CBS Evening News - 2000-09-27

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[0:02] A CBS News investigation breaks the

[0:04] story. New evidence Firestone and Ford

[0:08] knew about dangerous tires long before

[0:11] they say they did.

[0:13] New revelations, how Hollywood uses

[0:16] children to test market violence. And

[0:19] wait till you hear what this woman has

[0:21] to do to pay for prescription drugs.

[0:24] Eye on America, giving credit where

[0:27] credit is long overdue.

[0:34] This is the CBS Evening News with Dan

[0:37] Rather reporting from CBS News

[0:39] headquarters in New York.

[0:42] Good evening. There is new trouble

[0:43] tonight for Firestone and Ford. Saudi

[0:45] Arabia has just banned the import of all

[0:48] Firestone tires. And court documents

[0:51] obtained by a CBS hard news

[0:53] investigation raise new serious

[0:55] questions about what both companies knew

[0:58] and what they claim they knew and when

[1:01] about potentially dangerous tire

[1:03] problems. CBS's Sharyl Attkisson has

[1:05] been digging behind the company's

[1:07] testimony into the evidence and has

[1:09] exclusive new information.

[1:12] CBS News has obtained documents held

[1:14] secret for more than 2 years in a

[1:16] Brunswick, Georgia federal courthouse.

[1:18] Today a judge granted a motion initiated

[1:21] by CBS News to unseal the documents.

[1:24] They show both Ford and Firestone knew

[1:26] about problems with ATX tires at least 2

[1:29] years before they were recalled. The

[1:31] documents are from the case of Danny Van

[1:33] Eaton who died after a Firestone tire

[1:36] shredded on his Ford Explorer.

[1:38] The officer said he did a magnificent

[1:40] job getting it off the road.

[1:43] You know, pulling and he almost had it

[1:44] off the road. He didn't hit either side

[1:46] of the street.

[1:48] And then it just flipped.

[1:49] Da

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