CBS Evening News - 2009-05-06

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[0:23] >> Good afternoon everybody. Tonight, three

[0:26] leaders with a common goal

[0:27] >> to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat

[0:31] al-Qaeda and its extremist allies in

[0:33] Pakistan and Afghanistan.

[0:35] >> Katie Kurrick is in Afghanistan where

[0:37] she asked the top US commander about the

[0:40] death of dozens of civilians and the

[0:42] impact on the US mission. I'm Harry

[0:45] Smith. Also tonight, Ford puts the pedal

[0:47] to the metal. While GM and Chrysler are

[0:50] shrinking, Ford makes a major commitment

[0:53] to build the green cars of tomorrow.

[0:55] >> I wanted him to be faithful.

[0:57] >> Elizabeth Edwards goes public about her

[0:59] husband's infidelity and why she kept it

[1:02] a secret and a special kind of love.

[1:05] >> Can I have a kiss?

[1:07] >> People and parents.

[1:13] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:17] Kurig.

[1:20] Good evening. Katie will be along in

[1:22] just a moment from Afghanistan. Fighting

[1:24] the Taliban there and in Pakistan is

[1:26] quickly becoming America's number one

[1:28] foreign policy challenge. Today,

[1:31] President Obama met with the leaders of

[1:33] both countries at the White House and

[1:35] delivered a simple message. They need to

[1:38] do more. Chief foreign affairs

[1:40] correspondent Larara Logan begins our

[1:41] coverage.

[1:43] President Barack Obama led the way

[1:45] today, flanked by two of America's most

[1:47] vital and troubled allies. Good

[1:50] afternoon.

[1:50] >> President Asaf Ali Zadari of Pakistan

[1:52] and Afghanistan's Hammed Kazai.

[1:54] >> I'm pleased that these two men fully

[1:56] appreciate the seriousness of the threat

[1:58] that we face and have reaffirmed their

[2:01] commitment to confronting it. That

[2:03] commitment and US efforts so far have

[2:06] not been able to stop the growing

[2:08] strength of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in

[2:10] either Afghanistan or Pakistan.

[2:13] Propaganda pictures like these from a

[2:15] Taliban website show how they've

[2:17] penetrated US supply lines in Pakistan,

[2:20] showing off in a stolen US Humvee over

[2:23] the border in the Afghan capital. These

[2:25] images show how easily a teenage suicide

[2:28] bomber was able to penetrate the

[2:31] information ministry last October. He's

[2:33] seen shooting into a guard shack, then

[2:36] rushing inside.

[2:38] Seconds later, an explosion rocks the

[2:40] building. Eight people died.

[2:43] >> There will be more violence and there

[2:45] will be setbacks.

[2:47] >> One major setback, civilian casualties.

[2:50] Afghan officials say US air strikes

[2:52] killed dozens there Monday. the US is

[2:54] investigating.

[2:55] >> I also made it clear that the United

[2:57] States will work to make every effort to

[2:59] avoid civilian casualties.

[3:01] >> When President Kazai spoke earlier, he

[3:04] toned down his usual rhetoric.

[3:06] >> And we hope we can work together towards

[3:09] uh reducing and eventually completely

[3:11] removing the possibilities of civilian

[3:13] casualties.

[3:14] >> Both leaders are feeling US pressure.

[3:16] >> Our threat is common and our

[3:19] responsibilities should be shared. I am

[3:22] here to assure you all that we shall

[3:24] share this burden with you all.

[3:27] >> The message from today's summit clearly

[3:29] designed to show a united front. Just

[3:32] hours before the three presidents met,

[3:34] the Pakistani army stepped up its fight

[3:37] against militants, launching ground and

[3:39] air operations. The situation in both

[3:41] Pakistan and Afghanistan a severe test

[3:44] for both their leaders at home and in

[3:47] their relationship with Washington.

[3:49] Harry

[3:49] >> Larara Logan at the White House tonight.

[3:51] Thanks. Defense Secretary Robert Gates

[3:53] flew to Afghanistan today and Katie

[3:56] Kurrick is traveling with him. They're

[3:58] at a US military camp in Kabell. Earlier

[4:00] today, Katie spoke with the top US

[4:03] commander there about what happened to

[4:05] civilians in western Afghanistan.

[4:08] Harry, reports of these civilian

[4:10] casualties could not have come at a

[4:12] worse time as the Obama administration

[4:15] launches its new strategy to eradicate

[4:17] the Taliban and convince the Afghan

[4:20] people to support those efforts.

[4:23] >> While the estimated number of civilian

[4:26] casualties varies from anywhere between

[4:28] 30 to more than 100, villagers claim

[4:31] most of the victims were women and

[4:33] children. in dispute. Now, who is

[4:36] responsible? That will certainly be a

[4:38] topic of discussion as Secretary Gates

[4:40] meets with US military commanders here.

[4:43] But General David McCarron raised some

[4:45] doubts today about whether it was an

[4:47] American air strike that caused the

[4:50] deaths. The Red Cross says that women

[4:52] and children are among the dozens killed

[4:55] in this air strike. How did this happen?

[4:58] We have some information that leads us

[4:59] to believe that Taliban

[5:03] purposely caused civilian casualties and

[5:06] then alleged that this was a result of

[5:09] US air support.

[5:11] >> Fighting the increasingly brazen Taliban

[5:14] insurgency are 41,000 US troops and

[5:17] 24,000 from other nations. The size of

[5:21] the American force will swell to 65,000

[5:24] by the end of the summer.

[5:27] But US military leaders concede more

[5:29] troops alone will not turn the tide.

[5:32] They believe providing education,

[5:35] employment, and improved infrastructure

[5:37] is the key to winning popular support.

[5:40] And incidents like the one in Western

[5:42] Afghanistan earlier this week do not

[5:44] help win the hearts and minds of the

[5:46] Afghan people, which is critical to

[5:49] defeating the Taliban. Whatever the

[5:52] outcome, rumors alone that many

[5:55] civilians were killed by US air strikes,

[5:59] that is very problematic, particularly

[6:02] at this moment in time, isn't it?

[6:04] >> Well, it's it is always problematic in a

[6:07] in a counterinsurgency campaign. If

[6:10] there are allegations that we've caused

[6:12] civilian casualties, that certainly

[6:14] doesn't help uh the situation at all.

[6:17] >> Doesn't win over the local population.

[6:19] It doesn't it doesn't win. Uh

[6:21] >> it engenders more mistrust.

[6:23] >> It does.

[6:24] >> But the general added because it often

[6:26] takes time to uncover the truth, the US

[6:29] is at a distinct disadvantage in the

[6:31] propaganda war with the Taliban, who

[6:34] often blame the United States for any

[6:36] civilian deaths. Next week on the CBS

[6:39] Evening News, I'll have a series of

[6:41] reports from here in Afghanistan. But

[6:43] for now, let's go back to Harry Smith in

[6:45] New York. On the CBS Money Watch, we'll

[6:48] get the official word tomorrow on those

[6:50] stress tests of 19 American banks, but

[6:53] the results are starting to leak out.

[6:55] The Associated Press reports American

[6:57] Express, JP Morgan Chase, and the Bank

[6:59] of New York Melon passed, meaning they

[7:02] have enough capital to survive even if

[7:04] the recession deepens. But Bank of

[7:06] America, Cityroup, and Wells Fargo will

[7:09] be asked to raise billions of dollars.

[7:11] According to the AP, they'll have 30

[7:13] days to come up with a plan for raising

[7:15] that money. Treasury Secretary Timothy

[7:17] Gitener said today none of the 19 is at

[7:20] risk of insolveny. Like many banks, US

[7:23] automakers have been struggling for

[7:25] survival. CBS News learned today that

[7:28] General Motors has begun telling

[7:30] thousands of dealers they're about to be

[7:32] closed. Chrysler will do the same on

[7:34] Friday. But it's a different story at

[7:36] Ford, which said today it's spending a

[7:38] half billion dollars to retrofit a

[7:40] factory to make the cars of the future.

[7:43] The move could save more than 3,000

[7:46] jobs. More from Dean Reynolds.

[7:49] >> The parking lot is empty and the

[7:50] assembly line is still, but soon this

[7:53] Ford factory near Detroit will come to

[7:55] life again, making the smaller, greener

[7:58] cars US automakers have long resisted.

[8:01] come back here in another year, year and

[8:02] a half, you're going to see a very very

[8:05] uh different plant

[8:07] >> and very different vehicles replacing

[8:10] 6,000lb SUVs with 2,000lb cars,

[8:14] deemphasizing gas guzzlers while pushing

[8:17] new hybrids and even an all-electric

[8:19] version of the Ford Focus. The European

[8:22] version of that car has been a big hit

[8:24] and it will now be brought to the US

[8:26] market where a separate model was a dud.

[8:30] Unlike GM and Chrysler, Ford has greater

[8:33] maneuverability because it secured some

[8:36] $30 billion in private loans in 2006

[8:39] before the economy went into a tail

[8:42] spin. And a new deal with its unions

[8:44] here will make Ford cars cheaper to

[8:46] produce and more competitive with

[8:48] compact imports.

[8:50] >> We now can match the people that we

[8:52] compete with in the United States on our

[8:53] cost structure.

[8:54] >> But the task ahead is daunting. It's

[8:56] true that Ford sold almost 134,000 light

[9:00] vehicles last month, even more than

[9:02] Toyota, but that was still 60,000 fewer

[9:06] cars than it sold in April of last year.

[9:08] And there's no guarantee that consumers

[9:10] will rally to the smaller models from a

[9:13] company that made a fortune selling

[9:15] gigantic SUVs.

[9:17] Besides, Ford and all the other

[9:19] automakers are depending on an economic

[9:21] upturn. Without one, many analysts

[9:23] believe Ford will eventually have to be

[9:26] lining up for the same kind of federal

[9:28] assistance its competitors have already

[9:30] secured.

[9:31] >> They can only do what they do, and that

[9:34] is make good cars. Make one, then make

[9:37] another, then make another, and try and

[9:40] be in sync with what the market wants.

[9:44] Ford is betting that for the market,

[9:46] size matters. This size. Dean Reynolds,

[9:49] CBS News, Wayne, Michigan. Now for the

[9:52] latest on the H1N1 flu outbreak. A top

[9:55] official with the CDC told Congress

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[10:08] was virtually shut down since last week.

[10:11] Bars, theaters, and gyms will remain

[10:13] closed to reduce the spread of the

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[10:20] the first time about the pain of

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[13:11] >> If things had gone another way, she

[13:13] might have been first lady and he

[13:15] president. Now, Elizabeth Edwards is

[13:17] going public for the first time about

[13:19] the scandal that shook her marriage and

[13:21] ended John Edwards political career.

[13:24] Senior political correspondent Jeff

[13:25] Greenfield has the story.

[13:27] >> Did you believe it was the only time

[13:29] ever?

[13:30] >> Uh yeah, I mean you I I I I believe

[13:32] that. I want to believe that.

[13:34] >> It is an Elizabeth Edwards we never

[13:36] imagined we would see. Speaking bluntly

[13:38] on Thursday's Oprah about learning of

[13:40] her husband's infidelity, but it is more

[13:43] than that. I'm so proud to uh introduce

[13:46] I guess my love

[13:47] >> through two presidential campaigns

[13:49] through her battle with breast cancer to

[13:51] the wrenchy news that it had returned

[13:53] and spread just as John was beginning

[13:55] his second White House run.

[13:57] >> The bottom line is her cancer is back.

[13:59] >> Elizabeth Edwards was as admired, even

[14:02] loved as few candidate spouses have ever

[14:05] been.

[14:05] >> People really responded in Elizabeth to

[14:08] her ability to talk to anybody. people

[14:11] really felt like she reminded them of

[14:13] their mother, their sister, their best

[14:14] friend, that you would love to sit down

[14:17] and and have a heart-to-heart with her.

[14:20] >> If anything, the revelation that John

[14:22] Edwards had cheated on her along with

[14:24] allegations that he had fathered the

[14:25] child of his lover earned Elizabeth more

[14:28] sympathy, especially when her husband

[14:30] offered this explanation for his

[14:32] behavior.

[14:33] >> It happened during a period after she

[14:35] was in remission from cancer. But now,

[14:37] as she promotes her new book,

[14:38] Resilience, Edwards has become the

[14:41] subject of critical comments and

[14:42] columns. Imagine, they argue, if Edwards

[14:45] had been his party's nominee when his

[14:47] affair had become public knowledge.

[14:49] >> It's a little bit hard to understand why

[14:53] she, as well as her husband, would

[14:54] really play chicken with the country's

[14:56] future, would risk so much for not only

[14:59] his, but what looks more and more like

[15:01] their ambition.

[15:04] >> It's not as if we haven't seen this

[15:05] before. where a highly capable,

[15:08] politically engaged spouse subordinates

[15:11] her talents to those of her husbands,

[15:13] even when his private life could prove

[15:15] politically damaging.

[15:16] >> You're looking at two people who love

[15:17] each other.

[15:18] >> I'm not sitting here as some little

[15:19] woman standing by my man like Tammy

[15:21] Wette.

[15:22] >> You asked your husband for just one gift

[15:25] when you got married. What was that?

[15:27] >> I uh wanted him to be faithful to me.

[15:30] John and Elizabeth Edwards offered

[15:32] themselves to the public as a very

[15:33] different kind of political couple,

[15:35] which may be why in her book, Elizabeth

[15:37] Edwards concludes that her initial

[15:39] questions about a second campaign were

[15:40] right, that John Edwards simply should

[15:43] not have run again. Harry Jeff

[15:45] Greenfield, thanks. One more political

[15:47] note, a court ruling is expected later

[15:49] this month that will finally decide the

[15:52] Minnesota Senate race between Al Franken

[15:54] and Norm Coleman. Today, Democrat

[15:56] Franken met with Vice President Biden. A

[15:58] franken win would give Democrats 60

[16:00] votes in the Senate, the magic number to

[16:03] cut off any Republican filibuster.

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[18:47] >> We're all in it together. There are no

[18:49] degrees of separation when it comes to

[18:51] the recession. It's been a lesson really

[18:53] in how the many segments of our economy

[18:56] are ultimately connected. To illustrate

[18:58] the point, we begin a new series called

[19:00] the financial family tree. Kelly Kobier

[19:03] shows us how falling demand for boats

[19:06] affects not only the Florida dealer who

[19:08] sells them, but the people who build

[19:10] them, the people who supply the builder

[19:12] with the parts, and the people who make

[19:15] the parts.

[19:17] >> Tampa boat dealer Robert Tronio calls

[19:19] this

[19:22] the wow factor. For 20 years, a spin on

[19:26] the water has helped him sell thousands

[19:28] of new Proline boats. Wow factors still

[19:30] work even in this economy.

[19:32] >> Some people don't get to get the wow

[19:34] factor because I can't get a credit

[19:35] proof.

[19:36] >> Today, Tronio's boats are as dry as his

[19:39] business. Sales are down 30% from nearly

[19:42] $14 million in 2007 to 9.5 million last

[19:46] year. And profits are off a whopping

[19:49] 80%.

[19:50] >> Unfortunately, I had to laid some people

[19:52] off. I've cut people's hours. I've cut

[19:54] people's salaries.

[19:56] >> Tronio's operating costs have

[19:58] skyrocketed. Banks are charging him a

[20:00] lot more to put boats on the showroom

[20:02] floor. In March, they increased his

[20:05] interest rate by 7%.

[20:07] >> It is a domino effect. If they push too

[20:09] hard, all the dominoes are going to

[20:10] fall.

[20:11] >> They've already started falling. Because

[20:13] Tronio isn't selling boats, he's stopped

[20:16] buying them from this Proline factory in

[20:18] Homosasa.

[20:19] >> This is our big boat building.

[20:20] >> And how many boats do you typically have

[20:22] in here?

[20:23] >> Uh, generally anywhere between six and

[20:25] nine.

[20:26] >> And now two.

[20:29] At its peak, 400 people worked here,

[20:32] building 10 boats every day.

[20:35] The day of our visit, there was one boat

[20:37] and four employees.

[20:39] >> How much are you working these days?

[20:40] >> 4 days a week, Monday through Thursday.

[20:44] Not enough to pay the bills for nothing

[20:45] extra. It's tough.

[20:48] >> If the dealer can't order boats, you

[20:49] can't build them and set them out in the

[20:51] yard or yard. So, we stopped building

[20:53] boats. And they stopped buying cushions

[20:55] for those boats from Gary Helms.

[20:57] >> You put the pattern on here and then you

[20:59] draw it out.

[20:59] >> He gave the nine seers and stuffers at

[21:01] his upholstery shop busy work for 3

[21:04] months, hoping the slowdown was

[21:05] temporary.

[21:06] >> We kept hearing next month, next month,

[21:09] next month, and we're still hearing next

[21:11] month.

[21:12] >> Last November, he laid them off.

[21:15] And that means Lois Mack isn't sewing.

[21:18] She made $9 an hour at the upholstery

[21:21] shop. Today she's earning seven an hour

[21:23] at the local grocery store and

[21:25] supporting her husband Faren. He lost

[21:27] his job at the Proline factory last

[21:29] November.

[21:30] >> We're making it, but uh barely. It

[21:34] wouldn't take much to push us the other

[21:35] way.

[21:36] >> They've stopped eating out and buying

[21:38] gifts for grandkids and their

[21:40] 19-year-old son is paying nearly half of

[21:43] their $800 monthly mortgage on a home

[21:46] worth $50,000 less than when they bought

[21:49] it. I just thought I'd call and see

[21:51] anything was going on.

[21:54] I guess that's a no.

[21:55] >> Jobs are hard to come by in this small

[21:57] town and no one pays as well as Proline.

[22:00] >> Watching him call every Friday to see if

[22:03] he, you know, could go to work.

[22:10] I

[22:10] >> mean, most days, do you think about what

[22:12] you're going through?

[22:14] >> I try not to.

[22:17] I keep trying to think things will get

[22:19] better.

[22:22] >> Nearly everyone in this small river town

[22:24] is caught in the wake of a sinking

[22:26] marine industry. And the ripple effect

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[22:40] Chicago is trying to stay afloat. Kelly

[22:43] Kobaya, CBS News, Homosasa, Florida.

[22:46] >> And we will pick up the story in Chicago

[22:48] next week as we continue to follow

[22:50] America's financial family tree. In

[22:53] other news, the White House said today

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[26:04] >> Finally tonight, after Dom Deloise died

[26:06] this week, his family asked that

[26:07] donations be made to a parrot rescue

[26:10] agency. If you're like most of us, you

[26:12] didn't know parrots needed rescuing. But

[26:14] Deloise, a parrot lover, did because

[26:17] while Americans buy thousands of parrots

[26:19] every year, Bill Whitaker tells us many

[26:22] wind up abandoned.

[26:25] >> Mera Tweety and Zazu, her pet parrot,

[26:27] are inseparable.

[26:29] >> Can I have a kiss?

[26:30] >> Not because Tweety, yes, her real name,

[26:32] wants it that way, but because Zazu

[26:34] demands it.

[26:36] >> With a parrot, there's only one place

[26:38] for everything in your home, and that is

[26:40] on the floor. He's a huge amount of

[26:42] work. Parrots are beautiful. THEY CAN

[26:45] TALK. AM I

[26:46] >> do tricks,

[26:49] >> but the average parrot has the

[26:50] intelligence of a 3 to 5year-old child.

[26:52] >> With an estimated 40 million parrots in

[26:55] US households, they're not far behind

[26:57] cats and dogs in popularity.

[27:00] But owners soon learned that Polly was a

[27:02] cracker, plus handprepared food, plus

[27:05] all your time, attention, and patience.

[27:08] Tweety should know she wrote a book on

[27:10] the difficult relations between parrots

[27:12] and people.

[27:14] >> They can live to 80,

[27:15] >> 80 years.

[27:18] >> They're loud. They poop incessantly.

[27:22] They love to chew. And what you've got

[27:24] is a three-year-old child running around

[27:26] with a can opener on its face.

[27:28] >> And like a toddler, if they don't get

[27:30] the care and attention they need, they

[27:32] bite and

[27:35] scream. or even worse, isolated in a

[27:38] cage, these flock animals go stir crazy,

[27:41] mutilate themselves, pluck out feathers

[27:44] like this one. It's all too much for

[27:46] many people.

[27:47] >> These are long lived animals that are

[27:49] designed to live in flocks. The average

[27:51] person would like to have some alone

[27:52] time. Average parrot doesn't want it.

[27:56] >> Declining in natural habitats, flocks of

[27:58] parrots are multiplying here. 30,000

[28:02] flying around cities from California to

[28:04] Brooklyn, set loose by frustrated

[28:06] owners. Growing even faster, parrot

[28:09] rescue centers now in every state, like

[28:12] this one at a Buddhist monastery in

[28:14] Maryland, full to overflow it.

[28:16] >> So many people realize they've taken on

[28:19] too much. And so we got a lot of

[28:21] requests, but sadly we're not able to

[28:24] fulfill them. It's such a big problem,

[28:26] the Humane Society now recommends

[28:29] unwanted birds be euthanized as last

[28:31] resort. Mera Tweety promised to take

[28:34] care of Zazu when some friends couldn't

[28:36] bear it any longer.

[28:38] >> Every day at some point I think to

[28:40] myself, I can't take it another minute.

[28:42] >> And every few minutes, someone else is

[28:45] buying another parent. Bill Whitaker,

[28:48] CBS News, Los Angeles.

[28:51] That's the CBS Evening News for Katie

[28:53] Kurrick in Afghanistan. I'm Harry Smith

[28:55] in New York. I'll see you in the morning

[28:57] on the Early Show. Have a good night.

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[29:30] >> We got A RIOT.

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