CBS Evening News - 1999-07-26

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[0:02] A killer heat wave that just won't quit.

[0:05] As the heat hangs in, the death toll

[0:07] rises and a drought turns farm soil to

[0:10] dust. Arraignment today for a man

[0:12] suspected of four murders in Yusede

[0:15] National Park. And a CBS News

[0:17] investigation. The fear that's driving

[0:20] veteran pilots to quit the US military.

[0:28] This is the CBS Evening News

[0:31] with Dan Rather.

[0:34] Good evening. Dan is off tonight. I'm

[0:36] John Roberts. Almost half of these

[0:38] United States are covered tonight by a

[0:40] blanket of heat radiating from the

[0:42] Kansas prairies eastward. Temperatures

[0:44] today soared well above 90 again today.

[0:47] At least 16 deaths are blamed on the

[0:50] smothering heat and humidity. And a

[0:52] drought in the rainless Mid-Atlantic

[0:54] region already severe in six states only

[0:57] worsened today. Correspondent Jim

[0:59] Axelrod is on the CBS weather watch with

[1:01] the latest on the heat wave of 99.

[1:05] In Chicago, firefighters have turned

[1:07] their hoses on themselves. For a week,

[1:10] the heat index has pushed into the

[1:12] hundreds

[1:12] >> because it's super hot.

[1:16] >> The city is keeping beaches open extra

[1:18] hours. A dip in the dark on Lakeshore

[1:20] Drive has been about the best way to

[1:22] keep cool.

[1:24] But not everyone's found a way. Four are

[1:26] known dead from the heat here.

[1:28] >> In addition to the four, we have another

[1:31] seven possible

[1:32] >> in Chicago where 700 people died in a

[1:35] heat wave four years ago and bodies were

[1:38] stacked up in refrigerated trucks.

[1:40] Killer heat is a deadly serious topic.

[1:42] >> The emergency workers, you know, whether

[1:44] it be the firemen, the ambulance uh

[1:46] drivers or the policemen. I mean,

[1:48] everyone is thinking about it because we

[1:50] had such deadly results four years ago.

[1:53] >> Watch his head.

[1:54] >> Much of the Midwest is baking. Seven are

[1:57] known dead in Cincinnati. There, too.

[1:59] It's the elderly and the poor who are

[2:01] hit hardest. Help is in the hydrants.

[2:04] >> It's hot,

[2:06] >> keeping them cool out here.

[2:07] >> St. Louis is suffering and five are

[2:09] dead. Minnesota's tying 58-year-old

[2:12] records. And everywhere, people are

[2:15] panting for a break. It's pretty hot.

[2:18] This is pretty pretty hot.

[2:20] >> Showers lowered the temperatures here in

[2:22] Chicago today, but forecasters expect a

[2:24] hotter and more expansive furnace to

[2:26] kick back in later this week. Only the

[2:28] far west and northern reaches of New

[2:30] England, they say, will be spared. Jim

[2:33] Axelrod, CBS News, Chicago. Feasting on

[2:36] the bone dry vegetation, wildfires are

[2:39] raging throughout the West. The fires

[2:41] are burning through forest and brush in

[2:43] California, Montana, Utah, and Nevada.

[2:46] In California, San Bernardino County,

[2:48] firefighters hope to contain a 2800 acre

[2:51] fire in the high mountain desert near

[2:53] Coahone Pass. Across the Middle Atlantic

[2:56] states and beyond, drought has set in

[2:58] for the summer. Farmers are watching

[3:00] their livelihoods wither away. As CBS's

[3:02] Jeffrey Kaufman reports, it's been so

[3:05] hot and so dry in New Jersey that crops

[3:08] are burning in the fields.

[3:09] >> On a normal year, these three peppers

[3:12] would have brought me a dollar and a

[3:13] half. Uh, as of today, they're not going

[3:16] to bring me anything.

[3:18] >> Peter Demerest hasn't seen a real

[3:19] rainfall for 2 months.

[3:21] >> I think probably the beach down the

[3:24] shore has has has damper soil than this.

[3:28] >> Water from town is the only reason

[3:30] Demerest has any crop still standing. A

[3:33] drought is a disaster in slow motion.

[3:35] And this one's been building for a year,

[3:37] beginning with the dry summer of 98,

[3:39] followed by a mild winter. And in the

[3:41] last 90 days, less than half the normal

[3:44] rainfall. The drought of 99 is coloring

[3:46] New Jersey brown as reservoirs dry up.

[3:49] In Baltimore, they're rationing water.

[3:51] And Pennsylvania's governor has declared

[3:53] a drought emergency in 55 of the state's

[3:55] 67 counties.

[3:57] >> If we don't begin to conserve water

[3:59] today, uh there won't be any water to

[4:02] conserve tomorrow. The National Weather

[4:04] Service says it's already a severe

[4:06] drought in eight states, but it's bone

[4:08] dry from the Mid-Atlantic states through

[4:10] the Ohio Valley and the Northeast.

[4:12] >> We think it's there's a very good chance

[4:13] it could last well into fall.

[4:15] >> For consumers, there's a silver lining

[4:17] in all this. The hot sun means produce

[4:19] that does make it to market will be

[4:21] sweeter than ever.

[4:22] >> You're going to get tastier peppers.

[4:23] You're going to get tastier tomatoes,

[4:24] tastier corn.

[4:25] >> But that is bittersweet for farmers like

[4:27] Peter Demerest. His peaches are half the

[4:29] size of last year's, which means he'll

[4:31] get less for them as he watches his

[4:33] profits dry up. Jeffrey Kaufman, CBS

[4:36] News, Hillsdale, New Jersey. After days

[4:39] of mourning in private, the Kennedy

[4:41] family went public today with thanks and

[4:43] appreciation. Visiting a senior citizen

[4:46] center, Congressman Patrick Kennedy

[4:47] thanked Americans for what he called

[4:49] overwhelming expressions of sympathy

[4:51] over his cousin John's death in a plane

[4:53] crash. Patrick Kennedy said the reaction

[4:56] made quote an enormous difference in his

[4:58] family's ability to cope with their

[5:00] loss. Meanwhile, federal investigators

[5:03] have had a look at the recovered

[5:04] wreckage of the Kennedy plane. Let's go

[5:05] now to our CBS News aviation

[5:07] correspondent Bob our in Washington.

[5:09] Bob, what's the latest?

[5:10] >> Well, John, investigators spent a good

[5:12] part of the weekend examining the

[5:13] wreckage of the Kennedy airplane, and

[5:15] sources tonight say they found no

[5:16] obvious problems with the aircraft

[5:18] itself. The wreckage shrouded by blue

[5:21] tarps was trucked to an Air National

[5:22] Guard base on Cape Cod and then laid out

[5:25] in a very rough reconstruction basically

[5:27] on the hangar floor. Investigators say

[5:29] they checked the engine and the

[5:30] propeller, also the cockpit instruments

[5:32] and the plane's fuselage and found no

[5:34] evidence of any structural or mechanical

[5:37] failure. And the debris, we're told,

[5:38] showed no signs of an in-flight fire.

[5:41] Now, a senior investigator says they see

[5:43] no pre-impact faults at all. Nothing, he

[5:45] says, to suggest any airplane failure.

[5:48] While some of the wreckage will

[5:49] obviously be more carefully checked in a

[5:50] lab, the investigation now will focus on

[5:52] the pilot John F. Kennedy Jr., his

[5:55] training and his flight history. John

[5:57] >> Bob our in Washington. Thanks. A motel

[5:59] handyman was charged with first-degree

[6:01] murder today in the gruesome killing of

[6:03] a naturalist in Yusede National Park.

[6:05] The suspect is no stranger to the FBI.

[6:08] It turns out he'd been questioned before

[6:10] about this and three other murders, but

[6:12] released for lack of evidence. Now, as

[6:15] John Blackstone reports, investigators

[6:17] think they may have their man.

[6:20] >> With one arrest, FBI agents said they'd

[6:22] solved four murders near Yusede National

[6:25] Park. They identified 37-year-old Carrie

[6:28] Stainer as their prime suspect. When

[6:31] Stainer appeared for arraignment today,

[6:33] court documents revealed he'd already

[6:35] confessed to one vicious killing, that

[6:38] of 26-year-old Joey Armstrong, who was

[6:40] beheaded and found just inside Yuseite

[6:43] last week. It should have been a triumph

[6:46] for investigators, but instead they were

[6:48] left wondering whether their mistakes

[6:50] cost Joey Armstrong her life.

[6:53] >> I've asked myself whether we could have

[6:54] done anything differently that might

[6:56] have prevented the murder of Joey

[6:57] Armstrong. I've struggled with that

[6:59] issue for the last 24 hours and continue

[7:02] to do so. In February, Yusede visitors

[7:04] were shaken by the abduction and murder

[7:07] of three tourists, Carol's son, her

[7:09] daughter Julie, and a family friend

[7:11] Sylvina Pelos. But investigators soon

[7:14] announced that suspects were already in

[7:16] custody on other charges.

[7:18] >> I think there's a PR motive to that. I

[7:20] mean, I think they're trying to uh to

[7:22] allay any concerns that the citizens

[7:24] have that that there's other people out

[7:26] there committing these murders.

[7:27] >> But those assurances turned out to be

[7:29] tragically wrong. Joey Armstrong lived

[7:32] just four miles from the motel where

[7:34] suspect Carrie Stainer lived and worked.

[7:36] The same motel where the three tourists

[7:38] were last seen alive. If there are

[7:41] lessons to be learned or mistakes made,

[7:43] we will we will identify those.

[7:45] >> The reason for the FBI soul searching

[7:48] says retired agent Rick Smith is likely

[7:50] to be an evidence not yet revealed.

[7:53] >> It will uh indicate that an arrest could

[7:56] not have taken place until it did,

[7:58] unfortunately.

[7:59] >> And only after Joey Armstrong fell

[8:01] victim to the killer investigators

[8:03] missed. John Blackstone, CBS News, San

[8:05] Francisco. Still ahead on tonight's CBS

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[9:56] Once again today, US military aircraft

[9:58] were in action over Iraq. Air Force

[10:00] fighters dropped laserg guided bombs on

[10:02] an Iraqi communication site in the

[10:04] northern no-fly zone. Air power may be

[10:07] the dominant weapon in the US arsenal,

[10:09] but combat pilots could soon be in short

[10:11] supply. An investigation by CBS's Vince

[10:14] Gonzalez finds there's a growing exodus

[10:17] of pilots from the US military because

[10:19] of a controversial vaccine.

[10:24] An investigation by CBS News has found

[10:27] combat pilots in the Air Force Reserve

[10:29] and Air Guard are quitting rather than

[10:31] take anthrax shots. The departure of

[10:34] veteran pilots, many with experience in

[10:36] Kosovo and the Gulf War, is creating

[10:38] huge holes in some military air units.

[10:41] CBS News spoke with over 100 pilots

[10:44] concerned about the vaccine.

[10:46] >> We're leaving the service of our country

[10:48] over fear of a shot, and it just doesn't

[10:51] seem fair. The shots are required for

[10:53] all military personnel despite doubts

[10:55] raised by government researchers that

[10:57] the vaccinations will guard against the

[10:59] deadly anthrax virus in wartime. But

[11:02] it's fear of bad reactions to the

[11:03] vaccine itself that is leading many

[11:05] pilots to end long careers.

[11:07] >> It was difficult.

[11:08] >> Randy Pisik, a United Airlines pilot,

[11:10] quit flying for the military's air guard

[11:13] rather than take the anthrax shot.

[11:15] >> I cleaned out my locker, stripped my

[11:16] name off my mailbox, and packed up and

[11:19] left. Key units across the country stand

[11:21] to lose up to half of their pilots. At

[11:23] these bases, a total of more than 100

[11:26] reserve pilots quit this year. Major

[11:28] Ramona Seavoy is one of them.

[11:30] >> The squadron is is unable right now to

[11:32] do its peace time and its wartime

[11:34] mission, and this directly impacts the

[11:36] nation's readiness.

[11:38] >> Pentagon officials say the vaccine is

[11:40] safe, pure, and effective and insist the

[11:42] vaccination program is going smoothly.

[11:45] Generally speaking, uh this is not a

[11:47] significant issue, uh it has not had any

[11:50] effect upon readiness at this juncture.

[11:53] >> But military memos obtained by CBS News

[11:55] tell a different story. One squadron

[11:58] commander writes, "Due to the

[11:59] controversy regarding the shots,

[12:01] compliance has been very low." Another

[12:03] acknowledges, "We are losing a lot of

[12:05] experience." Most experienced Guard and

[12:08] Reserve pilots fly passenger jets as

[12:11] their main job. Pilots like Mike Angoral

[12:13] of Southwest Airlines are quitting the

[12:15] military rather than risk vaccine side

[12:17] effects that could endanger their

[12:19] passengers.

[12:20] >> Would you want your pilot to have any

[12:22] problem with remembering and tremors,

[12:25] seizures, and this is all stuff that's

[12:26] attributed to the vaccine.

[12:28] >> So far, the Pentagon is refusing pilot

[12:30] requests to make the shots voluntary. In

[12:32] a letter to the Army Times, Defense

[12:34] Secretary William Cohen writes, "Just as

[12:36] soldiers must wear helmets, commanders

[12:38] must know that all their troops are

[12:40] vaccinated against anthrax. I'm more

[12:43] than willing to lay my life down for my

[12:44] nation. Is that not enough?"

[12:46] >> Not for the Pentagon, apparently, which

[12:49] says no matter how many pilots quit, the

[12:51] vaccinations will continue. Vince

[12:53] Gonzalez, CBS News, Los Angeles.

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[15:33] The Chinese government is trying to

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[15:37] meditation sect from within its own

[15:39] ranks. Human rights groups say more than

[15:41] a thousand government officials have

[15:43] been detained and forced to renounce the

[15:45] group. In Washington, the crackdown has

[15:47] now caught the attention of the US

[15:48] government. As CBS's Cheryl Atkinson

[15:51] reports,

[15:52] >> American followers of Fallon Gong rush

[15:54] to Capitol Hill today. They're lobbying

[15:57] Congress to intervene in China's massive

[15:59] crackdown on the spiritual group Chinese

[16:01] officials have labeled an evil cult.

[16:04] Last week, China outlawed Fallon Gong,

[16:06] arresting leaders and hurting

[16:08] practitioners by the thousands into

[16:10] stadiums. A senior US official tells CBS

[16:13] News, "China's aggressive stance against

[16:15] a peaceful group with no apparent

[16:17] political motive is huge, incredibly

[16:20] important, and shows how far China will

[16:22] go when confronted with a large movement

[16:24] outside of the Communist Party."

[16:26] Publicly, US officials are less

[16:28] vehement, but today said China has been

[16:30] put on notice. Well, we uh obviously

[16:33] believe that uh people in China and

[16:35] elsewhere should have the right of

[16:37] assembly and the right of uh freedom of

[16:40] expression.

[16:41] >> But the truth is US officials just don't

[16:43] know much about falling gong. Even as a

[16:46] 100 million Chinese and a growing number

[16:48] of Americans are said to be followers.

[16:50] It's a mysterious mix of martial arts,

[16:53] moral teachings, and meditation to

[16:55] achieve a healthy body and soul. Its

[16:57] popularity has exploded largely in the

[17:00] absence of founder Lee Honggh, who left

[17:02] China under government pressure last

[17:04] year and now lives in New York. In his

[17:07] first network interview, Lee told CBS

[17:09] News, "People with a healthy body and

[17:11] high morality are good to society and

[17:14] good for the government. I feel puzzled

[17:16] why the government is so upset about it.

[17:18] Maybe because so many are turning to

[17:20] fallen gong instead of the Communist

[17:22] Party for guidance. The conflict may be

[17:24] the biggest internal threat to China

[17:26] since Tianaan Square a decade ago.

[17:28] Cheryl Atkinson, CBS News, Washington.

[17:31] >> An update now on our Eye on America

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[17:46] Unlike the United States, Britain has

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[20:04] On the CBS Market Watch, the rising

[20:06] price of gasoline. An energy department

[20:08] survey finds the nationwide average

[20:10] price of gasoline tonight is a $119 a

[20:13] gallon. That's the highest in nearly two

[20:15] years. On Wall Street, stock prices

[20:17] closed lower again. Investors are said

[20:19] to be concerned that interest rates are

[20:21] heading up. Home buyers share that

[20:23] concern. America's realtors say a rush

[20:25] to lock in low rates pushed used home

[20:27] sales in June to a record high. As for

[20:30] new homes, CBS's Marine Maher reports.

[20:33] The construction industry can't build

[20:34] them fast enough to keep up with demand.

[20:38] >> We thought the latest would be March of

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[20:41] >> Brenda Harbison was actually supposed to

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[20:46] 7 months later, workers are still

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[21:34] >> It might have been supplies or it might

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[22:13] >> And when you finally get in,

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[22:17] >> Happy, but paying a price for the rising

[22:20] cost of the American dream. Moren Maher,

[22:23] CBS News, Dallas.

[22:25] >> Three days of music, peace, and love

[22:27] ended with arson, and rioting early

[22:29] today at Woodstock 99. Hundreds of young

[22:32] people went on a rampage at the close of

[22:34] the rock festival in Rome, New York,

[22:37] setting fires and looting trucks. State

[22:39] police moved in and arrested seven

[22:41] people. Five participants were injured

[22:43] in the melee along with two police.

[22:46] Coming up next on the CBS Evening News,

[22:48] a heat wave leads to a crime wave and

[22:51] our Bill Gist is on the case.

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[24:58] A rare glimpse today of a fast growing

[25:00] prince. Britain's Prince William took a

[25:02] spin around the driveway of his father's

[25:04] country estate today. William is 17 and

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[25:14] alone for the rest of their summer

[25:16] vacation. Earlier tonight, we told you

[25:18] about the drought in the Eastern United

[25:20] States. In some places, it's so bad

[25:22] authorities have imposed tough

[25:24] restrictions on water use. But

[25:26] enforcement is no easy task. Bill Gist

[25:29] reports on the effort to preserve law

[25:31] and water.

[25:36] The lush green suburban lawn is under

[25:39] siege in much of the country.

[25:41] >> Grounds are all burning up,

[25:43] >> withering in record heat and drought.

[25:46] Now suburban Boston finds itself in the

[25:48] grip of a crime wave. I speak, of

[25:51] course, of illegal lawn watering.

[25:55] Here in the town of Rockland, sprinklers

[25:58] are banned. Residents are restricted to

[26:00] just 1 hour of watering by hand every

[26:03] other day on alternating sides of the

[26:06] street, which means that one of these

[26:08] two normallook women is really an

[26:10] outlaw.

[26:12] She is hardly alone.

[26:14] >> The flowers are thirsty. I think I'm

[26:15] going to sneak out and water them. And

[26:18] these indicate problem areas.

[26:20] >> Problem areas. Right.

[26:21] >> Town manager Dan Callahan is the Norman

[26:24] Schwarzoff of Rockland's war on these

[26:26] water abusers.

[26:27] >> We got something right now. It might be

[26:29] a call.

[26:29] >> Something's We might have a call coming

[26:30] in.

[26:31] >> Calls come in from anonymous tipsters as

[26:34] neighbor turns against neighbor. No

[26:36] bounties are offered yet.

[26:38] >> We'll find out if it's on now. The

[26:40] reports we've had have been frustration.

[26:42] I've got a nice lawn hair and I'm

[26:44] watching it welt away and my neighbor's

[26:46] lawn is green and gorgeous.

[26:53] >> Bill Royal, meter reader turned lawn

[26:55] cop.

[26:56] >> We try to catch people using sprinklers.

[26:58] >> Answers the call of a watering in

[27:00] progress.

[27:01] >> Just to let you know that we have a

[27:02] water ban in effect.

[27:03] >> Okay.

[27:04] >> Busted. This time the perpetrator is a

[27:07] housewife.

[27:09] Repeat offenders will have all water to

[27:11] their homes completely shut off. A tough

[27:14] scorched earth policy.

[27:18] Another call comes in.

[27:19] >> Let's roll.

[27:23] >> The suspect's sprinkling system is off,

[27:25] but the lawn has a guilty look.

[27:27] >> Yeah, it looks like they've been

[27:28] watering a lot. Y

[27:30] >> one minute it's a corporate office.

[27:32] >> How you doing?

[27:33] >> The next a kitty pool. Water abusers

[27:36] start young in Rockland.

[27:39] And they never rest. Fortunately,

[27:41] neither does water enforcement officer

[27:43] Bill Royal.

[27:45] >> You can hear them pretty good

[27:46] sprinklers. You can't see them.

[27:53] >> Bill Gist, CBS News, Rockland,

[27:55] Massachusetts.

[27:58] And that's the CBS Evening News. Dan

[28:00] Rather will be along later on tonight

[28:02] with a 48 hours Monday mystery. Richard

[28:05] Slesinger has a preview.

[28:07] Convicted of killing three teenagers, he

[28:10] was sentenced to die.

[28:12] >> But this is monster. This is not human.

[28:15] >> So why was he set free to kill again?

[28:18] >> It's time to put this man back where he

[28:20] belongs.

[28:21] >> A 48 hours mystery tonight.

[28:24] >> For Dan Rather, I'm John Roberts, CBS

[28:26] News in New York. Thanks for joining us.

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