CBS Evening News - 2009-05-11

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[0:10] >> All right. Thank you. CBS News up next.

[0:12] >> We'll see you at 11:00. Good night.

[0:21] >> Tonight, five US soldiers killed in

[0:24] Iraq, gunned down by a US Army sergeant.

[0:28] I'm Katie Kurrick. Also tonight, the top

[0:30] US commander in Afghanistan is removed.

[0:34] >> There are large areas in Afghanistan

[0:36] where we are not winning.

[0:37] >> More of my recent interview with General

[0:39] David McCieran and a look at the new

[0:42] American strategy. Healthc care reform

[0:45] gets a major shot in the arm. The health

[0:47] industry says this time it's on board.

[0:51] And that commuter plane crash near

[0:53] Buffalo. troubling new details and

[0:55] questions about the training record of

[0:58] the pilot.

[1:04] >> This is the CBS Evening News with Katie

[1:07] Kurrick.

[1:10] Good evening everyone. After more than 7

[1:12] years of war in Afghanistan and Iraq,

[1:15] it's easy to become numb to the mounting

[1:17] US death toll. And then something so

[1:19] terrible happens, it simply stuns us.

[1:22] And that's what happened today when word

[1:24] came that five American soldiers were

[1:26] killed in Iraq, not by the enemy, but by

[1:29] another US soldier. National security

[1:32] correspondent David Martin has the

[1:34] story.

[1:36] >> It happened at Camp Liberty near the

[1:37] Baghdad airport. An American soldier

[1:40] walked into a combat stress center, a

[1:42] place where military men and women can

[1:44] go to seek help, and opened fire,

[1:47] killing five of his fellow soldiers

[1:49] before he was subdued. It's not the

[1:51] first case in this war of a soldier

[1:53] turning his weapon on his own, but it is

[1:55] the worst.

[1:56] >> Such a tragic loss of life at the hands

[1:59] of our own forces is a cause for great

[2:02] and urgent concern.

[2:05] >> The stress center had been set up for

[2:07] the express purpose of dealing with the

[2:08] explosion of mental problems caused by

[2:10] the repeated deployments and close

[2:12] quarters combat of the wars in Iraq and

[2:15] Afghanistan. According to initial

[2:17] reports, the shooter, an army sergeant,

[2:19] had gone there looking for help, got

[2:21] into an argument, left in such an

[2:23] agitated state that his weapon was taken

[2:25] away from him, but managed to get

[2:27] another one, came back and gunned down

[2:30] the workers at the center.

[2:31] >> It does speak to me though about the

[2:35] need for us to redouble our efforts, the

[2:38] concern in terms of dealing with the

[2:40] stress. According to the most recent

[2:42] figures, 300,000 service men and women

[2:44] returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have

[2:47] reported a mental health problem. This

[2:50] email sent last year from Afghanistan

[2:52] captures the strain of too much mission

[2:55] for too few soldiers. We are so short

[2:58] now over here that we are starting to

[3:00] see signs of some folks really stressing

[3:02] out. And in the end, it's all due to our

[3:04] personnel shortages. As long as the

[3:06] demand on forces stays what it is right

[3:08] now and the supply of forces remains the

[3:11] same, it'll be very difficult for us to

[3:13] do anything with that stress. But we've

[3:15] got to help soldiers understand how they

[3:18] can cope with that stress. Army Vice

[3:20] Chief of Staff Pete Carelli has been

[3:22] grappling with one of the most extreme

[3:24] consequences of stress, a suicide rate

[3:26] which began this year at record levels,

[3:29] 23 in the month of January, but has now

[3:31] come down to seven known or suspected

[3:34] cases in April.

[3:36] This was not suicide, of course, but

[3:38] murder. We don't know the motive of the

[3:40] Army sergeant who pulled the trigger,

[3:42] but it seems safe to say that uh both he

[3:46] and the five mental health workers who

[3:48] were supposed to help him were all

[3:50] victims of combat stress. Katie,

[3:52] >> David Martin, David, thank you very

[3:54] much. Now, turning to the war in

[3:56] Afghanistan and a major shakeup in the

[3:58] US military command there. Defense

[4:00] Secretary Robert Gates said today he

[4:02] wants a new leader to carry out the

[4:04] president's new strategy. So, he fired

[4:06] the top commander.

[4:10] >> It's the first time a commander in the

[4:12] middle of a war has been removed from

[4:14] his position since General Douglas

[4:16] MacArthur in 1951.

[4:19] Apparently, there has been pressure for

[4:21] months to replace General David McCieran

[4:23] by some military experts who felt his

[4:26] expertise in waging a counterinsurgency

[4:29] was inadequate.

[4:30] >> It simply was my conviction based on my

[4:33] consultations with Admiral Mullen and

[4:35] General Petraeus that uh a fresh

[4:38] approach, a fresh look uh in the context

[4:41] of the new strategy uh probably was in

[4:44] our best interest. That fresh look will

[4:46] come from General Stanley Mcristel, a

[4:49] former Green Beret in charge of the

[4:50] mission that tracked and killed top

[4:52] al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al- Zarqawi

[4:56] and General David Rodriguez, who will be

[4:58] responsible for the day-to-day

[5:00] operations in Afghanistan.

[5:03] McCieran began his long military career

[5:05] with the army in 1972 and served in the

[5:08] Balkans, the first Gulf War, and led US

[5:11] and coalition troops in removing Saddam

[5:13] Hussein from power as part of Operation

[5:16] Iraqi Freedom.

[5:19] For the past 11 months in Afghanistan,

[5:21] McCieran has been in charge of

[5:23] overseeing 32,000 international troops

[5:26] as well as the US forces there, which

[5:28] will grow to 68,000 by the end of the

[5:31] summer after the additional 21,000

[5:33] so-called surge troops arrive.

[5:37] It turns out telling McCiran face to

[5:39] face he was being relieved of his duties

[5:41] was the primary reason Secretary Gates

[5:43] traveled to Afghanistan last week.

[5:46] Sources close to the defense secretary

[5:48] say McCernan showed extraordinary class

[5:51] when he heard the news and did this

[5:53] interview shortly thereafter. He gave no

[5:56] indication his time in this troubled

[5:57] country might be coming to a close and

[6:00] expressed optimism about the mission.

[6:03] Every day that I'm here in Afghanistan,

[6:04] I understand the people of this country

[6:06] a little better. And they are very very

[6:10] big-hearted

[6:12] people that want peace and they are

[6:14] friends of the United States of America.

[6:16] And so I I I don't lose I don't lose

[6:19] hope.

[6:20] >> That exclusive interview with General

[6:22] McCarron conducted when I was in Kabell

[6:24] last week was his last as commander in

[6:26] Afghanistan. Now, he has consistently

[6:28] pressed for additional troops, but leads

[6:30] just as the surge is getting underway.

[6:33] Those additional troops part of a fresh

[6:35] approach to getting Afghanistan under

[6:38] control. This is what America's new

[6:41] Afghan strategy looks like up close.

[6:43] Rather than staying on large bases, US

[6:46] and international forces are fanning out

[6:48] into the country, setting up smaller

[6:50] operations in local communities, working

[6:53] with Afghan security forces, and getting

[6:55] to know the people they're trying to

[6:57] protect. On a mountaintop in

[6:59] Afghanistan's rugged Logar Province,

[7:02] soldiers of the 10th Mountain Division

[7:03] are watching over US convoys as they

[7:06] bring supplies to one of these new

[7:08] outposts. The Taliban are fighting back.

[7:12] Bombings and ambushes are a daily

[7:14] occurrence here.

[7:15] >> They kind of observe what you do as you

[7:17] come in and they uh they always like to

[7:19] shoot as you're leaving.

[7:21] >> Logar Province lies just south of Kabell

[7:23] and the Taliban are fighting hard to

[7:25] hold on to it so they can use it to

[7:28] launch attacks on the capital. This is

[7:30] just one of several regions that are

[7:33] very much in play.

[7:34] >> There are large areas in Afghanistan

[7:36] where we are not winning. There there

[7:38] are areas that I've I've said are stale

[7:40] we're stalemated that we don't

[7:42] necessarily control the Taliban doesn't

[7:45] necessarily control that there's a

[7:47] feeling of insecurity

[7:49] >> but the harsh reality is this there are

[7:51] simply not enough boots on the ground to

[7:53] reach every corner of this vast rugged

[7:56] country even with the additional troops

[7:58] coming in it's impossible for them to be

[8:01] everywhere they need to be but the US

[8:04] military is beginning to make some

[8:06] inroads

[8:07] As the Americans build these new small

[8:10] bases in the countryside, they're also

[8:12] hiring Afghan workers. And there are

[8:14] plans to introduce a community-based

[8:17] security force. It's already been done

[8:19] in Warock Province next door. And so

[8:22] far, it's popular with the tribal

[8:24] leaders.

[8:25] >> We brought up their village elders to

[8:27] the graduation. They were ecstatic.

[8:30] They were proud that their sons were now

[8:32] in a uniform. They had they were paid.

[8:35] They had some equipment and they were

[8:36] going to come back to their village and

[8:39] provide local security. Guard the roads,

[8:41] guard the mosque, guard the school.

[8:43] >> But even as he outlined the new

[8:45] strategy, General McKernan made it clear

[8:47] he wasn't convinced there were enough

[8:49] troops to pull it off. We've heard

[8:52] stories from US soldiers who have moved

[8:54] into areas in the mountains in Logar

[8:56] Province and they've been told they are

[8:59] the first Americans to set foot in that

[9:01] village. And that is eight years into

[9:04] this war. Do we have enough troops,

[9:07] General, to actually place soldiers in

[9:11] some of these remote areas?

[9:13] >> No. No, we don't have enough troops

[9:18] of any country to include Afghanistan to

[9:20] have a persistent security presence

[9:23] everywhere in Afghanistan. But we and

[9:25] that's why we need more military

[9:27] capability. Incidentally, McCernieran is

[9:30] expected to retire after 37 years in the

[9:33] military. Meanwhile, Mcrist needs Senate

[9:35] confirmation before he can take over,

[9:37] and that could happen by the end of next

[9:39] month. Here on the home front, one of

[9:42] President Obama's biggest challenges is

[9:44] healthc care reform. And it looks like

[9:46] he will have an ally President Clinton

[9:48] did not when his plan failed, the

[9:50] healthc care industry. It pledged today

[9:52] to cut the growth in health care costs

[9:54] by one and a half percentage points a

[9:57] year for 10 years for a savings of $2

[10:00] trillion. Bill Plant tells us the major

[10:03] players were all at the White House

[10:05] today.

[10:07] >> The president, flanked by former

[10:09] opponents of healthcare reform, called

[10:11] the industry's promise remarkable.

[10:13] What's brought us all together today is

[10:17] a recognition that we can't continue

[10:19] down the same dangerous road we've been

[10:22] traveling for so many years.

[10:23] >> The same groups representing doctors,

[10:25] hospitals, pharmaceutical makers, and

[10:27] insurers who met the president today.

[10:30] >> This healthcare security card

[10:32] >> bitterly and successfully opposed

[10:35] President Clinton's healthcare reform

[10:36] plan in 1993 with a classic TV ad

[10:40] campaign. Having choices we don't like

[10:42] is no choice at all.

[10:43] >> And they choose.

[10:45] >> We lose.

[10:46] >> But now, said the president, with costs

[10:48] out of control, the one-time opponents

[10:50] have changed their minds.

[10:52] >> It's a recognition that the fictional

[10:54] television couple Harry and Louise, who

[10:57] became the iconic faces of those who

[10:59] opposed healthcare reform in the '90s,

[11:01] desperately need healthcare reform in

[11:03] 2009. The health care providers joined

[11:06] by the service employees union made

[11:08] broad promises to simplify healthcare

[11:11] administration, deliver health care more

[11:13] efficiently, reduce hospitalization,

[11:16] which they say will save $2 trillion

[11:19] over 10 years, and save the average

[11:21] family $2500 a year. But the pledges are

[11:25] vague with no guarantee they'll be

[11:27] carried out. Health and Human Services

[11:29] Secretary Kathleen Sevelius expects

[11:31] specifics in a few weeks. They

[11:33] volunteered this. They clearly think

[11:35] it's achievable and they're very

[11:37] committed to uh making good on those

[11:39] promises.

[11:40] >> Healthcare reform advocates say the

[11:42] providers are cooperating because they

[11:44] have to.

[11:45] >> If they want to shape play some role in

[11:48] shaping the health reform legislation,

[11:50] they've got to have a cooperative

[11:52] posture. They have really a choice.

[11:55] >> The providers hope to block price

[11:58] controls and also any kind of public

[12:00] insurance plan. They also want a mandate

[12:02] that everyone has to be insured. So to

[12:05] have any voice in this debate, they have

[12:08] to have a seat at the table. Katie

[12:10] >> Bill Plant at the White House tonight.

[12:11] Bill, thank you. The president's budget

[12:13] director says the cost of healthcare is

[12:15] the biggest reason for the rising

[12:16] deficit. The White House today raised

[12:18] the projected red ink for this year to

[12:20] more than $1.8 trillion. That's four

[12:23] times more than last year's deficit. And

[12:26] it means 46 cents out of every dollar

[12:28] spent this year will be borrowed money.

[12:30] And President Obama is ready to spend

[12:32] billions to fix America's worst schools.

[12:35] And plans announced today 5,000 failing

[12:37] schools would close over the next 5

[12:39] years and reopen with new principles and

[12:42] new teachers. The president expects to

[12:44] spend $5 billion on the program. That's

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[13:11] CBS Evening News, that deadly commuter

[13:13] plane crash near Buffalo. Did the pilot

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[16:02] >> It's a risky and complicated mission.

[16:04] The shuttle Atlantis is on its way to

[16:06] the Hubble Space Telescope after a

[16:08] picture perfect launch today. Five

[16:11] grueling spacew walks are planned to

[16:13] overhaul the 19-year-old telescope. By

[16:15] the way, because Hubble's orbit is so

[16:17] high, Atlantis wouldn't be able to reach

[16:19] the space station in an emergency. So,

[16:22] in an unprecedented move, NASA has the

[16:24] shuttle Endeavor standing by on a

[16:26] launchpad for a possible rescue mission.

[16:29] Turning now to the investigation of that

[16:31] deadly commuter plane crash near Buffalo

[16:33] back in February. The National

[16:35] Transportation Safety Board opens a

[16:37] hearing on it tomorrow. And today, Nancy

[16:40] Cordis tells us serious questions were

[16:41] raised about the pilot and the training

[16:44] he received. It was the worst crash the

[16:47] country has seen in seven years, killing

[16:50] 50. Now, Kanire confirms the captain on

[16:53] that frigid Buffalo night, 47-year-old

[16:55] Marvin Renslo, had racked up five

[16:57] unsatisfactory test flights called check

[17:00] rides. Two during his brief three-year

[17:03] tenure at the airline, and three in the

[17:05] years before that. Wensow had just two

[17:08] months experience on the Q400 turbo

[17:10] prop. His co-pilot, Rebecca Shaw, was 24

[17:13] years old.

[17:14] >> It looks like we have two inexperienced

[17:17] crew members in the cockpit. And we

[17:19] learned a long time ago that that's uh

[17:22] not a very good idea.

[17:23] >> The plane was on final approach to

[17:25] Buffalo when the stick shaker activated,

[17:27] alerting pilots that they were going too

[17:29] slow and about to stall. As the stick

[17:32] automatically pushed forward in order to

[17:34] dive the plane and pick up air speed,

[17:36] the captain pulled up, exactly the

[17:39] opposite of what pilots are trained to

[17:41] do. Kanire acknowledged today Renslo

[17:43] never trained on the stall warning

[17:45] system in a simulator only in the

[17:48] classroom.

[17:48] >> The stick shaker training is in my view

[17:51] is very very important and to just read

[17:53] it out of a book and just talk about it

[17:55] is not very good training.

[17:57] >> This accident didn't have to happen.

[17:59] >> Scott Moira lost his 30-year-old

[18:01] daughter Lauren, an athletic manager at

[18:03] Princeton University. He's come to

[18:05] Washington with her boyfriend, hoping to

[18:07] get some answers about the crash at this

[18:10] week's NTSB hearings.

[18:11] >> Things that you're hearing, they

[18:12] certainly don't give you a a warm and

[18:15] fuzzy feeling about, you know, the

[18:16] day-to-day operations of of some of

[18:18] these uh, you know, small commuter

[18:19] airlines.

[18:21] >> Kolan Air points out its pilot training

[18:23] regimen was examined and approved by the

[18:26] FAA. NTSB sources say the FAA's

[18:29] standards will be a prime focus at the

[18:31] hearings. Katie

[18:32] >> Nancy Cordis, thanks very much. Turning

[18:35] overseas, Roxanna Saberry, the American

[18:37] journalist accused of spying in Iran, is

[18:40] free tonight after three months in

[18:42] prison. An Iranian appeals court reduced

[18:44] her sentence, then ordered her release.

[18:46] Sabar's father, who was born in Iran,

[18:48] says they'll soon return to the United

[18:50] States. US officials called the charges

[18:53] against her bogus and demanded she be

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[21:40] The economic crisis has left a lot of

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[21:49] gave someone a bright idea. Bill

[21:51] Whitaker continues our series Bright

[21:53] Spots.

[21:55] >> Ever see something so logical you say,

[21:57] "Why didn't I think of that?" Put the

[21:58] candle back.

[21:59] >> When real estate agent Kathy Cardina saw

[22:01] so many vacant houses for sale or in

[22:04] foreclosure and so many people unable to

[22:06] afford a house in these hard times, she

[22:08] thought, why not put them together?

[22:11] >> It works out for everyone. It's a

[22:12] win-win for everybody.

[22:13] >> She started designer home tending now in

[22:16] seven cities with some of the worst

[22:17] foreclosure rates. She screens people

[22:20] down on their luck, under or unemployed,

[22:23] and places them in houses for sale by

[22:25] owners who've had to relocate. In Salt

[22:28] Lake City, Autumn Marlor and her family

[22:30] now reside in a 4,000 square foot house

[22:33] they couldn't afford otherwise.

[22:35] >> My husband lost his job recently and we

[22:38] lost our home uh for a foreclosure and

[22:41] um basically I pay a very small amount

[22:43] of rent to live in a nice house and to

[22:45] furnish it with my things.

[22:46] >> Cardina says in today's cluttered

[22:48] market, empty houses just aren't selling

[22:50] well. That livedin look a competitive

[22:53] advantage.

[22:54] >> Smells good. It feels good. Um, it looks

[22:57] lived in. People like that livedin feel.

[22:59] >> Julie Anton and her husband Robert's

[23:01] home in the Hollywood Hills sat empty

[23:03] for more than a year after they moved to

[23:05] St. Louis. Last month, they dropped the

[23:07] price and turned to home tenders.

[23:09] >> When it's got furniture in it, even if

[23:11] it's not their furniture, it just looks

[23:13] so much warmer, so much better. It just

[23:16] makes them think, "Oh, I could live

[23:18] here."

[23:19] >> The service is absolutely free to home

[23:21] sellers. Home tenders pay a nominal fee

[23:24] from $500 to $1,000 per month depending

[23:27] on the city plus utilities. Now they

[23:30] have to be tidy and prepared to move if

[23:33] the house sells.

[23:34] >> Three bedrooms, three bath.

[23:36] >> Struggling actor Mills Allison used to

[23:38] live in this suburban apartment

[23:39] building. Now, thanks to home tending,

[23:41] he's in Anton's milliondoll house in the

[23:44] Hollywood Hills.

[23:45] >> It is definitely a win for me. Yep. In

[23:47] two years, Cardinus has gone from

[23:49] startup to more than 500 clients. Doing

[23:52] good, she's found, is good business.

[23:55] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Los Angeles.

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[26:52] >> Finally tonight, Pope Benedict is in

[26:54] Israel. His first trip to the Holy Land

[26:56] since he became Pope four years ago. He

[26:59] flew from Aman, Jordan to Tel Aviv

[27:01] today. Later this week, he visits

[27:03] Bethlehem and Nazareth where Jesus

[27:05] lived. And today at Israel's National

[27:07] Holocaust Memorial, Benedict faced the

[27:09] World War II legacy of his native

[27:12] Germany. From Jerusalem, here's Richard

[27:14] Roth.

[27:18] >> He isn't the first pope to stand in

[27:20] Israel, sharing the sadness rooted in

[27:22] the history of the Jewish state.

[27:25] He's not the first pope to honor the

[27:27] dead at Yadvashm. But being Germanb born

[27:31] and once a conscript in Hitler's army

[27:33] added meaning as Benedict crossed the

[27:35] stone floor etched with names of Nazi

[27:38] death camps

[27:40] and laid a wreath in memory of 6 million

[27:43] Jews killed in the Holocaust.

[27:46] >> They lost their lives, but they will

[27:48] never lose their names. in the Krakow

[27:50] ghetto.

[27:51] >> This pope named Joseph Ratzinger then

[27:53] met six survivors.

[27:55] >> Rud Bondi was born in Prague,

[27:56] Czechoslovakia

[27:58] >> and listened

[27:59] >> transported to Awitz Burkanau

[28:01] >> as a list of suffering was read

[28:03] >> where he witnessed the murder of members

[28:05] of his family

[28:07] >> of some of Hitler's victims.

[28:09] >> Ruth Burns perished in the Holocaust.

[28:13] >> May their names never perish, he said.

[28:15] May their suffering never be denied. The

[28:17] Pope did not apologize for what his

[28:19] church did or failed to do during one of

[28:22] history's darkest episodes. That left

[28:25] some here disappointed. Yadvashm's

[28:27] chairman said he heard no compassion

[28:30] from the pope.

[28:31] >> I believe that he was very moved by the

[28:34] entire event. I think he was moved by

[28:35] the visit and moved definitely by the

[28:37] the recalling of the death of of all

[28:39] these uh innocent people in in the

[28:41] Holocaust.

[28:43] There's a burden in this place that

[28:45] Israelis say visitors inevitably feel.

[28:48] For Benedict, some said you could see it

[28:50] weighing on his shoulders as eloquent as

[28:53] any words. Richard Roth, CBS News,

[28:56] Jerusalem.

[28:58] >> And that is the CBS Evening News for

[29:01] tonight. I'm Katie Kurrick in New York.

[29:02] Thank you for watching. I'll see you

[29:04] tomorrow. Good night.

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