NBC Nightly News - 1999-09-08
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[0:01] and his family. An international
[0:02] investigation. Can he survive this time?
[0:06] Oneon-one. Bill Bradley now officially
[0:09] running for president. Should El Gore
[0:11] worry? NBC News in depth tonight. Saving
[0:15] our schools, dividing the sexes, boys
[0:17] and girls, separate classrooms. Is that
[0:20] a better way? And Lifeline, the newest
[0:24] research to prevent a disease millions
[0:26] of adults don't even know they have. But
[0:28] can the treatment save lives?
[0:33] >> From NBC News World Headquarters in New
[0:36] York, this is NBC Nightly News with Tom
[0:39] Bro.
[0:42] >> Good evening. Russia is broke and the
[0:44] financial crisis is so severe that many
[0:46] analysts worry it could lead to a return
[0:48] of the bad old days of hardliners in the
[0:51] Kremlin. And a big part of the problem
[0:53] is corruption. rampant corruption
[0:55] carried on by a few powerful families.
[0:58] Tonight, those charges of corruption go
[1:00] to the Kremlin and Russia's first
[1:02] family. It's gotten so bad there were
[1:04] official denials today that President
[1:07] Boris Yelson had resigned. So bad, in
[1:09] fact, it all came up in a call between
[1:11] the Yelson and President Clinton. We
[1:13] begin tonight with NBC Dana Lewis in
[1:15] Moscow.
[1:17] The money trail begins here in the heart
[1:19] of Moscow, the Kremlin, and a $30
[1:22] million contract to renovate the
[1:24] historical stateaterooms. This man
[1:26] followed the trail and says he was fired
[1:28] for getting too close to President Boris
[1:30] Yelten and his family. The former top
[1:33] prosecutor, Yuri Skaratov, tells NBC
[1:35] News he began his investigation last
[1:38] year when the top prosecutor from
[1:40] Switzerland handed him evidence. He sa