CBS Evening News - 1985-12-14

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[0:00] Time.

[0:02] Good evening. This is the CBS Evening

[0:04] News. Bob Schiffer reporting.

[0:05] Investigators trying to find the cause

[0:07] of the plane crash in Gander,

[0:08] Newfoundland, said tonight that the

[0:10] plane's damaged flight recorders may

[0:12] provide valuable information after all.

[0:14] Until now, they thought the recorders

[0:16] were so badly damaged that they could

[0:18] not provide data on why the charter

[0:20] plane went down with 248 American

[0:22] soldiers on board. But after additional

[0:25] examination today, they said they are

[0:27] hopeful that the recorders may provide

[0:29] some clues to the cause of the crash.

[0:31] That development came as new information

[0:33] came to light about some of the charter

[0:35] company's previous flights. And Steve

[0:37] Young has our report. Canadian officials

[0:40] announced today that the bodies of the

[0:42] crash victims will start coming home

[0:43] next week, probably on Monday. They are

[0:46] now concentrating on tagging aircraft

[0:48] parts before they're covered by snow.

[0:51] and we hope to uh by tomorrow have a

[0:53] better idea of those components we will

[0:54] be removing from the site for shipment

[0:56] back to our engineering facility in

[0:58] Ottawa. As the investigation here

[1:00] continues, evidence is accumulating that

[1:03] the charter company Arrow Air had a

[1:05] history of operational trouble.

[1:08] The latest incident to come to light

[1:09] occurred in Grand Rapids November 15th

[1:12] when the same DC8 with 99 marine

[1:14] reserveists aboard was rolling to

[1:16] takeoff speed. The nose of the plane

[1:19] rose at too steep an angle, scraping the

[1:21] tail on the ground. The takeoff was

[1:23] aborted. According to the company, the

[1:26] incident was caused by a loading

[1:27] distribution problem.

[1:29] >> The flight attendant came back to the

[1:30] section of the aircraft where we were

[1:32] got on the intercom and requested that

[1:34] we uh the unit personnel move forward in

[1:37] the aircraft. So, we at that time got up

[1:39] and and moved completely forward in the

[1:42] aircraft, reseated ourselves uh in the

[1:45] in the forward section. An official from

[1:47] an insurance company representing Arrow

[1:49] arrived today in Gander to inspect the

[1:51] crash scene. What end of it are you?

[1:53] >> I have no idea what happened. That's why

[1:55] I'm I'm here to look into the case.

[1:57] Canadian authorities have not ruled out

[1:59] any possible cause for the crash except

[2:01] one. They say tests show the aviation

[2:04] fuel pumped into the DC8 was not

[2:06] contaminated. There was freezing rain

[2:09] today at the airport and most pilots

[2:11] requested deicing before departing.

[2:13] There was freezing rain Thursday morning

[2:16] when the Arrow Air Charter flight took

[2:18] off with a pilot reporting he was at

[2:20] more than 93% of his maximum allowable

[2:23] weight. He did not request deicing. Air

[2:26] traffic controllers here have told CBS

[2:28] News they believe that was the fatal

[2:31] mistake. Steve Young, CBS News, Gander,

[2:34] Newfoundland.

[2:36] >> As Steve reported, the military plans to

[2:38] begin returning the bodies to this

[2:40] country on Monday. And we have more on

[2:42] that now from Bill Whitaker.

[2:44] >> A morg at Do Air Force Base in Delaware

[2:47] awaits the bodies of servicemen killed

[2:49] in Thursday's plane crash.

[2:51] Identification should take a week. At

[2:53] Fort Campbell, home base of the crash

[2:55] victims. The Army contacted the last of

[2:57] the families.

[2:59] >> We still want to offer our support to

[3:01] all of these families, and we will

[3:03] follow up and visit with these families

[3:06] again as the days progress. Our work is

[3:08] not over with them. The Army is trying

[3:11] to provide for both the emotional and

[3:13] physical needs of the families. In this

[3:15] case, offering a ride to the store.

[3:17] Today, Army Chief of Staff General John

[3:20] Wickham came to Fort Campbell to offer

[3:22] his condolences.

[3:23] >> And at a time of grief like this

[3:26] is when the greatest strength of an army

[3:30] demonstrates itself.

[3:31] >> People here are trying to get their

[3:33] lives back to normal. But Christmas will

[3:35] be bittersweet for the communities

[3:37] around Fort Campbell. Traditional season

[3:39] joy is now mixed with sorrow. Holiday

[3:43] decorations carry messages of grief. The

[3:46] tragedy colors all activities.

[3:48] >> Just knowing that there's all of those

[3:49] families that are never going to be the

[3:51] same again and children are not going to

[3:54] have their fathers for Christmas or any

[3:56] other time for the rest of their life.

[3:57] >> The annual Clarksville Fire Department

[3:59] Christmas Christmas drive for the needy

[4:01] has started collecting toys for victim's

[4:03] children. It would be really uh a good

[4:07] feeling for us to be of just a little

[4:09] help to the children that are involved.

[4:12] >> And now area churches are holding

[4:14] memorial services instead of traditional

[4:16] Christmas services.

[4:18] Bill Whitaker, CBS News, Fort Campbell,

[4:20] Kentucky.

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[5:27] There was a serious accident at a ski

[5:30] resort in Colorado today. The exact

[5:32] number of injured isn't known yet, but

[5:34] it's believed to be as many as 50. At

[5:36] least seven are in critical condition.

[5:38] Perhaps many more, according to one

[5:40] report. The accident happened after a

[5:42] cable jolted violently on a chairlift at

[5:45] the Keystone Resort some 80 miles west

[5:48] of Denver. In other parts of the nation,

[5:50] the cold wave intensified today, one

[5:52] week before the official start of

[5:53] winter. Chicago declared a cold weather

[5:56] emergency when the temperature dropped

[5:58] to two below. It was even colder north

[6:00] of there. International Falls,

[6:02] Minnesota, reported 25 below for the

[6:05] nation's low. And in New England, up to

[6:07] 10 in of new snow accumulated.

[6:10] Secretary of State George Schulz is in

[6:12] West Berlin tonight where he called the

[6:14] wall between East and West unnatural and

[6:17] inhuman. He also made final preparations

[6:19] for his first trip to Eastern Europe as

[6:21] Secretary of State. He's going to

[6:23] Romania, Hungary, and Yugoslavia. State

[6:25] Department correspondent Bill

[6:26] McGlaughlin is traveling with him.

[6:31] >> Some 10,000 demonstrators, many of them

[6:33] students, staged an anti-American rally

[6:35] here in Berlin that centered its anger

[6:37] on the Reagan administration's plans for

[6:39] a space weapons program popularly known

[6:42] as Star Wars. The demonstration had no

[6:45] effect on Secretary of State George

[6:47] Schultz or his schedule here in Berlin.

[6:49] In a speech tonight, he told the

[6:51] audience how President Reagan described

[6:53] the Star Wars program to Soviet leader

[6:55] Mika Gorbachoff at last month's Geneva

[6:58] Summit meeting.

[6:59] >> He told Mr. Garbage that SDI means

[7:03] research into a non-nuclear defensive

[7:05] system,

[7:07] a system for blunting an attack that

[7:11] threatens no one and that might

[7:13] eventually free all nations from the

[7:15] threat of mutual annihilation. Earlier,

[7:18] Schlitz was welcomed here by men of the

[7:20] US Army's Berlin Brigade, drenched by a

[7:22] pouring rain. This is Schultz's first

[7:24] official visit to the still occupied

[7:26] former German capital. Like many

[7:28] tourists, official or not, the first bit

[7:30] of sightseeing on his agenda was the

[7:32] wall that has forcibly divided this city

[7:34] for a generation and that remains the

[7:36] most striking symbol of the

[7:38] confrontation between east and west.

[7:40] Tomorrow, Schulz deals with a specific

[7:42] problem in Eastern Europe. He will have

[7:44] to tell Romanian leader Chao Chescu that

[7:46] his increasingly dictatorial regime and

[7:48] abuse of human rights is about to face a

[7:51] serious backlash from the United States.

[7:54] Bill McGlaughlin, CBS News, with the

[7:56] Secretary of State in Berlin.

[7:59] >> What was buil as the first television

[8:01] program to originate from five

[8:03] continents was broadcast today. The

[8:05] satellite lashup was one of the most

[8:07] complicated ever assembled, but the

[8:09] message was simple. Make war obsolete.

[8:11] Ned Potter reports.

[8:17] The sound of a sitar in New Delhi, a

[8:19] children's choir in Buenazaris, and

[8:22] applause from San Francisco. All mixed

[8:24] into a fivecontinent television

[8:26] production in the name of world peace.

[8:29] >> There is no cure for the effects of

[8:31] nuclear war. The only remedy is

[8:34] prevention.

[8:35] >> This morning or this afternoon or

[8:37] evening depending on where you were, six

[8:40] nations spanning 11 time zones were

[8:42] connected by a complicated network of

[8:44] satellites. Well, we are together. We

[8:47] have made it all into one place.

[8:50] >> A Californiabased organization, the

[8:52] Beyond War Foundation, presented awards

[8:55] to six political leaders who joined in a

[8:57] declaration last January opposing

[9:00] nuclear weapons, opposing their testing,

[9:02] opposing the expansion of weaponry into

[9:04] space.

[9:07] The arms race has diverted

[9:11] considerable resources away from

[9:13] development. And we know that

[9:15] development and peace are linked

[9:19] together.

[9:20] >> The message from these leaders was not

[9:22] one on which the superpowers have

[9:24] settled, but the Beyond War Foundation

[9:26] says it has gathered 750,000 signatures

[9:29] from Americans who support the cause.

[9:32] >> This uh 5C continent space bridge is

[9:34] actually a demonstration that it's

[9:36] possible. People are working together.

[9:38] >> The program was transmitted to satellite

[9:40] receivers in more than a 100 US cities.

[9:43] I was overwhelmed by it.

[9:44] >> The peace movement has changed my life,

[9:46] but today more so.

[9:48] >> The production was a complicated feat of

[9:50] technology, but the message to the

[9:52] superpowers was the same. With the arms

[9:54] race as it is, there is no longer any

[9:56] alternative to peace. Ned Potter, CBS

[9:59] News, Chicago.

[10:02] The State Department was criticized

[10:03] today for how it protects overseas

[10:05] employees of the US information agency.

[10:07] The presidential commission reports

[10:09] tonight that the department has ordered

[10:11] some security measures for USIA

[10:13] libraries that actually make the

[10:15] libraries more rather than less

[10:17] vulnerable to terrorist attack. Fear of

[10:20] terrorist attack is always there for US

[10:22] foreign service officers. And even

[10:24] before today's report, some of them were

[10:26] unhappy with the kind of preparation

[10:27] they've been getting. Deborah Potter

[10:29] reports.

[10:30] >> A bomb is never what it seems. Recognize

[10:33] and run. Before being sent overseas,

[10:36] most government employees get only one

[10:38] day of training on how to cope with

[10:40] terrorist violence, even though

[10:42] officials say it's a serious threat and

[10:44] it's growing.

[10:45] >> We are, as American officials, the major

[10:47] single target of international terrorist

[10:49] groups.

[10:50] >> But some foreign service officers say

[10:52] the one-day course is woefully

[10:54] inadequate.

[10:55] >> Frankly, I was appalled. I was very,

[10:58] very angry by the end of the day. And I

[11:00] had to

[11:01] >> Carol Madison was stationed in Beirut

[11:03] when terrorists bombed the US embassy

[11:05] annex. That experience prompted her to

[11:08] take the unusual step of publicly

[11:10] criticizing the course after taking it

[11:12] again before reassignment. She charges

[11:14] that it's largely irrelevant to life

[11:17] overseas. Singling out a movie on how to

[11:20] keep burglars out of a typical American

[11:22] home. A lecture on fire safety with

[11:25] advice on smoke detectors. And a film

[11:27] about defensive driving featuring large

[11:30] American cars on wide open highways.

[11:32] >> The prime offensive tactic is ramming.

[11:36] >> This isn't what we need. People going to

[11:38] high threat post need special attention.

[11:44] They need more uh they need more of the

[11:46] psychological aspects of living in a

[11:49] stressful situation and I think they

[11:51] need training.

[11:52] >> A segment of the course on hostage

[11:54] survival based on the Iran experience is

[11:56] widely praised, but many officials

[11:58] privately support Madison's complaints.

[12:00] Officials hope to increase the training

[12:02] early next year. But with the addition

[12:04] of 25 names in just three years to this

[12:07] role of American officials killed

[12:09] overseas, some of their colleagues are

[12:11] asking why it's taking so long. Deborah

[12:15] Potter, CBS News, the State Department.

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[13:59] Home run champion Roger Maris died today

[14:02] in Houston after a two-year battle with

[14:04] cancer. He was 51. 1961 as a New York

[14:08] Yankee. Roger Maris broke the home run

[14:10] record for a single season that had been

[14:12] set by Babe Ruth back in 1927. Maris hit

[14:16] 61 homers. Ruth had hit 60. Maris was

[14:19] named the American League's most

[14:21] valuable player two years in a row.

[14:24] President Reagan made what he called a

[14:25] personal request to the House of

[14:27] Representatives today asking them to

[14:28] reconsider opposition to tax reform.

[14:31] After an appearance at a memorial

[14:33] service at Fort Campbell, Kentucky for

[14:35] soldiers killed in the Newfoundland

[14:36] plane crash. Mr. Reagan plans to go to

[14:39] Capitol Hill on Monday for some

[14:40] lastditch lobbying on the tax bill. He

[14:43] also had some harsh words today for

[14:45] Nicaragua during today's weekly radio

[14:47] address. He called Sandonista leader

[14:49] Daniel Ortega, a dictator in designer

[14:52] glasses in charge top officials are

[14:55] thugs drunk with power. Mr. Reagan

[14:57] hinted he'll ask Congress for direct

[14:59] military aid for the US backed Contra

[15:01] rebels. There was a party today in what

[15:04] once was an abandoned milk bottling

[15:06] factory in Brooklyn, New York. The

[15:08] guests included people who are famous

[15:09] and people who aren't, but they were all

[15:12] there to celebrate a revival that began

[15:14] 20 years ago. Harold Dow reports.

[15:17] >> This is such a mistake.

[15:19] >> Ethel Kennedy may feel a little uneasy

[15:21] on roller skates, but members of the

[15:23] Kennedy clan put them on today, joining

[15:26] 120 poor black and Hispanic children

[15:29] from Brooklyn. For the children, it was

[15:31] a chance for fun, entertainment, and

[15:33] some early U tide gifts. For the

[15:36] Kennedys, attending this Christmas party

[15:38] has become a family tradition. It's a

[15:40] continuation of a 20-year commitment

[15:42] that began with the late Senator Robert

[15:44] Kennedy. In 1964, the Bedford Styverson

[15:48] section of Brooklyn was the scene of

[15:49] racial riots. Later, then Senator Robert

[15:52] Kennedy came here and saw skyrocketing

[15:55] unemployment, decayed housing, and

[15:57] abandoned businesses. He was moved by

[15:59] what he saw and sponsored legislation

[16:02] that started an organization to rebuild

[16:04] Bedford Styverson.

[16:06] >> He thought that a lot of people had to

[16:08] make a big effort to overcome the

[16:11] problems in this area.

[16:14] >> Before he was assassinated, Kennedy

[16:16] helped to create the Bedford Styverson

[16:17] Restoration Corporation that created

[16:20] jobs, attracted new businesses,

[16:22] renovated old buildings, and built brand

[16:24] new ones. Altogether, the corporation

[16:26] channeled $350 million into Bedford

[16:29] Styverson. A $31,000 loan went to

[16:32] Antinor Adams, who used it to purchase

[16:34] this McDonald's franchise. Today, he

[16:37] owns three.

[16:38] >> We were able to employ a tremendous

[16:40] number of of uh high school students and

[16:42] adults. The restoration organization

[16:45] owns this state-of-the-art recording

[16:47] studio and this supermarket, which

[16:49] grossed over $24 million last year.

[16:53] We've tried to enhance the quality of

[16:54] life in our community.

[16:57] >> Unemployment is still high in Bedford

[16:59] Styverson. There are still areas of

[17:01] blight. But for many in this

[17:03] neighborhood, things are a lot better

[17:05] because the senator from New York came

[17:08] this way. Today, they honored his

[17:10] memory. Harold Dow, CBS News, Brooklyn,

[17:14] New York.

[17:17] South African police today detained at

[17:19] least 11 journalists trying to cover a

[17:21] black funeral outside Ptoria. One

[17:23] suffered a broken leg. This happened in

[17:25] an area where the oppressed crackdown is

[17:28] not in effect. John Blackstone has that

[17:30] story.

[17:32] >> Almost every weekend in South Africa,

[17:34] there are funerals for blacks killed

[17:36] during protests. Police usually agree to

[17:38] keep a low profile, even though the

[17:39] funerals themselves often become

[17:41] demonstrations of black anger. At a

[17:43] funeral today, there was no trouble. At

[17:45] least not until two policemen climbed

[17:47] off their armored truck and walked into

[17:49] the crowd. The policemen were not

[17:51] seeking out black activists. They were

[17:53] going after television cameramen even

[17:55] though the cameramen were there quite

[17:57] legally since this black township Mamali

[18:00] is outside the state of emergency. One

[18:02] policeman grabbed a CBS cameraman. The

[18:05] policeman drew his pistol. A freelance

[18:07] cameraman, Brian Tilly, was also dragged

[18:09] down the street at gunpoint. With the

[18:11] appearance of the gun toing policemen,

[18:13] young people began to throw stones.

[18:15] Under a barrage of stones, Tilly fell

[18:18] and the policeman fled. The cameraman

[18:20] was dragged to safety by another

[18:22] journalist. Later, it was learned that

[18:23] Till's leg was broken by shots fired

[18:26] from a shotgun. Even in areas outside

[18:28] the state of emergency, journalists in

[18:30] South Africa are under increasing

[18:32] pressure. John Blackstone, CBS News,

[18:34] Johannesburg.

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[19:07] listen to what they say.

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[19:46] The Justice Department has begun a study

[19:48] of a problem that is drawing increased

[19:50] attention lately. The problem of missing

[19:52] children. What the department wants to

[19:54] do is settle a controversy about just

[19:56] how many children are missing. Joan

[19:58] Snyder has more.

[20:01] It looked like a children's party, but

[20:03] the kids who filled the news New York

[20:05] police station recently were there on

[20:07] grim business getting fingerprinted to

[20:09] help identify them if they're abducted.

[20:12] >> I want to be safe where, you know, so

[20:15] like if I if somebody kidnaps me or

[20:17] something, my mom can find me.

[20:19] >> Efforts to protect children from

[20:21] abduction have spread around the country

[20:23] along with concern.

[20:24] >> It really gets me upset because it takes

[20:27] a second. That's all it takes is a

[20:29] couple seconds for her for somebody to

[20:30] just take her.

[20:31] >> K. Conpsion says it's scary to see the

[20:34] pictures of missing children that have

[20:36] become so familiar on milk cartons,

[20:38] posters, and public service

[20:39] announcements.

[20:40] >> Missing.

[20:41] >> So familiar and according to some

[20:42] critics, so unnecessarily alarming and

[20:45] misleading because most kids listed as

[20:47] missing were not abducted.

[20:49] >> The truth is that probably 95% of

[20:53] missing children in this country are

[20:54] teenagers.

[20:56] uh most of them uh have left home

[20:59] because of problems with families.

[21:01] >> Authorities agree that the vast majority

[21:03] of missing youngsters are runaways and

[21:05] that most of those who are abducted are

[21:07] taken by parents who have lost custody

[21:09] of them. Only a tiny percentage of

[21:11] missing kids are abducted by strangers

[21:13] and some youth workers argue that it's

[21:15] unfair not to label each picture with a

[21:18] probable cause of disappearance.

[21:19] >> We're scaring the be Jesus out of every

[21:21] kid in this country and most of the

[21:23] adults. And I don't think there's any

[21:24] epidemic of fear at all.

[21:26] >> Alfred Rnnery, head of the government's

[21:28] office of juvenile justice, defends the

[21:30] missing children campaign.

[21:32] >> Certainly has raised in the

[21:33] consciousness of parents and of the

[21:36] American society generally. But the

[21:37] world is a dangerous place for

[21:38] unescorted children for children not in

[21:41] the custody of an adult.

[21:42] >> National hotline for missing children.

[21:44] This is

[21:44] >> at the core of the dispute is the

[21:46] government funded center for missing and

[21:48] exploited children which is estimated

[21:50] there are a million and a half missing

[21:52] children annually. a widely disseminated

[21:54] figure that's been criticized as greatly

[21:56] exaggerated. The Center for Missing

[21:58] Children says it has helped to locate

[22:00] about 2500 missing kids, more than 80%

[22:03] runaways.

[22:05] But critics argue that the center should

[22:06] do more for those who make up the

[22:08] majority of the missing. If they insist

[22:10] upon claiming runaways as missing

[22:13] children, they certainly should be

[22:14] directing at least 95% of their time and

[22:17] energy and funds into assisting runaway

[22:20] shelters uh return teenagers to their

[22:22] homes.

[22:23] >> My dad, he'd come in drunk

[22:27] and he'd hit me and my mom.

[22:30] >> They are runaways.

[22:31] >> My dad said, "If you ever run away,

[22:34] don't ever come back and I hope you get

[22:35] hit by a car." The road is a lonely

[22:38] place to find yourself,

[22:40] especially if you were young.

[22:42] >> A unique program in Louisville, Kentucky

[22:44] is bringing runaways in from the streets

[22:46] with safe place logos displayed in

[22:48] public places where kids can ask for

[22:50] help. Volunteers alert workers who bring

[22:53] runaways to the shelter. Kids like

[22:55] 14-year-old Joey.

[22:56] >> What's going on at home?

[22:58] >> Parents

[22:59] on my back all the time. They think

[23:02] something's wrong with me.

[23:05] Nationwide, it's estimated about 55,000

[23:07] runaways go to shelters each year with

[23:10] the majority eventually going home.

[23:12] >> I was hurting and here I'm looking at

[23:14] this.

[23:14] >> A crucial part of the shelter program is

[23:16] counseling for troubled youngsters and

[23:18] their parents. An effort to work out a

[23:20] home life the child won't want to run

[23:22] away from. Advocates for runaways hope

[23:25] this kind of program will multiply

[23:27] across the country and help to bring

[23:29] more and more missing children back

[23:31] home.

[23:36] Joel Snider, CBS News, Louisville,

[23:38] Kentucky.

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[25:24] >> Our final story is about a very special

[25:26] high school football game that was

[25:28] played last night in California. A

[25:30] regional championship was on the line,

[25:32] but that's only a small part of why this

[25:34] game was so special. Barry Peterson has

[25:37] our report.

[25:39] >> Every day at practice, Charlie Weedmire

[25:41] fired the dream to win. He started

[25:44] coaching the Losatos Wildcats 9 years

[25:46] ago, the same year he was diagnosed with

[25:49] Lou Garrick's disease. Nine years later,

[25:52] the team fought its way past the

[25:53] semifinals and on to the championship,

[25:56] the big game. For all of us, there'll

[25:59] always be next year or the year after.

[26:01] For Charlie, he's never sure about that.

[26:05] >> When he could no longer walk, there was

[26:06] a golf cart. When he could no longer

[26:08] breathe, a tracheotomy. When he could no

[26:10] longer speak, his wife Lucy learned to

[26:13] read his lips to pass on the play.

[26:15] >> Move inside.

[26:18] >> No. No. Move inside.

[26:21] >> Time and time again, quarterback Sam

[26:23] Levitz huddled first at the golf cart,

[26:25] then with his teammates. Gosscatos was

[26:28] ahead at the half over arch rival St.

[26:30] Francis. The closest Charlie Weedmire

[26:32] and his Wildcats had ever come to a

[26:35] championship.

[26:37] But the balance began to tip with the

[26:39] St. Francis touchdown. Now it was 12 for

[26:42] them, 14 for Losatos. Then another St.

[26:45] Francis drive close enough for a field

[26:48] goal that Loscatoos had to block. Do it,

[26:50] the crowd chanted. for Charlie.

[26:55] >> And block it. They did.

[27:07] >> Winning this game meant everything to

[27:09] him. It meant everything to us.

[27:13] You have accomplished something that no

[27:16] other Lasadas football team has ever

[27:19] done, and you're going to remember it

[27:21] for the rest of your life.

[27:24] >> Football, a coach will tell you, is a

[27:26] lot like life. You win some, you lose

[27:28] some. Last night, Charlie Weedmire won.

[27:33] Barry Peterson, CBS News, San Jose.

[27:38] >> That's the news. Bob Schaefer, CBS News,

[27:40] New York. Good night.

[27:46] In

[27:46] >> my travels around the world, I found no

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