NBC Nightly News - 2009-03-12

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[0:16] >> On our broadcast tonight, behind bars,

[0:18] put in handcuffs and taken away. The man

[0:20] who might be the biggest swindler in

[0:21] history has lost his freedom. He says

[0:23] he's sorry, but then there are his

[0:25] victims. Going south, the drug war gets

[0:28] more violent. And with that, talk of

[0:30] sending troops. How safe is Mexico as a

[0:34] college spring break location. No place

[0:37] like home. How people are being forced

[0:39] to improvise in this awful economy. And

[0:42] acts of kindness. Our special series

[0:44] continues tonight with a story one of

[0:46] our viewers suggested to us about one

[0:48] man who truly is making a difference.

[0:51] Also tonight, an American landmark is

[0:53] about to get a new name. Nightly News

[0:56] begins now

[1:01] >> from NBC News World Headquarters in New

[1:03] York. This is NBC Nightly News with

[1:06] Brian Williams.

[1:08] >> Good evening. Charles Ponzi was a former

[1:11] waiter, bank teller, and smuggler who

[1:13] was very good decades ago at convincing

[1:16] people he could make them millions, but

[1:18] he kept their money. And while his name

[1:20] lives on to describe a kind of shyer, he

[1:22] was an amateur compared to Bernie Maid

[1:25] off. Maid off apologized today for

[1:27] duping investors out of 50 billion,

[1:30] maybe more, and he was promptly thrown

[1:32] in jail. He will spend, we're told, 23

[1:35] hours a day in his cell, one hour in a

[1:38] cage on top of the roof of the lockup.

[1:40] He will likely die behind bars, and it

[1:42] still won't be enough for some of those

[1:45] he defrauded. our coverage of his court

[1:47] appearance and incarceration tonight

[1:50] from CNBC, Scott Conn in lower

[1:52] Manhattan. Scott, good evening.

[1:54] >> Good evening to you, Brian. It may be

[1:56] the most brazen and widespread financial

[1:58] fraud ever. And now Bernard Maidolf has

[2:01] begun to pay. But even now some are

[2:04] wondering if this consumate con man is

[2:06] still trying to gain this system

[2:09] face to face with justice.

[2:13] Face to face with some of his victims.

[2:15] >> What he deserves is for him to be

[2:17] stripped of everything.

[2:18] >> As two dozen victims listened in the

[2:20] courtroom, some shaking their heads,

[2:22] some in tears, Bernard Maidoff stood to

[2:25] profess his guilt. I am painfully aware

[2:28] that I have deeply hurt many many

[2:30] people. Maid off read from a prepared

[2:32] statement. I cannot adequately express

[2:35] how sorry I am for what I have done.

[2:37] Maid off explained that the fraud began

[2:39] during the recession in the early 1990s,

[2:42] determined to satisfy his clients at any

[2:45] cost. He simply pretended to invest

[2:47] their money in the stock market, using

[2:49] the money instead to pay other

[2:51] investors, a classic Ponzi scheme. Maid

[2:54] off said he thought it would be

[2:55] temporary until the market turned. But

[2:58] once the scam was started, he couldn't

[3:00] stop it.

[3:02] >> As the years went on, he said, "I

[3:04] realized that my arrest and this day

[3:06] would inevitably come." Victim Bert Ross

[3:09] was unimpressed.

[3:10] >> I think the only thing he's sorry about

[3:11] is that he got caught and uh we're not

[3:14] sorry he got caught. When Judge Denny

[3:15] Chin announced he planned to revoke Maid

[3:18] Off's bail, the victims broke into

[3:20] applause and the defendant was placed in

[3:23] handcuffs.

[3:23] >> That was that was pleasurable for for a

[3:26] moment, a brief moment.

[3:28] >> But questions remain throughout his

[3:30] 10-minute speech. Maid off implicated no

[3:33] one else. He said he falsified the

[3:35] trades. He filed bogus statements with

[3:38] regulators. Maid off even claimed that

[3:40] part of his business was legitimate, the

[3:42] brokerage operation run by his brother

[3:44] and sons.

[3:45] >> Well, clearly he didn't do this by

[3:46] himself.

[3:47] >> Former federal prosecutor Robert Mintz

[3:49] thinks there's more to Maid Off's story.

[3:51] >> He only talked about his own conduct. He

[3:53] didn't implicate anybody else in a crime

[3:55] that everybody else believes had to have

[3:57] others involved.

[3:58] >> Tonight, Bernard Maidoff is behind bars.

[4:01] The man who rigged the numbers for years

[4:04] is now inmate number 61727054.

[4:11] Bernard Maid off will be sentenced on

[4:13] June 16th. Prosecutors continue to

[4:15] investigate where the money is and who

[4:17] else might have been involved. Among the

[4:19] possible targets, his wife Ruth. She is

[4:22] back at the couple's luxury penthouse

[4:24] where now tonight she lives alone. Brian

[4:27] >> Scott Con Manhattan. Scott, thanks for

[4:30] that related story tonight, the downturn

[4:32] in the US economy. A lot of news on this

[4:34] front today, including a new measure of

[4:36] the staggering job losses in this

[4:39] country. Firsttime requests for

[4:41] unemployment benefits rose to 654,000

[4:45] just last week. That's on top of the 5.3

[4:48] million already collecting unemployment.

[4:50] That's the largest number on record. And

[4:53] if we're all feeling poor, the Federal

[4:55] Reserve put some actual numbers on that

[4:58] today. It turns out the net worth of

[5:01] American households fell by 11.2

[5:04] trillion in 2008, reflecting, among

[5:07] other things, the steep declines in the

[5:10] real estate and stock markets. Investors

[5:12] got a bit of that back today as the

[5:14] market rallied for a third straight

[5:15] session. The Dow gaining more than 239

[5:18] points. Blue chips are up almost 10% for

[5:21] the week so far. 76 years ago today,

[5:25] President Franklin Roosevelt summoned

[5:27] radio news microphones to a desk next to

[5:30] a fireplace in the oval room of the

[5:32] White House. And the fireside chat was

[5:35] born. He wanted to talk to the nation

[5:37] about the economy and the banks. And

[5:39] here we are 76 years later in the midst

[5:42] of another deep and wide economic

[5:44] crisis. For President Obama, it remains

[5:46] job one in this different era. Late

[5:49] today, he had to sell it to a tough

[5:51] audience. Savannah Guthrie with us

[5:53] tonight from the White House. Savannah,

[5:55] good evening.

[5:56] >> Hey, Brian. Well, the president spoke to

[5:58] CEOs at a business round table today.

[6:00] He's looking to engage the business

[6:02] community who, let's face it, is a

[6:04] little bit skeptical of some of his

[6:05] proposals, particularly on tax

[6:07] increases, his plans to cap carbon

[6:09] emissions. And so, he really sought to

[6:11] engage them doing a Q&A and telling

[6:13] them, look, this is an extraordinary uh

[6:15] crisis that we're going through. It

[6:17] requires serious government

[6:19] intervention. but he wanted to tell

[6:20] them, "I'm a serious free enterpriser

[6:22] and we'll return the markets to free

[6:24] enterprise once this is over." And there

[6:26] was a really interesting moment today

[6:27] where the chairman of Croup, which has

[6:29] gotten three government bailouts, by the

[6:31] way, asked the president, "Hey, you're

[6:33] confidence builder chief, can you give

[6:35] us some confidence?" Well, the president

[6:37] did that and then he tried to put all of

[6:38] this in perspective.

[6:41] >> Smid of good news and suddenly

[6:43] everything's doing great.

[6:46] Little bit of bad news. Oh, we're we're

[6:50] down in the dumps. Uh, and I am

[6:52] obviously an object of this uh

[6:55] constantly varying assessment.

[6:58] Um,

[6:59] I'm the object and chief of this uh

[7:03] varying assessment.

[7:05] >> Well, the president has been making a

[7:07] concerted effort to set a more

[7:08] reassuring tone and get members of his

[7:10] economic team out there talking to Wall

[7:12] Street and the American community. We've

[7:14] seen a lot of Treasury Secretary Gener

[7:16] this week and tomorrow the chief

[7:18] economic adviser here, Lawrence Summers,

[7:20] will give his first public speech since

[7:22] inauguration. Brian

[7:23] >> Savannah Guthrie at the White House for

[7:24] us tonight. Savannah, thanks. Hard to

[7:26] believe, but some people actually have

[7:28] things other than the US economy on

[7:30] their minds. For those college students

[7:32] lucky enough, this is spring break

[7:34] season. The fun of a trip to Mexico

[7:36] perhaps, where the news of late has been

[7:39] dire. That nation has become a

[7:41] battleground in an increasingly bloody

[7:43] drug war. Thousands of people are dead

[7:45] and now there are fears the violence

[7:47] could spread. There's talk of troops to

[7:49] the border. All that has gotten people's

[7:51] attention on this side of the border. We

[7:54] have two reports tonight, beginning with

[7:56] NBC's George Lewis in San Diego.

[8:00] The question, should the Obama

[8:02] administration send troops to the border

[8:04] to asssure that the mounting violence in

[8:06] Mexico is contained on the other side of

[8:09] the fence?

[8:10] >> This reporter for a Spanish language

[8:12] cable channel was caught in a crossfire

[8:14] on the bridge between Reosa, Mexico, and

[8:17] McAllen, Texas last month. 10 people

[8:20] died.

[8:21] >> We are uh at a point of

[8:25] major calamity. Today at a congressional

[8:28] hearing, Obama administration officials

[8:30] were asked whether the time has come to

[8:32] station US troops at the border

[8:34] protectively.

[8:35] >> We're very much do not want to

[8:37] militarize our border. So that is is

[8:40] essentially a last resort, but we're

[8:41] planning for it if it becomes necessary.

[8:43] >> He was echoing remarks the president

[8:45] made to a group of reporters yesterday.

[8:48] In spite of beefed up border security,

[8:50] there's a seemingly neverending supply

[8:52] of the contraband that fuels the drug

[8:54] war. Narcotics from Mexico moving into

[8:57] the US. Money and arms from the US

[8:59] moving into Mexico. As Mexican

[9:01] authorities keep capturing huge caches

[9:04] of automatic weapons, the mayor of San

[9:06] Diego says maybe it's time for

[9:08] authorities on this side to start

[9:10] inspecting vehicles headed south of the

[9:12] border.

[9:13] >> We know 90% of the weapons are actually

[9:15] coming from California and going south

[9:18] and and that needs to be stopped. And as

[9:20] the body count continues to grow in

[9:22] Tijuana, the mayor says no one should

[9:24] minimize the threat.

[9:26] >> There's already been 131 homicides in

[9:28] Tijuana this year. Uh Tijuana is the

[9:31] same size as San Diego. We've had hate

[9:33] homicides uh in San Diego during that

[9:35] same period.

[9:36] >> And many officials on this side of the

[9:38] border fear the violence might be

[9:40] contagious. George Lewis, NBC News, San

[9:43] Diego.

[9:47] I'm Mark Potter in Cancun, Mexico, where

[9:50] spring break is in full swing.

[9:54] >> Thousands of US college students are

[9:55] letting off steam and seem unw worried

[9:59] about Mexico's vicious drug war in which

[10:02] more than 6,000 people were killed last

[10:05] year.

[10:05] >> I feel very safe. Like, yeah, I wouldn't

[10:08] even know that there's like even a drug

[10:09] war going on. In the US though, several

[10:12] universities and the state department

[10:14] have issued travel alerts because of the

[10:16] Mexican violence.

[10:18] But in Cancun, where tourism police

[10:20] patrol the hotel zone, officials insist

[10:23] there is nothing for students to worry

[10:25] about here.

[10:26] >> It's safe. Cancun is safe and Cancun is

[10:28] ready to receive more people.

[10:30] >> Police say Cancun's tourist area is

[10:32] isolated and easy to protect. It's on a

[10:35] narrow peninsula, separated by water

[10:37] from the rest of the area. US and

[10:39] Mexican officials say there are actually

[10:41] two Cancun. There's the famous hotel

[10:43] strip here for the tourist and spring

[10:45] breakers. And there's the city center

[10:48] miles away where the drugrelated

[10:50] violence and corruption are present.

[10:55] >> Last weekend, a riot erupted in the

[10:56] Cancun jail after authorities went

[10:59] looking for evidence in the recent

[11:01] kidnap murder of retired Mexican Army

[11:03] General Mao Teo. Dozens of Cancun police

[11:07] officers, including the chief, were

[11:09] detained for questioning in the homicide

[11:11] case, which is blamed on drug

[11:12] traffickers. Teao's body was dumped on a

[11:15] road outside Cancun.

[11:18] Cancun's mayor, Greg Sanchez, says those

[11:21] incidents were far away from the

[11:23] tourists.

[11:25] Cancun, he says, is safer than ever and

[11:28] more beautiful, noting that tourism is

[11:30] one of Mexico's most important

[11:32] industries. a college student and/or a

[11:35] family disappears, has been kidnapped or

[11:37] murdered or held hostage, and then this

[11:40] would be a death punch to the Mexican

[11:42] tourist industry.

[11:43] >> Mexican authorities say they are doing

[11:45] all they can to prevent that, insisting

[11:47] despite the headlines that American

[11:49] tourists can still come here worry-f

[11:52] free. Mark Potter, NBC News, Cancun.

[11:56] when our broadcast continues on this

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[14:17] might have killed Ava in my sleep.

[14:20] >> An unlikely alibi.

[14:22] >> If he truly was sleepwalking, then he

[14:25] was not conscious, not guilty.

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[14:34] >> They hate earmarks, but they take the

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[14:40] Countdown with Keith Overberman tonight

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[14:46] We have been reporting here this week on

[14:48] the surge in homelessness in California.

[14:51] Job losses and the housing market crash

[14:54] have left a lot of people with no place

[14:56] to live. Now more and more people are

[14:58] turning to their vehicles for everyday

[15:01] shelter. Some communities are trying to

[15:03] help them out. The story tonight from

[15:05] NBC's Chris Jansen.

[15:08] Venice, California is famous for its

[15:10] funky boardwalk and muscle beach. But

[15:13] now, in the shadow of multi-million

[15:15] dollar ocean view homes, a new homeless

[15:17] population is moving in, living in cars

[15:20] and RVs.

[15:21] >> Good boy.

[15:22] >> Steve Powell came here after losing his

[15:24] construction job, then his house.

[15:26] >> I work right here across the street.

[15:28] >> He's now an office assistant, making

[15:30] enough to pay for gas and insurance on

[15:32] his RV, but not enough for rent. The

[15:35] bottom line is people are landing on the

[15:37] street.

[15:38] >> Bill Rosendall represents Venice on the

[15:40] Los Angeles City Council. He fields

[15:42] taxpayer complaints about noise,

[15:44] garbage, and neighborhoods that look

[15:46] like RV parks.

[15:47] >> We have to act and we have to act

[15:49] immediately. If we keep our head

[15:51] literally in the sand, uh, it's only

[15:54] going to get worse. So Rosendall is

[15:56] looking up the coast for ideas to

[15:58] wealthy Santa Barbara with a median home

[16:00] price of nearly a million dollars and a

[16:02] successful safe parking program. The

[16:05] program here allows people living in

[16:07] their cars or RVs to get permits to park

[16:09] in designated lots overnight for up to

[16:11] 12 hours. It keeps them out of

[16:13] residential neighborhoods and they don't

[16:15] get tickets. The occupants are as

[16:18] surprising as the local. Guy Trevor was

[16:20] making a six-f figureure salary as an

[16:22] interior designer until the housing

[16:24] market crashed.

[16:25] >> After a while, you just, you know, you

[16:27] run out of money and then, you know, you

[16:28] can't make your mortgage payments and

[16:30] and that's what happens.

[16:32] >> Stories like Trevors are being heard

[16:33] across the country as volunteers take

[16:36] the first census of the homeless since

[16:38] the recession. Experts predict a big

[16:40] surge consistent with rising

[16:42] unemployment and foreclosures. I've not

[16:44] seen anything like this in in the work

[16:46] that I've done in my 32 years of working

[16:49] on the streets and working with people

[16:50] in need.

[16:51] >> Other cities are already looking to

[16:53] replicate Santa Barbara's program, a

[16:55] small but innovative port in the growing

[16:57] economic storm. Chris Jansing, NBC News,

[17:01] Santa Barbara.

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[20:27] >> The Sears Tower is the tallest building

[20:29] in the world, 1450 ft. At 110 stories,

[20:33] it dominates the Chicago skyline.

[20:36] >> That was correspondent John Dancy

[20:38] reporting on the Sears Tower nightly

[20:40] news back in May of 1973.

[20:43] Well, it's no longer the tallest

[20:44] building in the world. And in fact, we

[20:46] learned today it soon won't even be the

[20:48] Sears Tower anymore, though we've

[20:51] confirmed it is still in Chicago. Soon

[20:53] it will be renamed the Willis Tower,

[20:56] taken over by a British insurance firm.

[20:59] Though 96% of Chicagoans responding

[21:02] online say they will always call it the

[21:04] Sears Tower, kind of like the Panama

[21:07] Building here in New York, which they

[21:08] insist is the Metife building. Now,

[21:10] Michelle Obama has gotten off to a fast

[21:13] start as first lady, now in her eighth

[21:15] week on the job. She is, a lot of people

[21:17] agree, remaking the role in her own

[21:20] image. We saw more of that today as she

[21:22] visited Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Mrs.

[21:25] Obama was there to spread spend some

[21:27] time with the troops, American soldiers,

[21:29] and their families, one of her causes in

[21:31] life. She even read from the Cat in the

[21:33] Hat for some of the lucky kids there,

[21:35] telling them about her own kids, Sasha

[21:37] and Malia. She also had a message of

[21:40] welcome for the folks well beyond Fort

[21:42] Bragg.

[21:44] >> So I encourage everyone out there within

[21:48] the sound of my voice to reach out to

[21:52] reach out on your own through schools,

[21:54] the PTA, little leagues, churches,

[21:56] workplaces, and find out if there's a

[21:59] soldier or a soldier's family right

[22:02] there in your own community who needs a

[22:04] little extra support. So, let's take it

[22:06] upon ourselves to reach out to them at

[22:09] these times more than ever. They need

[22:12] us.

[22:14] >> First Lady Michelle Obama today, Fort

[22:16] Bragg, North Carolina. When we come

[22:18] back, our making a difference segment.

[22:20] Some of the stories you've told us about

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[24:58] >> Coming up, a Nashville man admits to

[24:59] murdering his wife. At six, here how and

[25:02] why he says he did it.

[25:03] >> Also, one mile, $1 million, and one big

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[25:26] We are back with our week-long series of

[25:28] reports on those who are making a

[25:30] difference by doing good things in

[25:32] everyday life in this country during

[25:34] these very tough economic times. As you

[25:36] may know, we asked all of you for story

[25:38] ideas, and you more than came through

[25:40] with emails like this one from Teresa in

[25:43] Minnesota. In the grocery line, an

[25:46] envelope was passed from person to

[25:48] person. When it came to me, I saw the

[25:50] message on it. There is $50 in this

[25:52] envelope for your groceries. Take it if

[25:55] you need it or pass it on. I passed it

[25:57] on and I watched it go through the line,

[25:59] but what struck me most was not that

[26:01] people passed it on, but some actually

[26:03] added money to it. Thank you for adding

[26:06] this piece. It's inspiring. As is this

[26:09] from Dennis in Clearwater, Florida. The

[26:11] owner of our company sends personnel to

[26:13] work in soup kitchens and homeless

[26:14] shelters. Rather than lay workers off or

[26:17] reduce their hours, he sends them into

[26:20] the community at full pay on his dime.

[26:22] If more companies took this tack, our

[26:25] world would be much better off. And

[26:28] there's tonight's feature story. It came

[26:30] from Nightly News viewer Morgan Meade.

[26:33] It's about a quiet one-man operation in

[26:36] a great New England town gloss to mass

[26:39] where money is tight and nobody is just

[26:41] skating through life. Though this one

[26:44] man thinks they should be able to. His

[26:46] story tonight from NBC's Raheima Ellis.

[26:50] >> Gloucester, Massachusetts is a small

[26:52] seapport town with a lot of hard workers

[26:56] and Charlie Olsen is one of them. He's a

[26:59] builder by trade, but his passion is

[27:01] skating. We're going to go fast, fast,

[27:03] right?

[27:05] >> Like a lot of kids in town, Charlie grew

[27:07] up on the ice, an often expensive

[27:09] pastime.

[27:10] >> That's a boy. Nice.

[27:12] >> So, three years ago, he started

[27:14] collecting skates at garage sales.

[27:16] >> It was so annoying to be an old hockey

[27:19] player and see these 25 cent 50 cent

[27:22] skates sort of there. It just seemed

[27:25] like they needed to be rescued.

[27:27] >> Charlie did that.

[27:28] >> Let's do our speedy. getting his

[27:30] daughter on skates and giving other kids

[27:33] an edge too for free.

[27:35] >> It was fun if there's two or three or

[27:37] five kids that get skates that didn't

[27:38] have them before. That's all I was ever

[27:41] assuming it would be.

[27:42] >> Charlie wanted to get kids on ice and he

[27:44] has, but he doesn't advertise that he's

[27:47] got free skates. The news goes out into

[27:49] the community the old-fashioned way.

[27:51] Word of mouth, neighbor to neighbor.

[27:54] >> Jill Buchanan has two growing kids. So

[27:57] to save her hard-earned money, she

[27:59] turned to

[28:00] >> Char. These are the classic pass down

[28:02] skates.

[28:03] >> We'll borrow them for a season and then

[28:05] uh when we're done with them, we'll pass

[28:06] them back in. It's it's just a nice kind

[28:08] of neighborly thing to do.

[28:09] >> Rink manager J. D. McEran says Charlie's

[28:12] given is right on time.

[28:14] >> The economy says it's going to be a

[28:16] little tight. Charlie comes along.

[28:18] Here's the skates. Here we go.

[28:20] >> Back at Charlie's garage. Bicycles in

[28:23] here, too.

[28:23] >> Cut the bicycles. Yeah.

[28:24] >> You're not uh giving those away, are

[28:26] you? Uh maybe that will be next. That's

[28:29] very uh that's very funny. Yeah.

[28:31] >> Keeping a little joy in kids' lives when

[28:34] they need it most. Raheima Ellis, NBC

[28:37] News, Gloucester, Massachusetts.

[28:40] >> Hats off to Charlie. We'll have another

[28:42] of the stories you sent us tomorrow

[28:44] night and many more nights to come. That

[28:46] is our broadcast for this Thursday

[28:48] night. Thank you for being with us. I'm

[28:51] Brian Williams. We hope to see you back

[28:52] here tomorrow night. Good night.

[29:11] How easy is it for kids today to get

[29:13] drugs? Just look around. I'm Al Roker

[29:16] reporting on the billiondoll business

[29:18] targeting your neighborhood.

[29:22] >> Live with breaking news. This is Channel

[29:25] 4 News.

[29:26] >> Good evening again, everyone. Welcome to

[29:28] Channel 4 News at 6.

[29:29] >> An FBI negotiator is still trying to

[29:32] talk to an armed man, talk him out of a

[29:34] home in Sumar County tonight. There's

[29:36] been a standoff at that house since

[29:38] about 2:00 this afternoon. And a police

[29:40] officer on the scene was shot. It's all

[29:43] happening on Williamson Road in

[29:45] Millersville. That's where Channel 4's

[29:47] Mark Stewart is.

[29:48] >> And this drama has been unfolding for a

[29:50] good four hours or so. First, we want to

[29:53] take you live to Skyline Medical Center.

[29:55] That is where Officer Casey Fitz is

[29:58] being treated after she was shot with

[30:00] pellets in both the throat and in the

[30:03] neck. We are told she should pull

[30:04] through just fine. She may be

[30:06] transported to Vanderbilt Medical Center

[30:08] later in the night. Meanwhile, here at

[30:10] the scene, there is a new intensity. We

[30:12] have some new video we want to show you

[30:14] of the FBI arriving on the scene.

[30:16] Presumably.