44] calls Israel's attacks on Gaza a
[5:46] holocaust, and he blames moderate Arab
[5:49] leaders for not doing enough to stop the
[5:50] fighting in which 1300 Palestinians have
[5:53] died. The Russian Air Force said today
[5:55] that President Hugo Chavez has offered
[5:57] the use of a Venezuelan island as a
[5:59] temporary base for its long range
[6:01] bombers. But a Kremlin official
[6:03] downplayed the comment, saying the
[6:04] question of basing Russian bombers on
[6:06] the island is only hypothetical.
[6:09] Lawyers for jailed swindler Bernard Maid
[6:11] off will be in court again next week to
[6:13] argue Maid Off be freed on bail until
[6:15] his sentencing. But what's of more
[6:17] interest to investors is if they'll ever
[6:18] see any of their money again. Pria David
[6:21] takes a look. In court this week, a
[6:24] subdued Bernie Maid off said he was
[6:26] quote deeply sorry and ashamed for
[6:28] cheating investors in a two decadel long
[6:31] Ponzi scheme. Words that mean little to
[6:34] clients burned by the convicted swindler
[6:36] who want answers instead of apologies.
[6:39] >> He's refusing to identify where the
[6:41] assets are or who his other
[6:42] co-conspirators are.
[6:44] >> A court document filed Friday shows Maid
[6:46] Off and his wife had almost a billion
[6:48] dollars in personal wealth at the end of
[6:50] last year. His ownership of the business
[6:52] was by far the biggest chunk. $700
[6:54] million, 45 million in stocks and bonds,
[6:58] 17 million in the bank, homes in New
[7:01] York, Florida, and France worth 22
[7:03] million, $12 million half ownership of a
[7:06] jet, boats worth about 9 million, grand
[7:08] total at least $823 million.
[7:11] >> There's going to be a whole lot of
[7:12] forfeite. Maid off is going to have to
[7:15] give up anything that is related to his
[7:17] crime. Those assets add up to a small
[7:20] fraction of what Maid Off took from his
[7:21] clients, perhaps $20 billion.
[7:24] Investigators now say on paper, Maid Off
[7:27] fictitiously grew that money to 65
[7:30] billion. Defrauded clients are starting
[7:32] to see a trickle of reimbursement from
[7:34] the Securities Investor Protection
[7:35] Corporation, a nonprofit set up by
[7:37] brokerages for cases of fraud. The
[7:40] insurance fund pays up to $500,000 per
[7:43] account. So far, SIPC has dispersed $6
[7:47] million to 12 investors. President
[7:50] Steven Harbek says there are more than
[7:51] 5,000 claims.
[7:53] >> People who gave money to to the Maidoff
[7:55] brokerage firm late in the day uh want
[7:59] us to use the real actual dollars put in
[8:02] minus real dollars put out. I can
[8:04] understand why people who have been in
[8:06] this scheme for a long time would prefer
[8:09] us to use the fictitious figures that
[8:11] Mr. maid off was giving them. But that's
[8:13] not the way the law works.
[8:15] >> But many victims like Bert Ross paid
[8:18] taxes on those fictitious earnings. Ross
[8:20] says he lost $5 million to maid off plus
[8:23] another $375,000
[8:26] in taxes.
[8:27] >> Taxes on income I thought I had, which I
[8:30] never earned because we never took money
[8:32] out. So that's phantom income. That
[8:35] money should be returned to us.
[8:38] >> Those victims may be in luck. According
[8:40] to a federal theft loss law, you could
[8:42] be eligible for a tax refund if you've
[8:44] lost money over the past 3 years because
[8:46] of fraud. Jeff
[8:47] >> Pria David tonight. Pria, thank you.
[8:49] Still ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[8:51] News, the case of the priceless Sherlock
[8:54] Holmes author interview. And when we
[8:56] come back, how safe is our food? A new
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[11:15] >> A former New York City health
[11:16] commissioner was named today to run the
[11:18] belleaguered FDA and get it back to the
[11:20] job of ensuring that food is safe for
[11:22] consumers. Kimberly Doer has more. After
[11:26] deadly food scares from spinach to
[11:28] peanut butter, President Obama is
[11:31] promising to make it safe to go back to
[11:33] the market with toptobottom changes at
[11:35] the Food and Drug Administration.
[11:36] >> The FDA has been underfunded and
[11:39] underststaffed in recent years, leaving
[11:41] the agency with the resources to inspect
[11:43] just 7,000 of our 150,000 food
[11:46] processing plants and warehouses each
[11:49] year.
[11:49] >> That means roughly 95% of them go
[11:51] uninspected. That's been blamed for an
[11:54] outbreak of E.coli coli and spinach in
[11:56] 2006 that sickened 205 people and killed
[11:59] five. Last year, a salmonella outbreak
[12:02] traced to red peppers made 407 people
[12:04] ill and killed two. This year,
[12:06] salmonella in peanut butter sickened 683
[12:09] people and killed nine.
[12:11] >> I immediately thought of my 7-year-old
[12:13] daughter, Sasha, who has peanut butter
[12:15] sandwiches for lunch probably three
[12:17] times a week. No parent should have to
[12:19] worry that their child is going to get
[12:21] sick from their lunch. He's not the only
[12:23] one who feels a little queasy.
[12:25] >> I just think the whole food system has
[12:28] been built around an industrial model
[12:30] that doesn't serve any of us real well.
[12:32] >> The president has nominated public
[12:34] health troubleshooter Dr. Margaret
[12:36] Hamburg to lead the FDA and change that.
[12:39] The research scientist is a veteran of
[12:41] the Clinton administration and a former
[12:43] New York health commissioner. Her job to
[12:45] update food and drug safety laws and
[12:48] lift employee morale. Some felt they'd
[12:51] become a rubber stamp for industry under
[12:52] the previous White House.
[12:54] >> The agency was shifting its mission away
[12:57] from the public health to more of a
[13:00] either a business as usual or or
[13:03] catering to the regulated industry.
[13:06] >> Susan Wood resigned from the FDA over a
[13:08] delay in approving over-the-counter
[13:10] emergency contraception during the Bush
[13:12] administration.
[13:13] >> That process was turned on its head.
[13:16] Hamburg has been praised as a woman
[13:18] unafraid to take on industry. So is the
[13:20] man will be her deputy. Dr. Joshua
[13:22] Shariffstein has pushed the FDA to warn
[13:24] against over-the-counter cough medicines
[13:26] for young children. Now if the Senate
[13:28] approves, they'll be running the place.
[13:30] Jeff.
[13:30] >> Okay, Kimberly Doer in Washington.
[13:32] Kimberly, thank you. The president today
[13:34] also announced a government ban on the
[13:35] slaughter of so-called downer cows,
[13:38] animals too sick or weak to stand up.
[13:40] The ban should reduce the chance of meat
[13:42] infected with mad cow disease from
[13:44] entering the food supply.
[13:46] Just ahead on tonight's CBS Evening
[13:47] News, they lost their money in this hole
[13:50] in the ground. And now they're taking
[13:52] Donald Trump to court.
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[15:56] >> Las Vegas losing big. Susie Orman on
[15:59] making ends meet. Even some homework
[16:01] from Martha Stewart. The money issue
[16:04] this Sunday morning.
[16:08] Dozens of angry investors last night
[16:10] sued Donald Trump, the high-profile real
[16:12] estate magnate who lent his name to a
[16:14] failed hotel resort in Baja Mexico. When
[16:17] it went belly up, they were out millions
[16:19] of dollars. And now they want Trump to
[16:22] pay up. Ben Tracy has more.
[16:25] >> And I've gotten really good at this
[16:26] stuff.
[16:26] >> As the boss of the boardroom on his TV
[16:29] show, The Apprentice, and a real estate
[16:31] king in real life, Donald Trump has
[16:33] earned a reputation. How could you go
[16:36] wrong? You are investing with a
[16:38] multibillionaire who has proven himself
[16:41] in many real estate ventures. She's
[16:44] talking about this a luxury condo hotel
[16:47] property on Mexico's Baja Peninsula,
[16:50] >> Trump Ocean Resort,
[16:51] >> which Trump pitched in his promotional
[16:53] video obtained by CBS News.
[16:56] >> When I build, I have investors that
[16:58] follow me all over. That was the main
[17:00] reason we went ahead with this project
[17:03] was because it was a Trump project.
[17:07] >> This Southern California family made a
[17:08] down payment of $165,000
[17:12] to secure a one-bedroom unit. With
[17:14] Trump's name and face all over it, they
[17:16] figured it was a sure bet. Instead, it
[17:19] went bust.
[17:20] >> The money is gone. That's all all
[17:21] they've told us is that there is no
[17:23] money. That's it.
[17:24] >> This hole in the ground is all there is
[17:26] of the much hyped project. a victim of
[17:28] the real estate and credit bubble burst.
[17:31] Investors poured $32 million into it and
[17:34] are now told they won't get a penny
[17:36] back. In the United States, we have laws
[17:39] that protect the consumer to make sure
[17:42] that their deposit is not being used for
[17:44] construction. But remember, this is
[17:46] Mexico and the laws are different in
[17:48] Mexico.
[17:49] >> It's not clear where the money went. The
[17:51] Trump Organization now says it was never
[17:53] the developer. It designed the product
[17:56] and simply lent its name to the project.
[17:58] >> I'm sorry for everyone, but we are in
[18:00] the same boat. We had to terminate our
[18:02] contract because um our agreements
[18:05] weren't obligated either.
[18:06] >> It's another blow to the Donald's
[18:08] carefully crafted image. His casino
[18:10] business, Trump Entertainment Resorts,
[18:12] filed for bankruptcy protection last
[18:14] month, and he's been in a battle over
[18:16] debt payments at the Trump Tower in
[18:18] Chicago. Yet, investors in the Baja
[18:20] project still can't believe they've lost
[18:23] everything. It's just very shocking and
[18:25] unbelievable that this whole thing
[18:27] happened,
[18:27] >> especially considering the brand name
[18:30] they thought they were buying. Ben
[18:32] Tracy, CBS News, Los Angeles.
[18:35] >> The San Diego Zoo has another mouth to
[18:37] feed tonight. A baby African elephant
[18:39] who was born at the zoo's wild animal
[18:41] park yesterday. He weighed in at up to
[18:43] 300 lb and will grow to 8 tons as an
[18:47] adult. Coming up on tonight's CBS
[18:50] Evening News, the international child
[18:51] custody battle that has President Obama
[18:54] now involved.
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[21:05] >> Monday on the CBS Evening News.
[21:09] >> President Obama met today at the White
[21:11] House with the visiting president of
[21:12] Brazil. And along with issues of energy
[21:14] and trade, there was talk of an ongoing
[21:16] child custody battle. It's a complicated
[21:19] affair that is grabbing headlines on two
[21:21] continents. Michelle Miller has details.
[21:25] Sean home.
[21:26] >> Protesters rallied in Washington today
[21:28] demanding the return of an 8-year-old
[21:30] American boy embroiled in a messy
[21:33] international custody battle.
[21:34] >> It's not a battle between two countries.
[21:37] It's about the recognition of the of of
[21:40] the pure, simple, basic, human, and
[21:42] God-given right of a parent to raise
[21:44] one's their child.
[21:46] >> David Goldman was separated from his son
[21:48] Shawn four years ago when his then wife
[21:50] Bruna took him on vacation to her native
[21:53] Brazil. Hi, David. And I said, "Hi,
[21:55] Bruna. You know, how are you?" And and
[21:57] she said, "Our marriage is over. I've
[22:00] decided to stay in Brazil."
[22:02] >> Bruna never returned to the United
[22:04] States. She remarried and died in
[22:06] childbirth last August. But her second
[22:08] husband, a Brazilian lawyer, won't give
[22:10] up custody of Shawn. Goldman is in
[22:13] Brazil this week to visit his son as the
[22:15] case now sits in a Brazilian court.
[22:17] >> All the legal precedents say that the
[22:19] child should be returned to the father.
[22:21] But Raul Felder, a prominent divorce
[22:23] lawyer with experience in the Brazilian
[22:25] legal system, says that may not matter.
[22:28] >> The real problem is that even if they
[22:30] win in the Brazilian courts, how do you
[22:33] enforce it? Police force is not
[22:34] particularly effective. That he's got
[22:36] his road cut out for him unless the
[22:38] president will step in or secretary of
[22:39] state.
[22:40] >> Today, the White House press office said
[22:42] that President Obama raised the matter
[22:44] with Brazilian President Dilva, but gave
[22:47] no further details. Still, there has
[22:49] been diplomatic pressure elsewhere. This
[22:52] week, the US House of Representatives
[22:54] unanimously urged Brazil to quote, "act
[22:57] with extreme urgency to return the boy
[22:59] to his father." And Secretary of State
[23:01] Hillary Clinton closed ranks behind the
[23:03] New Jersey father, comparing his ordeal
[23:06] with the case of Ilian Gonzalez, a
[23:08] five-monthlong custody battle that
[23:10] sparked outrage and media frenzy and the
[23:12] tugofwar between his relatives in Miami
[23:15] and his father in Cuba. Goldman has
[23:17] sought relief from the Hague Convention,
[23:19] an international court with jurisdiction
[23:22] over child abductions. But Bruna's
[23:24] second husband says this is a private
[23:27] custody matter. In a letter appearing in
[23:29] a Brazilian newspaper last week, he
[23:31] said, quote, "It was not our fault that
[23:33] the boy lost his links to the United
[23:35] States. We cannot now become defendants
[23:37] accused of being kidnappers,
[23:39] >> but it's got to end. It's gone on way,
[23:41] way too long to begin with. and you know
[23:44] my poor son and and the longer it goes
[23:47] on time time isn't our friend and they
[23:50] know that.
[23:51] >> Michelle Miller, CBS News, New York.
[23:54] >> Next up on tonight's CBS Evening News.
[23:56] >> But words do not live in dictions, they
[23:59] live in the mind.
[24:00] >> A second hearing for famous voices from
[24:02] the past.
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[26:08] Finally tonight, you've read their
[26:09] words, but have you really heard them?
[26:12] Elizabeth Palmer has more on how
[26:13] legendary voices of the past are being
[26:15] kept alive for future generations.
[26:18] >> It was rather
[26:20] >> in a small recording studio inside the
[26:23] British Library. Richard Fairman has
[26:25] been bringing the voices of great
[26:27] authors, many long dead, to life.
[26:31] >> I was very keen to go right back as far
[26:33] as we could. I think one of the things
[26:35] people love is to hear historic
[26:37] recordings. So I look for the very
[26:39] earliest people like Arthur Conan Doyle.
[26:41] >> Conan Doyle wrote the first Sherlock
[26:44] Holmes story in 1887. The British
[26:47] Library had the only known recording of
[26:49] his voice here explaining how real
[26:52] Sherlock Holmes had become to millions
[26:54] of readers. To many, he seems to be a
[26:56] real person, and I've had numerous
[26:59] letters from time to time addressed to
[27:01] him from all parts of the world,
[27:03] including what was virtually an offer of
[27:06] marriage.
[27:07] >> Other gems include the only known
[27:08] recording of Virginia Wolf.
[27:10] >> But words do not live in dictionaries,
[27:13] they live in the mind.
[27:14] >> And an interview with JR Tolken, an
[27:17] Oxford professor who knew exactly what
[27:20] he'd be remembered for.
[27:21] >> I shouldn't have thought that very much
[27:23] choice if I remembered at all. me by the
[27:24] Lord of the Rings. I'd take it.
[27:27] >> Most of the authors in this collection
[27:28] were recorded by the BBC, but only half
[27:32] of them are British. The rest are giants
[27:34] of American literature interviewed in
[27:36] the US but for broadcast only in
[27:39] Britain.
[27:39] >> If she was going to remain
[27:40] >> I kept seeing these fantastic
[27:42] recordings. One of the first I saw was
[27:43] Henry Miller and I called it up to hear
[27:45] it and it was so good. I thought
[27:47] Americans have got to hear this. There's
[27:50] another Miller too, Arthur talking about
[27:53] his wife Marilyn Monroe.
[27:55] >> See, they didn't regard her as an
[27:56] actress. They regarded her as a sex pot.
[27:58] >> And there's John Steinbeck, who won the
[28:00] Nobel Prize for work that included The
[28:02] Grapes of Roth.
[28:04] >> When I wrote The Grapes of Wrath, I was
[28:05] filled naturally with certain angers at
[28:08] people who were doing injustices to
[28:11] other people, or so I thought.
[28:12] >> Very minute by Valentine, very mine and
[28:15] very fine. The collection also includes
[28:17] interviews with among others Gertude
[28:19] Stein, Lillian Helman, and Raymond
[28:22] Chandler.
[28:23] >> If she was going to remain an actress,
[28:25] >> words, as Virginia Wolf said, full of
[28:28] echoes, memories, and associations now
[28:31] given new life.
[28:32] >> Is much in demand.
[28:34] >> Elizabeth Palmer, CBS News.
[28:38] >> That is the CBS Evening News Tonight.
[28:40] Later on CBS 48 hours mystery. I'm Jeff
[28:43] Gore, CBS News in New York. Good night.
[28:57] >> CBS News is very good news.
[29:02] >> Next at 6:00, an arrest warrant issued
[29:04] for actress Lindsay Lohan.
[29:05] >> Plus, a plane crashes near Cow Poly
[29:07] Pomona.
[29:08] >> And a dangerous holdup caught on tape
[29:10] tonight. The suspects are on the run.
[29:12] And we could have a chilly Sunday
[29:14] forecast out there, but the 80s are on
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